Autumn King🟪⬜🟩

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#IStandWithJKRowling
Disillusioned life-long Labour supporter. Woman. Mother.
Getting too old for this nonsense. ♀️

[Autumn King🟪⬜🟩 @AutumnKing_]

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[Legal Feminist @legalfeminist]

@janeclarejones @slightlyatsea @ScotlandSisters @TJVRD @ladyduckpojok @serialsockthief @claricedarrow @theSNP The mis-selling of feminism back to women as a general be-nice-to-everyone movement in which women coincidentally do all the social, emotional and physical labour, is one of the most breathtakingly outrageous bait and switch moves of the 20th century.

[Kara Dansky @KDansky]

@sappholives83 This is maybe one of my favorite expressions of this sentiment. @LGBCourage

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Number 1-ranked female tennis player in the world, Aryna Sabalenka, finishes press conference by saying men shouldn't be in women's sports.

"It's obvious that biologically the men are way stronger than women."

Crazy that the ‘trust the science’ crowd finds this controversial.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Doubtless the Scottish government will tell us that if we think men full of cross sex hormones who get a thrill out of babies latching on to their chemically enhanced chests is blatant child abuse, you are a transphobe.

[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.’

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

@Dukeblogger Protection for women and girls from discrimination, according to every human rights code ever, on the basis of sex.

Fair sport - a category that excludes males - is a mechanism to deliver human rights for women and girls.

[Autumn King🟪⬜🟩 @AutumnKing_]

@lexiescarina A cheek swab is what is looks like. Do you have any idea of the testing regime athletes go through for drug testing?

[Autumn King🟪⬜🟩 @AutumnKing_]

@byjoelanderson How about you start thinking of women and girls as actual human beings instead of just support characters in the life stories of men and boys?

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

Sophie Cunningham responds to criticism over her recent comments to ESPN about wanting to protect women's sports from "biological men."

"I said what I said. I think it's kind of common sense.

When it comes just to protecting young girls in sport and women in sport, I feel very strongly about that. That's why you have Title IX.

That's why you have some of the greats in women's sports. If Title IX women's sports weren't protected, then you wouldn't hear about any type of women in sport.

I have never once said that I hated the trans community."

In her interview with ESPN, Cunningham had said:

"I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men."

[Autumn King🟪⬜🟩 @AutumnKing_]

@jannikholmes Nobody is banned on the basis of the test. A positive result flags a need for further testing. As per the WTA guidelines, there are specific medical conditions that test positive but would not result in a ban.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

@TunedIntoTennis @swiateksg1rl Are you always this nasty? Should I give you the number for my gynecologist? Or anyone else? All female athletes, myself included, took the sex test back in the 70’s and 80’s. Lost many a match thanks to a bad period and PMS. Try again with your misogynist bullshit.

[Autumn King🟪⬜🟩 @AutumnKing_]

@CaraPac46808618 @LevertBurtmore @SVPhillimore But no trans woman ever has or ever will. Why is that?

[Katie Kookaburra ❌❌ 🥸 @K8T1144]

I’ll help you Myles.
You only need ONE MAN to displace 1 woman from gold, 1 woman from silver, 1 woman from bronze, 1 woman from placing and 1 woman from entering the competition at all. It very easy for men to break the model of women’s sport by participating in the WRONG CATEGORY.

Women may also resent things like….having to box men. Weird I know.

Idk maybe fck all the way off and respect that people like Martina Navratiova have a better grasp on this than you…it may even assist your role as a tennis commentator if you stfu up for a second and try listening and not speaking.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

@unchimico @swiateksg1rl Yes I took that test. All women athletes took that test until the test was stopped I think in 2000 Olympics. And now we are restarting it at the Olympic level and WTA and it will hopefully trickle down. There is no reason to have male bodies in female sports.

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

This is going to be a rough thread. Beware. This is a repost based on the Amnesty issue.

