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@DailyMail Disabled have facilities made available to them because if their disability, trans are still male or female and mental illness is the issue.

Disabled people 'may have to compete with trans people to use toilets', equalities watchdog warns trib.al/bC4gqu7

@YvetteCooperMP @abierkhatib Yet you do nothing about it!

The E1 settlement plans in the West Bank are egregious.   With international partners, we are clear: these settlements  are illegal and threaten a viable Palestinian state.   gov.uk/government/new…

@TrevorPTweets @EHRC And the comments on my reply just show how vile some people are. Transphobia really is a mental illness.

@TrevorPTweets @EHRC This is a disgusting misuse of women’s trauma. Trans women are NOT men and they are not the ones attacking women on Acacia Avenue. You are weaponising genuine fear of male violence to target a vulnerable minority group. True safety comes from secure private pods, not your bigotry

My thoughts on the @EHRC guidance laid yesterday; this is not about non-existent "rights". It is about the safety of women - mothers, sisters, wives, daughters. We men need to hear their voices. Virginia Woolf : "Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes". My intro on @TimesRadio yesterday: Where I live there are two different routes to and from the tube station. One, let’s call it Acacia Avenue, is quiet and residential. The other, London Road, is a busy major route with lots of traffic. At all times of the day, I automatically head for Acacia Road. It’s just much nicer. The women in my family, on the other hand, will never willingly make that walk after dark. They live with an anxiety that most men find it hard to imagine, and frankly, rarely think about unprompted. Last year 739,000 women were sexually assaulted in Britain. Virtually all such assaults - nine out of ten - are perpetrated by men. One in four women have been attacked at some time in their lives. Acacia Avenue is exactly the sort of place in which most women fear that they become vulnerable, and they are right. As the author Virginia Woolf once wrote " Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes". I think this is the right context in which to understand the furore over the guidance being laid today by the government, over the meaning of the words man and woman when it comes to providing services and facilities in workplaces. Many men think this is about a rather arcane dispute about who gets to use what loo. For their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters, it isn’t. In a previous life, as Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, I had a hand in writing this country’s equality laws, in particular the 2010 Equality Act. It never occurred to any of us that there could be any confusion or dispute over the meaning of the words man and woman. But it has taken a decade of campaigning, a Supreme Court judgement and now hundreds of pages of guidance to settle the issue. This is not about so called trans rights, which are completely unaffected by this guidance, since no-one has ever had the right to walk into a changing room reserved for teenage girls. What it does mean is that women and girls are guaranteed the protection they deserve, and that their safety, which we spent half a decade drafting law to ensure, is protected. But the whole business illuminates some serious issues in our politics. First that many of our institutions, in spite of the fact that they always knew what the right thing to do was, decided to ignore the fears of their women customers and employees, under pressure from noisy pressure groups. Instead, the people who were supposed to be the grown ups behaved as though the law said what campaigners wanted it to say, rather than what it actually said. They settled for what they hoped would be a quiet life. In a democracy, there’s little point in Parliament deciding anything if the law is then made an ass by activists intimidating bosses in companies, schools, universities and the media into doing something different. Second, at the heart of the campaign to undermine the Equality Act is an idea that we specifically rejected in 2010, so called self-identification. That is to say, that it should be up to the individual to decide whether they have what’s called a protected characteristic - are you male or female, are you black or white. The problem is that self-ID would destroy the operation of any law against discrimination. Look, it would almost certainly have been to my advantage as a young man to self-identify as a handsome, white public schoolboy. None of those things is true of me. And at various points I am pretty sure it’s been to my disadvantage. It is certainly statistically likely to have been to my disadvantage. But according to the logic of those who say that self-ID should be the rule and that anyone should be able to decide for themselves whether they are male or female, black or white or Asian, were I to complain about racial discrimination, it would be difficult for anyone prove that I’d been discriminated against because of my race since anybody to whom I’d lost out could just tell the courts that they too were black. I know that sounds like Alice in Wonderland but you can google the case where a chap, both of whose parents are white, insisted he should get money from the Arts Council because he so identified with the black struggle that he considered himself black, and everyone should accept his point of view. In the United States and Brazil exactly such outlandish claims have been made and people rewarded to the disadvantage of people actually born into minority families. I have even been told about firms who, when reporting their gender pay gaps have put men who just happen to like wearing dresses at weekends - nothing wrong with that, let me be clear - into the female column and told their women employees that they really haven’t got anything to moan about because statistically they are paid equally, and they should get back in their box. So today’s guidance isn’t just another tiresome chapter in culture wars. It is , I hope, a halt to the efforts to undermine one of the most important pieces of legislation on the statute book, by people who, for their own reasons, would prefer us to be living in the 1950s world of Mad Men.

Hating Trans people does nothing to make women’s lives better. It just makes you a bigot.

