WEP Women's Sex-Based Rights Caucus

Campaigning to uphold sex-based rights and protections ✊🏽 Reminding the twittersphere and beyond of WEP's promise to centre women #SexNotGender #sexmatters

[WEP Women's Sex-Based Rights Caucus @WepWomen]

Sign our leaving card. We'll deliver it to WEP. Let them know who you are & just *why* you're off. They say it's #CostOfLivingCrisis. Tell them what they don't seem able to hear. Form here: https://t.co/OIeQelYxKx
#sexmatters #ResignMandu

[Femicide Census @FemicideCensus]

Data analysing deaths of all 2,000 women killed by men since 2009 reveals hidden scourge of matricide

From our 2,000 Women report! https://t.co/RiNFZkz0ys

[WEP Women's Sex-Based Rights Caucus @WepWomen]

“This has been a long-running case, but could have been resolved quickly and simply several years ago...She only ever sought the application of existing law and policy... She offered to settle her claim for £1" https://t.co/lHUvhASWon

[suzanne moore @suzanne_moore]

Re grooming gangs scandal. Please give credit to @bindelj Julie Bindel , the first to write about it, not Andrew Norfolk. Editors were scared to publish her work. Her work on this has been tireless.
https://t.co/1yjLM4Famt

[WEP Women's Sex-Based Rights Caucus @WepWomen]

Let's be clear. If your livelihood depends on your broad popularity, that's going to make doing feminism & politics more than a bit tricky. Making yourself permanent leader was probably a dud move, for all involved, Sandi #BeKind #WEP #DoomedFromTheStart @BBCWomansHour

[WEP Women's Sex-Based Rights Caucus @WepWomen]

@suzanne_moore That pleasure awaits you! It's more of the same twaddle tbh

[No Men in the WI @WomensIns_Dec]

Blaming right wing populism when you comprehensively failed women is a poor excuse.

@WomensInstitute start listening to members and don't let this become our fate.

#NoXYintheWI

https://t.co/7xsOb7OhD6

[WEP Women's Sex-Based Rights Caucus @WepWomen]

@chocolottie72 Hopes dashed is right for all concerned, I think. What a waste.

[WEP Women's Sex-Based Rights Caucus @WepWomen]

Well, WEP have shuffled off on the votes of a couple of hundred delegates. But fear not, some have began talking on WhatsApp about starting 'The Equality Party'. 😏
#WEP #WEPisDead

[WEP Women's Sex-Based Rights Caucus @WepWomen]

"Why couldn’t you be more like the women of the now-defunct Women’s Equality Party, who claim to have “held a members’ assembly to try to shed light and diminish heat in the fight between trans inclusive and gender critical feminism that is weakening the women’s movement" �� #WEP

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

I've written about Alistair Campbell and the "more light, less heat" people who present their cowardice as reasonableness https://t.co/3GrDWQNJr0

[WEP Women's Sex-Based Rights Caucus @WepWomen]

@chocolottie72 @HJoyceGender That was the meeting where several people had come to support us but kept their cameras off as they were so worried about being recognised. We know we have to speak for those who can't, it doesn't mean they're not there. Mandu had decided who we were and what we thought already.

[Aletheia @Aletheia_70]

Really interesting 🧵on the imminent demise of @WEP_UK from @HanoverHussy. I hadn’t realised the for-the-blokes agenda was quite centrally dictated. Thanks also to @WepWomen for documenting this, sadly ignoble, little bit of history.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

Here, @sanditoksvig makes the Beta-Male Argument for letting males into female sport.

That is, because she isn’t very good at sport (in this case, a very specific sport of Toe Touching), this is unfair by the same meaning of fairness that categories seek to secure.

It is not the same meaning of fairness that categories seek to secure. It is a meaning of fairness which amounts to having a childish tantrum because you aren’t very good at something and others are.

Grow up, Sandy. I rarely make people laugh but you don’t see me whining about how unfair it is that more gifted people make a living off comedy.

[Ellie Cumbo @EllieCumbo]

I'm not going to dance on the grave & wasn't going to comment at all, but it is frustrating to read the founders still patting themselves on the back for their handling of the sex & gender debate- even while having to close down less than 2 years later.
https://t.co/2DbpJNREEZ

[Jon Pike @runthinkwrite]

I hadn't seen this before: the 'sport is already unfair' gambit. Oh, @sanditoksvig. For shame. Dumping on women for a cheap laugh.

(Yes, I am looking through the WEP comments. Yes, it is a very cheering experience.)

[Charlotte M @chocolottie72]

@WEP_UK I resigned 2yrs ago when, despite our Sex Based Rights Caucus (@WepWomen) doing everything we could, you made it clear you had no respect for women who knew that sex & reality matters. WEP could have moved mountains - & you failed. You betrayed your own sex.

[WEP Women's Sex-Based Rights Caucus @WepWomen]

Discussion of WEP on @BBCWomansHour Interesting that political landscape blamed and no reflection of their huge mission drift from a positive starting position. Failure to be genuinely radical and assertive in the political sphere let all women down. But a puff piece seems apt.

[Fodo Higginson @fodohpf]

@AlbaVeeDub @HanoverHussy @ManduReid @sanditoksvig @WEP_UK @WepWomen WEP leaders tried to manipulate from the start. Didn't put to full membership because it was clear they would vote against self ID and for single sex spaces. Mandu's response - scrap the consultation & the Policy Committee and single handedly override the constitution

[WEP Women's Sex-Based Rights Caucus @WepWomen]

@Quick_Sand123 @helensaxby11 Yes, we published them on our website. A bit more conspicuously!

https://t.co/NNCDO1JFFK

[WEP Women's Sex-Based Rights Caucus @WepWomen]

Members wanted single sex spaces. WEP carried on regardless. Don't believe the hype. Hold them to account. #WEP

[Gita Sahgal @GitaSahgal]

@HanoverHussy @AlbaVeeDub @ManduReid @sanditoksvig @WEP_UK @WepWomen I was there, Ali, as someone trying to support reasonable discussion. It was rigged.