callthistea

Feminist (not the fun kind) (UK)

[FeministRoar @FeministRoar]

If transactivists hadn't spent the last twenty years a) enforcing rigid gender roles and insisting people who don't conform to Barbie and Ken are the opposite sex and b) encouraging men to use the female facilities, gnc women wouldn't have to deal with this half as much.

[Dr. Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones]

The harm to GNC women of being asked if they’re in the right toilet pales by a hundred degrees of magnitude relative to the harm done to GNC women by suggesting they’re really men & changing their bodies in a way that irreversibly impacts their physical and cognitive development.

[callthistea @callthistea]

@newsandpics What does ‘anti-gender’ even mean? The video seems to be describing and showing campaigns against women, abortion and LGB people plus standing up for women rights ie against extremes of gender identity so very unclear what the umbrella term of ‘anti-gender’ means. Odd.

[Cathy Larkman 💚🤍 💜🦢🏃‍♀️ @JackMerched]

Sigh.

Yet another paedophile man being reported as a ‘woman’ by @WalesOnline.
Likely referred to as a ‘woman’ by the courts and his crimes recorded as by a female perpetrator by @swpolice too.
At least he’s in a man’s prison.

https://t.co/b669TibufA

[callthistea @callthistea]

@LucyGoBag Milk in first is one of the best things I’ve heard him say. Maybe there’s hope yet…?

[#MenAtWork @MenAtWork_MC]

Men who don’t claim 2 be women can respond 2 ways to recent clarification of UK law re single-sex spaces (eg toilets & changing rooms)

1. They can decry it & demonize women for wanting their own spaces

2. They can be safe & welcoming to ALL males in their spaces

I go 2

You?

[FiLiA @FiLiA_charity]

We have signed this joint letter to the @ChtyCommission - thanks to @SexMattersOrg for coordinating.

[callthistea @callthistea]

@elniedunne @LoudBonnet I also think we need to be careful not to allow the shoddy behaviour of a small number of charities to affect all. 75% of charities have income < £100k, and in my experience very few charities are problematic yet they create a lot of noise.

[callthistea @callthistea]

@elniedunne @LoudBonnet increased funding by 27% to £37.9m from this year. The current register of charities desperately needs an overhaul. The CH register is far superior. I’d also like to see a history of trusteeships and charities to mirror CH useful also when charities incorporate.

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

If you cannot contemplate that (and are not interested in a dialogue on it by, for example, limiting responses) and do not understand that rights exist in an ecosystem of balances and clashes not extra rights, it is hard to take your comments seriously, even when not patronising.

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

When your starting premise is that rights and interests do not conflict because of a general statement about human rights being everything you do not understand how rights intersect. Clashes are not about giving extra rights, but about different weights in different circumstances

[ThirdSectorSEEN @thirdsectorSEEN]

We have co-signed this letter.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

Please stop doing this @SkyNews.

The guidance is just guidance. The law hasn't changed. Single sex facilities should always have been single sex. The clue is in the name.

The only slight change was last yr when the Sup Ct cleared up some confusion about the effect of a GRC.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

And again:

The @EHRC Code of Practice coming into force on 5 Aug makes not a jot of difference. Single sex toilets should always have been based on biological sex. Self-id was never lawful. The Sup Ct clarified last yr that a GRC doesn’t get you into opposite sex toilets either.

[callthistea @callthistea]

@tribunaltweets This is great, thank you. I was wondering if you might add the dates of the letters in brackets? I think it will helpful for us to have a sense of the timeline. Great if possible, no worries if not. Thank you

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

I am seeing more and more complex human rightsy type arguments, all of which would ultimately lead to women losing single sex provision. Bit of a coincidence? Do they not notice that it’s not working in court?

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

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[callthistea @callthistea]

There seems to be some chatter about importance of philosophical arguments about sex and how it’s defined. I’m as interested in ideas and words as much as the next woman but I am curious whether, say, women being paid less than men is a philosophical argument or material reality.

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

Good example why you should check the actual statute and not just any guidance, as the former is what is relied on in court