Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS

💚🤍💜 🦖 Adult Human Female Rights Hoarder #IStandWithJKRowling
No-one is born in the wrong body.
If you want debate as entertainment, I'll send kittens.

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

I've decided that I'm not going to waste my time debating with TRAs as entertainment. It's like wrestling with pigs - you both get dirty but the pigs enjoy it.
I'm sending kittens when I get bored.

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

@mac_donald4 @MaryDenis8591 @RealStephenKerr @LucyHunterB Define gender without a circular argument. I’ll wait.

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

@FondOfBeetles And we can have things just for women because we want to.

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

Terrific news that FWS have won again in court. This time it’s been confirmed that Ken are not allowed in women’s prisons. We keep winning. Probably because we’re speaking the truth.

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

@FondOfBeetles Huntley was motivated by wanting sex with young girls. So I would have preferred he hadn’t been murdered in prison because I wanted him to live another 30 years without sex.

Similarly “prison justice” could kill people who are wrongfully imprisoned, Letby and Bamber for example.

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

@hothingsgirlsay My thesis was on the spiral of silence. Brexit unwound the spiral that everyone agreed membership of the EU was good and that unleashed open racism as a result.

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

@TracyEdwardsMBE @ClawToTheCore But this never happens - with increasing regularity.

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

@stellacreasy Show me you’re a legislator who doesn’t understand how to legislate.

You’re letting down your constituents, particularly the women who need access to single sex spaces.

[Richard Ferrer @richferrer]

Dear @owenjonesjourno. As editor of Jewish News, I was appalled by the language my deputy used towards you. There is no excuse for the unnecessary use of a full stop before a coordinating conjunction. The sentence should, of course, have read:

“I am Deputy Editor of Jewish News and I’m respectfully asking you to fuck right off.”

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

When people with penises stop using their genitalia as weapons of sexual violence, we’ll stop being obsessed with keeping them out of places where we’re easy prey

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

@NadiaWhittomeMP What rights have been taken away? Men who identify as women have NEVER had the right to use women's single sex spaces. Read the Equality Act 2010. ALL of it. Then get the highest court in the land to explain it to you. Fortunately we've already paid the legal fees & done that.

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

@akuareindorf @EHRC I called Dame Janet Knight's office from my student paper about this. The woman who answered said "Dame Janet didn't want the teachers 'turning children gay'". Funny how forcefeeding sexist stereotypes didn't "turn" gay kids straight.

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

@fesshole We know.

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

Reading this problem from the Guardian and thinking if the man writing this takes the advice to do "what makes you feel most like you", his wife should run. Classic autogynaephilia. https://t.co/QNg7ud0BIj

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

@Patrickchrist69 @TheAttagirls @CatherineHume10 Yeah, women had to wait hundreds of years for equal rights. I'm sure you can wait a day for more information.

Or you could look it up yourself if you're impatient.

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

@williamkeegan Who are you and what have you done with William Keegan? Have you been replaced by an AI bot? You didn't mention the B-word at all in your article!

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

There is no Woman of the Day today. Instead, I want to explain why I do what I do. No one really knows who first said, “History is written by the victors” but I’d bet you any odds it was a man.

Think of your schooldays and count the number of times you learned about the roles played by women in shaping history, other than regnant Queens and perhaps Marie Curie and Florence Nightingale. Yet women lived, worked, networked, debated, campaigned, organised, invented things and built them too - but you’d never know this if your lessons, like mine, were confined to history books.

For a practical example, just look around you. Fridge, washing machine, dishwasher, ironing board, home security system, call waiting system, car heater and windscreen wipers, even the very first computer algorithm: all invented by women.

Are you surprised? Confined to the house, denied access to higher education, barred from engineering, denied entry to all branches of science and the professions for centuries, those bright analytical minds turned their attention to their immediate surroundings and saw what was needed to free them from domestic drudgery.

In return, history ignored women’s achievements, glossed over them or consigned them to dusty footnotes. If all else failed, their work was credited to - or stolen by - men, the phenomenon known as the Matilda Effect, first identified by feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage in 1870.

In 1993, it was named for her by historian Margaret Rossiter who said, “It is important to note early that women’s historically subordinate ‘place’ in science was not a coincidence and was not due to any lack of merit on their part. It was due to the camouflage intentionally placed over their presence in science.”

Once you see it, you cannot unsee it - the Matilda Effect is everywhere - but now substitute ‘history’ for ‘science’. The proposition still stands. What I try to do is to pierce holes in that camouflage by writing about the almost-invisible women of history who overcame manmade barriers and changed the world.

As a Second Wave feminist, I thought we’d won all the big battles, that it was just a matter of mopping up the resisters and dragging them into the 20th century. I did my bit to redress the balance in an overwhelmingly male environment, but how had I managed to miss the barefaced theft of our words, our spaces and services, our sports? How had we suddenly been reduced to a walking collection of body parts?

It was a wake-up call.

Once I saw, I couldn’t unsee the terrible damage being done to girls and young women who did not conform to the offensive sexist stereotypes being imposed on them by men who mimic women and their inane female cheerleaders. It made me fearful for non-conforming girls: tomboys. They need to see strong women as role models, women who don’t care about performing femininity, women who defy convention and do things their way. If you can see it, you can be it.

So I went digging around in those dusty footnotes, found a little gold and started from there. I found thrilling tales of women who were inventive, resourceful and brave. Then I started sharing what I found more widely, tied to the calendar as Women of the Day.

How do I find them? Often by pure chance. I go looking for one woman, spot a couple more names along the way - women whose stories really resonate with me - and file them away for the right time. Women’s history had been right under my nose the whole time. I just hadn’t realised that you needed to dig a little. The rather unexpected bonus was that in giving them a voice, I found mine.

I am a conspicuously law-abiding woman, a former prison governor, and if you had told me when I retired that one day, I’d be standing outside a police station in protest at the hounding of gender critical women and singing “Go catch some rapists” to the tune of Guantanamera, I’d have advised you to seek immediate medical attention for the effects of the bump to your head.

But here I am, telling women’s stories, and behind the scenes, pursuing a second career as a women’s rights activist. I won’t ever fall asleep at the wheel again.

Tomorrow, I’m off to Cardiff with my Women of Wessex sisters, to protest about @bphillipsonmp’s inexplicable decision to delay laying the EHRC Code of Practice before Parliament — and make no mistake about it. It IS a decision; one that is causing real harm and damage to the rights of women and the protection of children.

Some of you come for the occasional stories of women in history hiding in plain sight, but I hope you stay because you care about fairness and safety for women. For now, I leave you with this thought from the 1949 memoirs of Somerset suffragette Nelly Crocker (1872-1962):

“Modern young women seem unaware of the price paid for their political and social emancipation, and modern historians have greatly ignored the struggle”.

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

@FondOfBeetles Once users come off then. I think they're brilliant but they're only effective while they're being used.

[Dinosaur🦖 Witch🧙‍♀️WORIADS @DinosaurWitch]

@FondOfBeetles If she has used jabs she will need to remain on them. The science says that the weight goes back on faster than other weightloss measures in over 90% of cases.

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

Finland tracked every gender-referred adolescent in the country for up to 25 years.

Their psychiatric needs didn't improve after 'gender reassignment'. They surged.

A landmark peer-reviewed study just dropped. Here's what it found. 🧵

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

Among those who underwent medical "gender reassignment", the increase was stark.

Feminising procedures: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7%.

Masculinising procedures: from 21.6% to 54.5%.

The procedures did not resolve the distress.