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Wales the most LGBTQ+ friendly nation?
You might as well take the LGB out of that right now on this showing @WelshGovernment
A shocking bin-fire of a meeting
@UKLabour @Keir_Starmer no wonder women can’t trust you
#RespectMySex
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You might as well take the LGB out of that right now on this showing @WelshGovernment
A shocking bin-fire of a meeting
@UKLabour @Keir_Starmer no wonder women can’t trust you
#RespectMySex
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It may have helped if the host from @LGBTLabour had actually asked questions from those attending
Did you know questions were rapidly being deleted from the chat bar @hannahblythyn?
Did you know that lesbians were being silenced?
Did you know questions were rapidly being deleted from the chat bar @hannahblythyn?
Did you know that lesbians were being silenced?
Did you know that any challenges to the deletion of questions were being removed @hannahblythyn?
We’d like the host from @LGBTLabour ‘Ash’ to explain why the questions of lesbian were repeatedly deleted
Surely the L is an important part of the LGBTQ+ Plan? Surely? No?
We’d like the host from @LGBTLabour ‘Ash’ to explain why the questions of lesbian were repeatedly deleted
Surely the L is an important part of the LGBTQ+ Plan? Surely? No?
🧵Today we launch our #AllIWantForChristmas Campaign
It will run from 26 November to 24 December Like last year we will focus on the need to protect single-sex spaces for women & girls. #AllIWantForChristmas
#SilencedRights
#SaveOurSpaces
#RespectMySex
#WomensRightsNetwork /1
It will run from 26 November to 24 December Like last year we will focus on the need to protect single-sex spaces for women & girls. #AllIWantForChristmas
#SilencedRights
#SaveOurSpaces
#RespectMySex
#WomensRightsNetwork /1
This year, our
#AllIWantForChristmas Campaign will focus on retail areas in stores particularly changing rooms & toilets.
#SilencedRights
#SaveOurSpaces
#RespectMySex
#WomensRightsNetwork /2
#AllIWantForChristmas Campaign will focus on retail areas in stores particularly changing rooms & toilets.
#SilencedRights
#SaveOurSpaces
#RespectMySex
#WomensRightsNetwork /2
To get us started let's remind ourselves of last year's campaign
Last year we got our message into several shops using many creative methods
#AllIWantForChristmas
#SilencedRights
#SaveOurSpaces
#RespectMySex
#WomensRightsNetwork /3
Last year we got our message into several shops using many creative methods
#AllIWantForChristmas
#SilencedRights
#SaveOurSpaces
#RespectMySex
#WomensRightsNetwork /3
A 🧵on why #NoToSelfID is still important On 27 October @scotgov voted for the 1st stage of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill #GRR the vote passed 🗳For 88
🗳Against 33
🗳Abstained 4
🗳No vote 4
#NoToSelfID
#NoMeninWomensSpaces
🗳Against 33
🗳Abstained 4
🗳No vote 4
#NoToSelfID
#NoMeninWomensSpaces
Scottish Labour Party @ScottishLabour
voted For the #GRR but they recognise the bill needs ammendments & gave a commitment to "seek to amend the bill at stage 2 to respect the primacy of the Equality Act 2010 and to have that placed on the face of the bill".
#NoToSelfID
voted For the #GRR but they recognise the bill needs ammendments & gave a commitment to "seek to amend the bill at stage 2 to respect the primacy of the Equality Act 2010 and to have that placed on the face of the bill".
#NoToSelfID
So, people are assigned a sex at birth. Why are some people assigned male while others are assigned female? On what basis would a medical professional assume the sex of the child?
#women #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #whatisawoman #WomanFace #transman #transwoman
#women #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #whatisawoman #WomanFace #transman #transwoman
The reason is that certain biological characteristics are given the name male, while certain other biological characteristics are given the name female. A person who objectively has the given characteristics is called either male or female.
Males and females go through a
Males and females go through a
process of aging and development. Young females are referred to using the word "girl" while adult female persons are referred to using the word "woman".
People "assigned female at birth" have the biological characteristics of a female and are girls who will grow up to be women.
People "assigned female at birth" have the biological characteristics of a female and are girls who will grow up to be women.
Jason Isaacs is a family favorite in my house, so this has gone down like a lead balloon.
