Sidsy

Theatre lover. Animal lover. CLAW.
Adult Female. Politically homeless.
'Gender identity' ≠ Sex.
Hate misinformation - please CHECK YOUR FACTS/SOURCES!

[Sidsy @GrumpyOW]

Wanting elderly and disabled women to be guaranteed same-sex intimate care is #NotACultureWar

[Sidsy @GrumpyOW]

@TheGreenParty Will @sianberry and @TheGreenParty please answer these important questions? Voters deserve to know your position on these points.
https://t.co/1zfQhvAx0n

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

This is a confusing letter @sianberry.

I have some questions:

1. You’re asking for legislative action in response to a non-legislative Code. Assuming it’s the Equality Act you want to change, does it follow that you accept that the Code accurately reflects the Act as it is?

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

All outlets leave out the ‘trans’ connection. The deliberate burying of the targeting of women is what’s so unnerving from the BBC.

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

All this from the trial has been left out of the police upsum and sentencing coverage

[Sidsy @GrumpyOW]

@Mr_Pilchard Yep 😉

[Sidsy @GrumpyOW]

@akuareindorf @stuartf100 @sianberry Thank you, Akua, for holding these politicians to account. Voters deserve answers to these important questions.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

This is a confusing letter @sianberry.

I have some questions:

1. You’re asking for legislative action in response to a non-legislative Code. Assuming it’s the Equality Act you want to change, does it follow that you accept that the Code accurately reflects the Act as it is?

[It'sTheBiologyStupid @BiologyStupid]

@ForWomenScot @stellacreasy Para 21 of a new judgment in Scotland is highly pertinent: "Nevertheless, the answer to th Council's submissions is that guidance is not the law. The Council has its own duties and powers conferred on it by legislation. The Council is obliged to obey the law, not guidance..." 1/2

[Sidsy @GrumpyOW]

@stellacreasy @bindelj @akuareindorf @peter_daly @caspry @LesbianLabour @MagiGibson @Jessica12uk @EHRC I wouldn't worry about it, Stella. People have been discussing how disgraceful your behaviour is long before Julie's latest post.
But if you are keen to respond to people, why not answer all the people asking what is wrong with the ehrc cop?

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

@stellacreasy @akuareindorf @peter_daly @caspry @LesbianLabour @MagiGibson @Jessica12uk @EHRC I’m not sure that you understand what reality actually is. So let’s leave it there shall we? You might remember sometime, perhaps in the middle of the night – oh, and you also might remember that women don’t have penises.

[Peter Daly @peter_daly]

She’s worried about losing her seat to Polanski at the next GE, so is performatively pro trans rights to defend that. But she’s known as a feminist so pretends her anti-code position is about “the creeping use of SIs”. She’s trying to triangulate. But you can’t make a triangle out of two opposing points.

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

Smashing, thank you @SophyRidgeSky for these useful questions to Baroness Falkner

Here’s the programme page

https://t.co/9lJlzLz6Yr

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

I've written the inaugural piece for my legal Substack on this week's attempt by MPs to block the @EHRC Code of Practice:

EARLY WARNING | Are MPs plotting to overturn For Women Scotland and dismantle women’s and LGB people’s discrimination law rights?

https://t.co/D0mxelouWb

[Sidsy @GrumpyOW]

RT @soniasodha: Must read from @akuareindorf on what MPs are playing at in attempting to (ineptly) opposing the EHRC Code of Practice

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[Sidsy @GrumpyOW]

@CaptainVirgilx @stellacreasy @Scott_Wortley And also so determined to double down when it is pointed out that she is spreading misinformation.

[Sidsy @GrumpyOW]

Sad to see one of our legislators having to be community noted for spreading misinformation.

[stellacreasy @stellacreasy]

This video is an attempt to explain the parliamentary processes being used to give the EHRC guidance legal status and why I think they are a problem in themselves. Am sure it’s not perfect but I hope it’s helpful in trying to navigate the acronyms and actions being taken.

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

I admit to a certain morbid fascination with people like @stellacreasy and @NadiaWhittomeMP who brazen it out after being caught misrepresenting parliamentary process as it applies to the EHRC Code of Conduct - even after @akuareindorf and @Scott_Wortley have gone to immense lengths to explain, in great detail and with superhuman patience and courtesy, why they have got it completely wrong.

But their betrayal of lesbians and women in general - and their sheer dishonesty in refusing to admit openly they still want to replace all sex-based rights with self-ID - are not remotely fascinating. Just grotesque.

[Sidsy @GrumpyOW]

@Scott_Wortley Really great thread. Thank you.

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

@stellacreasy These points though are irrelevant for the consideration of the ECHR code of practice. The laying of the code before parliament does not make it law. It is not a statutory instrument. The procedure in the Equality Act 2006, s 14 mirrors the negative procedure for statutory

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

@stellacreasy development of policy.
Your guidance video is misleading by suggesting that SIs are used to amend legislation. That may happen if there is Henry VIII clause but typically with the usual skeletal form it is to give detail to policy that has not been thought out.

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

@stellacreasy Thank you for your response.
I completely understand concerns about statutory instruments. The excessive use of delegated legislation is an issue which reflects badly on respective governments (and on parliament for allowing it) over the years. The tendency in recent years to