Aspie Freelance writer, glass worker teacher & mentor to students with Asperger’s, palaoarchaeologist and occasional wedding singer & 21st Century Suffragette.
I am married, 60 years old parent of 3. A feminist who was sexually assaulted by a boss, fought section 28, was frontline HIV support, sacked for being pregnant and sent home for wearing trousers in 1989. I ambanned from a feminist thread on Reddit. The world is upside down
@looknorthBBC
I was told they checked the inside of the waistband to see if it was the correct skirt. If you have to do that then it isn’t a matter of conforming to an acceptable appearance.
The Asda skirt is £7.99 for 2 and the Rawcliffe one £21:99 for one.
We’re in a cost of living crisis!
The winner of the 2022 WA Women's Longboard Surfing Championship is the same person who won the 2019 WA Men's Longboard Surfing Championship. If you're okay with this, you need to have a word with yourself.
love David Tennant but we were all “non binary” at age 9 when I was growing up. I used to zoom around in my imaginary spectrum patrol vehicle & I was Captain Scarlet, a fighter pilot one minute & wearing my frilly Sunday school anniversary dress the next. Ideological codswallop
WHY does recognising the vulnerabilty of people who feel unhappiness with their ‘gender identity’ have to come at the expense of women ? Why does biology have to be denied to ensure that we treat everyone with compassion and humanity? WHY is it women and girls who are bullied?
@JohannLamont
@Docstockk
I studied chemistry and biochemistry and cis and trans had nothing to do with gender. Again it is a corruption of language to suit the needs of power of one group, in this case use of language to dominate and control
@HomeTruths111
@BBCNews
Don’t be such a pompous twit. If you want to address comments about scruffiness, can I suggest there are many easier Targets closer at hand
Colin Firth trending on Twitter, not old enough to have died but still young enough to be the object of 39,000 fantasies. Most days twitter annoys me but not today
@KevCOYG
My dad aged 82 who lives alone 150 miles away had a stroke at the beginning of lockdown. He had a 30% risk of a more serious one within the following 60 days. On Monday this week he had a heart attack. I last saw him on 8/3 because I had the mistaken idea that the law was for all
PhD student says bullying from activist has left her feeling unsafe via
@MailOnline
Covered on the Today programme today. The first time issues like this have been heard properly on national media hooray 😊❤️🌈
@SinclairJM1987
@LabelFreeBrands
No but we women were there in droves. I actively campaigned against section 28 and volunteered on a telephone helpline during the AIDS crisis early years and now I am called Bigot and TERF because I think sex is different to gender 😢
@alice_isa_
You are absolutely wrong. You may be an archaeologist but can I suggest you read these and then move out in your research from there. You are absolutely wrong. I did a short course in forensic anthropology ( wished I had chosen it as my first discipline now instead of biology)
@stueymaco
Women can have penises, unicorns are running free in Regent’s Park, there are fairies at the bottom of my garden, spider man is a spider, Dumbo really can fly, and if I click my ruby slipper heels together and sayThere’s no place like home this horrible idea will disappear
@Gaztro
@bbcquestiontime
What a strange thing to say, it is the same as saying “ we don’t send children up chimney’s any more so we don’t need to end child poverty in this country or make education more accessible” the work of improving the police is not yet complete
@katoi
Similar have happened to me. I fought section 28, was a volunteer during the HIV crisis. deceived by a trans woman into marriage,yet worked hard to understand. I respect&honour trans people But I am concerned about safeguarding,sports, medicalising children and dont call me cis
@ross_p1980
@SkyNewsBreak
#SackCummings
#DominicCummings
Johnson has done 1984 with it’s newspeak vocab. Now we are living in Animal Farm “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” great literature has echoes through time, I just wish it wasn’t such an Orwellian One, here and now
@EmmaWatson
Trans people have a right to live in their gender. But what do we do about the elephant in the room - those who fake their gender identity to gain access to girls and women for their own sexual gratification. It is not transphobic to be concerned about safeguarding children
@simonjedge
@DrGilluley
@jack_turban
This is the type of person influencing policy in the NHS which
1. Changes language which dehumanises females
2. Denies biological sex
3. Which allows trans women with penises to access female only spaces based on self ID alone
Dangerous person in a position of power😡
@thatbikedad
So am I. studied for a PhD in beetles in fact I can categorically say you don’t gender an animal ( including humans) you “ sex” it. Sex is a material and biological reality. PS you may not have heard but the earth isn’t flat either
@SLXTH666
Being a woman has everything to do with biology,unfortunately. It is why we are raped, every three days one if us is murdered in the U.K. ( no trans murders in U.K. for 3 years) 1:10 of us is sacked for being pregnant snd we still don’t earn the same as men with equivalent jobs
@shawaj2
@EStreachailt
@janeclarejones
@sally_hines
But only if you put Cis in front of it. If I call myself woman and add the words natal or adult female In the same sentence I can get banned from twitter or sacked from my job .
