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Parliamentary and Public Affairs at human-rights charity, Sex Matters. Former civil servant (DHSC and DfE) and Labour Party hack
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It has been another extraordinary week of fallout from the Sandie Peggie case, which escalated as the week went on.

Sir Keir keeps talking about “safe” spaces instead of “single-sex” spaces. This doesn't reflect the Manifesto wording. To reassure women that they are taking their rights seriously politicians must talk about single-sex services 👇 sex-matters.org/posts/stand-...

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Human rights lawyers, please comment with particular reference to the article 3 and 8 rights of women subjected to such searches. x.com/kathmurray1/...

FRONT PAGE: Wes Streeting condemns wiping of trans doctors’ records @telegraphnews.bsky.social

Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House. Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...

"Feminist groups warned the Scottish Government in a letter on Tuesday that the NHS Scotland guidance misrepresented the Equality Act and was legally wrong." Now the EHRC has stepped in www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Secretary Ian Murray has addressed delegates at the Scottish Labour conference – read his speech in full here #ScotLab25

Why?

FRONT PAGE: Wes Streeting condemns wiping of trans doctors’ records @telegraphnews.bsky.social

We have written to the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, asking that the #police ‘are given the power to remove the vetting from police officers who demonstrate attitudes entirely incompatible with the government’s intention to achieve a major reduction in #MVAWG’ 🔗 www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...

'Requiring women ...to expose their naked bodies before ...the opposite sex as a condition of accessing employment, education, other public or private commercial services is without shadow of a doubt a breach of privacy, dignity, decency and human rights.' www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

Do you know someone aged 18-30 who has championed a cause within the sport and recreation community? Nominate them for the Sport and Recreation Alliance Community Sport and Recreation Awards: Youth Edition 2025! 👇

Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk is accused of 'abandoning' its female members after union bosses refused to help nurse accused of 'misgendering' transgender doctor

BREAKING: @Telegraph reveals how General Medical Council "wipes" the disciplinary records of doctors that transition Helen Joyce from Sex Matters: "There are extremely serious implications for the GMC issuing new numbers – essentially new identities – to 62 doctors"

Sex Matters' CEO Maya is at @fawcettsociety.bsky.social conference today. Excellent panel on demanding dignity & safety for women in public services with @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social, Women's Aid CEO Farah Nazeer, @theoclarke.bsky.social, fivexmore.org, Black Equity and Black Minds Matter. Bravo!

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Heads up MPs: Data (Use and Acces) Bill needs your attention! #databill #digitalidentity

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Heads up MPs: Data (Use and Acces) Bill needs your attention! #databill #digitalidentity

FRONT PAGE: @heraldscotland.bsky.social Scots govt failed to act on early warning of NHS illegality in trans row. Legal obligation for single-sex changing rooms had been raised by Sandie Peggie in June last year.

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I noticed flying back from Mexico that British Airways hasn't reflected Trump's renaming of this body of water... I suspect one D. Lammy will be getting a call about this pretty pronto...

Times reports Labour is shelving plan to make gender change easier Sex Matters' Helen Joyce: “If this news is correct, we welcome it with great relief. We’ve long argued that any change that makes it easier to obtain gender recognition certificates risks introducing self-ID through the back door."

'It saddens me that #Unison which has 75 per cent female membership, has as its first motion at its Women’s conference one that seeks to undermine Equality Act protections for women.' @unisontheunion.bsky.social #TradeUnion #UNWC25 #UWomen25 #WomenInUnison www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

Delighted to see my article on the meaning of sex in law has now been published by Law Quarterly Review. If you’d like to read a preprint of it, it’s available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Sex Matters' CEO Maya is at @fawcettsociety.bsky.social conference today. Excellent panel on demanding dignity & safety for women in public services with @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social, Women's Aid CEO Farah Nazeer, @theoclarke.bsky.social, fivexmore.org, Black Equity and Black Minds Matter. Bravo!

The biggest failures of most leaders of the left (and I am politically leftwing) is a fatal inability to listen to critics, and be open to recognise and learn from its own errors of judgement

Anyone else listening to As Tears Go By on a continuous loop today? #MarianneFaithfull