LONG THREAD BUT WORTH IT!

My daughter and I have just come back from a meeting with the headteacher and the safeguarding officer regarding the mixed sexed toilets. It went well and they were quite open to it!

Things the headteacher raised (paraphrased): 1/ 1. How do we accommodate people who don't identify with their sex? They may feel like they're being outed if using a separate 3rd space.

2. No one has every brought this issue up before.

3. We'll be challenged by visiting organisations who tell us to be inclusive. /2

🧵 DON'T SAY THIS DOESN'T AFFECT US.

I was in the leisure centre changing rooms with my daughter. I'd just got out of the communal shower so didnt have my turban on (alopecia) and I was putting my bra on. My daughter was about to take her swimming costume off.

A man walks in! He was with a woman with a trans flag draped around her shoulders (no lie). My daughter came to me and said, 'A man has just gone into the toilet.' I looked around and he had the door open whilst clearly emptying his bladder. He then came out (clearly a man wearing lipstick)....

I see Jonathan Willhoupervy is saying my 12yr old daughter is being abused and indoctrinated for simply stating that she doesn't want males in her female only spaces.

He is unhinged and clearly triggered by little girls saying no.

No means no, Jonathan.

#NoMeansNo

🧵WOMEN

The women who sell their own children.

The women who take their 16yr old sons to Thailand to be castrated.

The women who pin down 6yr old girls for FGM.

The women who pretend getting spat on during sex is enjoyable.

The women who call themselves Queer or Cis. The women who say 'sex work is work.'

The women who let their 14yr old daughters have a double masectomies so they can feel cool.

The women who laugh at other women being intimidated and assaulted.

The women who ignore rape of little girls if the man is called Shirley.

I understand it must be scary for trans identifying males to enter some male only spaces. There are aggressive, violent males who dislike effeminate men.

So, knowing that feeling of fear, why would you place that same fear on my 12yr old daughter by invading her spaces? Quite a few suggesting none of these men fear it. I can't agree with that. My own brother's (not effeminate) said it can be intimidating for any man.

But that's not the point of my post. My point is, if they do fear it, why would they knowingly put that fear onto girls!

What sickened me about the MOTD @GaryLineker situation is that multi-millionnaires walked out of their privileged jobs to show support for another multi-millionnaire who broke the rules.

Then poor people, with genuine concerns, were dismissed as racist and bigots. People falling over themselves to support a man and his pals who all got paid for going to Qatar; a country with one of the worst human rights records.

But poor people, women and girls, who have raised concerns about being sexually assaulted, are called bigots, gammons, Nazis.

Remember us when strange men undress next to YOUR little girl.

Remember us when YOUR sister loses her ability to have children.

Remember us when a girl is raped in female toilets in YOUR area.

Remember us when YOUR lesbian cousin is called a bigot for not accepting penis. 🧵 Remember us when YOUR son finds out he will never have sexual function again.

Remember us when YOUR niece is crippled with osteoporosis at 25 yrs old.

Remember us when YOUR mother asks for a female nurse and a male called Mandy with big hands comes to do her smear test.

SHAKING. Staff were discussing a counselling student who is GC. One said we will bring her in to discuss her views. I said, 'Be careful. Her beliefs are protected after the @MForstater case.

She looked up Maya's case and said, 'How sad'. I said, 'Whys it sad to state fact?' 1/ We had a huge debate and I said, 'The impact is huge for women in terms of a man being able to say he's a woman and use female spaces e.g. rapists in women's prisons. Stating biological fact is essential. It also impacts on LGB who are told to accept straight people as LGB'
/2

People really do need to stop misinterpreting the law. Being a protected characteristic (PC), as listed in the EA2010, does not mean you have free reign to do anything you want. Sexual orientation is also a PC, but it does not mean gay men can use female only spaces either. 1/6 NO legislation gives males a legal right to enter female only spaces. In fact, the EA2010 states that female spaces can exclude males, even those with the legal fiction we call a GRC, for proportionate and legitimate reasons. Women and girls having safer spaces that provide..2/6

When my twin and I had anorexia, we both felt happy when we were low weight. Initially, people said we looked ok because they were scared the truth would increase our 'fat' feelings. We felt great! We felt in control!

My sister died of body failure. She was 25 and weighed 4st🧵 At 5st, I was finally woken to my delusion, but it took over a decade to get better (still not fully recovered). My family felt guilty for not being direct enough, for holding back out of fear, for not being truthful. They naively thought we'd get better without help.

Can I ask @TamoraPierce pierce if you think men like this should have a right to use female only changing with women and little girls? Why?

Or is this fake concern about men, and their penises, a ploy to sell more books?

Women won't forget!