Welcome to LocalAuthoritySEEN! We are a new network committed to promoting and supporting sex equality and equity between women and men in Local Authorities across the UK, providing a much needed voice of support to staff who share our views #LocalAuthSEEN #BeMoreSEEN #SEEN

TAKE ACTION Do you work for Bristol City Council or know someone who does and shares our #LocalAuthoritySEEN values? Keen to connect you! Become a member: localauthorityseen.uk/contact/

TAKE ACTION We'd like to know more about your specific experiences in local authority owned public buildings and in the workplace of single sex spaces for a new blog. Have something to say? Tell us. Local Authority SEEN members contact us directly, or if you'd like us to

New duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment at work. And yet many employers do not provide facilities such as toilets and training rooms that are single sex. This is surely exposing them to greater risk under the new duty?Freeths welcome your thoughts SeeninHR TU SEEN

“Central to EDI at the OU are the staff networks that represent employees in some of the protected characteristics ... but it is not clear how representatives for these staff networks are selected, nor how decisions about network priorities and activities are made.” Familiar…

FlaggedOff J.P. Morgan SEEN in the City We see it often in big organisations. One part may understand the issue, but there’s a fear of sending out cautionary staff-wide comms. So an individual or small group will set something up, and there’s no company-wide policy to call on, to say ‘this is a safeguarding issue’.

FlaggedOff J.P. Morgan SEEN in the City This isn’t just in the City, it happens everywhere. It’s largely because broadcast media insists on elevating ‘the debate’ above ‘the evidence’. It means organisations see it through the lens of ‘two sides’ rather than facts first.

Important questions posed here thehelenjoyce.com/joyce-activate… SEEN in Publishing provides a network for those in the sector who face or fear discrimination based on gender sceptical views. We look forward to an end to such discrimination, when our network will no longer be required.

Thanks to FSU for this. We would be keen to meet with Bank of England to discuss our concerns about their approach to matters which affect their gender critical staff and firms they regulate. The FSU member who shared their concerns is welcome to get in touch. They are not alone

🧵Today marks the beginning of Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month 🌸 This group of cancers specifically target the female reproductive system, and include: Ovarian, uterine, vulval, vaginal and cervical cancer 1/6

The problem is what does diversity and inclusion mean? For the financial regulators it includes overwriting of sex with gender identity. Sexist and regressive. The Free Speech Union Sex Matters Legal Feminist

If you think Mermaids can’t communicate with your children… here’s the patina of trust and authority it’s provided at your local library.

**Update** We reported on the ideological capture of Dorset's health and education services by gender activists. New figures show Dorset remains in the top 2 of ICBs (health commissioning bodies) sending children to gender clinics. 1/ transgendertrend.com/dorset-ideolog…

Wherever you are, check your local library and make your voice heard!

Edinburgh City Council has joined Children In Need in confirming it has axed financial support to LGBT Youth Scotland. #DefundLGBTYS sundaypost.com/fp/children-in… via The Sunday Post

New post up about Censorship and Children's publishing. See link in bio above. ☝️☝️☝️ (19) Censorship and Children's Books - SEEN in Publishing (substack.com)

NEW: The Minister for Women & Equalities says she doesn't plan to #MakeTheEqualityActClear. The Labour Party should listen to the hundreds who are coming to Parliament on Wednesday to stand up for single-sex services👇 sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…

‘Some forces were so keen to avoid offence they have had to consider taking measures such as providing both a male and a female warrant card to officers and staff who hold 'gender fluidity as a belief-based protected characteristic' ⁦Daily Mail Online⁩ mol.im/a/13831413

TAKE ACTION Do you live in the Kent County Council area? A live consultation on Folkestone Library ends today, 11th September. Section 3 of the consultation asks for your views on their Equality Analysis, which lists the protected characteristics covered within the Equality Act 2010

Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society, writes Sarah Phillimore thecritic.co.uk/edi-corrodes-t…