Confused about who is male, who is female?
Can't trust the evidence of your own eyes?
Told not to trust your every day lived experience?
Just Ask Emma!
OK, science geeks. Sex testing and sport.
There are many people spreading misinformation about the reliability of sex testing, repeating arguments made for its abolition some 25 years ago.
I donβt know if they have noticed that weβve undergone something of a genetics revolution
Here he is, Tom Harlow, without all his glitter.
A bog standard misogynist who has had to fall back on that old chestnut - he is being cancelled, genocided etc etc etc.
Man's a pillock!
So when I come on here and then read Janice Turner saying we should call trans identified men she/her etc my whole body screams no! We can't do that. There is no way we can defend ourselves against these men without causing a scene. 4/
Ooops!
Went out with the doggo today, dog friendly cafe. Halfway through my Americano and illicit slice of cake and a group of women come in, one is immediately indefinable as a man. Cafe is quite full and it is this man who walks to my table, grabs the other chair and pulls 1/
This one incident had me, a women's group, the women who ran the cafe, all other patrons of the cafe, reduced to silence, all unwilling to say anything about this man's rudeness.
Not even mentioning his trans status but his absolutely dimwitted rudeness and handbag theft! 5/
Why?
I should have been more vocal. I placate myself, I didn't want to upset the bloody dog! (he's a bull terrier, gets very excitable)/ But FFS!
I have annoyed myself!
@PhysicsNews
@ClaraMBarker
Wonderful.
Now, how are you going to ensure you don't start discriminating against every female employee? Who will be fact checking everything Clara claims is legal, inclusive and required?
Do you know about the Stonewall lies? You should!
@cooltxchick
@MattWalshBlog
This is that "If I lie confidently enough someone will believe me" thing isn't it?
We ALL just watched the video. We all saw a man reduced to "It's complicated' because his ideology has no real answers.
We ALL know that!
I said "dare what? Take my handbag off the chair you are taking?"
He turned to the rest of his group and said very loudly "There is always one!"
I got my handbag back because one of the women in his group picked up and gave it back to me with a mouthed but silent apology! 3/
He didn't say a word to me just yanked the chair. It had my bag on it so I said "Wait a moment, I'll..." and he turned on me and said in very loud, very firm voice, with direct eye contact and a grimace "Don't you dare!"
Having held back the dog, who wants to meet everybody 2/
@TransKidsRule
Your son is not a woman, is not female.
There is no place for any male in female single sex spaces, services, sports etc.
You have allowed your son's issues to blind you to the truth. You both deserve better than that!
@TransKidsRule
You explain to your son that whilst socially he can expect to be treated with some compassion for his desire to be female medically he is male and his body needs to be treated as such.
He has no female medical needs.
@Spare130198
It was a bit of a shock. That I was rendered absolutely silent, mostly because it happened in someone else's business, was not something I anticipated.
He took my bloody bag and I stood there trying to work out how to be polite about it. FFS!
@Microdragons1
Good. They made a reasonable adjustment for you and maintained the single sex nature life the changing rooms, thus preserving the dignity of all the women involved.
What more could you possibly want?
@LilyIdle
@jk_rowling
It literally means literally π
What do you think it means?
And we are all laughing at you. Nobody believes a word you say. That's what happens when you start from the lie of TWAW.
We all know you lie... all the time.
@Serena_Partrick
What was he looking at? That's a picture of a perfectly healthy and really brave woman!
Do you have a picture of him? I know, it would be stooping to new lows, but is he, maybe, not such a a looker himself?
@perisceris
I don't remember any women saying that. I remember us saying we are as capable and can do the same jobs. But not as strong, as fast etc. Because that would have been stupid.
Not do we now say we are so small and weak. Equal but different has always been the real message
@bristolgreen
@KathrynBristow
Isn't he the the bloke who posted that kids shouldn't be given PBs but should go straight onto hormones
Does
#Southmead
know this? Do the residents agree with his dangerously ill informed trans activism?
@JanetIsabella_
@TheFamousArtBR
You are indeed a man. A man with an attitude towards women that makes him precisely the kind of man who needs to be kept out of all female spaces.
Go talk to you fellow men about their attitudes. Many say they don't have a problem with you!
@EggmanATL
@Riley_Gaines_
Maybe calling a woman who just got punched twice for saying she doesn't think men should expose themselves in female changing rooms or compete against women a loser isn't a good look.
We can all see what a misogynistic pillock tries to hide...
