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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. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick Jul 3

      I’m chiefly concerned about ensuring the safety of women and girls against male violence, to be honest.

      9 replies 7 retweets 42 likes
    2. Teajenny‏ @galluslass Jul 3
      Replying to @brianpaddick @SCMcG and

      Brian, it’s not just that. It’s about comfort, peace of mind, dignity and privacy. Not having “woman/girl/female ” forcibly redefined by males to mean nothing. No more right to feel relaxed, comfortable amongst females where we feel vulnerable.

      1 reply 3 retweets 51 likes
    3. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick Jul 3
      Replying to @galluslass @SCMcG and

      Ironically I’ve met many transgender women who transitioned because they didn’t feel comfortable, have peace of mind, feel relaxed around men. They wanted to be more accepted by other women by becoming a woman. And most say the majority of women accept them as such.

      21 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Emma E8‏ @E8Emma Jul 4
      Replying to @brianpaddick @galluslass and

      You are placing a burden upon women to be accepting of people who pose a real risk. Sex-based facilities are there when we are menstruating, changing, with kids, vulnerable. We can’t be made responsible for the feelings of dysphoric men. Our world should get more safe, not less.

      1 reply 3 retweets 21 likes
      Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick Jul 4
      Replying to @E8Emma @galluslass and

      Most genuine trans women do not pose a threat to women.

      10:55 PM - 4 Jul 2018
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        2. Emmeline Wyndham‏ @EmmelineWyndham Jul 4
          Replying to @brianpaddick @E8Emma and

          Absolutely - but this woman is not worried about genuine cases. It's the opportunist males that concern me. Proposed changes to the GRA will throw open the doors to them. It's naive to underestimate the lengths to which predators will go to gain access to vulnerable females.

          1 reply 2 retweets 11 likes
        3. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick Jul 4
          Replying to @EmmelineWyndham @E8Emma and

          We need safeguards

          1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
        4. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jul 5
          Replying to @brianpaddick @E8Emma and

          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?

          2 replies 7 retweets 25 likes
        5. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick Jul 6
          Replying to @MadamBiro @E8Emma and

          Decisions need to be made on an individual basis

          3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        6. Emma E8‏ @E8Emma Jul 7
          Replying to @brianpaddick @MadamBiro and

          That might have worked when we were talking about 5,000 transsexuals. We are now talking about 500,000 'trans' who want self-ID. Perhaps 250,000 men who want access to women's facilities. Only 5,000 of them are transsexuals. The rest have no surgery. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1014593708904329216.html …

          1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes
        7. Emma E8‏ @E8Emma Jul 7
          Replying to @E8Emma @brianpaddick and

          So you are going to interview a quarter of a million men to find out if they can be trusted in women's toilets, in changing rooms with children? The fact that they don't have dysphoria and they want access might be a clue.

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
        8. Heather Pymar‏ @Heather_Pymar Jul 7
          Replying to @E8Emma @brianpaddick and

          It will be up to receptionists and other front line staff to do those on-the-spot interviews, with the threat of being hounded out of their jobs by activists if they get it wrong hanging over them.

          0 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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        2. Emma E8‏ @E8Emma Jul 4
          Replying to @brianpaddick @galluslass and

          But some do. And how are we supposed to assess who’s ‘genuine’ or not when our girls encounter them in the showers after swimming? You’re giving away our privacy & safety on a gamble that has no impact on you but will stop women feeling safe. Can you guarantee our safety? How?

          2 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
        3. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick Jul 4
          Replying to @E8Emma @galluslass and

          I’m not giving away anything. I’m listening & learning and trying to understand the best way forward.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. MadMom  😡Our Lady of Perpetual WTAF‏ @Nosci_fi Jul 5
          Replying to @brianpaddick @E8Emma and

          Best way forward may be to listen to actual women. Just a thought.

          0 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
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        2. Persephoney‏ @Circe_Astraea Jul 4
          Replying to @brianpaddick @E8Emma and

          You mean like Lib Dem Sarah Brown who dishonestly changed the Equalities Policies of councils by stealth?? Honestly Brian? You think a few Tory swing votes over brexit will make people forget how your local gov stasi sold off even the parks in the cities?

