Just so I can pin this to my feed. We sent Mum off in style. Laughs, tears, one ‘sod Covid’ hug between two tearful Sons - and a beautiful afternoon on the 25th.
Trans footballers on
@theJeremyVine
“I’ve noticed huge changes in my genetic make-up”.
No you haven’t.
In your make-up maybe, but not in your genes.
Ffs. How do you let this get on air?
@ChiefMI6
Please tell me you thought of intelligence assets, kompromat, inter-agency mobilisation, regional influence, on-the-ground assistance, data sharing, infiltration and exfiltration first.
Jesus, so we won’t be of any help at all then.
“Here Zelensky, have a rainbow lanyard”.
Today, my son presented me with this book “Letters from My Father” which I thought by someone famous.
Only to discover it actually contained, bound and date ordered, copies of all the 80+ letters I had written to him when he was away at Uni (2015/18)
I did cry a bit. So touched.
@nwlc
And the legal grounds for that assertion are….?
(Or are you now the “National Center for Just Saying Anything Unrelated To The Purpose That’s Actually Specified By Our Name”).
@adamscottbellos
Uncouth? Forgive me, I was taught to allow someone to speak until they had finished. And what a bizarre adjective to use. Frankly I’m disappointed. I came here looking for an argument. Uncouth? Who precisely lacked manners here? Hmm.
“I can’t make myself believe something I don’t believe to be true. In this conversation we now talk about the fact of two biological sexes as an ‘opinion’. When has that become an ‘opinion’?
I don’t exist to validate other people’s idea of themselves.”
#istandwithjessdewahls
Just unsubscribed from my HR service that sent me a detailed 12 point guide on Transgender inclusion (from badges through to appointing a trans representative/ally…bathrooms and everything)
Is the whole sector captured (this went beyond advice and was effectively proselytism)?
@FDsignifier
Because 52% of us don’t believe in religion, our natural scepticism, a history of satire, Monty Python, fond memories of camp/pantomime/cross-dressing (when not taken seriously/confined to a hotel room) - but mainly because most of us think Eddie Izzard’s taking the piss now.
@McCainUKIE
“Great big knockers if you’re making a banga. You could park a bus between them”
Wtf. Do you expect McCain buying Mums (let’s face it, it’s mainly women) to serve this drivel up for their kids’ tea?
I can’t do
@mrjamesob
’ s show anymore. His off-hand dismissal of genuine and evidence-based concerns of those of who criticise “trans activism” - from politicians and media companies through to black pampers disrupting medical conferences and women’s voices, is too much.
No,no,no, no,
@BBCRadio4
- what in the name of absolute f**k are you doing referencing 9/11 (and trans people?) on Remembrance Sunday? Any other day, sure. But to start with this and then to drag in some Rhode Island Baptist performative, guilt-laden, platitudes.
Today?
@Scholars_Stage
@cathwrites
@nytimes
I won’t be subscribing despite your interminable offers.
It seems you favour “All the views that are sh*t to print” these days.
If you can’t see this for rank misogyny and bullying, then I’m lost for words - although quite a few now come to mind that I won’t share.
@LancsPolice
@Jamesliamcraig
@leponline
Or, of course, you could have done your job, remained within your remit - and replied:
“We confirm receipt of your note about stickers on council property. We recommend you contact street cleaning on (insert no.) as this is not a police or criminal matter.”
@sciam
I heard that treating someone with a Bonaparte disorder by affirming they were born in Corsica, lopping off their legs to make them 5 foot 2inches tall & reassuring them that Josephine would soon be popping round for a visit, was beneficial too.
Still doesn’t make them Napoleon.
Dear
@JohnLewisRetail
, my son recently took a hammer to my escritoire whilst wearing his mother’s shoes & shouting ‘down with the patriarchy’ (or ‘matriarchy’, it was hard to tell over the noise).
Thankfully I took out Replacement Insurance.
I’ll return the old one fully wrapped
Our young adult daughter has just been taken to A&E by her flatmates with fever, nausea, shakes and severe abdominal pain.
She’s 400 miles away and we’re driving up at the crack of dawn to be there.
God it feels horrible to be so far away.
She’s stable for now.
@EssexPoliceUK
@TGEUorg
@NadiaWhittomeMP
Is that a Remembrance Day monument for fallen soldiers?
If so, what kind of hubris and entitlement made you think that this was in any way a suitable venue for such posturing?
