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Honesty & integrity have a cost. Lib Dem Home Affairs lead in House of Lords. Ran for Mayor of London 2008 & 2012. Met Police 1976 - 2007. m. Mr Petter Belsvik

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    1. Sarah McGurk, co-author of #AnimalArkRevisited‏ @SCMcG Jun 29
      Replying to @SCMcG @brianpaddick and

      This seems like emotive language, designed with the express purpose of quelling the voices of those who assert that despite advances in medicine, it is not literally possible to change sex.

      2 replies 9 retweets 87 likes
    2. Sarah McGurk, co-author of #AnimalArkRevisited‏ @SCMcG Jun 29
      Replying to @SCMcG @brianpaddick and

      If people are pushed towards starting the debate under the unproven and unprovable premise that “transwomenare women” then it is impossible for all of those who will be affected to debate without prejudice.

      2 replies 11 retweets 86 likes
    3. Sarah McGurk, co-author of #AnimalArkRevisited‏ @SCMcG Jun 29
      Replying to @SCMcG @brianpaddick and

      The use of that phrase to frame the whole debate also suggests that the speaker is in no way impartial and unlike you, is not likely to take an objective and balanced approach.

      2 replies 8 retweets 71 likes
    4. Sarah McGurk, co-author of #AnimalArkRevisited‏ @SCMcG Jun 29
      Replying to @SCMcG @brianpaddick and

      If I have wholly misunderstood, and only human rights were being discussed, I am happy to be corrected. But I feel it is essential that we can define these issues clearly. If the two sides claim “woman” means different things, all debate must necessarily be at cross-purposes.

      2 replies 9 retweets 67 likes
    5. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jun 29
      Replying to @SCMcG @brianpaddick and

      Brian, I appreciate your attempts to listen, but you perhaps cannot hear the dogwhistle misogyny women hear when the words "[transgender] inclusion, rights and services" are juxtaposed with "no debate". I hear an incursionary push into female space, with all objections silenced.

      1 reply 9 retweets 104 likes
    6. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick Jun 29
      Replying to @MadamBiro @SCMcG and

      Neither of us were at the meeting but I have the advantage of knowing @LizBarkerLords. Liz is trying her level best to manage what has become a very volatile situation. Trans people suffer appalling prejudice & discrimination & also need safe spaces to discuss their own issues.

      13 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
    7. Zoe‏ @HiccupFrog Jun 29
      Replying to @brianpaddick @MadamBiro and

      Hi Brian, I think we can agree on the need for safe spaces. Unfortunately I think a key reason that this has become a volatile situation is that women are being told we must cede ours, and the language we use to discuss ourselves is being forbidden.

      2 replies 20 retweets 140 likes
    8. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick Jun 30
      Replying to @HiccupFrog @MadamBiro and

      Think we’re at the stage where people see things very differently because they have diametrically opposed perspectives. Misinterpretation is inevitable. Some think listening to radical feminists is transphobic, others that listening to trans activists is misogynistic. I’m neither

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    9. MsDemocracy‏ @DemocracyMs Jun 30
      Replying to @brianpaddick @HiccupFrog and

      Listening to all perspectives in a balanced and objective way is a key part of the way forward and you are one of the few with the guts to do that openly so thank you. Hopefully more politicians will follow your lead. There are lots of voices that need a proper hearing.

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
      Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick Jun 30
      Replying to @DemocracyMs @HiccupFrog and

      I’m not saying any of the concerns you list (& others you haven’t) aren’t honestly held. What I doubt is that making the GRC process easier will have any effect on the things people are concerned about. If it’s an issue now, it still will be. If it’s not now, it won’t be after.

      2:15 AM - 30 Jun 2018
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        2. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jun 30
          Replying to @brianpaddick @DemocracyMs and

          Brian, it absolutely WILL make a huge difference to actual women’s lives. Here’s why: 4500 people have GRCs now. If sex self-ID goes ahead, there could be 500,000 (GIRES figure), a 11,000% increase in the numbers of people with a birth certificate that doesn’t match their sex.

          1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
        3. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jun 30
          Replying to @MadamBiro @brianpaddick and

          Frontline staff at women-only services (eg domestic violence shelters) will face a drastic rise in males with female birth certificates seeking entry. Although they can legally exclude all males from female-only services, staff cannot access the register of people with GRCs.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        4. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jun 30
          Replying to @MadamBiro @brianpaddick and

          With no register to rely on in deciding whether to exclude a transgender male, a worker at a rape crisis centre will be forced - on pain of being sacked or vilified if she gets it wrong - to admit male-bodied people into shelters for women who’ve been traumatised by males.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        5. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jun 30
          Replying to @MadamBiro @brianpaddick and

          If sex self-ID is passed (which would be a nightmare for women & girls, & undermine the rationalist basis of our legal system), transgender privacy laws will have to be reduced to enable women-only & lesbian-only service providers to enforce their legal right to single-sex space.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        6. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jun 30
          Replying to @MadamBiro @brianpaddick and

          The onus is on supporters of sex self-ID to come up with practical solutions that empower female-only service providers to enforce girls’ and women’s rights to single-sex space. Without these, women are justified in seeing GRA ‘reform’ as a male rights-grab & an attack on the EA.

          0 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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        2. Zoe‏ @HiccupFrog Jun 30
          Replying to @brianpaddick @DemocracyMs and

          I think it has opened a whole can of worms though. If it is just about the GRC then organisations need to know that does not mean people simply self-declaring their gender.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Zoe‏ @HiccupFrog Jun 30
          Replying to @HiccupFrog @brianpaddick and

          Indeed, organizations need to have clear safeguarding procedires to avoid abuse of the system and those safeguarding procedures must be prioritised even at the risk of hurting some one's feeling, like asking for ID when you purchase alcohol.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        4. Zoe‏ @HiccupFrog Jun 30
          Replying to @HiccupFrog @brianpaddick and

          For example, @BTP should not just allow self declared sex or gender. We could take the opportunity to clear up ambiguities. Eg. making it clear that even if gender changes legally, sex does not,

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        5. Zoe‏ @HiccupFrog Jun 30
          Replying to @HiccupFrog @brianpaddick and

          and then considering where and when we take decisions about for example monitoring crime, running a refuge, which we base decision making around, and why.

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        6. End of conversation

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