If you’ve ever wondered why I’ve been banging on about gender a lot lately (you probably haven’t tbf 😄), or why media is all fascinated with trans stuff, feminists, sport and “mean women” being chased around Twitter by activists, this is a really good summary of the reasons why.
“Oh it’s fine he’ll be risk assessed!” they say. I’m sorry, but having convictions for sex offences against women including rapes is a pretty massive indicator of risk in my book. It’s barbaric to lock female prisoners up with rapists. Why are we even having to point this out?
If I was in the Olympics and had become a massive story because of claims that I was a male masquerading as a female in a female boxing category, I would simply take a very quick mouth swab test to prove everyone wrong and get back to preparation for my next bout.
I used to think a Gender Recognition Certificate could be the ‘right thing to do’ in some (very rare) circumstances, but I don’t think that anymore. It’s a piece of paper that protects a lie. We simply shouldn’t be giving men legal documents that say they’re women. They’re not.
The reaction to both the Cass Report and banning of puberty blockers for children is precisely the sort of hysterical thrashing rage that you can usually expect when a belief system or religion feels threatened. This is not a normal reaction to scientific study or healthcare.
There’s something deeply unsettling about being told that your whole life & existence, your material reality, the experience you share only with other females, is something that any random male can identify in to just by ticking a box. Like it doesn’t really mean anything anyway.
Hey
@iocmedia
how come you allow competitors to self identify their sex into a category defined by sex, but you won’t let anyone self identify into a weight category and insist on doing your own checks? What’s the difference? Both categories exist for safety and fairness.
Men don’t belong in rape crisis centres for women, and men who have a creepy interest in whether or not women orgasm during rape really REALLY don’t belong anywhere near rape crisis centres. I can’t believe the things I have to type out these days. Jesus.
Has he resigned yet?
“Ssh! Be kind!” they said to 18 yr old Samoan Feagaiga Stowers as Hubbard decided to compete in female category & took gold at 41 yrs old. A survivor of abuse, she’d rebuilt her life through her sport. Her big moment was taken from her.
#FairPlayForWomen
When you strip all the nonsense away and take it back to basics, it’s absolute insanity, isn’t it? We all know he isn’t a woman. He knows he isn’t a woman. He knows women don’t want him in women-only spaces, but he’s willing to force his way in AND punish women for resisting.
Australian courts have decided that this is a “woman”- a female- and that he is owed $10,000 in compensation for being “discriminated against” when he was prevented from using a FEMALE ONLY app.
Despicable.
Please support
@salltweets
in her appeal.
Please speak up for women.
I can’t get this
@PGHosp
decision out of my mind. I mean, they’ve basically admitted discriminating against her but what their position also effectively says is “we have staff who won’t respect women’s boundaries” and that’s pretty scary in a hospital setting.
Can you imagine turning up for your appointment after the trauma of sexual assault, only to find yourself faced with a man? You know that he knows you're expecting a woman, and he knows what you've been through, but he's there anyway. That's the sort of man you're now facing.
A rape crisis centre run by a trans woman has been “illegitimately” hiding the biological sex of its counsellors from victims of sexual assault, an employment tribunal has heard
@ThomasWillett9
“Why can’t women just listen to these men goddammit?”
We do. This is often why we don’t want them in our spaces. We’re not props or extras in the performance of their fetish.
@PinkNews
"Gestational carrier" is the most depressingly dehumanising language. And can you imagine how that girl will feel when she grows up and reads how she was so unwanted they actually wanted a refund? Disgusting. No thought whatsoever for needs of the child.
@BetteMidler
🎯 When the only time you see the word “women” appear is in relation to males and their identities, and when women themselves are reduced to body parts or functions, you know there’s a serious problem.
I say no to the word ‘woman’ being hijacked, I say no to opening female-only spaces to males, I say no to poorly thought out, reckless and ideologically driven legislation. I say no to tick box ‘consultation’ and I say a great big NO to Self ID.
#NoToSelfID
//
#ThisIsMyNo
There’s a special place in hell for the men who want to get in a ring and hit women for sport, and there’s also a special place for the people who enable and facilitate this.
🚨Two Olympians competing as "female boxers" in Paris were previously disqualified from a women's boxing championship for having "XY chromosomes."
Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting have been accused of "pretending to be women" by
@IBA_Boxing
.
Women’s rights are human rights.
Alison Moyet was bending ideas of gender and expression before half the creeps harassing her had even been born. They’re going to lose their wee minds when they discover David Bowie, Annie Lennox and Adam Ant.
