Over on Bluesky, there’s much fuming about a meeting between @mforstater and two of her colleagues at @SexMattersOrg (redacted, but it’s me and @derrybanshee) with Baroness Kishwer Falkner and two EHRC commissioners. 1/8
It’s slam-dunk evidence that EHRC and Sex Matters were colluding, or plotting, or something...? If you’re a conspiracy theorist, that is, and you overlook copious evidence of Stonewall’s contacts with EHRC for many years. 2/8 tacc.org.uk/2025/05/23/ins…

Here’s a little story about what it’s like to go on @BBCWomansHour. I’m afraid it’s not a happy one. I’ve come away with a poor impression of the integrity of everyone involved in the show. But there’s still time for them to redeem themselves… 1/9 Last Wednesday, I was interviewed by Nuala McGovern @bbcnuala. She started by asking me about the Supreme Court judgment in FWS. I explained that what the court had ruled was that, for the purposes of the Equality Act, trans women are men. 2/9

One of the most irritating thing about transactivists is the way they think everything is all about them. I don't call trans-identifying men men in order to harass them - I do it because THEY ARE men, and I'm not willing to be bullied into pretending they are not. 1/6 As well as doing it because the ordinary way to use words is to describe the facts I see, I do it because these particular facts matter. If I call a trans-identifying man - Robin Moira White, say - a woman, it's harder to say why he should stay the hell out of women's spaces.2/6

Just listened back to the recording of myself on @BBCWomansHour - happy enough with it (though blackshirts not brownshirts 🤦‍♀️). I wasn't well-prepared to be asked about Robin's most stupid point - that because people sometimes bring a child of the opposite sex...1/5 into loos with them [???] checkmate transphobes. As I said - it's quite different to bring a minor of the opposite sex into the loo with you than to allow adults of the opposite sex in - a friend messaged & said she'd consider allowing Robin in if he brings his mum 🤪2/5

One of the stranger things about getting involved in the sex'n'gender stuff is discovering that some law firms, and lawyers, invent both facts and the law. I'm so puzzled at how anyone is willing to be their paying client. 1/5 rollonfriday.com/news-content/e… This piece describes law firm Brabner's initial take on the Supreme Court judgment in FWS: "The case in question arose from a challenge brought by a transgender woman who was seeking to compete in elite-level women’s sport", hallucinated the firm. 🤪2/5

Yesterday and today I gave some longer interviews to several news organisations live from the Supreme Court in Westminster, and then from their studios, about the historic Supreme Court judgment in the case of @ForWomenScot - a thread. 1/6 First, the Daily T podcast, with @CamillaTominey and @kamalahmednews - Julie Bindel @bindelj and Emma Hartley @hartleythinking were also interviewed 2/6

Since the amazing, wonderful judgment this morning, I and my colleagues have been running around, giving interviews, talking to journalists who have FINALLY woken up to the fact that the law has been misrepresented and misunderstood for years. 1/6 spectator.co.uk/article/suprem… We haven't had a moment to breathe. And I still can't quite believe it - this judgment couldn't be a more resounding endorsement of the arguments we and other women have been consistently making, that you cannot protect everyone's human rights... 2/6 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/1…

When I heard that a researcher for John Oliver had been emailing campaigners for women's rights to ask biased questions about trans-identifying men in women's sports, I thought the researcher (a trans-identifying man) simply HAD to be freelancing. 1/3

https://twitter.com/RoisinMichaux/status/1909153282653634826

It was beyond belief that Oliver would seriously spend time on yet another idiotic defence of men cheating (only a few, most oppressed minority, women should just be kind) IN THE WEEK THAT TRUMP DECIDED TO DESTROY THE WORLD ECONOMY, AMERICA FIRST. 2/3

I've seen scepticism about whether OLF really tried hard to find someone to debate me. Believe me - they tried. One of those invited, Constantine Sandis, said he wouldn't share a platform with me, and was instead given a separate event - it's tomorrow 1/9 oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-eve… In the same venue, the Sheldonian. He's sharing that platform with Sophie Grace Chappell. I hope their moderator provides some pushback. But I'll note that the moderator is, like both panellists, a man, so this is a manel talking about a subject that largely affects women 2/9

Unless unis want to keep paying millions to lose employment cases and pay fines to the OfS, they're going to have to recognise they've been asking the wrong legal commentators for advice. People who miscategorise everything. 1/6
timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-pol… They think protections against workplace harassment are restrictions on academic freedom and free speech - when actually those measures are ESSENTIAL to protect the academic freedom and free speech of staff & students with unfashionable opinions. 2/6

