Nearly the end of our first day on Twitter and us Lesbians have kicked up quite a storm. We are a coalition of UK Lesbian Groups and individual Lesbians who have come together to fight Lesbian erasure.
#LesbianFightback
Lesbians of all ages have had enough! We are fighting back and resisting erasure. We know who and what we are. We are not a porn category. We are not men. We are women loving women, celebrating being Lesbians and having fun! Join us.
Good news. Next stop,
@BBC
, stop using LGBT+, also a "careless catch-all acronym". We're lesbians, not LGBT+, and the forced teaming has done us nothing but harm.
We're furious and heartbroken in equal measure that Stonewall no longer defends lesbian rights. There's been no campaign against Stonewall, just more and more people realising that they're a captured organisation in thrall to gender identity extremism. Good for UCL.
Stonewall is Britain's largest LGBTQ+ organisation, having spent 30+ years defending the rights of LGBTQ+ people.
But the disgraceful campaign against
@StonewallUK
has resulted in moves like this, with UCL management overriding its own equalities committee to cut ties. Shameful.
In just 7 days
@LesbianFB
has grown to 3000 followers an amazing accomplishment and proof that this Twitter Page was desperately needed. LGBT+ represents no one & it certainly does not represent us as Lesbians from across the world speak out against our erasure.
#LesbianFightback
Lesbians have fought for lesbian visibility for decades. Now we fight the bizarre appropriation of our language, our spaces and our history by postmodern "academics", zealots, ideologues and men's rights activists. This conference is a travesty.
Lesbian Visibility Day 4. Linda Bellos radical feminist and Lesbian activist. Election to Lambeth Borough Council in 1985 and Leader of the Council 1986 to 1988. The first black women to join the Spare Rib Collective and spoke at the first
@Womans_Place_UK
Public Meeting in 2017.
Lesbian Visibility Day 3. Joanna Cherry MP for Edinburgh South West referred to “Lesbians like herself” as ‘Women loving Women’ during a parliamentary debate. The words were recorded in Hansard for all to see, Joanna regulars speaks truth to power
‘The Lesbian Bar Project’ is an ‘inclusive’ space for all the genders so it is not for Lesbians.
@BBCWomansHour
needs to give Lesbians a right of reply. ‘Counter culture ‘ is not Lesbian Culture’ They are now asking for comments from Lesbians so your chance to enlighten them
Fancy having to set up a barricade to keep males out of the Ladies Pond especially as they have a male only pond already. So if they can have same-sex spaces then why can’t we.??
#HHLadiesPondShouldBWomenOnly
On this warm day, women created a physical barrier to allow other women to swim without male intrusion in the historic Hampstead Heath Ladies’ Pond.
Take note,
@CityCorpHeath
. Give women back our female-only space!
#NoMenBeyondThisPoint
#WomenHoldingTheLine
LGB History Month “I love & only love the fairer sex & thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love but their.” (Anne Lister’s Diaries Monday 29 January 1821)
For Lesbians Queer is an insult, a slur, an abusive term commonly used a few decades ago to describe homosexual women & men. It dropped out of use as we became more tolerated & accepted. Queer is now used by heteros who want a bit of ‘me me’ dust & young homos who want to be cool
The is reviewing our Petition. Reviewing a Lesbian Petition in Pride Month. Reviewing a Petition set up by one of the protected characteristic.
We need to tweet and get everyone sending the tweets with
@UKChange
asking why the Review the Petition
The
@BBC
again! Home of Identity Ideology Propaganda. The next Government needs to review their Charter to check where supporting body mutilation fits in. Top surgery is a double mastectomy on a healthy young woman who might well regret doing that to herself in a few years time.
Shame on all of them for laughing at the promotion of her double mastectomy.
And Shauna saying “if you can’t see it, you can’t be it” as soon as the mutilation story told.
@samandshauna
selling lesbians out for 30 pieces of silver.
#OverTheRainbow
@SaturdayKitchen
@Martina
Thanks, Martina. As lesbians we stand with our sisters and brothers in
@ALLIANCELGB
who have been fearless in asserting the rights of same-sex attracted people in the face of some disgraceful attacks.
#SexMatters
in sport and it's not bigoted to say so.
