When a woman says it is distressing to share an intimate public space with males, TRAs say her distress doesn’t matter, but when a male says it is distressing to share an intimate public space with other males, TRAs say that is ALL that matters. This is a men’s rights movement.
Hi,
@burgersnbeers
my little sister was at your restaurant last night and was shocked to find that you have changed your toilets to unisex, she had a very unpleasant experience with a man in there and will not be back. Your loos were gross as well. What a shame you did this.
Stonewall law just died, might be a while before the funeral, but it’s happened.
Employers, institutions, govt bodies & third sector orgs have been told it is unlawful to do what the EHRC today has laid out as lawful. Women can no longer be told our rights are discriminatory.
India Willoughby is one of the most misogynistic men on this platform. He regularly posts the most abhorrent tweets & his main target has been JKR, who imo he has attempted to intimidate & harass. The fact he is a man & a misogynist is important to be able to say. Esp for JKR.
After hearing
@rapecrisisscot
lie to
@BBCWomansHour
that their trans inclusion policies have caused no issues when they know that it’s caused victims to self-exclude, I want to be clear that
@EdinRapeCrisis
ghosted me when they knew I had no money for counselling & was suicidal.>
So telling JK Rowling she is ‘next’ in relation to the attempt on Salman Rushdie’s life won’t get you a permanent suspension from Twitter, but saying a man playing football against girls, is a man, will.
@staylorish
This should finish him. Rejecting a landmark review exposing a medical scandal in relation to vulnerable children (that has been accepted across the UK medical establishment & lauded by the BMJ and the EHRC no less) due to his ideological agenda, is indefensible & unacceptable.
We cannot be fired from our jobs for being gender critical. We cannot be refused goods or services for being gender critical. We cannot be denied membership of political parties for being gender critical. And we cannot face hate crime actions for being gender critical.
It’s not OK for
@HumzaYousaf
to use derogatory, sexist terms like ‘cis’ to refer to women, as he did on radio today. ‘Cisgender women’ = defining women as innately feminine, defined by gender stereotypes, & within that naturally submissive to men. It is reactionary & misogynist.
One of the most horrific cases I ever heard of, outside of prisons, was when a man self-identified as trans to access a woman's shelter & raped 2 women. He was given an 'indefinite' prison sentence.
@ShonaRobison
lied to parliament that this never happens.
I was today years old when I found out that Nicola Sturgeon’s last act as a lawyer was to fail to protect a victim of domestic violence by not getting her a protective order or legal aid, leaving her in distress & still being stalked for over a year. A then QC had to step in & >
The definition of 'woman' is 'offensive'.
Women's sex based rights are 'hateful'.
Women organising as a sex class against their oppression is 'bigoted'.
The commodification of women's bodies is 'empowering'.
All now orthodox left wing views. What a fucking failure.
Nicola Sturgeon refusing to say if she thinks ‘Isla Bryson’ is male or female shows she does not have the courage of her own convictions, & refuses to recognise the consequences of her own politics. She always expected Self ID to only be a problem for other women, not herself.
@VictoriaPeckham
This will mean I can get rape crisis support in Edinburgh for the first time. Edinburgh Rape Crisis Scotland ended all contact with me after I asked them to confirm I would not be considered a bigot for needing a female counsellor. So a HUGE thank you to JK Rowling for this.
So basically Owen Jones is gonna have to say he actually believes feminists want to commit a genocide on trans people, or face the continued wrath of TRAs. This is delightful 🤣.
Jolyon really has lost the plot. Imagine being so far gone you think you can actually take legal action against the EHRC for recognising areas where women’s rights can be impacted by policy proposals.
I am so sick of hearing ‘this is not about trans people, but about people pretending to be trans to access women’s spaces’; the problem is MALES, however they identity, incl those who have dysphoria & genuinely believe they are trans. And it’s not just about safety, but privacy.
Having to swear on threat of a charge of perjury that you will be truthful in your testimony to the court, while at the same time being told you will be penalised if you are truthful regarding a trans identifying person’s sex in said testimony, is not a sustainable position.
Owen Jones says here that he won't discuss any conflicts between trans demands & women's rights, because he is not trans & it is not ok for him to debate their needs & rights. It is fine for him to dismiss women's needs & rights out of hand though.
#OwenJonesIsAMisogynist
The whole ‘women are being radicalised on Mumsnet’ schtick goes back to the idea that women are the devil’s gateway, so when left to congregate together without the men folk, we become all witchy and evil and shit.
