I'll be submitting an FOI request to
@networkrail
to find out:
- how much this thing cost
- how they square it with removing the I♥️JKR poster from Edinburgh Waverley on political grounds
- if they're going to repaint it in women's colours on March the 8th.
Dear
@JohnLewisRetail
I am a 77-year-old Londoner who's been shopping at your stores for decades. Now, however, I feel very reluctant to cross your threshold; your internal 'Identity' mag is not only misogynist and homophobic, it's disgracefully inaccurate...
Fox Fisher, talking about JK Rowling on
@BBCr4today
: "I think she's just fallen in with the wrong crowd."
Patronising git. The arrogance is breathtaking.
Dear
@CrowdJustice
I am a straight, 74-year-old white man. I will never be subject to any of the pressures suffered by
@BluskyeAllison
, nor will
@stonewalluk
ever be minded to have me investigated, so I have no axe to grind in her case.
However, having followed her case .../1
One thing that's crystal clear in every tweet sympathetic to the
@PGHosp
in the case of the cancelled operation is a callous disregard for the very serious distress of the woman concerned and a very serious breach of medical ethics. .../1
Dear
@ActionAidUK
I have supported your work for a couple of decades or more and I'm not going to lightly give that up.
However, my contribution to your work (which is not inconsiderable) is endangered by your ludicrous, craven kowtowing to the transactivist ideology. .../1
... at your actions in this case. As soon as Allison finds an alternative source of funding that has the guts not to yield to pressure in the craven way you have, I will be among the first to donate again. .../end
... vociferous lobby group behaving in exactly the same way as described in Allison's case. Do you not see the irony? Why was your action so swift, so obliging and so partisan?
I want to make it clear that I am adding my voice to the thousands who are shocked and dismayed .../3.
... closely, I am appalled at the way you submitted to pressure from Stonewall and other transactivists by taking Allison's page down without warning. The statements you complain of were vetted by you before the page went up; nothing changed except that you reacted to a .../2
None of the points made show any understanding or compassion - except of course, for the feelings of a man who 'identifies' as a woman. Never mind that the patient had been a victim of male violence, never mind that she was in a critical condition.
Loathsome. /end
@UKLabour
Labour will always be committed to building a society where women feel disrespected in favour of the feelings a few deluded men.
Labour will:
🏳️⚧️ Ignore misogyny completely
🏳️⚧️ Fail to protect children from gender ideology
🏳️⚧️ Undermine the Equality Act 2010
🏳️⚧️ Lose women's votes
Dear
@BBC
,
@nytimes
,
@guardian
I'm writing to let you know I support
@Transgendertrd
's letter arguing for better reporting of the current debate (if you can call it that) around trans issues and women's rights. You've all been horribly guilty of jumping on the TRA bandwagon .../1
... to doing your job, supporting half the population.
I will be writing to you more fully tomorrow. In advance, I would like you to look up my support history and ask yourselves if you really want to piss of people like me.
I hope you can feel how angry I am about this. .../end
Let me be clear: a woman is emphatically not 'anyone who says they are/he is. A woman is an adult human female. If you don't understand that gender is a minefield you'd be well advised to stay clear of, and that women and girls have been historically repressed, oppressed, .../2
@UKLabour
- is it true that you're turning down membership applications from gender-critical people? That you don't want people who consider women to be adult human females? Who understand that "transwomen are women" is a denial of biological reality?
#expelme
... abused, controlled and even killed because of their sex, not their gender, then it's about time you sat down together and worked out just how damaging your recent declaration is.
