🦖Feminist: unapologetic for gender critical views 🌹Democratic socialist 🗣Public Affairs consultant (sex realist organisations only)
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Is Hackney Labour's position the same as Greens re the EHRC code of practice and do you stand by your joint motion with Greens that "Trans Women Are Women "?
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I’m very glad to see that this Government is cracking down on anti-social behaviour on public transport.
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Thankfully the suspect was arrested but there’s an appeal for other victims and witnesses to come forward.
🚨 Hate Crime;
Jewish ladies viciously assaulted
🎥 CCTV shows 2nd attack
📞 Shomrim received a call from a visibly Jewish lady, reported being punched in the face by a middle-aged male on Clapton Common, E5.
👊 Shomrim volunteers arrived on scene 30 seconds later to witness a 2nd vicious assault on another Jewish lady. She was punched twice in the face, leaving significant bruising.
🚔 @MPSHackney arrested the male for racially & religiously aggravated GBH, as well as for outstanding warrants.
✡️ The victims told Shomrim that they believe they were assaulted because they were Jewish, as the offender only targeted Jewish ladies.
📢 Appeal: Further assaults have been reported to Shomrim, with additional victims yet to come forward.
Shomrim are appealing for any witnesses or indeed any further victims to come forward.
☎️ Contact @Shomrim or @MetCC quoting CAD 3400 19/10/26.
#ViolenceAgainstWomenAndGirls #VAWG #HateCrime #Antisemitism #GBH
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EXCL: Green Party meetings must avoid “exclusionary” pubs *and* should start with each member revealing their pronouns, a new checklist seen by @TheSun has found
It comes as Mr Polanski's party remains in utter freefall👇
thesun.co.uk/news/40728788/g…
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IMHO, this analogy is overused and flattens very different experiences.
Winning hearts and minds is a particular challenge with the CP Bill. I think we need to be careful about how we talk publicly about who knows what’s best for people who identify as trans if we want to keep minds open enough for people to even consider that a conversion practices ban might have unintended consequences.
Just my tuppence.
This.
A Bill can be well intentioned and still do harm.
Di explains why lesbian, gay and bisexual people are speaking up: children need adults who can talk honestly, ask questions and give them time.
Parents should not be frightened into silence. Read their stories: lgballiance.org.uk/conversio…
#ItsOkayToBeGay
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I just worry that minds will close, and backs go further up when people feel that those they see as hostile opponents think they know what's best for them.
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1/ This article by the Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson is downright misleading. What is said about the law is unreliable, it confuses civil statutes for criminal ones and it completely ignores the principles of statutory constructions in crime. I explain why here:
Look at Bridget Phillipson's language here: a bill that 'allows people to be their true selves', to 'live openly and safely as themselves', that criminalises someone who tries to 'change who someone is'.
The Conversion Practices bill applies in the case of a child who says they're the opposite sex. Think about that.
Apply Phillipson's thinking to the parent of a four year-old boy who says 'mummy, I'm really a girl'.
Or to the parent of a teenage girl who is screaming 'I'm not your daughter I'm your son, you bigot!'
By trying to present the bill as completely reasonable 'common sense measures' Phillipson has only succeeded in exposing its ideological basis. Her language is pure trans activism.
archive.ph/BDRJN
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🧵TUC Motion 17 update: Women have been sending our model letter to their General Secretaries, asking five key questions of them.
📧We have been sent responses from Unite, Unison, NEU and NASUWT, along with follow-up emails sent to two of these unions by Women who are unhappy with the response.
Read them here ➡️ filia.org.uk/latest-news/202…
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
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Loudly for those having tantrums about the NHS *finally* obeying the law, some 16 years on, and providing women with necessary, separate, single sex spaces. This is partly why. I dare you to tell us you don't agree it should.
I first raised this report by @JoPhoenix1 for @WomensRightsNet in spring 2023 at PMQs. Since then we've had 5 Health Secretaries, a Supreme Court clarification of The Equality Act 2010, and simple EHRC guidance.
The NHS delay should shame every senior MP who failed to ensure UK law was acted on. womensrights.network/nhs-dat…
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If you haven't written to your union yet, see link for model text.
If you have, please send it to @FiLiA_charity
If you are not happy with the response, please write again!
Members have a right to know where unions stand on Women's rights.
filia.org.uk/latest-news/202…
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Next week, for @FiLiA_charity I am speaking in defence of Equality Act focusing on women’s interests. In doing so I’ve read various reports from opponents. But interested in wider views. For those genuinely opposed to EA or aspects of it, please kindly summarise your thinking.
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This is abhorrent. We have registered charities in this country openly promoting misogyny and violence against women.
I have written to the Chair of the @ChtyCommission to raise these particular cases and to establish what they are doing to prevent charitable status being used to promote abuse under the veneer of religion.
As @CPhilpOfficial rightly says, the Police need to be investigating these individuals too.
@NJ_Timothy @joymorrissey
The work of @NatSecSoc to challenge misogyny in the charity sector, including in mosques, features in today’s Mail on Sunday.
Charity regulators – and anyone else concerned with protecting women from abuse – cannot ignore this.
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Feminist academic here.
No.
Feminism is not 'the belief that everybody should have equal rights and opportunities'.
Feminism is the belief that female people should have equal rights and opportunities as compared with male people.
Stop betraying women, girls & feminism.
𝘼𝙣𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 can be a feminist.
No matter your reason for being or becoming a feminist, the goal is the same: pushing societies towards equality #ForAllWomenAndGirls.
Have a look at our simple guide to the often-misunderstood topic of #feminism.
🔗 unwomen.org/en/articles/expl…
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"The only clarity in this Bill – the only area where there is no ambiguity – is that affirming a child’s expressed transgender identity is not a criminal offence. Anything else might be."
Our director @cwknews' talk at the @FiLiA_charity webinar.
transgendertrend.com/convers…
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If a child rejects their own body, that is a sign that something is wrong and they need help.
The draft conversion practices bill rides roughshod over that understanding.
The bill takes a personal identity that is inextricably linked to rejection of the body and defines it as something to be protected against change.
Distress and self-rejection are thus locked in, and child safeguarding is undermined.
Pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft bill gets underway on Monday 12 October. Two key questions for the committee are:
1. Why is legal protection being put in place for an aspect of personal identity so closely associated with distress about the body?
2. What abusive conduct that is not already unlawful will be prohibited under the proposed legislation?
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Have you got an upcoming TERFy event? Add it to our website here terftimes.com/events/
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As #Labour26 comes to a close, we will be reviewing the policies which affect Women and Girls carefully.
Included is the Draft Conversion Practices Bill, which was discussed in detail by @soniasodha, @cwknews, Dr Louise Irvine @CanSG_org & Sarah Vine KC at our last webinar ⬇️
youtu.be/l79tPDpjYcI
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