@ITVWales
@ITV
Bridges went through male puberty, giving him physical advantages women don’t have. Your article ignores the truth: if his dream to race for Wales comes true, a female athlete loses her place. Don’t her dreams matter?
Just heard on the radio that they’ve been able to sequence the DNA from two bodies buried by volcanic lava in 79AD
One body is male, the other female.
I mean, how do they know that? Had they already started assigning sex at birth back in 79AD? 😉🤷🏻♀️
Dear
#MasterChef
, there is no LGBTQ+ community. As a woman I find drag queen parodies of womanhood offensive. As a lesbian my sexuality has nothing in common with cross dressing men. Only the letters L, G & B represent sexualities. We have been hijacked
Dear
@JohnLewisRetail
I suggest that your due diligence team needs to sharpen up their act. Ruby Whitcomb is not a positive role model for your brand. Your desperation to seem progressive just makes you look ridiculous. It has lost you many customers, including me
#Identity
@simonrim
So to clarify, disabled customers have to share their space with women. Women have to share their space with men. Men can use any space they like. That’s a strange kind of equality.
No
@AngelaRayner
there aren’t two types of woman. We are adult human females & we are half the world’s population.
@UKLabour
used to fight for our rights & champion sex equality. What happened to you all? You’re all such a crushing disappointment.
"We have biological women and we have trans women. And they’re both women: one is a biological woman through sex, and one is a trans woman who has transitioned. Most of the public can get that.”
I don't believe Rayner has a clue what the public think...
@DanWuori
@leakylike
Thank you. It’s so sad that it should even need saying. Just the spectacle of parents laughing at their child’s anxiety & bewilderment is awful to watch but it’s truly painful for a child to experience their whole world view slip sideways & become unreliable. Trust is precious
Out with 3 friends today & stopped for coffee. The man behind the counter greeted us with “Hi guys.” Wasn’t sure whether to have a tantrum &demand his instant dismissal for misgendering or come home & make a video about genocide. In the end I just drank my coffee & ate a scone🤷🏻♀️
@PaulBrandITV
My tweet was about you not at you. The decision to present a transwoman as a mother was dishonest on two counts. Mika is not a mother nor does he struggle financially. ITV news ought not to be gaslighting viewers & manipulating stories. Dishonest, disrespectful & disgraceful.
I’m a grandma, retired teacher, never made waves kind of woman. I’ve tried to be polite & respectful But tbh, just recently it’s become such a hideous, misogynistic mess on here that I feel like saying “Oh just f*** right off!” to the next blue haired, pronoun person I encounter
It seems only yesterday that the main concern was trans identified men who ‘just want to pee’. In the blink of an eye, they’ve come for our refuges, hospital wards, breast feeding groups, dating apps, jobs, sporting events, our language, our bodily functions, awards & shortlists
@tomorrowsmps
@vrarda1
Eddie Izzard is a man who enjoys wearing make up & feminine clothes. That’s entirely his choice. However it doesn’t mean he is a woman, any more than my cropped hair, jeans & lack of lipstick make me a man. Please don’t reinforce regressive stereotypes with incorrect pronoun use
@moira_robin
Tall woman, clever woman, black woman, young woman, gay woman, straight woman…. Two separate words are used because the first word is describing the noun ‘woman’. But ‘transwoman’ is just one word, because the prefix doesn’t describe a woman, but a trans identified male
@charlotte2153
As a former competitive swimmer, how many elite races do you know of that have been won with a 38 second margin?You insult the dedication training & effort of female athletes by suggesting they might have won against someone who has gone through male puberty. Another vote lost 😠
@billybragg
In my many years as a teacher, I’ve never encountered any child old enough to read Roald Dahl who hasn’t grasped the difference between fact and fiction. Books are also a really good way to explore difficult topics with children, mediated by a sensitive adult. Leave them alone!
