Val Garwood
@valgarwood
Second wave feminist, mother, grandmother. Sex is real and it matters, especially for women. We cannot identify out of it. Women’s rights are #NotACultureWar
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25-01-2016 14:44:37
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“Just how insidiously this doctrine has invaded society was exposed by a survey of LGB workers by LGB Alliance and reported in the HR publication Personnel Today... 65% said they felt pressured to agree publicly with political beliefs they did not hold.” thetimes.com/article/c67fde…
We’ve been here before Thomas Willett. I have never sought to prevent trans people from running parkrun. I HAVE sought to get fairness for females (& males in the age grade rankings) by having a female-only, female category. Why do you tell such brazen, disgusting lies?
You can find a pretty good* justification of why women and girls who have been subjected to sexual and domestic violence and abuse need women-only support services in my book Defending Women’s Places John Swinney The SNP Scottish Express * If I say so myself #DefendingWomensSpaces
A very useful note from Irwin Mitchell solicitors on the risks around staff groups and external speakers (the Newman vs the Met case) irwinmitchell.com/news-and-insig…
Sarah Summers Survivors' Network This is wonderful news. Thank you from all of us for persisting on behalf of all women.
NHS Fife accuses Sandie Peggie of "faking menstrual flood" to confront Dr Upton. The absolute depths this organisation will stoop to. I'm surprised they didn't ask her to show the "contemporaneous record" of blood on her pants. How dare they. scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/…
Maya Forstater Women should not have to suffer menorrhagia or Sexual assault to be able to have a female changing room in the workplace. JR shocked and terrified me.
Maya Forstater Ms Russell has made it crystal clear that, in the absence of any justification for their client’s failure to follow the legal requirement for single sex facilities stipulated in the Workplace 1992 Regulations, all she has in the way of argument is this disgraceful charade.
Maya Forstater Russell adopted a nasty, ugly, line of questioning that said much about the class of the two women. She sought to silence Peggie and to deny her right to single sex spaces by launching a character assassination. x.com/newsandpics/st…
Maya Forstater That's what rips my knitting, saying she, woman, was pretending to have a period but have absolutely no such suggestion that Upton is a man pretending to be a woman.
‘The unambiguous ruling of the Supreme Court has clarified what the law is. The law it sets out is effective immediately. Those with duties under the Equality Act should be following it and taking specialist legal advice where necessary’ Kishwer Falkner
An earlier version of this article stated that protesters “tried to throw objects onto the stage”. We retract this claim, apologise to Jean Hatchet and LightninLex 🏴, and clarify that protesters were in their purchased spaces at tables when one unfurled a banner reading “He’s a