Gail Halliwell 🇬🇧

Mother, wife, semi-retired theatre nurse (NHS), homemaker, knitter, gardener. Lover of chocolate, all things creative and cozy nights in front of the fire.

[Gail Halliwell 🇬🇧 @HalliwellGail]

@DrHoenderkamp @JanetIsabella_ They really do come out with some absolute claptrap!

But let them do it. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!

[Gail Halliwell 🇬🇧 @HalliwellGail]

@Sal_Robins2 No, not a chance! I’m not saying that I wouldn’t want a man in my life, but share a house…NO!

[Gail Halliwell 🇬🇧 @HalliwellGail]

@free_equal No they are not.

[Gail Halliwell 🇬🇧 @HalliwellGail]

@sainsburys Are you out of your tiny minds?

The colour of a hens egg is determined by the breed of hen, NOT what they eat.

Are you going to insist that some breeds are culled to avoid them laying brown eggs?

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Fools 😡

[Christian Concern @CConcern]

1. 🚨BREAKING: County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has paid £187,000 in damages, apologised, and committed to separate changing facilities for male and female staff following the Darlington nurses’ legal case.

In January, the Employment Tribunal had found the nurses suffered harassment and indirect sex discrimination over workplace changing-room arrangement.

The case, brought by seven nurses at Darlington Memorial Hospital, Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Karen Danson, Tracy Hooper, Annice Grundy, Carly Hoy and Jane Peveller, was supported by the Christian Legal Centre, which has provided the nurses with legal, media and pastoral support from the beginning of their ordeal.

The case has become one of the most significant legal challenges in recent years concerning the freedom of female staff to access single-sex spaces in the workplace, with the nurses being compared to the Ford Dagenham workers and being dubbed ‘The Angels of the North.’

In January, Employment Judge Seamus Sweeney, ruled that the policy, which had been in place at the Trust for years allowing men who identify as women to access the female staff changing room, had amounted to unlawful discrimination.

Following extensive and at times deeply protracted negotiations, the Trust has now paid out £187,000 in damages to the nurses, which does not include legal costs, which are still to be decided at a further hearing.

This figure also does not include the Trust’s own legal costs of £603,000, and counting, spent on defending its position of allowing men into female changing rooms.

See more on our website and in this🧵to see the Trust's apology and commitments on single-sex spaces....

https://t.co/cYDzFL1cHL

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@miroirdufou A woman is an adult human female. A female is a member of the sex whose bodies are organised to produce large gametes (eggs). Women's rights are predicated upon that accurate definition. Any false definition that includes men, including men in dresses, eliminates women's rights.

[Renée Hoenderkamp @DrHoenderkamp]

Listening to @PeterTatchell on @GBNEWS once again speaking utter medical nonsense. Let me correct you Peter;

1. Dose for precocious puberty lower and used for a medical condition which would have harmful effects if not treated
2. They are for the shortest possible time to allow puberty to go ahead as a benefit risk ratio in a medical condition.
3. The trial protocol says they will discuss egg and sperm freezing; pre-pubertal boys DO NOT HAVE SPERM TO FREEZE.
4. There are multiple decent trials that show these kids get osteoporosis after 2 years of use, height loss, fertility loss, IQ loss and more
5. 98% of them go on to cross sex hormones - it isn't a pause or time to think
6. Lots of decent evidence to say; let puberty commence and in up to 95% of these kids get through it and most are gay.

They are children; an 11 year old has no concept of any of these side effects that will affect them for life.

Peter Tatchell you should either go to medical school or back away from something you clearly don't understand.

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Re this despicable puberty blockers trial.

“Girls as young as 11, boys as young as 12”

So…not only does this pernicious govt know the difference between boys & girls, they’re quite happy to experiment on them like lab rats…

[Dr. Dr. P: No human is 'trans'. It's a lie. @Psychgirl211]

PBs impact the development of executive functions (EFs). 4/

[Dr. Dr. P: No human is 'trans'. It's a lie. @Psychgirl211]

PBs impact the development of executive functions (EFs). 3/

[Dr. Dr. P: No human is 'trans'. It's a lie. @Psychgirl211]

PBs impact the development of executive functions (EFs). 2/

[Dr. Dr. P: No human is 'trans'. It's a lie. @Psychgirl211]

The above post looked at IQ.