@ReduxxMag
So in the last few weeks in Scotland, a country with a very small population, has seen a transwoman convicted as a double rapist, a transwoman charged with raping a child, & a transwoman admitting to sexually assaulting women & girls. And we are told safeguarding is bigotry.
So based on solid data from the Census and the MoJ, transwomen are, in fact, 415x more likely to be in prison for sex offences than women (1 in 585 v 1 in 243,000).
Tell me again how transwomen are women and Self ID is no threat.
As a survivor of sexual violence I don’t know if i’ll ever be able to put into words just how grateful I am for politicians such as
@joannaccherry
who are willing to stand up for women’s sex based *human rights* in such a hostile climate. Please join me
#IStandWithJoannaCherry
No wonder you've turned off replies you coward. Humza shares the same beliefs as Kate, but unlike Kate he was an MSP in 2014 & did NOT vote for gay marriage, due to his faith. You are a fraud & a phony Mhairi, & hopefully your time on the gravy train will be up soon. Tick tock.
A lot of people have asked me my views of the leadership contest. Truthfully, I have been incredibly hurt so far. Hurt originating with the statements
@_KateForbes
has made and since stood by. I, like most people in Scotland, could not care less about someone’s religion. (1/10)
Everyone take a minute to think of
@NicolaSturgeon
today, the 'feminist to her fingertips', who leads a party that has unlawfully threatened members with suspension if they express feminist speech.
Is Owen Jones being quiet on the Forstater judgment today? Could it be that is because he was part of a campaign to bully a female journalist for expressing perfectly lawful views, in the hope his employer would unlawfully discriminate against her? 🤔
@thesarahkelly
Petal in the 80s ppl understood gender non-conformity challenged gender stereotypes, ya know, the idea women are feminine & men are masculine, but your generation fucked it, you said feminine men must be women & masculine women must be men. We broke the cages, you rebuilt them.
Owen Jones wants to blame women for the Tories being able to make political capital out of the fact that much of the left has abandoned women’s sex-based/human rights, including him.
One way to spot a misogynist - women will always be to blame.
They asked us to change our language so as to not hurt their feelings, and most of us did, then they used those changes in language to take everything away from women and girls.
I have got through 41 years of my life without ever having to tell anyone which pronouns to use to refer to me, & I am not going to pretend that I have to now.
> This devastated me at the time & prevented me from getting support - I was straight up excluded, & in the most callous of ways. So
@rapecrisisscot
please stop lying that no harm has come of your ideological position. I assure you it has, and I know you know it has.
The
@ONS
told us this week that 10% of women who have been raped either attempt or commit suicide. While orgs like Stonewall use fake stats re suicide to remove women’s rights & spaces, disputed by the NHS yet continuing, women are actually being denied life-saving support.
While a debate rages in the UK & the US with one side saying men exposing themselves to girls is wrong, & the other saying girls should accept it, every human rights & children's rights organisation in both countries has remained silent, even though this is actually happening.
This is who Scottish MSPs, including the Minister covering the GRR Bill
@ShonaRobison
, gave a standing ovation to in parliament, as in directly, when it passed. And who
@MaggieChapman
partied with afterwards. And yes, they did know about their advocacy for violence against women.
@JohnOfBolton1
@burgersnbeers
She has been there many, many times and went into what was always the female loos and was stunned to see men in there & she just froze and they must have saw her face and one took an attitude with her. She has learning disabilities & social anxiety & I am just fuming right now.
@GinnySanderson
Hi
@TheScotsman
can you pls correct an inaccuracy in this report, this centre does not only offer help to ‘cisgender women’ as the journalist has incorrectly stated, it offers help to women like myself who, as most, do not identify as cisgender - a gender ID - we’re simply women.
> sort it all out. The protective order & legal aid was secured right away, & in fact Nicola Sturgeon’s bosses wiped all charges for her ‘work’. I think history is repeating itself, victims don’t matter to her, & someone else is going to have to sort out her mess.
@cabaretagainst
@Blackfriars_Bar
@StandComedyClub
Dear
@Blackfriars_Bar
please know that most stand in solidarity with your venue and staff in the face of this attempt to bully you all. You are upholding the law and democracy by refusing to blacklist women for holding lawful beliefs that bother mostly men, and always bullies.
Men can’t have periods though. And when they pretend otherwise they are diminishing what women go through as a result of menstruation, and many are engaging in the fetishisation of what we go through. Disgust is a normal response to that.
Cis women are being weird about trans women having periods and once again I find myself asking why tf y'all feel so threatened by other women just living their lives. We as cis women don't have a monopoly on womanhood or femininity. Just stfu and let people be, damn
In a country where no transwomen have been attacked by female prisoners, but female prisoners have been attacked by transwomen, including sexual assaults, Hollyoaks decides to cover the issue by depicting female prisoners attacking a transwoman in prison.
