🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month. I will not stand by while anyone is excluded from participating in public life because there are no facilities they can safely use. Not now. Not ever. The Conservative Party would rather pander to a MAGA-style culture war than challenge poor guidance. The Labour Government... wants to pretend there was consensus around the appointment of the new EHRC Chair. There was not. The Greens didn't show up. The Liberal Democrats have been clear from the start: the EHRC's guidance must be inclusive, workable and provide clarity, so that nobody is left worried about whether they can safely access public facilities, and no individual, business or service provider is exposed to unnecessary legal risk. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are human rights.show more

Let’s stop pretending this is about toilets. That is the smallest doorway into a much bigger argument. This is about women’s rights: the right to assemble as women, organise as women, speak as women, and be represented as women. It is about dignity, privacy, safeguarding, safe spaces, fair sport, single-sex services, hospital wards, refuges, changing rooms and the basic right of women to set boundaries without being smeared for it. The toilet door is only the symbol. The real battle is whether women are still allowed to have anything of their own.

But you will stand by whilst women are bullied, humiliated as they are forced to allow men in to their spaces and watch their rights erased? Please explain that to me…

It's the law, Tom. And as for your disingenuous comments about Mary-Ann Stephenson, I suppose they're at least consistently within the spirit of the disgraceful, legally illiterate performative politicking your Committee subjected her to when she appeared before you.

Hi Tom. Should men who claim to be women be exempted from the safeguards for women that we place around all other men? And, if so, why? Thanks in advance for taking the time to reply.

Allowing biological men into women’s toilets, changing rooms, prisons, shelters, and sports isn’t “kindness” it’s reckless stupidity that gets women assaulted, raped, and robbed of their privacy and safety. We’ve already seen the cases: girls traumatized, female prisoners impregnated, records smashed by mediocre male athletes. Sex is real. Male violence patterns don’t magically vanish with lipstick and a dress. Women’s single-sex spaces exist because biology matters and safeguarding isn’t bigotry. Stop sacrificing women and girls on the altar of this delusional ideology. Trans rights don’t include the right to override female rights and endanger them. Enough.

Women need single sex spaces. You are campaigning to exclude women from public life because there are no facilities they can safely use. Instead you could campaign for all types of men to be safe in men’s single sex spaces. Sex is not a choice.

But you are OK with women staying home because they can’t participate in public life away from the male gaze. Disabled women, women of faith, survivors of abuse. You don’t give a damn about any of us @tomgordonLD

You neglected to specify what changes to the Equality Act you are proposing, specifically? Women have rights, Tom. Speak to them.

Do you have a vested interest in sharing toilets with teen girls Tom?

You are a disgusting misogynist And we know exactly who's pulling your strings

No one is being excluded from public life. Men are being told to keep out of the women’s spaces they should never have been admitted to in the first place. If you think that makes those men unsafe then take it up with your fellow men instead of bullying women into opening up their spaces to men. Do something to make men’s spaces inclusive and safe for all men, including the feminine ones. But you won’t, will you, because it’s easier to blame women.

The law is the law - the guidance is based on the law. If you are planning to change the Equality Act so that women lose our rights to privacy, safety and dignity - be loud and clear about it. Which rights should women lose?

Why do you hate us? Why do you want to remove our rights in law? Why shouldn’t women have privacy from men? Why won’t you accept it when we say no? Why would you target vulnerable women? What’s wrong with you? Why are you lying? Why are you a misogynist? Why do you hate women?

How ridiculous. Access to opposite sex services isn't a human right. It's a privilege absolutely nobody deserves to have. You can't force women to pretend the giant bloke in a skirt is a 'woman'. We don't consent to the removal of our human rights to dignity and privacy from the opposite sex. Grow up.

Nobody should be excluded from public life because there are no facilities they can safely use. Agreed. Which is exactly why women need genuinely single-sex spaces. The erosion of those spaces has already driven women out of rape crisis services, domestic violence provision and other support networks. Women have self-excluded when their privacy, dignity and boundaries ceased to matter at the very moment they needed them most. You speak as though women are not part of the public. We are. Without meaningful single-sex provision, women too will be excluded from public life. I voted Liberal Democrat for years. Your party lost my support when it decided that women’s rights were an acceptable price to pay for its preferred version of inclusion.

I suppose Hinder's analysis of the challenge Labour faces here won't apply to the Lib Dems. You lads are only concerned with student politics, fighting with Greens over the university town vote.

You’ll happily stand by while women are excluded from participating in public life because there are no facilities they can safely use though won’t you? New misogyny- Same as the old misogyny just now with lipstick and a pronoun badge.

Good guidance...

No one is being excluded. Ffs we are just asking men not to use spaces for the female sex.

You diminish the safety and dignity of women and girls to a ‘culture war’. Pure misogyny. This is NOT a matter of left v right. It is integrity v cowardice. You fail.

At this point, why don’t the Lib Dems just have a glowing neon sign about their HQ that says ‘bow to the trans overlords, pesky women and gays’?

Like women you mean. Pillock. .

Here is a thought. How about putting the onus on men to behave respectfully towards their fellow men however they present rather than expect women to adjust their boundaries to accommodate them

I'm a lesbian who marched back in the 80s when Pride was political and we had rights to win. I'm telling you to bugger off and take Pride with you. I do not want men in women's single-sex spaces. You do. What does that make you?

Easy for you to say, you’re not a woman. Does it not occur to you that nobody is being excluded by being asked to use the services and facilities designated for their biological sex or mixed sex? By forcing women to accept men into their single or separate sex services and facilities you will be responsible for excluding women altogether.

Do they inspect hard drives of people before they get sworn in to the commons?

There are facilities they can use based on their sex. Do you think an EIA was done about allowing males into female spaces? No. No-one asked us. No one checked if it would diminish our ability to participate safely in public life. ps Tom do you support women of faith having single-sex swim sessions?

FGS. Everyone does have public facilities they can use, but no-one has the right to use opposite sex facilities. Get a grip. Women & girls have rights too.

Most LGB people want to protect women's single-sex spaces, so can you please stop invoking our name for your misogynistic proposals. You mean 'T', not 'LGBT'. There is also not a single human right that the rest of us have that trans people do not also possess.

You have misstated what is happening.

But you'll stand by, whilst womens hard fought for rights are stamped all over to show solidarity with men cos playing at being women ‼️ Well there are certainly easier ways to outing yourself as a raging misogynist ‼️

True story. You support men's demands for access to women's safe spaces and sports teams and scholarships and refuges and prisons and assigned jobs and bodies. You support men's feelings over women's and children's safety, rights and language.

Another misogynist who demeans the rights of women! Fk you.

Sure they are Tom, sure they are.

Oh, fuck off. Women are fed up of being sacrificed as de facto therapy toys for mentally ill men. If you want trans identified men to have access to safe toilets, do something about the increasing misogyny-fuelled in large part by mass migration from misogynistic cultures.