Angela Metcalf

[Angela Metcalf @CheltMetcalf]

@BriannaWu You 💯 deserve a life with dignity. I can acknowledge that you believe you were born this way and that is your experience. I don’t believe that men can become women but they can express themselves how they choose whilst respecting women’s boundaries.

[Angela Metcalf @CheltMetcalf]

@BriannaWu Thank you for replying and also for your courage, it can’t be easy for you x

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“They are not vulnerable. They are not marginalised. And men who claim to be women are not women. Every claim transgender activists make, the opposite is true.”

Full monologue from @News24Aust 👇

[Angela Metcalf @CheltMetcalf]

@paoladiana Thank you

[MJ Murphy @hothingsgirlsay]

“Men can already walk into the women’s bathroom if they want. No sign is stopping them.”

I’ve heard this argument repeatedly, and it is absurd.

Should murder not be illegal because people still kill? Should theft not be illegal because people still steal? Laws and boundaries do not become pointless simply because someone may violate them.

A woman occasionally being mistaken for a man does not mean we should eliminate female-only bathrooms and permit every man to enter.

And the fact that a dangerous man may enter anyway is not an argument for removing the boundary. It is an argument for keeping the boundary clear, enforceable and socially understood.

Rules identify violations. They establish who has the right to be there. They give women grounds to object, seek help and have an intruder removed.

Stop pretending that a boundary is useless unless it is physically impossible to cross. By that logic, locks, laws and every other safety measure are pointless because none of them works 100% of the time.

A boundary does not have to stop every offender to deter some offenders, protect women and make enforcement possible.

[𝟐𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐲 @nomodeath]

I work the front desk at a small doctor’s office, and I wish people could see what happens on the other side of the phone. Every day, older patients call us confused.

They are told to use the patient portal, upload documents, check lab results online, fill out forms before the visit, and confirm everything through a link. Some of them do not know what a portal is.

Some do not have a smartphone.
Some have one, but they are afraid to click the wrong thing.
Last week, a man in his late 80s called about his test results.

He said, “Ma’am, I don’t mean to bother you, but the computer says I have a message and I don’t know how to open it.”
He sounded ashamed.
That broke my heart.

He should not have to feel ashamed for needing a human being.
Technology can be helpful. I understand that.

But when people who built this country are made to feel helpless because everything became a login and a password, we have gone too far.
Not everything needs to be an app.
Not every answer should be hidden behind a screen.

Sometimes people need a voice.
A patient person.
A real human who says, “Don’t worry, I can help you.”
Progress should not leave seniors behind.

Because one day, the world will move faster than us too.
And I hope someone is kind enough to slow down.

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

https://t.co/HctY8litCD

[Angela Metcalf @CheltMetcalf]

@DarlingtonUnion Absolutely shocking. They need to represent all of their members fairly. When are people like this going to understand that wanting safe spaces for women doesn’t automatically equal being a transphobe.

[Angela Metcalf @CheltMetcalf]

@brittontaylor @Frances_Staudt @Matt_Calkins Please take some time to reflect that you said this to a 17 year old girl and she isn’t a transphobe for wanting fair sports for women and girls. I follow ppl from both sides of the debate and it’s truly enlightening. We need to stop being so polarised on this issue.

[Angela Metcalf @CheltMetcalf]

@Frances_Staudt @Matt_Calkins Thank you for your bravery 👏

[Frances Staudt @Frances_Staudt]

Thank you, @Matt_Calkins . I was one of the female athletes you interviewed, and I truly appreciate the way you treated me. You were fair, listened to my story without judgment, and wanted to share my experience—even when The Seattle Times refused to let it be heard.

@seattletimes deserves to be called out. It has become a left-wing rag that suppresses stories and viewpoints that challenge its preferred political narrative. Even at 17, I can see eerie similarities to what we’ve learned in history class about communism, censorship, and the control of information.

To think that a 17-year-old female athlete and her story could be considered a threat to a powerful media machine like The Seattle Times shows that we have them against the ropes. We need to keep punching.

I won’t quit, and I’m asking all of you to help deliver the knockout punch this November: Vote YES on Initiative 638.

Thank you, Matt, for having the guts it takes and standing by your principles, refusing to participate in this censorship, and giving female athletes a voice.

Frances Staudt

[Angela Metcalf @CheltMetcalf]

@Miss_Snuffy Incredible and so wonderful to see so much joy and happiness… thank you for sharing 🌟

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

UNISON has a women problem.

Three-quarters of its 1.3 million members are women, yet the union allowed a biological male to stand for a disabled women’s seat, breaking its own rulebook and trade union law.

Then came the Darlington nurses, women fighting for the basic right to change clothes without a biological male present. Their union did not defend them.

Now general secretary Andrea Egan is campaigning against the EHRC guidance and promising to change the law after the Supreme Court finally clarified that sex in the Equality Act means biological sex.

Trans people lost no legal protections. Women simply regained clarity over theirs.

A trade union exists to stand beside its members when power bears down on them. When ideology matters more than the women paying the subscriptions, something has gone badly wrong.

Read the full investigation: https://t.co/jHjy8a6mv9
#womensrights #UNISON

[Angela Metcalf @CheltMetcalf]

@datadriven_tdoc I am gender critical (although I'm not a fan of that term) and I have absolutely no issue with this. I've long been a fan of Johannes Radebe and he sometimes dances with heels and is amazing!

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

The Iranian regime went to my sister’s home and made her to sit in front of their cameras and disown me. She did that publicly.

Then they went after my mother. My tiny mum prepared a gallon of gasoline and told them: “If you force me to disown my daughter, I will burn myself before I do that.”

So, they arrested my brother Ali, in order to punish her, to punish me, to punish our entire family.

I am the daughter of this beautiful Muslim mother. So listen carefully! I am not against Muslims. How could I be? My beloved mother is Muslim.

I am against Islamists who weaponize religion to silence dissent, punish Muslims, and tear families apart.

Criticizing Islamism is not hatred of Muslims. It is standing up for Muslims who are often its first victims, like my own family.

I miss my mum. Every single day. And my dream is to hug her soon.😔💔
#LetUsTalk

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

How do we currently keep track of convicted sex offenders when they change their names legally, you ask?

Oh, we trust them to inform the police themselves.
And we leave it at that. Because why not? It's not like these people are dangerous or anything.
https://t.co/GJLTcWSXQW

[Angela Metcalf @CheltMetcalf]

@safewordsorg This is extremely heart breaking to read, I'm so sorry that you went through this. You are incredibly strong and it's amazing that you continue to share your experience. Sending you so much love x

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

There is an ideological battle taking place over the meaning of sex and womanhood, and it has real-world consequences. Some of the loudest activists demanding that women accept new definitions of themselves are male, backed by allies who too often treat dissent as bigotry and boundaries as hatred. When intimidation, threats or the celebration of violence enter that argument, men of conscience should not stand aside and leave women to defend their sex-based rights alone.

A woman does not need an ideological prefix. “Cis” is a political label imposed on women to make room for men inside the category of womanhood. Be very wary when people start changing the language, because once they control the definition of “woman”, they start controlling which rights belong to women too.

"You cannot protect what you cannot define"...

#womensrightsmatter