Parliamentary committee Joanna Cherry SNP MP & QC challenge to Twitter representative about abuse of women / 'terf' / why sex is not protected characteristic

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Human Rights Committee - EXTRACT
Wednesday 1 May 2019 Meeting started at 3.16pm, ended 4.52pm

parliamentlive.tv/event/index/0364bfc3-5adc-4aef-99bd-48c68daacc38?in=15:27:30&out=15:50:30

Joanna Cherry was amazing. How refreshing to hear an MP standing up for actual females, instead of shouting TWAW. The female sex has been bullied and harassed for too long and finally an MP is pointing out that only those with the Y chromosome can belong to the female SEX. Transwomen who self identify as the belonging to the stereotypical gender of women should be protected, but not at the expense of those females who are of the sex known as women.

That was amazing.
I see BBC have covered this and completely missed the point of Joanna's fantastic questioning
BBC News - Facebook and Twitter grilled over abuse faced by MPs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48118566

twitter.com/joannaccherry/status/1123658197749858304

Thank you Joanna.

Well that's upset the angry children on twitter.

Joanna Cherry was awesome. 'Puzzled' up the bloody wazoo over twitters rank and blatant misogyny.

She even invoked a head tilt !

And that twitter tweenie kept answering the 'what about sex' question with well we have gender and gender identity. Which is entirely different and not a protected characteristic, ffs.

I can't work out if she knew and was fudging or just ignorant.

And yes - it's telling how relieved one is over basic, really bloody basic, pro female support.

Twitter woman wasn’t useless. She did exactly what she was paid to do. 😡🤬

Joanna Cherry ❤️

Omg, that tweet ahag posted. 😂

They're just proving her point over and over.

Wildly irrational, furious and unhinged.

Totally brave and f*cking stunning!

Thank you Joanna for using your position to expose the outrageous hypocrisy and instigate the changes that will hopefully see an end to it. Big respect and adoration.

Well that's upset the angry children on twitter.

It has. Don’t know how long this’ll last, but I reported all the gun pointing picks on the Helen Lewis thread. Took a while, but this was the result. Done similar today on Joanna’s thread.

She is my local MP. I have never voted for her based on her and the SNPs position on independence. I was however so pleased and massively impressed with her performance on this and taking a stand, that I have sent a letter of thanks. SNP is all over the place with this...Joanna and Joan certainly standing against the party view which is unheard of. Sturgeon appears to have drink the koolaid.

blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/05/at-last-an-mp-brave-enough-to-say-twitter-hates-women/

Psuedo I agree that the SNP are all over the place with this. I noticed another SMP is liking and retweeting her Tweets, so it clearly isn’t just Joanna.

Ironic that the Twitter rep is getting a taste of what it feels like to be thrown under the boss by men.

I watched it last night. Joanna was brilliant.

Tbh I thought sending in that young woman was just another act of misogyny on Twitter's behalf. Make one of your big male, moderator bully-boys take the flak, you absolute bunch of moral cowards.

Well that was a bit of a shit show really.

Never seen so many questions dodged in favour of pre moderated stock answers

I actually felt sorry for the Twitter woman she has been trashed with a Job that no one can really train for properly because of the severe bias shown.

Really highlights what's going on doenst it.

And how utterly ridiculous when someone stated they condem abuse against trans people but dared ask about sex that they ve deemed hateful...

But of an own goal with the Twitter lady really. When discussing Male violence she went on to mention trans. No one was talking about the trans stuff then. So is she saying trans women are indeed Male? How did it get brought up?

I liked the lead up to the climax. The first questions to the witness were about the abuse directed at female politicians. The witness agreed that they had been targeted on the grounds of their female sex.

The next questions were about why Twitter did not recognise the protected characteristic of sex - despite admitting that the female sex was being targeted. The witness floundered and talked about protecting 'gender' and 'gender identity'.

Cherry persisted. No longer talking about politicians, she asked about the abuse and threats directed at feminists and other women. Why did Twitter not recognise and protect the female sex from abuse, violent images and threats? Why were women's complaints deemed to be unproven and not in breach of the rules? She illustrated her point with particular cases.

Later that evening, she published more screenshots of the abuse directed at her. As if to prove her point, TRAs responded with more abuse, threats and violent images of guns and weapons.

I wish that she was on the Womens' and Equality Committee instead of that useless self-proclaimed "Trans Ally" Anglea Crawley MP (SNP). JC is someone who challenges and probes, rather than someone who accepts guff and spin unquestioningly.

Love you Joanna!

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www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3575065-James-Kirkup-Spectator-article-on-Joanna-Cherry-SNP-MP-At-last-an-MP-brave-enough-to-say-Twitter-hates-women

Sarah I think it's because the context of the tweet that was read out was to do with trans women.

Or at least, a lot of the "men are more violent" tweets that were deleted were from discussions about trans people so she might have assumed it was the case here (or actually knew the context of those specific tweets).

Thank you Joanna for your clear questioning and continuing to bring back the discussion to women's sex protected rights. I hope she will be taking on the younger woke women in her party who maintain the delusional party line that TW ARE women. Eg Mhairi Black.

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Which just proves that trans people can talk about Male violence because that's why they need to be with us but when women do we are offensive to trans people..

Great article from James Kirkuk as always

And for Joanna Cherry. Brave, principled and smart woman

Tell her how grateful you are!

Joanna Cherry QC MP
House of Commons
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Tbh I thought sending in that young woman was just another act of misogyny on Twitter's behalf. Make one of your big male, moderator bully-boys take the flak, you absolute bunch of moral cowards.

My thoughts too. Also, the assurance from the Twitter representative to look into the 'gender balance' of moderators etc will not reveal the sex balance & could easily obscure misogyny.

Reuters October 2014
(extract)
"LOS ANGELES, Oct 7 (Reuters) - A senior Twitter engineer hailed as one of the most important gay or transgender people in the tech industry was sentenced on Tuesday to three years probation after pleading guilty to false imprisonment and domestic violence charges, San Francisco prosecutors said.

Dana Contreras, known professionally as Dana McCallum, was also ordered to attend 52 weeks of domestic violence classes and stay away from her wife, the victim in the case, as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.

Under that agreement prosecutors agreed to drop more serious rape charges against Contreras, 33, who was arrested in January after the attack, said Max Szabo, a spokesman for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office." (continues)
www.reuters.com/article/usa-rape-sanfrancisco/corrected-twitter-engineer-lgbt-activist-pleads-guilty-to-domestic-violence-idUSL2N0S300920141008

further background 'Women are Human' June 2018 article:
(extract)
"San Franscisco, California – Dana Contreras is a prominent transgender community activist who was accused of forcefully entering a home and perpetrating a vicious rape.

At the time of the incident, Dana Contreras, who uses the name Dana McCallum professionally, was a senior engineer at Twitter, a company [DM] had worked for since 2010.

In January 2014, [McCallum] submitted a guilty plea to one count of domestic violence with corporal injury to the spouse, as well as to one count of false imprisonment.

McCallum "was commonly acknowledged as “one of the most important gay or transgender people in the tech industry.” Business Insider recognized [Dana] McCallum as “one of the geniuses behind Twitter.”
womenarehuman.com/trans-identified-twitter-engineer-rapes-his-wife-dana-mccallum/]]