Dr Tom Hewitt (extremist)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

#PhD in the #philosophy of music. Painter. Still trying hard to learn Cymraeg. Aelod @Plaid_Cymru Member @RepublicStaff

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

The EHRC code did not fall out of the sky – it followed a Supreme Court decision in 2025 making it crystal clear that, in law, sex means biological sex, and the guidance simply tells providers how to comply.

Labour’s response? Almost 50 MPs led by Nadia Whittome sign a motion to kill it off, because keeping men out of women’s toilets now apparently “pushes trans women out of public life”.

This isn’t compassion, it’s contempt for both the law and the public, especially working‑class women who asked for privacy and safety and got a parliamentary cosplay session instead.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Belatedly, a government guidance document upholds the Supreme Court ruling that a woman is – guess what? – a woman. 70 MPs have signed a rearguard motion opposing it. Presumably they think a man is a woman if he says he is. Among them is Layla Moran, for whom I used to vote.

[Dr Tom Hewitt (extremist)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ethnotweeter]

They had risen perfectly in the oven but did the usual soufflé collapse on encountering the real world. Tasted great though, all washed down with a very nice Côtes de Gascogne Sauvignon Blanc.

[Dr Tom Hewitt (extremist)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ethnotweeter]

Crab soufflés ready for the oven. Fingers crossed!

[🇮🇱 Rabbi Zvi Solomons Am Yisrael Chai💛💙🕎 @RabbiZvi]

A magnificent letter from a magnificent woman.

“ Dear Mr Wright,

It must be terribly difficult having to share your name with the legendary and enormously popular disk jockey. My late husband, Sir Michael Caine, was not the actor, Nonetheless, Hollywood starlets might call saying they were in town.
Awkward all around.

I am a law maker. You would not expect me to pontificate on structural instability, hazardous materials or airborne toxins. I know nothing about accelerants, burn patterns or smoke staining. If I told the people, you represent how to deal with a fire I ought, rightly, be ignored.
What the blazes, then, do you think you are doing when trying to meddle with the adoption of the EHRC's latest Service Code? If no one else has told you already I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you appear to have no idea what you are talking about. Did you think to run your nonsense past a lawyer? (If you did,hesitate to pay.)

The provision of changing and lavatorial facilities by an employer is governed by the Workplace (Health and Safety) Regulations 1992. Employers are required to provide separate facilities for males and females. There is no option to provide only mixed facilities. Mixed facilities are optional but sex-separated facilities are compulsory. That has been the case for 34 years. It has not changed because of a Supreme Court Judgment. You might not have understood it before, but you do not need EHRC Guidance to understand it now. Fire fighters must be provided with biologically separated sanitary and changing facilities. That will remain the case even if the EHRC Guidance is frustrated.

No "hard-won" rights have been rolled back. The rights you imagine (or, more likely, have been briefed about) have never existed. Rights do not accrue and acquire validity thanks to magical thinking or bad advice.

That which you frame as a call for employers and service providers to "go beyond minimum requirements" is, in fact, a demand that they break the law. I assume you had no idea that was the case. I can imagine you being keen to change laws with which you disagree, democratically, but I should be surprised were you to knowingly call for outright anarchy.
The laws governing access to legitimately sex-separated facilities have not changed for employers since 1992, and for service providers since 2010. If you were ignorant of them before you have no excuse now. If you do not like them you may seek, democratically, to change them.

Until then, I strongly encourage you to urge members to obey the law and stop posturing as though the law is something you might like it to be but is not.

Yours sincerely

Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne
London
SW1A OPW”

[Dr Tom Hewitt (extremist)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ethnotweeter]

https://t.co/25UriU8Bos

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

@mbwardlow Posting AI would be an accident. Which I delete when I see it. Not attacking anyone here when it comes to LGBT- I am simply advocating for keeping women’s sex based spaces for women only. If you don’t see this as an attack on women, you’re not paying attention.

[Helen Saxby @helensaxby11]

A handy list of MPs who don't believe women should be included in the Equality Act and in fact would prefer us to go backwards to a time before the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.
https://t.co/DPhusAbJWW

[Cathy Devine @cathydevine56]

'The political damage this motion inflicts on Labour is not measured in votes on the order paper.

It is measured in every working-class woman who watches Labour MPs sign a motion against the legal clarity she has waited years for, and draws the obvious conclusion.'

@UKLabour

[Dr Tom Hewitt (extremist)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ethnotweeter]

@DemetaeCymru @NationCymru And absent themselves from the Commons too.

[Janet Inglis @ThatAussieWoman]

Politicians who clap when women are forced to undress in front of men in the workplace are beneath contempt.

[Christine Stovell @chrisstovell]

Seaside running. An exhilarating 5 miles.

[Dr Tom Hewitt (extremist)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ethnotweeter]

Craeniau Port Talbot
#TomTomos
#LlunYDudd

[Dr Tom Hewitt (extremist)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ethnotweeter]

@history99917180 Maybe I'm being foolish
'Cause I haven't heard you mention anybody's name at all
How I wish I could be sure it's me that turns you on
Each time you close your eyes
I've heard it said that dreamers never lie

Crystal Gayle:

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

Every MP who signs the motion tabled by @NadiaWhittomeMP to disapprove the “Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations” is displaying embarrassing ignorance of the law - as well as profound disrespect for the rights of women and girls, and of lesbians and gay men.

Do they even know that the “lesbian interveners” at the Supreme Court helped to secure the rights of homosexual women and men - which would otherwise have been lost?

The Supreme Court established that under the Equality Act, a lesbian is a biological woman who is sexually attracted to other biological women.

It rejected the vile idea that a man bearing a piece of paper with an F can be classified as a lesbian. That was incoherent, the court ruled.

Not just incoherent but a homophobic atrocity. So thanks a bunch, Nadia et al., that you want to turn the clock back on that ruling.

You know perfectly well (or am I assuming too much?) that the EHRC guidance is not the law. It simply helps service providers, associations and those overseeing public functions to apply the law.

But it sends a signal, doesn’t it - it tells people where you stand. You stand in the mud.

Your motion is not just a profound betrayal of so many of your constituents, it’s political madness. @Jonathan_Hinder is right: if you don’t snap out of it, the Labour Party is dead.

[EHRC @EHRC]

Our draft Code of Practice helps providers of services, public functions and associations apply the Equality Act 2010. It doesn't apply to workplaces; employers should consult the Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regs 1992, the Equality Act, and seek independent legal advice.

[Dr Tom Hewitt (extremist)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ethnotweeter]

The “climate” is not uncertain. It is completely certain.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Everyone deserves to feel safe in public life.

But the growing threat of legal action against trans‑inclusive organisations risks silencing the very groups working to make that possible.

I’ve raised this urgently with the Culture Secretary, pressing for clarity on how the Government will support inclusive organisations in this uncertain climate.

[Dr Tom Hewitt (extremist)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ethnotweeter]

@jan_murray The purpose of her motion is, literally, to “play politics”.

[Alexander Horne @AlexanderHorne1]

A useful list of the MPs who don’t appear to believe biological women are entitled to single sex services (on the grounds that they oppose the latest guidance from the EHRC).

Alarmed that there appear to be (at least) 42 of them.

https://t.co/gFq1xzE834

[Dr Tom Hewitt (extremist)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ethnotweeter]

Morlun (manylyn)
#TomTomos
#LlunYDydd