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Absolutely delighted with this.
The judgment puts women's rights back at the heart of the Equality Act
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I was pleased to give evidence in Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife today.
The time will come when women don't have to defend themselves for expecting ordinary privacy and dignity.
#IStandWithSandiePeggie
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This is just so lovely. Sandie Peggie and her legal team being piped into the tribunal this morning by @davidspiersiii and being greeted by a gaggle of women who wouldn't wheest.
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I have received the "remedy" judgement in my case.
@cgdev has been ordered to pay over £100k in compensation for loss of earnings, injury to feelings and aggravated damages for their high-handed conduct.
Thank-you to everyone who supported my case
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A lot of newspapers are showing photos of Dr Upton and Nurse Peggie side by side.
It is worth remembering that Upton is 6ft tall and Peggie is 5 ft 6. This is what that looks like to scale.
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"Transwomen are men" is not only biologically true, and worthy of respect in a democratic society, it is the law.
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"I have no skills to take care of men, even if they have shaved their beards & they come & tell my secretary that they have become women. My gynaecological examination table is not suitable for examining men"
This doctor in France has been suspended. 🤯
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And just like that, it went out of fashion!
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I gave evidence in the Sandie Peggie case because the hospital board & male Dr refused to accept as findings of fact that that men are more likely to commit violent & sexual crimes, that men are more dangerous to women, so women are more heavily impacted by men in their spaces than vice versa.
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"Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women."
Maya Angelou
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She's a jolly good fellow, and so say all of us! 🥂
Very proud of @SexMattersOrg Chair Naomi Cunningham.
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. @jk_rowling has been such a source of strength to me and to so many women standing up for women's rights.
#SexMatters #RespectMySex
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You removed the word woman?
From abortion rights?
From the woman who co-founded ACLU's Women's Rights Project?
Unreal.
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Met @metpoliceuk fails to identify a single burglary suspect in more than 150 neighbourhoods for three years.
But they put resources into bringing me in for a tweet.
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This is Dr Kate Searle's email on the 29th of December 2023 to c. 20 senior doctors.
She said "we all condemn the actions of Sandie".
(my transcription from the redacted bundle which is available to read in Dundee).
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I lost my job for saying that women are female, and men can not become women.
I can attest that losing your job and being unpersonned from the sector you used to work in is not just a feeling
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Biology wins!
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas
#WeKnowWhatAWomanIs #SupremeCourt
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"For too long, I’d watched in silence as girls and women with everything to lose had stood up in the face of a modern-day witch hunt."
@jk_rowling on why she stood up for me and for thousands of women.
#TheWomenWhoWouldntWheesht
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For the avoidance of doubt: India Willoughby is a man.
For reference, this is the individual whose precious feelings are more important than truth, according to some of his fellow men. If you think women calling this person a man is more offensive than him publicly fantasising about kidnapping women, I can't help you.
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NHS Fife accuses Sandie Peggie of "faking menstrual flood" to confront Dr Upton.
The absolute depths this organisation will stoop to.
I'm surprised they didn't ask her to show the "contemporaneous record" of blood on her pants.
How dare they.
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Please do not allow transsexual men to "break new ground" into women's single-sex services, women's sports, data collection, lesbian associations or policies and programmes for women and girls.
Women's lives are not a territory for men unhappy with being men to escape into.
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This, by one of the Darlington nurses is heartbreaking (CW: CSA)
Women should not have to tell these stories to get the basic dignity that is their right under workplace health and safety law.
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Dear Margaret Atwood
I have seen you getting terrible abuse for posting articles that question gender ideology.
Now I see you trying to avoid that abuse by posting a video that attacks JK Rowling and attacks me with false accusations. I am so disappointed that you would do this
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One of the reasons we have women's toilets & changing rooms is for propriety & decency.
Women shouldn't have to explain to male colleagues or strangers (or to judges) why men should not be in the room where women deal with menstruation. It is embarrassing.
menstrual flood. True?
SP No
JR Nearest toilet to where you were working wasn't the F CR
SP Yes
JR Could have gone there
SP No, my underwear and trousers were in the locker room
JR Reads c policies and privacy. Was your menstrual flood a cover
SP no
JR Nothing further.
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Men who won't take "no" for an answer should be nowhere near the spaces provided for women's privacy, safety and dignity.
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The Guardian thinks that women should put up with this
"I was in full makeup and a dress" and I pushed past a "stocky woman" who tried to tell me "NO" to going into a space that was female-only.
No means no mister.
The @guardian is an utter disgrace.
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Men should not be supported to try to simulate breastfeeding.
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Some things are more important than being nice. Telling the truth is one of them.
