Dr Claire Methven O'Brien

Personal account. Proud Fifer.
Human rights. Free speech. Sex is real.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

"Requiring women to expose their naked bodies before members of the opposite sex as a condition of accessing employment is without doubt a breach of privacy, dignity, decency and human rights"

I wrote for @HolyroodDaily

https://t.co/INlkTcPKfI

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

@IndiaWilloughby 'and agitating others to do so'

QED

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

Single-sex toilets and changing rooms are a pre-condition of women's effective access to employment, public and private services.

This is why women's human rights to substantive equality with men and non-discrimination on grounds of sex demand them.

UN and ILO standards make this abundantly clear.

Perhaps try to identify an actual progressive purpose for your party, and prosecute that.

Spending your days smearing women human rights defenders, agitating others to do so, and striving to strip women in Britain of dignity and privacy only serves further to discredit a once-progressive movement and to disempower those it was established to defend.

[stellacreasy @stellacreasy]

The EHRC guidance contains contradictions which will damage the daily lives of many only politicians legislating can resolve. Today I challenged the minister to explain how it could work in practice and what the consequences will be using their own words- I will continue to work with colleagues across Parliament who also recognise none of this makes sense.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

So good.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

Find your Peter Murrell item by putting a pound sign against the number of X followers and the last thing you touched in your kitchen.

Mine is a £42600 pizza wheel.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

@DalgetySusan @Scott_Wortley Will he?

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

@LMSBOSSY @AlisonThisTime1 The truth of pepper grinders is this: whatever the shiny exterior, the mill inside will always let you down.

Friends, nothing lasts.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

The £2,000 pepper grinder.

I can't get past the £2,000 pepper grinder.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

@AlessandraAster Punching down.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

@K2020Cat Fair.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

@SJLowe12 And mine. Well it's mum's actually.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

@alkanomega Me.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

@davidrusling It was.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

@Scott_Wortley Knowledge is power. France is bacon.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

PS I'm a @ucu member. For now.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

Dear @ucu

There is something unsettling here.

But it’s not the EHRC Code of Practice.

It’s the bizarre lengths to which @UCU will go to avoid acknowledging the sex-based labour rights of women – and the total betrayal this entails of the workers, over generations and continents, through whose struggle and enormous personal sacrifice legal rules protecting women and girls against discrimination at work were established.

Contrary to such rules, in recent years, female workers in Britain have been denied their human rights to dignity, privacy, equality and labour representation because of profoundly misguided approaches to trans-inclusion promoted and adopted, amongst others, by trade unions.

The Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland merely clarified what was always the law: ‘women’ for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 is a sex-based class.

The EHRC revised Code reflects this.

ILO minimum standards – binding on the UK and globally – likewise demand it.

What @UCU must now do ‘urgently’ is accept this, clean house, and consider how it can best make amends to the female workforce whose interests and representation it has so shamefully abandoned.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

Dear @ucu

There is something unsettling here.

But it’s not the EHRC Code of Practice.

It’s the bizarre lengths to which @UCU will go to avoid acknowledging the sex-based labour rights of women – and the total betrayal this entails of the workers, over generations and continents, through whose struggle and enormous personal sacrifice legal rules protecting women and girls against discrimination at work were established.

Contrary to such rules, in recent years, female workers in Britain have been denied their human rights to dignity, privacy, equality and labour representation because of profoundly misguided approaches to trans-inclusion promoted and adopted, amongst others, by trade unions.

The Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland merely clarified what was always the law: ‘women’ for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 is a sex-based class.

The EHRC revised Code reflects this.

ILO minimum standards – binding on the UK and globally – likewise demand it.

What @UCU must now do ‘urgently’ is accept this, clean house, and consider how it can best make amends to the female workforce whose interests and representation it has so shamefully abandoned.

[UCU @ucu]

Equality is not conditional. Dignity at work is not negotiable.

The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. UCU is examining it urgently.

This is a significant and unsettling moment and we will not leave branches to navigate it alone.

Employers' duties under equality and employment law remain in force; this does not change that.

We've written to @UniversitiesUK: universities and colleges are responsible for protecting staff and students, not putting them at risk through rushed or inconsistent decisions.

UCU will organise, defend, and fight for the rights of trans and non-binary people.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

If incontrovertible proof was needed of the egregious harm done to the human rights of women by crudely trans-inclusive equal treatment and gender identity laws, here it is on a plate.

Rules once enacted to expand our freedom, corrupted, now diminish it.

Challenge the rank injustice that results? You’ll pay with your livelihood, reputation, privacy, security, any semblance of a normal life.

One for the annals. But here's a prediction: it won’t hold.

#GigglevTickle

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

If incontrovertible proof was needed of the egregious harm done to the human rights of women by crudely trans-inclusive equal treatment and gender identity laws, here it is on a plate.

Rules once enacted to expand our freedom, corrupted, now diminish it.

Challenge the rank injustice that results? You’ll pay with your livelihood, reputation, privacy, security, any semblance of a normal life.

One for the annals. But here's a prediction: it won’t hold.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

If incontrovertible proof was needed of the egregious harm done to the human rights of women by crudely trans-inclusive equal treatment and gender identity laws, here it is on a plate.

Rules once enacted to expand our freedom, corrupted, now diminish it.

Challenge the rank injustice that results?

You’ll pay with your livelihood, reputation, privacy, security, any semblance of a normal life.

One for the annals.

But here's a prediction: it won’t hold.

#IStandwithSallGrover

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

I am absolutely devastated
Men who claim to be women have more rights than actual women in Australia.
It is women who are being discriminated against, not the men who claim to be us.

But in a sense, nothing has changed: we will all wake up tomorrow & men will still not be women.

[Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1]

That litigation was ever EVER required to sustain this elementary point, this basic working assumption of any society that even superficially espouses the principle that women have a right to real, practically effective and substantive equality with men.

Those responsible in government, public bodies, parliaments, political parties, trade unions, universities and others, including regulators, must now answer for the malign regression of women's rights over which they have presided in the UK for the last decade and more.

Next, prisons.

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

📣 @FayeRCTribunal who has won her case against NHS England!

Congratulations to Naomi Cunningham and Liz McGlone representing 👏👏👏

Tribunal finds the policy of permitting "trans women" to use female facilities was harassment in relation to sex & GC belief and its trans equality proceedure was harassment in relation to GC belief.