There have been 3 interviews in the past few days of interest to observers of the Gender Madness. The differences are instructive.
Let's start with @Docstockk in the Sunday Times (share token). 1/12 thetimes.com/article/2ca519… It's really well-written & gives some fab quotes that make the subject come to life, plus some new details (I _really_ want to meet the military historian who stood up for her - I want to shake his hand). It is also legally accurate and insightful on what might happen next 2/12

This horrific crime of vigilantism has rightly been seriously punished. Judging from the reporting, it may have been preceded by a very serious sexual assault that was never reported 1/14 In UK law “sex by deception” is sex that isn’t consensual because you deceived your partner about a fact so important the deception removed their free choice. This may “vitiate consent”. The law says lying about your sex can vitiate consent 2/14
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It seems that not everyone knows the most striking characteristic of PhDs: they are _super_ specialised. My PhD was entitled "Packing measures, packing dimensions and the existence of sets of positive finite measure". The main part of it was a proof by contradiction 1/6 By carefully constructing a bizarre infinite-dimensional space, I demonstrated that for "packing measures", unlike "Hausdorff measures", it is _not_ always possible, when given a set of infinite measure, to find a subset of positive finite measure. 2/6

I'm sorry, I can't let this go. Every time I look at this
interview with Ruth Hunt, I get angrier. It didn't take _me_ long to work out what was going on in the gender clinics, that gender non-conforming kids 1/5 thetimes.co.uk/article/fe117e… who picked up the idea, online and in school, that they were 'trans' were being affirmed in that nonsense idea by gender clinics. I had a full-time job while I was working this out, doing something completely different - namely editing the finance section of The Economist! 2/5

It was in 2017 that I first realised there was something up between women's rights and transgender activism. I was earlier than some, to notice, later than others. So I dropped a polite email to Stonewall's press office asking for a briefing. 1/8 thetimes.co.uk/article/fe117e… I don't remember my exact words, & no longer have access to that email address, but it was a short, friendly email along the lines of many hundreds I've sent to press offices over nearly 2 decades in journalism. The response was ruder than any I had ever previously received 2/8

I'm glad that the bullying of anyone who tries to say anything factual on gender-related stuff is finally being talked about. But this article still frames the situation as "both sides", which it isn't. Take the cancelled conference it describes 1/5 theguardian.com/society/2024/a… I know all about it, because I was one of the planned speakers who was dropped in the attempt to create a balanced line-up. ALL the people on 'my side' - that is, GC - agreed to speak if they were available, and NONE tried to get anyone on the transactivist side dropped. 2/5

This article is about a million words long, but I waded through all of it because it is such a clear exposition of the outer reaches of trans insanity. It argues (I use the word loosely) that it should be a right for everyone, at any age, 1/n nymag.com/intelligencer/… to receive any medical intervention desired, no matter what the evidence regarding satisfaction, safety, long-term outcomes or indeed anything else, and no matter what the person's age - AS LONG AS that intervention is in the name of "gender". 2/n

A year ago all of us who campaign against the rights-destroying, anti-scientific, regressive doctrine of gender identity were pretty glum. The SNP was barrelling ahead, backed by Lib Dems and Greens; Labour was missing in action. 1/7

https://twitter.com/DalgetySusan/status/1733134348616904795

Only the Scottish Tories, Alba and a few brave and principled others, most notably @joannaccherry , were willing to stand up for women, gay people and vulnerable children. Campaigners had to work through the runup to Xmas, trying and failing to turn the juggernaut 2/7

We've updated the @SexMattersOrg timeline of transactivist violence and abuse directed at GC women to rebut the "now do violence against trans people" whataboutery. 1/7 sex-matters.org/resources/inti… This is not a list of all violence & threats against women in general. Between 2 & 3 women are murdered in the UK each week, overwhelmingly by men, and approximately 800,000 women are raped or sexually assaulted each year in England and Wales, again overwhelmingly by men. 2/7

It’s obviously extremely hurtful for men whose dearest wish is to pass as women to be told they really don't. I wish they hadn’t been lied to and misled by gender doctors, who promised them the impossible. 1/9 These men were promised that if they took cross-sex hormones and underwent genital amputation, they would magically transform to such a degree that everyone, but specifically women, would see them as women. 2/9

I’m flying to Dublin to talk to the Seanad (Senate) this afternoon, about the dangerous and draconian Hate Speech bill currently making its way through the Irish parliament. It’s already passed the lower house (Dáil) and is now being presented to the Seanad. 1/7 Anyone interested in freedom of speech, wherever you are, SPEAK UP – this affects YOU. @DeptJusticeIRL @HMcEntee @LeoVaradkar 2/7