Pauline G

Adult Human Female 💚🤍💜
Politically Homeless
Objective reality and common sense must prevail.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

I am never going to pretend a man is a Woman because he grows his hair, wears make up & mimics what he thinks is femininity (a social construct, there’s no right way to be a woman). I’m very happy to treat everyone with respect, courtesy & with equality in law. But female things that women have fought tooth & nail for, against huge male dominance, over centuries, belong to females.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@stellacreasy Have any of my followers lost a strange woman in an orange jacket? She seems quite tame and has been taught to say ‘trans women are women’ on repeat.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A pantomine horse isn’t a horse.
An open secret isn’t a secret.
A hot dog isn’t a dog.
A shrinking violet isn’t a violet.
Crow’s feet aren’t feet.
Fair game’s not a game.
Trans women aren’t women.

[Pauline G @CrazyCats60]

@jo_bartosch

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Breaking: Stella knows what parakeets are! It’s probably too much to hope that women are next, but fingers crossed!

[Pauline G @CrazyCats60]

@SBarrettBar *impressive*

[Pauline G @CrazyCats60]

@SBarrettBar Very impessive. I love the changing hues of colour. Small has a talent 👏

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

Excellent speech by Cllr
@Charlotty - top marks for clarity. Exemplary work in local government. Hope Bolton Council agreed

[Jo Bartosch @jo_bartosch]

These thugs smashed the windows of Streeting’s constituency office. They also vandalised a venue hosting a feminist conference & hacked FSU’s database. Why haven’t they been arrested?

[Pauline G @CrazyCats60]

@ShabanaMahmood Tell that to PC Harpers mother and the terrified victims of rape gangs. We can all have a laugh at work but the optics of this is beyond the pail. I'm not sure your apology carries any weight. It's this government releasing violent criminals, not the Tories. Stop shifting blame.

[Pauline G @CrazyCats60]

@Jonnywsbell Ah yes, the delusional underranged 😵‍💫

[Pauline G @CrazyCats60]

@Iromg Its horrific 😢

[Mike Graham 🇬🇧 @Iromg]

Dear god…

Ann Widdecombe was ‘hit over the head with a hammer 21 times’ https://t.co/WKVdDolraV

[Pauline G @CrazyCats60]

@cabinetofficeuk And out of 400 Labpur mp's, this is the person you decide to give a job to, seriously, a convicted fraudster in 3 of the most privileged positions in the country. Are you mad?

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

Lock up the parents and the doctors

This is child abuse.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Amnesty is no longer the organisation that defended all who were persecuted for their freedom of speech. It has become a self-appointed, vainglorious policeman of wrongthink. It tweets out ideological slogans. It demonises those who disagree with those slogans. It intervened in FWS v Scottish Ministers, on the side of those determined to keep men in women’s prisons and rape crisis centres.

Some of us haven’t forgotten that Amnesty stopped supporting the since-murdered prisoner of conscience Alexei Navalny because they deemed he’d said unacceptable things in the past. They reversed that decision due to public backlash, exactly as they withdrew the recent defamatory report, before I or anyone else had responded to it, because they panicked on seeing the reaction. A cynic might think they changed their minds on both occasions, not on principle, but because they were afraid of losing money.

You cannot be simultaneously an impartial defender of freedom and speech and a wealthy international witch hunter that publicly vilifies and intimidates small campaigning groups with whom you disagree. As for ‘silencing’ Amnesty, I have neither the power nor the desire to do so. I want them to explain as loudly and extensively as possible why they are using their might and formerly lustrous reputation to attack small non-violent campaigning organisations with legally protected beliefs.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The gay rights movement is currently host to a cannibalising ideology that blames and shames homosexuals for not sleeping with members of the opposite sex. Amnesty International is on the side of the persecutors.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Trans-identified men in Edinburgh are fortunate enough to be welcome at the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, which was headed for a while by a trans-identified man who believed, and said publicly, that women who wanted a female-only service were bigots. That same rape centre admitted a male as a client because he called himself non-binary. The man was subsequently convicted for rape.

Beira’s Place was set up by me to provide women in Edinburgh and the Lothians with the female-only service they were being denied. Internal emails between ERRC staff were revealed during an unrelated court case, which showed them to be angry and dismayed that there was now an alternative service for women. One might have thought, reading those emails, that ERRC staff’s priority was the ideological conversion of rape survivors rather than the provision of a service that traumatised women required to feel safe after rape.

Beira’s Place has been exceptionally busy since it opened. We’ve taken on more staff and are currently looking for larger premises. We’ve helped women who’ve admitted that they didn’t want to use the alternative rape centre because of its very loud and public ‘trans women are women’ stance. We are also open to any and all trans-identified women who need support after rape.

In short, you’ll be relieved to hear that the trans-identified men for whom you feel such empathy and compassion aren’t losing out. It was biological women who were being shamed for their entirely legitimate desire for a male-free space. Apparently you’d have preferred that situation to continue, but I think you’ll find that most people, whether male or female, will see that as evidence of your cruelty, not mine.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I’m often tickled by press articles asserting that I’m furious about things that actually gave me a proper belly laugh. This time, though, knock yourselves out. Amnesty’s attack on Beira’s Place has left me burning with the kind of fury that mounts with every passing hour.

[Pauline G @CrazyCats60]

@thecarolemalone You know that this a man, Carole. A vile one at that, so why are you calling him "She"? Also, HE shouldn't go to jail for a tweet, no more than Lucy Connolly should have gone to jail for a tweet she later deleted. It's free speech, even the stuff we find abhorrent.