You are expressing your 'wokeness'' by supporting a tiny, entitled minority in preference.../3
Dear
@Channel4
In your letter to Graham Linehan you make this jaw-dropping comment: "the episode ultimately risks appearing to endorse the view that trans women are in fact men". Do you not see how far you have gone in adopting an ideology based not on science or evidence, .../1
@PrueBray
@akfirefly76
"A bit insensitive"? Did you actually listen, or read the transcript? The PCSO is completely out of order, totaly Stonewalled, interpreting the law as they would like it, not as it really is. I'm extending an invitation to that officer, or any other police officer, to come .../1
@RebeccaRHelm
A biologist with an agenda. Anyone can see your using your intimate knowledge of the subject to blind your audience with science. Everything you've described is a variation. Even cumulatively, these do nothing at all to introduce any new sexes - and you know it.
@bbcsml
@BBCOne
@GreenIncTV
I've heard that you are inviting a trans lawyer, who has transitioned from make, to represent the trans side but you don't propose to include a female equivalent to put the case for women.
Please tell me this isn't true. The issue is vital to the interests of women
@lexicon91
Thanks for the tip. I found her on Twitter and immediately followed. You have a very odd idea of what constitutes hate - unless you think opposing gender ideology and defending women's rights qualify?
Dear
@SurreyPCC
I fully support your commissioner's call for Surrey Police to cancel their membership of the Stonewall Diversity Champions scheme. In recent years, Stonewall has taken a path which poses significant threats to women's rights and makes false claims about EA 2010.
I think you've done more to put an end to this terrible onslaught on women's rights than all the rest of us put together. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Today I discovered that I was accused of hate by shadow environment minister Lloyd Russell-Moyle in the pages of
@tribunemagazine
. He claimed I was ‘using’ my experiences of sexual assault and domestic violence to ‘discriminate’ against trans people. 1/9
@RukhsanaSukhan
I think a lot more men would care if they really, really understood how serious the situation is. And if they did, they would feel compelled to step up. Your tweet needs the widest possible dissemination.
So good to hear Michael Rosen on
@bbcr4today
, having recovered from CoVid19. On the NHS: "... this wonderful feat of the imagination, where people who don't know each other care for each other, for the social good."
Much to learn, America, much to learn...
@The_StateMedia
It would all be so much easier if everyone could agree that only people born female would be allowed in women's prisons and only people born male in men's prisons.
Shimples!
Will you, for example, meticulously examine all of your content for misogyny? Good luck with that! But you won't, will you, because the feelings of a few narcissistic men are so much more important than those of the 52% of the population whose sex-based oppression you seem .../3
... but on faith? Transwomen are clearly not women; think about it - you can't be a transwoman without being a man!
Your claim to be doing some 'house-cleaning' has sinister undertones of a totalitarian attitude towards free expression.
How far will you go with this purge? .../2
@politicsIN
Factual inaccuracy there, John. I'm sure, as a journalist, you would want your reporting to pass muster, so it would be nice if you could point out that Kellie-Jay is not an 'anti-trans campaigner'; she's a women's rights campaigner.
The lazy adoption of slurs is not journalism!
@jameelajamil
So basically, it's wrong for them to get this abuse, but it's their own fault. Where have we heard that before? Oh, I know:
"What do you expect, going out dressed like that?"
"She's no better than she should be!"
"Well, they will get drunk, these girls..."
Etc., etc., ad nauseam.
... not to be offended, and you do none of us any service by indulging this kind of knee-jerk bandwagon-jumping.
You could choose to be better than this. You could choose to stand up to the bullies, the misogynists and the no-platformers.
Please think again.
Yours, Paul Milnes
@PrueBray
@akfirefly76
... and let me how much re-education and 'enlightment' I need. I relish the idea of being able to engage the Met, with or without unicorn rainbow lanyards, in a frank and fearless exchange of views and ideas! /end
@voxdotcom
Pathetically thin gruel, Vox. Clutching at all manner of straws, starting with an expanded definition of transphobia in order to include the mildest of opposition. Opposition, I might add, not to trans people but to those who would threaten women's boundaries, safety and dignity.
... not to have noticed.
Surely organisations such as yours are well-placed to understand that comedy is often richly laced with offence? Can you imagine the nature of your comedy output if you carry on like this? It will be a bland pudding indeed.
