Excellent from Trevor Phillips

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Oh he gets it

x.com/trevorptweets/status/2057780825148490016?s=46

It still amazes me when people speak up to state reality and common sense, it's literally brave and groundbreaking, because lying and wishful thinking have become the norm in public discourse.

A comprehensive and utterly sane view from Trevor. He’s obviously one of the good guys. We need more Trevors.

Very well articulated common sense. Thank you, Trevor.

Why can't there be more grown-ups like this in charge of things?

Excellent.

If only we were blessed with politicians with such ability.

He really, really gets it. All the elements are there. Good man.

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In a democracy, there’s little point in Parliament deciding anything if the law is then made an ass by activists intimidating bosses in companies, schools, universities and the media into doing something different.

bloody well said

It's all so easy for them to speak up now though, isn't it.

Five years ago, he'd have lost his job. Like all those women did.

Also bloody well said:
at the heart of the campaign to undermine the Equality Act is an idea that we specifically rejected in 2010, so called self-identification. That is to say, that it should be up to the individual to decide whether they have what’s called a protected characteristic - are you male or female, are you black or white. The problem is that self-ID would destroy the operation of any law against discrimination.

He can speak authoritatively on the EA2010 - he helped draft it.

[T]oday’s guidance isn’t just another tiresome chapter in culture wars. It is , I hope, a halt to the efforts to undermine one of the most important pieces of legislation on the statute book, by people who, for their own reasons, would prefer us to be living in the 1950s world of Mad Men.

Thank you, Trevor. The tweet is a clear, concise explanation of the importance of the Equality Act and yesterday's EHRC guidance. It's very understandable and straightforward for those who haven't been following the issue or don't understand why women care about it.

This.

I cannot ignore that most men, including Mr. Phillips, sat back and watched dreadful injustices, but were silent.

While doing so, they studied the intellectual endeavors of the women who were on the front line.

Arriving now with clear and borrowed argument, when it is safe, does not elevate him or any of the others who are speaking now, into the terrain of "Good Man."

But, as the West is what it is, we need him.

So I accept him.

But I am not excited or indeed, grateful.

Was too little and way too late for my tastes.

Trevor Phillips has been speaking against self ID since at least 2018

Who the hell are these people who don’t know Trevor Phillips started speaking up about this nearly 10 years ago? What rocks have they been under, and why are they here now pretending they’ve had any hand in the grassroots pushback?

Yes, I thought this was particularly good.

The problem is that self-ID would destroy the operation of any law against discrimination.

The attack on rights really is 2 pronged from left and right.

Step 1 make the law ridiculous
Step 2 take away the law

Thanks for sharing, a great post, as clear as clear can be, thanks Trev. 👏

"This is not about so called trans rights, which are completely unaffected by this guidance, since no-one has ever had the right to walk into a changing room reserved for teenage girls."

Once more for the hard of learning

"THIS IS NOT ABOUT SO CALLED 'TRANS' RIGHTS.... "

only one thing bothers me about this article - the identification of woman as being mothers wives sisters or daughters - did he need to say that?

Because we women are sisters, wives , mothers , and daughters. We all have or had mothers & grandmothers , I don’t see the problem with his description.

At first I thought it was because it was in relation to men but not every role named is exclusively related to men

at the moment I’m not a daughter wife sister or mother…

you can say historically I would have been a daughter but then again it makes me feel like I’m lacking because I don’t fit any of those roles

im just musing - be good to hear from anyone else who felt like that reading the first paragraph

You say we are sisters wives and mothers - lots of women are not

I took it as him making the point that everyone is impacted by this .. ie any men reading the article should think about what it means for their mothers etc.

Hands up - I did not know and withdraw my critique.

I mentioned daughters too because women are all someone’s daughter.
My mum is dead but I’m still her daughter.

I think that’s what struck me - instead of writing about women directly it was as their roles in relation to men

also not all women are in those roles - I don’t currently meet any of those categories - parents now dead

yes but for me I don’t see myself as actively in society as a daughter with my parents now being dead

there is something very diminishing for-me about him saying women then listing those roles

this is a man writing too - on a women’s perspective and what it means for them

Well my parents have passed too but I’m still a daughter. I think you are looking for something that isn’t there. He’s just trying to make the point that the safety of women and girls is the central point when it comes to discussing single sex spaces .., not a bit of fuss about loos.