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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

'Scotland Yard has paid a five-figure sum to a woman after officers “brought the service into disrepute” for failing to investigate her report of rape by her ex-husband, the Guardian has learned.' #PoliceMeToo www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Met pays damages to woman for failing to investigate rape claim against ex-husband

Officers questioned woman but not the alleged rapist, bringing force into disrepute, rules watchdog

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TheVikingDane @thevikingdane.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

On the 11th day of Pride, I would like to honour Audre Lorde, a lesbian writer, poet, and activist. Her work was to fight the injustices of racism, sexism, and homophobia. She's written some amazing poetry, but what affected me most is a quote of hers: "Your silence will not protect you". Quite true

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The WESC Chair is a pure embarrassment. Brings @uklabour.bsky.social into disrepute.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

So there it is. S195 makes it lawful to provide single sex sports or activities of a competitive nature (@parkrunUK @LondonMarathon) if the activity is sex-affected. All males, including transwomen, can be excluded from female categories on the basis of sex.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

'The Supreme Court judgement was purely about positions on boards it wasn't actually talking about sport or toilets'. What? There is a whole section in the judgement about sport. @sarahowen.org.uk does not know what she is talking about & she chaired a session discussing the SC ruling. Appalling.

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

‘The level of agitation that they can cause in terms of personal attacks, libellous attacks, defamation, where our family members are affected – our intimate family members have to think about how they’re going about to their place of work – has got to stop.’ www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Equalities watchdog tells trans activists personal attacks ‘have to stop’

Baroness Falkner reveals she had to cancel meeting after police warned of ‘serious risk’ of violence

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

'“It recognizes that, in the process of femicide, the mother isn’t the only victim," said Representative Carolina Giraldo, who helped draft the bill. "There are indirect victims as well."' #Femicide #Colombia www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

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Invisible victims: How Colombia plans to support kids orphaned by femicide

As Latin America battles gender-based violence, countries are passing laws to support children whose parents are killed.

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bevjacksonauthreal.bsky.social @bevjacksonauthreal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I am surprised to see you posting about this shambolic performance. You displayed ignorance of the Supreme Court ruling - e.g. not having read its many references to sport - and highly unprofessional rudeness to Baroness Falkner, even interrupting her when she was responding to a sensitive question.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Your advocacy on behalf of trans activist organisations pushing 'over-reach' or 'male entitlement' is clearly asymmetrically sympathetic to males at the expense of females. Aka 21st century patriarchy where males are valued more highly than females & accrue more power & empathy. Very disappointing.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The Supreme Court highlighted in particular the detriments to female people (lesbians & transmen) of a 'certificated sex' interpretation of the law. Lesbians would have to include male lesbians in same sex attracted services & associations. TM would lose right to pregnancy & maternity protections.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Baroness Falkner EHRC Chair was absolutely outstanding. The Supreme Court judgement & EHRC Interim Update provide absolute clarity. No males (regardless of identity) in female single sex services & sports. Women's and lesbian's rights matter too. Please remember that given your position.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

As a @uklabour.bsky.social member I'm appalled with your hostile Chairing of this session. Please remember this Committee's remit is Women & Equalities. You clearly do not understand the law. The Supreme Court ruling was not just about membership of boards. It was about the meaning of sex in the EA.

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barbaralavelle.bsky.social @barbaralavelle.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This headline is misleading

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Aurora New Dawn @auroranewdawn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We are pleased to announce that Clive Ruggles will be speaking at 'Joining Forces Against VAWG - Independent But Alongside', our Conference about Violence Against Women and Girls and the Armed Forces, in Portsmouth in October. 🧵👇

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Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The SC ruling means that it is a point of law that they didn't exist before. Your presentation of the comments was staggeringly dishonest. The trans rights movement attempted to arrogate themselves rights they had not been granted in law by disseminating a false interpretation of the law.

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𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱 🦋 @totr.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Notable that Peter Walker has changed the headline and also the quote which it refers to in the article, but has not entered any explanation for doing so in the article footer, as is standard practice. Nor has their been any update time info on the timestamps.

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Sigrid of the LeftGCF💜🤍💚 @sigjar.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Why this incendiary headline? You are stoking the flames of the culture wars instead of putting them out @theguardian.com

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forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The Equality Act does not require case-by-case assessment to apply ordinary sex-based rules. It does not give trans-identifying people the right to use single and separate sex services for the opposite sex. Read Sex Matters' guidance sex-matters.org/wp-content/u...

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forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The principles are simple.

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forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

There are different ways of providing services. The Equality Act provides for all of them when they are a proportionate means to a legitimate aim.

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forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The single-sex and separate-sex service exceptions in the Equality Act should be straightforward and easy to use. The recent judgment by the Supreme Court in the case of For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers made clear that the Equality Act is based on biological sex.

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Labour Women's Declaration @labwomendec.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

LWD statement in which we: 🌹welcome @UKLabour decision to revise policies in line with Equality Act 🌹call on public bodies to immediately follow its example 😡deplore cancellation of women's conference ♀️call for rescheduled conf to be held by July 26 labourwomensdeclaration.org.uk/lwd-statemen...

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LWD Statement on Postponement of National Women's Conference - Labour Women's Declaration

We welcome the Labour Party’s decision to change its policies in light of the Supreme Court’s clarification of the meaning of sex in the Equality Act 2010. We now call upon the Government to show lead...

