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@BMXBanditsDug on the Mellotron:
"It sounds like ghosts playing or singing and nowadays it literally mostly is that, as almost all of the musicians playing the original parts for the little tape loops that it uses will be dead now."
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Evening all. Just catching up on the socials now. It was an honour to be invited to speak to the joint committee. I'm exhausted but pleased to have been able to explain some of the very serious problems with the draft bill, and will be following up with the committee on several points
🧵 Second panel at the Joint Committee on the draft Conversion Practices Bill:
Dennis Kavanagh, Gay Men’s Network
Helen Joyce, Sex Matters
Dermot Kehoe, LGB Alliance
Watch live: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Inde…
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🚨 Breaking: After a three year battle, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has finally changed its policy on single-sex spaces for staff to bring it in line with the law.
It is amazing how simple it is! Now all NHS Trusts must urgently follow suit.
Bethany Hutchison, President of the Darlington Nursing Union and lead claimant in the case, said:
“This short sentence in a policy has taken women three years of fear, humiliation and extraordinary personal sacrifice to secure.
“We were nurses asking for the most basic protection: somewhere private and safe to undress at work, away from members of the opposite sex. Instead of listening, the Trust told us to compromise, broaden our mindset and be more inclusive. We were forced out of our own changing room, placed in inadequate facilities, threatened with disciplinary action and made to fear for our jobs and professional careers.
“Vulnerable colleagues were put under intolerable pressure. International nurses feared losing their visas. Women who had experienced domestic abuse were left distressed and afraid. Four of us were reported to our professional regulator simply for speaking publicly about what was happening.
“Throughout it all, the Trust defended a policy it had been warned was unlawful. Even after the Supreme Court clarified the law, it refused to change course. It took a full tribunal judgment, an apology, damages and an enormous bill before the Trust finally wrote biological reality into its policy.
“We welcome this change because it will protect women across the Trust, but it should never have required a three-year legal battle. No nurse should ever again be treated as we were for asking for dignity, privacy and safety.”
See more breaking in the Daily Express and with @CConcern and the Christian Legal Centre who have supported the nurses from the beginning.
express.co.uk/news/uk/226004…
christianconcern.com/ccpress…
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Barrister @Jebadoo2 explains how a parent saying to their child they should love their body could meet every element of the Government’s proposed ‘conversion practices’ offence.
As Dennis says, all it takes is one difficult, distressing argument for a parent to be wide open to the risk of prosecution.
How can Women and Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson claim the Bill “will not impinge on” parents’ ability to have difficult conversations with their children?
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If anyone is unaware of this insane ‘conversion practices’ bill that Labour are pushing through then watch this.
Barrister @Jebadoo2 explains how a parent saying to their child they should love their body could meet every element of the Government’s proposed ‘conversion practices’ offence.
As Dennis says, all it takes is one difficult, distressing argument for a parent to be wide open to the risk of prosecution.
How can Women and Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson claim the Bill “will not impinge on” parents’ ability to have difficult conversations with their children?
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Holiday in Aberdeen: the silver city with the golden sands. (1958)
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Huge heartfelt thanks to @HJoyceGender and @Jebadoo2. Watching today’s hearing made me really emotional. My respect for both knows no bounds. Incredible advocates for children and families. Blown away, honestly ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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I'm under attack by Islamists and might get killed any day, but I won't run away or close my restaurant while I'm alive. Come enjoy non-halal food at Singh's Dining Hammersmith Londonistan, especially Pork Vindaloo 😋😋
Nick Abrahams and Jeremy Deller set out to make a documentary about Depeche Mode but then realised that their fans were far more interesting.
Such a wonderful film.
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“We are gay men and we consider this legislation to be anti-gay. It is transing the gay away.”
Jeff Dudgeon played a vital role in the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Northern Ireland. He now opposes the Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill, which is before the Northern Ireland Assembly.
