CaitieGortonPhillips

Ex "Swiss army knife" of Scottish rowing. Now Mama 2 the hobbits & fairly hard work to the long suffering @chrisp_gp. I have fortitude.

[CaitieGortonPhillips @CGP2024]

@amalaekpunobi Cis implies those within that definition adhere to gender stereotypes & that they are homogeneous. It’s damaging because it’s regressive in respect of equality& inclusion in education, work, professions, sport & society. The focus on gender instead of sex is a misleading ruse.

[Caterina 🌈 @Caterin00138072]

This is long overdue! If you think @parkrunUK should respect the law please share! Let’s get female categories protected for women only!

@mara_yamauchi @Sport_England @sharrond62 @runthinkwrite @AjaTheEmpress @DerryBanShee @ForWomenScot @WomensRightsNet @jo_bartosch @Martina

[CaitieGortonPhillips @CGP2024]

@Glinner What a show from her. Being one sex or another doesn’t put you in a box, or mean that you can only do certain things. Her acceptance of gender stereotypes as truth & biological sex as bigotry is fantastically bigoted & regressive. If only I could enjoy this paradox.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

“Winning is way more Fun than Fun is Fun.”

We all have to make choices. Winners choose to work when others don’t.

Commit to the task at hand.
Commit to a winning mindset.

[Marieke Hoogwout @mariekehoogwout]

@BethFisherSport @mara_yamauchi Beth, how can women talk about protecting fair and safe sports for women and girls, if we are prohibited from speaking the truth: that people with male bodies (men) are participating in the female category, and that that is unfair and unsafe bc male advantage?

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

Why does boycotting the men’s cricket team outrage men, but banning women from all sports doesn’t? A lot of Afghan men passionately defend the cricket team, yet we hear no such uproar from the same people about the bans on women in sports under Taliban in Afghanistan.

[CaitieGortonPhillips @CGP2024]

@JulianClary I saw this in Nice in September if you need?

[CaitieGortonPhillips @CGP2024]

@gavinesler Just stunning that he can accept that lower growth was a result of Brexit but not have the appetite or balls to start addressing it himself. How rich or criminally stupid must he be?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@radfemy It never seems to occur to them that there's no bigger indicator of not being a woman than trying to bully people into agreeing you're a woman.

[CaitieGortonPhillips @CGP2024]

@helenstaniland @bullrike @amnesty Shocking shocking shocking.
And I think we can all guess how many Afghani men identify as women within a Taliban Afghanistan.

[Mara Yamauchi @mara_yamauchi]

If we’ve no idea what a woman is, then no point in having the female category & everyone should compete together. But then the males like Hubbard, Thomas, Semenya, Khelif et al would win & earn nothing. So the F category must stay - purely to validate & enrich some males. 👎😡

[Ross Tucker @Scienceofsport]

An incredibly impressive performance to act ignorant, confused and stupefied, while simultaneously lying through your teeth about the thing you sincerely pretend many people haven't explained to you for the last six years. It's as if a hall of mirrors came to life.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Energy is contagious.

Great teams have positive energy givers who exude confidence in their teammates.

You can see it and you can feel it.

Be an energy giver for your team!

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

You may have heard, at work, college or school, that everyone has a “gender identity”. It isn’t true. Every woman, man, girl, boy has a unique personality, which likely includes both traditional “masculine” & “feminine” traits. All of which is perfectly fine.
Resist gender dogma!

[CaitieGortonPhillips @CGP2024]

Yes, until the issue affects men, governing bodies are comfortable in eroding women’s rights and women’s sport. It’s a disgrace. The mixed races in rowing issue has revealed the ludicrous position we are in and the hypocrisy and farcical disingenuousness.

[WigtownBookFestival @WigtownBookFest]

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
- Neil Gaiman, American Gods

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

By forcing the word ‘cis’ upon us, it allows them to make the claim that there are different versions of male and female.

There aren’t.

[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.

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

Tigger ran up and down in front of them. Sometimes he bounced into Rabbit and sometimes he didn’t. As they got higher, the mist got thicker, so that Tigger kept disappearing, and then when you thought he wasn’t there, there he was again, saying, “I say, come on,” ~A.A.Milne #mist