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15 months after calling me in for questioning about a tweet, and having sat on the CPS decision that there was no crime for 2 months, the Met bothered to call me up at 7pm this evening to tell me, and then put out this press statement. 🙄
#TheProcessIsThePunishment
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Using words like “genocide” -- about fair cycling rules -- is profoundly offensive to the descendants of Jews who died in concentration camps, Tutsis murdered in Rwanda, Muslims in Srebrenica. @polblonde
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Thanks to JK Rowling's brave and unexpected intervention people are talking about my case around the world. I have had so much support &💜. I'll let you know about my next steps & what that is going to take in due course. But in the meantime...there are other women using the law
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If you haven't put in a response to the EHRC consultation today is the day to do it.
Tell them why ch2 needs to be clear of definitions and Ch13 on single sex services (they are not mixed sex 🤦♀️)
5pm deadline
We have submitted our response to the @EHRC consultation on its Code of Practice for service providers.
It closes at 5pm Friday January 3rd
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Men - don't go into women's changing rooms.
Then you won't need a dozen of your mates to shield you from photographers as you walk into court to defend your behaviour.
#IStandWithSandiePeggie
Sandie Peggie and Dr Beth Upton ( hidden by supporters and scarf) arrive at Industrial Tribunal in Dundee this morning. @Alamy_Editorial
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This is the first time the media has used a photo of Rose Henderson, which was also shown to the tribunal.
"RH looked masculine, had facial hair, and there was nothing in RH's appearance to suggest RH was anything other than a man" confirmed the witness Karen Danson.
The trial continues today with lead Darlington nurse, Bethany Hutchison giving evidence.
Please pray for Bethany🙏
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"Deeply irresponsible" says @TheSun
No not the IOC for allowing individuals w XY chromosomes, testes & male levels of T to punch women for sport if their passport says "F"
But JKR for saying such a person is male.
You could not make it up.
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"No TERFs, No Tories"... Nothing to be proud of.
If your staff wear a badge like this at work or you put a sign up, that's unlawful discrimination.
@Hobbycraft apparently bars GC people from its shops. I was in the #Dundee store with my partner today.
Staff member wore a badge reading ‘no terfs no tories’ as part of her uniform.
We confronted the badge.
We got chucked out for doing so.
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Do you ever feel like this new "be kind" intersectional identity-bases feminism isn't all it's cracked up to be, but just another way to put women in their place? 🤨
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Yes! We won. All the important bits. I was discriminated against by @CGDev because of my beliefs.
A potential job offer and visiting fellowship were withdrawn. My biography was taken down from the website when I tried to assert my rights under the Equality Act (victimisation).
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OK. Now i'm crying...
Every woman who’s been harassed, silenced, bullied or lost employment because of her gender critical beliefs is freer and safer today, thanks to the warrior that is @MForstater. 🎉
#SexMatters #IStandWithMaya
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📯🎉 Tribunal awards *exemplary damages* against Social Work England for its harassment of gender critical social worker Rachel Meade.
Is the message getting though yet?
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I stand with Jennifer Melle.
There is overwhelming evidence that gender ideology in public institutions is leading to unlawful discrimination, unsafe practice and undermining of safeguarding.
It is time the government steps up.
BREAKING: 'Christian nurse branded 'risk' to public for calling racist transgender paedophile 'Mr'.
NHS nurse, Jennifer Melle, who is being supported by the Christian Legal Centre, on the front page of the Mail on Sunday.
Put simply, we have never seen a story like this before.
Find out more with further news and content to come.
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Pray for Jennifer, and consider donating here to support her and her legal team.
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So who is "Mr X" the trans identifying man held in high security male prison after multiple convictions for luring boys into sex acts while pretending to be a teenage girl on social media?
🧵(1) BREAKING: CHRISTIAN NURSE TAKES LEGAL ACTION AFTER BEING INVESTIGATED BY NHS FOR CALLING 6FT TRANSGENDER PAEDOPHILE 'Mr'
The convicted paedophile, ‘Mr X’, is in a high security male prison after multiple convictions for luring boys into sex acts while pretending to be a teenage girl on social media.
After refusing to refer to Mr X as a ‘she’ while on duty, Jennifer Melle was racially abused and physically threatened.
Instead of supporting her, however, Epsom and St Helier University Hospital Trust has abandoned Jennifer and treated her like the criminal.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has also said Jennifer is ‘a potential risk’ for not using Mr X’s preferred ‘gender identity.’
The story is the latest in a series of cases where NHS policy supports trans ideology over biological reality. It also follows the publication of the Sullivan report this week which revealed that the police are allowing criminals to ‘self-identify’ their gender on official records.
In this case, policy has led, in the name of inclusivity, to the NHS siding with a paedophile convicted of serious offences, while pretending to be the opposite sex, over members of staff with Christian and gender-critical beliefs.
Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, the case Jennifer has now launched against the Trust on the grounds of harassment, discrimination and human rights’ breaches, is believed to be unprecedented.
In response to her claims, NHS lawyers have said that Christian beliefs Mis holds, that we are born male and female, are ‘not worthy of respect in a democratic society.’
Watch Jennifer discuss what happened and see more on our website:
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Six years ago I got angry and I asked my friend to help me sew a banner.
Today the little charity I co-founded presented arguments at the Supreme Court.
Just start somewhere!
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Isn't it extraordinary that none of @BBCr4today @BBCPM @BBCNewsnight @BBCWomansHour have had @ForWomenScot or, any of the interveners @SexMattersOrg @AllianceLGB @ScotLesbians @project_lesbian on to talk about the Supreme Court judgment?
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I will always be grateful to @jk_rowling for speaking up for me and for so many who don't have a voice.
Her integrity and bravery inspires.
#IStandWithJKRowling
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Oxfam abolishes the word "mother"
Its not inclusive says @oxfamgb
No it's not "inclusive" it describes a specific thing. That's what words are for. 🤦♀️
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BBC upholds complaint against Today's Justin Webb for saying "trans women are male"
This is absolutely nuts.
The very first step in being able to understand this issue is to work out "trans woman" and "trans man" mean.
"trans women" are male
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👀 Stonewall have changed their definition of transphobia.
Here is the old one which said denying or refusing to accept gender identity was "transphobic"
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The womb comes attached to a woman: it is not an interchangeable Lego part, a crop to be harvested, or a vessel sold to the highest bidder for rent or sale.
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Man. A dangerous man.
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Like everyone else who has spoken up and paid a price, I'm wondering what the colleagues who tried to destroy my reputation to protect their own are thinking today. I'm sure no one will ever say "we were wrong" or "I'm sorry" to any of us.
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The idea that no one knows what sex anyone else is unless they inspect their genitals is one of the wildest flat-earth things I have ever heard.
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Transwoman appointed CEO of endometriosis charity @thetimes
This is a tiny charity (c £8k) but CEO will get invited to women's health forums, women's sector meetings etc..
What a great opportunity to role play and bully any women who don't play along!
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Here it is: CGD are not appealing the Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment that gender critical beliefs are worthy of respect in a democratic society.
The judgment stands and is a legal precedent.
Next step: employment tribunal to hear the rest of the case.
I am very happy!
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Any staff or students @ICMPLondon who face discrimination or harassment because of your gender-critical views: this is the exhibit to put on page one of your tribunal bundle
#WorthyofRespect #PageOne
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Five years ago today I lost my job @CGDev
Three years ago we launched @SexMattersOrg
I don't regret anything.
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Exactly this.
You have separate sex facilities in part because women have periods & many women have been the victims of previous sexual assault by men.
You don't have to decide which women deserve privacy, or which men are authentic enough in their performance of femininity.
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It's good you are thinking about your customers and staff. Did you consult your female customers and staff? Did you consider their needs and ask them how they feel about not having female only facilities?
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No. This is not a woman. @dailyecho
Complain to ben.fishwick@dailyecho.co.uk
and then to @IpsoNews
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I'm at Westminster Magistrates Court with @sharrond62 and @roseveniceallan and lots of supporters for @Glinner
#IStandWithGlinner
#DownWithThisSortOfThing
HT @ianjedi24 for the pic.
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#IStandWithRoisinMurphy
What did she say? She said what Dr Hillary Cass has said, what the Tavistock whistleblowers said.
Blocking children from going through puberty is what should be cancelled.
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Single-sex toilets with clear policies to be required in new buildings and refurbishments.
Thank you @KemiBadenoch !
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If you are a public figure thinking of speaking up now: please do it!
Don't think "Andrew Neil has done it so there is no need for me".
And don't feel bad that you didn't speak earlier (well, do, but get over that).
Unwinding this injustice is going to take some effort!
I’m proud to be a TERF and join JK Rowling on the frontline of the gender wars mailplus.co.uk/edition/comme… via @mailplus
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Trans activist pours urine over "herself" outside EHRC office in protest against women's rights
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Edinburgh Rape Crisis must
- pay 70,000
- publicly apologise to Roz Adams
- acknowledge where it went wrong with Adams
-acknowledge she “was motivated by a wish to act in the best interests of service users" and did no bullying or harassment.
- refer survivors to Beira’s Place
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150 police and 6 horses needed to protect a group of women speaking about women's rights, from angry aggressive men. One steward was assaulted.
@hopenothate @lowles_nick are you sure you picked the right side?
#LetWomenSpeak
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She really is bloody marvellous.
J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) set up a legal fighting fund for women protecting their sex-based rights.