We haven’t forgotten that you let this man compete against women in Tokyo
@iocmedia
. You let this ridiculous 43 year old bloke take the place of an 18 year old from Nauru, Roviel Detenamo. Remember that? You’re in no position to mock other organisations, IOC. Just saying.
“Ssh! Be kind!” they said to 18 yr old Samoan Feagaiga Stowers as Hubbard decided to compete in female category & took gold at 41 yrs old. A survivor of abuse, she’d rebuilt her life through her sport. Her big moment was taken from her.
#FairPlayForWomen
@NicolaSturgeon
No. You absolutely do not get to come out all righteous about the dismantling of women’s rights in the States when you’re busy doing your utmost to destroy them right here at home and when you struggle to even define what a woman is. The hypocrisy here is infuriating.
@JamesBarry1789
@nytimes
@jk_rowling
Airbrushing women from their own accomplishments is about as old school as misogyny gets. This is just the same old thing dressed in a different costume and labelled as progressive, when it’s anything but. Your thread is magnificent btw 🙌
Hey
@TwitterSafety
I noticed that you’re hitting people with “are you sure you want to post this” messages when they use swear words. What messages are you sending to those who post MAP content and extreme / violent porn? 🤔
Right now there’s people sitting at home trying to come up with reasons to excuse a man shoving his nipple into a baby’s mouth and feeding it discharge he produced by ingesting a cocktail of seriously strong drugs. People who think they’re the good guys.
I hate it here.
I'm no policing expert but allowing a bunch of angry masked blokes to surround a group of fenced in women seems like a pretty terrible idea to me.
#LetWomenSpeakEdinburgh
It’s good to see this stuff getting coverage but it’s interesting to note that it took men’s records being erased to get it onto main news programmes - nobody gave a hoot when it was just women’s records that were being regularly disappeared. Anyway, strange move
@parkrun
😶
Remember that clip from the radio this morning? The father who had transed his baby girl and was raging that she won’t now get puberty blockers in Scotland? This is the mother. She believes that her young daughter is reincarnated and had a past life as a man. Yes, really.
I’m sorry that Algerian culture may struggle to accept that a male baby may not have had completely normal male genitals at birth, & therefore he must be labelled a girl, that’s truly sad. However, it doesn’t mean we should allow him to punch women in the face once he’s an adult.
@theJeremyVine
Some men found out that some women were planning to gather today at the statue to speak about women’s rights, so the men got together and decided to prevent it, and do some intimidation while they were at it. Sigh. Same old.
@HumzaYousaf
For the love of god will you lot please please stop drawing comparisons between trans identified males and black females. It’s disgusting. At what point are you going to recognise how racist it is?
@shannonmcgrane_
You’re trying awfy hard to win someone’s approval here. It’s a bit cringe tbh. When you need to start talking down women with cliched stereotypes as ammo, you’re in a desperate sort of place.
The people demanding puberty blockers (for other people’s children, natch) haven’t read Cass, haven’t familiarised themselves with how puberty blockers actually work, or the damage they cause, and they haven’t looked at the stats either. It’s all performative posturing.
@TheStudentPaper
You also deleted the quotes you included by Robyn Woof. And if it’s single sex and women only, it doesn’t just exclude TW, it excludes ALL males irrespective of identity. They’re not trans exclusionary, they’re male exclusionary. Why try to sensationalise it like that?
@judgejules75
@jk_rowling
I keep thinking of the Edinburgh women who shared their trauma in order to try and explain why they need this type of space to heal. A few were demonised for wanting women-only support. I hope this announcement makes them feel heard, and makes them feel like it was worth it ♥️
Devastating. Anyone who has ever been a parent knows exactly how easy it would be to convince your 4 yr old of.. well, pretty much anything. You set their reality. I don’t even have words to describe how abusive this is. To lie that way to a small child, and keep it up for YEARS.
Ever since the Tories rushed through their ban on puberty blockers, we’ve been flooded with emails from worried parents. One mother asked us to share her fears.
Read her moving perspective here:
I can’t be pleased that Mridul Wadhwa is gone. He never should have been allowed in the door never mind given the top job. The damage this has caused to women & girls, to survivors, to trust in Scotland’s rape crisis services, to truly vulnerable people, has been incalculable.
The kind of men who hear “this space is used by women trying on bras” and then press ahead and demand access anyway are exactly the sort of men you don’t want in with females. Zero respect for boundaries.
