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Some WESC submissions that are worth a read....(my thread of bookmarks)

Judge Paula Grey is president of the Gender Recognition Panel

She doesn't make any recommendations, but she sets out how the process currently works

Which chimes with my analysis of the GRP User Panel and statistics https://t.co/XixEz7lNJv

She is also co-author if the Equal Treatment Bench Book and writes about how the judges are trained by Gendered Intelligence
There is the government's own response

https://t.co/bOn9XecAkz

On single sex spaces they say the law is clear that service providers are able to restrict access to spaces on the basis of biological sex where there is clear justification.
The response from @womensaid is significant.

Their members want trans survivors to get support they need but not by undermining their ability to serve women with female staff & female only services

They highlight lack of clarity

https://t.co/p7096sZcos
This was their position in 2015

They have moved on alot - they have been consulting with members since last year, and have had the courage to say what their members told them, not what Stonewall wanted to hear

https://t.co/CM3V0mL02u
You remember this is the report that Stonewall commissioned from @nfpSynergy where they interviewed managers of women's domestic violence services and heard *none of this*

Something wrong with this listening process I think!

https://t.co/FxVIy3qLNk
. @Transgendertrd 's evidence is excellent and full of evidence - focused on young people, particularly girls

@cwknews @charlesworth102 and the team

https://t.co/tXRoJuSSih
Then there is the evidence from @SexMattersOrg - which draws on the gender dissidents survey that I did in the summer, the GRP User Group minutes, the paper by @RebeccaMKBull and Alesandra Asteriti and the work of @mbmpolicy

https://t.co/ESi59oPB65
Barnardos have lost the plot.

Obviously they submitted this evidence before Keira Bell v Tavistock - maybe they will have a rethink?

They seem to have lost all sight of safeguarding principles https://t.co/xgnx7dLz0x
In particular they are concerned about the " risk of unnecessary disclosure within educational institutions" of a child's sex.

They want adults to keep secrets with children, and to lie to other children about sex.
The BMA's evidence is interesting in that none of relies on refers to medical expertise.

They say that GD is neither a medical or a MH issue based on survey responses to the govts consultation.

What is the point of doctors or medical research, eh?

https://t.co/iZtRxHpsSK
Sport England say more guidance is needed.

(but they also seem to have forgotten sex in their commitment to equality, at paragraph 11. Sex Matters!)

https://t.co/DM6ICeysuA
Ruth Pearce who gave oral evidence provides supplementary evidence which, extraordinarily, accuses the other presenters Kathleen Stock, Rosa Freedman and Alice Sullivan of "distortions" and "untruths"

https://t.co/7qUSga9Abl
This is what Pearce says about the Swedish Study.

These were *not* the findings of the Swedish study....
Here is my earlier thread on the Swedish Study https://t.co/cblSWsRfvQ

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Here's a thing about the United States: the vice president famously *does nothing*. By design. The job is not like the vice president of marketing or whatever where the guy has a job. Mike Pence is the spare president. He's there in case anything happens to the first one.

In the original formulation under the constitution, the vice president was the runner-up of the presidential race. Nobody ran for it. There was no assumption that it would be an ally of the president; more likely they would be rivals.

They're officially "president of the senate" just to give them something to do to keep them around the capital but they're not a senator and only get to vote if there's a tie, so most of the time that ceremonial role is fobbed off an actual senator.

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Sivasankar is presently in ED's custody for alleged involvement in the Kerala Gold Smuggling case. He is also being investigated by the NIA and Customs Department.

Senior Advocate Jaideep Gupta is arguing for Sivasankar.

He denies ED's allegations that Sivasankar contacted customs officials to clear the baggage alleged to be containing smuggled gold.

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So, on the subject of bonkers hyperbolic pretzeling over the Bell judgement, Grace 'destroy books I don't like & make inappropriate jokes about sterilising teenage girls' Lavery has some thoughts.

Tell me why my feminism is wrong Grace.

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Well, if anyone thought the Bell judgment was going to make TRAs reconsider making massively overblown claims with no evidence backed up with nothing but a thick wadge of emotional blackmail.... HAHAHA, no one thought that.


A high court in the UK made a delimited judgment about teenager's ability to consent to puberty blockers. This puts all trans people everywhere in the world at risk.

Because if any human anywhere has any thoughts that deviate in any way from the rote line dictated by

the trans rights movement, this puts all trans people everywhere in mortal danger.

Let's be honest Grace. It doesn't put trans people at risk. It puts trans ideology at risk. Because trans ideology depends on the idea of innate gender identity, and the trans child is the

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The SNP is in trouble. They know it and we know it. It’s almost certain that Nicola Sturgeon will need to resign for lying to Holyrood

This explains the frantic calls for another referendum

Brexit is done and the sky didn’t fall in

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This removes their number one Bête Noire. A Disastrous hard Brexit

They were banking on that happening. There will be, and are, difficulties with the new trading arrangements but these will play out over years and will be sorted one way or another

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The Law

As it stands, the SNP cannot call another referendum without the permission of the UK Parliament

Some people dispute this, including many in the SNP

So. What’s the alternative?

The could call a non binding non legal referendum but what’s the point

Unionist will

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boycott it and non SNP councils will refuse to participate

Although that’s their latest plan, it’s a non starter

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This is fraught with dangers

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They have to balance the possibility of getting a positive SC judgement against getting a negative judgement

I’ll start with the negative judgement first

Were the Scot Gov to go to the SC they would risk not one but two massively disastrous and fatal outcomes
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3/ How does a10-day emergency audit happen? Congress would need to enact a statute to amend the Electoral Count Act before January 6, when it's compelled by law to meet. That seems unlikely.

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