This morning you told the British public you literally can't define what a woman is. What's the plan, lift up random objects until you find one that rattles?
We’re delighted to announce
@ClaraMBarker
as the new IOP Inclusion and Diversity Representative.
Dr Barker says: “I look forward to working with different groups who share a passion for physics but feel they cannot achieve their maximum potential. (1/2)
People trying to
#BanGlinner
are pathetic ideologues with a very cavalier approach to the human rights of people they disagree with.
@Glinner
is unashamedly pro-women. The muppets who want to ban him can’t even say what they mean by woman. I thank Graham for using his voice.
#BanGlinner
is trending.
Let's use it to support free speech.
I'm pro free speech. Wanting
@Glinner
banned for his opinions is childish.
If you can't handle different opinions, learn how to debate or leave Twitter yourself.
Thanks.
Ready for an outfit change, Bailey explains that the closet is full of her “old clothes,” while her new clothes are much more sparkly — taste! Mary Anne understands immediately that Bailey knows who she is & has supportive parents who trust their daughter and want her to be happy
Female ‘cis’ privilege strikes again! Waiting for my hysteroscopy at the hospital. Anaesthetic is apparently not considered necessary for this procedure. Such privilege!
This is incredible. Someone at
@NorthumbriaUni
has redirected all emails sent to anyone at the uni by
@SVPhillimore
to one staff member for review and approval.
Someone please explain to me how this isn’t officially sanctioned
#censorship
. At a UK university!
He also informed me that my email to him with a copy of my presentation had been blocked by the University at the request of another academic.
So I made a Subject Access Request.
@MForstater
@lfeatherstone
@NimkoAli
‘Woman, be kind to men!’ is patriarchy 101 🙄
Asking women to give away their rights and their spaces and the words to describe themselves is not being generous; it’s misogynistic.
"I can dress as a female. I can dress as a male. I weave, I cook, I clean." Why is every illustration of 'gender fluidity' I can find a collection of sexist stereotypes? Of course males can weave, cook and clean. You don't need ovaries for that.
Isn’t it interesting how, even though chaotic quantum physics has been going on since the beginning of time and space, humans STILL can’t change sex, and all humans who have ever lived were birthed by a female human. I mean, what are the chances??
“If subatomic particles defy constructs all the time, why should we believe in fixed constructs of gender or any kind of reality?”
Drag performer & writer Amrou Al-Kadhi aka
@Glamrou
questions why gender should be binary when the physics which underpins the universe can change.
If a person who has worked in media and publishing for many years, who is LGBT and who is an ardent supporter of Stonewall cannot coherently answer basic questions about Stonewall's policies, and instead resorts to smearing their opponents, then what chance does anyone else have?
Are the BBC’s 100 inspirational women in 2021 all female, I hear you ask?
Are you kidding, of course not 🙄 We can’t have a list of women without at least one male on it 😠 It’s as if we need a male chaperone, to make sure we’re all womaning correctly
Veronica Ivy (who used to be a philosophy prof and was formerly known as Rachel McKinnon) is back on Twitter after a break of nearly a year. Which means we can look forward to their solidly reasoned and well presented arguments again. E.g.:
@PennyRed
@jk_rowling
I actually just want to understand what you mean when you say ‘boy’ and ‘girl’.
“If a < definition of boy > wants to wear dresses, good for him! That doesn’t make him a < definition of girl >.” At the moment, I can’t make out what you mean, and I’d like to understand.
Not clownfish again. And from a professor 🙄. Clownfish are FISH. They can even breathe under water.
Her logic goes “Because clownfish can change sex, Karen White is a woman and Rachel McKinnon is a female cyclist”, or something like that. We all deserve better than this.
In what comes as complete surprise to no-one, this survey reveals that homosexuals are same-sex attracted and heterosexuals are opposite-sex attracted.
Trans people are not a threat to women or female spaces. All the trans women I know carry themselves with grace and respect for the goddess energy. If you don't like me having an opinion fuck off and don't follow me. Anyone who wants critical thinking please stick around.
@ThomasWillett9
I don't know about you, but if you are actively working to turn single-sex spaces for women and girls into mixed-sex spaces, then I think you are pretty misogynistic.
Women: “Sex is real and matters. We’d like the Equality Act to stay as it is.”
Roz Kaveney: “You are betraying the chance of HUMAN SURVIVAL itself.”
10 years ago, could you have imagined these kind of ludicrous hyperboles being spouted in 2021? Me neither.