@marksandspencer
they’re making a mockery of your policy. Sort it out.
@Waterstones
The content of this book is harmful to vulnerable & distressed young people. There is no mention of side effects or risks of puberty blockers, it’s not just a “pause”. Why the hell are you promoting this book to CHILDREN, never mind shortlisting it for an award? So irresponsible.
This week women are being recorded as having *check notes* … murdered a man and….blended a cat. Righto.
Scarlet Blake is not a woman and these are
#NotOurCrimes
Didn’t take long for TRAs to move from weaponising this kid’s death to attacking Brianna’s mother for not staying on message. Of course they’ll defend social media, porn, dark web. It’s how they sustain a powerful contagion. A contagion that made this kid vulnerable & distressed.
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I can’t stop thinking about that wee 4 year old boy, now a young teen. Lied to for a DECADE by his own parents. No memory of anything before those lies.His entirely reality tipped upside down by the people he’s supposed to be able to trust most in the world. It’s so so upsetting.
When you describe the launch of a service for women who have been subjected to sexual violence as “terrible news” you’ve no business working in this sector. When you turn women away simply for not validating men, you’ve also no business taking public money.
NC - referring to announcement about Beira's Place.
(reading) It says 'hey everyone' from AB, acknowledging the terrible news that has emerged about the opening of this place, it's landed heavy on me, let me know want to get together to share our feelings (on line of course)
Oh sod off McKinnon. You're not "medically female", and even if sport is a human right (and that's debatable in itself) it's definitely not a human right to participate in any category you so choose. Why not just self-ID as 15 and compete against kids? Total gubbins.
"Preventing trans women from competing or requiring them to take medication is denying their human rights."
World Champion cyclist
@rachelvmckinnon
defends her right to race as a trans woman despite saying 'it's possible' to have an advantage.
More here:
That brief moment when you think “surely now they’ll have to acknowledge that women are a real thing and not just an identity or feeling - SURELY?” but no, they don’t. Not even when the actual worst thing happens. Not even then. They still avoid the word altogether.
I'm more relieved than pleased by the
#waxmyballs
outcome. Those poor women should never have been put through any of this. The woman with learning difficulties, this waxing job was the only thing she had of her own. Her tiny wee bit of independence. Fuck you Yaniv.
A reminder that Baker was arrested because of the whole “if you see a t**f punch them in the f**king face” thing. This lunatic (based in Edinburgh I believe - prosecuted for attacking Julie Bindel a few years back) reckons it’s the “only solution”. Both sides, aye?
I use that Elizabeth Arden stuff on my lips - have done for years - but from now on every time I see the tube I'm going to have to deal wirh the thought of bloody Prince Harry and mental images of his rotten defrosting knob.
The
@PGHosp
know who’s male and female. If they can’t slap a ‘no male staff’ note on a patient’s record and expect / be confident all of their male staff will comply and respect the patient’s request - what does that say about these staff members or about the hospital culture?
@LeftWolff
@Iivilicious
YAY! Shouting at and intimidating a group of women! Finally some legitimised publicly and socially acceptable outlet for misogyny! Amazing! 🙄
It’s the year 2023 and we’re actually having arguments about whether or not it’s a bad idea to allow men to play contact sports against women. It’s almost like some people didn’t take women’s sports seriously to begin with.
I watched all four parts of the Netflix series
#Unorthodox
last night and can’t stop thinking about how good it was. How incredible Shira Haas is. I was absolutely transfixed for the duration. Wonderful story telling.
If a woman who needs support from Edinburgh Rape Crisis won’t also participate in validating the male who lied to get work at Edinburgh Rape Crisis, then that woman won’t get any support at all. Even worse, she’s deliberately and actively punished for it.
@tribunaltweets2
RA: She was not even told about existence of Beira's Place - the single sex service I now work for - they've said they refuse to refer to us, and it was only by chance and a different referral she found her way to BP.
@afrocanadia
@jk_rowling
If you think she’s the baddie in this scenario you really need to recalibrate your moral compass. Goodness me. She’s exactly the sort of role model I want for my little girl - brave, principled, honest, stands up to bullies and uses her platform (and money) for good.
@Iivilicious
Oh wow. Check out the glee on their faces too - so very pleased with themselves as they shout down a group of lesbians doing nothing more than asserting their boundaries. Must take some mental gymnastics to convince yourself that this is okay. Appalling behaviour.
Imagine having to go to court to assert your right to ‘believe’ that water is wet or that humans breathe oxygen. I don’t know how we got to this mad place but I hope today’s judgment means we’re slowly moving out of it.