Starting off with uncertainty, you may be uncertain but I am not. War and armageddon may frighten you but women have another concern closer to home.
We too are uncertain but unlike you we
Starting off with uncertainty, you may be uncertain but I am not. War and armageddon may frighten you but women have another concern closer to home.
We too are uncertain but unlike you we
are uncertain of the stability of our rights.
Our concern comes not from nudity, but from context.
A person sang about their superiority, the superiority of their prosthetic breasts that would never go saggy, and then proceeded to strip naked exposing "their" penis.
Our concern comes not from nudity, but from context.
A person sang about their superiority, the superiority of their prosthetic breasts that would never go saggy, and then proceeded to strip naked exposing "their" penis.
Women have a right to feel outraged by a FLASHER.
So what about the watershed? Just because we are old enough to view nudity does not mean that we must feel comfortable with it.
You may have seen this as celebratory but if your spaces are being given over to an innate sense of
So what about the watershed? Just because we are old enough to view nudity does not mean that we must feel comfortable with it.
You may have seen this as celebratory but if your spaces are being given over to an innate sense of
"If any woman or girl suffers voyeurism, sexual harassment, assault or rape in consequence of the Scottish government’s lax new rules, the blame will rest squarely with those at Holyrood who ignored safeguarding experts and women’s campaigners."
thetimes.co.uk/article/jk-row…
thetimes.co.uk/article/jk-row…
Thank you @jk_rowling for being in this fight with us and for your voice.
Scottish women are so fortunate to have you! #WomenWontWheesht #WomensRally #RespectMySex #SaveOurSpaces
Scottish women are so fortunate to have you! #WomenWontWheesht #WomensRally #RespectMySex #SaveOurSpaces
"Sturgeon [argues] that it’s transphobic to suggest any man would fraudulently claim a female identity. This claim is extraordinary. Nobody but the very naive can fail to be aware that predatory men are capable of going to great lengths to gain easy access to victims"
Those looking for the paper about harm done to women because if the loss of sex based language in health and maternity services - here you go: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
And here is the lead author, @DrKarleenG, speaking about it @VoteWithOurFeet
This is why I am so angry that my first minister and many members of @theSNP say “the proposed GRA changes will not impact women’s rights”. It already has. It is unforgivable for elected representatives to ignore expert evidence because it is inconvenient. #womenWontWheesht.
Today I am going to the #WomensRally at the Scottish Parliament, to protest against @scotgov, @scotgovfm and @shonarobison's move to reform the GRA. I am saying #NoToSelfID and #NoMenInWomensSpaces.
I have never been to a rally and I have never waved a placard. 1/
I have never been to a rally and I have never waved a placard. 1/
I am not an activist by temperament. I am a thinker, teacher and writer. My life is about ideas, books and people. (See @JKRsBarmyBooks.) And it's led me inexorably to this: my fundamental capacity to think, teach and write are under threat. 2/
I see things that are happening to women and children (and vulnerable men) and I can't say them, think them through with others, or write about them without fear. Enough of this. #Safeguarding #WomenDeserveBetter #FreeSpeech 3/
A 🧵on why #NoToSelfID is important right now. On 27 October @scotgov will vote to reform the Gender Recognition Act #GRA If the vote goes through this removes the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria & people can self declare the gender they wish to live as /1
@scotgov and @ShonaRobison have told us that no man would declare himself to be something he isn't to access vulnerable women & children. We know this is not true. There are numerous examples where this had happened.
So many girls with rapid onset gender dysphoria are being misdiagnosed and medically abused. This isn't just an age limit problem it is a standard of care problem. Much more care is required before medically transitioning so this does not happen. Affirming care is negligence.
such an important story
Why aren't voices like Sinead Watson amplified by @wsuares? Why does Fox25 only talk to parents of gender dysphoric kids instead of detransitioners?
'Cis' is quite literally aligning someone's personality with their biological sex which is a regressive, reductive, anti-feminist, and misogynistic.
Cis woman, is a sexist term that implies that there are two kinds of women: female and male ones, making the word woman something people identify as. This is an ideological lie, because we are a protected class on the basis of our biological sex, not our internal sense of being.
