Caroline Spry

Film Producer, former Channel 4 commissioning editor, lawyer. Supporter of Public Service Television & Public Services

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

Why aren't more women outraged that trade unions are actively campaigning against their right to single-sex spaces at work - including changing rooms, showers and toilets?

Because they don't know it's happening.

Many teachers, nurses and public-sector workers think they're paying for employment protection in case they're treated unfairly at work. An insurance policy of sorts - a bit like breakdown cover for their car.

Most have no idea their membership fees are also funding political campaigning. Including campaigns that seek to remove hard-won rights many women value.

My latest for @spiked on trade unions' open contempt for women's concerns - and why so many members don't even realise it's happening.

Link to read below 👇

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

Here at the launch event of the Sex and Gender Law Association - going to be a fascinating evening

[Dr Viv Pointon 💜🤍💚 @VPointon]

Replies turned off predictably but, as a union leader @AndreaEganGS must be familiar with the Work (Health & Safety) Regulations 1992.

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

Between 1948-1950, Keith Vaughan made a series of images depicting steelworkers in a foundry. In this work from 1949, three furnacemen are taking a tea break. The image is related to a sketchbook he made entitled 'Steel,' which is now housed in the Tate Britain archive.

[Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee]

The CQC has rated Oxford University Hospitals’ maternity services ‘Good.’ Yet, it's hard to square that conclusion with the regulator's findings. OUH was found to have seven breaches of four maternity safety regulations. (Pics below show actions the trust must now carry out.)🧵

[Sarah Ludford 🇬🇧 🇮🇪🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @SarahLudford]

“If the arcane parliamentary procedure of the Early Day Motion is in fact the first step in a plan to reverse For Women Scotland and amend the Equality Act 2010 to introduce self-ID, then the public – and women and LGB people in particular – deserve to know about it.”

[NEU LGB Educators @NEULGBEducator]

I do hope our union is watching this. @neunion @danielkebede @edharlowneu

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

The analysis is never any deeper than just surges of "hatred". Never mind that trans activists tried to render the same sex orientation protected char. "meaningless" in the words of the law lords in FWS, that sort of stuff never bothers the gender borg.

[Shahrar Ali @ShahrarAli]

Legally illiterate grandstanding from Sian Berry imposing her ignorant ideology upon an increasingly downtrodden activist base who want to acknowledge the Supreme Court judgment and recognise its clarity.
Berry centres "trans" throughout - referenced 13 times in a single page of text.
The rights to protection, dignity and safety of women and girls are completely ignored and airbrushed out of existence.
If you dissent from the regressive authoritarian commands internally you'll be persecuted and hung out to dry.
This isn't a functioning political party but one destined to lose multiple court claims for unlawful gender critical discrimination, a second from me later this year.
The ignorant ideology extends to the wicked promotion of gender affirming medical malpractice for kids, wholly at odds with Cass.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Baroness Falkner is right, of course.

Sex is not ‘special category data’ and there is no prohibition on asking someone their sex.

[Minh Alexander minhalexander.bsky.social @alexander_minh]

More NHS cuts

University Hospitals Tees plan to cut more than 550 jobs because of government financial constraints

https://t.co/WhZQF33QkH

[Alison Moyet @AlisonMoyet]

Hollywood Bowl tonight. That’ll be a first.
Only took me nigh on 65 years and a kind invitation. :-)
Stamina! Which was in-fact my infant familial nickname)
True story.

[Sammy @NeuroSGS]

Many psychological, cognitive, and behavioural sex differences are small to moderate when examined individually.

But when dozens of these differences are considered together, the overlap between male and female distributions shrinks substantially:

https://t.co/m6ExKjMEdb

[Ridge & Frost @RidgeandFrost]

'You can ask people, what is your sex? If you don't ask that question, you won't be able to do the rest of your obligations under maintaining single sex spaces'

Baroness Falkner tells Mornings what she thinks of the govt's latest single-sex spaces guidance.

[The BMA @TheBMA]

We've written to the Secretary of State and NHS England CEO calling for urgent action to address unsafe doctor substitution by employers.

The letter comes in the wake of our survey report revealing doctors' serious concerns over patient safety. 🔗 https://t.co/tqhjxqUQU6

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Women are not committing these awful crimes- they must be recorded properly- this is male violence, not female, FFS!!!

[#MenAtWork @MenAtWork_MC]

All the boys / young men who die by blades & punches from the hands of other males

How many?

Countless

Why?

So often it’s some diseased understanding of what ‘being a man’ means

‘Respect’, ‘honour’, ‘status’, ‘pride’

All poison & heartache

All skin colours are vulnerable

[Shahrar Ali @ShahrarAli]

Appalling statement from you, Ellie, but I guess that's how groupthink works in higher eschelons of Green Party. Dissent from off piste ideological colleague at your peril, even though Supreme Court is wholly consistent with Green Party policy and has never been voted against at party conference.

Stonewall law is historical make-believe and the sooner the Green Party comes to terms with that the better. An actual danger to women and girls.

[Susan Dalgety @DalgetySusan]

Everywhere I go in Malawi, toilets are segregated by sex. Safe toilets for girls is a key element of safeguarding and helps keep girls in school. But don’t take my word for it. Single sex spaces for women and girls are a key component of development policy. https://t.co/Dpl86jSrs9

[Lucy Hunter Blackburn @LucyHunterB]

Dr Chowns is one of the most highly-qualified EDM signatories. She has a PhD about international development, specifically Malawi. What do you think women there will have told her about the material reality of being a woman, and single-sex spaces, @DalgetySusan?