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31 posts todayJournalist RTs @SafeSchools_UK who are providing factual tweets on day in court. TRAs are furious. Fact remains that the evidence is amazing and the thread is informative. https://t.co/wrYgoY...
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31 posts todayGreat piece by @void_if_removed sparks a, ahem, interesting exchange. With thanks to Dave and @JeremyDuns for their commitment to facts and good sense. https://t.co/JxD1GV...
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31 posts todayA powerful speech in defence of women and women's rights - as we have come to expect. Women's rights are not a threat to anyone and we don't think that recognising difference should be a problem. We need language to describe the experience of half ...
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31 posts todayRT @ruthserwotka: Today @UKLabour refused to refer to 'women' in legislation about pregnancy preferring instead to promote the language of 'pregnant people'. People do not get pregnant, women do. Why subject half the population to this nonsense. ...
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31 posts todayRT @campervanwoman: Thank you @ToniaAntoniazzi for your speech today defending the words women need to describe our experience.
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31 posts todaySome strange QT of this saying that Sir Edward Leigh is wrong because transmen and NBs can have babies. Not sure which bit of "biological" they are struggling with! #MOMABill https://t.co/PtnKra...
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31 posts todayRT @MForstater: Penny Mordaunt says "we could not legally and correctly use the term woman in this legislation" citing the 2007 policy of gender neutral drafting. The Equality Act 2010 comes after the gender neutral drafting conventions. ...
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31 posts todayLabour Leadership Contest - forwomen.scot
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31 posts todayConcerning news on the @ONS census. The evidence for collecting robust data is unanswerable, evidence, not ideology, should hold sway. https://t.co/Rdfxc0...
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31 posts todayRT @SafeSchools_UK: #allisonbailey Ben Cooper QC emails show explicit threat that if Garden Court Chambers don’t expel claimant (@BluskyeAllison) Stonewall will sever ties causing reputational damage ...
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31 posts todayIt may shock Christine Jardine but there is physical difference in how someone becomes a parent. This is why maternity rights are sex based. The act of giving birth is not neutral. #MOMABill
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31 posts todayRT @CforWomenUK: Joanna Cherry: Welcome the bill but it doesn't go far enough. Every blessing to the AG. Why does this bill make no mention of WOMEN. Reflection of idealogical language, denies woman and lesbians. Why is govt. not complying with EqA ...
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31 posts today#MOMABill @joannaccherry asking why there is no mention of women in the bill. "If this is an innocent mistake let's put it right, if not, let's talk about the erasure of women"
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31 posts todayI believe it has been repeatedly pointed out to Scot Gov that many of these orgs misrepresent the "I" and do not provide the sort of practical support and info families need. Scot Gov, shamefully, do NOT support dedicated VSD charities. @ClareCAIS ...
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31 posts todayExcellent speech by @ToniaAntoniazzi on #MOMABill . She also points out that the gender neutral language is not consistent with other laws relating to maternity.
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31 posts todayRT @CforWomenUK: Sir Edward Leigh raises the biological woman issue! If we are going to adopt gender ideology we should not do it by stealth! PM says no intention to not use word 'women', it is a drafting issue...
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31 posts todayRT @CforWomenUK: For those unable to watch, we are going to tweet on the #MOMABill this afternoon. Penny Mordaunt moving second reading of the bill. This bill means ministers do not have to resign when they become pregnant....(we will paraphrase ...
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31 posts todayRT @wwwritingclub: The #MOMABill is a way to blackmail/lure women MPs with the prospect of maternity rights, if in exchange they will hand over sex-based rights. What MPs should know is that it’ll soon be men taking “maternity leave” to take a baby ...
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31 posts todayRT @LabWomenDec: Thanks @LordPhilofBrum "My question to the Minister is about whether the Gov't have decided not to use the term “woman” in future legislation. Does she share my concern that there is a risk of delegitimising specific concerns about ...
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31 posts todayRT @joannaccherry: @BillDunblane @AlynSmith @bbcdebatenight The comments were incorrect. He hasn’t spoken to me for months nor I to him owing to the campaign of abuse waged against me by young men close to him.
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31 posts todaySex and Gender in Data Working Group - gov.scot
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31 posts todayA letter in the Times from senior social scientists sounds the alarm (again) about the loss of robust, high quality data on sex. This change is happening with no evidence that it is necessary and virtually no consultation with people with expertise ...
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31 posts todayRT @MForstater: It is being asked whether #MOMABill needs to say "persons" instead of "women" in order to include females who have legally changed sex to male My answer: no ... The GRA is a legal fiction which allows for look throughs - it does not ...
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31 posts todayBrilliant, but also a depressing picture of where we are now. If only there were a word for this group of people! https://t.co/z0wpSq...
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31 posts todayShort answer or long one? 1) No 2) Never, unless scientific and physiological illiteracy spiced up with a dollop of women-hating is your bag. https://t.co/ozPO6E...
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31 posts today"If we turn our political opponents into irredeemable demons, evil to their core, then we strip them of their humanity and turn politics into a battle between warring factions, not of ideas and ideals in which opponents can be won over." ...
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31 posts todayRT @joannaccherry: Last night I reported this tweet to @TwitterSupport. Others have reported it to @policescotland & @metpoliceuk. Anyone who doubts the toxic extent of the attacks on #womensrights in our society should read this tweet ...
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31 posts todayRT @LabWomenDec: Some amendments to today's #MoMABill "leave out “person” and insert “woman” "leave out “person” and insert “minister” Let's see how it goes this afternoon. New version of #SixWords? https://t.co/QTA5TX...
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31 posts todayThis has been sent to Scottish MSPs and MPs also. The Scottish census has been pushed back by a year. Please tell your local representative that #WomenCountSoCountW... https://t.co/NrJ8DY...
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31 posts todayRT @lnmackenzie1: In 2018 the Scottish Government changed the binary sex question in the Scottish Household Survey, to a question that asked respondents to describe their gender identity, stating that this was ‘in line with similar changes being made ...
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31 posts todayRT @CforWomenUK: We will be following the bill live on Parliament TV today. Follow us for updates throughout the day. https://t.co/Wbcx5Z...