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Business and sustainable development. Accountability. Tax. Feminist test case. Media: Tom Gardner at Slater & Gordon 0207 657 1690 press@slatergordon.co.uk

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    1. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater 25 Sep 2018
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      I've got a Q for my male twitter friends who have pledged not to appear on all male panels - if u were invited on a panel w Pip Bunce - one of FT's top 100 female champions of women in biz & another guy would u say yes or call the organisers & say sorry i don't do #manels?pic.twitter.com/MUVq0lZ7Ov

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    2. Matt Collin‏ @aidthoughts 25 Sep 2018
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      If Bunce feels in whole or in part a woman, then he would count as one. But I feel like one could make reasoned arguments either way, and that's ok. Seems to me the point of the pledge is to be effective in the 99% of cases where there is not room for reasoned argument.

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    3. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater 25 Sep 2018
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      Thanks for being brave and taking the plunge with an answer Matt! As you know I disagree!

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    4. Alice Evans‏ @_alice_evans 25 Sep 2018
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      I'm sympathetic to concerns about safety in prisons, less so about panels. Trans people are such a tiny minority (c.0.5% of US pop.), I struggle to see how they might usurp women's voices/ participation in business/ society.

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    5. Alice Evans‏ @_alice_evans 25 Sep 2018
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      I certainly would not twitter-shame a panel if it included four men and a trans-woman. That would seem nasty, punitive, and hurtful to her identity (and other trans people). Without much gain. I would of course prefer it if every panel had more than one woman.

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    6. Sarah Orton-Vipond‏ @SarahEOV 25 Sep 2018
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      Replying to @_alice_evans @MForstater @aidthoughts

      Maya, are you saying that trans women are not women? I’m a bit confused...

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    7. Alice Evans‏ @_alice_evans 25 Sep 2018
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      I wouldn't want to speak for Maya, but I sense her concern is that if trans-women can self-identify as women they may take opportunities reserved for biological women (eg. political reservations, panel spots).

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    8. Alice Evans‏ @_alice_evans 25 Sep 2018
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      Personally, I doubt a man would do this deceitfully, in order to gain access to such opportunities. I also doubt trans woman taking such opportunities is a threat to women's voice/ access (because trans people are a tiny tiny minority).

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      Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater 25 Sep 2018
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      Replying to @_alice_evans @SarahEOV @aidthoughts

      I don't think there is any way to tell if someone's feelings of being a woman are 'deceitful' or not. I don't know what it 'feels like to be a woman' - are my feeling womanly enough? Who is to know? I think it is regressive to define womanhood by dress code, behaviour or feelings

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        2. Alice Evans‏ @_alice_evans 25 Sep 2018
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          Replying to @MForstater @SarahEOV @aidthoughts

          I meant deceitful as in masquerading as female primarily in order to access spaces reserved for women (such as a male rapist identifying as female, to access a female prison and cause harm).

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        3. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater 25 Sep 2018
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          Bunce does not 'masquerade as female' he is a man who likes to express himself part of the week by wearing a dress. I have no problem with men wearing dresses, but we don't need to confuse acting in a stereotypically feminine manner with being a woman! https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/mistranslated-i-split-my-time-as-pippa-and-philip-20171002 …pic.twitter.com/TMy8SMshct

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