And for the terminally confused: women DO have the right to single-sex toilets (and changing rooms if needed) AT WORK. As do men. Under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992.
For service providers, single-sex facilities are permissible, not obligatory, but failure to do so may give rise to indirect sex discrimination.
Indirect, because treating men and women the same, but sex discrimination nonetheless, because it is detrimental to women.
“We call on politicians to abandon this Bill and focus instead on enforcement of existing protections and accessible support for anyone facing abuse or coercion.”
🚨 Commissie in paniek als ik de feiten over de islam en vrouwenrechten benoem.
De voorzitter grijpt in en wil me de mond snoeren.
De islam is een totalitaire ideologie en vormt een gevaar voor onze samenleving. Ik heb het recht, en de verplichting, dit te benoemen.
The wall to wall coverage of David Walliams and Russell Brand mustn't mean stories like this are overlooked.
Maggie Oliver is in the High Court today taking the government to court for failing to protect victims of child sexual abuse. Taxpayers funded a 7 year long public inquiry into child sexual abuse that cost over £200 million. Survivors were forced to relive their trauma, a staggering multitude of institutional failures were revealed and 20 recommendations were made to protect children. The government's defence is that it's not legally obliged to implement those recommendations.
So the public pays for inquiries, victims suffer all over again and the government can simply choose not to act? What even is the point of an inquiry if its findings can just be ignored?
This comes against the backdrop of the grooming gangs scandal. We'll never truly know the full scale of just how many children were plied with alcohol, drugged, raped, abused and trafficked. Sure, there have been some convictions, but only after lengthy investigations and years of delay. But how many of those complicit in covering up the institutional abuse have been arrested and jailed? Senior police officers, MPs, local councils and social workers were all involved. And still are.
The fact that no one is in prison for covering up and allowing the rape and abuse of possibly hundreds of thousands of girls in towns and cities across the UK is a disgrace and a stain on this country. Every person in authority who enabled this must be held to account. And it isn't racist to speak about this and I'm tired of the insinuation that it is, whenever there's posts about it. That attitude is exactly what's helped the abuse of these vulnerable girls to be covered up for so long.
These rape gangs are our nation's shame and it must never be forgotten.
Here are two videos. One from this morning and one from six years ago.
It seems nothing has changed.
I’m at Leeds Civic Hall. @MothinAli is talking about Israel. It’s all about Israel. He’s talking about a fictional ‘genocide’ by Israel. He is telling Israelis what they are. He is telling them they shouldn’t exist. Israel Israel Israel.
He’s councillor for HAREHILLS in LEEDS
⏰ Only 5 days to go to submit evidence to the Conversion Practices Bill committee.
The government’s planned law could put loving parents under criminal investigation for ordinary, responsible parenting.
You don’t need to know the law to send a submission. Use our template and give three short answers in your own words:
• Does the bill do what the government says it will? No – say why.
• Does it fill a real gap in the law? No – say why.
• Is it clear what would be a crime? No – say why.
Add one line about who you are. Done. Every single submission counts ⬇️
https://t.co/Fx89YqQk43
🎙️🚨 NEW FSU PODCAST EPISODE OUT TODAY AT 2PM!
The Government’s draft Conversion Practices Bill is a Trojan horse for putting Stonewall’s trans ideology on the statute book.
It will also see parents arrested and jailed for up to five years for having good-faith conversations with their gender-confused children or trying to dissuade them from pursuing irreversible medical pathways before the age of 18.
This week, FSU External Affairs Officer @_ConnieShaw Shaw is joined by women’s rights campaigner @HJoyceGender.
Tune in on the FSU YouTube channel at 2pm!
Great conversation with @_ConnieShaw about the awful Conversion Practices Bill, which is the most serious threat to free speech in this country right now
BBC One, today, antiques show The Bidding Room.
We learn a bit about what wedding dresses in Britain during World War Two were made of.
As it's the BBC, we're told this by a drag queen.
While I and others wait to hear whether we will be called to give evidence to the Conversion Practices Bill Select Committee, I’ve seen that tomorrow they will hear from Dr Igi Moon.
Dr Moon is a “non binary” psychologist who compared the belief in two sexes to “colonialism”.
This morning in a Newcastle council meeting @northumbriapol said that fraudulent taxi's are actively targeting vulnerable women and committing sexual offences.
These fraudulent taxi drivers are preying on vulnerable intoxicated people, resulting in sexual offending and exploitation.
The situation is so serious that police have Operation Salus, using council resources and CCTV, specifically to hunt them down.
Fake taxi drivers predating on intoxicated women is so prolific in Newcastle now - the police have a dedicated operation.
This is a familiar MO across the UK - and it's getting worse.
Yes, gay kids are being transed
A prominent clinician describes how the paediatric gender field lost its bearings in a perfect storm
https://t.co/zS6Ko0iKjT
Criminalising intent to change a “gender identity” presupposes all identities are benign and healthy, a parent may have very good reasons for regarding an identity as a manifestation of autism, trauma or social contagion and it may be in the child’s best interests that it changes.
1/ It's vital that as many people respond to the conversion bill consultation as possible before the short consultation period ends at 5PM on Monday 16th November.
SM have a great guide here, you don't have to be a lawyer or expert and it can take as little as 15 minutes.