“What message does this send to the many women in the parliamentary estate who are delighted by the prospect that their sex-based rights will now be upheld within their workplace?”
@HJoyceGender on HoC staff being signposted to trans activist orgs
https://t.co/flf3BlD2jD
UK: A trans activist has been jailed after issuing threats to slaughter female staff and students at three schools as revenge for the "oppression" of "trans women."
Most British news outlets did not include Darren Rigby's motives in their coverage.
READ: https://t.co/3xZV9ys4LM
There was a big win for girls in Scotland today.
The Court of Session has ruled that West Lothian Council @LoveWestLothian multi-user unisex toilets in a primary school amounted to indirect sex discrimination against female pupils.
Common sense was upheld. GIrls deserve privacy, dignity, and single-sex facilities especially in schools.
Full judgment here:
https://t.co/bXB2JiY0wB
Scottish councils and @scotgov need to stop ignoring biological reality and follow the law.
ALERT: Trucker rescued a woman who was running through traffic, handcuffed after being allegedly kidnapped by a man posing as a police officer.
Anthony Moore was driving his truck in Aiken County, South Carolina, when he spotted a woman running across the road who was handcuffed.
“She says, ‘Help me, help me. He’s trying to kidnap me.'“
Jonathan Willard, 39, approached Moore’s truck and flashed a ‘badge’ sideways to Moore, saying he was law enforcement.
The woman jumped into Moore’s car, and according to Moore, she said, “No, he is not. He tried to kidnap me, sir.”
Another driver stopped and called 911, saying, “Yeah, he [Willard] can’t be legit… Hell no, because he’s in a white Cadillac.”
Williard then drove off, but was later located and arrested by authorities, and is being charged with impersonating law enforcement and kidnapping.
Moore, who is a preacher, says God put him there and, “Delayed divine timing. There is an appointed place for us to be at an appointed time.”
“I am on my way to the school with a revolver and a machete and I’m going to shoot and stab all of your girls. You terfs are going to learn to stop mocking, deadnaming and misgendering transwomen like me.”
The obfuscation by media to hide this man’s trans identity is an huge part of the problem.
✍️I have filled in an Unduly Lenient Sentence form for this case
Sustained threats of significant violence & murder of women & girls in the name of political ideology is terr0rism afaic
28 months is not nearly enough for this dangerous man. Unlikely he'll even serve it in full
Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.
I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.
Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.
I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"
You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.
Trustees of charities have a responsibility to ensure policies and practices are legal. Well done them for restoring some sense (with a hefty dollop of self-preservation) here.
Canon Clare didn’t have a prayer in this situation.
The Scottish Court of Session has just ruled that providing multi-user unisex toilets in a primary school amounted to indirect sex discrimination against female pupils.
https://t.co/ulFHKebMK9
A Furore That Was Whipped Up. That Is What Alexis Boon Called It.
Henry Nowak died in handcuffs on a Southampton street. The Prime Minister said he felt sick watching the body cam footage. The Commons Speaker ordered the government to make a statement. The chief constable of the force responsible described the national outcry as a furore that had been whipped up.
Alexis Boon, chief constable of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, spoke publicly for the first time today. He apologised for his officers handcuffing and arresting Henry. He said Henry could not be saved. He said his force had been subjected to unfair criticism. He said he does not accept the term two tier policing and does not recognise it. He will not resign.
The University of Reading evaluated Hampshire's mandatory Inclusion Matters diversity course, completed by 6,250 officers and staff. The findings were published by the force itself. Nearly twenty percent of officers said they felt they would have been rejected for saying the wrong thing during the training. Nearly fifteen percent said that if they made a mistake it would have been held against them. Fifteen and a half percent felt controlled and pressured to be certain ways. The University noted that individuals who did not respond well to the course may benefit from further intervention, monitoring or coaching.
Read that final observation carefully. Officers who retained their own judgment during diversity training were to be monitored, further intervened upon and coached until they responded correctly. The training was not designed to inform. It was designed to condition. Hampshire's own commissioned research documents that conditioning precisely.
The Metropolitan Police has gone further. It commissioned HR consultant Shereen Daniels to write a structural review of systemic racism within the force titled 30 Patterns of Harm. The Metropolitan Police described it as a key document in its race action plan. In a section on neutrality Daniels writes that neutrality is not neutral. That it reflects dominant norms, particularly whiteness. That claiming neutrality is claiming distance from bias but that distance is not real. That neutrality is a myth. The Metropolitan Police told its officers they could not be neutral because of their whiteness.
Officers trained that neutrality is a myth, that their own whiteness prevents impartiality and that failing to respond well to diversity training would result in monitoring and coaching arrived at the scene where Henry Nowak lay dying. They were not neutral. They had been trained not to be.
Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said policing had been infected by an extremist ideology that calls itself anti-racism but is in fact racist itself because it urges ethnic minorities to be treated more leniently. He said the doctrine is enshrined as official police policy and in his view contributed to officers prioritising the allegation of racism above saving a young man's life.
That is the argument Alexis Boon refuses to engage with. He apologised for the handcuffs. He described the outcry as a furore. He said he would not resign. He did not address the Inclusion Matters course whose own evaluation shows officers were afraid to say the wrong thing. He did not address the neutrality document that told his officers their whiteness prevents impartiality. He did not address the training that the University of Reading documented and that his force commissioned.
