Amanda 💜🤍💚

Nature lover. Cat lover. Adult human female 💜🤍💚. You can't cancel me, I'm retired. Solidarity with Jews around the UK 🇮🇱

[Celia Hammond @CeliaHammond]

Dumped like rubbish in the sweltering heat.
Three tiny kittens were dumped in a plastic carrier on one of the hottest days we've had this year.

On Tuesday 26th May, just before our phone lines closed, calls started coming in from worried residents in East London. Photos had been shared in a local WhatsApp group showing three kittens abandoned inside a clear plastic backpack carrier on a housing estate.

Honestly, when we saw the photos, our hearts sank. The carrier was sitting in the heat, and the kittens were squashed together and trapped inside.

Without hesitation, Amanda, one of our dedicated rescue volunteers of more than 20 years, dropped everything she was doing and rushed to the scene.

Just 30 minutes later, the kittens were safely with us.

They arrived overheated and lethargic, but thanks to the quick actions of the local community and our rescue team, they were given the chance they so desperately needed.

Today, we're delighted to say that not only have they recovered, but they are thriving.

Meet the Little Lads ❤️ Napoleon, Prince and Tom.

These three boys are around three months old, full of character, and completely devoted to one another. They eat together, sleep together, play together and seek comfort in one another's company.

Since arriving with us, they have been fully vet-checked, neutered, and are now ready to begin the next chapter of their lives.

After everything they have endured together, we would love to see them adopted as a trio. We know finding a home for three kittens together is a big ask, but we also know that somewhere out there is a family willing to open their hearts to three little brothers who have so much love to give.

Please share their story and help us find their forever family.🐾
#cats #kitten #kittenrescue #neuter #CatsLover

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Mr. Davies,

For a brief, fleeting 10-15 years, WE ALMOST HAD IT. The years between 1998-2012, roughly, we were very close, when no one really gave a damn either way. I remember it distinctly. An enormous shift in attitude’s & acceptance had occurred, after the horrors of being gay in the 80’s to the early-mid 90’s.

I was NOT alone in feeling this, even amongst the upper echelons of the ‘Gay Mafia’ I used to hang around with said the same.

The original aim was EQUALITY & we were, more or less, there.

Then along came identity politics, gender ideology & Que*r Theory, which screwed everything up.

Stonewall’s CEO, Ruth Hunt, said in 2014/15, & I quote, that their shift in focus was “known to be controversial, that it would be difficult, that people would LOSE by that & that herself & the staff thought THAT WAS A PRICE WORTH PAYING.” In other words, they KNEW this would receive pushback, yet were unwilling to listen or engage with those of us who had serious concerns.

A subsequent Stonewall CEO, Nancy Kelley, called lesbians “sexual racists” for not including men in their dating pool.

Michael Cashman called for those who had questions, predominantly women, about this shift to be “defecated upon” & there was “no debate” to be had.

And NOW look where we are.

Look around at the utter mess we’re in.

If you’re going to “look at yourself as an idiot”, at least be aware of WHY you might feel that way & what part you, yourself, played in it.

You cannot cheerlead & encourage an ideology that has caused so much destruction & damage, & then pretend to be flummoxed as to the reasons WHY everything has got so much worse.

Just so we’re clear…

[Aja ♀️🇬🇧 @AjaTheEmpress]

@salltweets @PassionatePetes @AnnaCody04 Im reminded of this.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

My daughter is about to turn 4. My dream is that when she is 18, we’re having a drink & I’m telling her what I was doing for the first 5 years of her life & she is laughing saying, “thats the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard” and I can say, “You can laugh because we won.”
We will never take women’s rights for granted.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Yes, period huts are back. Because girls just aren’t embarrassed and awkward enough about menstruation.

But what happens when the trans-identified boy feels excluded from the period hut? What if he feels less of a girl? Perhaps it would be easier just to tell girls to stay home.

[♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ @fem_mb]

I just got a desperate phone call from an inmate at the Maine Women's prison. She is being pressured by the administration to recant her claims of abuse by trans-identifying double murderer Andrew/Andrea Balcer.

These women need help. @SenatorCollins @Repksmith @DAGToddBlanche

[Barry Wall @HeadWarriorTWM]

Absolutely essential read in this current climate.

Please share widely and respond with comments, this is not getting the airing it deserves.

When, when will deal with "trans" as the public emergency it is?

The court heard that on each occasion, he contacted the generic email address for the school and threatened to carry out deadly attacks supposedly in response to the treatment of transwomen.

He described this treatment as oppression and tyranny...

“I am on my way to the school with a revolver and a machete and I’m going to shoot and stab all of your girls. You terfs are going to learn to stop mocking, deadnaming and misgendering transwomen like me. If anyone attempts to stop me, they will be shot and I will release a blood agent into the school which will poison you.”

He went on to reference the tyranny and oppression of transwomen and threatened to shoot anyone who tried to stop him, adding that the only way to stop him would be for all girls and women in Southport and Merseyside to publicly apologise.

