This post aged like fine milk.
An update on the steps we are taking to keep the public safe in London, in particular Jewish communities, following the major incident in Manchester earlier today.
ALT While details of the major incident in Greater Manchester this morning are still emerging, it will understandably have significantly increased fear and concern in Jewish communities across the UK, including here in London. While there is nothing to suggest an increased threat to London, we have deployed additional resources to the areas around synagogues, other Jewish community venues and in those boroughs with significant Jewish populations. This is in addition to the officers that are already deployed in those areas as part of our existing policing plan for the Jewish High Holy Days. We are reviewing events due to take place in London in the coming days in light of this morning’s incident to ensure all appropriate measures are taken to provide reassurance and keep the public safe.
Gordon Raw retweeted
The Twilight of Nicola Sturgeon
My review of Frankly
jkrowling.com/in-my-own-word…
Children in Need chairwoman resigns with tirade at chief executive
thetimes.com/article/b251c34…
Feminist academic and Blair critic to lead review of curriculum
thetimes.com/article/9972a5a…
A worrying story in the Times today. AA disciple of Foucault and advocate of critical social justice has been appointed to review the curriculum in E&W. Leave the kids alone.
This post should be required reading for @MishalHusain and anybody who thought her interview with @KemiBadenoch on @BBCr4today was well conducted or that her questioning on the paperwork that someone should take to a rape crisis centre was pertinent.
An overview of the proposal to clarify the meaning of sex in the Equality Act.
Background: In recent years there has been significant uncertainty over the interaction between the Gender Recognition Act and the Equality Act. Some things are settled law, others are uncertain.
What is settled law:
- The Equality Act protects both sex and gender reassignment. Sex refers to males of any age and females of any age. Gender reassignment refers to those who are proposing to undergo, are undergoing, or have undergone a process of changing attributes of sex.
- Sex in law is, by default, biological sex. Everyone is legally classed as their biological sex except where a GRC changes sex for some purposes.
- Being protected under gender reassignment does not change sex in law for any purpose. It protects against denial of employment, goods & services, or housing as compared to someone of the same biological sex who does not have the GR protected characteristic. So trans women by default men and are compared to non-trans men. (Green v Secretary of State for Justice).
- Single-sex services are lawful. Schedule 3 of the Equality Act allows providers to set up and maintain single-sex services such as rape crisis centres and female-only changing rooms and toilets. It also allows them to exclude anyone on the basis of sex or gender reassignment once proportionate.
- Proportionality does not require a case-by-case analysis. General policies can be proportionate and most policies are general (Reference by AG for NI re Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Bill)
- Being protected under gender reassignment does not entail an entitlement to use single-sex services intended for members of the opposite sex. (Croft v Royal Mail; Green v SoS for Justice; FWS2 [Inner House])
What is currently uncertain:
- Whether sex in the Equality Act means (i) biological sex or (ii) biological sex unless modified by a GRC.
- Whether biological females are protected as a distinct group under the Equality Act.
- How precisely the Schedule 3 exceptions which allow for single-sex services operate. If sex means sex as modified by a GRC these exceptions become more complicated to rely on and that can affect how useful they are in practice, given concerted campaigns to spread misinformation about the law here.
- Whether single-sex associations defined by reference to biology (eg. Lesbian walking group, informal support network for female victims of male violence) are lawful. If sex doesn't mean biological sex, these are unlawful.
- Whether trans men who become pregnant are protected from pregnancy discrimination. If a GRC modifies sex for the Equality Act they likely lose protection.
- Whether sexual orientation is defined in the Act by reference to biological sex or biological sex unless modified by a GRC.
What this proposal will do:
- Clarify that sex in the Equality Act means biological sex, referring to the ordinary common law position from Corbett v Corbett.
- Make it clear that single-sex services and associations are defined by reference to biological sex.
- Make it clear that trans men are protected from pregnancy discrimination regardless of whether they have a GRC.
- Make gender reassignment a reserved matter, preventing devolved parliaments such as in Scotland from legislating to introduce Self-ID, ensuring that the continuing operation of the s35 Order blocking the GRR Bill.
What this proposal will not do:
- Remove the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.
- Make it lawful to discriminate on the basis of gender reassignment in the provision of goods & services, employment, or housing.
- Prevent services from offering a trans-inclusive service where proportionate.
- Require a new analysis of biological sex. The common law position will be reverted to and there are decades of caselaw on how to define biological sex in law.
I'm away at the moment so won't be responding very frequently. This post was a break from my holiday and I'm getting back to it now!
She’s definitely rattled. The replies, which have piled in within a matter of minutes, are priceless. All the SNP sock accounts thanking her for everything she did for us. 😂
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Gordon Raw retweeted
🏴 And if you want to know what marginal tax rates look like now in Scotland and rUK, look no further 🇬🇧
Meanwhile, another SNP MP, Dr Lisa Cameron, faces being deselected. She claims she was ostracised after she questioned why the Party wasn’t supporting the victim. The SNP have completely lost their moral compass.
The language is changing fast now. Transsexual became transwoman, then trans woman, and now we have trans mum.
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Gordon Raw retweeted
Anyone lose a set of keys in Stirling over the weekend?
If you can tell me inscription I will let you know where to collect them.
Share so we can find owner 👍
Oh great. First Matt tells everyone he doesn’t believe in gender ideology, then just when nearly 200 million people are thinking about what he’s said, he chooses that moment to peddle some ridiculous sub-Roswell UFO conspiracy nonsense.
Intelligence officials now confirm that UFOs of “non-human origin” have been recovered and studied.
At this point the only reason to discount these reports is your own preconceived belief that aliens can’t exist.
The evidence is really overwhelming now.
thedebrief.org/intelligence-…
Poor old Joe Biden tripping over a sandbag. Am I the only one hearing Lady Bracknell from The Importance of Being Earnest? “A Sandbag?!”
Gordon Raw retweeted
On tonight’s episode of Free Speech Nation, I spoke to @BillboardChris about his campaign to stop the sterilisation of children.
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Reminds me of the classic NTNON sketch ‘Abu Ben Adhem’. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xVtjyC…
New name announced for the most beautiful national park in Britain: Bannau Brycheiniog...
#NationalPark #Environment
beacons-npa.gov.uk/
youtu.be/m7fcRyIY3EQ