The J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund (JKRWF) offers legal funding support to individuals and organisations fighting to retain women’s sex-based rights in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.
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I am an ordinary woman who lost her job and her livelihood because someone shouted "transphobia".
The video that you are spreading accuses me of being "transphobic" based on lies and smears.
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I have seen quite a lot of this question going around.
Its called the "transman gotcha" and it is addressed in the Supreme Court judgment.
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There is a direct link from making words unsayable to enabling unspeakable deeds
@iocmedia say it is "dehumanising" to say that they allowed a male boxer to punch a woman. But its fine for him to hit her.
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Employers that force women to get undressed with men called "she" need to understand that this is discrimination and harassment.
It needs to stop now
#StandUpForSingleSexServices
This sexist policy is harming women up and down the country.
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In a packed room at the House of Lords. It is standing room only to hear from @RichardDawkins and @HJoyceGender taking about what sex is and why sex matters. With Baroness Ann Jenkin & @SexMattersOrg
❤️❤️❤️
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#WomenRise #NoToSelfID
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Berlin, Germany
Brisbane, Australia
Brussels, Belgium
Cardiff, Wales
Dublin, Ireland
Edinburgh, Scotland
London, England
Madrid, Spain
Palma, Mallorca,
Manchester, England
Milan, Italy
Oslo, Norway
Paris, France
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Washington DC, U.S.
Wellington, New Zealand
"When women cannot say "No" to men, we do not have rights."
📺 @HJoyceGender speaking at the Berlin protest against Germany's self-ID law.
#SelfIDHarms #WomenRise
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The blasphemy of "transphobia" means telling the truth that a man in a wig is not a woman.
It is cowardice and misogyny to pretend that you cannot see this.
“Without a shadow of a doubt it is a transphobic comment.”
Bromsgrove’s @TheGreenParty candidate @melissampgp condemns Tory Deputy Chairman @redditchrachel for social media remarks about her transgender identity.
#PoliticsMidlands begins at 10am on BBC1
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If you stand up for freedom of speech you are going to find yourself standing on the side of people you vehemently disagree with on many things. The same if you stand up for safeguarding children. It is uncomfortable. Don't be shamed. Be proud.
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Swansea bound 🏴 with controversial author @HJoyceGender to talk about the controversial thought that men are not women
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Sussex nurse sacked after series of racist incidents.
Jaden Rachel Dios Hole is a trans-identified man who was ward manager of a women's mental health ward @SPFT_NHS
Neither the @brightonargus or @nmcnews tribunal mention this.
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"I was a scary man".
Mate, you are still a scary man.
Stay out of women's spaces.
‘I’d been walking around Soho wearing some 5in red block heels (and I'm already 6ft1). I felt confident, womanly – finally, I felt like me. I noticed a little boy spin around and, frozen in wonder, stare intently.
‘You might just have changed that boy’s life’, a friend said’
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You want to see me cry?
I've just told you I was harassed by men following me down the road shouting abuse at me. You've seen the video of them doing it.
But still it's not men harassing women because the victim didn't look right to you?
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NHS axes Stonewall-backed Rainbow Badge Scheme which told hospitals to stop using 'woman' and 'mother'
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What a terrible statement @TimJBlackman -
You are "disappointed" by the judgment which held up the rights of one of your staff against appalling discrimination and harassment.
Its time to admit that you have a problem.
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Was this role advertised @UNWomenUK ?
What are the criteria by which you judged this to be the best person for the job?
Or did you just want to troll UK women by giving them the message that men always come first.
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Utterly immoral
@CostaCoffee @stonewalluk @oxfamgb @drmartens
cartoons trivializing cutting girls' breasts off
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Things that @KemiBadenoch talked about today in Parliament.
1. The disgraceful way that Rosie Duffield has been treated
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Congratulations to Rachel Meade - Social Worker who has won her discrimination claim against her employer, Westminster City Council and professional regulatory body Social Work England.👏
And to her legal team Naomi Cunningham & @_ShaziaKhan
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"The inescapable conclusion, it seems, is that Ms Wadhwa's insistence on validation as a trans woman trumped all other considerations at her place of work – even giving support to traumatised women"
It is absolutely obscene that any charity, any politician, any government enables a man to treat women like this.
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Not a single member of the fence-sitting, be kind "both sides" crew have had a word to say about this.
These are not counter-protesters to an event or a march.
This is a mob following women walking down the street shouting personal abuse and intimidation at them.
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An @oxfamgb staffer tells her story to @bindelj about how she was subject to a witch hunt after defending JK Rowling
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"I couldn't believe I had to sit in a room & justify why dealing w menstruation is a specific issue that women need privacy & dignity about, & then have to explain the consequences of menopause and the unpredictable nature of perimenopausal symptoms." 😡
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