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May 25
Today I resigned from @AmnestyUK after 40years.
As a women's rights specialist I could no longer condone their failure to balance women's rights with trans rights
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DeboraSinger retweeted
Why don't more women in a huge organisation like the NHS complain about policies allowing men to be in their private changing areas?
Here's Lisa from @DarlingtonUnion explaining why in a WRN interview. In her own words:
āFear
āIntimidation
āA threatening thing
āWorried about their jobs
Hear more from Lisa and Bethany here: womensrightsnetwork.substackā¦
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Jun 10
As a disabled woman who needs catheter care in her own home, I have to screen the community nurses using a door cam.
I should be able to expect same sex care when requested.
Disability Rights UK opposes the law of the land, specifically the Equality Act 2010.
It also opposes the disabled people it purports to represent.
It places a far, far greater priority on the wishes and feelings of men who say they are women than on the needs of disabled people.
In all its talk of healthcare and the lamenting of gender-addled people being placed on wards relating to their sex, it does not *once* mention the necessity of single-sex intimate care for disabled women.
It does not say that disabled women should be allowed to choose the sex of the person carrying out their intimate care, which most often takes place in the woman's own home, far from supervision.
It sees this as a far lesser priority than men being allowed to invade female wards, where they are known to be a danger.
Could there possibly be more of an indication that Disability Rights UK has *entirely* lost its way and is no longer a disability rights charity at all?
The charity's statement does say one thing that initially seems to support disabled people:
"We are appalled atĀ implications from the CodeĀ thatĀ an adequate workaround isĀ trans people using Disabled toilets instead."
I fully agree. However, it goes on to explain that its concern is not about disabled people who will lose our accessible facilities altogether if anyone and everyone is permitted to use them, but for the men who will be sad if they can't invade women's spaces.
Not "accessible spaces are under threat of colonisation by the able-bodied", but "we will not be used as a āloopholeā in the wider erosion of trans rights."
That is exactly the wrong way around.
Disabled people have known for a decade that the major disability charities are hopelessly captured. They're pulling a Stonewall by going after easy money and cheap non-solutions to the problems disabled people face every day. They're throwing us under the same bus Stonewall threw same-sex attracted people under.
We've known this and we've tried to fight it but we haven't been heard.
The gender war against disabled people is about to intensify and we don't have many allies.
Can I ask you to share this, to demand answers from the major disability charities if you can and to remember that gender ideology is not just a war on women, children and same-sex attracted people, it's a war on disabled people too.
And we often feel as though we're fighting it on our own.
@hen10freeman @PankhurstEM @ThePosieParker @LWSNorthEast @JapanesePolar
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DeboraSinger retweeted
.@MayorofLondon have you visited @novaexhibition yet? It's only in London for three more weeks. Surely you will go and see it
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DeboraSinger retweeted
Yet you think itās kind to allow men into womenās changing rooms. Why have two thirds of your MPs opposed the EHRCās guidance on single sex spaces? Why wonāt you stand up for women and girls for a change?
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DeboraSinger retweeted
The Liberal Democrats are letting women down by not supporting single sex spaces. Shamefully, two thirds of Lib Dem MPs have signed EDM 240 opposing the EHRCās new guidance on single sex spaces.
edm.parliament.uk/early-day-ā¦
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DeboraSinger retweeted
Jun 13
"Politicians, unions and others currently outraged by the corrected EHRC Code of Practice donāt realise what they are asking for (or do they?) when they insist the law must be changed. They are actually asking for a repeal of parts of the Equality Act ā the parts which protect women and gay people ā because these cannot co-exist with a law which mandates self-choice of sex. The people with their āTrans Rightsā placards are demanding that legislation which protects women is rolled back to pre-1975."
Jun 8
I wrote about the strange claims from some people about women's rights and 'trans rights' and how the Supreme Court judgement and the new EHRC Code of Practice has resolved all the arguments!
Link in next post š
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DeboraSinger retweeted
Jun 11
"When something of that scale occurs and it is occurring in real time... it is important to be present and to investigate"
After October 7th, Dr. Alice Jill Edwards, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, funded her own trip to Israel to witness and document the horrors of Hamas's massacre.
For some reason, her instincts weren't shared by other UN officials.
"I understand Iām the only Special Rapporteur who has ever requested to go to the Israeli mission to see the video and the documented evidence," she said at a recent event.
From what she witnessed, she crafted a letter about Hamas's crimes on October 7th. But: "There was a campaign to prevent that letter from going out. There were weeks of being bullied and deterred from writing it and telling me that everything in it was false."
Edwards was forced to edit the letter, even though it was based on her own research. "The letter shrank considerably."
In the end, she said, "it was only signed by the Special Rapporteur on summary extrajudicial killings and me," she said.
She said the "Rapporteur" position at the UN is being abused: "In the past we were this agile group forty years ago or thirty years ago of people that were supposed to be able to react actively and quickly to various issues that are going on in the world. Now we are being pushed to coordinate amongst one another."
"Authoritarian and totalitarian governments donāt like the special rapporteurs, so they have created their own special rapporteurs and they fund them," she said.
"We all want the UN to be a robust but also honest and objective body and if it canāt do the job, then maybe we do need to start thinking about what replaces it. That is a very worrying scenario."
