Angie Hobbs

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

“There are concerns” is just superficial handwaving, and not “debate”. No wonder Allsopp thought she could say stuff freely. She wasn’t really saying anything of substance.

What are those concerns?
How do we address them?
What needs to change?
Who do we speak to?

Because while Allsopp was “debating” by saying she had “concerns”, some of us doing the actual debating were vomiting in bathrooms before facing the IOC, speaking with wobbly legs, being harrassed at work, being reported to our institutes and journals, missing promotions, being reported to the police, having our research shut down, needing hot buttons to campus security and getting colleagues to walk us lectures.

That was - and still is, for many of us - the consequence of actually debating.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Once again, @HumzaYousaf makes his absolute contempt for women and their rights clear. Women were excluded from his nonsensical hate crime law, now he introduces a 'misogyny law' designed to also protect men. 1/2
https://t.co/ThZV1boNWm

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Trans-identified men have sent violent threats to women but the likes of Beth Douglas (attached) now receive double protection from Yousaf: for his so-called gender identity, and for also being, in the eyes of the Scottish government, a woman. 2/2
https://t.co/98yBu7UXmD

[Sarah Avery @1962Marston]

It's a BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE, and that's a FACT.

JK says it far better than i ever could..

Born a Male

Die a Male

The Skeletons of the Male and Female bodies ARE different.. you can NOT change that..

Bury a bloke in a dress, dig him up in 100 years, his Skeleton will tell us it's a Male!

Simple as! 👇

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.

I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.

Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.

Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.

Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.

I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.

I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

[Darya Safai MP @SafaiDarya]

When I was detained in Tehran in 1999 in the ayatollahs' prison,
I could never have imagined that one could also be imprisoned in the West for the same reason.

The day before yesterday, it was announced in the United States that they have a comprehensive plan to fight Islamophobia.
What might this national plan entail?
Criminalising "Islamophobia" and making it punishable?

Here in Belgium too, UNIA wants to do the same and as a member of parliament, I have been trying to stop this for years with debates in parliament. More and more people are trying to silence people who criticise Islam.
However, it is a fundamental right to be able to criticise religions and political views.

When I was detained in a prison of Ayatollah Khamenei in 1999 at 23 for criticising the way I was marginalised as a woman by Islam as a second-rate gender, I never imagined that I could ever face a prison sentence in the West because of the same criticism.

Why should I not be allowed to say that many aspects in Islamic law violate human dignity and fundamental rights? Will I be prosecuted for Islamophobia because of that? Where would that leave my civil rights and freedoms? I did not flee an Islamic country only to lose my freedom of speech in this country, because of such a thoughtless proposal.

Islam is a religion that has not yet experienced enlightenment and many discriminatory rules from thousands of years ago, institutionalised in this religion, are still in force.
Moreover, Islamism is a pernicious ideology that wants to conquer the world.

In the Muslim world, there are many critics who openly criticise it, even if they have to pay with their lives, because Sharia law is not tolerant.

In the West, under the guise of religious freedom, the radical Muslims try to further perpetuate their discriminatory views, especially against women. And anyone who criticises them is called polarising, stigmatising and Islamophobic.

And sometimes they can get right with some "progressives", who themselves, in the not so distant past, stood up against certain rules of another religion.
But now, suddenly, they are no longer critics of gender inequality or so many other discriminatory rules of Islam.
Because of their cultural relativism, they are abandoning millions of women and young girls, including here with us.

While Western civilisation waits for "enlightened" Islam and it is believed that the change must come from the Muslims themselves, some of them abandon the reforming critical eyes and silence them because it is allegedly "stigmatising".

Maybe they believe in miracles, but all I see in this way is an evolution towards a dark future.

The West urgently needs a wake-up call to ensure the future of our posterity.

That should be our mission.

The left picture is a picture of me in Iran. The right photo is who I am today, free from the yoke of Islamic oppression.

[Sarah Vine @WestminsterWAG]

‘There’s way more of them than there are of us’.
So does that mean we are just going to give in and hand our country over to people who support the actions of terrorists?
Unbelievable. Armistice day is just around the corner. Let’s not forget how appeasement played out last time.

[Sarah Vine @WestminsterWAG]

Hamas is a feminist issue… https://t.co/FIf4mHMLcR

[The Open University Conservative Club @OUConClub]

🚨POLL🚨

The UK Government has blocked Scotland's gender reform bill in an unprecedented intervention. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Do you support the government's decision to lay a Section 35 order to prevent the legislation being sent to The King for Royal Assent?

#SCOTLAND #GenderRecognitionReform

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The Labour Party has a woman problem 
✍️@RosieDuffield1 @UnHerd
https://t.co/1KR7ccl0XZ

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

Thank you to @EllaRobertaFdn Ella's amazing mum, Rosamund, for all her work in Parliament and internationally. I support #EllasLaw and know that many colleagues will too. Breathing #CleanAir should be a right for all, especially children.

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

Being shouted down in the Chamber by @UKLabour men who clearly don't want women to speak up for our rights to single sex spaces. How very progressive #Section35

[Sadbh (pronounced "Sive" to rhyme with five.). @Sadbh_like_Sive]

6 - And the forgotten women in prisons who end up pinned down under Bernard the sweaty rapist because they didn't pay their TV licence.
And the victims in the court who have to call Bernard "she".
And the folk reading the papers who will be told about this "woman's" crimes.

[💚🤍💜Ann Arbor 💚🤍💜 @GGreengage]

Where have we come to when a man, I don’t care if he’s elderly or not, is hanging around the gates of a primary school, dressed in a young girl’s school uniform, and we’re advised to leave him alone, and stop sending his image around the internet, BY THE POLICE!

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

"I will never, ever forgive these people."

This caller missed his father's funeral - where he was due to be a pallbearer - because of the Just Stop Oil protestors on the M25.

Shame on them.

[Annette Hardy 🇺🇦 @Annette1Hardy]

Well done, @JustStop_Oil. Our consultant surgeon friend is stuck on the M25 right now and unable to get to his clinic which he’ll now have to cancel. Do you even care about his poor cancer patients?

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

You have to hand it to Misogyny. It's managed to relaunch, rebrand and market itself as new, progressive, modern, inclusive and 'kind'.
The thing with us pesky feminist women is that we still recognise it for the centuries old thing that it is - as we always have and always will.

[Sarah Summers @SarahSurviving]

I support trans people having human rights. I do not support male people claiming women’s rights.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Planning permission was refused for 23 solar farms between January 2021 and July 2022.

Farms which could have produced enough energy to power 150,000 homes. https://t.co/prYb09ZLef