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Fawcett and Felicia 's tweets get so little engagement from ordinary women outside of the Westminster-voluntary sector backslapping bubble that experiences women asking why Fawcett will not lift a finger

I unintentionally misgendered this person on Twitter in June 19They complained to Scouts who undertook an investigation of me leading to a process still ongoingI submitted evidence which was not

The @Commonswomequ today announced a call for evidence on reform of the Gender Recognition Acthttps://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/291/reform-of-the-gender-recognition-act?fbclid=IwAR2OBw5dDqd0oWBzQrZOjcxb7N0S34f_rEWw7QVnOuzeQ

Whats happening? (as twitter asks...) Sex..... "Gender"..... the way society treats people because of their sex. Feminist political organising, combined with (and enabled by) material progress - electricity, washing machines,

When your allies turn out to be bullies: how @fawcettsociety got lost Back in 2017 when many of us hadn't got our heads round the issue Fawcett put out its

The state of transgender law training in practiceThis article by @legalfeminist is shocking https://legalfeminist.org.uk/2020/10/16/transgender-law-in-practice/It looks at training at @TheInnerTemple by @JuliaArmfield, @AllanBriddock, @Alex

What do the pretty pale green ticks mean in the recent YouGov survey?"Plurality" = less than 50% agree (For every Q between 21% & 30% of people answered “don’t know”)Given

The principle of anti discrimination laws is that ppl shld not be treated differently because of a protected characteristicExceptions are put into the law in recognition that sometimes fair treatment

Women's prize .... mangling the definition of woman. Let's break down this word saladhttps://twitter.com/WomensPrize/status/1313059947626848256 Firstly, when they say "in our terms and conditions" the word woman equates to

A bit more on the pickle that the women's prize has got itself into. The Women's prize is a charity whose object is restricted to promoting literature written by women.

Dispatches from the witch trials: The first time I met Kate Scottow was outside the Linda Bellos/ Venice Allen trialLinda & Venice walked out free women with their names cleared

Lets talk about single sex services As @trussliz said today the Equality Act permits the provision of services to one sex or the other This is allowed by "exceptions" in