No-one has the right.../4
@HRC
This thread is complete garbage. It's just a concoction of lies and appeals to emotion.
Examples:
Maya Forstater - not actually fired for being 'transphobic' (whatever that means these days).
The attempt to undermine criticism of HRT for trans 'women' by crying 'not an expert'.
@PeoplesMomentum
All the objections are to do with the very obvious threats to the safety of women and girls. The act just passed will make it easier for men to gain access to women's single-sex spaces.
And all you can see is 'spite at trans people having rights'. Misogynist.
@ilovepreserves
Good for you. Reminds me of that interview with Germaine Greer:
Interviewer: Don't you realise some people could this very offensive?
Greer: I don't care.
@ashtonpittman
@judyblume
Could you provide an example of this 'hate and fear', please? Just one will do. So far I've never received a reply to this question.
I wonder why?
@fem_mb
The Hollywood Reporter starts off badly with 'anti-trans' in the headline and just gets worse, mentioning JKR's 'anti-trans campaigning'. Whatever happened to journalism?
@mcashmanCBE
@Baroness_Nichol
Such hyperbole! You and your friends seem to have developed your own dictionary, redefining works such as 'hate', 'harm', 'bigotry' and so on, to serve your own ends.
... inclusive you are. The result is that, just like
@UKLabour
,
@AmnestyUK
and many others, you are guilty of ignoring half the population in favour of a tiny minority of entitled, narcissistic, misogynist men determined to trample on women's hard-won rights. These are not.../3
... and humanity, or such of it as might be left, to resist this McCarthyist attempt to stifle debate, demand loyalty to the creed and send women back to the 1950s or worse.
You have all been champions of truth and free speech in your time; let's see some spine from you now. /end
Dear
@ONS
I will not be coerced into answering the census sex question if your advice is to allow people to deny biological reality if they 'identify' as something they're not.
And as for your wording 'the trans population/the cisgender population' - this is offensive to women.
@salltweets
@kennedytcooper
And some of us are boomers. We don't take kindly to incorrect aging; it's invalidating, and pretty close to 'actual violence'. 😏
I've just finished JK Rowling's excellent Cormoran Strike novel 'Troubled Blood' and I can honestly say there's not a scintilla of truth in
@PinkNews
and others' febrile accusations of transphobia. The rapidly failing transactivist war on women is clutching frantically at straws.
Dear
@laurasnapes
Are journalists of integrity and courage a threatened species at the Grauniad these days? Roisin Murphy did not say anything even remotely 'transphobic', so why are you giving her a hard time?
I used to really value the Graun, but its blinkered adherence ...
@SkyNews
All well and good, but wouldn't it great if he had the balls to say: "No, the bill is dead, and rightfully so, because it would have undermined women and children's rights", instead of hiding behind the law?
@SimonFRCox
@MatherinJoel
@Steph__Wilkins
@Susanshox
Come on, Simon! You're not in any danger at all. That's the whole point of this: people like Maya Forstater do not present a threat to the free speech of anyone, however abhorrent they find their actions or words. TRAs hurl abuse and threats of violence at women all the time
@NaomiFrisby
Almost no-one reveals themselves to be transphobic, at least I've never seen it. What they do do, however, is reveal themselves to be in support of women and against an onslaught of contempt and abuse directed at them.
@SocialistswithT
@Moonie_l
At every
@Womans_Place_UK
meeting I've been to, there've always been clear expressions of support for trans people living their lives free from aggression and discrimination. They're about defending women's rights, not demonising trans people; it's narcissistic to say otherwise.
@millihill
I've just read your excellent article, and I really want to commend you for the clear, articulate and compassionate way you have summed up this whole sorry mess. Nothing you have said is remotely 'transphobic', of course, except in the sense that it doesn't accord with the ... /1
@ACLU
It's absolutely not such a victory. And your suggestion that the laws ban transgender athletes is disingenuous to say the least: the proposal is to ban male-bodied people from competing against women and girls. Let them compete in their own sex class.
