Cheryl Inwood

[Cheryl Inwood @CherylCapstick]

@Charles70390207 @MForstater

[Caroline Struthers @Healthy_Control]

@hannahsbee This is equivalent to doing a trial of lobotomies on children, after a review of lobotomies on children found a very weak evidence base for their effectiveness. And without first following up the children who have already had lobotomies. This is where we are. Unbelievable.

[Cheryl Inwood @CherylCapstick]

@nclairebear73 @anne_hegerty Commentating, presenting and punditry are very different things. Only the latter requires experience of playing the game, which may differ between males and females.

[SEENinSport @SportSEENuk]

Launching today - ‘The State of Play’

“The law is clear. The science is clear. Public opinion is clear. If a category or an event is labelled as being for Females, Women or Girls then it must be for biological women & girls.”

Delyth Rennie, SEEN in Sport Policy Advisor 1/

[Jennifer Thetford-Kay @JenKteach]

On this day in 1913, at the Epsom Derby held at Epsom Downs in Surrey, militant suffragette Emily Wilding Davison (aged 40) stepped onto the racecourse at Tattenham Corner during the running of the Derby.

She was struck at speed by the horse Anmer; owned by King George V and ridden by jockey Herbert Jones. Davison was knocked unconscious. Jones was thrown from the horse (his foot briefly caught in the stirrup as Anmer fell and partly rolled). The horse recovered and completed the race without its jockey. Jones was unconscious for a short time and suffered from concussion. He also needed to wear a sling on one arm for some time afterwards.

Davison was taken to Epsom Cottage Hospital with a fractured skull and internal injuries. She never regained consciousness and died four days later on the 8th June 1913.
Her death certificate recorded the cause as
"fracture of the base of the skull caused by being accidentally knocked down by a horse through wilfully rushing onto the racecourse at Epsom Downs".

She had travelled to the race carrying two suffragette flags (purple, white and green) obtained earlier that day from the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) offices. Contemporary newsreel footage from three cameras captured the incident (visible in Pathé and Gaumont films).

Her funeral on 14th June became a major suffragette procession, drawing thousands and highlighting the fight for women’s suffrage.

[Cheryl Inwood @CherylCapstick]

@akuareindorf @Alonso_GD Disappointing, yet highly predictable 🙄

[Cheryl Inwood @CherylCapstick]

@unisontheunion

[Cheryl Inwood @CherylCapstick]

@unisontheunion Are you opposing the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 too?

[Denise Fahmy @DeniseFahmy]

@ace_national has published a new Strategic Framework replacing it's 2020-30 strategy Let's Create.

Baroness Hodge panned Let's Create last December in her government review of Arts Council England. 

https://t.co/fVQQDQh2hk  it's 12 pages long and mentions freedom of expression 3 times, including protecting it.

The previous strategy, Let's Create - now binned - was 42 pages long and did not mention artistic freedom once https://t.co/v54D62cPlv

@Freedom_in_Arts is turning the tide

[MsScotsCrypto @MsScotsCrypto]

@jk_rowling @STILLTish @nyaraVT Correct

Sweet Jesus how many ways can we tell these people

“This is an apple. It might be red like a strawberry but it’s an apple. There are green and red apples even some yellow but they’re all just apples”

Jesus wept

[With Woman @WeAreWithWoman]

https://t.co/CJ7zZj2qpy

[#199 Days Later @acts_grassroots]

Join us at the Australian High Commission on Saturday 23rd May, 1pm standing in solidarity with Sall. There will be speeches and possibly singing. Bring your banners. @salltweets #IStandWithSallGrover #FixTheSDA

[ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg]

Reminder: In 2019, Andy Burnham, along with Sadiq Khan, Dan Jarvis and Steve Rotheram, wrote this letter to the then Conservative government, which called for self ID to become law, "to transform the lives of trans people".

The letter has now been taken offline

[Kathryn P. 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️ @009Kat]

Thank you 🙏 @The_Nationals and a big thank you to Alison Penfold. @MGrahMcIntosh 🙌💪❤️ @LiberalAus @SALibMedia @LiberalSAHQ

Women’s sex based rights must be returned in legislation.

