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[Women's Rights Network London @WRN_London]

On our launch day (hello world!) WRN has written to the @MayorofLondon asking for urgent attention to his office's:

- Data Collection and Recording
- Service Provision, Policies and Facilities Access

Neither the Mayor nor the GLA are legally compliant with the EA 2010.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Women should not be penalised for the wrongs of men, especially when they are the victims of the wrongdoing.

Other nations must not restrict the only chances of freedom that Afghan women have.

These women need supporting on a human rights basis: they have none at home.

https://t.co/TRgeXtd9Yz

[WRN Scotland @WRNScotland]

The Lost Women Banner by the amazing @SelkieStitching is starting its journey to London
Stage 1 Fife to Edinburgh
@WomensRightsNet
#WRNconf26

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

We recently had the pleasure of speaking with @EloiseSchultz_ , Law Student & Freedom Advocate at the University of Leicester, and Founder of the university's new Women in Sport Society. @UoLWSS
Eloise spoke eloquently of the need for fairness, dignity, privacy and safety for women and girls at all levels of sport.

Full interview here 👇
https://t.co/MCqzs31S3z

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

It is the job of legislators to consider all intended & unintended consequences of amendments. @JuliaGillard’s answer here is an admission that her government did not do their job.

Therefore, she remains Australia’s first woman prime minister who destroyed women’s rights, even if she didn’t mean to.

It is, however, true that there is no evidence that legislators *did* intend for women’s sex based rights to be destroyed by adding gender identity to the sex discrimination act. That has happened because of ideological activists in the sex discrimination commission, the custodians of the act, who have interpreted the law to the point of removing women from it (but don’t worry, men who claim to be women are covered by law for potential pregnancy…). Also, the judiciary has arguably been legislating from the bench.

This is my opinion: I don’t care how or why they did it at this point. I care about fixing it. The fact that *this week* the @AlboMP government has dismissed the issue, blocking both @SenatorCash & @PaulineHansonOz’s bills, will only serve to make him look even more foolish than Julia because he can’t hide behind not knowing the unintended consequences.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

PARENTING ON TRIAL
As Baroness Ludford @SarahLudford says, this ill-conceived Bill could criminalise concerned and responsible parents.
Teenagers don't like being told no. A parent refusing to provide money for cross sex hormones to a confused and vulnerable child is a GOOD parent, not one that the State should be preparing a prison cell for.

[Katherine Deves 🇦🇺 @Katherine_deves]

Julia Gillard is a liar

She is in damage control mode

She is trying to diminish the role that she played in destroying women’s rights in this country in 2013 by claiming “it was a different time then”

No Gillard, I’ve read the Parliamentary papers and there were plenty of submissions made to your Senate inquiry that sounded the alarm on all the problems that we are having today - male predators and male opportunists weaponising law and policy to get access to female spaces, sports and services, and to punish and censor those who object

No fair minded Australian is going to believe her lies

She must apologise to the people of Australia for the damage done, and in particular to the many women (and men) who have been fighting this for years, often at great cost to themselves

Hold this former politician to account

#Australiafirst #auspol

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

The custodial sentences given to the rapists are welcome news.
But it should not have taken an appeal against the original sentencing to ensure justice for the young girls who were the victims.
The reality of sexual violence should never have been diminished in this way.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

"It was a different time".
Well done @WRN_Manchester's Cath Dyson 👏 for asking the question of former Australian PM Julia Gillard.

Not a hint of regret from Gillard in her answer, but a clear admission that she didn't foresee any of the consequences of her horrendous actions in erasing women's and girls' rights. No one raised this apparently.
Gosh, how on earth could she have possibly then be expected to anticipate the outcome? (sarcasm)
@salltweets

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

In an astonishing act of authoritarian overreach, NI Justice Minister Naomi Long has introduced an amendment via an Annex L (below) to the Police & Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989.

All to ensure that a man who claims to be a 'woman' can be strip searched by a female officer.