As a woman, I’m terrified of rape. It is one of THE most traumatic things that can happen to you. It takes forever to heal from. It can leave you incapacitated. Broken. Destroyed. 1/

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

Hello Jade. I co-founded LGB Alliance in 2019 together with another lesbian, Kate Harris. I was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front in 1970. Kate was once a volunteer fundraiser for Stonewall. I marched for just about every left wing cause from anti Apartheid to abortion rights. I wrote a book about my work volunteering with refugees. I don’t know or want to know any fascists. LGB Alliance is run by and for LGB people. Try not to repeat stuff you read or hear without checking it out. Have a nice day.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Trans-identified men in Edinburgh are fortunate enough to be welcome at the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, which was headed for a while by a trans-identified man who believed, and said publicly, that women who wanted a female-only service were bigots. That same rape centre admitted a male as a client because he called himself non-binary. The man was subsequently convicted for rape.

Beira’s Place was set up by me to provide women in Edinburgh and the Lothians with the female-only service they were being denied. Internal emails between ERRC staff were revealed during an unrelated court case, which showed them to be angry and dismayed that there was now an alternative service for women. One might have thought, reading those emails, that ERRC staff’s priority was the ideological conversion of rape survivors rather than the provision of a service that traumatised women required to feel safe after rape.

Beira’s Place has been exceptionally busy since it opened. We’ve taken on more staff and are currently looking for larger premises. We’ve helped women who’ve admitted that they didn’t want to use the alternative rape centre because of its very loud and public ‘trans women are women’ stance. We are also open to any and all trans-identified women who need support after rape.

In short, you’ll be relieved to hear that the trans-identified men for whom you feel such empathy and compassion aren’t losing out. It was biological women who were being shamed for their entirely legitimate desire for a male-free space. Apparently you’d have preferred that situation to continue, but I think you’ll find that most people, whether male or female, will see that as evidence of your cruelty, not mine.

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

Stephanie Pratt is suing the union UNITE!

This could be an important case ⬇️

Trade unions must protect all their members.

I am supporting this case.

https://t.co/9BHRbiPtlp

[Moira Deeming MP @MoiraDeemingMP]

Just so you know- because I care about your opinion-

I never refused to apologise.
I refused to say I made a false police complaint or that I defamed Matthew Guy.

Both allegations were levelled at me publicly. Guy called a press conference and pretty much told the world I was a liar and a man hater, also not true.

Unlike his, my allegations were made in private, I was afraid of escalations beyond what had happened- but I kept them private & going to the police was a last resort at the direction of the party.

But also my PTSD from being raped is not the main issue- I have serious trauma and fear of about several men in our party due to the last 4 years where they whipped up hatred & violent death and rape threats against me and almost made me homeless… Guy himself has a 4 year history of targeting me with hostility- so there was no world in which he could ever grab me, feel me pulling away, override my strength -causing me pain and fear- and pull me towards his face over and across another man’s lap- and have me consider that ‘friendly’.

Party rules & senior Libs said physical contact is possible assault so go to the police.

Media kept reporting edited snippets of my emotional confidential texts to senior libs taking my complaint- but they are not the same as my sworn police report.

I never accused Guy of “violent” assault or attributed intent to him in my actual police statement- on purpose.

I told the policeman I couldn’t see what he did exactly, or even if he used one arm or two but that I thought it was just one, but it felt like my head was controlled, like some kind of “headlock”- that’s clearly not someone fabricating things out of thin air. It’s someone struggling to describe how something felt.

Ignoring the unique relationship between me & Guy, the targeted severe hostility toward me over the last 4 years in general, that I was fearful of future escalations & that I was told to go to police by the Party- but hyper focusing on one wrong word in my emotional text messages & 20 seconds of poor quality footage has been incredibly bad faith, unfair reporting.

I predicted the police would say there’s not enough here to move forward, and I had planned on going back to the party afterwards and saying, see it’s not a criminal threshold. You need to help me and call off the bullying.

AND- once I finally saw the footage and watched it over and over- I realised there might be another reason for how it all felt to me, even though he loathes me- the footage seemed to suggest that he may have been impacted by alcohol and off balance himself, and gripping me so hard because of that.

And I did the right thing by correcting a term I got wrong and publicly stating I didn’t attribute intent to Guy for what I experienced, in preparation for the meeting Jess had called for when I returned from overseas.

But they cancelled the meeting and called for a disendorsement instead..

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@SimonHButler The time for Schadenfreude may come, but right now I’m thinking of traumatised women potentially self-excluding from Edinburgh and the Lothians’ sole female-only service and dedicated staff receiving abuse as a direct consequence of Amnesty’s actions.

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

https://t.co/VnIJiuyQFD