LesbianFightback is an Umbrella Group bringing Lesbian Organisations and individual Lesbians together. We campaign for Lesbian Rights, organise a social life, support Lesbian projects & each other. If you do not hear us that is because you are not listening. 1/3
Question: does anyone know who decides when the alphabet soup gets a new letter? Never consulted. Never consented. We’re Lesbians, a protected characteristic and object to being attached to a myriad of letters that do not reflect our specific needs.
#SexMatters
This is where the damage of cancel culture is done. Not the tip-of-the-iceberg stories of the famous who retain their platforms in publishing, the arts and universities despite the attacks. But the chilling effect for everyone else. Thanks
@jo_bartosch
.
We are announcing our own website. Follow the link if you want to know what Lesbians are thinking & saying. LesbianFightback is an umbrella sheltering 30 Lesbian only Groups, both UK and international & a number of individuals.
#SameSexAttracted
This is brilliant.
@Jebadoo2
thank you for being so clear about the dangers of gender identity ideology. "No-one ever asked us gay people if we were OK with this." Lesbians - same-sex-attracted women - stand with you.
Lesbians must have the right to organise spaces which do not include men. No man can be a lesbian regardless of how he presents.
#LesbiansRSameSexAttracted
Those who are today gloating about the ruling in Giggle v Tickle have no idea of the tsunami of rage that is building among women around the world, and which will end with self-ID laws being struck down in every country that has so thoughtlessly adopted them.
This flag is an abomination to many Lesbians and Gay Men, it has nothing to with sexual orientation and everything to do with the pretence that a man can change into a woman just because he thinks he can. Wales had the chance to be a beacon of socialism but choose gender nonsense
LESBIAN FIGHTBACK -ANNOUNCEMENT
‘So sisters. On Lesbian Visibility Day 2024 our Lesbian Fightback network has 47 lesbians representing 25 organizations or groups across the whole of the UK and Ireland, with links to US and Norway.’
Nearly the end of day 2 of
#LesbianFightback
& we have over 2000 followers, thank you for all the support we have received. There are Lesbians everywhere & we are standing tall. A special shout-out to those Lesbians who still have this lovely book of Lesbian photos on their shelf
We are hoping to see you back in Parliament after the GE and trust your constituents know
how hard you work for them. Lesbians recognise you as the sister who spoke up for us on every occasion. Those words recorded in Hansard ‘woman loving woman’ said by you in HofC. Thank you
I am grateful to everyone who supports me. Please help me win in Edinburgh South West. Join my campaign team and/or donate to the campaign.
With your help I can continue to champion Scotland, freedom of expression & the rights of women and girls.
As far as
@LesbianFB
is concerned Queer is still an insult, a slur, an abusive word for homosexual women.
Lesbian = Female Homosexual
Lesbian = Same-Sex Attracted Woman
Lesbian Fightback= A coalition of Lesbians fighting erasure
A very one sided report from
@BBCWales
many people in Wales do not want a Welsh version of Scotland’s disastrous legislation so thank goodness
@WelshLabour
you have no legislative rights.
As usual
@BBCWales
doesn't bother with balance & give the views of a growing opposition to this State Indoctrination. Shame on
@WelshLabour
for leading on their version of SelfID
#women
BBC News - LGBTQ: Plan to make it easier to change gender in Wales
Lesbian Visibility Day 7 . A big thank you to the Lesbian Groups on social media who keep Lesbians visible everyday.
@StrengthLesbian
@ScotLesbians
@GetTheLOutUK
@LesbianLabour
. Thank you for all the message of support from Lesbians around the world & from our supporters
In case you missed it at the time, this speech by Miriam Cates MP on the promotion of gender identity ideology in schools is well worth a listen. This relatively new ideology has become an unchallengeable orthodoxy in schools - and young lesbians are among its victims.
One small step into convoluted logic. One giant leap into obscurity.
@stonewalluk
have become an embarrassing irrelevance. They don't get anywhere near speaking for us.
Today’s statements from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (
@EHRC
) are an attack on trans equality and undermine their core purpose of regulating, promoting and upholding human rights.
(1/6)
No, Maggie, reform isn't about safeguarding trans people's rights at the expense of women.
@scotgov
reneged on its commitment to publish the responses to the consultation. Presumably too many questions they couldn't answer and too much evidence they didn't want to engage with.
This is outrageous. It's deeply concerning to see EHRC frame the need for Gender Recognition law reform in this way. 2 consultations have been run. Many people responded to these, including "gender critical" people. Reform is about safeguarding trans people's rights & wellbeing!
