Left/labour Dog.I’ve had puppies & I know my sex. still don’t know my chromosomes or my hormone levels. don’t know why some humans are confused about their sex.
A gentle question: do my underage girls have the right to undress in a penis-free space at the swimming pool?
Do they have a right to set boundaries against ALL males or does their right not to consent to m disappear when a male says “I’m a W”?
Where is your empathy for g&W?!
Happy New Year, dear siblings all, from a cis woman who helped draft the Equality Act 2010. A gentle reminder that when EA2010 speaks of women it means ALL women. The word cis is absent from the act; there are NO cis-specific rights. Oh, and ‘sex based rights’ don’t exist.
As a society degrades, it goes from shaming sin, to tolerating it, to accepting it, to encouraging it, to celebrating it.
Once it has fully degenerated, those who don't join the celebration are shamed.
This is not a ‘competing rights’ issue. It is utterly laughable that the rights of women to single sex changing is being conflated with the ‘right’ of men to enter that space & watch them change. In fact it is utterly obscene. This is also occurring in schools. #Safeguarding has been completely undermined & a #PublicInquiry is needed.
I have the same question. All I do is stand up for women's rights and child safeguarding. In return I get followed down the street by a baying mob shouting "fuck Helen Joyce". Students banged so loudly on the doors when I spoke at a Cambridge college that I was inaudible despite being mic'ed up. A trans-identifying man recently pleaded guilty to tweeting that he wanted to carve up my face and rip out my eyes. I've needed a police escort to leave a pub through a crowd of transactivists chanting about me. More transactivists tried to break into a venue where I and other people who share my positions were discussing the medical scandal of paediatric transition. Other things are not in the public domain at least for now. I'M SICK OF BEING TOLD THIS IS "BOTH SIDES".
I will not shut up. I will not be silenced by men who prioritise applause from Stonewall over the safety of women and girls.
A rich, lefty, white male celebrity so blinded by ideology he can’t see the optics of attacking the only black woman in government by calling publicly for my existence to end…..(1/2)
So annoyed about that Tennant speech. Possibly because my two girls adore him as Dr Who. But he would call them bigots if they felt uncomfortable with a boy in their changing room. Fascists if they didn't want to play against a boy in girl's football. What a bloody idiot.
Exactly this. 'We will protect single sex spaces on the basis of biological sex' isn't true if men with a gender recognition certificate can access them - and Labour intends to make it easier to get a gender recognition certificate.
Those who say #IStandAgainstJKRowling this is what they're standing for. His right to change in the women's changing room and have women arrested for a hate crime if they object.
The hashtag #IStandAgainstJKRowling is trending. So what do they stand with? This bloke having the legal right to change in a woman's changing room, for one.
Labour wants to "simplify" the process by which people can legally change their gender to make it less "degrading" and "tortuous", a shadow minister has said.
Would you support or oppose this? #Poll
Labour's education spokesperson Bridget Phillipson has avoided saying whether the party would scrap a proposed ban on schools in England teaching pupils about gender identity.
Should gender identity be taught in schools?
I try to remain reasonable in an unreasonable world. But if one more politician resorts to the "both sides... baffled at toxicity... culture war" rhetoric I may go postal. In the last few years I have:
- fought through hostile crowd to get to Brighton meeting, been struck on back of head as I entered, with protestors kicking the windows til our ears rang
- co-organised a research event on lesbian life (nothing to do with trans) where protestors closed the road outside, set off smoke bombs
- spoke at Cambridge Union, where every time I spoke, protestors drummed louder to drown me out, and where a male transactivist covertly infiltrated my own debate team in order to then denounce me to audience
- had protestor glue herself to floor in front of me at Oxford
- had masked men come to my workplace every day making threats and harassing me til I resigned.
- now require extra security for every public appearance I do
- have been verbally abused in the street by total strangers several times.
Please do tell me, with evidence, how I personally have contributed to this "toxic" state of affairs, other than not shutting up and not going away? I am deeply interested to find out the answer.
For those who don't know, Sarah Jane Baker is a trans-identified man who served 30 years in prison for kidnap and attempted murder. He was previously recalled to men's prison for urging the crowd to 'punch a TERF' at a London Pride rally.