@OkBiology
Just another of those moments when a man who I have nothing in common with says something that precisely nails the absurdity of gender ideology.
In this he is absolutely right.
@sorrowfulwrites
And you Lucy? Your credentials? On what scholarly basis do you rest your analysis of the paper? Because claiming, as you do here, that there is no evidence that males are bigger, stronger than women is a doozy that flies in the face of the lived reality of every human being
@TiffanyStarrXXX
@ThePosieParker
Way to prove, yet again, that women are right when they say you lot are aggressive, dangerous, threatening blokes!
We see you very clearly!
@SVPhillimore
So I ceased to be a woman in my early 40s did I?
And being very sporty in my teens meant I only became a women at 19?
Crikey, I must revise the whole of my life now! I have been UnWoman for most of it. An actual woman for about 1/3, and reducing every day.
@LouiseM93588150
@WomenReadWomen
@cuelou
That's not so much trauma as absolute outrage. And she knows full well that she could lose her job for saying that. She shouldn't need to be brave to say what she did. That's sodding outrageous!
@Jebadoo2
With that performance I don't care what her other politics are. She's a proper politician. The guffawing, chattering over her, unsupported emotionally laden statements from the other side only underlined that repeatedly!
When did we lose our proper politicians? Thatcher? Blair?
@PitandPendulum5
Eurgh! I remember him. All those women who felt they couldn't speak up without being thrown out as well as those who went along with him, supported him first and foremost!
Unbelievable!
@exxster
@DieMadTerf
I was doxxed, had my workplace, a women's refuge, attacked directly because of my use of Twitter to raise awareness of funding changes, increased diversity means we must support male services, I need more people to understand this!
I am anonymous because of the anger of men!
@MindCharity
@Mermaids_Gender
Are you utterly mad?
Are you actively trying to traduce yourselves, to undermine all the good work you do?
Mermaids? Even the most cursory check on their current status would show you they are under investigation by the Charity Commission and haemorrhaging money.
@JackDunc1
@RepLuna
Oh Jack!
Many trans identified women acknowledge that their choices have made it impossible for them to use female facilities. Guess what? They don't sulk or shout, they make alternative arrangements that don't piss all over anyone else's rights.
@AirFriedRosie
She confirmed what many have been saying for years. Trans specific studies have been influenced, badly designed and have done more harm than good. Had they been of good quality we would be YEARS ahead of were we are now with clinically proven efficacious treatment pathways.
@AlastairGrahame
Because we women who box do wear them!
I know what you want to say, that that is actually a male groin guard not a female one. But we don't need to do this, we already have 2 smoking guns for each male boxer!
@SuttonUtdWomen
@lucyclarkref
@SUFCTV
You just couldn't help yourselves could you?
Let's hope you make a different decision before you get laughed out of the park.
FFS!
@MujerGuerrera78
@yea_karen53
I hope you and many others ask for a refund of unused membership on the grounds that they have materially changed the nature of the gym.
Hit them in the pockets!
@Jebadoo2
She was referred to Standards this morning!
Hopefully someone will explain that she is not a ninja mutant hero turtle, a caped crusader, that her pepper spray comes under firearms legislation. If she is too scared, angry or hyped up on 'being police' she needs a reality check
@Nannyogg63
@ask_aubry
Many women find just wearing the bloody things problematical. How many of us who are larger of breast end up with the belt round our throats half the time.
And no, those stupid tensioner things don't work, I get more use out of a hair scrunchy, or would do if I had any!
@project_lesbian
@Martina
@Telegraph
So many fragile male identified responders here.
What's your problem? If you are not lesbian then this has fuck all to do with you? It takes nothing away from you. It adds to the lives of some women.
Why so determined to vilify it?
@SleshStuart
@MailOnline
"there is the possibility of him moving in with his girlfriend, who has been a very supportive person."
7 years he had been doing this and some poor women (2 including his mother) feel obliged to offer him succour?!?!?!
FFS.
@KierHardlie
What? You mean a woman with a sense of humour, a drive to protect the rights of women and a bag laid of money is just too much for you π
@jammi_dodger94
Does it include the details of the gory horror, the night you thought you'd die from loss of blood, the psychological issues that arose from that?
Will it help others make fully informed decisions? Or are you lying by omission?
@AdamRutherford
@MForstater
@bengoldacre
Oh come on, Adam. Are you seriously saying you don't understand methodologies for Reviews?
That totally traduces you whole TL, doesn't it?
@Lachlan_Edi
Because those men are doing what many men do, what you are doing here. Talking over women, ignoring what women are saying and doing. Having your own way, loving the sound of your own voice.