@JolyonMaugham
The express has a poll. At the moment most think he shouldn’t be sacked. Obviously it is a fix. Please retweet and vote so that support for this guy evaporates
@alice_isa_
It doesn’t invalidate anyone’s identity to accept the reality of biology. There is obviously a relationship between our identity and our biology but identity is so much more complex and it’s OK. I don’t get this desperation to undermine biology in order to validate oneself. Crazy
@wozbot1982
@Independent
It doesn't sweetie you can do what the hell you want with any consenting adult as long as you give Me the same respect I give you. I ask politely that you ask natal people if they want to be referred to as “ Cis” before you use it ? Deal ?
@STILLTish
I was once reported at college for accidentally misgendering a pupil who changed genders during a summer break and looked and spoke exactly the same as they did in July but in September he was a boy. I never meant to hurt or disrespect but could have been sacked for it.
@Tequila__Sunset
@Keir_Starmer
#kierrocks
thats who he is. Former head of Public prosecutions. A top barrister who got where he is without privilege. I’ll see your second rate, lazy former journalist and raise me a barrister. Boris be afraid, be very afraid 😁
@Psydook2
I respect gender identity. Trans people need better access to timely affirmative care and equal rights free from discrimination. But respecting gender identity doesn’t include calling women by their body parts, believing in “ girldicks” and transwomen in female sport. Sex matters
@jasonsfolly
Love you to bits but females don’t have penises.Penises have been used to correct female behaviour as a tool of rape against both men, women and children as an instrument of war on helpless women.Penises aren’t funny ( except between consenting adults)
@InkMasterbator
She was not accusing trans women of being rapists. She was pointing out that manipulative sex offenders can pretend to be trans in order to rape at will in prison……stop trying to create a moral panic
@AdiDeegee
@stonewalluk
@IGRugby
@WorldRugby
@WorldRugby
please protect women. Rugby is a contact sport. You have used the science well to come to a decision, please don’t backtrack We‘re a sexually dimorphic species,even after testosterone levels are brought down, musculature and build don’t change much.
#givewomenachance
@PinkNews
But that was me too. I have Asperger’s and thought I should be a boy until I was about 18. I had body dysmorphia which led to anorexia. I only found out I had Asperger’s in my 30’s
@stonewalluk
@IGRugby
@WorldRugby
@WorldRugby
please protect women. Rugby is a contact sport. You have used the science well to come to a decision, please don’t backtrack We‘re a sexually dimorphic species,even after testosterone levels are brought down, musculature and build don’t change much.
#givewomenachance
@KatyMontgomerie
@JoeBangles11
Where does
@glinner
call for violence? He says some pretty objectionable things and I don’t agree with misgendering but he hadn’t advocated actual violence which is more the stock behaviour of some TRAs in my experience
@DJTheScot
@looknorthBBC
I can’t it’s an academy they don’t have a governing body like LA schools. I was a governor of my local primary school but was kicked off when it became an academy because I asked questions about financial probity…contracts were awarded to friends
@LouiseElliotM
FAQ 5 is factually inaccurate
The term intersectional Feminism wasn’t coined until 1989 and there were thousands of working class suffragettes.
the least they could do is get their facts straight
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@__Sadi__
@katoi
He wasn’t cruel but used me as a dressing up dolly. We were celibate too and I thought I was unattractive. It made me not trust my current husband for years, I kept thinking he would leave. I didn’t write up my Ph.D. either because he insisted he was smarter than I am
@SandraPolchow
@iocmedia
I can’t wait to see the public reaction when no natal women line up on the blocks for a women’s event. It will create a backlash so big that it will look like a tsunami. Be careful what you wish for. Meanwhile we will set up a category for people with xx chromosomes .
@xberniceeee
@SussexUni
Students can do exactly the same as Kathleen Stock has done, speak to groups, write, address meetings. Nowhere has she demanded sackings or put posters around campus. Not sought to stop freedom of speech, thought or association of trans people or allies. Do you see the difference
I notice that Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, until recently lauded as a trans teen is now sporting feminine appearance. This is perfectly normal and a reason why we should not jump to conclusions about gender identity in children…..
@PompeySteph
You are not female sex but I know how much it matters to you.I hope your mum gave her permission for you to change her story too.I know if this had happened to a legal document which shaped my life, I would have been very angry. Birth & marriage certs represent more than one life
@DalgetySusan
@guardian
ME: Look at this forest….
JUDITH: no I want to focus on the twig
ME: but there are hundreds of trees here and your twig is part of the forest
JUDITH: but my twig is the only thing that matters, burn the trees, they are not my twig…
This is what intersectional feminism is 😢
@BBCNews
So he does know what a biological woman is? Trans women are women except when I want a girlfriend….good to see a principled man living by his pronouncements 🤣
@alice_isa_
not true. Most skeletons most of the time are easily sexed. After the menopause female skulls become more masculine but if you pair such a skull with arthritic bones/female pelvis there is no mistake that‘s it’s an elderly woman rather than an adolescent male
Agenda: Proposed new law could make JK Rowling a criminal
This is appalling. My commentary about starting a new suffragette movement might become a serious issue. If theyJail her,they will have to take me too. I am a woman. Sex is real.