I’m not convinced that sending a bunch of aggressive privileged males to scream and shout at a bunch of women is the ideal way to convince those women that they don’t actually need male-free spaces. Just saying.
#WPUKManchester
@ForwomenScot
@policescotland
@DoctorsBar
Woah. Doctors at Forrest Rd / Teviot Place? What the hell? That used to be such a good bar too - a real Edinburgh institution. And what in the name of the wee man were the police doing acting as pub bouncers?! Is this one of your pubs
@greeneking
?
Well well well. The
@openDemocracy
piece about Mridul Wadhwa and
@EdinRapeCrisis
that turned out to be a load of rubbish (as per evidence at tribunal today) was written by…. Maggie Chapman’s godson. Murky murky murky.
@PuppyMonsterBo1
Coercive behaviour. So many 🚩🚩🚩.
As for the Open Democracy piece, Maggie Chapman, ex COO of ERCC, is godmother to Adam Ramsay's child.
‘Gender neutral’ is a fluffy & disarming way to say ‘mixed sex’ and in mixed sex spaces or contexts, men always dominate. Can anyone truly say they’re even a wee bit surprised at this turn of events at the Brits? But hey, at least Sam Smith is happy.
So The Brits introduced an Artist Of The Year category as a gender neutral replacement for Best Male and Best Female Artist category - but this year all five nominees are blokes 🤔 🤷♂️
And despite your sex being the most fundamental part of your experience of navigating the world, and often a key driver for the way you are treated by others, it doesn’t matter enough to be recognised as an actual real thing,with an actual clear and meaningful definition.
Your regular reminder that issues with
#SelfID
aren’t about trans people, it’s mostly the fact that there’s no actual requirement to be trans to use it. There’s no meaningful criteria at all. Anyone can use Self ID. Anyone at all, by ticking boxes. Anyway, as you were.
#ITVDebate
Sometimes the only way to process events of the day is with some ginormous glasses of wine and some chat from terrific women. It’s impossible to be gloomy around the
@ForwomenScot
team. This isn’t the end by any means, this is the beginning.
#SOS
#ShameOnScotland
Guy puts himself up as spokesperson for the protest….
“I don’t know much about the book or the event.” 😄
Same old. Other people have told him the book is ‘transphobic’ and that’s good enough for him. He’s just there for the bit where he gets to shout at women.
@MrJohnNicolson
@talkRADIO
Have you asked any females who disagree with you to join your show and discuss this? Call me awkward if you must but two men arguing about what a woman is probably isn’t the best idea.
“We are urging the public not to speculate” perhaps because the person in question is not a woman at all? Because the person who killed this man is also a man? Stop this bullshit.
@sussex_police
By "style of engagement" do you mean "we said the quiet part out loud"? What sort of culture do you have going on when your social media person feels entitled to use your official account to push extremist personal views?
@jamieharrisnyc
Women are not support humans. They’re not there to validate males experiencing distress. They’re there to compete against their peers. Sport is about competing bodies, not identities. Transition all you like, nobody’s stopping you, just compete in the correct sex class.
Also, I need to say, I have the most enormous respect for
@AshtenRegan
. It can’t have been easy to make that decision but I (and many others) admire you greatly for it. Thank you for showing us that some in SNP are still listening, Ash.
#NoToSelfID
@ForwomenScot
@policescotland
@DoctorsBar
@greeneking
It would be good to know if
@greeneking
support their staff in calling female customers “terfs” - are you really ok with staff in your pubs harassing women customers and using misogynistic terms like this one? I’m fuming for them. Absolute disgrace.
"Katie" Dolatowski was placed in a male prison & when inside, battered a fellow inmate for making "comments". Following which this violent child sex offender was moved to a FEMALE prison apparently because the violence was due to being in the wrong prison.
@marksandspencer
@JeanHatchet
Will you be updating the signage to inform your customers that your fitting rooms are now actually mixed sex? Will you do that to allow your customers to make an informed choice about who they're sharing intimate space with?
This mood brewing in UK feels dangerous. It’s hard to put into words but it’s unsettling… and simmering with things I can’t see properly and don’t fully understand. And lots of those things look like violence and barely contained rage to me.
@Waterstones
I note the book doesn’t appear to explain what puberty blockers actually are - or how they’re enormously powerful drugs used to chemically castrate sex offenders. Conveniently missed that part out. “Oh they just stop you getting breasts!” Ffs.