Pillock
@coookienmilk
@TheAngelOfAres
@bestwildclips
Did you not hear her or do you just want to disregard her obvious upset.
When she aid "he... his fingers" EVERY woman hearing her knew what she meant. So what's your excuse?
@JayCartere
@Dominiquetaegon
Yeah! That's right, Jay! Dude is saying kids know what they want and what they want is gay sex with older men!
You might want to delete this, cos it makes you look, erm...
@robjessel16
Yes, Robert. Because women can't rely on any legislation aimed at equality, health, education, housing, leisure, safeguarding etc if nobody knows what a woman is, in law if not in fact!
Every aspect of our lives is affected by those men in dresses!
@TheFamousArtBR
I know. I am used to reading dense texts, dissertations etc and I am taking it slow because of the necessary flitting back and forth to connect points, see the wider point being made.
Yet in les than 8 hours the first "it's all baseless rubbish" posts appeared.
@Xtien
@clovosaurus
@CorineNugteren
@BritishVogue
Nothing. Until they start to make ridiculous clams on womanhood, obfuscating the language, pretending, deceiving, etc. He is a man. A trans identified man, Not a she, women, female, actress etc. We need to be truthful about this. We don't deliberately deceive about anything else
@Wommando
Whilst I applaud the attempts to get transmen in for smear tests I remain frustrated at the "not everyone who is..." blather. She is female. All transmen are... get a bloody smear test done!
@AirFriedRosie
Mmm! Maybe it was just another man, a homophobic, probably drunk, man... outside a MacDonalds at 3.15 in the morning.
Men.
Nothing to do with women!
@markky710202
@goeke_christina
Yeah. The young adult male kind of 'kid' that tries to spit in the face of a young woman with protection of another adult male, also holding a spray in her face. That kind of 'kid'
@RonniNicole1
Hey
@AidanCTweets
Look! One of those things you swear never happens. One of those things you berate women for mentioning.
One of those things you seemingly have absolutely no problem with.
For shame, Aidan! For your shame!
@StandingforXX
More of this please? Men get telling other men precisely this! Tell your MPs, friends, colleagues etc.
Actively work towards the return of common sense!
@IzzyKamikaze
Oh well done! Well mangled.
She actually said that nobody, priest, doctor, teacher, transperson should be held as a sacred caste, ever innocent.
As usual all you have done is show just how much you have to mangle words to make a point.
@Chriscoveries
@DanaPhamAU
So yet again women standing talking are told to leave. The police choose to remove those doing nothing wrong rather than the harder job of removing those who actually were breaching the peace.
Cowardly and only propagates the threatening behaviour
@CarolineLucas
And yet that is precisely what you have all done. Respect and healthy relationships do not include teaching 5 year olds that they are born in the wrong body and should have surgery to put it right!
Any Green response to the Cass Review yet?
@citizenjournos_
So, basically, he said, my very existence is a Gotcha! question.
I'm female, as is half the world population! What the hell does he think is happening here?
@PrueBray
@JustMisogyny
@slipkn0t8
Your problem there, Prue, is that men are not women. We have some really simple safeguarding principles that keeps the sexes separate, for the safety and dignity of females. Any man who chooses to ignore those simple societal mores is the kind of man who needs to be censured.
@stephenwhittle
@Chronus8
@MForstater
If you mean me, do so. There is nothing malicious in it, malicious was making the rest of us lie for you in the first place. Look where that got us?!
You cannot compel me to lie...
@KatyLuciani
@ThePosieParker
@uhohwoman
Then do it.
Stand up and tell men in your country that you too will not be denigrated, forced to accept men in female spaces, services, sports etc
Wake up!
@DeVyvyan
@eine_Mel
You mean when she realised that everything about her life, marriage, husband was a lie she decided to dump you.
And nothing you have 'been through' equates to womanhood. Those people lied to you!
@theFoxFisher
Trans people can take all the time and space they want. Right up to the point where they choose to take a space that they have no right of access to.
You MUST accept that everyone has rights and when they conflict there are some basic truths to be acknowledged. Men are not women
@HolyroodDaily
Trust me, as a small provider for women she is right. If we are ever legally challenged by a man with a GRC we are fucked. We already lost 4 years funding for saying no!
@FlorenceHRScott
Puberty cannot be wrong. Your body is what it is and has to go through a maturation process. A process that distresses many... it's normal, with all those hormonal changes, growth changes.