          1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
        3. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick Jul 4
          Replying to @Circe_Astraea @E8Emma and

          I dont want to talk about other people. I understand some people hate Lib Dems & stereotype them as “all being the same” but we digress!

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        2. Kirsty XX #FBGC‏ @kirsity1971 Jul 6
          Replying to @brianpaddick @E8Emma and

          How do we identify who’s genuine and who’s a chancer bent on cheating the system to their own benefit though? Most men aren’t a danger to women. The government still recognises that there’s a need for women to have some spaces free of all men though.

          2 replies 3 retweets 15 likes
        3. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jul 6
          Replying to @kirsity1971 @brianpaddick and

          Most taxi passengers aren't a threat, yet no one disputes that cabbies are entitled to the partition in black cabs. Most bank customers won't hold a gun to a teller's head, but that doesn't stop them needing protection. Crime against women is overwhelmingly committed by males.

          1 reply 1 retweet 15 likes
        4. Hxttxx‏ @MadamBiro Jul 6
          Replying to @MadamBiro @kirsity1971 and

          By triggering a public discussion on whether any man should be legally enabled to declare himself a woman & thereby gain female rights, trans rights advocates have triggered an unavoidable debate on safeguarding, which has long-established protocols, as Lisa Muggeridge has said.

          0 replies 2 retweets 13 likes
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        2. Elizabeth PIlling‏ @ElizabethPIll13 Jul 4
          Replying to @brianpaddick @E8Emma and

          Research by @fairplaywomen found an awful lot of transwomen in #prison for sexual and violent crimes. I wonder Brian, are those ppl not 'genuine transwomen'? If so, that demonstrates the danger of #selfID. And if they are genuine? And how to tell? #GRA #WomensRights

          1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
        3. Heather Pymar‏ @Heather_Pymar Jul 4
          Replying to @ElizabethPIll13 @brianpaddick and

          This is the problem. Most law isn’t made on the basis that people are genuine so I don’t see why this one should be (except women don’t matter)It’s impossible to tell if someone is lying and front line staff risk accusations of bigotry, if they challenge a man saying he’s a woman

          1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
        4. Emma E8‏ @E8Emma Jul 4
          Replying to @Heather_Pymar @ElizabethPIll13 and

          We had a safeguard - to allow only post-op transsexuals into women's facilities. Then the GRA allowed pre-ops to use facilities and now it's anyone who wants to. Only 18% of women want self-ID. Can you see how it seems like women are disregarded entirely? Our facilities!

          0 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
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        2. Y Chromo‏ @XY_is_easier Jul 5
          Replying to @brianpaddick @E8Emma and

          Anyone who uses the expression TERF is a threat to women. TRAs exclusively attack and threaten women in order to bully acceptance out of them, in the same manner abusive men do. Recognizing and respecting non-trans women’s spaces would go a long way to helping their acceptance.

          1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
        3. Y Chromo‏ @XY_is_easier Jul 5
          Replying to @XY_is_easier @brianpaddick and

          And by non-trans women, I mean -> women.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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        5. Y Chromo‏ @XY_is_easier Jul 6
          Replying to @johnnie_cradock @brianpaddick and

          That exact thought occurred to me, hence the addendum. It’s sad, that the word for half the species has been co-opted to such a ludicrous extent. In one ‘apology’ I read sorry was offered for the word woman vice ‘menstruater’. She’d been called out by the bepenised ladies.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        6. Y Chromo‏ @XY_is_easier Jul 6
          Replying to @XY_is_easier @johnnie_cradock and

          Oddly, I live in an area where there are many aboriginal ppl, and those of mixed race. The gov’t refers to the rest of as - non-aboriginal. It’s interesting to be classified by what you aren’t.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        7. Johnnie Cradock‏ @johnnie_cradock Jul 6
          Replying to @XY_is_easier @brianpaddick and

          Yes language works like that. It`s weird!

          0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
        8. End of conversation

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