Ian Skeate

Barrister, Magician, Dad and keen runner trying to improve in all 4! 🏃🏻🎩😉 All opinions my own retweet is not endorsement.

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

This is so cool. Digga D at the F1! #redbull #F1 https://t.co/bxhEhkR3GU

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

@QcWynter You played the long game and won there Sir. 👏👏👏

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

@HelenWebberley Just to be clear Helen; you’re describing minors who are biologically female as boys here yes? And that their breast are not healthy because??? Or are you suggesting that the window display is referring to biological males with gynaecomastia? If so, isn’t that tissue healthy?

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

@NadiaWhittomeMP @Juvelad I will be asking my MP to oppose any such debate or attempt to prevent the Guidance coming into effect. As you want to debate it then I would be pleased to do so in any media you choose. Are you willing to accept my challenge & see if you can persuade any spectators to your side?

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

@NadiaWhittomeMP I will be urging my MP most strenuously NOT to sign your petition and to oppose it vigorously if it goes ahead. No guidance is perfect but this Emperor’s New Clothes madness that you support has to stop for the protection of women, girls & society in general.

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

@SpeechUnion @WeAreFairCop Well done @SpeechUnion Whether it’s about Islam or any other religion or ideology; there should be no blasphemy law either through the front door or through the back door.

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

@WomensRightsNet @bbpolitics @SamanthaNiblet4 And what are trans rights? If she says these are the right to participate in female sports or enter female only spaces then these are not rights at all. So, what rights are she talking about & what groups are anti those rights? I think she should tell us.

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

@tomgordonLD @Juvelad I’m very happy to meet you Tom & have a sensible debate about balancing the rights of opposing groups. You’re quoting from a few years ago when public bodies and the MSM blindly accepted TRA ideology backed by intense campaigns from Stonewall etc. Public opinion has since changed

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

@tomgordonLD @Juvelad Being generous to you, I think you’re someone who hasn’t thought critically about the ideology you’re supporting. You think that accommodating trans-identifying men who want to use female-only spaces is just being sensitive/kind but you haven’t thought it through properly.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Any woman out there being discriminated against in a work place, social space, sport, or even club or restaurant where their sex based human rights have been removed, let us at the WSU @wsusportsunion know or the amazing women at @WomensRightsNet or @SexMattersOrg it’s time we forced all these anti female organisations to follow the actual law. It’s time the silent majority spoke out. STOP putting up with it …

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

Refused service in a pub, barred from a gym or forced to leave an event because of your gender-critical views?

We have published a guide on how to take a “small claim” for belief discrimination against a service provider.

Watch @MForstater and @HJoyceGender discuss the process in our latest podcast ⤵️

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

@sharrond62 I would contact the management / owners immediately and tell them to remove this sign immediately risking which I would be making a claim under the Equality Act.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

If a sporting activity has called a category female, woman or girl & has records or finishing places it will be indirect sex discrimination to allow males to partake in that category… this will apply to @parkrunUK who have received tax payers money to grow ‘female’ participation, so need a metric of measurement

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

** An open letter to @AlboMP **

Dear Prime Minister Albanese,

Let’s get one thing clear: women are adult human females. You know it, I know it, you even said it in the lead up to the last election when asked “what is a woman” by Piers Morgan.

But we have a big problem.

I’m sure you have heard, last week, the Federal Court delivered its judgment in Giggle v Tickle, the “what is a woman” legal case that has been fighting in federal court for the past four years. To put it very simply, there are two sides to this case: women, adult human females, who want to ensure that woman is a single-sex category in law and women & girls have access to single sex spaces. The other side, which includes your human rights commission, insists that men who claim to be women are women in the eyes of the law. The full Federal Court sided with the man who claims to be a woman. Yes. A male won the “what is a woman” court case. Giggle v Tickle has turned Australia into an international laughing stock.

