Cat Astrophe 💚🤍💜

Adult Human Female. Maker Of Things. Friend To Hedgehogs. Believer In Biology. Little Whinging Fucker. Chromosomes: XX

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The way your fellow men do or don't perceive you is an all-male issue. Setting aside the fact that the vast majority of female victims of SA indicate they'd rather receive counselling in a female-only space, there is zero evidence that trans-identified men present less of a threat to women and girls than the non-trans-identified variety. In fact, there are proportionately more trans-identified men in jail in the UK currently for sexual offences than among the general male prison population.

That statistic doesn't mean I think you personally are a predator. What it does prove is that there are at least as many predators among trans-identified men as among men who don't identify as trans.

If you and fellow trans-identified men want a space where no other men go, you're free to create one. Nobody wants you raped. Nobody wants you killed or harmed in any way. But women's spaces are for women. Your inability to grasp that you aren't entitled to those spaces because you don't 'identify' as a man is not female rape survivors' problem. Seeking to breach vulnerable women's boundaries does not mark you out as one of us. On the contrary, your arguments are typical of a certain kind of male: one who thinks the satisfaction of his own needs and desires is far more important than the harm he may be causing to women.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If those outraged that services built by women, for women, aren’t including trans-identified men, they’re free to do what women had to do: create services for that specific demographic. But they don’t seem to want to do that, do they? And I wonder why. 3/X

[Cat Astrophe 💚🤍💜 @CatAstroTERF]

@HazelAppleyard_

[Progressive Misogyny @JustMisogyny]

THIS WEEK IN TRANS

- Women's charity says men can apply for women-only job

- Man races against disabled young women in the Paralympics

- Man pretending to be woman complains about women pretending to be men pretending to be women

- Mridul Wadhwa still has a job

It's Monday.

[Cat Astrophe 💚🤍💜 @CatAstroTERF]

@HazelAppleyard_ Oh, this is truly, TRULY excellent. ♡

[Cat Astrophe 💚🤍💜 @CatAstroTERF]

@HazelAppleyard_ Breaking news: Man Wears Suit

[Cat Astrophe 💚🤍💜 @CatAstroTERF]

@jk_rowling You bought breakfast for 1139 people? You are a good egg. And bacon.

I would love to know which woman you hate. No breakfast for her.

Welcome back! You are just in time to stop the world from collapsing. Hop to it!

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

I don't think the question is ever really 'what is a woman'. Everyone knows what a woman is. It's whether women are allowed to have anything at all for themselves.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

The sun will rise tomorrow and men still will not be women.

[Cat Astrophe 💚🤍💜 @CatAstroTERF]

@SwipeWright Aww. I don't own a flowery dress or dangly earrings. How will anyone ever know that I am a woman? 😢

[Senator Claire Chandler @SenatorClaire]

"At the Paris Olympics, the world has seen what happens when you put the safety of women in the hands of fools who say it’s impossible to know what a woman is."

[Cat Astrophe 💚🤍💜 @CatAstroTERF]

@JamesMelville 11, but you could get away with 7 with a bit of extra butter on those top corners.

[Cat Astrophe 💚🤍💜 @CatAstroTERF]

@Jebadoo2 Get 👏 These 👏 Poor 👏 Children 👏 Some 👏 Therapy 👏
They don't need to destroy their bodies. They need help to accept them.

[Rethinking Eve @RethinkingEve]

Having an opening ceremony with vulgar sexualization and men parodying women & then issuing an apology to Christians & not women 😵‍💫

Sponsoring a child rapist Steven van de Velde in volleyball

While uniforming women's volleyball team in bikinis

And justifying men Imane Khelif & Lin Yu-Ting boxing against women - Angela Carini / Luca Anna Hamori

Where is the moral code of honor & respect?

Or is it the moral code of men subjugating & literally beating up women for sport & entertainment?

"Women’s sport is hated because it’s women using their bodies for purposes other than sex, sexuality and reproduction.

Women’s sport is so important precisely because it is not sexual, and in a culture that reduces women’s value to sexuality, it’s a powerful rebellion."

Disobeying feminine social scripts in this way cannot remain unpunished. #HBerrelli

[Cat Astrophe 💚🤍💜 @CatAstroTERF]

@Independent How ridiculous. As if nobody would have questioned this if JK Rowling hadn't mentioned it. The whole world is talking about this, and saying how unfair it is for someone with XY chromosomes (i.e. a man) to be allowed to compete against and HIT women.

[Serena @Serena_Partrick]

Male people shouldn't be in female sport.

"Their passports say female!"

Male people shouldn't be in female sport.

"They once wore pink!"

Male people shouldn't be in female sport.

"They've been fighting women for years!"

Male people shouldn't be in female sport.

"Michael Phelps! Michael Jordan! Ronnie Coleman! Great athletes have physical advantages!"

Male people shouldn't be in female sport.

"They're women with male chromosomes and male levels of testosterone, like Caster Semenya!"

Male people shouldn't be in female sport.

"We've all got testosterone!"

Male people shouldn't be in female sports.

"You're obsessed with femininity!"

Male people shouldn't be in female sport.

"They're not trans!"

Male people shouldn't be in female sport.

"Shut up you ugly man looking Nazi bigot, who cut your hair, bet you did it, you're a stupid moron who should get a life, or just do the world a favour stick your head in the oven."

Male people shouldn't be in female sport.

[Cat Astrophe 💚🤍💜 @CatAstroTERF]

@JenCullen2 @eric_nelligan Quite right. What could be more womanly than a big old pair of bollocks?

[Cat Astrophe 💚🤍💜 @CatAstroTERF]

@deewatts60 @my_real_name Same. 😥

[Cat Astrophe 💚🤍💜 @CatAstroTERF]

@IshbelMcKenna @Jonnywsbell Ah, the old "It's Worked Since The Dawn Of Grammar" approach. I like it.

[EmmaT @Emma_twam]

I do not have a passport. Am I really a woman?