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[Prof. Gary Francione @garylfrancione]

The judge is attempting to exert control over Naomi Cunningham's speech. All sexism and misogyny are about male control. The entire trans phenomenon is about perfecting male control to the point of abolishing women as a sex class and allowing them to exist only as a class they share with men. It's all insidious and if it is allowed to prevail, the cultural consequences will be inestimable.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I do not subscribe to your ideology, which means I do not believe in ‘cis’ and ‘trans’ in the essentialist way you apply the terms. I don’t believe anyone is ‘born in the wrong body’ because I don’t believe in gendered essences or souls. Gender dysphoria exists, as does fetishism. As far as human rights go, a man’s motivation for presenting as a woman is irrelevant. Society either agrees they’re all women if they want to be, or that they’re men with diverse motivations, none of which entitle them to women’s spaces.

[Alison Teal 🍃💚🍃 @alisonclareteal]

I just supported this case! https://t.co/vz3nRtz9Xn via @CrowdJustice
@GWDeclaration @GreenFemsUK @GreenPartyWomen @SheffGCNetwork @jk_rowling @janeclarejones @VictoriaPeckham @LabWomenDec @WomensRightsNet @bindelj @BoozeAndFagz @suzanne_moore @Docstockk @nickwallis

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@ContorSien1527 @owenjonesjourno @EHRC I am disabled. I have multiple sclerosis. Just so you know, there aren't many people who can win a game of protected characteristic bingo against me.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@owenjonesjourno @EHRC Self-ID has never been the law. Instead of lying to all & sundry that it was & trying to force the truly idiotic & quite obviously dangerous idea that any old bloke who claims to be a woman is a woman, transactivism should've been fighting for a *suitable* balance of provision…

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@owenjonesjourno @EHRC We don’t share women’s facilities with gay men, disabled men, young men, old men or any other vulnerable men. We won’t do it for trans-ID men either. It would eliminate the protection those spaces offer to us. And we fought for them. They are ours...

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@owenjonesjourno @EHRC Owen, men’s incessant, ubiquitous violence against women & girls results in 3 murders a week in the UK alone.

So no, we won’t share our few places of refuge -which allow us to take part in public life – with trans-ID men, which means any man who’ll say the words “I’m a woman”…

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

I've never seen any evidence that trans-identified men face an enhanced risk of assault in men's loos.

But in case they do, the @EHRC Code says that, wherever practicable, additional mixed sex options should be made available.

Another option is for men to stop hitting other men

[SheffGCNetwork @SheffGCNetwork]

@owenjonesjourno You know what you could do Owen? Start a campaign by men to welcome trans identifying males - any feminine-looking man for that matter - into the male loos. The reason they may fear the male loos is three same reason women don't want men in ours. You still don't get it, do you?

[DaveTalks @DaveTalks]

@owenjonesjourno You do understand that the "trans woman" has a chance against the other man though right? In fact it seems they're more aggressive than the average man...

Women have no chance against men.

Please do your best to enter the real world one day.

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

That claim comes without evidence, but even taken at face value it does not settle the question. It simply confirms that suitable, safe provision is needed for trans people. The EHRC Code recognises exactly that.

What it does not establish is that women must surrender single-sex spaces to solve somebody else’s safeguarding needs.

And this is not just about toilets. The Code covers services, public functions and associations. It matters for women’s refuges, hospital wards, changing rooms, therapeutic support groups, communal accommodation, sporting provision, women-only organisations and the right of women to meet and organise as women.

Those protections exist because sex matters. Privacy matters. Dignity matters. Safety matters. A woman escaping male violence should not be told her boundaries count for less than somebody else’s identity. A female patient should not have her dignity treated as negotiable. Women should not lose the right to gather as a sex class because acknowledging sex has become politically inconvenient.

Trans people remain protected under the Equality Act. The Code specifically addresses the need for appropriate alternatives, such as mixed-sex or individual lockable facilities, so people are not left without usable provision.

That is how rights are balanced: proper provision for trans people, and the preservation of women’s single-sex rights.

What is not balance is demanding that every male person who identifies as a woman must be admitted to women’s spaces, then branding women discriminatory when they object.

Women’s rights do not stop at the toilet door.

[Elaine Miller | Venus Envy @GussieGrips]

@owenjonesjourno Maybe stop hitting trans identified men in the male loos then? And tell your mates, as well. Problem solved.

[SheffGCNetwork @SheffGCNetwork]

There's a poll. Get it done!

https://t.co/hSKzYFPPu7

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

Fascinating and in depth article by @PaulKnaggs for Labour Heartlands on the framing of the ‘trans debate’ around toilets rather than women’s fundamental rights.

It’s an accurate observation of a highly successful PR campaign. Across the media, presenters last week repeatedly asked women if they feel guilty about men who can’t use their toilets, businesses who can’t afford to build more toilets, and disabled people whose toilets are suggested as alternatives.

But most importantly they’ve not bern asking about anything except toilets. Specifically they’ve failed to ask men/trans campaigners why they don’t understand that if they are included in the legal meaning of ‘woman’, women themselves have no rights at all on the basis of sex.

It follows a pattern of successful ‘identity’ media campaigns, with which news outlets collude because 1. their proponents are very top down and powerful and 2. they advance men’s rights. Previous examples include lived experience journalism, no debate, the narrative of victimhood and the infinite necessity of a trans male contributor.

This excellent article also looks at the impact:- ‘The cost has been real and it has fallen on working class women in particular’.

https://t.co/wqaZSkkB52

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

When women say they are being silenced, this is what they mean…

[LabourWomen’sDeclaration @LabWomenDec]

Deeply disturbing evidence emerging today in court of the ignorance about @UKLabour's Equality Act shown by @ManCityCouncil's managers.
LWD sisters have been listening with horror today.
@10DowningStreet @SteveReedMP @bphillipsonMP - take heed.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“One of the most chilling, disturbing & stupid parts of the decision is [the judges] have said that it is direct discrimination because I have acknowledged he looks like a man & looking like a man is a protected characteristic of being a ‘transwoman’.”

Thank you @joshxhowie 🩷

[SheffGCNetwork @SheffGCNetwork]

Hey @SheffCouncil why are you staff putting this link in their email sign off ? - https://t.co/YSSogkih2V - what nonsense!

[SheffGCNetwork @SheffGCNetwork]

Sheffield LGBT organisations are not very good with money - https://t.co/WhazOMx5Rw

[SheffGCNetwork @SheffGCNetwork]

Not sad to hear about this - don't think people are interested in pride type events anymore.

[The Star, Sheffield @SheffieldStar]

Appeal as Sheffield LGBTQ+ arts group under threat after big losses at city event https://t.co/5ThAdeWp3f