This decision is seismic. It means women cannot run women-only businesses for women. It confirms that the ordinary meaning of sex has been twisted beyond recognition. It means men can be women in law. The Australian Human Rights Commission, captured by ideology, has weaponised the sex discrimination act against women, the very demographic it was enacted to protect. They’ve even argued in court that men who claim to be women need pregnancy protections. They’ve pushed the view that sex is a spectrum, changeable, and that anyone objecting is the bigot. Is this something you agree with? Do you, Mr Prime Minister, think men need pregnancy protections in the law?

And there are real-world stakes here: Girls at school are holding their bladders all day, refusing to drink water, because boys who claim to be girls are in their bathrooms and they don’t want them there. Women prisoners are locked in cells with male sex offenders who simply “identify” as women. Female athletes are losing podiums, matches and safety. This isn’t inclusion - it’s the demise of women’s rights.

Prime Minister, some of your ministers say, “we need to protect trans rights”. With all due respect, sir, your government can protect so called trans rights without stripping rights from women and girls. Every other citizen manages to exist without demanding access to the opposite sex’s protected spaces. Why not try to get “trans rights” without destroying the rights of women and girls? Have you ever even tried? 

The fact that Labor hasn’t even mentioned Giggle v Tickle and women’s rights - while Liberals, Nationals, and One Nation politicians speak out - tells us everything. This week has been silence from the Labor Party. No trans visibility day parades on this one. No pride posts. Why? What don’t you want Australians to know?

You boast about your 50 per cent women in cabinet. Good for you - you can accurately recognise what a woman is when it suits you. But the rest of us aren’t allowed to without fear of punishment. And can I ask, if you filled that cabinet with 50 per cent trans women, would you still call it equality between men and women? Think about that.

While the UK, the United States and even New Zealand are waking up, rolling back the nonsense and restoring sanity and realizing that gender ideology is a failed experiment, your government is turning Australia into the laughing stock of the world. “Giggle v Tickle” isn’t just a punchline overseas - it’s proof Australia is upside down.

I want to tell you something really important: If you will lie about something as obvious as men being women, we can assume you will look us in the eye and lie about everything. 

Tell the truth. Fix the Sex Discrimination Act. Reinstate clear biological, accurate definitions of man and woman. Protect women, girls and single-sex spaces. Actually do something.

Because, at the moment, Mister Prime Minister, I’m doing your job for you.

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

This was always the law & now no organisation can hide behind the Equality Act or the Guidance to break the law and deny women and girls their own spaces.

[Women's Sports Union @wsusportsunion]

BREAKING: We welcome that the Government has finally laid the EHRC Code of Practice.

Sporting bodies have run out of excuses. #TheLawIsTheLaw #ProtectWomensSport

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

I have no problem with a trans-identifying male using the men’s public toilets & I would stand up for them if they were harassed when doing so. I’m sure there are people out there who would not be so accommodating but we must be so if we want to protect women’s spaces.

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

@sharrond62 At last. I kind of understand the cowardly originations acting as they did out of fear of being sued by the TRAs but now they must understand that they will be sued by us & the @wsusportsunion etc. They are still going to try to get away with it. Mark my words!

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

@sharrond62 Exactly! I think it’s the result of a lack of critical thinking and an inability to go beyond a very superficial let’s be ‘kind’ to anyone who says they identify as trans. These politicians & others thought it was a good look to align with this view but now it’s backfiring.

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

@Warayemon @Glinner I think it was in the man with the golden gun and I think his name was Tula. He appeared in a poolside scene and it was publicised at the time in the magazines I seem to recall.

[Ian Skeate @IanSkeate]

Well done to these brave & principled young women. I never had any doubts that the SU would have to cave to them if they held the line & it has. What TRAs hope is that women like this will give up when blocked & that SUs will side with them for fear of being sued but no more!

[University of Leicester Women in Sport Society @UoLWSS]

WE DID IT!! Thank you everyone for your support 💚🤍💜🏃‍♀️