@sally_hines
@CathyMaxwell48
She seems to know a lot more about feminism and the need for equality for ordinary women outside of this intersectional woke crap that conflates sex and gender. By the way I actually got sacked from my lecturing post because I got pregnant. You need to get out of your bubble
our local secondary school deprived a child of her education and put her in ton “isolation” for a day because her parent bought a skirt from ASDA (£7 for 2) rather than the official supplier £22.They had to inspect the inside of the waistband to see the brand name
@HoldernessAcad
@stene1978
@RussInCheshire
Which part of:
Leavers:
Won the referendum
Won the subsequent election
Led the negotiations
Chose the PM
Are 100% of the cabinet
Won another election
Wrote the Withdrawal Agreement
Led more negotiations
do you not understand? you won AND you made an utter bollockfest of it?
@Independent
With Covid, climate change, Brexit and identity politics hitting peak trans, science denied social media being the reference point for everything all we need now is Nero to come and play his fiddle to know that humanity truly is is another dark age and there is no hope.
@sally_hines
@CathyMaxwell48
“What I was getting was a picture that the point at which women’s lives really changed was not marriage, partnership, but actually the birth of the first child. After that, it became much more difficult to manage an equal partnership, ( still) true today.” Oakley
#realfeminism
@ThatTimWalker
Rees Mogg has said it is unsafe for more than 50 adult MPs to sit in the commons for a few hours a day...at the same time says it’s safe for 15 children, a teacher and teaching assistants to sit in a classroom for 5hrs a day...
@EllaWitchwood
The Radio Times published an anti JK Rowling article about
#Strike
please encourage complaints to the radio times. They don’t do the same to Dickens and Chesterton etc..
feedback
@radiotimes
.com
@Mermaids_Gender
Mermaid a mythical creature, neither fish not human which appear in British folklore as unlucky omens, both foretelling disaster and provoking it. Never was there more appropriate name for a charity...
@PeterStefanovi2
Let’s be clear. With the exception of a few, all public sector workers are facing a pay freeze. The poorest workers are getting a 10% rise in NI and no one knows yet how much their fuel bills will cost and
@BorisJohnson
thinks it’s ok to write off over £100k for Gold wallpaper
@dinogreycat
It is crisis point yet we have a Marie Antoinette govt. Yesterday I had to fill up my car. I live in a rural area. There is no timely public transport. The bill was £88. The government made £39.30 in tax ( fuel duty and VAT). As fuel prices rose their take gets bigger and bigger
@devorahshawa
@bindelj
@FiLiA_charity
The problem is you need to challenge them. You need to get a bucket of water and wash it away. It is YOUR PROBLEM TO DEAL WITH they won’t listen to us and are violent towards us. Unless you do you are just WORDS NOT DEEDS. WALK THE WALK AS WELL AS TALK THE TALK.
@VictoriaPeckham
@Mermaids_Gender
Oh I do hope so. This needs to go the way of Kids company and its witch finder General the way of Camilla Batmandjelih
As a left handed person, part of a minority having difficulty because the world is made for right handers I have never demanded that right handed people change everything- scissors, desks, pens, doors, dancing, to suit me. Yet as a woman I am expected to accept being called Cis
@iocmedia
Natal women should boycott it and set up a new category for those with xx chromosomes. Then trans athletes would be free to compete as women against each other. There’ll be a lack of peer reviewed evidence as people are afraid and intimidated to do the research because of capture
@niauropsaka
@WNBA
@AthleteAlly
@ChangingGameDoc
Then perhaps you should read this. Even on HRT:
1. muscle density, heart size and anchorage of muscles don’t change
2. the gait and running style caused by overal muscle/ skeletal form does not change
@VictoriaPeckham
@thetimes
The irony is, the difference in numbers between the sex question and data on gender can be so useful to argue for better services for trans people
@RebeccaFront
My dad aged 82 who lives alone 150 miles away had a stroke at the beginning of lockdown. He had a 30% risk of a more serious one within the following 60 days. On Monday this week he had a heart attack. I last saw him on 8/3 because I had the mistaken idea that the law was for all
@PompeySteph
@sharrond62
@cathydevine56
Transphobia is hatred or fear of trans people right? Female only spaces is not hatred it is fair for females. Trans women who’ve gone through male puberty are as much cheats as the old Eastern European athletes who had been on drugs. This is not transphobia Steph it’s FairPlay
@sally_hines
@CathyMaxwell48
No words. Thought while she was having babies you might Want to brush up on what it means to be a feminist. Thus website might help you get started. You don’t have to thank me 😂
@oatly
sorry ,just found out that this company is now 10% owned by an investment group heavily implicated in the Amazon desctruction. No more Oatly for me 😢 i am going overvto any other brand
@swheaton
This is the kind of writing designed for a university or sixth form newspaper, or even worthy of the poor “ churnsalism” of a tabloid ( except painstakingly longer to read 🥱) to have set off with a single idea and searched for every shred to back up your ideas. Weak 😊😂❤️