1/15 @Commonswomequ EVIDENCE thread:
Lots of new evidence to the WESC inquiry published yesterday, including this from @FiLiA_charity

"People are free to express themselves and identify themselves however they want to. It is not possible for laws to deal with
2/15 all forms of self-expression that have no fixed definition. It is unreasonable to demand that other people must affirm or agree with forms of self-expression."

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/16818/html/
3/15 From @SafeSchools_UK
"due to the widespread misinformation that has been given to many schools and local authorities, there is now a need for clear guidance from central government about the single sex provisions contained within the EA2010."

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/17134/html/
4/15 From @Docstockk @ProfAliceS and Prof. Rosa Freedman on offending rates of men who identify as women, as requested of Professor Rosa Freedman by Nicola Richards MP

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/18973/html/
5/15 From @Womans_Place_UK
"Our experience, in campaigning for women’s rights, is that the provisions permitting lawful discrimination on the basis of sex (that is the biological sex that is observed and recorded at birth) are poorly understood."

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/17175/html/
6/15 From 'Let A Woman Speak'
"It should be made explicitly clear that biological girls and women are permitted, by law, to meet, organise, live, and be protected, with the exclusion of biological males."

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/17158/html/
7/15 @ReSistersU Brighton
"In the absence of clear and consistent guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission on these issues, organisations have been vulnerable to a process of ‘policy capture’"

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/16980/html/
8/15 @LabWomenDec
"All-women shortlists, awards, etc. were all intended for those who are of the female sex, but in recent years have increasingly been opened up to anyone who ‘identifies as a woman’"

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/16964/html/
9/15 @fairplaywomen
"The value of female-only space is recognised around the world and is an important and well-established component of the sex-based rights for women and girls"

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/16877/html/
10/15 @CrimeandJustice
"Despite the clear legal basis for single-sex provision, HM Prison Service currently operates women’s prisons as mixed-sex institutions. Male prisoners who identify as women can be and are housed in women’s prisons."

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/16570/html/
11/15 @NoXYinXXprisons
"To state that decisions concerning admission to single-sex spaces for females are to be made on a case-by-case basis with reference to the males who seek to use them undermines the definition of single-sex spaces as single-sex."

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/16850/pdf/
12/15 @transwidows
"Spousal Exit Clause is an essential safeguard which assists Trans Widows, many of who are being abused and coercively controlled, to exit their marriage. Any attempt to restrict women from being able to access this should be resisted"
https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/16197/html/
13/15 @legalfeminist
"We believe that people are free to believe whatever they like about themselves, but it would not be good law-making to legislate to the effect that this takes any precedence over a material reality such as sex."

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/18015/html/
14/15 More from @ProfAliceS et al
"accurate sex-based data is already being undermined by the conflation of sex and gender identity (Sullivan 2020). Examples include police forces recording crimes committed by men as though they were committed by women"

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/17054/html/
15/15 We know how many hours of unpaid work went into these submissions. Meanwhile powerful lobby groups, funded by the government in many cases, have staff and legal advice on tap, as well as access to those in power. Women are taking time to respond because #SexMatters
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