@JChimirie66677 @SexMattersOrg @ProtectTeach @MartinDaubney @GBNEWS @ForWomenScot @WomensRightsNet @ProtectTeach @SafeSchools_UK @OurDutyUK @BayswaterSG @JuliaHB1 @Iromg @danwootton @NickBuckleyMBE

Look to the next message for links to the story in the Southport lead where the above quotes come form and the BBC where they remove all references to Trans.

IT IS ALL RELATED.

[🇨🇦 Women Exist ♀ @Women___Exist]

People are people, and most don't conform to regressive, limiting sex-role stereotypes for behaviour and/or clothing colours or styles.
That's normal for humans.
None of that means their bodies are wrong or that they should have medical interventions disrupting their healthy systems.
There is no such thing as "transgender people". It's the commodification of the human body, selling people a brand: styles, hormones, surgeries, control of others' ideas and speech... basically selling them the idea that they are unique and fashionable while making them the product.

[Amanda 💜🤍💚 @BarlingAmanda]

@sappholives83 All of the above 🙂

[Sarasaurus 🎗️🇺🇦 @sheebadigeebies]

@glosswitch @dilanesper Where do they think elite athletes come from? Girls that get pushed out by boys with identities at grassroots never become Olympians.

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

@dilanesper I think you need to check whether there's other stuff teenage girls should hand over to teenage boys to make them feel better. Now you've decided girls' feelings aren't "super-important" you don't want to miss anything.

[Trevor Phillips @TrevorPTweets]

My thoughts on the @EHRC guidance laid yesterday; this is not about non-existent "rights". It is about the safety of women - mothers, sisters, wives, daughters. We men need to hear their voices. Virginia Woolf : "Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes".

My intro on @TimesRadio yesterday:

Where I live there are two different routes to and from the tube station. One, let’s call it Acacia Avenue, is quiet and residential. The other, London Road, is a busy major route with lots of traffic. At all times of the day, I automatically head for Acacia Road. It’s just much nicer.

The women in my family, on the other hand, will never willingly make that walk after dark. They live with an anxiety that most men find it hard to imagine, and frankly, rarely think about unprompted.

Last year 739,000 women were sexually assaulted in Britain. Virtually all such assaults - nine out of ten - are perpetrated by men. One in four women have been attacked at some time in their lives. Acacia Avenue is exactly the sort of place in which most women fear that they become vulnerable, and they are right.

As the author Virginia Woolf once wrote " Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes".

I think this is the right context in which to understand the furore over the guidance being laid today by the government, over the meaning of the words man and woman when it comes to providing services and facilities in workplaces.

Many men think this is about a rather arcane dispute about who gets to use what loo. For their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters, it isn’t.

In a previous life, as Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, I had a hand in writing this country’s equality laws, in particular the 2010 Equality Act. It never occurred to any of us that there could be any confusion or dispute over the meaning of the words man and woman. But it has taken a decade of campaigning, a Supreme Court judgement and now hundreds of pages of guidance to settle the issue.

This is not about so called trans rights, which are completely unaffected by this guidance, since no-one has ever had the right to walk into a changing room reserved for teenage girls.

What it does mean is that women and girls are guaranteed the protection they deserve, and that their safety, which we spent half a decade drafting law to ensure, is protected.

But the whole business illuminates some serious issues in our politics.

First that many of our institutions, in spite of the fact that they always knew what the right thing to do was, decided to ignore the fears of their women customers and employees, under pressure from noisy pressure groups. Instead, the people who were supposed to be the grown ups behaved as though the law said what campaigners wanted it to say, rather than what it actually said. They settled for what they hoped would be a quiet life.

In a democracy, there’s little point in Parliament deciding anything if the law is then made an ass by activists intimidating bosses in companies, schools, universities and the media into doing something different.

Second, at the heart of the campaign to undermine the Equality Act is an idea that we specifically rejected in 2010, so called self-identification. That is to say, that it should be up to the individual to decide whether they have what’s called a protected characteristic - are you male or female, are you black or white. The problem is that self-ID would destroy the operation of any law against discrimination.

Look, it would almost certainly have been to my advantage as a young man to self-identify as a handsome, white public schoolboy. None of those things is true of me. And at various points I am pretty sure it’s been to my disadvantage. It is certainly statistically likely to have been to my disadvantage.

But according to the logic of those who say that self-ID should be the rule and that anyone should be able to decide for themselves whether they are male or female, black or white or Asian, were I to complain about racial discrimination, it would be difficult for anyone prove that I’d been discriminated against because of my race since anybody to whom I’d lost out could just tell the courts that they too were black.

I know that sounds like Alice in Wonderland but you can google the case where a chap, both of whose parents are white, insisted he should get money from the Arts Council because he so identified with the black struggle that he considered himself black, and everyone should accept his point of view. In the United States and Brazil exactly such outlandish claims have been made and people rewarded to the disadvantage of people actually born into minority families.