... and adding to the chorus of disapproval for women even wanting to discuss the issue, and the potential threat to their rights and their safe, sex-segregated spaces. From where I stand, you appear to be forever chasing 'woke' points, desperately trying to show how very .../2
@NoCisgender
I was at the
@Womans_Place_UK
meeting in Brighton in 2019 when hordes of troons besieged it, banging drums and rapping on windows. When we left, we had to walk between two lines of youngsters screaming "Scum, scum!" in our faces.
One of the more novel experiences of my life. 😏
... genuine transpeople, whose rights to live as they please are supported by gender-critical women and men.
On the slim chance that this appeal from a straight, white, middle-class man might carry some weight (it shouldn't, of course), I appeal to your sense of decency .../4
@justthevax
@RCObsGyn
@stonewalluk
@GoodLawProject
Yes, it would be outrageous - but what's more so is this case, where precisely the opposite is in evidence. Three high court judges called those treatments experimental, but you seem to think they were 'evidence-based'. Let's see your credentials!
Yesterday I attended the first online event of
@LabWomenDec
- Labour Women's Declaration. The speakers were uniformly excellent, incisive, in complete control of their topics, lucid, articulate and good-humoured. Today I watched the
@Womans_Place_UK
session on the proposed .../1
@jetfury
@deves_katherine
You give yourself away by the use of such overblown terms as 'full of hate'. You've been captured by the ideology to the point where you can't see that women are trying to defend their rights, not attack someone else's.
@SheerKimono
That's quite understandable, given what you said. A demand for a sexual act most certainly is 'rapey', whether you meant it literally or not.
... large-scale institutional capture of organisations as diverse as governmental departments, universities, companies and the police?
Perhaps they do exist, and I've missed them. Let's see.
I've just received an email from
@fawcettsociety
about their
#endsalaryhistory
campaign. Neither 'woman' nor 'women' is mentioned once, not even in the attached survey, except in a reference to the Young Women's Trust.
@ijb19662
@VeritySmith19
World Rugby had a three-day symposium on this, hearing from trans advocates, scientists and other experts, before deciding that trans inclusion in women's rugby was neither safe nor fair. It's all there for anyone to see.
Helen Staniland has been suspended by misogyny twitter.
#IsStandWithHelenStaniland
.
Here's her (very pertinent) question):
"Do you believe that male-sexed people have the right to undress and shower in a communal changing room with teenage girls?"
Well, do you?
@pan_demigoddess
It might be nice if you, or absolutely anyone else who makes such outlandish claims, ever produced a single scrap of evidence of Rowling's "transphobia" and "bigotry". But no, you never do ... and you never will.
@salltweets
@jk_rowling
If I were a witness, I would refuse but claim I was showing respect for the court by not lying to it. I'd throw it back to the judge, asking if they wanted me to perjure myself.
@alexsobel
@maryBCHR
Oh look - an MP exhibiting callous disregard for women's safety and security, all at the behest of a tiny, male-centric group of misogynists. A question: why is it always the women's toilets that are rearranged? Never happens to us, does it Alex?
@MForstater
Maya, I've just read your long thread on the misrepresentation of the law by public bodies and two of your articles. The clarity and authority of your writing are a refreshing corrective to the deliberate twisting and madness of 'the other side'. Thank you.
@redlianak
Consistent standards. OK then, let's have your evidence for JKR's 'transphobia'. I'm serious, I'd like to see it. I've asked many times before and no-one - no-one - has ever answered.
... level of sophistication from the transactivist side.
So my question is this - and it's a genuine, honest one: where are the people who can put transactivist arguments in a thorough, evidenced and rational way? If no such people exist, what explains the .../5
@LDNRom
@CPBritain
Time to start listening to women, Rom. I know it's not easy for left-wing men, but you'll be surprised at how astute they can be. Give it a go, why don't you?