Cath Allen 💚🤍💜

@Abouterf197543 @NaistenOsa @marksandspencer @SexMattersOrg In the changing room next to the lingerie section of the Leeds branch, I witnessed a man going into the changing room with his wife, who was holding two bras to try on. The assistant said *to the husband*, “Just to warn you, there’s a woman in there having a bra fitting.” 😡

Colchester @marksandspencer I asked where the women’s changing room was to try on swimwear. Manager Andrew (he/ his /him) says gender neutral changing areas are “completely safe” for women and girls. For asking him this question, he told me to leave the store. @SexMattersOrg

Leeds WRN Deputation - What happened next? Action! One of our tenacious members set out to examine if Leeds City Council's swimming and leisure services are complying with the law in the provision of single- sex spaces. Here's what she found...

A short video explaining what the EHRC Code of Practice on public services does (and doesn't) do. It's not law; it's guidance to help duty-bearers understand their existing legal obligations. knowingius.org/p/ehrc-guidanc…

To save replying to all those complaining that linking Sturgeon to Murrell’s embezzlement is “misogyny” a reminder that she was not only his wife. She was his boss and as long time leader of the SNP she had ultimate responsibility for its governance and oversight.

@HilllbillyHugs @akuareindorf @KirstiMiller30 “50 year old cis, male, queer gynosexual” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@akuareindorf @KirstiMiller30 Just the facts kid

In common use, ‘discrimination’ refers only to the unjustified, unethical or illegal, forms of discrimination. But international human rights frameworks include provisions for when we can justify what is otherwise discriminatory. There’s a four-fold test. First, the policy must be in service of a worthy social goal. We have prisons and override the right to freedom of movement, partly on the grounds that doing so is in service of the worthy social goal of ‘promoting public safety.’ We can argue about whether this is effective, but the first test is merely to ensure that policies are in service of a worthy social goal. Second, the policy must be necessary for the promotion of the worthy social goal. If we can achieve the worthy social goal without infringing upon human rights, then we must. We can only potentially be justified in overriding human rights if doing so is necessary for promoting a worthy social goal. Arguably, the death penalty is not necessary for promoting public safety, and thus arguably fails this second test. Third, the policy must be effective at promoting the worthy social goal. Even if a discriminatory policy might be judged necessary for promoting a worthy social goal, if it isn’t effective at doing so, then it fails to be justified. Aprimary justification for the death penalty is to deter other crime. Arguably, evidence suggests that the death penalty is not effective at such deterrence. And since there are other methods capable of preventing someone from reoffending, the death penalty is neither necessary nor effective, and so is not justified. Finally, the benefit from promoting the worthy social goal must be proportional to the harm caused to the group or individuals discriminated against by the policy. Generally, policies that discriminate against already vulnerable or stigmatised social groups, even if they are necessary and effective in service of a worthy social goal, will fail to be sufficiently proportional. Appeal to the small size of a group will not suffice, either: the proportionality test is not a utilitarian calculus whereby a large group can benefit greatly at the expense of a few. What’s most crucial about human rights is that the default position is inclusion. The default is not “Exclude trans women until we have more evidence about there not being an advantage or a threat. Rather, the default must be “Include trans women unless we have sufficient evidence to justify discrimination in an international human rights framework. This is why the human rights framework controls this “debate.” Trans women don’t have to justify our inclusion even in sports. The burden of argument is entirely on those who seek to exclude us. And, , that burden has not yet been met in a single female space including female sports, and is unlikely ever to be met. Trans-exclusionary policies fail on every measure. And finally, trans women are a heavily stigmatized and marginalized group, particularly trans women of color, and particularly trans women of color from the global south. And since the benefits to society of discriminatory policies that further harm an already marginalised, stigmatized group tend not to be proportional, excluding trans women also fails the proportionality test. The blanket excluding trans women is not justified under an international human rights framework, under which even the participation in sport as a human right is subsumed!!!!!! google.com/url?q=https://…

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

Right, here's the whole solidarity protest with @salltweets from Australia House, London, 23rd May in full. Grab a cuppa and enjoy. We must continue to work in solidarity and internationally, let's expose this pernicious ideology for what it is. #IStandWithSallGrover #FixTheSDA

@alexsobel do you care about the women in your constituency discriminated against because of LCC's unlawful policies? Tomorrow we'll evidence LCC's failure to protect women's single sex spaces in Leisure centres. Would you care to work with us & support the women of Leeds?

