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@Suffragent_ @RachelB76293670 @TrevorPTweets @EHRC So if women want access to the Garrick club they have to put up with men in their changing rooms?

@RachelB76293670 @TrevorPTweets @EHRC None of this answers my question.

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.

@InclusiveDream @TrevorPTweets @EHRC What do you keep between your ears? It certainly isn't a brain. How about answering the questions posed rather than wailing 'transphobia'. You have NO coherent argument do you? Any man can be a transwoman. That is the danger to women.

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

@homoeroticeels @RichardThNguyen @DaleNoNumbers @UileamMcOistin @AvaLovelaceX In what world? Clown world?

@RichardThNguyen @DaleNoNumbers @UileamMcOistin @AvaLovelaceX Trans women are real women.

In a world’s first, The United Kingdom moves to make it illegal for trans women to pee. Welcome to 2026 where laws discriminating against and segregating minorities are now commonplace again

@rahhead01 @jk_rowling @ABoyandastick1 @BettsCaro The definition isn't up for debate. The issue is those who think it is.

@jk_rowling @ABoyandastick1 @BettsCaro Do you ever change the record?! Not a day goes by when I don’t see you trying to make people ‘define’ women 🙄

Another Starmerite masterstroke.

@ScotsWhiteBear @SunnivaGunn @logi_con Science you say? Looks like you need to educate yourself read.theparadoxinstitute.org/p/debunking-we… Many many many debunkings more if you care to google

@SunnivaGunn @logi_con You really are pathetic. Go drink more bucky

The GCs won't be happy

@lesley22061 @SamCoatesSky The word in the UK is toilet. And it isn't just about toilets e.g. changing rooms. And letting males use female facilities massively increases incidences of voyerism. And introducing floor to ceiling doors puts women who have collapsed and require medical attention at risk.

Government guidance on single sex spaces, following the Supreme Court ruling last year, now coming this month says Bridget Phillipson

@howellsacto @QuietXPerson Most transwomen are straight men.

It’s utterly risible of “gender critical” people to suggest that fairness in women’s sport is being undermined by allowing transgender women to participate as they choose in a public fitness event that allows dogs and prams.

@QuietXPerson @Ilikeottersbest No that would mean they were a type of woman. Like a tall woman. Transwoman no space. Because they are men.

@Ilikeottersbest *trans women

@QuietXPerson @char5191 You don't need to project them. They broadcast it loud and clear for all to see.

@char5191 I am once again asking “gender critical” people to stop projecting fetishes onto transgender people.

@QuietXPerson @hilton_ian Me too.

@hilton_ian Right, just you, then.

@SarahSillymore @DreyfusJames There seems to be a vacuum where your brain should be.

Get a load of these absolute tossers… like a chimp’s tea party. Short of chucking their own dung at each other, these two men, yet again, demonstrate how obnoxiously ignorant they remain about the entire issue. Bore off. Seriously.

@BettyD547689 @ThomasWillett9 Of course a white man could head up a Sickle cell charity. As long as they blacked up. Steph put on a dress. It shows commitment.

@ThomasWillett9 Question Thomas, would you be cool with a white person that identifies as black heading up a charity for Sickle Cell Anemia? If that would upset you but not a man that identifies as a woman heading a charity for a disease that only affects women, than you’re a hypocrite.

She wasn’t “criticised”; she was abused, harassed and ultimately hounded out of her position. The only “criticism” was about Steph being trans, and not her qualifications and experience. That’s not criticism; it’s prejudice.

@Matt_Pinner Magnificent!

How would you describe JK Rowling in one word?

@jackodonnell96 @SexMattersOrg No one is stopping trans people existing they just can't use the same changing room as my daughter. Just like every other male. And you should be ashamed for trying.

The law is clear: why are women waiting? Why are women protesting around the country #OneYearLater following the Supreme Court judgment? Read how the government's delay in acting to follow the Equality Act is harming women and girls. sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…

@guy_fawkesuk @SexMattersOrg Transwomen commit sex crimes at a greater rate than men (who know they are men) according to Ministry of Justice figures. 'But they're not true trans' you whine. How do you tell? You can't. So no males (including transwomen) in wonen's spaces.

@Richard56370536 @AjaTheEmpress @oliviabaileymp Men aren't a minority. And transwomen are male however they identify. Hope that helps.

@AjaTheEmpress @oliviabaileymp calling every trans woman a “heterosexual man claiming to be a lesbian” isn’t evidence, it’s a blanket accusation. If someone behaves abusively, deal with that individual. Safeguarding works best when it targets misconduct, not an entire minority

@AthertonSusanne @KBtheYoungOG Yes they should be prevented. Did you not understand the damage caused by these drugs and the inability of children to understand and consent? Or do you just not care?

@KBtheYoungOG Just because it didn't work out for you, you shouldn't try to prevent other people who do need it from accessing it.

@Moridimortem_ @JackieK66903652 @xx_xyathletics You are gay. Sorry you can't accept who you are.

@JackieK66903652 @xx_xyathletics Also being trans isnt a decision, if it was I would still be a cįsgender straight woman with 2 kids and staying at home to look after my husband, because that life is so easy to live and is the easy choice 😂

Look at her. The girl who trained. The girl who sacrificed. The girl who lost her place. This is who we fight for. #InternationalWomensDay

@Richard56370536 @PeterB756 @ThePosieParker She asked acquestion. Perhaps they could have answered.

@conlock_r @PeterB756 @ThePosieParker Bye bye

My removal from the international women’s day event by the police. I had been asking women’s organisations whether their services were for women only. This caused alarm and distress and the venue, claimed to be privately owned when it’s owned by the council, asked me to leave for asking questions. I have footage of every interaction that I will upload later so you can see what those questions were and you can judge for yourself.

@Richard56370536 @mikogal70 @ThePosieParker You male twat.

@mikogal70 @ThePosieParker Rather than stoke her fear & moral panic further miko i’d stop her from watching said videos on Twitter, they’re designed to do just that - the real world is a lot less scary