@nowthisnews
I would like to apologise on behalf of the British nation for burning the White House in 1814. We now realise we got the timing wrong & should have sent in the SAS in 2017 for which oversight we also apologise.
Happy Independence Day!
(Tomorrow? Damn, we’re useless with dates)
@carolinefff
@quelizinha
@BarclaysUK
Barclays will need to issue a statement to the effect that customers who don’t subscribe to this will be treated equally & without discrimination. A cast iron guarantee that our protected rights to hold GC beliefs ARE protected.
This is pure political indoctrination.
@BarclaysUK
@AddiHD02
@UniofOxford
@OULGBTQ
You’ve read her statement I presume? Supporting your right to protest as well as the maintenance of protected characteristic rights?
I’d have thought a note of thanks, appreciation and an offer to engage in conversation would naturally follow.
Here’s a reminder.
@drlouisejmoody
I did a thing about the Brighton thing. Probably full of spelling mistakes. But I’m writing it from my shed between taking calls from some Chinese and Indian clients.
@Kiwipally
@AlexSharpe64
In mimicking both Serrano’s “Piss Christ” and Howard the Duck - the performer juxtaposes formerly heretical gender politics with a comedic post-human anthropomorphic aspirational meme - and thus creates the alchemical transformation of Piss into Whine.
(Something like that?)
@Variety
Audience seemed to like it.
And I laughed. A lot.
Waiting for you to comment on the other stuff. Obesity. Atheism. Cats.
Dwarves.
I presume you’re ok with that.
(I mean I am…but hey, what’s with the focus here?)
@itvnews
@stevescott_itv
@BorisJohnson
Bridges has already had special treatment (as well as different opportunities compared to females).
The day Bridges menstruates during competition, call me and I might use the very pronoun I just assiduously avoided in this tweet.
@KatyMontgomerie
Maybe we should simplify matters. Sex recorded as a matter of reality (it’s a fact and not a feeling) and leave gender out of it (it’s a feeling not a fact).
Done.
And Ryan can happily navigate his/her/way through society like the rest of us.
@HRC
Was this actually a “transgender hate” crime?
There’s no mention of a phobic motive, despite the extensive reference to hate crimes in the commentary.
This is the deliberate appropriation of domestic violence, mental illness and lax gun ownership.
And that stinks.
@TheAA_UK
@_HelenMott_
I am a man and a customer of yours.
Understand the scenario you mention but please feel free to push me down the list for any single woman.
Also happy if you did that based on age (oldest first).
I bet if you asked your other male customers they would have no issue with this.
@NotthatSuzanne
Calm, clear and categorical. Back in 2021 I hosted a meeting where one of the team said “So, what about pronouns then?”. My response (smiling) was “We’re not doing that sh*t here. Next item?” Since then not a peep.
(Fingers crossed for us both eh?)
@bindelj
You’ll forgive me if, amongst all the other things on the plate, this raises my hackles like almost no other.
His ‘story’ is a litany of falsehoods, naïveté, wilful negligence, ignorance, cultish reverence & the inexplicable elevation of someone with no discernible talent.
@thejamesmax
You did come across as someone whose grasp on scientific reality is more medieval than modern. Religious even.
So yes, it was pretty astonishing.
@Abtisam_Mohamed
I realise (a) this statistic has clearly been issued to all members and one has to toe the line, (b) I don’t live in Yorkshire - but “what” is being reported? Assault? Tweets? Hate speech in public? Actual Crimes that were either prosecuted or sent to the CPS? Who has that info?
Jess Philips chose to make a very deliberate addition to a list of murdered women.
She thought about doing it.
She weighed up the pros & cons of doing it.
Will I offend anybody or…
Will my progressive virtue be hailed?
Maybe -is this the right place or time?
Maybe not.
@francesbarber13
I suspect they jumped the shark this morning.
Well, some time ago …but the “2yr olds know they’re trans” suggestion will ‘peak’ many.
How institutions lose their way is I’m sure a matter for research already…but it seems a regrettably human blind spot.
@BenInLDN
What a shameful headline (at least to journalistic integrity). It’s not the tweets that defend trans rights that threaten his career, it’s the tweets that doxxed and abused others to such an extent that they have now resulted in an an accusation of professional misconduct.