Three years ago I abandoned my first account on here (which was mostly politics & Brexit related) & set this one up to learn more about the transgender issue. Back then I was “Let’s find out, surely there’s a middle ground here.” 1/n
Good morning
@hm
As a grandma to 5 little girls, the last thing is for men to leer at them on their way to school. Do your uniforms for boys make heads turn too? Or is it just pre-pubescent girls that you sexualise? Please withdraw this horrible advert & stop objectifying girls
@hm
@hmaustralia
what is your intention with this sponsored Facebook ad? Little schoolgirls generally don’t want to “turn heads”. The large numbers I engage with in schools want to be left alone to learn and have fun and not draw unwanted attention to their appearance 1/
2/n Today I added ‘bitter old bigot’ to my profile, an accolade bestowed on me yesterday by some bloke, because I said men who like to dress as baby girls or dogs have nothing in common with me & my lesbian life & the notion of an LGBTQIA+ ‘community’ was just forced teaming
@PaulBrandITV
When those whom we ought to be able to trust lose sight of impartiality, we are in dangerous territory. As a woman, a mother & a grandma of girls it is very much to do with me when you present lies as truth to suit your agenda. You used an item about prices to push trans ideology
@shaneellall
Wait…you’re feeling proud because you stopped women speaking? My goodness, the Taliban would be proud of you! Carry on showing the people who you are - it helps the defence of women’s rights to show the world male bullies in full technicolor
@EndoSouthC
A misplaced & misleading quote is the least of your worries. Appointing a cross dressing male to advocate on behalf of women who suffer with a condition of which he has zero experience, now THAT’S a worry. It’s hard to imagine how you reached such an inappropriate decision
My lesbianism has nothing to do with transgenderism
@aliciakearns
Gender ideology is jeopardising women’s single sex services, sports, prisons, healthcare, etc & causing children harm. Your ‘ally ship’ is part of the problem. LGB people are not bigots for saying so.
@billybragg
I’m guessing you’re having a busy day. Otherwise I feel sure you’d have condemned this vile threat of violence against women, as you pledged to do previously. Don’t wait too long though, or women may think you don’t actually care about our safety at all
#TransPride
Sarah Jane Baker on the Trans Pride stage,
“If you see a TERF, punch them in the fucking face!” to a cheering crowd.
How far we have fallen to let this baying mob loose, this is a call to violence and the police should be identifying and pursuing prosecutions against anyone
@deebasyed
Personally, I think the dangers to women & girls are from predatory men. I don’t care whether they’re wearing a police uniform, a sports coach’s tracksuit, a priest’s vestments, or a frock & kitten heels. MEN pose the risk. Why make women any more vulnerable than we already are?
@JohnLewisRetail
Anyway, I’m planning to visit my local JL store soon, with my grandchildren in tow, so that they can be ‘playful’ in your china & glassware department. I’ll be having afternoon tea in the café. I’m sure you have great insurance cover?
@JohnLewisRetail
As a grandma & for many years a teacher children of roughly the same age as the boy in your ridiculous advert, I can assure you that NO child of that age would think for a second that they were being ‘playful’ by these actions. Your so-called defence of the ad is risible 1/2
5/5
You all absolutely rock. Strong, smart, kind, funny, give no fucks women. Thank you for reminding me of what matters. I knew it once & lost sight of it. And just look what happened while my back was turned 🤬
Towards the end of her life, as dementia took her away degree by brutal degree, my mum couldn’t remember my name. Why should one second of her life be wasted on trying to work out which pronoun a man pretending to be a woman wants her to use? Narcissism & male entitlement -toxic
3/n Today I’m a handful of followers away from 3k. No idea why, since I’m just shouting into the void & have no platform of any kind. But I’d like to thank you everyone of you for being part of my journey away from the middle ground & back to the feminism I knew in the 70s /80s
It seems that
@EndoSouthC
,
a charity set up to support those who suffer from endometriosis, doesn’t actually include women in their list of people they exist to help 🤷🏻♀️
#endometriosis
I agree with Mika! Adoptive mothers are mothers, lesbian mothers are mothers. They all have one thing in common. They are all ADULT HUMAN FEMALES who were born into this world as infant girls. No man can be a mother, legally or biologically. Stop gaslighting women
But it needs saying: Adoptive mothers are mothers. Lesbian mothers are mothers, whether they birthed the child or not. Step mothers are mothers. Trans women can be mothers.
It's not up to an MP or anyone else to march into a family & enforce what a child calls their parent.
