🐐AliceB🦖

Picture shows me at under 2, leading my paternal grandmother a merry dance. Hope to continue causing that effect!

[latsot @latsot]

Disability Rights UK opposes the law of the land, specifically the Equality Act 2010.

It also opposes the disabled people it purports to represent.

It places a far, far greater priority on the wishes and feelings of men who say they are women than on the needs of disabled people.

In all its talk of healthcare and the lamenting of gender-addled people being placed on wards relating to their sex, it does not *once* mention the necessity of single-sex intimate care for disabled women.

It does not say that disabled women should be allowed to choose the sex of the person carrying out their intimate care, which most often takes place in the woman's own home, far from supervision.

It sees this as a far lesser priority than men being allowed to invade female wards, where they are known to be a danger.

Could there possibly be more of an indication that Disability Rights UK has *entirely* lost its way and is no longer a disability rights charity at all?

The charity's statement does say one thing that initially seems to support disabled people:

"We are appalled at implications from the Code that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead."

I fully agree. However, it goes on to explain that its concern is not about disabled people who will lose our accessible facilities altogether if anyone and everyone is permitted to use them, but for the men who will be sad if they can't invade women's spaces.

Not "accessible spaces are under threat of colonisation by the able-bodied", but "we will not be used as a ‘loophole’ in the wider erosion of trans rights."

That is exactly the wrong way around.

Disabled people have known for a decade that the major disability charities are hopelessly captured. They're pulling a Stonewall by going after easy money and cheap non-solutions to the problems disabled people face every day. They're throwing us under the same bus Stonewall threw same-sex attracted people under.

We've known this and we've tried to fight it but we haven't been heard.

The gender war against disabled people is about to intensify and we don't have many allies.

Can I ask you to share this, to demand answers from the major disability charities if you can and to remember that gender ideology is not just a war on women, children and same-sex attracted people, it's a war on disabled people too.

And we often feel as though we're fighting it on our own.

@hen10freeman @PankhurstEM @ThePosieParker @LWSNorthEast @JapanesePolar

https://t.co/0BbzRcxWWs

[🐐AliceB🦖 @AYomTov]

@FondOfBeetles Don't know how I missed this previously. You're a wonder, Emma, thank you for all you do.

[LabourLGB @LabourLGB]

@NadiaWhittomeMP Hi @Nadiawhittomemp. We would like to invite you to discuss this very important issue and related topics with us. For anyone working in her offices reading this, please let her know. We are happy to meet in parliament or in your constituency.

[LabourWomen’sDeclaration @LabWomenDec]

The @UKLabour party declined to properly brief either its 2024 GE candidates or, subsequently, its new MPs about the law on sex and gender. Nor were the new intake adequately briefed about the party's 2023 policy pivot against self-ID and in support of single-sex meaning biological sex.
This mistaken "say nothing, avoid this topic" approach has contributed to the current muddle and misapprehensions. However, these ill-informed EDM signatories who still cling to the policy of self-ID are not a majority within the PLP & they absolutely do not reflect the majority of Labour voters & members - who support the SC ruling.
Our work to educate all our party's parliamentarians continues...
And we also point out - SoS @bphillipsonMP & @10DowningStreet have approved & laid the @EHRC code to enter the statute book in July, after the current 40 day period.
#TheLawIsTheLaw

[🐐AliceB🦖 @AYomTov]

@LabWomenDec @EHRC @CommonsWEC So clear and straightforward. I'm bemused by the posts here claiming 'bad logic' and 'uninformed' in relation to Mary Ann Stephenson - the exact opposite is the case, and some of the committee really were astonishingly ill-informed.

[LabourWomen’sDeclaration @LabWomenDec]

Calm & authoritative responses by @EHRC chair to @CommonsWEC include ⬇️on #Stonewall's 'No Debate':
“I think one of the reasons why discussion has become so unpleasant in this area is because for such a long time that dialogue was prevented from happening”
https://t.co/VwO4Sj0gNu

[🐐AliceB🦖 @AYomTov]

@Jebadoo2 Thank you for making the utterly unbearable somewhat bearable, even making me smile.... It really is beyond belief, the sheer idiocy of these MPs, and rather frightening.

[🐐AliceB🦖 @AYomTov]

@michaelpforan I am just appalled that all universities, but maybe most especially the so-called 'elite' universities, seem incapable of defending the exchange of ideas and imparting of knowledge and understanding that they were set up to provide. So sorry about this, Michael.

[🐐AliceB🦖 @AYomTov]

@Baronessjenkin Another really important project report from FiLiA, who are doing so much excellent work.

[LesbianLabour @LesbianLabour]

See those words ‘queer bashing’ , see the context - violence to a gay man lead to his death. ‘Queer bashing’ was murder. We object to the use of the word ‘ queer ‘ it means violence & hatred to us. These days straight people use it to describe themselves as special.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

The fabulous @tracygilbert72 brought the debate back to essentials, saying that “the Supreme Court judgment and the code have not revoked any rights for anyone, but have confirmed single-sex rights that protect women and girls.”
https://t.co/npBT1LBL1Z

[LabourWomen’sDeclaration @LabWomenDec]

Secretary of State for @DHSCgovuk, @jamesmurray_ldn, reconfirms government support for the Supreme Court ruling on sex meaning biological sex in The Equality Act's single-sex provisions.