I have even been told about firms who, when reporting their gender pay gaps have put men who just happen to like wearing dresses at weekends - nothing wrong with that, let me be clear - into the female column and told their women employees that they really haven’t got anything to moan about because statistically they are paid equally, and they should get back in their box.

So today’s guidance isn’t just another tiresome chapter in culture wars. It is , I hope, a halt to the efforts to undermine one of the most important pieces of legislation on the statute book, by people who, for their own reasons, would prefer us to be living in the 1950s world of Mad Men.

[Rachel Rooney @RooneyRachel]

A shout-out to Ewan Hoyle’s mum 😁

[Helen S Fields @Helen_Fields]

I read a comment on this thread yesterday (no credit to me) that said…why does the male relative have enough cash to buy the child bride but not enough decency to help out financially to stop his relatives from starving. Whoever made that comment should be replacing the journalist who wrote this piece.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Because we live in a country where mocking religion is legal. All religion. Including Christianity, which has been mocked, satirised and lampooned in Britain for centuries. Life of Brian. Jerry Springer the Opera. Two Rotten Popes. The tradition of irreverence toward religious institutions is as British as the common law that protects it.

Islam is not exempt from that tradition and nor should it be. The moment any religion becomes legally protected from satire and mockery in Britain is the moment Britain ceases to be a free country. That principle applies equally to all faiths. The right to offend is the foundation on which every other right rests. Remove it for one religion and you have created a hierarchy of faiths with legal protection for some and not others. That is not tolerance but a blasphemy law by another name.

Worth noting that in several of the countries whose flags appeared at the other march taking place today, mocking Islam is not a social question. It is a criminal one. In some it carries the death penalty. The three French women on that stage were exercising a freedom that does not exist in those countries. The question worth asking is which march was defending that freedom and which was marching alongside movements that would remove it.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

The person who made this would be happy to see it shared as widely as possible.

The world can now see the truth of “trans inclusion.”

[Amanda 💜🤍💚 @BarlingAmanda]

@melanochomical

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

Let me tell you, then, Jessie, why I’m a TERF.

See, there’s a man in California who’s doing life for a third strike armed robbery. His first two strikes came from kidnapping young women on two known occasions, and forcing them to fellate him.

Mr. Carroll is a 6’2, 250 lb, fully intact man with a beard. He doesn’t take estrogen or wear women’s clothing. He doesn’t use a woman’s name. Nevertheless, the state of CA agrees with Carroll that he is actually a woman, and he was transferred to a CA women’s prison, where he was given a female cellmate.

He impregnated her.

Technically it was rape, because inmates can’t legally consent, but that didn’t stop the prison officials from giving him another female cellmate. Whom he also raped.

When this victim reported him, he counter-accused. She - all of 5’1 and 120 lbs - went to solitary, and he — 6’2 and 250 pounds — got a third female cellmate.

Whom he also raped.

Mr. Carroll is back in the men’s prison he should never have left, and it only cost three women the injury of being raped for the state to figure that out. You claim to care about poor women — do you care about the incarcerated woman impregnated during her prison term? They’ll take her baby when it’s born, too — so the trauma affects a second generation.

This is not an isolated incident. Incarcerated women are incredibly vulnerable to sexual abuse, even when they aren’t knowingly locked in cells with a convicted male sex offender whom guards know raped his last two cellmates. Oh — and to make matters worse, the judge has decreed that the victims must referred to Mr. Carroll as “she.”

You claim to be a feminist, and yet you have turned your back on perhaps the most vulnerable population of women in the Western world. You claim to be a feminist, yet you abandon other women to suffer at the hands of violent men, brushing aside their pain with a quip about toilets and genitals.

Genitals become extremely important when someone is forcing his way into yours.

Ask me how I know.

[Duncan @DuncanHenry78]

I’d just like to say there are a lot of men who know this is wrong and say nothing.

In my experience they say nothing because they feel like they are going to be yelled at for having an opinion.

My advice is this.

Yes. You are.

You are going to be yelled at for having an opinion as a man. You are also going to be yelled at for doing nothing and not speaking up when you see injustice happening - and do nothing, when you could do something.

So in short - you are going to be yelled at. Make it count for something. Because right now the men who are doing and saying the most are those that don’t care about being yelled at *because they don’t care full stop*.

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

I’ve had this post “permanently removed in the EU” for “illegal or harmful speech”.

Someone is feeling fragile. It didn’t get that much attention. Would be terrible if it got more.

I’ve appealed.

[latsot @latsot]

It'll be an early morning for a lot of TERFs tomorrow.

The result of @salltweets' appeal against the Giggle vs Tickle case is due at 5am on Friday UK time.

Let's hope sanity prevails for the sake of Sall and for all women in Australia.

Whatever the result, Sall is an absolute heroine, a true inspiration and one hell of a fighter.