@sophiaphotos
@preta_6
Nurses treat everybody, not just those whose beliefs they share. They don’t need to be Christian or Muslim, right or left wing to care for those who are. You can dress as you like, believe what you want. But you can’t compel others to share those beliefs
#IStandWithAmyHamm
How many young lives irreversibly damaged? How many families torn apart? How many careers lost? How many reputations shredded? How many research projects shut down? How many friendships lost? How many women threatened & silenced? And all along
#terfswereright
💚🤍💜
Nobody changes sex. Men cannot be lesbians. Men cannot be women. Dress however you like & enjoy your life but, as to the rest, women say NO. So today, when
#adulthumanfemale
is trending, it seems like an ideal time to share again these words from the wonderful Germaine Greer…
"Female is real, and it's sex.
Femininity is unreal, and it's gender.
And for that to become the given identity of women is a profoundly disabling notion."
— Germaine Greer
@SarahChampionMP
I cannot describe how disappointed & angry I feel. On the basis of research evidence, NHS won’t prescribe drugs to suppress puberty. But unscrupulous private providers will do so, for money. And here you are, supporting their greed & damaging kids’ health. Shame on you.
@mara_yamauchi
Wait, what?? You’re telling me that some people pretend to be something they’re not, in order to enter a race where they have a better chance of winning? I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you
This flag does NOT make me feel included, respected or safe at all. It tells me that if I request a same sex ward it may include men. If I want same sex intimate care, you will feel entitled to send a trans identified man to perform that role. Stop virtue signalling
#SexNotGender
We’re committed to being an inclusive organisation where all transgender staff, patients and visitors feel welcome, safe, and respected.
In partnership with our LGBT+ staff networks, we’ve developed our inclusion statement.
Read more:
Did I just hear your journalist say trans is a protected characteristic? That’s simply not true& you’re adding to the confusion not clarifying it. Children’s biological sex remains their legal sex, end of. Changing sex isn’t possible other than by adults by legal fiction
#bbcwato
@FiLiA_charity
I really don’t understand “I am who I say I am”. Was Jimmy Savile the tireless fundraiser he said he was? Was Gary Glitter just a glam rock star? Was Rolf Harris an artist & hugely popular family entertainer? What about Wayne Couzens? Just an upstanding police officer
@amnesty
?
4/n Thank you for making me laugh, making me think, making me angry enough to get involved. Thank you for educating me. Thank you for setting up organisations I can join, that speak for me & to me, that campaign for LGB people & to ensure schools are safe for my granddaughters
A little 🧵
I’m not interested in compromising my rights. The phrase ‘human rights’ applies to everyone, including trans identified people. So what is being demanded isn’t a missing right, it’s additional privileges. Ones that remove rights from women & girls. So, no…
@Kidscape
@thejeffreymarsh
I’ve worked with children in the care system & as a teacher. Safeguarding is always a core principle. Your website says ‘All adults have a responsibility for creating safe & nurturing environments for children.’ If you truly hold that value you shouldn’t give this man a platform
@BluskyeAllison
What they say: ‘I trust that you will do what is right and stand in solidarity with trans people.’
What they mean: Nice legal business you’ve got there. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it.
Outrageous overreach. All power to you Allison, you brave woman 💜🤍💚
@RevJacquiLewis
When your child tells you they’re obese as they starve themselves to death, do you agree with them? The role of adults is to nurture, guide & protect children until they are mature enough to make their own, age appropriate choices. To do otherwise is a dereliction of love & duty
@elcompanies
Are men denied access to certain colours then? Are there laws against males wearing colourful outfits? Someone should have told these guys
@Wommando
@Aja02537920
@GMB
A lifetime in teaching & many safeguarding training sessions instilled in us that if a child ever asks us to keep a secret, adults must let them know that some secrets are not safe to keep. How is it that this vital piece of understanding seems to have been forgotten? 🚩
While you were listing cats’ names and sniggering over ferrets, things like this are happening
@SarahChampionMP
@meaglemp
@SteveReedMP
You have betrayed children & brought shame on yourselves. Your antics have allowed this charlatan to continue selling dangerous drugs to children
GenderGP, which sells puberty blockers to children in the UK, has confirmed it received a $25,000 donation from an American businessman, who paid the money in return for a video of a 23-year-old man wearing toddlers' clothing and sitting in a child’s chair
@RealWorlding
I’m not interested in compromising my rights. The phrase ‘human rights’ applies to everyone, including trans identified people. So what is being demanded isn’t a missing right, it’s additional privileges. Ones that remove rights from women & girls. So, no.
@The_Globe
I’m old enough to remember herstory. Women understood the ways in which we’d been written out of history. Artists, writers, composers, leaders were rediscovered. Now you’re busy writing us out again. Women’s achievements can no longer be celebrated it seems. Shame on you all.
