Mrs T

[Mrs T @247forever]

Why? The silence by the Western media is indeed deafening. 15 Christians martyred this past Sunday - 13 a fortnight ago. 11 others beheaded on Christmas Day, and on it goes..... https://t.co/s5fxW9YWNH

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🧵I haven’t told this story before but given the way in which the government is behaving, I feel compelled to do so.

Last year, I was, essentially, forced out of the Civil Service.

Up until July of 2024, I was a Civil Servant in the Home Office, where I had spent the previous 4 years working in the field of Public Inquiries (which is why I feel so strongly about the Labour government’s refusal to order an Inquiry into the gang-rape scandal plaguing our country).

Many reading will know that I have been a strong advocate against sterilising and mutilating children in the name of gender ideology. However, I always kept my work life and personal life completely separate, in order to ensure that I could carry out my work as a Civil Servant with integrity and neutrality. I never discussed my advocacy at work. I never mentioned my Civil Service role in my personal advocacy and campaigning. I had even specifically sought guidance from the Cabinet Office as to whether anything in Civil Service policy prohibited my advocacy - no response in the affirmative ever came.

This is in contrast to many of my colleagues, who bring their activism into the workplace. My line manager, for example, had pronouns in her email signature, along with a rainbow flag and ‘allyship’ slogan.

However, when the Inquiry I had been on secondment to concluded, I noticed strange things happening. I was told that my previous role no longer existed. Promises to move me to another Inquiry were reneged upon. I was given work to do, only for it to disappear into a vacuum, never to be seen again. I was subsequently told I was ‘at risk of redundancy’.

This was confusing and unsettling, as the Inquiry I led had performed extremely well (finishing on time and under budget, which is rare for Public Inquiries).

Then, a few days before Christmas 2023, I was told, with no prior indication, that there would be a formal investigation into a few posts I made on X back in July 2023.

The posts in question related to me raising concerns about members of the Labour Party and their fanaticism when it came to gender ideology and the risks to child safeguarding as a result. For example, Keir Starmer saying that women could have a penis and Labour supporting self-ID for men who claim they are women.

I spent the next 6 months being dragged through an investigation.

During the investigation, after putting in a Subject Access Request for my personal data, I discovered, to my horror, how the investigation had come about.

The office of the Permanent Secretary had instructed the ‘Professional Standards Unit’ to go digging into the private social media accounts of certain members of staff, including mine. Colleagues were tasked with snooping through my X account. This was a fishing expedition.

At this point, it was increasingly looking like a Labour government would be formed following the next General Election. It became clear to me that the Home Office were trying to shut down employees who could be seen as a ‘problem’ for Labour. Tellingly, during one of my hearings, the investigator asked me something along the lines of: “If we get a Labour Home Secretary soon, how do you think they will feel reading your posts on X? Do you not think they might be offended?”

Even then, the establishment were gleefully gearing up for Labour.

At the end of the investigation, I was warned that if I continued with my personal advocacy around child safeguarding that I would be charged with gross misconduct and could lose my job.

This was not something I could afford. I jumped before I was pushed and agreed to a voluntary redundancy.

I wish I could say I was the only Civil Servant shut down for having the wrong opinions. Make no mistake, it is a relief to now be free of it altogether.

However, what this experience taught me is that we have an activist and ideologically minded Civil Service, enthralled to Labour, content to undermine free speech at every turn.

This should worry us all.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

The TERFs are right.

The TERFs have always been right.

The TERFs will always be right.

And it’s because the TERFs have only ever told the truth.

Gender ideology is nonsense, no human changes sex, men are not women, telling children they’re in the wrong body is child abuse.

[𝕄𝕖 🫟 𝕄𝕪𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕗 🫟 𝕆𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 @MeMyselfOnline]

A few weeks ago, the company I work for issued compulsory "training", including statements such as:

“Remember, if Cathi is trans, saying ‘she used to be a man’ isn't accurate. Trans women are women, and they've never not been a woman”.

I shit you not.

So I've waited till today, when the company hosts one of its quarterly meetings with all the top brass across several sites, in person and online, to read out a statement on exactly what I thought of this “training”.

I made reference to the precedent set when @MForstater won her appeal in June 2021, and levelled an accusation to the entire company that they are indirectly, and possibly directly, discriminating against all its employees under the protected characteristic of their freedom of belief.

You could have heard a pin drop. At first.

The result?

HR is now bricking it. The training is no longer compulsory. They're taking matters under review, and I've had so many hugs and messages off support from my female colleagues. My boss shook my hand.

It isn't easy speaking up. I've been very nervous till today. But as @ThePosieParker keeps telling me: if not me, then who? If not now, then when?

I think it was important that someone saw a gay man stand up and defend the women he works with, and send a message that this absurd nonsense has no place being forced upon us.

I've sure I've made plenty of enemies at work today and pissed numerous people off.