Ja, es stimmt: 🏳️🌈Frauen alle LGBTQ-Menschen 🏳️⚧️ leiden unter dem selben rückständigen Mindset, das unsere Kultur & Sozialisation immer noch mitschleift - aka "das Patriarchat"👻. Das bedeutet aber nicht, dass wir immer dieselben Bedürfnisse & Interessen haben.🧵
#RespectMySex
#RespectMySex
2/ Mantren wie „Transfrauen sind Frauen“ sind weder wahr noch hilfreich. Sie deckeln die Tatsache, dass die Rechte und Bedürfnisse von Frauen und transidenten biologischen Männern (=„Transfrauen“) kollidieren können, z.B. im Sport.
#RespectMySex
#RespectMySex
3/ Eine differenzierte und rücksichtsvolle Debatte ist gerade NICHT möglich, wenn die Unterschiede im Körperbau und in der Sozialisation zwischen Frauen und transidenten Männern als „transphob“ negiert werden. #RespectMySex
@JustinTrudeau I, as a female person, don't feel safe with males in my safe/intimate spaces. why does that not matter to you? males can feel afraid of other males so you let them into female spaces but when we claim to be afraid of males for OBVIOUS reasons, you call it transphobia? why?
@JustinTrudeau second women's shelter I was transferred to after my ex stalked me to the first one, a transwoman was there who sexually harassed me, my child and other women and their children. staff did NOTHING despite complaints. we were warned we'll be kicked out if we "can't tolerate" him.
@JustinTrudeau instead of establishing 3rd spaces for transgender ppl, here in Cda, female ppl r further traumatised, disregarded and dismissed and concerns for our immediate safety is mocked. why do you think our sex-based rights+protections should be denied instead of maintained?
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The other day, I was asking my grandmother about her childhood. That got me thinking - what will MY future grandchildren say when I tell them about my childhood? Thread about how I imagine this will go:
#SexMatters #SexNotGender #LetWomenSpeak #RespectMySex
The other day, I was asking my grandmother about her childhood. That got me thinking - what will MY future grandchildren say when I tell them about my childhood? Thread about how I imagine this will go:
#SexMatters #SexNotGender #LetWomenSpeak #RespectMySex
2/12
Future Grandchild (FG): What was life like when you were young?
Me: Well… misogyny was celebrated, stereotypes encouraged & healthy kids embarked on lifelong medical nightmares.
FG: What? Did that actually happen?
Me: Oh, believe me, it did.
#WomenWontWheest #misogyny
Future Grandchild (FG): What was life like when you were young?
Me: Well… misogyny was celebrated, stereotypes encouraged & healthy kids embarked on lifelong medical nightmares.
FG: What? Did that actually happen?
Me: Oh, believe me, it did.
#WomenWontWheest #misogyny
3/12
FG: How?
Me: There were these men who wore dresses, liked pink and did other stereotypical feminine things. They decided they were ACTUALLY women.
FG: You’re joking!
Me: I’m not!
#WeWillBeHeard
FG: How?
Me: There were these men who wore dresses, liked pink and did other stereotypical feminine things. They decided they were ACTUALLY women.
FG: You’re joking!
Me: I’m not!
#WeWillBeHeard
1/8
Over the last few years, along with the TWAW chant, trans rights extremists have said some pretty ridiculous things! Here are some of the craziest:
#TransCult #TransActivismIsMisogyny #TranswomenAreMen #TransmenAreWomen
Over the last few years, along with the TWAW chant, trans rights extremists have said some pretty ridiculous things! Here are some of the craziest:
#TransCult #TransActivismIsMisogyny #TranswomenAreMen #TransmenAreWomen
2/8
“Gender neutral toilets are fine. We all have them in our own homes!”
I mean, who amongst us hasn’t encountered an unknown male in our private toilet?! What a winning argument! (And they still make it. All. The. Time.🤦♀️)
#SexMatters #SingleSexSpaces #SexNotGender
“Gender neutral toilets are fine. We all have them in our own homes!”
I mean, who amongst us hasn’t encountered an unknown male in our private toilet?! What a winning argument! (And they still make it. All. The. Time.🤦♀️)
#SexMatters #SingleSexSpaces #SexNotGender
3/8
“Nobody can tell a transwoman from a biological woman.”