@billybragg
How dare you? Nothing about women defending our rights as adult human females is comparable in any way to the Holocaust. Shame on you & anybody who thinks this is acceptable. It isn’t. It’s utterly desperate & despicable.
@kewgardens
In what sense are you using the word ‘queer’? As in weird & wonderful? Or as in Judith Butler? Either way, are you aware that for many gay & lesbian women, it’s a word associated with violence & bigotry against homosexuals? Hateful & not at all inclusive.
@MForstater
How telling that what Mermaids, Stonewall et al are attempting to do - denying us the language we use to discuss, describe & organise our lives, removing our safe spaces & insisting our protected characteristic includes males - is seen as ‘neutral’?
#IStandWithLGBAlliance
@PeterTatchell
If a convicted criminal needs protection, then that should be provided in the prison estate that matches their birth sex. Women have had enough of moving over, making room, giving things up & giving way to men.
The only thing alarming in your public toilets is this sign
@LondonWaterloo
@networkrail
. All genders??? There are just 2 sexes. Male or female. Gender is just a social construct. How people feel about themselves makes no difference to their sex, which cant change
So
#KeirStarmer
says a small number of people “are born with a gender they don’t identify with” Nobody is born with a gender. Everybody is born with a sex. There are only 2 options, although many of us don’t ‘identify with’ gender stereotypes. Nobody changes sex
#laurakuenssberg
@rob_kelsall
@Ofstednews
Ruth was a gifted, passionate educator who cared deeply about giving children the best possible start. She loved what she did. She is a huge loss to the profession. The Ofsted system is a malign, destructive regime. Teachers, school leaders & children deserve so much better.
Hi
@LindaRiley8
When I came out in the 80s, I didn’t have a community & no clue where to find one. I was so grateful for Diva. Where should newly out lesbians look for support today? To those that tell them men are lesbians too? That they might be trans?
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
@MariaMillerUK
You just misinformed the viewers of
@BBCNews
with regard to suicide rates amongst trans people. They do NOT have the highest suicide rates. Even the Tavistock says “suicide is extremely rare.” Please stop spreading misinformation 1/2
@kewgardens
Thank you for such a prompt explanation. I must say that as an older lesbian who marched against Section 28, I have no interest in reclaiming a word that has such negative connotations for many of my generation. Maybe you didn’t consult with many people from our age group?
@Jebadoo2
Thank you for these beautiful, painful words. When I came out as a lesbian,in the 90s, my husband said “you will lose your kids & if I go to the press you will lose your job” (I was a teacher) Neither thing happened & it seemed the world had moved on. Distraught & raging today 💔
@ASPBristol
We’ve all seen the footage. That wasn’t two sides protesting. It was a group of women being threatened & intimidated by men while officers acted like bystanders. What other group would you allow to behave in such an aggressive way without stepping in & removing them? Shame on you
@MrsNickyClark
@McKittenCat
It’s painful to watch him struggling to give a straightforward answer to a simple question. Why can’t he just say “Women & girls deserve opportunities to take part in sport & succeed at all levels. To that end, I believe there must be single sex categories.” It’s a vote winner!
BREAKING 🚨 - STATE SANCTIONED SEXUAL ASSAULT
A new policy has been implemented under the radar by the majority of police forces in the country.
This allows trans-identifying male officers (men who claim to be women) to STRIP and intimately search women.
If you object, you are
@helenstaniland
My son, in his 30s, was asking me if I was a T*RF a year ago. Last month he took me out to dinner so we could talk about a Joe Rogan /Abigail Shrier podcast he’d heard which made him completely reconfigure what T*RF meant. He went down the rabbit hole & emerged a different man 😊
@mcashmanCBE
As a retired teacher who worked for years with vulnerable young people, I’m absolutely horrified that anyone would want to ‘push back’ against safeguarding in schools. Why would you try to undermine systems that exist solely to protect children’s emotional & physical safety?
