Dr Claire Barnes

Chartered Organisational Psychologist at Lucent Psychology. Founder member of the Women’s Equality Party.

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

@UniofOxford Questions must be asked of the Oxford University Proctors.
Why did they allow protests inside a lecture theatre?
Why do they think it is acceptable to create a hostile and degrading environment for Michael Foran and his students?
What do they think education is for?

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

This is disgraceful. If only the HEFSA complaints scheme was up and running - Michael would have a strong complaint here. But sadly Bridget Phillipson postponed it just a few days before it was due to come into force.

[teresa smith @treesey]

Can we have a moment of praise for Steve Goodman OBE (@UKLabour) who told the Policy & Resources Committee yesterday that the @cityoflondon should comply with the law

Hurrah for Steve

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Get the trans activist student off the news desk @BBCNews

[Dr Claire Barnes @lucentclaire]

@redditchrache @JulietVelleman And this policy excludes many Jewish and Muslim women from swimming in mixed sex ponds. No thought given to them .

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Peter & Alan.

Many of us LGB have been warning you for YEARS that this was happening.

We told you there are huge problems ahead, as gender ideology is in direct contradiction to being same-sex attracted.

We told you to stop involving other people’s children.

We told you SO MANY LGB people are sick & tired of being tethered to ideological cheerleaders for Queer Theory.

We told you the homophobia was coming from within the house.

We told you the blatant misogyny would have repercussions.

You all turned a blind eye.

You didn’t listen.

You said “No Debate.”

You branded us ‘bigots’.

Why are you NOW feigning surprise that there is a renewed backlash?

You CAUSED this.

2015. What changed??

Think hard.

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

O yes it can. And it most definitely should. I do not want to be treated by a doctor who is festooned with badges and flags, worried that he might treat me differently if he notes my politics don’t align with his.

Just as I would not march into court waving a suffragette flag. You leave your politics, your religion and your gender identity at the door and you go on and do the job for which you are paid.

[Dr Claire Barnes @lucentclaire]

@cityoflondon Not safe or inclusive for many Jewish or Muslim women but then some trendier minorities count more than others . Blinkered virtue signalling .

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

Many @cityoflondon councillors seem to think UK equality law doesn’t apply to the Hampstead ponds.

Members have today voted to unlawfully discriminate against and harass women using the Ladies’ Pond.

The clue is in the name: female users don’t expect to encounter male people at the Ladies’ Pond, but that is what the City of London Corporation has endorsed.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

‘And to hell with you women who would like a pond free of men’…

Guess they want to be sued. 🤷‍♀️

[Tracy Edwards @TracyEdwardsMBE]

I just used up a lifetime quota of eyerolls

[Dr Claire Barnes @lucentclaire]

@DeboraSinger1 @cityoflondon This is such a key issue. Why do these morons - sorry- think that Jewish or Muslim women are less important than men who fancy themselves in this way? Stupidity and blindness. And there are three ponds do accommodations can easily be made.

[DeboraSinger @DeboraSinger1]

@cityoflondon You say you're working with the community but the Ponds will not be inclusive for women such as those of Jewish or Muslim faith and survivors of sexual trauma

[Tracy Edwards @TracyEdwardsMBE]

@LabWomenDec @UKHouseofLords @EHRC @sharrond62 @SarahLudford @KishwerFalkner 'Poor response' is being kind. He was actually unbelievably rude

[Sam Morgan @CrunchAlias]

The weird world you inhabit when female MPs call people bigots for not wanting to destroy women's rights.

[Dr Claire Barnes @lucentclaire]

@BriefcaseMike Surely this is about public servants not being politicised rather than offence?

[Cathy Devine @cathydevine56]

So the Green Party also wants to remove the sex discrimination provisions for 51%+ of the population.
Women, girls & people who are same-sex attracted.
Consolidated in the 2010 Equality Act on the basis of sex.
They are a regressive, sexist, homophobic, utter disgrace.

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

I admit to a certain morbid fascination with people like @stellacreasy and @NadiaWhittomeMP who brazen it out after being caught misrepresenting parliamentary process as it applies to the EHRC Code of Conduct - even after @akuareindorf and @Scott_Wortley have gone to immense lengths to explain, in great detail and with superhuman patience and courtesy, why they have got it completely wrong.

But their betrayal of lesbians and women in general - and their sheer dishonesty in refusing to admit openly they still want to replace all sex-based rights with self-ID - are not remotely fascinating. Just grotesque.

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

What an unedifying spectacle it was to see MPs speaking out against the EHRC Code of Practice - displaying embarrassing ignorance of the law. One MP even suggested that the CoP meant some people could no longer get married! 🤣

Worse than their ignorance is their dishonesty as to their real intentions - to have another run at amending the law to introduce Gender Self-ID in the UK.

They are welcome to try: they can consult Nicola Sturgeon for advice. But at least they should spell out their intentions instead of making a song and dance about the Code of Practice.

Another enraging aspect of the MPs’ brain-dead performances was their refusal to say the word “lesbian.” Not a single mention of the Lesbian Intervenors who helped to reaffirm the sex-based rights of gays and lesbians.

So it is a relief to see @soniasodha explain these matters to the legally, intellectually, politically - yes, and ethically - challenged members of parliament whose only version of courage is the courage to make fools of themselves in public.

[Dr Claire Barnes @lucentclaire]

@TracyEdwardsMBE @TerfyMcTerfy @NadiaWhittomeMP And all the others who put their names to this, including @stellacreasy. They have lost their moral compass on their desire to pander to a tiny minority and can’t see beyond their own virtue signalling