HappyinDevon

lucky to live in a beautiful place☀️🏖⛵️

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I’ve just seen a post from yet another man who thinks my position has shifted since I wrote my 2020 essay about gender identity ideology and the consequent clash of rights https://t.co/pasxBD1Hzl

For the avoidance of doubt, I stand by every word I wrote then. For instance: ‘woman isn’t a costume.’ If it surprises you that I say men don’t become women by wearing make up and dresses, you didn’t understand the essay. I’ve been crystal clear all along that I believe people are free to live and present themselves as the opposite sex if that’s what feels comfortable and authentic TO THEM. This appears to have been interpreted (most often, tellingly, by men) as ‘and it naturally follows that I, as a woman, will validate a man’s belief that he is now, to all intents and purposes, the same sex as me, and I will use only the speech he deems appropriate and will be very careful to protect his sensitive ego, no matter the cost to myself in pretending to believe a falsehood, or the loss of my own rights due to this pretence.’

Dress as you like within normal bounds of situational decency, wear lipstick, sequins and a beard if you want, call yourself whatever you like, have sex with any consenting adult you please: I wish you health, happiness and safety. What you don’t get is the power to compel my speech and belief.

When I call a man a man, I am speaking verifiable truth. It is essential to be able to accurately name sex when discussing fair sport, facilities and services for women and girls and the right of gay people not to be demonised for their same-sex attraction. In years to come, a lot of useful idiots are going to awake to the fact that they’ve been complicit in enormous harm done to women, girls, gay people who stood against the insanity, and some extremely vulnerable young people. I don’t doubt we’ll hear a lot of, ‘I thought I was just being kind.’ Such individuals, especially those in positions of power, should be asked why they never had anything to say about the loud, public, widespread unkindness directed against those who refused to adopt their fashionable, elitist beliefs, eg, the detransitioners being bullied and vilified by former ‘allies’, the whistleblowers who tried to stop an unregulated experiment on troubled children, the women who lost their careers and livelihoods by standing up for all women’s rights.

Some people appear to believe it a worse crime for a woman to call a man a man than for trans activists to call loudly and publicly for the assault and assassination of all women who refuse to bend the knee. I have never wished violence or any other kind of harm on a trans-identified person, but, like many other people who’ve defended women’s and girls’ rights over the past few years, I have received thousands of threats of death, rape and torture. The wilful blindness of those who bleat ‘both sides’ will rightly be judged harshly in times to come.

TL;DR Trans women aren’t women, and if that hurts your feelings, be grateful you live in a society where you are just as free to espouse gender ideology as I am to speak the truth. As Orwell said: ‘Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.’

[Sophie Blake @sophieRblake]

No one looking at this photo would know what so many of these women are carrying behind the scenes.

We don’t look like the stereotypical image people often have of someone living with stage 4 cancer, which that can be so misleading.

Nearly all of these women are living with stage 4 breast cancer or have had a primary breast cancer diagnosis. We are mums, daughters, sisters and friends. We campaign, we make memories and we want to keep living.

We’re in the worst club that no one ever wants to join, but through the hardest times we’ve found support, solidarity and love.

But behind these smiles are the very real fears of living with cancer and the uncertainty and of what the future holds.

And for those of us living with HER2 low metastatic breast cancer, being denied access to the life extending treatment #Enhertu makes that reality even more cruel.

Yesterday we stood together with @BreastCancerNow and @METUPUKorg to demand change from @NICEComms @DaiichiSankyoUK @ASTRAZENECAUK and @NHSEngland
We don’t want to spend our precious time campaigning for access to treatments, we want to spend it living.

Please support us by signing and sharing the petition for #EnhertuNow 💗 @andyburnham @YvetteCooperMP

https://t.co/Yom3cPgyYA

[Nickie Brown @Nickie_Brown]

Let’s have a think about what’s happening in Makerfield.

This by election is costing taxpayers £226,208. And it’s happening because a Labour MP chose to step aside to make room for Andy Burnham’s leadership ambitions. He admitted that himself.

But here’s some more interesting figures.

If Burnham wins, he’ll have to resign as Greater Manchester Mayor too. That triggers another election costing taxpayers around £4.7 million.

