RT @SPACEintl: "Criminalisation should not be happening to these exploited women, stopping them from getting housing or jobs. Instead of getting the housing or support they need, they're getting thrown in jail". Powerful start from Audrey Morrissey ...
RT @oliverburkeman: In light of this, I will be dedicating the next two weeks to a period of self-reflection, spent exclusively in that "sling shot" ride they have at Coney Island where it flings you into the air at 90mph
RT @oliverburkeman: I thought the Harpers letter was totally fine, but it’s since been brought to my attention that if you replace the words in it with some different words, it’s actually really bad.
RT @SPACEintl: "Women in prostitution do not become infected with HIV because of lack of condoms, it is because of lack of power and the men taking advantage of that" @nmihlalimeji #DebunkingDecrim
RT @suzanne_moore: Oh yes! Solidarity x https://t.co/1oKYM3...
RT @VictoriaPeckham: Southall Black Sisters @SBSisters a longstanding charity of and for BAME women which does amazing work fighting domestic violence, forced marriage & "honour" crime. And NIA @nia_endingVAWG which runs services for women & ...
RT @VictoriaPeckham: Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ, of which I am proud to be a trustee, whose strategic legal interventions include ensuring the serial rapist John Worboys was kept in prison & Sally Challen was released. 2/3
Proud to know @VictoriaPeckham. A journalist with true integrity. A human rights defender of the highest order.
Does anyone know how to get rid of those bloody safefinder and yahoo search engines on a macbook? I have Google Chrome but for some reason it keeps switching to the others when I search the web.
RT @SPACEintl: LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER. Today, 9th July, 'The Wild West of Prostitution: Debunking Decriminalisation' w/ @nmihlalimeji @RachelRMoran @fiona_broadfoot Cherie Jimenez and Audrey Morrissey 1pm New York | 6pm London | 7pm Cape Town ...
This from @beatrixcampbell is heartbreaking. Bea was the very first (and only at the time) public figure that openly (and passionately) supported me when I was alone on the trans-madness: https://t.co/3BiSeG...
RT @BuckAngel: It is so sickening to watch people just jump on board with. “ You are a TERF. You are transphobic “ and they are not even in the community. All because they fear cancellation! It’s so obvious!!
RT @hannahsbee: “Clinical scenarios including safeguarding issues that were raised during the GIDS review were fully explored and issues identified were further investigated and, where appropriate, addressed in the review's recommendations.”
RT @hannahsbee: “In August 2018 a safeguarding lead was created specifically for GIDS to reflect the growth in the service. This role fits within the existing safeguarding pathway and procedures across the Trust and has been replicated in other ...
RT @hannahsbee: “Safeguarding is of the utmost importance to the Trust and this commitment is reflected in the practice of all our staff,” they continued.
RT @hannahsbee: A spokesperson for the Trust said: “The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust strongly denies the allegations made by the claimant and will be robustly defending the matter through the employment tribunal process.”
RT @hannahsbee: She added, ‘I am supportive of the transgender community and their right to seek services that are both supportive and safe.’
RT @hannahsbee: Mrs Appleby said that she had ‘always supported the availability of a gender identity service for children, adolescents, adults and their families, and staff who deliver these services.’
RT @hannahsbee: 2) “There was an unwritten but mandated directive from the Tavistock management that safeguarding concerns should not be brought to my attention despite being the Trust Safeguarding Children Lead” 3) “Clinicians were discouraged from ...
RT @hannahsbee: Sonia Appleby outlines three of the detriments that she alleges: 1) “The Tavistock misused its own procedures to besmirch me and therefore jeopardize the role of safeguarding within the Trust;
RT @hannahsbee: ‘In my claim, I allege that because I made "protected disclosures" to my line manager regarding concerns raised by GIDS staff ( that the health or safety of patients was being, had been or was likely to be endangered), I was subjected ...
RT @hannahsbee: More details have now emerged about Sonia Appleby’s case. Mrs Appleby has said that she ‘lodged a whistle-blowing claim in November 2019 at the Central London Employment Tribunal.’ ...
RT @hannahsbee: A spokesperson for the Trust told BBC Newsnight that ‘GIDS is a safe and caring service which supports a wide range of children' and that ‘[we] strongly refute the allegations put to us by Newsnight.’
RT @hannahsbee: Sonia Appleby’s solicitor told us that she could not comment on the claims, as she has begun legal proceedings against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in November 2019.
RT @hannahsbee: We were told that if clinicians did approach Sonia Appleby, they felt she understood the complexity of the GIDS work and were supported by her.
RT @hannahsbee: In their interviews, several staff claimed that they had been discouraged from seeking advice from the Trust’s Safeguarding Children Lead, Sonia Appleby, when they had concerns about some of the children they were seeing at GIDS.
RT @hannahsbee: We (@deb_cohen and I) had exclusive sight of several official transcripts of interviews that took place between front-line staff and the Trust’s medical director. The findings of the review were published in Spring 2019.
RT @hannahsbee: In June @BBCNewsnight broadcast concerns raised by Gender Identity Development Service staff during an official review of the service by the medical director of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust WATCH IN FULL: ...