@janeclarejones
The canard about right wing funding from Christian pressure groups and shady neo-cons is one of the most insidious lies I’ve seen. I have yet to see evidence linking any of the secular left-leaning groups I follow with this kind of funding yet still it’s trotted out ad nauseam.
@ForWomenScot
@MumsnetTowers
Just endured
@mrjamesob
move from faux sympathy to suggesting the appointment was “visionary”.
All calls bar two were supportive.
Getting a suspicious about his investigative skills let alone whether he has the kind of scepticism I want in my radio call-in show hosts.
@MatthewdAncona
@royalacademy
@JessDeWahls
I don’t think “pusillanimous” would fit on this embroidery hoop - but if it did, I’d buy it.
She’s a wonderful artist and this sums the situation most aptly.
Well, it seems the tweet was deleted. But as I was incandescent….
Maybe the good Doctor was correcting a spelling mistake
(if not a category error).
We’ll never know, eh?
@BTP
@BTPRams
@BTPChief
Well, here’s hoping you’ve kept up with discrimination law as regards holding gender critical beliefs…
Or, like the trains, are you running a bit late on that topic?
I suppose it’s LGBTP now? It’s hard to keep up. And how are you going to report the sex of offenders?
@MPSDulwichHill
This is becoming an embarrassment
@MPSDulwichHill
- and you’re beginning to look very foolish, to say nothing of incredibly patronising. This is not a good look.
I should point out I have no intention to discriminate but I didn’t get the same ‘advisory’ re Forstater or how to handle religious/other concerns about facilities….
@BenInLDN
The Guardian? Transphobic? Well, I didn’t have that on my “things that still have the capacity to surprise me at the end of a rather uneventful working day”
@thisweekrte
@IrishRugby
So let me get this straight - they gain/realise their “true inner being” so long denied (something few of us attain) but aren’t prepared to pay the price - which is exclusion from a small subset category of a game that they aren’t actually excluded from playing another way.
@IXthoth
Disgraceful. Reminds me of the “religious police” in certain countries…
Well done keeping it together btw, I would have threatened them with a law suit. I hope they apologise.
The impression is that they’ve been on a “course”. Mantras and sound bites.
Stay strong, best wishes.
#johnlewisadvert
Where do I even start….
Let me count the ways in which this woeful advert is as offensive as it is dangerous.
I shall be thinking very seriously about whether I give them my custom or go to Mr Watto’s World of Wonders in Mos Espa, Tatooine.
@Bronwen85
I voted for her once. But then, because I didn’t like the party’s Victorian sexual “morality”/stereotyping, didn’t again.
Moved leftwards/centrist. Joined Labour ‘97.
Now I don’t want to vote Labour.
Because I still don’t like regressive sexual stereotyping.
How F’ing ironic.
@Simon_Whitten
Way to ignore the message & go for the messenger.
Ng is admittedly known for exposing us to unpalatable “nsfw” content if only to highlight what I wish we didn’t have to see but are better informed by being able to.
I await your condemnation of the behaviours they reveal too.
@LabelFreeBrands
Jesus H F***ing Christ.
It’s like watching the death of civilisation or an asylum being run by inmates - and being impotent to do anything about it.
@EssexPoliceUK
Evidence please.
Oops, that might not be your strong point, but have a go for us will you?
How many in uk - as a result of transphobic killers?
Broken down data please.
@andrewdoyle_com
I am still laughing!!! Best of the day!!! 😂😂 Hilarious on so many levels and for some many reasons it deserves another watch…family is going to wonder why I’m losing it - ans I daren’t tell them. Which makes it funnier…oh, god, stoppppp!
@LBC
@sarahstuartxx
@NickFerrariLBC
What’s a “non-biological” woman? (To turn the question around for the purposes of precise semantic clarification).
Presumably - a man.
@carolvorders
@threed0
@GoodLawProject
You might want to do some due diligence. Or just accept that paying for some of their less laudable or unsuccessful (and expensive) campaigns is the price one pays for the times when they get it right.
Mermaids? Not their finest hour.
And something of a quagmire of its own.
@SVPhillimore
“What process?”
1. They invited her.
2. She checked her diary
3. She was free.
4. She came.
He really isn’t very bright for a barrister is he?
Just to be absolutely clear, I haven’t yet heard or read a single thing from critics of JK Rowling that makes me change my view that those who vilify a national treasure are anything other than bullies, cowards or wilfully ignorant.
#IStandWithJKRowling