Nope. Far too difficult. There is absolutely no way that I can spot the TIM here!
#WeAllKnow #MenArentWomen #WomenArentMen #WhatIsAWoman #AdultHumanFemale #SexMatters #KPSS #KeepPrisonsSingleSex #SaveWomensSports
“Nobody can tell a transwoman from a biological woman.”
Nope. Far too difficult. There is absolutely no way that I can spot the TIM here!
#WeAllKnow #MenArentWomen #WomenArentMen #WhatIsAWoman #AdultHumanFemale #SexMatters #KPSS #KeepPrisonsSingleSex #SaveWomensSports
1/6 My school is fully captured by the #TransCult. As I’m able to differentiate fact from fiction, I often find myself standing alone against the madness.
#GenderWoo #GenderWooWoo #SexMatters #SexNotGender #WomenWontWheest #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #WomensRights #WeWillBeHeard
#GenderWoo #GenderWooWoo #SexMatters #SexNotGender #WomenWontWheest #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #WomensRights #WeWillBeHeard
2/6 My classmates AND the teachers try to intimidate me but I refuse to be silenced. I take every chance I can to stand against the gender insanity. Case in point? A recent reading survey.
#IStandWithJKRowling #IStandWithAllisonBailey #RespectMySex
#IStandWithJKRowling #IStandWithAllisonBailey #RespectMySex
3/6 I was given a form to fill out about books & authors.
First question: “Who is your favourite author?”
Of course I put @jk_rowling not just because of her books (outstanding as they are!) but because of her amazing work standing up for the rights of women & girls.
First question: “Who is your favourite author?”
Of course I put @jk_rowling not just because of her books (outstanding as they are!) but because of her amazing work standing up for the rights of women & girls.
1/10 In school, there is one genderwoo-obsessed handmaiden who claims to be a lesbian. (Note that word “claims” - that bit is important.)
#SexMatters #SexNotGender #SexIsReal #WhatIsAWoman #AdultHumanFemale
#SexMatters #SexNotGender #SexIsReal #WhatIsAWoman #AdultHumanFemale
2/10 Last week she insisted on asking me about my “transphobic” views. I asked her how she, as a lesbian, could support a cult that seeks to erase both women AND same-sex attraction?
#SexNotGender #BiologyIsNotBigotry #TransCult #LGBDropTheT #SexMatters #SexIsImmutable
#SexNotGender #BiologyIsNotBigotry #TransCult #LGBDropTheT #SexMatters #SexIsImmutable
3/10 She told me that TRAs do nothing of the sort. I pointed out that women are being kicked off lesbian dating sites, for saying they won’t date men. Which OF COURSE they won’t. These women are lesbians i.e. exclusively same-SEX attracted females.
#WeWillBeHeard #NoThankYou
#WeWillBeHeard #NoThankYou
A magnificent photo of a woman who knows that a woman is an Adult Human Female and that you should #RespectMySex if you want my X. You have my absolute respect, anonymous woman 😊😍
Fun fact - it is normal in a democratic society that other groups can hand out leaflets around hustings.
1/9 🚨 Latest Update from my “Inclusive” School:
This week in SPHE (social, personal and health education) we were discussing puberty and how our bodies develop in adolescence.
#SexMatters #SexNotGender #WeWillBeHeard #IStandWithMaya #IStandWithAllisonBailey #NoThankYou
This week in SPHE (social, personal and health education) we were discussing puberty and how our bodies develop in adolescence.
#SexMatters #SexNotGender #WeWillBeHeard #IStandWithMaya #IStandWithAllisonBailey #NoThankYou
2/9 The teacher taking the class has been trying to make my life rather difficult since I started asking questions and raising the issue of women’s rights. I suspect he is a men’s rights activist and quite possibly a misogynist too.
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights #SexMatters
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights #SexMatters
3/9 Anyway, during this class he asked, “Can you tell me something that boys have, that girls don’t, that grows in puberty?” “Penises!” yelled a classmate.
#WhatIsAWoman #AdultHumanFemale #WeAllKnow #BiologyIsNotBigotry #SexIsReal #SaveWomensSports #WomenWontWeesht #Biology
#WhatIsAWoman #AdultHumanFemale #WeAllKnow #BiologyIsNotBigotry #SexIsReal #SaveWomensSports #WomenWontWeesht #Biology
Sex in Toilets 🧵
How being inclusive of M in F toilet nearly cost me my life.