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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

You didn’t answer the point, Otto. It’s about why men seem to be far more keen to tell women that we must accept trans-identified men in the women’s spaces, sports and shortlists our mothers fought so hard for, than to quietly listen to us talk about why we NEED the above: safety, equity, dignity.

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Laura Pascal @pascallaura.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

TAKE ACTION: Email your MP! Calling all sex-realist women and men! Bank holiday weekend action. Use this tool to write to your MP and tell them how much you appreciate the Supreme Court's clarity and want them to support local organisations to start following it. sex-matters.org/take-action/...

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Email your MP about the Supreme Court judgment - Sex Matters

Make your voice heard – let your MP know why the Supreme Court ruling is important to you.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/05/2025

“Schools, pediatricians, random passersby—so many people assume that Mom knows what’s going on with the family, and that Dad does not.” Olga Khazan investigates the default-parent problem:

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The Default-Parent Problem

Why do so many people assume that Mom knows what’s going on with the kids, and that Dad does not?

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 15/05/2025

On this day in 1970, police opened fire on a crowd of students at Jackson State College in Mississippi, killing two students and injuring dozens more.

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May 15, 1970 | Mississippi Police Open Fire on Crowd of Students, Killing Two

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Strathclyde Law School @lawstrath.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

New on the Strathclyde Law Blog, a post by Professor (Emeritus) Kenneth Norrie, considering the recent UK Supreme Court case For Women Scotland Ltd v the Scottish Ministers www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l...

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Gender Matters | University of Strathclyde

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Rebuttal by Barrister Naomi Cunningham here: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l...

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Gender doesn't matter | University of Strathclyde

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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l... ❤️ Naomi Cunningham

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Mary Concepta Lynch, an Irish nun and skilled calligrapher, spent 16 years (1920-1936) decorating the Oratory of the Domincan Convent, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland #WomensArt

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I have felt unwelcome in British Quakers for believing that legally and morally sex is binary, innate and matters sometimes in law and policy . In my professional work and life that has led to being seriously harassed. Now Equality Act clarified I want to know that I am welcome to be politely open

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

@quaker.org.uk is there a place still in Quakers for those of us who consider Supreme Court ruling in ForWomen Scotland case to be legally & morally correct? I have experienced years of harassment for this. Please advise as seriously considering whether to give up my membership

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

'Single-sex arrangements are not mandatory in competitive sports or services open to the public, such as gym changing rooms or refuges for victims of domestic violence [but] it is likely to be discrimination against women not to provide them where ... appropriate'. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

thetimes.com

Ill-informed challenges to Supreme Court decision help nobody

Citizens should be involved in debate about law reform, but questioning the legitimacy of the judgment on misconceived grounds is irresponsible

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

'A service or competitive sport can be designated as single-sex if it meets conditions set out in the Equality Act ... then the service or sport must admit only people of one biological sex. Otherwise it ceases to meet those single-sex conditions, and must admit all members of the opposite sex.'

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

'Nothing further is needed to show that trans people should not be permitted to use the service in accordance with the sex in which they identify.' 'Case-by-case decisions should not routinely be made: a single-sex rule must be predictable and consistent.'

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

'The Equality Act allows trans men (biological females) to be excluded from the women’s facilities [if] ... a trans person looks so much like a person of the opposite biological sex that it would be disruptive to accommodate them in the single-sex service.'

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Our society will only improve when it feels safe for all women to be able to say No to men

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Ben Mitchell @bmitchellwrites.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

One massive point often ignored in this issue: most Transwomen do not transition. They claim to be of the opposite sex only by virtue of self-identification. That's all. And we've been expected to accept them as women because???

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Ben Mitchell @bmitchellwrites.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

But it's fine that women and girls have felt excluded too from public loos and spaces as gender self-id in all but name has allowed Transwomen to use their facilities? And btw we're mostly talking about men who have never and will never transition.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Yes, single sex provision when sex matters is perfectly legal. The Supreme Court judgement confirms it has always been perfectly legal. If trans people want third spaces they must campaign for that. Not for the 'inclusion' of males in services, provisions & sports for female people when sex matters.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

No. Complete hyperbole. Nobody wants to exclude trans people from public spaces. Nobody want to exclude women & girls either. Please see campaigns for public toilets for women due to the 'urinary leash'. So there needs to be dedicated single sex female toilets & additional unisex.

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Five days after FWS vs Scottish ministers & far too many people still need to be reminded that the govt position was that quotas for women could be filled by men. How can that be anything other than marginalising, downgrading, even erasing, women?

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The demo against the ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS v Scottish Ministers. The #BeKind people.

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Aurora New Dawn @auroranewdawn.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

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forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“Those provisions were always there, but the Supreme Court has set that out beyond a doubt.” Clear, strong and impressive from Labour's Minister for Women & Equalities Bridget Phillipson MP speaking for the Government on the #SupremeCourt judgment. Great to hear! 🙏

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Laura Pascal @pascallaura.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Times leader unequivocal that right thing to do to is to scrap the puberty blocker trial. www.thetimes.com/article/4f30... Some trials are just not ethical. #firstdonoharm @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social The majority of the public are against medical interventions on children who ID as trans

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NHS puberty blockers trial would turn children into guinea pigs

The planned study must be stopped. Puberty is not an optional extra in a healthy human being’s biological life plan

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