#DARVO
#WarOnWomen
@stonewalluk
@EHRC
You are such children. Self ID is not a human right, and that is according to the European Court of Human Rights. But then you have been found to misrepresent rights and laws, so it’s no surprise that you are misrepresenting this as well.
Women have human rights. Get over it.
Jack Monroe is recommending malnutrition menus for poor people & in doing so is propping up the Tories & ultimately putting lives at risk, all cos she wants to make a living off of us. As a working class woman who has been hospitalised for malnutrition, PLS don’t listen to her.
Thinking of Kathleen Stock and Marion Millar a lot today. Both these women have been through so much injustice and stress. From the bottom of my heart I hope they both experience much better from now on, & that they just get a fucking break.
So the transwoman exposing themselves at WiSpa - defended by Laurie Penny et al - is facing charges of indecent exposure, incl towards a child, has been a registered sex offender since 2003, & is legally female & uses this to access our spaces.
#NoToSelfID
@rosstmiller
The prevalence of drinking & driving. In US tv shows & movies they are often drunk one minute, then fine enough to drive the next. The other thing that bugs me is when they have actors playing different versions of the same person who don't even have the same eye colour. Stupid.
@HumzaYousaf
@ScotParl
I wrote to your government in June regarding Janey Godley's racism and gave examples, including archived links to tweets. Your govt told me you were fine with it, & dismissively told me if I had a problem I should report it as a hate crime.
To those of you sponsoring sending out
@HJoyceGender
's book Trans to various people, please know that it is making a difference, there are senior policy makers who are loving it. This is making a difference.
Bodyform has decided to use the term ‘women+’ when advertising their products in order to recognise ‘gender ID’. In terms of the efforts we have seen so far, which usually erase the word woman altogether & use nonsense, dehumanising language, this is the best approach I’ve seen.
In Scotland two young girls were sexually assaulted by a transwoman in female toilets. This transwoman was later housed in a hostel for female offenders. The women there were very distressed & challenged this. Nicola Sturgeon wants you to view them as bigots.
#ShameOnYouSturgeon
The BBC reports crimes committed by men as having been committed by women despite no legal imperative to do so, yet when one of their presenters simply recognises that ‘transwomen’ are bio males, a basic fact, the BBC says this is ‘taking sides’.
This is unacceptable bias.
It is clear that Nicola Sturgeon is on her way out. Her heart is so clearly not in the fight; she knows she’ll not win independence & will walk away claiming she did all she could.
She will leave behind her a country & party much worse off than when she took over - her legacy.
Your reminder that both Grace Lavery and Katy Montgomerie both totally shat it when GC women agreed to debate them, they know their arguments do not stand up & are too afraid to face us. And I know we know that too, but it’s never not funny pointing it out.
So a UK Judge basically decided today that any time a woman or girl wants to access a single-sex provision on an *actual single-sex basis*, i.e. female-only, it is up to us to take each provider who fails to offer us this to court. This is discriminatory & cannot stand.
We're at the point with gender identity fuckwittery where you either believe it's possible for straight men to be the most oppressed women in the world or you don't.
Hi
@MonsoonUK
, I am a working class woman who cannot afford your clothes. Since you are obviously flush and giving stuff away, can I ask if you would give me some free clothes, or is it only privileged white men who deserve your freebies?
Oh don’t you dare fucking lie
@GillianMSP
- you voted FOR sex offenders being able to get a GRC last night, ALL sex offenders are a risk to women & you voted to let them change their legal sex on the basis of Self ID.
You are a traitor to your sex.
My GRR amendments allowing Police Scotland to stop sex offenders gaining a GRC on the basis of RISK have just PASSED. They are competent, in line with EHRC, supported cross party, and will prevent harm. GRCs are for trans people, NOT predatory men.
So it turns out the Green Party, who like to accuse just about everyone of being discriminatory bigots, actually unlawfully discriminate within their party, and fail to uphold equal rights under the Equality Act 2010. Fancy that.
@KatyMontgomerie
@AlexJayMac
This is DARVO. You mock the need for women to have separate facilities, calling it irrational, & all while saying your needs are not, because you don’t empathise with anyone else’s needs. And we don’t have the same needs, you want space away from some males, whereas women like>
@Obsolesence
@ScotParl
Scotland, the country where our parliament will not even allow female members of the public to wear suffragette colours in Parliament, because it has become THAT anti-women.
If you think an inverted penis creates an actual cervix, wait till you see the whole actual planet I created out of a balloon, papier-mâché & some paint.