Rory, you were Prisons Minister in Theresa May’s government. So presumably you know that all sorts of men are at risk in prisons - gang members, homosexuals, men who’ve been police officers, etc - and I doubt you’d suggest they’d be put in the women’s estate. So what’s so special about men who say they have a trans identity? Why are they the only men that you’d consider putting in a women’s prison?

I've seen lots of TRAs insisting that women must compromise when it comes to sharing their single-sex spaces with men. What I haven't seen is a single one of them suggesting that men should make any compromise at all.

@NotThatDragonD @MandiganA @MalcolGate Do you think there’s any situation in which women and girls have the right to single sex provision, or do you think we should always be compelled to share with men?

@MandiganA @MalcolGate Before, trans women used the women's and trans men used the men's. This is how it has ALWAYS been. That's why it never cause chaos before, cause it worked the way it's supposed to.

The ruling on the interpretation of biological sex in the Equality Act by the Supreme Court is 'bad law' ie. it will fail to achieve its 'intended purpose' and cause 'unintentional harm' both to trans people and to cis men and women if/when it is enforced. Chaos will ensue. #EHRC

“In a free society, people can believe whatever they want. If you want to believe men can be women or you’re a man who wants to call himself a woman, that is your business. What you cannot do in a free society is force anyone else to accept it. What is at stake here is the ability to lawfully acknowledge reality. If you care so much about “trans rights” you can work out a way to get them without destroying the category of women in law, female spaces, sport, services, the entire reality of lesbianism, and punishing citizens for acknowledging reality. The fact that you haven’t even tried makes it appear that destroying the rights of women is the goal. Any politician who will look an Australian citizen in the eye and tell them that a man can be a woman is admitting that they will lie about anything and everything because the most obvious lie has already been told. If no one in this room can acknowledge reality and fix an obvious problem you are either malicious or incompetent. The days of dismissing this issue are over. This is not a culture war. It’s reality.” - my words, read by Alison Penfold MP, in parliament today. Contact politicians are tell them to BACK THE BILL - “Sex Discrimination Amendment- sex based rights bill 2026”

@d78930305 @garylfrancione @KateBMwriting So do you leave your front door unlocked because there’s nothing stopping burglars from burgling your house if they want to?

@garylfrancione @KateBMwriting There is nothing stopping men from entering the women's facilities if they want to

@Papaklaus_ @moriarty747 Always with the ageism. Always.

@moriarty747 I get mine checked every 3 months! And thank you old lady for caring about my health! Hope you have a wonderful day, ma’am!

The trans argument that women have been perfectly safe sharing the ladies with transwomen because of cubicles. then surely that means transwomen will be perfectly safe using the cubicles in the gents.

The documents audited were: Children and Young People's Gender Identity - Best Practice and Recording Guidance (April 2025) & One minute guide: Working with Trans and Young People. Available on Leeds Safeguarding Children Partnership website & LCC website.

@amethystmess @ForWomenScot So women, such as Muslim women or survivors of male violence, who need such spaces to be free of men, aren’t welcome at these venues. What a surprise

@CathAllen8 @ForWomenScot They consider them both mixed sex I think as a get around of the Supreme Court ruling. Many venues here only have mixed sex toilets.

If you are a business owner and do this, you will open yourself up to a discrimination claim for providing what amounts to one facility for men and one mixed sex. It could be expensive. Pro tip, don't take legal advice from trans activists on X!

@amethystmess @ForWomenScot Men will need to go in the “seats” if they need to take a dump. So again, it’s a men’s toilet and a mixed toilet

@ForWomenScot Many bars in Edinburgh are doing this but calling it 'seats' and 'standing', is this unlawful?

Australia House now

@JocastaMoney @RoisinMichaux Oh come on. We’ve all done it, haven’t we?

Today men are provng they are women by whipping their cocks out and pissing all over Parliment square.

Courage calls to Courage, everywhere. #IStandWithSallGrover