Thread by @MForstater, The law protects everyone's human rights. It does not compel people to [...]

The law protects everyone's human rights.

It does not compel people to pretend that they see a woman if they see a man.

But at every stage the law is being twisted and misrepresented, and barriers put up to those trying to use it to seek fairness and justice for women.

EHRC and GEO publish inaccurate guidance - conflating sex and gender, and telling people that males have the right to share "female only" services.

https://uncommongroundmedia.com/the-2010-equality-act-is-being-undermined-by-official-guidance/ https://a-question-of-consent.net/2020/05/25/the-incoherence-of-government-guidance/

The incoherence of government guidance

The core question that this website is concerned with is whether, and on what basis, male adults have the right to use “female-only” single sex services, include those services provided…

https://uncommongroundmedia.com/the-2010-equality-act-is-being-undermined-by-official-guidance/

Legal textbooks and databases reference cases from lower courts which are not binding to suggest that women do not have the right to object to undressing with or being being cared for by male individuals.

https://a-question-of-consent.net/2020/05/29/the-case-of-sb/

https://legalfeminist.org.uk/2020/07/25/my-body-my-choice-privacy-and-consent-in-personal-care/

Revisiting the Brook case

There is very little case law about single and separate sex services and gender identity. Only one case has been litigated since the Equality Act 2010 was enacted. In 2014 Halifax County Court awar…

https://a-question-of-consent.net/2020/05/29/the-case-of-sb/

The police will record "non crime crimes" against your name and come round to your employer to "check your thinking"

https://twitter.com/SVPhillimore/status/1291085278384455684

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/24/man-investigated-police-retweeting-transgender-limerick/

https://twitter.com/SVPhillimore/status/1291085278384455684

If you want to go court to protect your rights you probably want a lawyer. Most of the big law firms are enrolled in the Stonewall Equality Index.

So is the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Victim Support. https://twitter.com/sarahstuartxx/status/1231176837428137985

https://twitter.com/sarahstuartxx/status/1231176837428137985

The first solicitors firm I had dropped me as a client two days before my crowd funding campaign was due to launch.

They boasted at a meeting to promote the Stonewall Index that they vet clients for transphobia.

https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/exclusive-leigh-day-solicitor-claims-firm-vets-clients-transphobia

You might look to human rights organisations to champion your rights to freedom of speech and belief.

Think again. They don't think your rights matter.

https://hiyamaya.net/2020/05/17/three-human-rights-organisations-bravely-capitulate/

You might look to your union to help.

Good luck with that.

Unison publishes misleading "fact sheets" on gender recognition
https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1276450841877270528

GMB backs down when bullies tell them Mumsnet is forbidden https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1265201870437519360

UCU? Yeah right. https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/the-gender-wars-academic-freedom-and-education

https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1276450841877270528

You can crowdfund, and it turns out that lots and lots of people will support you, because they see the injustice.

Crowdjustice signed off on Allison Bailey's crowdfund page but then when people complained they stopped donations and removed her text

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/censored-or-offensive-crowdjustice-trans-row-rumbles-on

When you get to court the judge will be using the "Equal Treatment Bench Book" for guidance.

It conflates sex and gender, tells the judge to call you "cis" and fails to highlight conflicts between transgender and women’s rights. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/warning-over-transgender-guidance-to-judges/5103196.article

Warning over transgender guidance to judges

Lawyers say guidance in Equal Treatment Bench Book fails to highlight conflicts between transgender and women's rights.

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/warning-over-transgender-guidance-to-judges/5103196.article

The judge you see may well have been trained by Gendered Intelligence

The Judicial College have so far refused to release any information about the content of this training through FOI

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/davies-2018-trans-awareness.pdf

As a result of the ETBB and the training the judge may compel you to say things you do not believe.

Maria Maclachlan was forced to describe her assailant as female even though her experience was of being assaulted by a man. https://www.peaktrans.org/district-judge-kenneth-grant/

A year ago I was instructed by District Judge Kenneth Grant to pretend

It's been a year since I stood trial for the grievous offence of getting my face in the way of the fist of a nasty, violent thug called Tara Wolf. This blog is about what happened afterwards. The

https://www.peaktrans.org/district-judge-kenneth-grant/

Or, as in the case of my judgement suggest that you talk about yourself as someone "assigned female at birth" rather being able to be clear that women are female, and men are not.

If you win, educational journals like @HodderSchools may ask Mermaids to edit the coverage of the judgment if they find it offensive rather than publish a clear summary of what the judge said. https://twitter.com/NicholasHellen/status/1292238159435235330

https://twitter.com/NicholasHellen/status/1292238159435235330

It is hard to anything written in serious legal journals on the conflict between women's rights and gender self ID.

This by @AlessandraAster and @RebeccaMKBull is excellent.

Few academic colleagues or legal commentators would retweet it https://twitter.com/ModernLRev/status/1285806406923214849