@LBC
@Keir_Starmer
@NickFerrariLBC
We'd like to ask Keir why he lied about the legal definition of a woman. AND whether enforcing the single-sex exceptions (Labour policy) will be done on the basis of sex or of gender identity.
@Jebadoo2
@AnnelieseDodds
FFS how many times do we have to say there already is legislation to stop conversion therapy. In answer to your question
@Jebadoo2
no
@AnnelieseDodds
has never read the Cass Report, she probably binned it as soon as it arrived in her Office. Well Lesbians won’t be voting Labour
@thetimes
@guardian
@BBCBreaking
@GBNEWS
@Martina
Sexual Orientation and gender are two very different things and we reject the notion that LGBTQ+ represents a community & is anything more than a jumble of letters. In most cases people referring to that acronym do not mean LGB and it’s nothing more than
an
#illusionOfInclusion
Sexual Orientation and Transgenderism (undefined) should not be in the same legislation as they are completely different things. Read what Lesbians think.
Important piece from Kay Knight. "We are all part of a sexist, homophobic society, and butch women are trying to be ourselves in a world that says we just lack the conviction to transition and are too ignorant to realise it."
#LesbianFightback
Many young women have never heard of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp or the ability of women to come together for Direct Action before the existence of mobile phones or Twitter. We need to spread the word, Women have been fighting for the things we believe in for ever.
#DYK
? Forty years ago today, the
#GreenhamWomen
undertook the Silos Action
On New Year’s Day 1983, 44 women propped ladders against the fence, laid strips of carpet over the top, climbed into the base, and danced on the missile silos 🙌
Read more 👉
@Martina
@UKChange
Even if any of you signed our first petition please sign this one. We were nearly at 1000 signatures before it was taken down but we can go beyond this number with your help. You don’t need to be a Lesbian to sign!!!!
When the handmaidens tell us "most Lesbians accept unified not uniform Stonewall nonsense" we can tell them that there are AT LEAST 30 grassroots Lesbian organisations who reject their rewrite of history & we are fighting back.
@thetimes
@guardian
@BBCBreaking
@GBNEWS
@Martina
Can we now say that Scottish Schools have a mission to reduce the possible number of Lesbians and Gay Men in the future by encouraging children, who are questioning their sexual orientation, to opt for the falsehood that it’s possible to change your sex. Well shame on them!!
A really shocking report on Scottish schools from
@ForWomenScot
.
"At least 95.4 per cent are operating gender self-ID policies, meaning schools consider the gender of the child to be whatever they declare it to be."
What did you do to Fightback in 2021? What did someone else do that gave you courage or inspired you to resist? From small acts of personal rebellion to the grander gestures. It all counts. Take a bow.
This could be an interesting event. We'd like to know whether lesbians who consider themselves same-sex-attracted are welcome to discuss their experiences as members of "the LGBT+ community".
@UoEStaffPride
has a history of hostility to lesbians with GC and similar views.
🎙️
@UoEStaffPride
and
@OurStoryScot
will host a discussion and recording for the archives, which will give participants the chance to talk their experiences as a member of the LGBT+ community.
Professor Jo Phoenix, who resigned following abuse over her transgender views, says "the discussion contemporarily is a failure to recognise where safeguarding policies for women and children came from."
@JennyKleeman
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@lukejones03
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@JoPhoenix1
Today in Australia - a sick country that hates women. Lesbians have already lost the right to have their own spaces without men present, the rest of womankind has just caught up.
Today’s judgement in Giggle v Tickle confirms that women in Australia have no legal rights to single-sex spaces and services.
The Sex Discrimination Act which is supposed to protect women and girls is now a tool to punish women trying to offer female-only spaces.
This is a
@DawnButlerBrent
Oh grow up Dawn, the bit of cloth you are waving celebrates straight people who can’t cope with the idea that they are ordinary so call themselves queer.
My appeal against Stonewall will be heard at the Employment Appeal Tribunal in London this week, 14 -15 May 2024.
Four and a half years ago, I was a barrister at Garden Court Chambers. It was 2019 and I had decided that I could not ignore what was happening to women and to
Imagine being so misogynistic & homophobic, you'd lie about the two lesbians who stood up to be counted when it wasn't safe to do so & fought for the rights lesbians & gay men have today, & call them "straight bigots"
Some people have no respect.
