FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Consultation results published on Hampstead Heath bathing ponds More than 38,000 people responded to the consultation 86% felt the ponds should remain trans inclusive spaces Results will help inform an updated access policy for the ponds The results of a consultation on future access arrangements at Hampstead Heath bathing ponds have been published, with 86% of respondents favouring keeping the current trans-inclusive arrangements. More than 38,000 people took part in the two-month consultation, making it one of the biggest public engagement exercises ever run by the City of London Corporation, the organisation which manages the Heath as a registered charity. Of six options considered for the Kenwood Ladies, Highgate Men's and Hampstead Mixed Ponds, the most popular, with support from 86% of respondents, was retaining the existing access arrangements, in which trans men and women are able to use the pond of their choice. The same percentage opposed introducing strict single sex access, ****90% of people rejected requiring trans swimmers to use separate changing rooms or have separate swimming sessions****, while 66% opposed making all ponds mixed sex.

More than 38,000 people took part in consultation. 90% of people rejected requiring #trans swimmers to use separate changing rooms or have separate swim sessions, [apartheid]

Bear in mind on #GRAReform consultations in #UK nations the participants NEVER topped 17,000 people.

Hugely significant.

Probably just me - #PinkNews headline [Paraphrased]

"90% said we support our #TransgenderCitizensInclusion in spaces"

IS the positive story here - in a sea of shit it needs celebrated.

16,500 approx took part in each of the #GRAReform YES Consultations.

38,000 stepped up for Trans people here!

Chart from 2038 respondents to a survey asking the percentage who say it should be easierto get a Gender Recognition Certificate from 2020 Support for easier way to change gender strongest among the young in Scotland Percentage who say it should be easier to get a Gender Recognition Certificate 16-34 year olds - 70% All women - 63% 35-54 year olds - 58% All men - 49% Aged (55+) - 46% All respondents - 57% Online survey of 2,038 Scottish people aged 16 and over, 7th to 25th January Source: Savanta ComRes On every question asked in the survey support for transgender rights was higher among younger people. People aged 16 to 34 were more likely than older people to support making it easier to acquire a gender recognition certificate and also backed allowing people to legally identify as non-binary. In addition to the generation split, there was also **** a marked tendency for women to be more supportive than men. [My **** emphasis]

Graphic shows trans person standing looking at toilet door with usual symbols on the door. Under the women's sign the text below says "Get Yelled At" Under the men's sign the text says "Get Beat Up"

Anglia Ruskin University Student Union Designed Sign "Do you feel like someone is using the 'wrong' bathroom? - Please don't: - Stare at them - Challenge them - Insult them - Do not purposefully make them uncomfortable Instead, please: - Respect their privacy - Respect their identity - Carry on with your day - Protect them from harm They are using the facilities they feel safe in. Please do not take this right away from them. - Trans* & gender questioning students... You have every right to be here: In this facility, In this university, In this world Your gender identity and expression are valid. DESIGNED BY TRANS STUDENTS AT ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY

Toilet door with very wide sign containing usual symbols flanked either side by bat man, android person, blind person, pregnant person, merperson, star wars and star trek like aliens. Benath the symbols it reads "Ww don't care, just please, wash your hands!

Depends on specification for the sample, timing & audience.

Figures are worrying. Few respondents would have considered full grown men and women being forced to use loos that out them to violence at worst, confusion & alarm at very best.

2014 wasn't an issue 2022 the same.

#GRAReform polling. 1/2

#PamGosal #MSP there just behind #MayaForstater surprised they waited to travel up from #London to celebrate in #Edinburgh. Odd they are!

Pammy was a stalwart sly naysayer on the Scottish #GRAReform Executive alongside #RachaelHamilton equally sly & smarmy with it.

Sorry I was referring to the 71% vote to definitively include trans people & rights in the party. I'm just hopeful other parties like @TheSNP get their soul back & do the same. They've slipped very badly since to our 2020 #GRAReform Bill was passed. We're in "Silence = Death" territory again imo. 🙏

2/2 I'd definitely would have wanted to see her face for that last 12 mins.

In which she plays fast and very loose on the original #GRAReform consultations across Scotland and England/Wales also (as Glinner); suggesting Ireland was somehow fooled to slip #SelfID in. Again, vital context erased.

That's why #Johnson binned England's #GRAReform consultation. Too many trans people and their allies responded to it. He thought the results biased against the whole of the UK (who were so disinterested they hadn't bothered responding). They should be in jail...

Yep. Binning their #GRAReform consultation results and analysis was brutal whilst Scotland's; (results remarkably in line) carried on but got culled after consideral work, more open evidence sessions and brutal debates on amendments till a free democratic vote passed the Bill by clear majority. 😐

Served along with #RachelHamilton on #GRAReform (Scotland) Bill it wasn't too hard to see who was the most smugly disingenuous between them. Their efforts to undermine mostly failed. Then Scottish overseer #AlistairJack stepped in from the shadows to stop progress to #RoyalAssent Eyes on #SNP now! 👀

That was written circa 2006/7 broadcast 2008 long before the #GRAReform discussions started 2014. His iffy attitude to trans people predates what he's reportedly told the court about "having to fight for awareness". It's all in that episode. Belittling & ultimately violent to the honest trans woman.

