TW: This is not a nice story.

Yesterday I heard of the suicide of a woman I met some years ago. She transitioned to male and had been taken testosterone for years. She was young, disabled, autistic.

She unexpectedly fell pregnant & lost the baby. The information we have… …at this point is that she was told the years of testosterone had a big part to play in why she lost the baby.

She blamed herself, and so this week she ended her life.

I am heartbroken at a medical ideology that tells young women & men that these hormones are life saving…

To make it clear to begin with: I abhor violence on all sides.

A few years back now I would have been on the Free Palestine marches thinking that it was the ‘right side’.

Then I had the ‘wrong thoughts’ for a leftie which opened my eyes to the lies my ‘side’ told as well👇 I read books by ex Muslims and by Jewish authors.

I watched what happened to Isreal last month.

I do not condone the killing of civilians in retribution.

But I can see the antisemitism that is being widely espoused under the banner of progressive politics & am horrified

Why are all women controlled by the threat of male violence, and even if it’s #NotAllMen it’s enough to make all women act differently? A thread 🧵 👇

My 17 yr old niece gets the bus to work, college & the gym. She is young, blonde, pretty & kind. She has become a target… …for predatory men. From comments, staring, ‘jokes’ & now the inevitable & classic ‘creepy man on bus’. It started as soon as she hit puberty & it’s only getting worse.

The other day a man sat next to her on an otherwise empty bus. This is not a neutral act. It is an act of…

Happy Halloween! Normally every year I use this day to remind you all that this is Samhain - A night to remember the dead. But this year, let me take you on a little history lesson about witches.

The majority of women targeted & murdered were not witches 🧵👇 Witchcraft absolutely was a form of paganism & practiced well before Christianity came to our shores. But mostly this was using herbal medicines alongside the odd bit of praying/worshipping the goddess.

Women were the healers & historians & if they were good at their job…

What was discussed at #FiLiA2021 🧵👇

How important music is to women in Iran (a place where women can be arrested for dancing)

How to bridge the divide between younger & older feminists

How to help in the fight to get prostitution charges expunged from women’s… … criminal records

What we can do to help women fleeing the #TigrayGenocide

How women from all political parties can support each other to make sure women are included in policy & law

The onslaught of abuse women politicians face & how we can fight back & demand better…

The silence from mainstream women’s orgs about this is deafening. Are they all going to sit there and pretend that ‘challenging’ women on their ‘bigotry’ when accessing a rape crisis centre & requesting a woman is ok? That asking a rape victim to ‘reframe their trauma’ is ok?

https://twitter.com/DrJessTaylor/status/1425009284614610949

The more I think about this the more angry I get. I was made to 're-frame my trauma' as somehow being my fault because, in the words of the policeman we called, 'victims and abusers chose each other from across a crowded room'. I was made to feel that I was responsible..