Louise Bramald

First tweet...my gorgeous girls Darby #MissDanceofGBfinalist Lexie #YorkshireBalletScholar & husband Matt Bramald.

@Helenas_world @DarlingtonUnion @jamesmurray_ldn Oh you are are lovely adult person aren't you. Very sweet and kind 😇

@LouBramald @DarlingtonUnion @jamesmurray_ldn No, I mean bigoted cunts like you!

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@Helenas_world @DarlingtonUnion @jamesmurray_ldn You mean a bunch of women who said no!

@LouBramald @DarlingtonUnion @jamesmurray_ldn But he's not having to consider normal women, he's having to deal with a bunch of unhinged raving terfs, that don't shut the fuck up with their bullshit! Everyone's sick of your crap now!

@sharrond62 She was the first minister for Scotland and she didn't know anything? It makes you wonder how she dealt with her government when she couldn't even see what her husband was doing.

Anyone live with a partner than comes in to nearly half a million quid & not notice? No me neither..

@Hellar_eal253 @glosswitch Yes, i did biology!

@LouBramald @glosswitch what drivel is this? Did you get through school?

Just amazing that the conclusion Owen draws from this is "women shouldn't have their own spaces" rather than "men should do something about their own behaviour"

@jk_rowling And not one of these people have actually stood up and said sorry for breaking the law.

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.

@Hellar_eal253 @glosswitch So women have to ignore human nature and ignore the fact that they are special men. Yep, women moved beyond being female decades ago and men progressed to being nice!

@LouBramald @glosswitch ...it's precisely why forcing them into male spaces creates risk.Also, feminism moved beyond biological essentialism decades ago, you idiot. ‘Women must ignore that they are men’ isn’t an argument, it's just Facebook pop psy for dullards.

@Hellar_eal253 @glosswitch So men who self ID as women are some kind of a different man and women should accept that they are not men. Women have to ignore that they are men and are special and different to the sex they were born!

@glosswitch If by men you mean trans women using toilets, in your woefully thick as shit regressive self claim to feminist ideology, then you really do sound like quite the deranged bigot.

@jk_rowling He actually believes that men who self ID as women are some kind of different kind of men & women should completely ignored that they are men & are different to any other man & be ok with it. Women should bow down to this logic & accept any man who says they are a woman!

Follow the logic. Women are deluded and naive for thinking predatory and violent men can be kept out of women-only spaces. ‘They can rape you anywhere.’ However, trans-identified men can only be safe in women-only spaces, because no abuser would ever follow them in there.

@PompeySteph @akuareindorf @stellacreasy I haven't seen you defend women from self ID knowing it wasn't legal and not the law. Where were you defending single sex spaces when women were being sacked and attacked for speaking out, knowing they were only saying what the law was legally meant to protect!

@akuareindorf @stellacreasy Never, ever seen you stand up for trans people. You are gender critical, and gender critical ideology ensures that not only does it make transition as difficult as possible, but it also ensures it makes trans lives as difficult as possible once transition takes place.

The new EHRC guidance on how to ensure equal rights of all to access basic services falls short of being inclusive or workable in the real world - I will continue to work with other MPs who recognise this to navigate how we change that. Given how toxic discussion of trans rights has become am not going to respond to comments here because doubt will help anyone. Posting this video so residents in Walthamstow know of my concerns and actions. Also want to flag to any Walthamstow resident who wants to talk my next open public forum for political debate is on Thursday 28th May at 7pm and all welcome - email my office to rsvp for venue details.

@BriannaWu @soniasodha @LordWalney @DAaronovitch We see what you are and exactly why women need safe spaces!

@soniasodha @LordWalney @DAaronovitch Your bigotry is ugly.

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

@MissWendyWood @Hellar_eal253 @suladoyle But nobody removed mens either, so why is the a cost to this?

@Hellar_eal253 @suladoyle They did, you cretin.

So if it will cost millions of pounds to restore women’s spaces, didn’t it cost millions of pounds to remove them? I don’t remember anyone mentioning it if so.

@TrevorPTweets @EHRC This is perfectly put.

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.

@ucu Shame on you!

Equality is not conditional. Dignity at work is not negotiable. The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. UCU is examining it urgently. This is a significant and unsettling moment and we will not leave branches to navigate it alone. Employers' duties under equality and employment law remain in force; this does not change that. We've written to @UniversitiesUK: universities and colleges are responsible for protecting staff and students, not putting them at risk through rushed or inconsistent decisions. UCU will organise, defend, and fight for the rights of trans and non-binary people.

@The_TUC Absolutely your union doesn't want to protect women's rights! Shame on you.

We must build a world in which trans lives are not only legally recognised, but fully liveable in practice. tuc.org.uk/news/lese/tuc-…

@sharrond62 Sex should always be recorded especially for crime data.

This was important in yesterday’s guidance. Gathering clear sex based data is absolutely vital.

@emily4MK Thoughts and law are different! The law has been broken by people like you with thoughts and not facts! A favourite response....Educate yourself!

My thoughts on the EHRC Code of Practice

@EHRC It hasn't changed it has been broken!

Our draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations was laid in Parliament by the Minister for Women and Equalities today: ow.ly/amQF50Z2N4Z You can read the draft Code of Practice in full at: ow.ly/v6qG50Z2N4Y

@SkyNews @FayeBrownSky Selfish, arrogant, people!

The largest union representing civil servants has voted to double its financial reserves to fund industrial action in the event of a Reform UK government Political reporter @fayebrownSky has the story trib.al/ewmF8yO

@BBCWorld Absolutely tone deaf and disgraceful!

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