I'm on that train of thought for some time. She's become ever more coarse in her approach from 2022 at the #GRAReform sessions in Scotland. Plummy tones can't hide the rot. Perhaps this is the GC brain rot in plain sight. South African white supremacists were also sneering, awful individuals.

On the signs of Westminster suggestions they start the #GRAReform process from scratch is patently ridiculous and potentially damaging to the UKs tattered Labour trans support betrayal reputation.

Scotlands furiously fought over GRA Bill sits in limbo. It covers the bases all of them 1/2

GRA Reform Scotland Bill 2022 As Passed terms amended to suit this purpose suggestion. A lawyer would best define a universal format that should include non Binary citizens. (A) is aged: X (insert age - Parent or Guardian can sign here in support of their transgender child: __________________ and has lived in their acquired gender (as themself); throughout the period of six months ending with the day on which the application is made, or (B) is aged at least 18 and has lived in the acquired gender (as themself) throughout the period of three months ending with the day on which the application is made, iv) intends to continue to live in the acquired gender permanently, and (v) understands that it is an offence to knowingly make a statutory declaration which is false in a material particular,

3/3 Don't know what the "legal format" of such a would look like; Scottish Government #GRAReform Bill as passed advises the declaration would incorporate as per image (see Alt Text):

It's "defiance" because #Westminster has denied the entire UK the facility to formally #SelfDetermine ourselves.

Vacuous #LizTruss big pal of the #HeritageFoundation used advantage of self obsessed, largely absent, "leader" #BorisJohnson to volte face & wreck English #GRAReform Consultation Stage One with everything binned on her command. Scotland was ahead & consultation results ran in tandem. Ours went on.

That's something #BorisJohnson underestimated. He seems to have thought 0.5% was of no consequence and following Trusses lead he swept the English consultation on #GRAReform for Self Determination #SelfID into the bin. "Result skewed by trans people and their allies (those with interests in it)".

Rich media platitudes for #PopeFrancis to be expected more sober eyes will ultimately look at living facts of his interventions in cases of CSA within the church. Ref Theodore McCarrick

@johnswinney.bsky.social stepping from the shadows today too on influence over #GRAReform & #SupremeCourt ruling.

John Swinney warmly greeting anti trans (women) people's group. The knowing smirk speaks volumes. A Man known to desire putting trans people issue to one side.

Thrown himself onto his knees accepting what (as #Cass before them) is a political "fit up" ignoring intended victims of, as we speak; a compromised, unbelievably so #SupremeCourt.

On his & his completely neutered party's behalf Shirley A Sommerville confirmed #GRAReform Bill is dead.

Clause 35 ☠️

Sadly #ShirleyAnneSommerville confirmed Scottish #GRAReform Bill is dead & buried. Westminster Rule, the entire UK is an outlier country. #EHRCChair will meet Scottish Government next week to outline the Apartheid plans for trans humiliation and exclusion. Wouldn't be surprised if Scotland to lead.

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"On #GRAReform, #NicolaSturgeon added: "I will never apologise for trying to make life better for one of the most stigmatised, discriminated against sections of our society." [#Trans People].

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...

consult.gov.scot/consultation...

Allowing for some apparent misunderstanding in the reading of my email to the #FirstMinister on Westminster's apparent abandonment of their promised #GRAReform Bill for the UK as part of their justifying the Section 35 order to assuage real democratic concerns on the reality of devolved government..

Reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004 - A Briefing Note for MPs - TransLucent Reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004 - The purpose of this briefing paper for MP's is to outline the current legislation in Western European countries regarding the rights of trans and gender non...

Outlining the current legislation in Western European countries regarding the rights of trans and gender nonconforming people to change their gender markers on official government documentation legally.

About time the UK caught up.

#GRAreform

Well, that should reinflame the Scottish Government, whose defence of our frustrated #GRAReform Bill 2022 was less than it ought to have been because Starmer et al, were going to do a UK solution. It's vote "No to stay in the EU" in 2014 all over again, with Scotland shafted to loud guffaws. AGAIN.

Reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004 - A Briefing Note for MPs - TransLucent Reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004 - The purpose of this briefing paper for MP's is to outline the current legislation in Western European countries regarding the rights of trans and gender non...

A briefing note for MPs, journalists and other stakeholders giving the background and facts in relation to the "Culture War," aka the "Gender-War," against the transgender community in the UK.

translucent.org.uk/reforming-th...

#EHRC, #Europe, #GRA, #GRAReform, #ILGA, #SelfID, #SelfIdentification

Looking at #PamGosal's contributions to #GRAReform debates demonstrates any old bigoted line in pursuit of her anti #LGBTiQ+ will do. All done with a sneer, ably supported by her equally sneering team mate #RachelHamilton "Trumpian" comes as no credible surprise: all peas in the same rotting pod.

Important reminder, with full Alt text. There’s a lot of misinformation being spread about this: RT, share, save for next time.

#GRAReform
#GenderRecognition
#TransRightsAreHumanRights