[Labour Heartlands @Labourheartland]

Trans Rights: The Conjuring Trick at the Toilet Door

The toilet debate is a conjuring trick. And it is time to name it as one.

Scroll through social media and you would think the entire argument about the Supreme Court ruling and the EHRC Code came down to a single question: which toilet does a trans person use? That framing is not accidental. It is a strategy, chosen precisely because it makes women's objections look petty and obsessive, reduces a sweeping legal settlement about women's fundamental rights to a single emotionally charged doorway, and keeps women permanently on the defensive.

Here is what the debate is actually about.

The ONS Census found that 0.54 per cent of people in England and Wales report a gender identity different from their birth sex. Within that figure, fewer than half have any outward transgender appearance. No medical treatment. No social transition. Self-identification alone. Roughly one in two hundred people.
These people's rights matter. The right not to be harassed, not to face discrimination, not to be subjected to violence: those are absolute. But rights are not the same thing as demands. And the demand that fifty-one per cent of the population surrender sex-based protections won through a century of organised political struggle is not a rights claim. It is a power claim.

On 16 April 2025, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that "woman" and "man" in the Equality Act refer to biological sex. Unanimously. Not a narrow majority. Every justice on the bench. The ruling also confirmed that trans people retain full legal protection under the protected characteristic of gender reassignment. Both protections stand in law. What the ruling refused to do was allow one to erase the other.

The EHRC Code, now laid before Parliament, covers far more than toilets. It covers domestic violence refuges. Single-sex hospital wards. Communal changing rooms. Intimate personal care. Competitive sport. Women's right to meet, organise and associate as women. It states plainly that a service for women and trans women is not a single-sex service. That a refuge admitting male-bodied people is not a refuge from male violence. These are not cruel statements. They are logical ones.

Nurses have been hauled before employment tribunals for understanding this. Working class women with mortgages and families, doing physical, demanding work, punished for knowing that a female ward means what it says. Anyone who objects is branded a bigot, a transphobe, a hater.

The accusation is the weapon. And like all weapons discharged without discrimination, it has destroyed its own utility: words that once carried genuine moral weight have been debased into instruments of political enforcement, fired at nurses, mothers, lesbians, gay men and scientists for the sole offence of stating material reality.

This is a liberal campaign. It is not a left-wing one. The left begins with material reality. Bodies. Class. Violence. Women are not oppressed because of how they feel about being female. They are oppressed because they are female. A left politics that cannot say what a woman is has abandoned women, not theoretically, but actually: in tribunals, in refuges, on wards, on sports fields, in the silencing of anyone who says out loud what most people know to be true.

Read more here https://t.co/1pN4Wg6GrB

#womensrights #womensrightsarehumanrights
#transrights

[LesbianLabour @LesbianLabour]

One of our own at the Hay Festival yesterday with banner and question.
#WeStandWithSallGrover
#Lesbians

[🐐AliceB🦖 @AYomTov]

@eliotranch @soniasodha @AudreySuffolk @RoryStewartUK Indeed. And when he was MP for my constituency (Penrith & the Border) and prisons minister, I talked with him about this very issue and he appeared to understand and agree, as shown in that 2020 quote.

[🐐AliceB🦖 @AYomTov]

@AlbionLeonard @SVPhillimore I do hope you realise there are thousands upon thousands of left-wing people who don't agree with gender ideologists, and to use the repulsive term 'leftards' is to make out we're all the same. Kindly apologise and stop using it.

[LabourWomen’sDeclaration @LabWomenDec]

Akua describes below a political history in socialist, lesbian & feminist activism, inc campaigning against Section 28, which so many of us in LWD share.
It's crystal clear to us how both gender identity ideology & "queer" theory are retrogressive, fuelled by misogyny & the drive to exploit women's & children's bodies for financial profit.
Join our #LWDLiverpool26 conference fringe in Sept to hear more.

[🐐AliceB🦖 @AYomTov]

@LabWomenDec “Harris had previously supported taxpayer-funded gender-changing surgery for transgender prison inmates.” And didn’t change her view despite the cost of healthcare for actual health needs.

[🐐AliceB🦖 @AYomTov]

@mushycrouton @LesbianLabour Well, you haven't answered my question. There's no 'conquering' going on. To call sex realists 'predatory' is rude and stupid enough, but your final comment makes clear you have no argument - just abuse.

[🐐AliceB🦖 @AYomTov]

@mushycrouton @LesbianLabour What ARE you talking about? How do we become isolated and vulnerable by simply being understood as a separate category from the TQ? We gained rights - even gay marriage - without being bunged in with TQetc.