Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1

Personal account. Proud Fifer. Human rights. Free speech. Sex is real. discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/persons/cla… Joined November 2010

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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1

7 months ago

The first duty of the state is to preserve life. Everything else flows from this. A state that fails to guarantee the basic physical security of its people is not a rights-respecting state.

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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1

2 days ago

Random playground in Denmark. Europe, have we hit rock bottom yet? Getting close?

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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1

7 days ago

4 June 2026: Scottish Court finds that failure to provide single sex toilets in schools (both cubicles and washbasins) discriminates against girls on grounds of sex, with reference to - privacy - dignity - safety - health and hygiene - sex-based vulnerability, anatomical and experiential differences as between girls and boys. There should be no mistake about what this judgment shows. Reliance on gender-neutral and unisex toilets in schools subjects girls -- en masse -- to degradation and increased risk of physical harm, on grounds of sex. Besides being unlawful under the Equality Act 2010, this undoubtedly breaches the human rights of girls under the ECHR, UNCRC, CEDAW, and probably also the Istanbul Convention. Governments and public authorities that fail to restore single-sex toilets in schools will, on this basis, be responsible for human rights violations. And those who encourage them will be complicit. scotcourts.gov.uk/media/mv5d53jw…

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Magi Gibson @MagiGibson

7 days ago

As a former teacher I'm so pleased that the law is protecting schoolchildren's rights to single sex toilet provision. Thanks to @claire_ob1 for this full explanation of why the Scottish Court made this decision today.

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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1

a week ago

@IndiaWilloughby 'and agitating others to do so' QED

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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien @claire_ob1

a week ago

Single-sex toilets and changing rooms are a pre-condition of women's effective access to employment, public and private services. This is why women's human rights to substantive equality with men and non-discrimination on grounds of sex demand them. UN and ILO standards make this abundantly clear. Perhaps try to identify an actual progressive purpose for your party, and prosecute that. Spending your days smearing women human rights defenders, agitating others to do so, and striving to strip women in Britain of dignity and privacy only serves further to discredit a once-progressive movement and to disempower those it was established to defend.

stellacreasy @stellacreasy

a week ago

The EHRC guidance contains contradictions which will damage the daily lives of many only politicians legislating can resolve. Today I challenged the minister to explain how it could work in practice and what the consequences will be using their own words- I will continue to work