> It’s clear that they chose not to even signpost me to another service, or follow any protocols for someone they knew to be suicidal & unable to afford private help, because this would have shown they were refusing to help me. >
There are few more stark examples of gaslighting in the gender debate than the idea that being safe from male violence & from fearing male violence, & being able to have bodily boundaries around male people, is something women & girls don't need, but transwomen do.
The SNP and the Greens have just voted to allow sex offenders to change their legal sex by self declaration, making it much easier for them to access spaces for women & girls, & to be housed in the female prison estate. Grotesque. EVERY assault as a result is also on their hands.
No other committee members are brave enough to speak opposing Russell Findlay's amendments restricting access to GRCs for sex offenders. The Cabinet Secretary opposes them. The amendments are voted down, 4 vs 3. Conservative/Labour supports Findlay, SNP/Green oppose.
@Aidan_Baron
More people have been killed by trans people in the UK than trans people have been killed. Furthermore, you are lying, women are not assaulting trans people in the UK. More women are killed in a month in the UK than trans people have been killed here ever as well. Also, the UN >
@thejamesmax
@HaydenHewitt
@rachel__g0ddard
@millihill
So to sum up James, you don’t know what you are talking about, you don’t understand what is a stake for women & why feminists are against Self ID, but despite this you claim it’s really just that women hate men, with their shrill voices & all.
You have a HUGE misogyny problem.
When women felt the EHRC was not protecting our rights as it should, we made arguments, we provided them with evidence, we engaged in any processes we could to make clear how & why something was wrong, & this led to the EHRC having to change some its guidance & positions.
Until we as a community see a significant investment, meaningful engagement and progressive action taken by the EHRC towards progressing trans rights, we see no merit in further dialogue.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls has basically just eviscerated the Scottish Govt. This is a *very important* intervention, Below is a breakdown of what she said, as regards women & girls (screenshots to follow):
1. The Scottish Govt has not ensured>
Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls
My letter to the UK Government concerning the
#GenderRecognitionReformBill
of
#Scotland
currently before the Scottish parliament is now public and can be accessed here: . .
Stonewall doesn’t advocate for trans rights - their human rights are protected. Stonewall advocates for an end to women having human rights in respect to Articles 3, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 14, & an end to Equality Act protections re the protected characteristics of sex and belief.
@therealkimj
A working class member of staff was verbally abused & threatened by someone who was extremely aggressive & violent & all because he observed their sex, & you think the member of staff needs to show respect?! That says A LOT about how you view working class people.
#MaleViolence
@Ross_Greer
@patrickharvie
When you think men with signs calling feminist women scum and for us to be murdered and eaten is 'Glasgow at its best', you might want to consider that you are in a women-hating cult.
I actually think it is quite significant that
@stonewalluk
won't put forward anyone to represent the organisation on broadcast media. If they had confidence in their position and indeed their CEO, they would jump at the chance to defend themselves on the BBC.
@RidgeOnSunday
@HumzaYousaf
In which case he acknowledges that Self ID policies are exploited by men claiming to be women & is just fine with it, since he supports those policies, despite this placing women & girls in danger. Which is a despicable disregard for our safety & welfare.
Edinburgh Rape Crisis ended contact with me after I asked them about this when I was on their waiting list. I have received no rape crisis support. Today
@jk_rowling
has opened a centre that would give me support in Edinburgh for the first time. THANK YOU!
>they confirm my counselling would not involve what Mridul described, specifically & simply asking that in my counselling with them I won't be "considered a bigot & I will not be challenged for needing a female service, & I will not be told to reframe my (sex-based) trauma, & my>
How do you know the TRA movement is an MRA movement? Because there’s no push for transmen to be recognised in language around anything for men, there is no push for third spaces for non-binary people, there is only a push to erase the language & spaces of women. And it’s working.
So Jolyon Maugham's hot take is that when a bunch of TRAs tweeted porn on a thread full of kids & their parents posting pictures for JK Rowling's book, the person who is really to blame is JK Rowling herself, for engaging with children & their parents on Twitter.
He is gross.
Patrick Harvie has attacked & smeared women viciously for defending our rights; indeed people like him have contributed to the most hostile climate for women advocating for our rights in decades - women are clearly scared for our future - & today Nicola Sturgeon endorsed him.
@reece_dinsdale
@JoolzCook
Did you really just hear that a double rapist has been housed in prison with women & suggest it’s okay if it doesn’t happen that much? What is wrong with you? Also, figures from the MoJ & the ONS show transwomen are 5x more likely than other men to be in prison for sex offences.