🚨Watch what happened when our co-director @LauraPidcock tried to bring up Israel's genocide in Gaza on Sky News last night. Clip by @SaulStaniforth👇

@jimma54 @I_amMukhtar The MET confirmed it was real

@I_amMukhtar Was it a real sword or a replica? These are important questions, as otherwise it's a sword shaped piece of deadly weapon, you know.

This is where we're at. Police arrest a woman for carrying a real sword.

@MaxFRobespierre I think this is the wrong decision. Greens could have a win win scenario if they stood aside.

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NEW REPORT: The Mandelson Protege- Wes Streeting’s ties to the pro-Israel lobby, his political grooming by Lord Mandelson, and the targeting of Muslim NHS doctor Rahmeh Aladwan. A fully sourced chronological documentation. Not allegation. Evidence. 📷Full report👇Read and share

@AaronPDBisiaux I stopped reading at transgenderism. Being Trans is not an ideology. You are indeed a bigot

Read this and then tell me if I’m a bigot. I am a gay man. I believe that sex is biological. I believe men can be whatever type of man they want. I believe women can be whatever type of woman they want. I believe men can be camp/feminine. I believe women can be butch/masculine. I believe homosexuals should be allowed to live freely, including being able to get civilly partnered and marry. However, I do not believe in Transgenderism ideology or ‘gender identities’. Humans cannot change sex. I believe that ‘trans people’ need proper psychological help. We should not be affirming delusion or self harm. ‘Trans’ is obsessed with ‘gender identity’ which is another way to say ‘sex-based stereotypes’. No one has a ‘gender identity’. We are either male or female. It doesn’t matter how masculine/feminine we are or what stereotypes we do or don’t conform to. We are all INDIVIDUALS. There have always been a small cohort of people who feel ‘wrong’. I have massive sympathy for those people. I do not have sympathy, though, for people forcing me to participate in someone else’s delusions. The modern ‘Transgenderism’ is socially engineered psychosis. Men can just ‘identify’ as women. Women can just ‘identify’ as men. Women can just ‘identify’ as gay men. Men can just ‘identify’ as lesbians. With ‘trans’ words have no meaning. It’s regressive, sexist, misogynistic and homophobic. Trampling all over the right to single-sex spaces, the rights of women, gays, lesbians and everyone to legally describe themselves and to freedom of expression. Men are adult human males. Women are adult human females. Heterosexual= Opposite sex attracted. Homosexual= Same sex attracted. Sex= The reality of being born with a male or female body. Sexuality= The sex to which you are sexually attracted. Sex and sexuality are immutable realities. ‘Gender’ is meaningless and ‘trans’ is delusion. I am a gay man who believes in LGB rights, biological reality and that we can all be whatever type of people we want. But I bet I’ll still get called a ‘bigot’.

Actually it’s the kids telling their parents they are Trans. Conversion or “talking therapy” does not stop them from being Trans. They are who they are and parents should listen and support them

@DikiRance81 Do you realise just how expensive it is to rent in London ? He’s in a house which is close to the places he needs to travel and if it’s cheaper for him to live in shared accommodation which probably has all bills included then that’s him being smart

If you’re 45 and you’re living in a house share with 5 other people. You’re a fucking loser that’s terrible at making important decisions and shouldn’t be trusted to run a bath let alone a country.

@SallySaltwell @PolitlcsUK @ZackPolanski Hardly especially when you compare it to Farage and Tice who put their money in off shore accounts and avoid paying millions in tax every year!

@PolitlcsUK @ZackPolanski is a charlatan

🚨 NEW: Zack Polanski has tonight admitted that he failed to pay the correct council tax while living on a houseboat in London

Two women disappear after last being seen with Israeli soldiers in Gaza. Where are they? And what happened to them? We ask is this Israeli policy? And how many more Palestinians have disappeared? With @GLAN_LAW INVESTIGATORS AND @SkyNews Data and Forensics @_BvdM @McGarwen @CunninghamCSky

Here's the DIRTY SECRET of the British Establishment They are OK with the idea of a racist, authoritarian Farage govt They are TERRIFIED at the idea of a Polanski govt which would threaten their power & privilege and make them pay their fair share of tax

We obtained the diary of Tzipi Hotovely, the former Israeli ambassador in London. It reveals how she held private meetings with Met police commissioner Mark Rowley in November 2023 and assistant commissioner Matt Jukes in August 2024👇 declassifieduk.org/revealed-the-t…

I am appalled by a Reform candidate in Essex celebrating the rape of a Sikh woman in Sandwell. All of the MPs in Sandwell have written to the Chair of Sandwell Reform Party asking him to condemn this and get this person dropped as a Reform candidate.

@sugarGSP Amazing and huge congratulations 🥂 xx

OMFG CRYING

When Jewish people speak out against genocide, why are our voices dismissed? And smirking while I describe someone Nazi-saluting at me isn’t just disrespectful - it feels deeply antisemitic. youtu.be/7VkfYJgLljE?si…

@NancyMace No

Pray for President Trump.