So in total, nearly £5 million of public money could be spent not on improving services, fixing roads, supporting communities or helping struggling families, but on political career ambitions.

People are struggling with bills, crime, NHS waiting lists and communities being ignored. Yet Westminster politics still seems focused on who climbs the ladder next.

That’s what frustrates people. Not democracy. Political games made to look like democracy.

[Kara Dansky @KDansky]

This video could use about eight zillion more views and likes.

This is not on the girls.

[Sophie Blake @sophieRblake]

I am beyond angry that women with Stage 4 secondary breast cancer are being left to die before their time in this country, while the rest of the world moves forward with life extending treatments.
Women like me are dying because proven cancer drugs are being denied on cost grounds. Friends are gone who should still be here with their families and children. So many of the amazing women featured here, many of them my friends, have now tragically died.
Despite a median life expectancy of just 3–5 years, secondary breast cancer was reclassified by @NICEComms from “severe” to “moderate severe”, reducing access to funding for the latest life-extending treatments and diverting it elsewhere.
Secondary/metastasic breast cancer is one of the biggest killers of women between 35-64, yet patients are denied drugs that are routinely available in other countries. This is a political choice and women are paying with their lives.
#Enhertu is approved in the US, EU, Japan, China, Canada and Israel, and is available in Scotland.
Yet women in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are deemed “not cost effective”.
Why can all these countries provide this treatment while we cannot?
Why are women with secondary breast cancer treated as expendable? @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting @BBCWomansHour @AshleyDalton_MP @UN_Women @UKLabour @NHSuk @METUPUKorg @BreastCancerNow

[HappyinDevon @1542Devon]

@LFC - Breech of data! You just sent me 15 emails from your C/S dept. None for me - Showing private customer data! Please contact me asap

[HappyinDevon @1542Devon]

@beefeatergrill - Breakfast also pretty inedible

[HappyinDevon @1542Devon]

@beefeatergrill - you really need to send the decorators into your Swansea Waterfront place. Like dining in a cellar/dungeon - a dirty one - and the view from the table 🤢

[HappyinDevon @1542Devon]

@beefeatergrill

[HappyinDevon @1542Devon]

@beefeatergrill - just eaten at your Walston Castle restaurant. Really disappointed-like dining in a dungeon. Horrid outlook while eating! Dirty, poorly maintained, deep fried Xmas chicken burger was nasty, no pig in blanket, drink service so slow, not good at all.

[Sam👨‍⚕️🩺✈️ @DocsDoItBetter]

So this is the payslip of a doctor 2 yrs out of medschool working in the #NHS in 2005. A doctor working the same job 2 years out of med school makes the SAME amount of money today. With worse conditions, ++ more patient load & increased complexity! Makes NO sense!😵‍💫😵‍💫 #NHSStrikes

[HappyinDevon @1542Devon]

@BuschGardens Pity last weekend was so poor while you got ready for this promotion? ☹️Not fair that we visited Saturday. 4 rides all day, huge lines, restricted hours, no Gwazi, no shows, unhappy ☹️

[HappyinDevon @1542Devon]

@Delta Yes I do

[HappyinDevon @1542Devon]

@tescomobile Thank you, very happy with outcome on your chat facility. Fantastic service 😊😊😊

[HappyinDevon @1542Devon]

@tescomobile First time we ever forgot to switch off. Didn’t realise for 30 mins, by then £80 of buffer charged 😥

[HappyinDevon @1542Devon]

@tescomobile Yes, in USA but only used wifi 😥😥

[Louise Wigmore @WildSeaMedia]

@TalesoftheCamp1 @mollyedenjames @PascUK How did he think it would be taken? Look at the pull quote - many could just read that and be influenced by it. However it was intended, it’s a low blow when many are in such a precarious position.

[Cliff House Holiday Cottages @CliffHolidays]

A bit of a kick to the head of an industry that is already struggling. Contemptuous behaviour. @kevinhollinrake @Welcome2Yorks

[Debbie Roe @BeckCottageDeb]

@PascUK @TelegraphTravel @LeadbeaterChris @Telegraph @UKHofficial @SWTourAlliance @BandBassoc No consideration given to small tourist businesses devastated by lack of trade this last year. As cottage owners we are reliant on this year’s bookings. Appalling advice given by the Telegraph

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill