A Woman's Place is in conversation: Sex in the census - 18 October 2020 17:00 online

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Our panellists will discuss the framing of the sex question in the next UK census.

Panelists:

Lisa MacKenzie

Jane Clare Jones

Alice Sullivan

Selina Todd

Details and registration www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-womans-place-is-in-conversation-sex-in-the-census-tickets-123528385727

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Thanks for this!

Great line up - online via zoom and free - with links to some women centred charities for those who are able to contribute.

Thanks for the prompt. Have registered.

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Great - I’ve signed up.

Excellent panel again, I've signed up. Thanks for the heads up OP 👍

We are really pleased to be participating in this.

Looking forward to 'seeing' some Mumsnetters!

I think it has been so popular they have had to increase capacity.

Do think that Mumsnet FWR should get an honourable mention for keeping this issue in the public sphere!

This is happening today!

Just made a thread about this this morning. Glad I saw this one.

Excellent reminder. Watched this 15 minute presentation by Alice Sullivan last night discussing academic freedom. From a great evening put on by Cambridge Radical Feminist Network, December 2019, looking at Gender Critical Feminism in Public & Academic Discourse.

More recordings of the evening are available on YouTube.

Who is registered for this? Over 900 registrations - which is not far off the number for Women's Liberation 2020 conference back in pre-pandemic February.

Does anyone know if this will be recorded and released later as an online video.

Fingers crossed as I wont be online at the time of the event.

900!!

anyone else logged in to this?

I tried, but it won't let me on.

Hopefully it will be recorded.

Got on

Webinar is being recorded and slides will also be available later.

If you missed it, but want to take action, here's Kiri Tunk's request for action:

Tonight, please email Liz Truss, ONS and your MP - it will take 10 minutes and there are 500 people on this call.

Then get other people you know to do the same.
Amplify and Multiply! Model letter and links here

womansplaceuk.org/2020/10/18/make-census-make-sense/

Available on WPUK channel on YouTube shortly. I urge you to watch it, it was excellent. The history of how the census was captured is utterly shocking.

"The function of the census is not to validate anyone's identity"
Jane Clare Jones

The ONS are holding an AMA
twitter.com/census2021/status/1317815212695785472?s=21

Another possible route for raising concerns

Now on youtube

Watching this I'm thinking how wrong it was for Jane G on Woman's Hour to say 'some people label it transphobic'. Here it is in public with professors and researchers calmly presenting facts. It's a must watch. Unlike the APPG with secret meetings and no minutes spreading disinformation and Crispin Blunt trying to erase women's rights in private meetings.