Dr Nicola Williams

He disrupted a women's health event by setting off the fire alarm but the police let him off because he said it was a 'protest'. This is Brighton where if you are trans you really CAN do 'whatever you like, all the time'. #Brighton

@helensaxby11 You’ve always been my favourite, Helen! 😂❤️

Nic Williams @AskNic was so brave back in the day when it was even harder to speak up than it is now. She really did pave the way for the rest of us and I love her very much 😘

Thank you. This is lovely @HadleyFreeman. A huge team got this over the line but it was indeed incredibly lonely and scary when I took my first steps into meeting rooms and media and said NO. They’d simply never heard it before.

And this by @sarahditum.

Amanda Hack. @Hack4Labour You are my new MP. I support the concept of assisted dying but this legislative scrutiny is abysmal. You will be asked to vote on a bad bill. Are you aware of the concerns set out in this Times article? Also follow @nmdacosta @soniasodha @Tanni_GT

HURRAH after almost two years of trying to get a guarantee from my local health authority to have a WOMAN conduct my mammogram the 'patient liason officer' has finally contacted me to say YES, BUT and this is a BIG BUT. IT'S ONLY allowed because I have revealed that I'm a

Great thread by @nmdacosta. Watching bad lawmaking in real time sends shivers down my spine. I used to wonder how other bad laws such as the GRA2004 ever made it through. Now it’s clear. These MPs don’t care about good law. They just want any law.

Framing the issue of assisted dying as compassion and humanity v cruelty/lack of humanity is wrong. We need a respectful debate that acknowledges the serious safeguarding risks as well as the acknowledged benefits of legislative reform in this area.

We need legislators to take their job seriously and understand the pros and cons of any law they make. This is not it. 👇

As I wrote for the Observer a couple of weeks ago, this makes me very uncomfortable. The PM saying he's pleased to be making good on a personal promise to a high-profile campaigner is not in the spirit of a free vote. He wants it to happen, and a lot of new MPs know that.

‘A Paralympian requested a ramp outside her house and she was offered the drugs to end her life.’ @Tanni_GT discusses the upcoming vote on assisted dying with @IainDale, warning against Canada’s legislation as an example, where policy was ‘rapidly’ expanded on.

Why should Esther Rantzen have more of a voice than any other member of the public? Since when did we need to follow the will of highly paid members of the establishment media class?

The reason the assisted dying bill will unfortunately pass: on one side there are emotive personal stories, mainlining straight into the #bekind brain; and on the other there are cold hypotheticals about possible victims, very likely to come true but with no clout at the moment

@FondOfBeetles The fire service is aiming to recruit more female fire-fighters (I’m one of them). The physical fitness tests are the same for all. Most men can pass but only the fittest women get through. Sex differences are obvious but can be useful when deployed correctly. I fit small gaps.

On female security guards and sex differences. I was once asked, in deposition, whether my “discriminatory framework” for sports categories - men are, on average, bigger, stronger, faster and therefore, women need a protected category - extended to discrimination in employment. That is, should employers be able to discriminate by sex in physical jobs? It’s an interesting question. If I turn up to a job as a bricklayer, where the goal is to build as quickly as possible, and I’m sized up - literally - against 6 ft men with rippling shoulders and biceps, I ain’t getting the job. If the job is to move pallets of bricks using a forklift, there is no reason I shouldn’t be considered equally capable as any male. In fact, one might argue that this is a good division of sexed labour? (Shhh) Husbandman and I have oft considered how we might be drafted in some kind of global warfare. Ignoring that we’d both be better developing biological weapons, I am not being sent to the front line. I can read maps and plan and comms and maybe even be a bit sniper, but at no point am I the type of person who can wrestle an unexpected attacker to the floor. A security detail needs to be able to decisively rugby tackle the target to the floor in one move. That ain’t me. That’s the aforementioned 6ft dude with rippling shoulders and biceps. That doesn’t mean women don’t have a role, it is simply a pragmatic assignment of roles, that has to account for the potential decisive physicality that might be required. @SwipeWright said something interesting about this. If the goal is to build as quickly as possible (output based), I’m not the bricklayer for you. If the goal is to lift a particular number of bricks in a particular amount of time, anyone who reaches that threshold should be considered, regardless of sex. That might include me, who knows. For discussion, in good faith.

In my constituency only 2 candidates said they’d support the sex-based rights of women and girls. I’ll be voting based on that. Check out your candidates here whatisawomanuk.com Thank you @craig_smithUK Conservative @ABridgen Independent

“Biological women take priority” That’s what I’ve been waiting to hear from a politician. I’ll now be voting @Conservatives on Thursday because of what @mariacaulfield just said. 👇

@NoShirleyNo @fairplaywomen @slipkn0t8 I won’t give my vote to any politician who doesn’t stand up for the sex-based rights of women, LGB and children.

@fairplaywomen @slipkn0t8 But you’ll still vote Labour

This is an unbearable watch. Condescending, uninformed and misogynistic. He doesn’t get it and clearly never will. There’s a fundamental conflict of rights and we need brave leaders to tackle it not shirk it.

Politicians in a democracy should not be being assaulted, I don't care who they are.

Well done @DerryBanShee and best wishes for a glittering future at @SexMattersOrg. I’m looking forward to us collaborating on projects and making a difference 💪. Thank you for being a loyal friend and a hard-working and enthusiastic colleague. Loads of love, Nic xx.