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[Dionysus in London 💜🤍💚🍇🍷📚🦖🦕 @DionysusLondon]

@rlimitexceeded @jo_bartosch So awful. Children are traumatised by this.😭😐

[Jo Bartosch @jo_bartosch]

Really proud of this. Down the line, I want it to be like Substack for TERFs (but with quality control 😉). There’s no funding aside from donations, but contributors are welcome to add payment links for themselves or a charity so readers can pay them directly.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

🚨 BREAKING >> Staff at an NHS trust received an email on Wednesday telling them there would be “no immediate changes” to its policies following new statutory EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces.

Those policies allow men who identify as women to be placed on women’s hospital wards - and to use toilets, showers and changing rooms intended for female staff.

A public governor has been challenging the policies for more than 18 months, including raising his concerns with the EHRC and even publicly objecting to the reappointment of the Trust’s chair.

Yet nothing has changed.

Truly one of the most extraordinary stories I’ve worked on this year. My latest @Telegraph

Link below 👇

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

Utterly astonishing. The NHS is openly stating its intention to break the law.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

‘He was admitted to a psychiatric ward as a teenager, where he was diagnosed with depression. During his admission, he mentioned to a doctor that he had been looking into transgender communities online…’

Free to read.

https://t.co/XrIFExiU3G

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Not too long ago, stating that biological sex was real was a career-ending act of bravery.

Kathleen Stock was hounded out of her university job. Maya Forstater had to take her former employer to a landmark tribunal.

Kemi Badenoch and Rosie Duffield were told they were on the wrong side of history.

Our public bodies, charities, political figures, and sections of the media all lined up to condemn these women as bigots.

That establishment was wrong. The Supreme Court settled it beyond doubt: when the Equality Act says woman, it means a biological woman.

Every woman who was targeted for saying that sex means biological sex has since been vindicated. An apology is owed to each and every one of them, although I won’t hold my breath.

The EHRC's Code of Practice, which took effect this week, provides clear guidance to organisations on how single-sex spaces and services, like changing rooms, should operate on the basis of biological sex.

This is hugely welcome, particularly for the countless women and girls who have been denied their legal rights for so long. It is a tribute to the tireless campaigners who fought for years to get here, despite the Labour Government’s delays and attempts to water it down.

However, we should be clear that the Code does not change the law. All the Code does is provide guidance on how to follow the law.

Those who try to block the Code will not block the law that sits behind it. The Green, Lib Dem and Labour MPs who are pretending otherwise should know better.

Yet more than a year after the Supreme Court ruling, compliance is still falling short and there has been no accountability for the many institutions who have put women at risk of harm because they misunderstood the law.

Take the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Even after the ruling, they continued disciplinary investigations against the Darlington Nurses, who did nothing more than ask for single-sex changing rooms.

They have not issued an apology for getting things so badly wrong.

Then there's NHS England, which has still not updated guidance that allows men to be placed on female hospital wards simply because they identify as women.

That policy is unlawful, yet it remains in force today - putting the safety, privacy and dignity of female patients at risk.

Things are no better in the prison system, where violent male inmates are still being housed in women’s prisons, where they share communal spaces with vulnerable women.

It has been a legal requirement to house male and female prisoners separately since 1823, but apparently that doesn’t apply if the man says he is a woman.

For too long our public institutions treated radical gender ideology as if it were gospel and treated women's rights as something to be tossed aside in the face of this new religion.

The Code of Practice is an important tool in reversing the spread of that ideology, but alone it is not enough.

Bridget Phillipson needs to get a grip and hold government bodies to account if they refuse to uphold the law.

Our institutions must establish why they were so vulnerable to being misled and how they will prevent the next faddish ideology that comes along from taking root.

We need institutions that we can trust, not ones that are so quick to abandon common sense and the law.

That is the least that women and the wider public deserve.

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

I first wrote about the horrors of surrogacy in 2013. Since then, it has become seen as a 'human right' to grow a baby for the sole purpose of removing it from its mother. Here's one from 2016:
https://t.co/JarLF7hmed

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Boom

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

“It’s not the fault of ‘gender-critical’ women’s organisations that many trans people have been led to believe they enjoy ‘rights’ they never had. It’s the fault of transactivists and companion organisations, such as Amnesty”. – @alexmassie in @thetimes
https://t.co/qChk15sBde

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

The Gay Men's Network was outrageously libelled by Amnesty as "anti rights" despite our work to protect the 80-90% gay/lesbian youth at gender clinics where staff joke "soon there will be no gay people left".

We are beyond grateful, emotional and touched by the decency of JKR.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Gay men's organisations named on the list are welcome to contact me through my website. While the JK Rowling's Fund was set up to support women, JK Rowling herself is more than happy to donate to your legal fighting fund.

[The Spectator @spectator]

A long-awaited report about what’s gone wrong with British policing was published on Monday, and I’ve been thinking about it in light of Alastair Hilton video.

An inquiry chaired by Lords Blunkett and Herbert found – surprise – that policemen are badly trained and badly led, and are too fixated on rooting out racists and bigots.

They need an ‘ethical reset’, it concluded, and to ‘focus entirely on the prevention, detection and prosecution of crime’. ‘Drop the woke ideology’ is the message of the report. If only it were that simple.

✍️ Mary Wakefield

Article | https://t.co/qY7O5sMdrs

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

One of the worst developments in Britain over the past decade has been the ideological corruption of the police

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

My blog for @HEPI_news digging down into their recent findings about student views on single-sex spaces.

What the HEPI data tells us clearly is that the loudest voices; on campus, in the student union, and in the student press; don’t represent all students, and in fact only speak for a minority. This should give university managers pause for thought when they think they are doing what ‘the students’ want.

https://t.co/MQBcUgKqZi

[Dionysus in London 💜🤍💚🍇🍷📚🦖🦕 @DionysusLondon]

@roseveniceallan Christ on a bike, I can’t believe what I am reading here!!!

[Sidsy @GrumpyOW]

@roseveniceallan https://t.co/ulEkXaH4a9

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

What the parents have done to their son is unconscionable. They have destroyed his childhood in pursuit of an ideology.

He could not have understood to what he was "consenting," being far too young to understand what his sex let alone "gender identity" is.

The child does not need puberty blockers but to be removed from his cruel and abusive parents.

And Hilary Cass needs to do some reading up on child development. It is now clear that she believes that some children are born "trans". For a paediatric scientist, to publicly espouse that unevidenced belief, is beyond embarrassing.

[Venice Allan @roseveniceallan]

Cass asks if politicians or doctors should decide for 11 yr old boy who was transed at 2.5 yrs by his parents and now has weak bones because he rarely leaves his bedroom.
Their answer is politicians, who must criminalise this abuse. He needs help, not puberty blockers!!!

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

14 men including her husband raped this poor woman after drugging her.

Men between the ages of 28 and 73!

The husband is in his 60s -
So this is probably not a young woman.

As we saw with Gisele Pelicot there is no age boundary or demographic excluded when men are invited to rape women by each other.

I’m glad one has pleaded guilty already to spare her at least one small ordeal of facing his defence team. The others should burn in hell. https://t.co/X3EMML0swx

[LesbianLabour @LesbianLabour]

A long post presenting evidence of how deep ‘affirmation without acceptance’ has been buried in services specifically for young people who already carry a diagnosis of autism. Affirmation buried deep into the roots of these services for over a decade