Superb Sex Matters: Truth and Reconciliation (aka How to leave Stonewall if you're a public body)

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They lay out an excellent strategy for public bodies and the necessary processes and enquiries that should happen as they leave Stonewall. I'll quote the ending:

Ultimately, the government should establish a wide-ranging independent inquiry into government bodies’ use of the Stonewall scheme, and their reliance on external lobby groups for training and accreditation around diversity and inclusion in general.

But the first step for Monday morning is transparency and setting a new tone from the top. Let the sunlight in and declare a decisive end to the era of “no debate”.

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/leaving-stonewall/

Departmental Ministers and Directors General should make clear that they will not accept these cat-ate-my-homework and then cat-fell-into-the-shredder excuses from their teams.

This is my favourite line.

It's an excellent and comprehensive plan. It remains to be seen if central government will take the decisive action required to start to unravel the mess Stonewall law has created.

There were so many quotable sentences!

This plus the letter-writing campaigns should be worthwhile.

An excellent, compassionate, thoughtful and generous piece.

The TRAs and Stonewall do pick their fights with some impressive women, don't they?

The TRAs and Stonewall do pick their fights with some impressive women, don't they?

And rather than engage with them decide to go for the equivalent of voter suppression. To be fair, it's still a very successful tactic and they have lots of 'leading voices' spinning the catastrophising narrative about what this means for trans people (still a silence on what it's meant to date for the human rights of women and the taunts to women "enjoy your erasure" from some of those prominent voices).

This is why #nodebate is a thing amongst TRAs. Because, how could you defend against that sort of clear, calm, powerful case?

I'm so impressed with SexMatters. Their campaign has been so logical, so coherent and so reasonable it's hard to argue with any of it. They have achieved so much in a period of months. It's amazing really. I want someone to make a film about them.
If Labour had women like this creating their strategy they wouldn't be at 30% in the polls.
And yes, TRA's always go after the wrong women and make things a million times worse. Where would we be if they hadn't gone after Maya and Allison. And now of course Marion.