This Annex talks of 'predominant lifestyle' - but what on earth does this even mean?

And it also talks of 'efforts' to find a willing officer to consent to strip search these men - for 'efforts' read brow-beating female officers.

What an unholy, undemocratic, unaccountable and misogynistic mess.

https://t.co/YW6Piv6UrL

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Excellent from Baroness Cash.
This Bill is poorly evidenced, poorly drafted, and will have harmful consequences. It deserves to be torn to shreds in pre-legislative scrutiny.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

MEN and BOYS are excluded from female sport - not ‘transgender athletes’.

@BBCNews has (once again) failed in its duty to ensure accuracy, and is actively misleading the public with its headline, which is simply untrue.

The question of course is WHY?
The answer to that unfortunately is deep-rooted and wholescale institutional capture.

https://t.co/Dka3kdRE1P

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

What a wonderful photograph! Clearly the cancellation of JK Rowling isn’t going very well. 😂
Queen Camilla clearly admires the immense contribution that JK Rowling has made to children’s literature. We’re sure that she’s very impressed with her charity work and campaigning for women’s rights too.
Lovely to see.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

This 👇 is welcome news. Men who murder women at their home, with a weapon from that home, will now be subject to the same minimum sentence as those who bring a knife to the scene. So that's 25 years, not 15 years.

Now if the Government are actually serious about halving male violence against women and girls, these men will not be released early either!

https://t.co/paslF3qre8

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Only women give birth. Say the word. WOMEN.

Women were subjected to terrible medical misogyny at the heart of these maternity scandals. It is both ironic and insulting therefore to erase women from reports and describe us as ‘birthing people’.

https://t.co/knkoTjCN9b

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Some would say unbelievable.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Avoiding discussion of healthcare issues that affect women is not homophobic, it is misogynistic.

Male and female bodies are not the same.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Congratulations to the American woman Skye Chen who has just won the nail-biting final of the 2026 Ladies World Series of Poker. Skye takes home a payout of $194,630 and an exclusive gold bracelet. Despite the name of the tournament, which attracts players from all over the world, one of the finalists was, of course, a man by the name of Aubrey Williams.

The UK Supreme Court judgment means nothing in California, where the tournament was held. But we say, even in a game where being male has no advantage, if a competition says it’s for ‘Ladies’ then it should be restricted to women only.

Williams took a $129,692 payout from the third placed player Lisa Teebagy. Every woman below second place went home with less prize money than she deserved because of one man and a governing body that didn’t have the guts to say ‘no’.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

GOOD NEWS! The new £36 million leisure centre in Peterborough is to be built with a choice of single-sex AND mixed-sex family changing rooms for swimmers following a public consultation in which over 81% of residents said single-sex changing was the preferred option; 78% also said mixed-sex family changing rooms were preferred as an option.

Bravo to @PeterboroughCC for listening and acting to protect the safety, dignity and privacy of female swimmers.

Our Red Flag Campaign highlights the dangers of mixed-sex changing rooms. WRN research based on Freedom of Information requests of police forces found that 80% of sexual crimes perpetrated in leisure centre changing rooms were in mixed-sex facilities. It’s clear that the residents of Peterborough understood the risks and said ‘No’.

Every Council overseeing the build of new facilities should ask its residents for their preference. The majority of women AND men prefer single-sex changing rooms.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

The NHS chooses to promote the desires of a group of men over the needs, dignity and safety of women.

We call on @ehrc to insist that every single NHS organisation obeys the law to keep us safe.

@seeninhealth has done incredible work with their interactive map that allows us to see exactly what the policies are and how to write to the chief executive of the offending hospital.
https://t.co/qxRdvWKxfe

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

This typically clear response from Akua Reindorf KC clears up a misunderstanding many people have, that “trans” is a protected characteristic.

That an MP should be under this misapprehension even now is concerning.

Whilst the public depend largely on the media, who have not always been accurate on this, we expect our representatives in parliament to be familiar with the law.