Reporting Credit: @JewishChron
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DeboraSinger retweeted
Jun 10
Only someone utterly detached from reality would fail to notice that those hounded for defending their rights against the onslaught of gender ideology are disproportionately lesbians and bisexual women, and gay men. What threats exist against the LGB from the right have been created by a movement that insists on reality-denial and has pissed off so many people it has upended entire sectors, and fuelled a hard right backlash. Which feminist women predicted would happen over a decade ago. You were all too busy getting us fired and hounding us into penury to notice that, though.
The biggest threat to LGB - and women's - rights has, for the last decade, come from the 'LGBTQ ' movement, who insist biological sex is an utter irrelevance, and that people who insist it is are heinous bigots. It is beyond time that movement owns the catastrophe they have unleashed, and mealy-mouthed nonsense like this stops.
You cannot do something as utterly stupid, foolish, and bloody dangerous as deny women are adult human females and men are adult human males without things going desperately wrong, across the board.
Jun 10
'As the years rolled on, I watched LGBT pals smile wider as society advanced and bigotries fell away.
'Today, I see smiles vanish from the faces of trans people, in particular, as theyāre hounded from pillar to post.' š
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Disability Rights UK opposes the law of the land, specifically the Equality Act 2010.
It also opposes the disabled people it purports to represent.
It places a far, far greater priority on the wishes and feelings of men who say they are women than on the needs of disabled people.
In all its talk of healthcare and the lamenting of gender-addled people being placed on wards relating to their sex, it does not *once* mention the necessity of single-sex intimate care for disabled women.
It does not say that disabled women should be allowed to choose the sex of the person carrying out their intimate care, which most often takes place in the woman's own home, far from supervision.
It sees this as a far lesser priority than men being allowed to invade female wards, where they are known to be a danger.
Could there possibly be more of an indication that Disability Rights UK has *entirely* lost its way and is no longer a disability rights charity at all?
The charity's statement does say one thing that initially seems to support disabled people:
"We are appalled atĀ implications from the CodeĀ thatĀ an adequate workaround isĀ trans people using Disabled toilets instead."
I fully agree. However, it goes on to explain that its concern is not about disabled people who will lose our accessible facilities altogether if anyone and everyone is permitted to use them, but for the men who will be sad if they can't invade women's spaces.
Not "accessible spaces are under threat of colonisation by the able-bodied", but "we will not be used as a āloopholeā in the wider erosion of trans rights."
That is exactly the wrong way around.
Disabled people have known for a decade that the major disability charities are hopelessly captured. They're pulling a Stonewall by going after easy money and cheap non-solutions to the problems disabled people face every day. They're throwing us under the same bus Stonewall threw same-sex attracted people under.
We've known this and we've tried to fight it but we haven't been heard.
The gender war against disabled people is about to intensify and we don't have many allies.
Can I ask you to share this, to demand answers from the major disability charities if you can and to remember that gender ideology is not just a war on women, children and same-sex attracted people, it's a war on disabled people too.
And we often feel as though we're fighting it on our own.
@hen10freeman @PankhurstEM @ThePosieParker @LWSNorthEast @JapanesePolar
disabilityrightsuk.org/news/ā¦
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DeboraSinger retweeted
Jun 11
It is crystal clear:
Every MP who has signed the foolish EDM calling on the government to disapprove the Code of Practice is pledging allegiance to the principle of self-ID.
Even though that ship sailed several years ago, they want another run at it. Against the wishes of the UK electorate.
All this fuss about the CoP is just a clumsy smokescreen.
The signatories know it, and so does everyone else.
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DeboraSinger retweeted
Jun 11
Feminists deal with men's violence against women all the time, as you must know. We cannot keep women safe, or ensure dignity and privacy, if some men can violate women's boundaries.
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Jun 10
Female police officers should never be expected to search men who say they are women.
Weāre in court on 16th June, standing up for officers whose forces think unlawful searches can be allowed āby consentā.
Will you support our legal challenge?
sex-matters.org/take-action/ā¦
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DeboraSinger retweeted
Put a wing on a menās prison for non conforming or vulnerable male prisoners. They are not females, they do not belong in the female estate.
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DeboraSinger retweeted
Jun 10
Very disappointed to see @libdemdaisy has signed the EDM against the Equality Act code of practice.
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Jun 9
"We could've been in a better place now if we had been able to have that dialogue 10 years ago."
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, @EHRC Chair, responds to @RosieDuffield1's Question - "What should service providers being doing to support women better?"
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DeboraSinger retweeted
Housing male prisoners in womenās prisons is a clear breach of the Equality Act 2010.
Yesterday I asked the EHRC what they are going to do about it given they have responsibility for enforcing the Equality Act.
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DeboraSinger retweeted
For anyone who enjoyed the first lecture that we shared yesterday, here's a link to the second lecture in the series from @michaelpforan on Sex, Gender Identity and the Law.
knowingius.org/p/lecture-2-sā¦
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DeboraSinger retweeted
Confirmed: male criminals who say they are trans are still held in womenās prisons.
And why is a minister using language like āassigned male at birthā?
Trans ideology still rules in the Ministry of Justice. š§µ
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DeboraSinger retweeted
I'm so sorry those students missed hearing you speak as we got to in Parliament last week Michael. Your expertise on law relating to sex/gender issues is extremely important in the current climate - especially with so many politicians demonstrating their total lack of knowledge.
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DeboraSinger retweeted
Iāve posted this a few times, but itās really relevant here. This is a list of some of the discrimination that women have suffered and overcome since 1960. Quite a lot of military things here. Please repost if you like it.
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