Henry Nowak is not a furore. He is an eighteen year old boy who died in handcuffs on a Southampton street while his killer chose his food in a police kitchen. The furore is the appropriate response to that. The chief constable who cannot see the difference has not understood the question.
"Alexis Boon said his force had been subjected to unfair criticism. He said he does not accept the term two tier policing and does not recognise it. He will not resign."
Dear Clive Lewis MP,
I have experienced several miscarriages, run two marathons to raise money for baby-loss charities and supported organisations such as Tommy's.
I am also quite sure that I am a woman - not a "birthing person".
Only women can become pregnant and give birth, regardless of how they identify. The term "birthing person" is therefore neither necessary nor genuinely inclusive. In practice, it erases the very people it is intended to describe.
Pregnancy, childbirth and miscarriage are profoundly significant experiences for many women. We deserve to be spoken about accurately and respectfully.
Please show pregnant women - and all women - that respect by using clear and accurate language.
Yours sincerely,
A woman who has experienced miscarriage
A man who tried to murder a toddler was caught in the act by the child's mother on her baby monitor.
Lewis Prince, 29, denied intending to commit murder, instead admitting to assaulting the child.
However it took less than two hours for a jury to see through his lies, and convict the factory worker of attempted murder for punching, strangling and smothering the two-year-old
The sickening incident was caught on camera, when the child's mother checked a baby monitor app on her phone, as she routinely would when leaving the home.
That morning, he had been asked to watch the child at its Blackpool home and as the child cried, Prince launched his assault at which point the child's mum happened to log onto an app.
She ran back home as the child screamed helplessly.
During the trial, four, six-second recordings of the attack which saw Prince punching and slapping the toddler were played to court.
In the footage, he is seen grabbing the child's neck, pinning them down and repeatedly throwing them down as he attempted to get back up.
At one stage, he stood on the child to pin them to the ground. In the struggle, Prince, himself a dad-of-two, left the room to get an ice pack for the child and returned with a bag of frozen peas which he pushed onto their face, causing more distress.
Sentencing, Judge Robert Altham noted this was "clearly not done out of concern but to cover up what he had done".
When the mum got home, she ran up the stairs and pushed Prince out of the way to get to her child.
But, in a bid to cover his wrongdoing, Prince pinned her down, grabbed her arm and tried to stop her calling the police. Prince denied hurting the child demanding the mother showed him bruises.
The woman was eventually able to run to neighbours to call 999 and resisted his pleas to come with her.
He instead drove away alone but was arrested before he could make it home. Meanwhile, the baby was taken to Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
Prosecuting, Alex Langhorn said a paramedic who attended reported seeing bruises "as you would get at a boxing match, that's the only time I've seen any bruising like that".
The child has since gone on to make a full recovery.
Judge Altham disagreed with the author of a pre-sentencing report and said Prince should be classified as a dangerous offender.
He said a whole life sentence was not merited but said Prince should only be released upon a parole board decision after at least two thirds of his sentence.
He said: "For someone to be able to do this to a small child without any real motivation, it's necessary for there to be a check on him before he is released to the public".
The judge handed down a 30 year extended sentence which is made of a 26 year custodial element and a four year extended licence. He will only be eligible for parole after 20 years.
A restraining order blocking any communication with the child was issued indefinitely but no restraining order was issued in relation to the mother.
An astonishing omission by @BBCNews to leave out the motivation of this man. He specifically targeted girls and he was motivated by ‘trans’ grievances.
Why sanitise the truth in this case?
In his own words 👇
NHS BUILT A SECRET OPERATION AGAINST ITS OWN CEO FOR REPORTING BULLYING
Dr Susan Gilby spent 32 years in the NHS. She became CEO of the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2018, a month after Lucy Letby was arrested, and steered it through a pandemic. She then reported the board chair for bullying. That was her mistake, apparently.
Chair Ian Haythornthwaite and three other senior figures quietly launched what they called Project Countess. Its goal was to remove her.
They purged hundreds of messages and documents to cover their tracks.
One of the Trust's directors took her to the pub and told her it was time for her to go.
He added that if she didn't agree to leave, they would start a process against her. Nobody told her what that process would be.
A tribunal judge found the Trust had built a sham case against Dr Gilby, manufacturing the appearance of performance and misconduct allegations, aimed at engineering her dismissal.
Staff at the Trust then accessed her work accounts while she was suspended and deleted tranches of emails.
Some of those emails were relevant to the Thirlwall Inquiry into Lucy Letby's crimes.
She was also offered a payout in return for silence. She called it utterly shocking and refused.
She was eventually awarded £1.4 million in damages, one of the largest payments the NHS has ever made to a former employee.
The total bill to the taxpayer, including court costs, is estimated at around £3 million. The Trust had refused multiple offers to settle the case earlier.
The Trust still refused to issue an apology.
The @thebma called it a landmark case and said whistleblower protections are woefully inadequate and not fit for purpose.
Dr Gilby said she feels sad, not triumphant. Sad for her career. Sad for her colleagues. Sad that it took this long for the truth to be told.
She went on record warning that sham investigations are routinely used to silence NHS whistleblowers. The Countess of Chester case just put a £3 million price tag on that fact. And nobody in charge has said sorry.
Sources: @thebma@BBCNews@ITV