And I'm glad. I'd do it all again in a heartbeat because it's simply the right thing to do.

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

Iraq is planning to reduce the legal marriage age from 15 to 9.

The proposal is based on Sharia Law, which allows Muslim men to marry girls as young as 6.

Under Sharia, every girl in this photo would be married by now. But we’re wrong to criticise their paedophilic ideology?

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

If you weigh someone to enter a weight category, if you check date of birth for age categories why is it impossible to check sex for a sex category? It’s not of course. The IOC just don’t care if a female gets hurt or looses because a male is in the competition. That is the truth

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

The IOC’s attitude to the significance of sex differences in sport is simply unserious. Their expressed view is that “athletes should be allowed to compete in the category that best aligns with their self-determined gender identity”. @thetimes view

https://t.co/xk1nOFotqC

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Not a single child has ever been born from a male. Is Thomas Bach really expecting us to believe he doesn’t know what a woman is? And if he really doesn’t he most definitely should not be president of the IOC. Bach must Go

[Maia Poet🦎 @thepeacepoet99]

Repost if you think we should let girls play with toy trucks without turning them into medical patients for life.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The use of puberty blockers has been halted in Scotland.

Our government chose a nice, quiet news day to slip out the announcement that they'll be implementing the recommendations of the #CassReview.

[Biology Rules Ok @OkayBiology]

"I will never be silenced by them, I will never stop fighting. There's a lot of women out there who need someone to give them a voice"
Kemi Badenoch
#IstandwithJKRowling #IstandwithRosieDuffield

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

"Doctors at Scotland’s gender clinic for children worked in fear of being deemed “transphobic” if they raised concerns about the way patients were treated, a whistleblower said."

https://t.co/zUMbTt26nN

[Ultra Anne Bonny @AnneBonnysKat]

I wonder what group of males in which PR company dreamt this horror up? Reducing female athletes to pornified sexual objects.
Female sport through the male gaze. Absolutely disgraceful & disrespectful. This does *nothing* for female sport.
@TeamGB
#strongisbeautiful

[Harvey Jeni @GappyTales]

If this sign goes up in my workplace I will be removing it and sticking it on the men's door.

It is men who need to address any hostility they feel towards gender nonconformity in other men. Forcing women to change in the presence of males is an abusive workplace practice.

[Cillian @CilComLFC]

Genuine question…

What kind of person wants a child to read this?

[Biology Rules Ok @OkayBiology]

Woman explains biological reality to posh Labour man.
#FollowTheScience 🫣

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

V unclear language from the BBC here. This rapist wasn't a woman "living as a man" at the time of the rape: he's a man who raped a woman, and afterwards decided to identify as female. (Only men can commit rape under UK law.)

https://t.co/6Okx6SP1Ap

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

Two weeks ago I got a call from the school to complain about my son.

I was told he was refusing to use the correct pronouns of a girl he has known as a girl, since primary school, who had now legally changed her gender and name.

I was also told that he wasn't being respectful of her new name, or her religion.

On further discussion, this girl is a practicing Satanist, who now has a Muslim name, and identifies as a boy.

My son, a Roman Catholic, is expected to lie, and have respect for a Satanist.

I'll leave you to guess what I told them. Needless to say, he will not be compelled to speak untruths or have any respect for Satanism.

The school system has gone absolutely insane.

[Amy E. Sousa, MA Depth Psychology @KnownHeretic]

Reminder: gender dysphoria is a bogus diagnosis based on the insane premise that one's mentally conceived identity might be wrong for one's body. The diagnosis was specifically created to be able to bill insurance for unnecessary drugs and cosmetic surgeries and to create lifelong medical patients.

Below are the diagnostic criteria for the DSM-5 diagnosis of gender dysphoria. 5 out of the 8 criteria have to do with the rejection of sex role stereotypes. Kids who reject sexist stereotypes are normal kids.

Kids who receive judgment, criticism, or harassment for rejecting stereotypes and are therefore "distressed," should be given tools to critique the sexist standards of culture. These kids should not be told their distress is evidence of having a mental condition that proves a need to harm their healthy body with damaging drugs and plastic surgery.

Being put into a narrow box is uncomfortable. Kids who feel uncomfortable with society's boxes are having a natural response. When a child is diagnosed with gender dysphoria for being sex stereotype nonconforming it pathologizes their natural response and strips them of the agency to critique the narrow sex roles prescribed by culture. Instead, kids should be empowered to accept themselves fully without rejecting their body.

The remaining 3 criteria are behaviors that are typical of kids who have experienced sexual abuse. If a child rejects their genitals for any reason the immediate follow-up of any mental health professional should be to investigate for possible sexual abuse. Body dissociation is a trauma response and should not be naturalized or encouraged.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Transgender guidance scrapped for NI primary schools https://t.co/J7ZB90JC5o