Thread about something that’s been on my mind for a while:
Every woman counts. Every girl’s voice must be heard. Feminism isn’t just for academics.
I really very strongly believe that the current debate around women’s rights and single-sex spaces is for everyone. 1/.
1/. How about we compile a list of GC women that the BBC could have invited on
#MoralMaze
tonight?
Scientists:
Dr Emma Hilton (she was asked but then not called by the programme, I believe
@FondOfBeetles
Athletes:
Sharron Davies
@sharrond62
Martina Navratilova
@Martina
I can’t believe The Guardian have the audacity to ask women to support them financially so that they can publish more articles by males who tell us that “woman” is a feeling.
"As a man I forgot how to cry.. As a woman a friend gave me the number of a person I idolised. One moment I was laughing, the next bawling. Then laughing about crying, and crying because I was laughing about it. [This benefit] is now a monthly occurrence."
Female ‘cis’ privilege update. Hysteroscopy must be one of the most painful procedures that are routinely done without anaesthetic. It went okay, but the paracetamol + ibuprofen did nothing to numb the pain. Gas & air just made me sick.
Biopsies hurt, it turns out.
There is also an article in the Sunday Times today featuring
@glinner
. Graham talks about the significant financial and personal costs of his speaking out for women’s rights.
I am very grateful to Graham for using his voice to amplify ours.
Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?
#IStandWithMaya
#ThisIsNotADrill
The BoE is going woke. It’s clearly easier to light up their building in colours representing sexist stereotypes than to increase the number of female senior staff.
We have lit up our Threadneedle Street building in blue, pink and white in support of Transgender Awareness Week. We want to raise the visibility of and celebrate transgender people everywhere.
#TransAwarenessWeek2020
Gardening Twitter: I’d like to show off the shady corner of my garden (which I have just tidied). This was completely empty last April. I have heavy clay soil. I’m quite pleased!
Naomi Cunningham has the patience of a saint. She must also have great control of the muscles around her eyes; I would have run out of eye rolls by now
NC: And the guidance is, can't disclose sex of worker but can say "no men at centre".
MS: Yes
NC: But MW works at the centre. So for anyone who thinks man refers to sex, a man does work at the centre
MS: No bcs MW is a woman. No men at the centre.
@carolinefff
@BarclaysUK
Sinister stuff. We don't need to understand, but we *need* to have pronouns in our signatures now?
And the high-pitched, 'womanly' voice at the end. Please.
She has done it!!
Congratulations to
@JoPhoenix1
on reaching her crowdfunder target 🥳🥳🥳
I hope Jo can sleep a bit easier now. May she assemble the best legal team in the country 💪
Today’s public service announcement:
Women! Be kind!
If you’ve upset men, try to understand why. Think hard about how you can fix it.
But DO NOT, under any circumstances, try to assert your own rights. Or talk about your experiences. Not if you want woke cookies anyway.
So they tried to cancel
@jk_rowling
and it didn't work. Hahaha.
Of course it didn't work. She is a great author, an amazing woman and a philanthropist. Her books are loved by hundreds of millions worldwide. She dares to have an opinion on sex and gender. Get over it.
@stephenwhittle
Now please do the same for 46XY 5ard, which is the suspected DSD under discussion.
And why are you so obsessed with gender stereotypes? You are aware that boys can like pink and ponies? It is your ideology that pushes stereotypes onto the rest of us, and I am so sick of it.
1/🧵 Today and tomorrow,
#IStandWithMaya
.
@MForstater
’s ET appeal is being heard in court. The virtual courtroom could have been filled ten times over with women supporting Maya.
So much rests on this case - for Maya of course, but also for all of us.
This was tweeted out by a colleague here at Exeter, following the publication of the letter in the Sunday Times yesterday.
"transphobic bigot"
"ignore the humanity of their students"
"TERFs in the bin"
It's clearly aimed at me (I am the only signatory from Exeter). 1/n
This, from a Professor of gender studies, is extraordinary. (Or maybe not?)
“Old, ugly, boring lesbians, get out of pride, particularly if you’ve not been an activist since you were five.”
This has got to be one of the least diverse (as most people would understand it) group of people anyone could have tried to assemble for a 'diversity' photo opp.
Got my hands on this book 🥳
Massive congratulations to
@LucyHunterB
and
@DalgetySusan
👏👏👏
Well done
@Waterstones
Exeter for stocking it. The lady at the till said “Lots of people have been waiting to read this”.
