Cath Allen 💚🤍💜

@ViragoWomen @WRNLeeds @LeedsReSisters

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@CaroRoshan @MForstater @marksandspencer If lockable cubicles keep everyone safe, why get rid of single sex changing rooms? Or is it about something else when it comes to men who say they’re women wanting to share with women?

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@fletcherkathy8 @RachelWilde13 @BettsCaro @LabWomenDec @SVPhillimore @JRLevinsLaw @alexsobel Yes we do

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@BettsCaro @SVPhillimore @JRLevinsLaw He’s my MP. Send prayers

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@CarmelFay @ThePosieParker It concerns me that this child is going to grow up being told by his two dads that he doesn’t have a mum. How will they square that when he finds out where babies come from?

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@g_garison @glosswitch I have and it isn’t

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@g_garison @glosswitch Of course it is. It’s men who benefit the most from it. Women who support it just imagine they benefit from it

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@VPointon I used to buy it years ago when it was Cosmetics to Go. It was such a ground-breaking company - cruelty free products with fun, clever names and packaging. You could only buy it online which made it more exciting. I wouldn’t touch Lush with a barge pole now

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

“Confused older lesbian women”? Yes, I’m sure she knows now what you’re really like

[Rhi @kalbarrikartel]

@thereisnobeth I think it's just that confused older lesbian women whose understanding of trans people comes entirely from the internet really have no idea what we are like in real life, or what HRT can do. There was also a trans guy at our table and she didn't clock him either.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council),

As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display.

I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal.

Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated.

They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive.

Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure.

Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation.

If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice.

I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason.

What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated.

I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this:

Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering.

Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating.

For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media.

Yours sincerely,

Janet Murray

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@rejserin @BrunswickSteve Thankfully you live in a country where your right to believe whatever you like - no matter how ludicrous - is protected in law

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@rejserin @BrunswickSteve Men don’t have womanhood

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@DrMarianaClaire Even if the shirt is a 15-year-old charity shop find, why shouldn’t she buy expensive clothes anyway? She’s earning the kind of salary most of her constituents can only dream of

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@beccajiggens @BrunswickSteve What is with you lot and your obsession with genitals?

[Levi Pay @soppystern]

If I were @Keir_Starmer, I’d stand up in Parliament and say to the 130 or so MPs who signed this motion, “I understand you have an issue with around three or four pages of this 342-page Code of Practice. Fine. You have a week from today to give me your idea of a better version of those pages. Clearly, it needs to comply with the Equality Act and with all relevant case law. Get me a version before midday on 22nd June which has potential, and you’ll get your parliamentary debate. Give me nothing, or something that clearly doesn’t work legally, and there will be no debate. It’s in your hands now.”

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@melboure @pi_campbell Why would it matter to a dead person who attends their funeral?

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@FondOfBeetles @NadiaWhittomeMP More to the point, why are MPs who don’t understand how the law works being paid nearly £100,000 a year?

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@GoodLawProject You’re not “dedicating funds”. You’re asking other people to dedicate funds, as usual. Shameless hustling.

[Cath Allen 💚🤍💜 @CathAllen8]

@thefempire50 @ScottishSun That’s if he uses the men’s. He claims to be non-binary. So why isn’t he calling for third spaces for himself and people making the same claim to be neither male nor female?

[MJ Murphy @hothingsgirlsay]

The Precision Trap

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

This is a dishonest gesture. MPs know that it is the Supreme Court that sets “the rules” (ie the law). All the EHRC has done or can do is explain the law. This is a subterfuge - these MPs don’t have the guts to say what they really want which is a change to the equality act