@salltweets Gender is like belief in a soul. Fine for those with faith. But utterly irrelevant to everyone else and absolutely not the basis on which society or its laws should be organised. I am not gender critical. I am a gender atheist.

@MForstater @SexMattersOrg “… women’s relationship with toilets is shaped by biology in a way that men cannot fully imagine. From puberty to death our lives are governed by our physiology …” @GussieGrips’s report tells it exactly like it is 👏🙏 #SingleSexSpaces #EqualityAct #WomensRights

6/6 .... what it is - barbaric - and refusing to accept it as a defence or excuse for barbarism and running scared of its sensitivities. Enough! Our children - all of them - deserve so much better.

5/6 - that worrying about being called racist simply should not be a consideration when a child's safety is at stake; - that if abusing a child is part of a "culture" (and not a pathetic excuse for violence and cruelty) then we should be calling out that culture for ....

4/6 Yet here we are - despite all that - reading the same horrific story and wondering when in God's name those charged with caring for our children realise that: - putting children with men who are known to be violent is an absolutely stupid idea; ....

3/6 .... especially those whose job it was to protect her - taking action to prevent the abuse and murder of a young girl of a similar age - Victoria Climbie. Her murder led to a public inquiry and lots of new legislation & doubtless lots of training.

2/6 96 separate injuries on her body. Her back had been broken 10 times. Unimaginable suffering in a short life. 25 years ago - 25 YEARS - similar reasons ("cultural reasons" they were called - the murderers then were black Africans not people from Pakistan) led to no-one.....

#SaraSharif #VictoriaClimbie #Safeguardingourchildren A 🧵 1/6 https://t.co/TKOF9Bp7hD An appalling case. No-one did what they ought because they feared causing offence or being branded as racist. And so a young girl - Sara Sharif - was brutally abused and killed.

My letter in today's Camden New Journal. I have always supported the sex-based rights of women and LGB people as well as the right of trans people to live their best lives.

Fantastic letter.

There is so much good, detailed Equality law in this response piece on single sex services by @peter_daly . A must read

And now even stronger and a double one.

Rainbow. Still raining. Le diable bat sa femme et marie sa fille.

So it is fine for influential people to privately advocate for a change in the law under which vulnerable people will foreseeably come to harm, and their only regret is that their thoughts are made public?

Heartbreaking story on cuts to hospices on @BBCNewsnight tonight. Imagine choosing a state-funded assisted suicide system over properly funded palliative care. The House of Lords have a choice here. They should vote down the wicked assisted suicide bill.

Here’s what real “dignity in dying” looks like:

Congratulations to Charlotte Elves for her major (and pro bono) part in checking this shocking abuse of police power against a young woman they doubtless read as defenceless. https://t.co/LHLscc1btw

A long but worthwhile read.

@Scott_Sarah_ Dignified? Dressing up as suffragettes but enjoying £225 a head dinner at a hotel in Park Lane with their PR consultants. Advising women to maximise their financial claims to the PHS Ombudsman so as to seek full restitution in all but name. Not dignified or anywhere near it

@ripx4nutmeg @ThoughtfulTs When asked to go on Jeremy vines talk show bbb radio- I suggested I should go on after the mermaids representative as they were in the habit of saying things that were clinically inaccurate about puberty blockers and suicide risk etc. misleading children and parents. After

This is against BBC Editorial Guidelines. Refusal to take part - ‘no debate’ - should not be allowed to veto an item. They should be empty chaired instead. Whole thread is excellent