A founding member of the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association, Jeff brought the first successful challenge to the criminalisation of homosexuality at the European Court of Human Rights. On 22 October 1981, the Court ruled that Northern Ireland’s law violated his right to respect for private life. The Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 followed, bringing the law in line with the rest of the UK.
Forty-five years later, he is campaigning against a Bill presented as necessary to protect LGBT people. As he points out, those who oppose it are routinely smeared as homophobes.
“Conversion practices” conjures up electric shock treatment and corrective rape — horrific practices that are already illegal.
So what would this Bill criminalise?
It would expose parents to prosecution, and up to two years in prison, for having honest conversations with children who are confused about their gender identity.
Gender identity issues can cause great turmoil within families. Many parents already feel pressured to affirm their child’s belief that they were born in the wrong body, for fear of damaging their relationship. The Bill would add the threat of prosecution for parents who wish to guide their child away from life-changing, irreversible medicalisation. It would rip families apart.
This is of particular concern to gay rights campaigners such as Jeff, because the vast majority of gender-confused children are same-sex attracted, and same-sex attraction often goes hand in hand with gender non-conformity in childhood.
Watch @JeffDudgeon👇
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Jeff became a friend during my cancellation. He took the case that got homosexuality decriminalised in Northern Ireland, and he’s now warning that this conversion therapy bill does the opposite.
‘It’s anti-gay. It’s transing the gay away.’
Those who seek to push it through would do well to listen to @JeffDudgeon - he knows his onions.
“We are gay men and we consider this legislation to be anti-gay. It is transing the gay away.”
Jeff Dudgeon played a vital role in the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Northern Ireland. He now opposes the Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill, which is before the Northern Ireland Assembly.
A founding member of the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association, Jeff brought the first successful challenge to the criminalisation of homosexuality at the European Court of Human Rights. On 22 October 1981, the Court ruled that Northern Ireland’s law violated his right to respect for private life. The Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 followed, bringing the law in line with the rest of the UK.
Forty-five years later, he is campaigning against a Bill presented as necessary to protect LGBT people. As he points out, those who oppose it are routinely smeared as homophobes.
“Conversion practices” conjures up electric shock treatment and corrective rape — horrific practices that are already illegal.
So what would this Bill criminalise?
It would expose parents to prosecution, and up to two years in prison, for having honest conversations with children who are confused about their gender identity.
Gender identity issues can cause great turmoil within families. Many parents already feel pressured to affirm their child’s belief that they were born in the wrong body, for fear of damaging their relationship. The Bill would add the threat of prosecution for parents who wish to guide their child away from life-changing, irreversible medicalisation. It would rip families apart.
This is of particular concern to gay rights campaigners such as Jeff, because the vast majority of gender-confused children are same-sex attracted, and same-sex attraction often goes hand in hand with gender non-conformity in childhood.
Watch @JeffDudgeon👇
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“We could amend this Bill here, there and everywhere, carve out this, tweak that, but at the end of the day the government would still be passing a Bill that says there’s one area, and one area only, of medical practice where you could get prosecuted if you put a foot wrong. That won’t be a chilling effect, that’ll be a deep freeze”
Magnificent from @Jebadoo2 #BinTheBill
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Seeing the old walls stripped at Central. (I love a vanishing point) They seem to be tackling the low level stink at the same time.🙏@ScotRail
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Bloody well said Dermot
This afternoon our Vice Chair, Dermot Kehoe, gave evidence at the Joint Committee on the draft Conversion Practices bill.
Parents should never feel afraid to tell their child “I don’t believe you’re born in the wrong body… but I do believe you’re my gay son and I support you in that”.
You can watch the whole meeting here:
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Inde…
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@NazShahBfd asking the questions that they don't want to hear. Plain parental conversations with their children will fall under the scope of this Bill and the parents will be criminalised. Saying 'No' or 'I don't agree' with a teenager will inevitably cause 'distress'. An answer such as 'Very difficult to answer in the abstract' is not good enough. This is law. We need precision.