#LGBWithoutTheT
#LGBWithoutTheTQ
.
@ShayWoulahan
has a message for Nancy Kelley of Stonewall on behalf of the lesbians and gay men at
#LetWomenSpeakBelfast
Shame on you Nancy, you will never speak for us! You have sold Lesbians down the river for £130k and we won’t forget it!
cc:
@Nancy_M_K
@StonewallUK
"As gay men we have watched, horrified, as former LGB charities have pursued a regressive and homophobic ideology, fought largely on the battleground of children’s bodies." Thanks, brothers, for setting out the problems with the proposals so clearly.
Gary Powell: “Let’s make 2022 a special year of
#NoThankYou
to the LGBT+ lobby for betraying lesbian and gay people.”
LFB says ‘We are Lesbians and will not align to the alphabet soup of LGBTWTF +’
#SexMatters
#LesbiansMatter
We are so proud of our publication, with many, many thanks to
@FiLiA_charity
, supporting lesbians who want safe and lesbian-only spaces. You can download it all here:
The Public Gallery at the Scottish Parliament cleared of those that oppose self ID. Scotland giving up on democracy no opposition, no amendments, no hope.
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
#WomenWontWeesht
Scottish parliament just voted 59 to 64 against an amendment that would have prevented registered sex offenders from being able to
#SelfID
under the proposed
#GRRBill
.
No democratic mandate whatsoever for any of this...
Shouts of *shame on all of you* from the gallery! 💪
For anyone not clear on this, straight men aren't lesbians!
Two gay men,
@PeterTatchell
&
@imjamesbarr
lecture a lesbian,
@BevJacksonAuth
on what a lesbian is, & then James Barr calls her transphobic for saying that men aren't lesbians.
Absolutely vile misogyny & lesbophobia.
After
@BevJacksonAuth
explains the tragic effect on lesbians by adding the T, she's shouted down, disregarded, shamed & called boring and transphobic by
@petertatchell
&
@imjamesbarr
. THIS is exactly how lesbians have been dismissed, told to 'be polite' & STFU all over the world.
With
@Oxfam
shops on every high street and some of them crying out for volunteers this propaganda will not help recruitment or encourage donations. International Charity gives up core message about feeding the hungry and goes for sexism instead.
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
How utterly disgraceful is this propoganda on behalf of a Charity that was once on everybody's Christmas donation list? Sexist, ageist & Lesbophobic, certainly nothing to be proud of. Donation money wasted on this at a time when the World's hungry need maximum support?
So more examples of the trans ideology activists who try to silence Lesbians & Gays. Thank you to the brave volunteers that have to put up with abuse and thank you
@AllianceLGB
for setting up the helpline. If you can please make a donation, however small, every little helps
Good to see this, Lesbians back on the March in 2022. But as
@StrengthLesbian
says a March doesn’t just happen it needs planning and organising and it needs more than a few to make it happen. If you can help get in touch with them as requested.
#LesbiansAreEverywhere
"Lush is alienating its core female market by refusing to stand up for women’s rights and for being too scared to support proud lesbians." Shameful, cowardly decision.
The playbook: 1) Assert the mantra "no conflict between women's rights & trans rights" 2) Refuse to acknowledge evidence of conflicts 3) Declare any reference to conflicts a "transphobic dogwhistle" 4) demand action against 'bigots' who raise their concerns 5) Repeat and repeat..
I've now caught up with events@ Holyrood & backed
@OutForIndy
's statement amongst others. As an NEC member I campaigned with LGBTQIA+ members for a transphobia definition in
@theSNP
Code of Conduct. I'm angry at John Mason's bigoted question - though his attitude is no surprise
@zarahsultana
@stonewalluk
As lesbians, Stonewall don't stand for us. They actively oppose our rights as same-sex attracted women to organise separately and advocate for ourselves. Our team includes lesbians working in universities who witness the damage being done by the Stonewalling of policy.
@K_IngalaSmith
@joannaccherry
Over on LesbianLabour we kicked off Lesbian Visibility Week with Linda Bellos, we guess Linda Riley won’t approve of her either . We followed Linda with Allison Bailey & will posting your good self
@joannaccherry
later this afternoon and there are plenty more to come.
#Lesbians