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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Feminist student society sanctioned by Bristol University

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ArabellaScott · 19/09/2021 19:49

Currently crowdfunding to protect their right to maintain a single sex space.

This looks pretty important, to me. Crowdfunder on Crowd Justice, if you search using the title of this thread you should find it.

'Our case could be the among the first brought by women who were directly prevented from or sanctioned for using the single-sex exemptions under the Equality Act 2010. The rights everyone has to single-sex spaces mean nothing if public bodies and institutions, such as the Bristol SU, can override and dictate which rights women should or should not have.

All we want is to hold our women-only consciousness-raising meetings where we discuss our lives and unapologetically centre ourselves. We simply want the BSU to abide by the law and recognise that their sanctions against us were unfair and discriminatory. We want to continue operating using the single-sex exemptions for our restricted consciousness-raising meetings, and to continue holding our successful public feminists events where everybody is welcomed'

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KaycePollard · 19/09/2021 20:08

Thank you! I’ll check in there.

ArabellaScott · 19/09/2021 20:04

Hmmm. Not sure if that is coming up in search.

Link was posted on A Woman's Place UK facebook today.

www.facebook.com/womansplaceuk/

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ArabellaScott · 19/09/2021 20:03

I think so! It's 'Women Talk Back' and Rachel Rosario-Sanchez is the chair.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/13/university-feminist-society-disciplined-excluding-trans-women/

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YesDearNoDear · 19/09/2021 20:00

Surely Bristol SU's definition of a woman is discriminatory: a man could claim discrimination as some men have been admitted while others excluded.

I've dug in support. This does seem a really important test of the EqA.

KaycePollard · 19/09/2021 19:57

Thanks for this @ArabellaScott

I know you can’t give a direct link to the funding page, but could you give us the full official name of the group do we can support if we wish?

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