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The Conversion Bill is not compatible with basic human rights.
Sir Jeremy Wright asks the panel – @HJoyceGender (Sex Matters) and @Jebadoo2 (@MensNetwork1) – how the bill as drafted interacts with the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Excellent question from Naz Shah MP
@NazShahBfd asking the questions that they don't want to hear. Plain parental conversations with their children will fall under the scope of this Bill and the parents will be criminalised. Saying 'No' or 'I don't agree' with a teenager will inevitably cause 'distress'. An answer such as 'Very difficult to answer in the abstract' is not good enough. This is law. We need precision.
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Busy day at the draft CP Bill Joint Committee. Here's Dermot Kehoe giving evidence. Parents should never feel afraid to tell their child “I don’t believe you’re born in the wrong body… but I do believe you’re my gay son and I support you in that”.
You can watch the whole meeting here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Inde…
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I want you all to know this.
There are 650 MPs in Parliament. Yet the one MP chosen by @UKLabour to Chair the Bill Committee for the controversial, dangerous and dismally bad draft legislation, the Conversion Practices Bill, is Alex Barros-Curtis. Until July 2024, when Alex was given a very safe Labour seat in Cardiff, he was the Head of the Labour Party's Governance and Legal Unit in London. This was a department set up to investigate complaints against members of the Labour Party. Complaints of antisemitism, Islamophobia, abuse, and of course latterly, mostly women holding legally-protected 'Gender Critical' (sex realist) beliefs. Alex oversaw the investigation of hundreds of members who liked or tweeted gender critical or feminist views. I was one of them. He investigated me, as a sitting Labour MP, for 13 months.
13 months to 'investigate' one like of one tweet. I had a great lawyer, one of the names we're all now familiar with, and I had to crowdfund to pay for his (excellent) work.
They first tried in 2020. But the screenshots crudely attached to that passive aggressive, threatening-sounding email from LP admin staff were so risible that I replied that it was too ridiculous for me to waste my precious time on. They left it. Years of Starmer bumbling and stuttering through interviews about whether he had spoken to me, whether he supported me, etc followed. My feminist sins continued apace.
And then I 'liked' a tweet by my GC comedian friend @Glinner. He had mocked Eddie'Suzy' for comparing his choice to wear traditional women's clothing, fake plastic breasts and nails, to those being persecuted by the Nazis during WWII. I found his sarcasm, as a award-winning comedy writer in the face of such offensive narcissism amusing and so 'liked' it. I found it absurd and obscene that Izzard, an extremely privileged and wealthy man, who openly changed his 'gender' at will, should write himself into history falseley as someone who would have been oppressed due to a circumstance beyond his control. We all know the groups who were tortured, starved and killed...
There is obviously more to my story, I will tell it all, it's just one chapter of the years of spiteful abusive and bullying practices meted out to me by the Labour Party managers. Not those who'd achieved office on merit, or even unexpectedly, but those in the club, often having failed to be elected themselves.
So Barros-Curtis who we were repeatedly told led 'the many *independent* inquiries into women members and MPs like me, now often stands as a trans-rights activist on the Labour backbenches. He has also been gifted the role of Chair of this Committee and is a huge supporter of this Bill. And I am not a part of the Bill Committee, although plenty of TRA MPs are. Does that sound like the democratic scrutiny of legislation to you?
A second offering for Halloween, this time by Nick Currie and John Henriksson.
The idea of a spectre that torments people during daylight hours, then disappears as the sun goes down, scares me more than the reverse scenario for some reason.
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Very moving to hear these three titans speaking in parliament, something that wouldn't have seemed possible five years ago. 👏👏👏👏
Baroness Browning asks the panel - @HJoyceGender (Sex Matters), @Jebadoo2 (@MensNetwork1) and Dermot Kehoe (@AllianceLGB) - if the difference between abusive and non-abusive practices is clear in the draft bill.