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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

      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
    2. 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
    3. 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
    4. 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
    5. 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
    6. 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
    7. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jun 29
      Replying to @HiccupFrog @brianpaddick and

      The big question in the minds of most women is "Why should someone who until 10 years ago would have been called a transvestite or pre-op MtF TS be granted automatic access to female-only spaces and a female birth certificate as a solution to men's alleged hostility to them?"

      10 replies 65 retweets 230 likes
    8. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jun 29
      Replying to @MadamBiro @HiccupFrog and

      I see no evidence that trans people in the UK suffer more "appalling prejudice and discrimination" than women and think we need to compare hard facts before making any decisions that diminish women's rights or alter the balance of rights vis-à-vis other protected characteristics.

      7 replies 29 retweets 152 likes
    9. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jun 29
      Replying to @MadamBiro @HiccupFrog and

      Why don't men campaign to make male spaces safer for those who identify as feminine, if (as has yet to be proved) these places are dangerous? Why are men's loos not being made unisex? Why are men not giving up jobs & resources to empower MtF TSs? Why do trans rights = women lose?

      7 replies 82 retweets 247 likes
    10. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jun 30
      Replying to @MadamBiro @HiccupFrog and

      Why should 2.5m Muslim women stop participating in public life because female-only spaces will become mixed-sex if any man can claim he's female? Why should 6m disabled/learning-disabled women who need same-sex privacy for toileting lose independence because males are there?

      3 replies 33 retweets 143 likes
      Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick Jul 2
      Replying to @MadamBiro @HiccupFrog and

      Total U.K. Muslim population 2.6m. Asian women participating in sport 12.5% (nearest equivalent measure) = 163,000. Is this the only factually inaccurate statement in your tweets? We need reasoned, reasonable & factually accurate debate. https://www.womeninsport.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Muslim-Women-in-Sport.pdf?x99836 …

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        2. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jul 2
          Replying to @brianpaddick @HiccupFrog and

          You are using figures from 2010, Brian, which are drastically out of date. The 2011 census showed 2,706,066 Muslims in the UK, while more recent Pew research shows that the size of Muslim population in 2016 was 6.3% of the UK population (which was 65.348m in 2016) i.e. 4,116,924.

          1 reply 0 retweets 28 likes
        3. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jul 2
          Replying to @MadamBiro @brianpaddick and

          The 2016 figure for Muslim women *alone* was therefore c. 2.06m. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/11/29/5-facts-about-the-muslim-population-in-europe/ … Given that the Muslim population will increase exponentially faster than other demographics, even with no further migration, and that a larger proportion of Muslim women on average

          1 reply 0 retweets 21 likes
        4. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jul 2
          Replying to @MadamBiro @brianpaddick and

          are in the age band of higher fertility, 2.5m is not an unreasonable projection for 2019/20, which is when I would expect sex self-ID to take force. http://www.pewforum.org/2017/11/29/europes-growing-muslim-population/ … I’ve no idea why you’re mentioning Asian women in sport - perhaps in response to someone else’s comments?

          2 replies 0 retweets 23 likes
        5. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick Jul 2
          Replying to @MadamBiro @HiccupFrog and

          Apologies so your figures are based on your projection of the female Muslim population when you estimate the GRA changes will come into force. And what public participation are they going to be prevented from entering into? And what assumptions are you making about Muslim women?

          3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        6. Gender Unicorn‏ @Gender_Unicorn Jul 2
          Replying to @brianpaddick @MadamBiro and

          Many muslim women take off their hijab in the mirror/washbasin area of female public toilets to tidy themselves up in the presence of other women. Making toilets mixed sex (gender-neutral) means they can no longer freely use these spaces.

          1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
        7. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick Jul 2
          Replying to @Gender_Unicorn @MadamBiro and

          There is nothing in the proposed changes to the GRA about public toilets or who can use them or changing them from single sex.

