A Week in the War on Women: Monday 18th July - Sunday 24th July GOOD NEWS SUPPLEMENT

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Plenty of good news from the gender beat again this week. Here are just a few stories for your entertainment. Enjoy!

Sex Matters In The House

Sex Matters held a breakfast event at the House of Lords to launch their new report on single-sex services.

Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg

Breakfast event at the House of Lords, hosted by the marvellous @Baronessjenkin - to launch our report on single sex services sex-matters.org/wp-content/upl…

The event was hosted by Baroness Anne Jenkin and attendees included Sir Peter Bottomley MP, Miriam Cates MP, Lord Leicester, Lord Blencathra, Baroness Emma Nicholson, Joanna Cherry QC, Baroness Sarah Ludford, Frances Cook and Baroness Dianne Hayter.

Helen Joyce presented the report’s findings and special guests, Jo Phoenix, Karen Ingala Smith and Baroness Shaista Gohir, all provided responses from their own unique perspectives.

No Offence

Police have been warned to concentrate on real crime and stop investigating social media debates as ‘non-crime hate incidents’.

The Telegraph @Telegraph

Police should concentrate on catching criminals rather than dealing with spats on social media, according to new guidelines.

telegraph.co.ukPolice told to focus on catching criminals, not ‘Twitter debates’New guidance warns officers not to intervene in ‘trivial or irrational’ online incidents simply because someone is offended

The College of Policing has said that police needed to focus on cutting crime and ‘not get involved in debates on Twitter’.

Andy Marsh, the college’s chief executive officer, said: “The public rightly expect the police to focus on cutting crime and bringing criminals to justice. While we work to protect the most vulnerable in society, we also have a responsibility to protect freedom of speech”.

Cherry On The Cake

Our huge congratulations to Joanna Cherry QC MP who has been elected as the new Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights.

UK Parliament Human Rights Committee @HumanRightsCtte

Congratulations to @joannaccherry, who has been elected as the new Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights.

A Level Playing Field

England Rugby is likely to exclude trans-identified males from playing in the women's game at all levels.

Times Sport @TimesSport

🔺 BREAKING: Transgender women will not be allowed to play in female rugby competitions in England, under new recommendations from the RFU thetimes.co.uk/article/transg…

thetimes.co.ukTransgender women banned from female contact rugby in EnglandTransgender women will not be allowed to play in women’s rugby competitions in England, under new recommendations from the Rugby Football Union.

The RFU is set to agree “A policy change for contact rugby to only permit players in the female category whose sex recorded at birth was female”.

Rugby Football Union @RFU

RFU Council to vote on Gender Participation Policy for Rugby Union in England

And it looks like World Athletics will soon be following suit with president, Sebastian Coe, calling for more stringent rules to protect women’s sport.

Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles

Strong indication here that Seb Coe is driving World Athletics to a WR/FINA-style policy, where anyone with male advantage is excluded from female categories.

Guardian sport @guardian_sport

Caster Semenya out of world 5000m before Coe signals tougher rules to ‘protect the integrity of women’s sport’. By @seaningle https://t.co/WnvAsq08jr

Victory For Sall

The courageous Sall Grover scored another victory for sanity, reality and women’s rights in Australia after she spoke out against the dehumanising term ‘birthing parent’ being used on government forms.

The Today Show @TheTodayShow

#BREAKING: Bill Shorten's office has contacted us to confirm government forms using the words 'birthing parent' instead of 'mother' will now be DUMPED. #9Today

Bill Shorten MP, Minister for Government Services, intervened. He confirmed that these forms will be replaced with ones that use the word ‘Mother’.

Sall Grover @salltweets

Lets keep speaking up, ladies. It works 💗🙋‍♀️ I’ll be back on @TODAYshow at 8:40am to talk about this!

Brava, Sall!

What A Relief

A newly opened London theatre, Soho Place, is not only separating its toilet facilities by sex, there will be more ladies than gents!

Times Culture @timesculture

.@atsohoplace is the first new West End venue to open in 50 years and, in another first, there will be more lavatories for women than men

thetimes.co.uk@sohoplace: West End’s new landmark is a relief for female theatregoersIt is the first new-build West End theatre to open in 50 years and, in another first, there will be more lavatories for women than for men.The @sohoplace theat

And Finally…

Happy Dog @Happydog___

Good job doggy 👍 We are proud of you 😍😍