🦕💚🤍💜CountessOfTheNorth💚🤍💜🦕

🦕🦕🦕 "Dreadful middle-aged woman" 🦕🦕🦕

Problematic and increasingly troublesome

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#sexmatters #sexnotgender

[Caro Betts @BettsCaro]

Ruth Hunt always knew that women, especially lesbians, were going to lose out. We were always “a price worth paying” to her.

More unforgivably, it’s been abundantly clear for a long time now, that she also considered children “a price worth paying”

She has no place in the HoL

[Trina @hightreebud]

Two shocking points were revealed in this judgment.

First, to their utter shame @LoveWestLothian actually submitted in their defence that they had special period toilets for girls. >>

[Fiona @DerryBanShee]

The @BBCNews cover-up is worse than I thought. This was a man who identifies as a woman threatening violence against girls specifically for denying he was a woman.
This is not new. But it should be news.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

Unison leader Andrea Egan appears to be in a muddle.

She seems to have misunderstood who the EHRC’s draft guidance on single-sex spaces is aimed at. It is primarily directed at service providers and organisations covered by the Equality Act - not workplace toilet provision.

She also appears unaware that employers already have legal responsibilities to provide suitable toilet and washing facilities under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992.

That aside, her video doesn’t mention women once.

From a union leader whose membership is predominantly female, that is extraordinary.

Women are the group most directly affected by policies on single-sex spaces, privacy and dignity. Yet their interests barely seem to feature in the discussion at all.

[Avery Daye @AveryDaye]

This was so good.

[Kate Barker-Mawjee @KateBMwriting]

If the women’s pond is to be mixed sex then the men’s pond will have to be too. How depressing to lose such a lovely and unique tradition, enjoyed by Londoners for years, at the behest of a handful of unpleasant and coercive men.

[TransgenderTrend @Transgendertrd]

This school had toilet blocks of cubicles with floor to ceiling doors with M or F signs, shared washbasins in the middle, open onto the corridor. This is exactly the set-up used by so many schools now.

Judgment: Indirect sex discrimination against female pupils.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

Why aren't more women outraged that trade unions are actively campaigning against their right to single-sex spaces at work - including changing rooms, showers and toilets?

Because they don't know it's happening.

Many teachers, nurses and public-sector workers think they're paying for employment protection in case they're treated unfairly at work. An insurance policy of sorts - a bit like breakdown cover for their car.

Most have no idea their membership fees are also funding political campaigning. Including campaigns that seek to remove hard-won rights many women value.

My latest for @spiked on trade unions' open contempt for women's concerns - and why so many members don't even realise it's happening.

Link to read below 👇

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

MP Stella Creasey has been fact-checked by lawyers and community noted on the nature of the EHRC Code

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

It’s good to hear that NHS staff are no longer to be allowed to wear political symbols and badges at work. This should include Pride lanyards and “progress” badges, which are also politically polarizing - and not “inclusive” of those who know that sexual orientation is based on biological sex.

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

This video is lit!!! On fire!!!

Danggggggggggg!!

Every time I say it’s their best one yet they top it. Well, they topped it!!! Kudos to @xx_xyathletics.

[MaryCate Delvey @marycatedelvey]

“I decided to wear a bra because it just feels so nice!” Said no woman EVER

[Sonia Gallego🪬 @SoniaRGallego]

“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.

[Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS @Sorelle_Arduino]

France, where Gisèle Pelicot’s husband arranged for at least 83 men to rape her, where we learned of a chat group of 70k men interested in doing the same, is prosecuting a woman for saying we should be wary of people with penises

The prosecutor wants her fined & reeducated 🤬

[Caro Betts @BettsCaro]

With respect Jamie, this isn’t true.
In the 1980’s many towns had a single gay bar. These often gave sanctuary to transexuals and the odd transvestite (because we were being kind and understood they’d get battered elsewhere). None of these men claimed to *be* women, and if they’d claimed to actually be lesbians, they’d have been laughed out the door. At the same time, trans orgs (eg the Beaumont Society) banned gay men from membership. The conflict has always existed.
*Trans people* did nothing in the fight for gay rights. Really, nothing.
When OUR history is co-opted by those who write us out of it, we should call it what it is - a parasitic movement.
Ushering in “gender identity ideology” has irrevocably harmed innumerable children who would otherwise grow up to be gay.
LGB and T organisations came together because LGB had won the argument and the T wanted to hide behind that. And they bought the money in.
Good luck if you want to start trying to reason with trans ideologues. We’ve tried for years. They have no compromise position.
It was always a forced marriage that many didn’t want. And, frankly, it’s now gone beyond abusive. We need out.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Very embarrassing from @S_A_Somerville who replied to @MeghanSCUP saying the West Lothian school ruling was about "different legislation" to the Equality Act.

No, it was found to be indirect discrimination under the terms of EA2010. It's clearly amateur hour at Holyrood!

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

Hello Stella.

(Labour Party member here, if that makes a difference)

IMO, it’s remarkable that you are co-sponsoring an EDM to reject guidance on established law, and extensively engaging/justifying this action because you think the guidance “is wrong”, yet decline to explain why you think the guidance is wrong.

You are an elected official with a national platform and accountability. Being coy about your rationale for attempting to prevent guidance on such a hotly-contested issue being approved really isn’t on.

I expect more of our parliamentarians, frankly.

Don’t you think constituents, including both the broader party constituency and non-constituents who, nonetheless, live in a country where you belong to the party in power are worthy of explanation?

You’re talking to the expert, advocates and representatives of this guidance. Maybe an actual discussion would be fruitful?

Is the guidance wring but you think the law OK?
Is the guidance wrong because you think the law is wrong?

If you think the solution is legislation, that means you wish to change the Equality Act - I don’t see another interpretation.

Your voters deserve to know how you are planning to do this. Don’t we LP members deserve to know how our party is approaching this (including the range of views on offer)?

No Debate is over.

[Women o' Scotland @WomenOScotland]

Why is UNISON General Secretary Andrea Egan asking members for feedback on how the EHRC guidance will make their workplace conditions unworkable, when their workplaces should already have been complying with the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992?

Andrea clearly doesn’t have a clue what she’s talking about and is using her position to further her activism.

[🦕💚🤍💜CountessOfTheNorth💚🤍💜🦕 @CountessOfNice]

For fucks' SAKE!

Workplace regulations have required single sex toilets since 1992!

How can these MPs be so ignorant of the law?

[Caro Betts @BettsCaro]

@akuareindorf @nicky_strand @BevJacksonAuth Or try this from Josh Newbury MP

[Caro Betts @BettsCaro]

@akuareindorf @nicky_strand @BevJacksonAuth Or try this from Josh Newbury MP