E J Rosetta Profile picture
Dec 16 7 tweets 2 min read
Hear me out

Single Sex Spaces - It’s As Simple As A Seatbelt!

Would you not wear a seatbelt just because the chances of being in a car accident are so low?

Would you not-buckle-up-your-kids because it rarely happens & YOU’RE a good driver?

No. Because its best to be safe🧵
You wear a seatbelt because you don’t know who else is on the road and safety first, right?

You never know who is out there texting while driving or drunk behind the wheel, so you take precautions.

Not just for you but for the people you love and wish to protect.

That’s SSP 🧵
THATS keeping womens spaces, like bathrooms, female-only. It’s as simple as a seatbelt!

The likelihood of being assaulted may be low, but allowing potential predators (they’re clever!) in to womens spaces is us all just collectively not wearing a seatbelt &hoping for the best🧵
I am not saying that TW are predators. Only predators are predators. This isn’t an anti-trans stance but a pro-protection one

The bathroom thing IS an issue & I don’t know what the answer is. Wish I did!

What I DO know is that when a predator has their eye on you, you feel it🧵
I’ve been there. And if the only thing between them & you is a door with a sign on it that says -

“No, you can’t follow me in here”

Then trust me you’ll be grateful it is there.

You’ll be grateful that your daughter, your sister, your mother, your wife, has that safety belt.🧵
& no, it’s not foolproof, but if we are to protect young girls & women we must continue to have that seatbelt-our single sex spaces-female only

So Buckle Up! Single Sex Spaces Are As Simple As A Seatbelt 😊

#SimpleAsASeatbelt #BuckleUp #SingleSexSpacesAreAsSimpleAsASeatbelt
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Beware The Handbag Hook-Up

OUAT I went to a gay bar for my birthday & when we found a table, there was a handbag!👜

Hoping to help, we set about trying to reunite it with its owner. We were in luck! Immediately, a trans woman, “Denise”, and her friend came over.

It was hers!🧵
“Thanks for giving it back” said Denise as she sat down, uninvited. “I’ll buy you a drink.”😎

It was a statement, not a question.😥😳👍

My friend seemed ok 🤷‍♀️so I quickly brushed off the looming sense of dread as I was locked in convo with Denise, who quickly became pushy😈🥷🧵
“You’re coming home with me tonight, though” she stated, as I politely kept chatting & smiling

I told her I had a girlfriend (I didn’t) bc ‘No’ wasn’t working. I told her I was there to dance & have fun!😬😅💃

“But you’re coming home with me tonight” Denise kept repeating😨🫣🧵
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For anyone having a bad day, I'd like to take a moment 2 make you all feel better by sharing with you the story of "Lamp-Lamp”

First thing you need to know is I have no common sense🧵
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Sadly I know nothing about elecriticity-ism

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Wow. What a lot of links to things I’ve already read and videos I’ve already watched.

Thanks, I guess?

I repeat - I see nothing transphobic in anything JK Rowling has ever said. You can’t buy, bully or berate me in to saying otherwise.

Never.
Ya know. Because “Always” is her quote. From Harry Potter.

Damn I had to explain why it was clever which means it’s not. Reminds me of some the defamatory, terminally biased propaganda I’ve read in the last months.

If you have to translate & twist why it’s transphobic, it’s not
And I was primed, paid and prepped to find transphobia.

I had unfollowed her unquestioningly, years ago, & swallowed what they told me to. That JK was a transphobe and not only that, spreading trans hate.

How foolish I felt when I realised I’d been tricked!

So I spat it out.
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I can confirm, here & now, that I won’t be doing any paid interviews, writing articles of my own or in any way monetising my stance.

I have no book coming out, nothing to sell, no agenda.

Holding my head high with my integrity in tact, I stand firm & proud that my words landed.
If you’re used to people only taking a stance in a self serving, tactical way then let me disabuse you of your assumptions.

I have no millions to hide behind, no famous friends to shield me, no pretty house to wait in or Insta-following to build.

I shared bc I felt strongly.
It was a series of tweets I assumed would be seen by 10 people.

It was not a stunt or performative or measured.

The most dangerous thing you can give a woman is nothing to lose. Because then, we can lose nothing in speaking the truth as we see it.

I saw, I spoke, I stood firm.
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Nov 23
Here’s a list of excuses I was given, repeatedly, while researching JK Rowlings “transphobic” quotes -

- It’s just common knowledge
- Go Google “JK Trans” and you’ll see it
- It’s hard to pick one quote bc it’s everything she says, ever
- “I’m not doing your research for you”🧵
-Why are you asking me? No I didn’t say she was *quickly deletes TL*
-It’s not what she’s said, but when she said it.And how
-Transphobia is in the eye of the beholder
-“Wikipedia”🙄
-She wrote a book I haven’t read that has a trans villain
-NO I DIDNT READ THE BOOK BUT ITS BAD🧵
-She was exposed years ago. *It’s known*
-Here’s an article someone wrote on tumblr
-Her friends/associates/fellow people with R for a last name are also anti-trans.Duh
-Look at this screenshot I suspiciously cropped
-“You are no longer able to send messages to this person”🧵
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Right, I’m done.

3 months ago, I was tasked with writing an article detailing “20 Transphobic JK Rowling Quotes We’re Done With”

After 12 weeks of reading her books, tweets, full essay & finding the context of these “quotes”, I’ve not found a single truly transphobic message🧵
In the process, I peaked.

JK Rowling is not an “intolerable transphobe”, she’s a (talented) woman who could have sat back & been beloved forever, but looked around & paid attention as the intersection of trans rights and women’s rights has had understandable growing pains.🧵
In many cases, one groups rights are being sacrificed for the other, with the most vulnerable women often paying the price. Here in Britain, we always want to support both sides but realise that in some cases (like DV Shelters), that is impossible.

And JK was paying attention.
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