EHRC re-accredited as an ‘A status’ National Human Rights Institution

The only way I know of removing someone’s right to exist is by killing them. That was done to 177 women in the UK in the year to March 2021. No trans people were murdered here that year, and I think you have to go back several years to find one.

Anyone worried about women’s right to exist?

I see lots of "transpeople are losing rights" type of thing on that Twatter thread but yet again not one of them has offered up an explanation of what rights. One did say the right to exist but didn't expand on this.

SORRY CANNAE HEAR ANYTHING RECEPTIOnS TERRIBLE

@ArabellaScott unfortunately when it comes to the Scottish government they will lie, manipulate and lie some more.
They claim that having a GRC makes zero difference yet we know that if you are a biological male with a GRC in Scotland you will be automatically placed in a women's jail and as per the equal representation Bill the single sex exemption will not apply to you as the Scottish government has chosen to redefine the word woman in law even though they lost a law case about the definition of women and are now still refusing to accept that the only legal definition of women in law is female of any age

No problem. And yes, Vest, exactly.

The EA as currently being implemented has neutralised 'sex' as a protected characteristic. Because 'gender reassignment' is being treated as more important in a hierarchy of needs, it effectively has removed protections on the basis of sex.

That should be very clear.

Aah I’m sorry @ArabellaScott i misunderstood, I get you now

They make death threats, throw piss around and call people evil.
The EHRC quietly puts out a statement of fact.

The adults are in the room. It makes me smile.

I understand and see the point you are making @ArabellaScott - scrap the pretence and let everyone see and judge on that basis and that basis alone.

Because the Scotgov's explicit reasoning for continuing with self ID was that we have the single sex exemptions. It's being used as handy get out clause - oh, we have these exceptions. See, women are fine!

We're not fine. We've lost all the rights that we had under the EA. The Scotgov ignore the law as it pleases them or at their convenience (see the census and the recent FWS court case).

Either the EHRC needs to properly uphold the protections - hold organisations to account, provide far more robust guidance and explain clearly why women are entitled and need and deserve them - or scrap the pretence that women have them.

No, the TRA are upset because the EHRC confirmed single sex exemptions exist and can be used legally. How would women be better off @ArabellaScott ?

Is there an expectation the EHRC will forget the single sex exemptions exist?

Are they trying to remove these exemptions altogether?

TBH it might be clearer for everyone if they were gone.

Currently, we have the ghost of so-called exemptions that are in practise never, ever used when they are needed. But useful cover for, say, the Scotgov, to point to them and say 'look, women can have their spaces if they want', while conveniently forgetting that even in one of the examples given (rape survivors group) where it would be appropriate to have a single sex exemption, we have a male (without a GRC, no less) in a position that had been reserved for women.

We'd be better off without that figleaf pretending to protect women.

Better be honest and say 'there are no single sex spaces', and there are no women's rights anymore.

Human rights groups are fighting conversion therapy for homosexuality in Iran where the treatment includes sex change treatment, and is the reason why Iran carries out the second most sex change surgeries in the world (as it sees that as a cure for homosexuality).

In the UK trans rights campaigners are trying to get human rights organisations to lose their status as the EHRC are worried about many homosexual individuals being led down a path of changing their sex so that they become heterosexual members of the opposite sex.

Well no @ArabellaScott only one group should have their rights protected 😂. We can’t have the body set up to protect everyone’s rights actually protecting everyones rights. They’re only supposed to protect the rights of those people ‘on the right side of history’

Twitter tantrums are epic.

'evil' 😂

Why on earth are some people expending so much energy fighting the body that is there to support and protect their rights? Is it because said body is also protecting women's rights? That's just not acceptable, I presume.

www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-work/news/equality-and-human-rights-commission-re-accredited-%E2%80%98-status%E2%80%99-organisation scroll down for deets about GANHRI.

Accredited by whom?

Have not good at law actually ever won anything?

Good job they didn’t call themselves the good at law project lol. That’d be false advertising 😀

The politicisation of the UK's human rights body has placed trans people in the firing line, but this attempt to create a hierarchy of human rights in the UK is a very real threat to everyone, particularly those of us protected by the Equality Act

The absolute irony of that statement in the BBC article from Nancy Kelley.

Couple of familiar names on that EHRC Twitter thread. I didn't realise that The Good Law Project were 'supporting' Stonewall's attempt to get the EHRC status removed, their losses sure are mounting up.

Great news.

Saw a very familiar name popping up on that thread. Won’t say it in case it’s like beetlegeuse but it’s bundled in there somewhere 😂

Amazing how when things don't go TRAs way it the process that is is wrong not them, the accreditation body already dumped the Stonewall attempt to have EHRC's status removed, they really can't bear people saying 'No' to them.