Professors bullied into silence as students cry transphobia
Thanks to all those who went on the record with their stories. There are many more similar stories in HE. The bullying of GC academics at their own universities has to stop.
FOURTY articles have been written about
@jk_rowling
in only five days by the "journalists" at Pink News.
That's completely normal, like. Nothing to see here. Definitely not bullying or harassement of a woman.
Since June 7th (5 days), Pink News has written 40 articles about JK Rowling, 37 with her name in the headline.
This is harassment, plain and simple, and a warning to other women not to speak.
A survey of 27 self-identified foxes in London has revealed that more than half of foxes fear being attacked with baseball bats. Several high-profile men have blamed feminists for the increase in violence against foxes
#FoxingDay
Much solidarity to the lesbians participating in the
#LesbianStrengthMarch
in Leeds today 💪
Your sexual orientation is not transphobic.
Female allies are standing with you, in person and virtually ❤️
Isn’t it interesting that
@LaLecheLeagueUS
refers to women who nurse their babies as “human milk feeders”, but female manatees who nurse their calves are called “mother” a bit further down their timeline.
Our hedgie got a new Diner today. The entrance is via the ducting, which should be cat and seagull proof.
I’m pleased to report that he has found his way into the Diner on the first night of deployment 🥰
Many congratulations to Dawn Orwick🥇, Kirsten Herup Sovang🥈 and Amber Walsh🥉, who came 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the F35-39 women's sprint cycling.
Commiserations to Rachel McKinnon, who sadly didn't come near the winning time of 9.965 in the men's race.
This is typical from
@jolyonmaugham
(who has me blocked btw). Of course he doesn't see a problem with calling women "menstruators". He isn't called an "ejaculator" or "prostate haver" or some such! How he cannot see the embedded misogyny is beyond me. He seems intelligent.
This has to be amongst the most bonkers statements I've encountered in the "gender wars".
Blood in urine = menstruation??
Any male who finds blood in his urine should seek medical advice a.s.a.p.
Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to meeeeeee!
Cheer me up Twitter, I’m spending my birthday in quarantine on my own.
On the upside, I get to eat ALL OF THE CAKE 🤣
Hi
@iamspecialized
. I see you are back posting on your Twitter account, but you haven't put a statement out on last week's fiasco. Any comment on why your social media person appeared to agree with the disgraceful bullying of
@damekellyholmes
by Rachel McKinnon?
I too would like to point out that all men will continue to be men from 1st April onwards. This includes men who say they are not men, and men who show up to work in a pink lacy dress on a Friday 🙄 So naturally we will keep calling them men 🤷♀️
If you genuinely imagine I’d delete posts calling a man a man, so as not to be prosecuted under this ludicrous law, stand by for the mother of all April Fools’ jokes.
Women, how many people have called for you to be sacked this week because you know 'female' exists?
I've stopped counting at 10. I think. They're all blurring into one another.
#IStandWithJKRowling
Adjust for differences in populations. TW for example should not be approximated to cis men due to vastly different average body compositions even prior to HRT.
Again, adjust for height. There are non linear effects you are measuring. It's also easy to do, so no excuse. /5
BREAKING: The Charity Commission has just confirmed it will be investigating the controversial charity, Mermaids, over its “approach to safeguarding young people.”
Excellent news from Edinburgh: Judgement finds that claimant Roz Adams was discriminated against and constructively dismissed by Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre.
@tribunaltweets
covered the case back in January:
Roz Adams has been successful in her case against Edinburgh Rape Crisis centre.
This important case saw very little media coverage while ongoing. We will watch to see if this bias by omission is addressed tomorrow.
Having just said that the Liberal Democrats could become electable again if they appoint a straight-talking, honest leader, Lib Dem leadership hopeful Layla Moran was asked what a woman is (29:30). This is her answer
All sorts of GDPR implications too, I imagine. Why would a staff member be given access to emails sent to other staff members, presumably without their knowledge or permission?
By
@glinner
: “In years to come, we will look back at this scandal, at the ruined bodies, the confused crime statistics, the weakening of safeguarding and the rollback of women’s rights and wonder how it was left to go on for so long.”
Thank you, Graham.
This is incredible. In a conversation about human biology, Morgane Oger (IT consultant, I believe) calls Dr Emma Hilton
@FondOfBeetles
(developmental biologist) “over-specialized” 🙄
I know who I would go to if I had a biology question 🧐