Due to mis-representation of the Equality Act 2010 by lobby groups and even the Equality and Human Rights Commission itself, (a statutory non-departmental public body), service providers up and down the country now admit fully intact adult men into women's safe spaces, with the predictable result that women at their most vulnerable are intimidated, assaulted, and filmed without their consent. This is in direct contravention of the law which states that sex is a protected characteristic and the exclusion of men is lawful and desirable.

At the same time, 'gender ideology' is gaining traction across our institutions & Government Departments. It states that we all have an 'inner gender identity' that may or may not align with our biological sex. The idea is that if we identify with this 'gender' it becomes a statement of who we are, and is more important than our biological sex. Thus 'a trans woman is a woman' - when in reality they are a biological male. The ideology claims for example that sex is 'assigned at birth', - when in fact our sex is observed often before we are born.  It makes the claim too that sex 'is a spectrum' when we know that are are only 2 sexes, male and female.

This ideology is:

• Undermining the basis of our society in science (biological sex is binary and immutable, determined at conception and observed at or before birth).
• Compromising the accuracy of data used for research (current plans for the Scottish Census will allow people to 'self-ID' their sex.)
• Threatening the accuracy of information in the public sphere (the police record crimes according to self-identified gender, not sex; and newspapers report the crimes of men as those of women.)
• Threatening free speech and open debate. Challenge this ideology, even reasonably or scientifically, and you may be wrongly accused of bigotry and transphobia.