Social affairs leader writer for the Guardian. Mum. Author of Sexed: A History of British Feminism (in bookshops now). Views on here are mine
Oct 17 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I am so pleased for @DalgetySusan @LucyHunterB & all contribs to "The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht" that the inquiry into decision to remove their book from an exhibition in Edinburgh has found in their favour & against anti-feminist, censorious library bosses 1/
But I'm not convinced there is sufficient recognition of how serious it is that Scotland's National Library hid an important book about politics (with nearly 30 female contributors including SIX elected national politicians) from display due to staff complaints 2/
Nov 18, 2024 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
.@MForstater, who is very brave, fought a 4-YEAR LEGAL BATTLE (2019-23) to establish that women could not be discriminated against by employers for holding & voicing gender-critical belief that sex is real, binary,immutable and important in life ( eg in sports). 1/6
Until the judge at appeal ruled in her favour, women across UK faced possibility of losing jobs or other opportunities if they dared to agree with her.
This was SCARY. Women including me, but most of whom are not journalists, were scared. 2/6
Aug 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Well said @bindelj. What transactivism/Stonewall have enabled is grotesque & unfolding exactly as feminists predicted.
A system that humours (with pronouns etc) a *male child sex offender * who turns up in court in a pink headband saying his name is "Sophie" is a pro-paedophile system
And i cannot for the life of me see why the VAST majority of liberal people (whatever their sexual orientation) can't see - or won't admit - the problem. Don't you care when child sex offenders are indulged like this? By the courts & the press?
Mar 20, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1/Reading about Great Ormond Street Hospital cancellation of child psychiatry training event including gender-critical speakers (@HJoyceGender & @cwknews) it seems clearer & clearer that staff/student networks set up under auspices of Diversity & Inclusion are..
2/.. running a campaign against knowledge/ideas that don't fit with gender-activist, affirmation-only model of treatment for gender dysphoria.
Based in part on spurious comparison to homophobia -since being gay/ lesbian does not require medical treatment or surgery - ..
Mar 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Just finished very illuminating & enjoyable political biography by one of my Guardian leaders predecessors @writerperkins 🙌
Among many other things Castle's attitude to feminism is fascinating. She thought 60s/70s women's movement too introspective: "sexual politics has replaced social policy"
Nov 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I'm going to say something else about @suzanne_moore. It's that after 300+ of our colleagues signed a letter attacking her in March (it didn't name her but the story about it given to Buzzfeed did) lots of us offered support, on here or by telling the editor what we thought.
Not everyone who said something agreed with Suzanne's column (about Selina Todd's no-platforming in Oxford) tho I did. They all thought she didn't deserve to be publicly attacked by hundreds of colleagues.
Anyway, what i want to say is that I bitterly regret...