Personal insults now. Do you wonder why anyone is prepared to listen?
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If the equality act offers protections based on sex, and self identification of gender comes to override biological sex, how can it not?
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If someone states unequivocally that they are a woman, and have full documentation that states they are a woman, and having a GRC has special protected status so that it is illegal to ask if a person has one, how will anyone be able to prove they are not?
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There are exceptions as I have pointed out. There is no “right to be forgotten” if you have a criminal past, for example. You can’t erase your criminal record with a GRC.
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But exclusion from women’s spaces, such as refuges. Where those running the refuge feel that it is essential that women and children can be free from male bodies to recover. A number of the women campaigning with me have been so traumatised that they needed men-free spaces.
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That will not be allowed? In Vancouver, there is only one refuge left that only admits natal women. It is under constant challenge. There are traumatised women who do not feel they can access health care unless they are assured their treatment is by women.
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I will reiterate something I stated earlier. Please bear with me as it won’t fit into a single tweet. The unvarnished truth is that this discussion centres around whether some men should be afforded women’s rights. I am aware that some find that statement difficult.
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But I refer to sex not gender identity. It seems to me safer to rely on provable physical evidence, rather than relying on anyone’s statement. Such statements are always open to question.
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Do the crime figures back up the statement that transwomen will be at significant risk in male spaces? If so, then how can society help them? What are the costs of that help? I feel those are the questions that need to be asked.
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Hopefully not, then. I plan to speak to my MP at her local surgery about this issue, and I would urge other people to do the same. Not all MPs have been as proactive as you in seeking opinions, although I know you’ve experienced some negative consequences of that.
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Heather it would have been a pleasure to engage if everyone had your approach. I know you have concerns and I am listening.
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Then you are being told by people who don't understand either act. If you have a GRC you BECOME the other sex legally; your birth cert changes. Therefore gain rights of that sex class. Only 5000 issued. Any reduction in criteria (self-ID) will see 1000s more men in women's spaces
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If you accept that Joe Smith is a "woman" because he says so, how can you refuse to accept Jack Jones is a woman (even if he is a rapist trying to get put in a women's prison)?
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We can all sleep in peace, we have been told that it will not. Right. The logic however is this: transwomen are women, definition of women is female sex. Ergo transwomen are of the female sex, so single sex services now include transwomen, still biologically male and with penis.
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