Baroness Nicholson on twitter

[Winesalot]

I have been lurking on twitter lately and noticed Baroness Nicholson has been very active recently. Amongst her tweets are quite a few gems - letters to Liz Truss, tweets asking for evidence about Stonewall’s involvement CPS guidance just to name two.

This tweet I found very encouraging too.

It is imperative to restore the rights of women.I foresee a single issue, cluster approach;we make a new Women’s Rights movement lasting one year,solely to rescue womanhood from its destruction through today’s legal and social denial of our existence.Emma,BNoW

She has today written to Liz Truss again but this time with her concerns about the gross misinterpretation of the ECHR in the trans toolkits used in schools and recommends that such toolkits are removed from use now. Such support is great news.

twitter.com/baroness_nichol/status/1256326753850556418?s=21

I will try to post the letter for those not on twitter.

I look forward to seeing what what happens next.

The link from the letter is www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2

Thank you digbee.

Is that Baroness Berridge, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) and Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for International Trade) (Minister for Women), saying that she definitely wasn't the one responsible for dodgy materials being used in schools that go against the safeguarding of children?

I've really enjoyed the sunlight over the past week. Remember though, if you get too exposed you can get sunburn.

That document doesn't seem to be prioritising transgender or gender identity Winesalot. Where "gender" is mentioned, this seems to be the focus:

Child sexual exploitation is a form of child sexual abuse. It occurs where an individual or group takes advantage of an imbalance of power to coerce, manipulate or deceive a child or young person under the age of 18
...
Like all forms of child sex abuse, child sexual exploitation:
...
• is typified by some form of power imbalance in favour of those perpetrating the abuse. Whilst age may be the most obvious, this power imbalance can also be due to a range of other factors including gender, sexual identity, cognitive ability, physical strength, status, and access to economic or other resources.

I just saw this letter to anonymous also tweeted. Re M&S letter she sent.

Sorry this is the thread link.

twitter.com/baroness_nichol/status/1263930858291048448?s=21

The DfE Equality Act guidance that the letter refers to (link below) not only prioritises gender reassignment out of all the protected characteristics (because of course that is the most important focus when working with children ) but the guidance specifically directs schools to GIRES along with referencing the awful Cornwall trans guidelines that advocate parental alienation (page 17)
Bullying (page 16) also generates two suggestions that schools look at the Stonewall and GIRES websites about bullying - again no other organisations are mentioned.
Apart from links to the EHRC & Gov.uk there are zero links to any other organisations in that key DfE advice about equality legislation - not in relation to race, religion, sex or any of the other protected characteristics. Only transgender lobby groups are referenced.

How the writer of that letter can claim that the DfE don't endorse these organisations defies belief. Perhaps someone on twitter could advise the Baroness that the DfE do not appear to know the contents of their own advice to schools and the extent to which trans lobby groups are being given the DfE seal of approval?

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/315587/Equality_Act_Advice_Final.pdf

I am struggling on a small screen, which document is that nauticant if you don’t mind please ?

Sorry for causing confusion Winesalot I mistakenly referred to you when I should have referred to the link by digbee:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2

I get the sense of people backing away from a clusterfuck.

No worries nauticant. It is quite the hot potato. As many have said on twitter, it is doubtful that the DofE is so clueless as to what is being used in schools. And as truth aptly pointed out ... it is published for all to see.

Just for those not on twitter, of course the Baroness has declared her intent to keep at it and follow through.

The government have been in power since 2010. They have watched as the civil service have been regulatory captured by lobby groups and not just stood by but actively funded these awful organisations as they engaged on a wholesale exercise of targeting children in schools and young people in universities (along with sport, businesses and so on).
They are desperate that the public don't join up the dots or follow the money as more and more outrageous issues emerge via the efforts of so many women and an increasingly sceptical press.

Very true, truth.

The government went along because they perceived it as (1) appealing to younger voters and (2) being a zero-cost option. That is, any impacts would only be on insignificant areas and groups. These assumptions were valid until women starting to make enough noise for politicians to realise that this could indeed cost them.

Of course Brexit provided an ideal opportunity to ramp things up. Nobody was paying attention.

That letter to Ms Anonymous. ''Your recourse to ''assigned'' is a marker to ideological pedantry, detached from reality''. Just wonderful

I'm going to commit that sentence to memory.

I too loved it sourdough. It is smashing.

I think there is a risk here of stopping progress. I can see that the Baroness is willing to open communication with the people involved. If so, I can only assume she would apologize.

Surely as adults a way forward can be established ?

I really wish that those currently going after the Baroness in the name of feminism would stop and think of the big picture. Work with rather than against her.

Hear, hear, Kittens.

I see the usual cohorts are circling the Baroness like jackals.

How dare they!

I am so angry. Park their bloody egos up their backsides.

The Baroness DID apologise and try to build bridges. Of course she was rejected, She's too successful and the "wrong" political party for others to want to see her make a difference to all our lives

She's done more in 3 short weeks than those others have in years of self satisfied blogs.

I saw what happened to Posie Parker and it was DISGRACEFUL. I
can't bear to see it happen to another good woman.

Who needs TRAs when these "feminists" will work against any woman getting the adulation they lust for.

What's happening? I'm not on Twitter

arghhhhh FFS!

do people never learn?

the baroness has done more to shine sunlight on this in a fortnight than many others have been able to do in several years. the reasons of that is because she is who she is - she has clout and she's not afraid. godsake why do people do this?

Why do the TRAs’ work for them?

Some feminists on Twitter have complained about the Baroness' comments about - as far as I can tell - domestic violence survivors. I can't see exactly the tweets concerned, but it seemed that the Baroness offered to withdraw entirely from the subject of women's rights if she was hurting the cause. I think she had been accused of being dismissive of women who stayed?

From what I can see now, other people are encouraging her to continue. So hopefully she'll apply the same lightly held determination as she has done so far.