What we shouldn't do is tell kids that those changes are wrong, abnormal, harmful
@PeterTatchell
Hey Peter! It's been about 2 years now.
You, Stonewall et al, still haven't responded to the simple question: what therapies that have happened in this century, in this country are you referring to when you say "conversion therapy"
What are you afraid of?
@sally_hines
No Sally. Because a peer reviewed journal, actual scientists, research, will always hold far more weight than the words of any t'internet keyboard clatterer. Facts are facts. No matter how much they may offend!
@BRKeogh
@PeakedBimbo
Please stop. You are peddling disinformation that is most likely to harm any young gender confused reader.
Samaritans et al are constantly asking that people stop advertising the idea that suicide is a common or normal reaction to confusion.
@UniofReading
@ScottishFin
As I said - gender!
Does your definition of "woman" include anyone who identifies as such?
Your gender blather is deliberate obfuscation!
@hatpinwoman
That it pays not to close the door on those who were lost
When they come to their senses they need us to welcome them with a sardonic smile, not condemnation
Our largest individual funder just came back after 4 years. She was in tears abjectly sorry. We gave her tea and cakeπ
@Ryan_Posselt
Even from the other side of the world your behaviour looks ridiculous, dismissive, misogynistic! That you have 1 obvious sock account shouting at you is uncalled for, tough! Just block it!
And then consider why so many more people are telling you that you acted like a prat!
@DurdyDraws
@ask_aubry
Yeah! Women said no. Probably with a smile and an apology. Because we ALL know how aggressive some men can be when rejected. We learn that REALLY early in life.
He is the common denominator is his life... he is his biggest problem. And he isn't ashamed to let everyone know it.
@sportsagentspod
@Scienceofsport
@GabbyLogan
@GlobalPlayer
That was not at all nuanced or delicate. He very plainly stated that if you listen to what Julia says, or Ivy/McKinnon and place value on inclusion then you cannot have single sex female sport
It is THAT simple
@saeterjenta
It's akin to the "It's not stereotypes' argument. Well what is it? Head tilts, long nails, permanently flicking hair, tinkling laugh etc. I don't do any of that and I AM a woman!
@dummygothic
@coley699853
And yet you take her opinions as The Truth and decry everyone else's as some kind of Nasty Lie!
Great logic fail you have going on there!
@ItsMatt_Again
@dianamahon
Matt, in about 30 years time you will see young people, about the age you are now, posting this about you and your generation. The wants and needs of people change over time, that's how it is suppose to work.
Nobody is ever happy about the previous generation's choices
@SocialismPsycho
@helenstaniland
I think you have a very confused idea of what it is you are talking about.
You might want to ponder this: what is it that a man who thinks he is a woman uses to display his 'womanliness'?
Yes! That's right! All those gender norms, stereotypes, that most women eschew!
@PeterTatchell
@iealondon
Your choice of confederate was a tad unfortunate, don't you think?
He really embodies everything Helen was talking about. Made everything you said seem contrived, daft!
Better luck next time π€£
@LyingWrongAgain
@Urtoez75_2
No, it hasn't. Women were never asked. Women have chosen to leave unobtrusively, fearing to arouse male ire. Men never went unnoticed, they chose not to notice women leaving in fear, preferring to believe they 'passed'.
They are men. They have no places in women's spaces.
@scarlettrfranks
I am so sorry that happened to you. Rape is nigh on legal here in the UK also. My rapist was convicted only because the man who came to my rescue did so by inadvertently running him over. The ambulance crew called to him found me, battered and bruised, unconscious feet away.
@BRKeogh
@angijones
Social constructivism?
Oh please. That is the concept that humans, societies, construct their own milieu.
It says fuck all about human beings changing sex.
Some of us academics can actually parse complex information without getting lost down the back of the sofa.
@SVPhillimore
Especially given the number of people watching, listening, reading what actually went on. He was in his own world, answering Qs he wanted to answer, totally ignoring the reality of the situation, showing such disrespect to all. Which KM led him to illustrate remarkably clearly.
@AlastairGrahame
Your OP did not state that
I said I know that is what you meant. I am a female boxer, well was for about 30 years!
We have no need of sloppy, incorrect "Look at this!" images. They are both male
The real enemy now is the IOC and all those male reporters choosing not to see it
@queertyyr
And yet current DofE guidance is clear. Social transition is not a neutral act, there is no expectation of transition in schools and teachers should NOT enter into any such behaviour!
Again this is a teacher who will be cleared, a school that will be censured!