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        8. Gender Unicorn‏ @Gender_Unicorn Jul 2
          Replying to @brianpaddick @MadamBiro and

          However, mixed sex (gender neutral) toilets and spaces are popping up all over the place in anticipation of self-id. Many formerly women's only spaces are being renamed 'gender neutral' to accomodate everyone. Because women are so accomodating.

          3 replies 2 retweets 23 likes
        9. Janice‏ @Janice5e Jul 2
          Replying to @Gender_Unicorn @brianpaddick and

          And there appears to be great confusion over who can and who can't use women's toilets, e.g. in this BBC article that last paragraph appear to me to be saying that this pub was acting illegally.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-39415622 …

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
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        2. Sarah McGurk, co-author of #AnimalArkRevisited‏ @SCMcG Jul 2
          Replying to @brianpaddick @MadamBiro and

          The Muslim population was higher than that according to the 2011 census and it is growing quickly (Est 3 mill 2014) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_Kingdom#Demographics … Not all Muslims are Asian and vice versa. And Hattie made no mention of sport.

          1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
        3. Zoe‏ @HiccupFrog Jul 2
          Replying to @SCMcG @brianpaddick and

          I think 2.6m is the 2014 figure for England because in 2011 whole UK = 2.7m. Can't see total UK at 2.6m anywhere? It is an interesting link though. 50% more white women than Asian women participate in sport & one of the reasons they give for this is lack of single sex spaces.

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
        4. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jul 2
          Replying to @HiccupFrog @SCMcG and

          “We've learned from so many mistakes in the past that women are at a greater risk of sexual assault and violence if they don’t have separate bathrooms,” says Amnesty International. Yet the UK, which advises the world on women's rights, wants to scrap this.https://qz.com/692711/the-radically-simple-way-to-make-female-refugees-safer-from-sexual-assault-decent-bathrooms/ …

          1 reply 15 retweets 36 likes
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        6. Sarah Stuart  🔯‏ @sarahstuartxx Jul 2
          Replying to @NoToMisogyny @MadamBiro and

          Unbelievable.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
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        8. Sarah McGurk, co-author of #AnimalArkRevisited‏ @SCMcG Jul 2
          Replying to @NoToMisogyny @sarahstuartxx and

          I was about to say exactly the same.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        9. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jul 2
          Replying to @SCMcG @NoToMisogyny and

          Exactly. The article is from 2016 and the comment from the deputy director for Europe and Central Asia, but it's astonishing how quickly institutional wisdom, let alone basic common sense, is being unravelled. Harm to women is just collateral damage for this male rights movement.

          1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
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        2. Stealer Of Black Biros  👢 🐴  🗒️ 🖊️‏ @Rachel_Virago Jul 2
          Replying to @brianpaddick @MadamBiro and

          Going to #Pride Sat Brian?

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. (((Lazy McGinn)))‏ @onelazymcginn Jul 3
          Replying to @Rachel_Virago @brianpaddick and

          Okay then, what about the smaller number of muslim women Brian? Worried about their daughters using gender free toilets at schools/colleges .... these concerns matter Brian. Women matter. Why are we being asked to give up our protections against violence and abuse? Help us!

          1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
        4. Stealer Of Black Biros  👢 🐴  🗒️ 🖊️‏ @Rachel_Virago Jul 3
          Replying to @onelazymcginn @brianpaddick and

          Politics is no friend to minorities That's What #TSRainCrew

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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        1. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jul 6
          Replying to @brianpaddick @HiccupFrog and

          Hxttxx Retweeted Hxttxx

          @brianpaddick, am re-engaging as I see the conversation is still running. The other day you chose to quibble with me over a disputed figure rather than answer my serious questions in the tweets above yours and this one. Have you had any thoughts on these?https://twitter.com/MadamBiro/status/1014911582118260738 …

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          Hxttxx @MadamBiro
          Replying to @brianpaddick @E8Emma and 10 others
          We need a way of enforcing female-only space. It's incumbent on everyone who supports self-ID & claims it won't diminish women's right to single-sex space to come up with answers. Female-only service-providers need an objective way of identifying natal males. What do you suggest?
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