Jenny Smith

@coccinellanovem @ChtyCommission The process is that you should exhaust the charity's own complaints process first; and only complain to the Commission if the charity fails to correct the problem.

Are registered charities allowed to lie about the law @ChtyCommission ?

What amazes us about @stellacreasy 's video is how willing this MP is to admit to the paucity of 'accessible for all' toileting facilities in her constituency. The last 20 years has seen a large growth in other places, but apparently not Walthamstow and that is on her. x.com/stellacreasy/s…

@LGBwiththeT @akuareindorf @PompeySteph @UKLabour @EHRC @bphillipsonMP I should have said at the outset also that “the law” is extremely clear that a TW *without* a GRC is not a woman in any legal sense whatsoever. 5/4

@LGBwiththeT @akuareindorf @PompeySteph @UKLabour @EHRC @bphillipsonMP So you are telling considerably less than "half the truth" here. 4/4

I see @UKLabour MPs are faithfully repeating the line that Govt has managed to “scale back” some “harmful elements” of the @EHRC Code of Practice. They don’t know what Govt has “scaled back”. They haven’t seen the post-consultation version sent to @bphillipsonmp in Sep 25 …/1

@TerfyMcTerfy @TheParty1sOver 🤣

@TheParty1sOver Prison onset gender dysphoria in the near future, I assume

The Supreme Court has ruled that under UK law, trans people never had the rights people like you insisted they had. You misrepresented the law and cheered on the removal of women’s rights. Trans people have lost nothing except the mistaken belief you fostered.

@Cyclefree2 @LoudBonnet <is gobsmacked>

@GoodyActually @LoudBonnet The revelation that Jan Morris approached another woman in the loo to discuss underwear made me question the carefully constructed image. If a real woman I didn't know did that to me I'd find it downright weird & certainly creepy when coming from a man pretending to be a woman.

I'm afraid there's plenty of evidence of this, too.

@JayneOzanne I don't think you've actually understood the guidance (or the law it is explaining). It's very clear that "trans people" are *not* any kind of "third sex"; they are simply the sex that they in fact are, for the purposes of the Equality Act.

EHRC's 'guidance' in treating #trans people as a 'third sex' is both unworkable & cruel, as it will lead to people 'judging each other' on the basis of how they look Some of these ladies will not now be able to use a female toilet when out with friends...it's utterly degrading

@roseveniceallan I'm not disagreeing. But we are at "multiple fronts" stage here, and I say we go on all fronts.

@GoodyActually Crazy tactics

Disappointed to see normally sensible people suggest ‘third spaces’ as a solution. Why would we spend billions creating mixed sexed spaces that nobody wants and are dangerous for women and children? Men use the men’s, it’s not complicated.

@LevenePaul49134 @akuareindorf @LordWalney @ForWomenScot @zeno001 Gosh! you need to find a competent doctor instead! I'm sorry you - or rather your son - had this happen, it's completely unacceptable. I don't know if you're in the UK or not, but if you are then the advised first stage is to write a letter of complaint to the Practice Manager.

@akuareindorf @LordWalney @ForWomenScot @zeno001 I'm astonished you can't see! A simple conversation! So the same simple conversation as trans women. I was with my adult trans daughter seeing her new doctor and after 10mins she asked how her periods are. Wait until you have someone refusing to accept your 'simple conversation'

Not the side I usually fall on, but am really troubled by implications of this for many trans people who will be at greater risk if they simply switch public bathrooms as currently constituted. I hope there is a way that women’s right to single-sex spaces can be delivered without putting others at greater risk

@roseveniceallan (There are still some in-the-media battles to be won, is I think the point).

@roseveniceallan We're not. We're flying that flag so that they look like the nutters they are when they say "no way".

@LoudBonnet "Opine" is different from "rule" in a legal context?

But Pill LJ, giving the leading judgment, did opine that permanent refusal to let a trans-identifying man use women's facilities might be an act of discrimination against him, even if he had not had surgery.

I'm not going to get deep into the question of whether we should campaign to repeal the GRA, because (as I have remarked before), I am not in charge.

@latsot I was going to say, you and I just swapped weather notes. So that's me off the Christmas card list then, I guess!

Out of interest, is there *anyone* I haven't offended today? Because in fairness I've had a fairly fucking decent run at it. I'd hate anyone to feel missed out. Except for missed-out people. I hate them the most.

Parkrun begun with the best of intentions but it’s become central in the trans women v women’s rights debate. The organisers need to realise what the right answer is sooner rather than later. My @heraldscotland column on the contentious debate heraldscotland.com/sport/26125393…

@latsot Mustn't grumble.

Being British I feel the need to ask someone whether or not it's hot enough for them.