@BBCWomansHour
@RobertJenrick
@sarahditum
@CCriadoPerez
I see no issue with having gender neutral (mixed sex) loos in addition to separate male & female, but either way females need their own space. I’m fed up having to justify that. It’s really very simple - I don’t want to share with males. ‘No’ is a complete sentence.
In Brighton today two female "trans" activists openly swear at and abuse a new born baby and his father. Accusing the father of
"Raising a little fascist"
The
#letwomenspeak
rally was pelted with smoke bombs and several arrests were made as women voiced their concerns.
@MarcWinsland
You just look like a bunch of total weirdos tbh. Nobody’s impressed by a bunch of grubby blokes dancing about the place in an attempt to harass women who gathered to speak about their own lives and issues that affect them. What are you doing with your life?
@tomhfh
That’s right. Because we don’t need to. We’re pretty good at recognising the opposite sex 😄 Women are especially good at it because we need to be. It’s a safety thing. Anyway, I think you might be confusing heavily filtered, angled and photoshopped images with real life, Tom.
@drjharrison
@HCAHospitalsUK
What part of “survivor of sexual assault” did you not understand? Even if she wasn’t, women should be able to insist on same sex care. Would you say any of this to a women who asked for the same because of her faith?
Oh honestly, just fuck off. Few things sting or feel more absurd than women’s orgs celebrating achievements of men in football. I mean, come tf on. Won’t someone think of the middle aged white man - such a marginalised part of the football community!
While women from Scotland & countries across the globe come together at
@FiLiA_charity
conference to discuss topics incl VAWG, reproductive rights, FGM, sexual violence and sexual exploitation, these authoritarian wee bellends will be outside screeching their hate.
@cmkavanagh
“they bring smoke bombs to throw at themselves” - except a TRA from the counter protest was arrested for throwing the smoke bomb into the crowd of attendees. Awkward. 😄 the projection is off the charts with you lot.
I can’t deal with the Eddie Izzard situation. I loved Eddie so hard in teens and 20s. Eddie giving zero fucks all “they’re not women’s clothes, they’re my clothes. I bought them.” Bossing it. Owning it. Taking zero shit. How amazing was that?
@AOC
Funny how easily you can say the word ‘men’ but not the word ‘women’. You’ve managed not to mention women & girls even once. Incredible. A quick search reveals the last time you did use it, and isn’t it oh so revealing? 🤔
I’m a mum. I travel a lot for work. I’m away from home right now and will be away again for most of next week. I’m struggling to put my feelings on Ruth Davidson’s resignation letter (& timing of the letter) into words. I have all sorts of weird mixed feels about it actually.
@MhairiHunter
Well, I suppose you could describe sex offences against children and violent murders as not being ‘violence against women’ but I’m not sure it makes the point you’re apparently trying to make.
@BetteMidler
Well said, Bette 👏 Some of the sanctimonious “won’t someone pls think of the men” replies are too ridiculous for words. No, we can’t bugger about with language (or obfuscate who exactly is affected) right now, women simply can’t afford it - clarity is much too important.
Another example of how Self-ID isn’t “just admin” at all. A £5 gender certificate gives a man access to women-only roles. These jobs are often women-only because they’re in sensitive orgs or services, or give access to vulnerable women, eg rape crisis/domestic violence shelters.
BREAKING: New EHRC guidance relating to ‘women-only’ job adverts.
“A ‘sex-based’ occupational requirement to be a woman under Schedule 9 cannot include transgender women who have not obtained a GRC” /1
Sally Morgan... you are a dreadful, unkind, bitter, vindictive and manipulative fraud. It doesn’t get much worse than exploiting vulnerable and grieving people with bullshit for your own financial gain. Off you pop, love. Never darken my telly again.
#CBBFinal
Listen…👂… can you hear it?
That’s the sound of a bunch of cocksure windbags and amateur law enthusiasts deleting all the tweets in which they confidently insisted The Stand was legally entitled to discriminate against Joanna Cherry. You know who you are. Bunch of blethers.
I can’t accept the gubbins about mixed sex rugby (or almost any mixed sex sport) being more ‘inclusive’ than just maintaining female-only categories. Inclusive to who? Who’s measuring the self-exclusion of females? The injury? The places or opportunities that women lose to males?
@ACLU
Then you simply don’t respect women’s sports at all. If you did, you wouldn’t consider it fair collateral damage for pursuit of a political ideology. If you did respect it, you wouldn’t wilfully compromise the integrity or fairness of competition.