📌 Our Weekly Round-up (21–27 Sep) 📌 This week’s theme: The Stories Behind the Headlines. Includes: - Sandie Peggie v RCN - Conversion practices bills - Journalists calling rapists women. Again. - Girlguiding, Stonewall & “Binary Breakdown” - GB News, Ofcom and trust in journalism Feat. @nickwallis @Jebadoo2 @MensNetwork1 @jo_bartosch @TERF_Times @jan_murray Link below 👇 _____________ P.S. Subscribe to our Substack and get our round-up delivered straight to your inbox.

Oh dear. @ndgazette Who are these ‘birthing people’ ? Are they not women? Who else is giving birth these days? Please endeavour to scrap the nonsense when reporting. @JournalismSEEN

Any journalist or PR professional who recognises the importance of biological sex will know how difficult it can be to get stories into the media. Many mainstream outlets remain captured by gender ideology. Even those that value accurate reporting on sex and gender can face constraints from industry regulators - some of which also put ideology ahead of accuracy. So the significance of Sex Matters being selected as a finalist for a PR award, alongside long-established charities, should not be underestimated. Well done to Sally and everyone at @SexMattersOrg 👏

Important report from Sex Matters on the implications of the draft Conversion Practices Bill. It's based on 30 in-depth interviews with mental health professionals.

Grateful to SIJ for highlighting our work at Gay Men’s Network analysing the dangerous and poorly drafted NI Conversion Bill

Data on violence against trans people is frequently reported inaccurately. Studies quoted have often been disproven. Important article from @jo_bartosch @TERF_Times

Good morning and welcome to the final day of Peggie v RCN. No witnesses today, just closing submissions from David Hay KC for the RCN and Naomi Cunningham for Sandie Peggie. Snappers are on standby for the protagonists. Proceedings and live tweeting starts at 10am.

Awkward …

Bets on if this was actually a woman? 😆 @JournalismSEEN middevonadvertiser.co.uk/new…

Ooh can't wait... can anyone ring in d'ya think? @ForWomenScot @DalgetySusan @GussieGrips @joannaccherry @JournalismSEEN

Nick Wallis still live tweeting the Peggie tribunal. Day 5 👇👇👇👇

Philipson ignores the risks of men acquiring false sex DBS certificates & passports Women in need of refuge also need single sex hospital ward accomodation, changing rooms, book groups, toilets...

History is pretty horrible. Apparently the BBC thinks some aspects of history are too 'horrible' to be shared with children. Only some aspects of history, mind.

The Darlington nurses case could cost the NHS over £1.5m. NHS Fife’s legal costs in the Sandie Peggie case had already exceeded £400k — and that wasn’t the final bill. So what could nearly *£2 MILLION* represent? 🤰 Around *50 Band 6 midwives’ basic salaries for a year.* Fifty midwives supporting women through pregnancy, labour, birth and postnatal care. @NHSEngland @NHSResolution @DHSCgovuk @SexMattersOrg @JournalismSEEN @NHSScotland @NHSWales @ScotGovHealth @WGHealthandCare @DarlingtonUnion

Media regulator Ofcom's annual survey of UK TV news channels found a slump in how trusted BBC News is, as it came joint last for impartiality, below Channel 4, and was behind GB News and Sky News on every metric. Ofcom then failed to publish the figures. telegraph.co.uk/gift/e26163e…

Last September, a small boat migrant dragged a 14-year-old girl to some bushes and raped her. He was not jailed - instead he had to take lessons on consent. The BBC did not cover this story - but has covered at least six cases of Pride flags getting damaged or stolen since then.

Bridget Phillipson says domestic violence centres should be biological women only - but still cannot bring herself to say trans women are not women.

Good morning. Hope you all had a good weekend. Welcome to Day 4 of Peggie v RCN in Dundee. Today we will be hearing from Darlington nurse, Bethany Hutchison, Surrey nurse Jennifer Melle and RCN rep Stuart Fraser. These were the scenes outside court this morning...