@NakulMPande
Once more for the hard of understanding. Nobody is being banned. Athletes should compete in their own sex category. Lowering testosterone, wearing. lipstick & giving oneself a feminine name doesn’t change anyone’s sex or remove the multiple physical advantages of male puberty
@kellymew_
@PaulBrandITV
I’m sure you’re right. None of that alters the fact that ITV News presented a transwoman as an ordinary mum, worried about rising costs. That was a lie. The public should be able to trust news outlets to tell the truth, not deliberately gaslight us. We deserve honesty
@MyNottingham
So your idea of support for Pride is to cancel an event at which a lesbian was going to speak? Your idea of inclusivity is to exclude women who were hoping to meet to discuss male violence? You need to have a serious rethink before you embarrass yourself any further
@leng_cath
Saw this soft focus, puff piece on South East Today. Why were they all arranging flowers? And why the lingering shots of their immaculately painted nails as they toyed with the flowers in their vases? Is that what they think women do all day? I’m so sick of this.
@blablafishcakes
It’s really odd to find myself nodding in agreement with the views of people who are not in my political ‘tribe’ at all. How did the Left (such as it is) lose their bearings so badly that they gifted safeguarding & the rights of women to the Tories?
@DrChrisHope
@MissLauraMarcus
@ITVWales
@ITV
I’m sure that’s a very comfortable position to take- for a man. Women have so much more to lose, from the words we use to talk about our bodies &our lives, to single sex spaces, lesbian meet ups, safety in prisons, refuges. It’s not just sport -so much more is at stake.
To everyone flying the progressive pride flag, including my local council. This flag represents, amongst others, those who believe lesbians can have penises. That it’s fine for primary age children to be told they can change sex. That drag queens are appropriate for toddlers
@OwenJones84
If you’re not keen on people losing their rights, perhaps you can clarify where you stand on women’s rights? Should we have a legally protected right to single sex spaces, provisions & opportunities such as sport. If not, why don’t you care that women’s rights are being stripped?
"Female is real, and it's sex.
Femininity is unreal, and it's gender.
And for that to become the given identity of women is a profoundly disabling notion."
— Germaine Greer
#NoThankYou
#SexNotGender
#Feminism
@pickle_bee
If a white person spoke about their experience of racism at a BLM event, there’d rightly be concern. The people speaking should be those directly affected by racism. I appreciate some men may support our bodily autonomy, but women need to hold the mic, literally& metaphorically
@TullipR
The people who attack you aren’t willing or able (yet) to accept that they fell for an ideology that is causing untold harm. None of us likes facing up to the possibility that we may have made a terrible mistake. Honest, reasonable voices like yours will help others to speak up
@yungz0rn
@JustinDaquez06
And yet, it’s always possible to work out which people to impregnate, which ones can be paid less for the same job, which ones need to take on most of the care for children & elderly parents, which ones to coerce, stalk, beat, rape & murder…. How on earth can that happen?? 🤔🤡
Imagine being a Welsh woman who has trained for years & risen through the ranks of the cycling world. Good enough to be in the running for her national team, something she’s always dreamt of. But a bloke called Emily is feeling sad (& will post better times) Must she step aside?
@EddieIzzardLab
Eddie, you’re welcome to all the rights we ALL enjoy & from which no trans identified people is excluded. But womanhood isn’t something you get ‘promoted to’. Nor something you can put on & off with different shoes. Women have specific rights & you’re NOT welcome to those.
@JoeCallaghan84
@TorontoStar
Maybe you could write an article next time about a woman athlete who’d had Olympic dreams, trained hard for many years to make them come true, only to have her place on the team be taken away by a man? Now, THAT would be quite a story!
@ForbesWomen
Come on! For centuries, men spoke for us. They spoke about us without involving us. Despite women’s so called liberation in the 60s, many men continue to speak over us. We’ve had to fight for decades for our voice. But in 2022 you’ve still chosen a man to represent us? Pitiful.
@stellacreasy
@morrisgallery
If a man you didn’t know at all asked to read stories to young children at the library, would you wonder whether it was sensible to agree? Why is it any different if the man is in a pink sparkly jumpsuit? Drag is for adults. Drag is misogynistic. Stop indoctrinating children
@hAck_3r64
Which of the letters represents porn soaked men who dress as little girls in nappies? Or men who pretend to be dogs? Or men who film themselves masturbating in women’s changing rooms, to post online? And what has any of that got to do with me as a lesbian?
#LGB
@MichaelBaggs
Strange, because they definitely speak for me & all my lesbian friends who lived through & marched against S28 (probably before your time) We feel much more supported knowing there’s one charity that represents the needs of same sex attracted people & defends our rights