@EllieChowns FFS! ๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ
Please explain exactly how this guidance, which is based on UK law, is "unfit for purpose".
Why does women & girls having some male free spaces, especially where they are vulnerable, bother you so much?
Why can't women & girls have privacy, peace & dignity?
Pls answer.
@unisonldnlgbt Why exactly? Don't you believe your female members need & deserve female only facilities, services & sports?
Also, are you aware that the guidance doesn't apply to workplaces? The appropriate legislation would be the Workplace regulations 1992.
HTH. ๐
@GBPolitcs@francesweetman It was a member of the campus security team, not a lecturer according to the BBC & Sky.
Poor man. I hope he makes a full recovery.
This is a confusing letter @sianberry.
I have some questions:
1. Youโre asking for legislative action in response to a non-legislative Code. Assuming itโs the Equality Act you want to change, does it follow that you accept that the Code accurately reflects the Act as it is?
@TheGreenParty Is there any chance you might respond to the questions asked by @akuareindorf ? I believe she may be able to help you with that confusion you seem to be struggling with & we'd all really like to know your answers.
Thanks.
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
@BettsCaro@akuareindorf@nicky_strand@BevJacksonAuth I'm lost for words that our elected representatives can be so bloody thick! ๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธNo wonder the country is in such a mess if this is an example of the quality of some MPs.
@TheGreenParty It's not cruel or confusing to anyone with half a brain.
It's guidance on how to follow the law.
It's legislation which protects the dignity, safety & humanity of women & girls - half the population! ๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ
@keyboardae@BBCRadioScot No, I'm not a virtue signalling twat.
The safety of people in Gaza is the responsibility of the ppl they voted to deliver it - Hamas.
There is much suffering worldwide for multiple reasons & as long as humanity exists, there always will be. Wearing a badge changes nothing.
@Janeblades2@JuliaHB1 Isn't it time for your meds? All these threats & name calling to try & deflect from your lack of personal hygiene & absence of critical thinking skills.
@Janeblades2@amy11861@JuliaHB1 Your bag is filthy - mine isn't & most women don't have filthy bags & they definitely don't wear filthy masks like that.