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Melanie Field: the former EGRC expert behind Labour's women's rights policy

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LetsTalkTwaddle · 29/06/2024 10:18

Word has it that Melanie Field, who was one of those behind an attempt to oust Baroness Kishwar Falkner from her position heading the EHRC, is the woman who is telling Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner what to say when asked about women's rights.

Last year Kishwar Falkner came under attack for alleged bullying and transphobia, which she was later cleared of. Melanie Field left the EHRC thereafter and set up as an independent adviser. It's Field, I'm told, who is behind the 'biological women and other, traumatised and vulnerable women who've been born in the wrong body' line that Keir Starmer et al are trotting out.

Field has also written an article on why the Equality Act is just fine and needs no clarification: she was apparently one of the key people who drafted it.

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/melanie-field-389901148

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-we-need-amend-equality-act-protect-womens-rights-melanie-field-dyewe?trk=publicprofilearticleview

The previous head of the EHRC was David Isaac who also acted as Chair of Stonewall during the time he was in official office. Melanie Field was working in the EHRC during his period in the EHRC.

Elsewhere GC groups have noticed that Stonewall and other trans groups have gone very quiet about the use of the phrase 'biological women', which they would once have protested about, because TWAW. There's speculation that Stonewall and allies have agreed to pipe down in order to enable Labour to pursue the 'Biological and other women' line.

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OldCrone · 29/06/2024 10:39

It looks as though she had to be re-educated by the trans lobby after suggesting in 2022 that GRA reform shouldn't be rushed into.

Speaking at the committee, Melanie Field, chief strategy and policy officer for the EHRC, said: “In the case of reform of the Gender Recognition Act, we reached the position that more detailed consideration is needed before legislative change is made.

"This is because of the continued lack of certainty about the practical consequences for individuals and society of extending the ability to change legal sex from a defined group with a recognised medical condition who have demonstrated their commitment and ability to live in their acquired gender to a wider group.

“Questions continue to be raised in different quarters about potential consequences. For example, in relation to the collection and use of data, participation and drug testing in competitive sport, measures to address barriers facing women and practices within the criminal justice system.”

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/gender-recognition-scotland-ehrc-says-lack-of-certainty-remains-over-gra-reform-despite-delay-concerns-3697767

Shortshriftandlethal · 29/06/2024 10:38

GreatSave · 29/06/2024 10:30

https://x.com/Nancy_M_K/status/1725187293319696753

I wonder who has the ear of Melanie Field?

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Seems Field is one of the main movers and shakers of the 'Equalities' world, having drafted the original equalities act.

Shortshriftandlethal · 29/06/2024 10:35

Field seems particularly keen on the concept of " balancing rights" - which automatically assumes, I suggest, that women have to give way on some issues and trans identified people in other ways.

It ignores the fundamental conflict which is not simply over access to single sex spaces, but about the very definition of sex. In the act of compromising and balancing.....what we are being requested to do is to obscure the truth.

GreatSave · 29/06/2024 10:30

https://x.com/Nancy_M_K/status/1725187293319696753

I wonder who has the ear of Melanie Field?

GreatSave · 29/06/2024 10:27

I’m not on LinkedIn so I couldn’t read much without prompting to sign in, but there were some interesting comments below the article pointing out where and why she is wrong. Peter Daly being one of them.

LetsTalkTwaddle · 29/06/2024 10:19

Lawks, I mean the EHRC. Can't seem to edit and correct the title.

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