[Bruce Bowman @boswelltoday]

.@AndyBurnhamGM wants British women to learn the same lesson Australian women have just been taught: your boundaries exist only until a man wants them removed.

Toilets. Changing rooms. Refuges. Rape crisis services. Women’s networks.

All up for grabs.

A man this casually hostile to women’s rights should never be near power.

[latsot @latsot]

In the light of today's bleak news, remember this.

TERFs, sex-realists, gender critical people, call us what you will, have two *huge* advantages over gender identity enthusiasts.

First, we are right. Science, reality and common sense are on our side and eventually the law will be too.

Second, we understand the reality of law, rather than pretending, as trans activists do, that it says what we want it to say.

This second is a hugely powerful advantage. We know what the targets are in law. We know how to hit them.

And by "we", I don't just mean sympathetic, high profile lawyers, politicians and celebrities. I mean people like you and me. People working at the grassroots.

How many people reading this now understand the UK's Equality Act from start to finish? How many are intimately familiar with the various relevant tribunal cases past and present?

The average trans activist can't say the same. I've talked to hundreds of them and they haven't a clue.

These two strengths are the reason we will win.

[Cheryl Inwood @CherylCapstick]

#IStandWithSalGrover

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

I am absolutely devastated
Men who claim to be women have more rights than actual women in Australia.
It is women who are being discriminated against, not the men who claim to be us.

But in a sense, nothing has changed: we will all wake up tomorrow & men will still not be women.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

I am absolutely devastated
Men who claim to be women have more rights than actual women in Australia.
It is women who are being discriminated against, not the men who claim to be us.

But in a sense, nothing has changed: we will all wake up tomorrow & men will still not be women.

[Stephanie Bastiaan @stephbastiaan]

The Full Federal Court has handed down its judgement in Giggle v Tickle.

In a shock to women across the country - Sall Grover not only lost her appeal, the Court set aside the original finding of indirect discrimination and replaced it with direct discrimination, upholding Tickle's cross-appeal.

The damages were doubled from $10,000 to $20,000.

It’s important to note the Court expressly said it was only applying the Sex Discrimination Act as it is written- it is "not empowered to give effect to its own view" about whether that law is desirable.

In 2013, @JuliaGillard’s @AustralianLabor government amended the Sex Discrimination Act- stripping the meaning out of "man" and "woman" and adding gender identity as a protected attribute to be pitted against biological sex.

Today's outcome is proof of what those amendments have done: women are left with no meaningful rights or recognition under the Sex Discrimination Act - a bitter irony, given that protecting women was the very purpose of the Act under our commitment to CEDAW.

In my opinion, this is a verdict on the law, not on Sall. The judges found that the law - as that government amended it - left them no other conclusion.

These amendments must be repealed.
The Sex Discrimination Act must once again recognise biological reality and protect women's right to single-sex spaces.

What a dark and devastating day for Australian women and girls.

#RepealTheSDA2013 #IStandWithSallGrover
#GigglevTickle
#Auspol

[Abigail Johnson ♿️ @Nursey1994]

Yup. Firstly I got misdiagnosed by a GP. Then I Called a friend to come get me and run me to A&E.
Increasing SOB over a week+, felt ghaslty. Couldn’t lie down, had taken to lying propped up on the sofa at night to aid breathing.
Now couldn’t manage a sentence.
Strong fam history of PEs.
I told Dr in A&E that it felt like there was a brick in my chest that I couldn’t breathe thru. He told me I was having a panic attack. My O2 sats were ok.
I’m a singer. Scuba diver. Play clarinet. Did syncro swimming.
So had lungs of steel. Something was compensating because I usually had excellent lung function and know how to use all of my lungs.
I told him I’d never had a panic attack in my life and wasn’t starting now.
He was obnoxious and stroppy. Def did the arterial blood gases even more brutally to make a point.
But his face when my X-rays went up and I said - that’s why I can’t breathe then.
He was stunned into silence and just stood there staring, turned pale.
I had v v severe pneumonia in my r lung and had no middle or bottom lobe function. Total white out.
I was so so ill. And all hell broke loose after that. People came running.
I’m so so damn tired of women being treated as hysterics. Not being heard.
I would’ve died if I hadn’t stood my ground.