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Wanting elderly and disabled women to be guaranteed same-sex intimate care is #NotACultureWar

@RooneyRachel @blablafishcakes I've already started. This is my new profile banner :-) Thanks Jolyon!

@blablafishcakes We should have a 'Of course I support Child Safeguarding/ Women's rights/ Gay rights I'm not a monster' series.

Let's face it, it was a terrible campaign. Ambiguous messaging. Who exactly is the monster? I do love the way he tries to blame it on some anonymous "cis people", even though he must have approved it himself. 😂 Nothing like passing the buck, Jolyon, eh?

@spam_is_not_ham @RosieDuffield1 @lnmackenzie1 Yes. Imagine each bit after a semi-colon as a separate bullet point. edm.parliament.uk

@RosieDuffield1 @lnmackenzie1 I know I'm focusing on the wrong thing, but are EDMs always written as one single, extremely long sentence?

Early Day Motion on the Amnesty report, tabled by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti…

@roseveniceallan @andyburnham @hackneygreens "unfeasible asks": Men use the Gents, Women use the Ladies. Alternatively, use unisex or accessible facilities.

In response to an effigy of @andyburnham being stabbed at a trans protest, @hackneygreens refused to condemn it: “A number of Green councillors attended the event in order to reiterate their solidarity with the trans community, including holding a minute silence for transgender people who have lost their lives due to societal prejudice and violence. This event was held in the context of the revised EHRC guidance, which works to segregate trans people from public life, exposes them to risk and makes unfeasible asks of businesses, services, and public bodies. Any protest involves various organisations and individuals. There is no collective responsibility for each attendee to account for the actions of other attendees.”

What were they even thinking?

@HespeChris34466 Oh Christina! Hope it all goes well for you. Sending best wishes your way 🙏❤️

@GrumpyOW I’m waiting for heart surgery at an NHS hospital. I asked about their policy on single sex accommodation, and of course, they say it’s single sex but they allow men who say they’re women onto the women’s wards. They say they’re waiting for the EHRC guidance. If Phillipson (cntd)

Phillipson has till Friday to issue the statutory instrument before summer recess. She's going to delay it, isn't she? thenational.scot/news/26276248.…

@betsvigi9 LOL - I used exactly that phrase in a Whatsapp earlier!

@GrumpyOW I wouldn’t be remotely surprised if. I wouldn’t trust her as far as I could throw her.

Shout out to all trans activists sharing the blacklist of women's and gay rights organisations published by @AmnestyUK! You're demonstrating very effectively that in spite of their hasty backtrack it can be easily accessed forevermore, increasing legal liability. Thank you!❤️

@MForstater 'AIUK has a diverse base of staff, lead activists and governance members (representation across the protected characteristics that we consider relevant - which does not include protected beliefs we don't agree with; we're not *that* diverse and inclusive!)'

Amnesty international have an 8 page DEI plan which does not mention the words religion, belief or sex... media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/IDEA…

APPG for Christians Conservative Christian Fellowship Anglican Mainstream Christian Medical Fellowship Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales And on and on.... Amnesty International should change its strapline to "Defending Human Rights for Some"

@GrumpyOW Great work 👏🏼

Hey, @moleatthedoor 👋 I'm sure you could come up with some suitable "Of course I support women's rights/single-sex spaces..." type posters that we could flood social media with? 🙏 monster.goodlawproject.org

@GrumpyOW Quick question: what’s a ‘trans space?’

Well, that was a waste of money, wasn't it?

@TheAkoFiles I never did get an answer to my question from Owen.. x.com/GrumpyOW/statu…

Why is a problem caused by violent men expected to be solved by women? If men are attacking other men, deal with the men attacking other men. Why is the answer that women must surrender their own spaces instead of men tackling male violence?

Meet David Warren Hooker, now known as Ava Fey. He is currently housed in a California women’s prison. Hooker was adopted as a young child. According to family members, he was a troubled kid who was in and out of juvenile detention throughout his youth. One relative said he once held a knife to a cousin’s throat At age 20, he robbed a bank. While serving his sentence, David threatened the President of the United States, extending his time in prison. His adoptive father, retired LAPD Sgt. Thomas Hooker, never gave up on him, calling him every week while he was in federal prison & housing him when he was paroled. But within six months of his release, he began a sexual relationship with his stepmother and the two conspired to kill his father for insurance money. They gave Thomas extra sleeping pills, removed the smoke detector, set the house on fire, and waited 45 minutes before calling 911. Thomas died of smoke inhalation. David was convicted of first-degree murder and arson in 1995 and sentenced to 25 years to life. David was one of the early inmates transferred to a California women’s prison under SB 132, the law authored by Senator Scott Wiener allowing male inmates who identify as women to request transfer to women’s prisons. Women incarcerated there have described David as hypersexual, highly intelligent, and dangerous. In the years leading up to the passage of SB 132, KQED ran a series of puff pieces on incarcerated men who identified as women. They allowed David Hooker to tell his own story with little fact checking. He claimed to have been a homeless, sex-trafficked youth that lived as a woman after his release from federal prison and before he killed his father. KQED did not mention that he was only free for 6 months and during that time was having an affair with his stepmother. (Somehow I highly doubt he declared himself a woman in 1993 while banging his stepmom and conspiring to kill his dad. There was no mention of any trans identity at the trial by either side.) KQED also let David claim he never intended to kill his father, with no discussion of the evidence presented at trial supporting the fact that this was a deliberate murder. Even with KQED trying their best to portray David as sympathetic and nonthreatening, every quote of David’s is creepy. Here he is advocating for the state of California to pay for hair removal: “It is more than hormones and getting a vagina. If you do just a part, what are you going to do, create a bearded lady? … That’s a circus freak show.” Anyway, the state of California considers David Hooker legally female and incarcerated women have no power to say no. It is a nightmare beyond words to not only be housed with a man, but to be told by those in power you can’t even call him a man. Links to my sources ⬇️

@_Leyanelle_ @michaelpforan 🤞

@GrumpyOW @michaelpforan I totally understand your scepticism & take your point re Burnham, but it’d be so blatant & shitty when it just has to be signed off I’m hoping it is more a case of signing off just before the recess in an effort to avoid opportunity for blowback/further commentary in parliament.

The EHRC Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations has now been issued, and enactment will shortly follow from the Secretary of State: equalityhumanrights.com/code-practice-…

@GrumpyOW @moleatthedoor

@frankinsensible @moleatthedoor Ha! Thank you 🙏👋 The perfect companion to mine 🤣

goodflanproject.org 🥧😬🫠

@moleatthedoor 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think the GLP is now trying to cover its tracks... 🚂🤷‍♀️😬

@moleatthedoor 😊

@GrumpyOW I didn't answer your point properly, I am sorry. I got carried away with all the daft stuff! Blame GLP! I shall try and think of something appropriate soon.

@RachelWilde13 x.com/GrumpyOW/statu…

@GrumpyOW But why would she? There’s no value in blocking any more and if she approves it now the nutty brigade will have to wait, and hopefully get used to it, over the summer

I very much hope you are right. I remain sceptical. Given that she only has two days to do it before summer recess, if the Government intended a high-profile pre-recess commencement, I would have expected either a ministerial indication, an official update, or informed reporting by now. As for "no reason to delay", I can think of a few reasons. It is not certain that she will keep her job under Burnham. Maybe she wants her successor to have to deal with this... 🤷‍♀️ I do hope I am wrong!

@GrumpyOW @michaelpforan I understand that, but there is no reason to delay is my point, so it should be soon. I think it is expected this week.