A coalition of gender-critical groups has accused Stonewall of “targeting” the female boss of Britain’s equalities watchdog with “unreasonable complaints” to the United Nations over her stance on trans issues. The Telegraph has more.
Led by women’s rights organisation Sex Matters, which believes biological sex takes precedence over self-identified gender, the 39 groups said Baroness Kishwer Falkner, Chairwoman of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, was being attacked for taking action to protect women.
They said Stonewall had subjected her to the same sort of “unreasonable, vexatious complaints” used to harass ordinary women at work.
The groups have signed a letter to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (Ganhri), which has been persuaded by organisations such as Stonewall to carry out a “special review” into the EHRC, claiming it is anti-trans.
The review could see it stripped of its top-level UN accreditation.
In their letter, the groups accused Stonewall of a “pattern of reprisal, harassment and intimidation” against the commission.
“Kishwer Falkner has been targeted by the same kind of unreasonable, vexatious complaints used to harass and intimidate so many ordinary women at work,” they said.
“Moreover, this has happened precisely because the EHRC acted, within its mandate, to protect such women from being targeted in this way.”
Last year, Baroness Falkner was placed under investigation after 12 current or former staff members at the Equality and Human Rights Commission made dozens of allegations against her.
Details of the complaints were never made public, but her supporters believe they were sparked by the position her watchdog had taken on trans rights. The investigation ended with her keeping her position.
Stonewall and other groups applied to Ganhri for the EHRC to be stripped of its UN accreditation as an ‘A’ status national national human rights organisation.
They complained after the EHRC advised the Government on the protected characteristic of sex in the Equality Act 2010, in which it said transgender people could be legitimately excluded from single-sex services if the reasons were “justifiable and proportionate”.
The letter from Sex Matters was also signed by other groups including the Women’s Rights Network, the LGB Alliance, and Lesbian Labour.
Worth reading in full.
It is “entirely reasonable to challenge the idea that any men can become women,” the letter says. “And what is more, the Equality Act protects our right to do so, and not to be harassed for it. Subsequent legal cases have demonstrated that an organisation or regulator conducting disciplinary procedures against someone for their protected views can itself be harassment.”
Read the full letter here.
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“gender-critical”
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People who correctly identify that there are two immutable sexes determined by fate/God at inception, and that “gender” is a nonsense concept outside of grammar. Probably 99% of world population, and historically probably 99.9%, share this view. It’s the others who are fringe loonies, not us.
Well said tof. I heartily object to being criticised and labelled for being ‘normal.’
In the German navy, their used to be a saying
Ein Elfer mit einem Schlauch ist gefährlicher als ein Affe mit einem Maschinengewehr.
[A sailor with a deck-washing hose is more dangerous than a monkey with a machine gun]
They may be loonies. But they’ve been handed a very real power to harm other people.
You should never give a monkey a machine gun, it could end in a massacre.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entery/borat-is-back-to-give-a-w_n_71388
What, may I ask, is self-identified gender?
The fact that this sort of sentence can now be written perfectly seriously and widely accepted without question is a testament to the level of collective insanity that is afflicting our society.
On current trajectory, within a few years, we will be reading and taking seriously sentences like “biological species takes precedence over self-identified species.” Sounds crazy now, but give it time.
It is positively impossible that men can become women. The opposite is not an idea which can legitimately be challenged, it’s an absurd article of faith which has to be rejected whenever its proponents try force it onto the infidels. They have every right to believe in anything. And everybody else has the same right to ignore whatever they happen to believe in. Reality doesn’t change by altering someone’s description of it.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/mask-mania-claims-a-little-boys-life/
This will bring tears. A little lad murdered by the enforcement of masks.
The Groan rightly gets a good slapping.
Short version: 11 month old boy suffocated by his own mucus after professional child-minder forced mask back onto his face.
Gruelling.
Something for some context:
https://news.sky.com/story/the-virus-is-still-evolving-at-an-incredible-rate-how-widespread-is-covid-now-and-how-many-people-are-dying-with-it-13059424?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-gb
Some highlights:
Prof Griffin says the UK is “not suppressing prevalence”, which means “we’ll continue to see those waves”.
“Anti-vax sentiment clearly got highlighted during COVID – but I think most people know that those vaccines really work and that in a world without them, it would be Christmas 2021 again.”
Christmas 2021 was a year after mass vaccination had started in the UK. So, without the marvellous Covaxxes, we’d be right in the same situation as if we had had them?
“So children turning five after September 2022 have to wait until they’re in their 60s to have a vaccine, unless they become clinically vulnerable,” Prof Griffin says.
“The idea that repeated infections are a preferable means of generating population immunity to vaccines, especially in children, is a dangerous nonsense.”
“COVID is a spectrum and long COVID is only one end of that,” Dr Duncan says.
Dr Duncan says that we “urgently need multi-layered public health protections”, including seasonal vaccines and ventilation systems for cleaner indoor air to “stop people continuously re-infected with constantly evolving new variants”.
And then, it obviously mentions everything else which absolutely has to be mentioned, including social inequalities, MMR vaccines and the dangers of smoking.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/i-am-so-angry-with-the-morons-who-let-the-chemical-attacker-stay-here/
Laura Perrins letting rip on those guilty of allowing the acid attacker to remain in this country: an illegal immigrant, a three times failed asylum seeker, a convicted sex offender and now all but a murderer.
Christians don’t commit murder. These Next Tuesday mussies do.
Stonewall have infested the public sector like a nasty virus
With NO public mandate whatsoever.