& how Josh Dixon @JoshDixonTweets of Haringey Liberal Democrats @HaringeyLibDems in Crouch End heard this & said M belong in F spaces if they are trans.
Please RT.
#LocalElections2022
#RespectMySex
How being inclusive of M in F toilet nearly cost me my life.
& how Josh Dixon @JoshDixonTweets of Haringey Liberal Democrats @HaringeyLibDems in Crouch End heard this & said M belong in F spaces if they are trans.
Please RT.
#LocalElections2022
#RespectMySex
2/ I asked his definition of a woman.
Josh said he’s not a biologist.
I winced & said he’s also not a US Supreme Court Nominee dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… ]
He then said a woman is whoever identifies as a woman.
Josh said he’s not a biologist.
I winced & said he’s also not a US Supreme Court Nominee dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… ]
He then said a woman is whoever identifies as a woman.
3/ I asked Josh how, as a councillor, he will protect girls & women in council-run schools and public spaces if anyone can self-id as a woman?
womenarehuman.com/girl-guiding-p…
I said I found M in F spaces distressing because of an attack on me many years ago.
womenarehuman.com/girl-guiding-p…
I said I found M in F spaces distressing because of an attack on me many years ago.
1/10 Recently a teacher told my class that a baby can be “assigned” the wrong sex at birth… and that is how a man can “actually” be a woman. I rolled my eyes so much it’s a wonder they didn’t roll right out of my head! #SexIsObserved #SexMatters #SexIsReal #SexNotGender
2/10 I said, “No. Sex is observed and recorded, not assigned. If you have a penis you are a male.” It was at this point that a fellow student chipped in. #BiologyIsNotBigotry #Biology #WomenWontWheest #WeWillBeHeard #SexMatters #SexNotGender #SexIsImmutable
3/10 “Being trans is like being told you're right-handed all your life then realising you're actually left-handed,” she said. #NoThankYou #WhatIsAWoman #AdultHumanFemale #KPSS #BiologyIsNotBigotry
Whew! This is Sarah taking over the tweets from our wonderful A. She has done a grand job launching #RespectMySex and speaking to @WEP_UK candidates. Unfortunately, this has also filled our mentions with some grim content... (1/7)
I just want to say thank you to all our feminist sisters slogging it out here in Twitter, it's not always an easy place to be. Nobody wants to be dealing with porn-soaked replies about sex toys whilst making the kids' lunch... (2/7)
Many of us are #VAWG survivors, of course, and being political and opinionated whilst being female is often enough reason to be targeted by rank misogyny. Sometimes even from other women... (3/7)
@WEP_UK are fielding candidates for the Council #elections2022
Do they know what a woman is? Will they answer the question?
@KayWesley?
@WepChristine?
@CFRayers?
@janewhild?
@DavidRentonWEP ?
#RespectMySex #RespectMyX @ManduReid @WomenUnitingUK
wepsbr.com/post/losing-my…
Do they know what a woman is? Will they answer the question?
@KayWesley?
@WepChristine?
@CFRayers?
@janewhild?
@DavidRentonWEP ?
#RespectMySex #RespectMyX @ManduReid @WomenUnitingUK
wepsbr.com/post/losing-my…
@WEP_UK @KayWesley @WepChristine @CFRayers @janewhild @DavidRentonWEP @ManduReid @WomenUnitingUK Who have we missed? Are there more candidates?
Hi Jane,
Can a woman have a penis?
Do you support women's sex-based rights?
Thank you
Can a woman have a penis?
Do you support women's sex-based rights?
Thank you
The new @EHRC guidance on separate and single-sex services is out!
We think it is a positive and welcome step in the right direction. Thank you @EHRCChair and @Marcial_Boo
1) It clarifies that “sex” (as understood in the Equality Act 2010) is binary, and that a person’s legal sex is their biological sex as recorded on their birth certificate.
1) It clarifies that “sex” (as understood in the Equality Act 2010) is binary, and that a person’s legal sex is their biological sex as recorded on their birth certificate.
2) It says that a gender recognition certificate is not relevant to decision-making about access to single-sex services.