But PBs also severely impact executive functions (EFs).

Here is a short thread from the second article I wrote on this topic.

PBs impact the development of executive functions (EFs). 1/

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🚨Important Announcement: Puberty Blockers Judicial Review🚨

Following months of radio silence, I’m saddened to report that the government has announced that it is pushing forward with the puberty blockers trial, regardless of the significant ethical concerns raised that led to the temporary pause.

Most troubling of all is that they are now refusing to halt recruitment of children until the end of the Judicial Review that we are bringing.

As such, we have no choice but to seek an emergency injunction to block a single child being recruited and given this poison. There will be a hearing at the end of July to determine this.

Please rest assured that I and the entire team will be pursuing this Judicial Review all the way.

@jamesmurray_ldn - Just as with your predecessor, Wes Streeting, we implore you to do the right thing and pull the plug on this monstrosity of a trial. If you don’t, we will see you in Court.

[Gail Halliwell 🇬🇧 @HalliwellGail]

@visegrad24 @AjaTheEmpress If he doesn’t like the flag of the country he lives in, he needs to find another country.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

People are frightened to speak the truth or do their job because of ‘words’ & name calling. Do what is right - not what’s easy, in these very troubling times. Keeping your head down is compliance. The things we value will be gone before we know it if that is what most people do😔

[Spencer @chris_cross1498]

My MP has signed the EDM, this is my letter to her…

I am writing as a constituent regarding your decision to sign Nadia Whittome’s Early Day Motion (EDM 240) calling for Parliament to disapprove the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) draft Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations.

I am going to assume that you understand that this is statutory guidance and that rejecting it does not change the underlying law, as confirmed by the UK Supreme Court. If my assumption is correct, you must therefore believe that the EHRC’s guidance does not accurately reflect the law. Could you please explain to me which specific parts of the guidance you consider incorrect or unlawful, and why?

Furthermore, the EHRC is an independent statutory regulator, completely separate from the government of the day. Its sole duty in drafting this Code of Practice is to act as an objective referee—translating the Equality Act and recent Supreme Court rulings into clear, practical instructions for service providers. By using an Early Day Motion to try to block an independent body's guidance, you are engaging in an unprecedented overreach. You are effectively attempting a political veto of a regulator’s objective statement of what the law actually is. If Parliament does not like the reality of the law, the correct constitutional path is to propose new primary legislation to amend the Equality Act, not to politically interfere with an independent commission's statutory duty to explain it.

The biological reality is that trans-identifying men (trans women) remain male, regardless of hormones or cosmetic surgeries. Statistically, the vast majority do not undergo any surgical transition at all and are attracted exclusively to women. I firmly believe that individuals should have the absolute freedom to express themselves, wear whatever clothes they choose, wear make-up, and live their lives free from harassment or hassle. However, as a biological subset of men, they absolutely belong in male single-sex spaces, and they are entirely welcome there. There is no reason for them to be excluded from their own sex demographic.

By prioritising the feelings of a small group over clear sex-based protections, the position that a subset of men should use female single-sex spaces tramples on the rights, privacy, safety, and dignity of women and girls—who make up over 51% of the population.

As an effeminate gay man in my mid-50s, I have spent decades using male single-sex spaces (toilets, changing rooms, etc.) and have never once experienced any kind of bad or threatening incident in them. If you or others believe male single-sex spaces are not safe for trans women, the logical and fair response would be to campaign for men to behave better in those spaces and for better enforcement of existing rules against harassment or violence.

I look forward to you providing me with a specific, detailed explanation as to exactly why you believe this guidance does not accurately reflect the law. If you are unable to demonstrate where the EHRC has legally erred, then I expect you to do the right thing as our representative and remove your name from this Early Day Motion.

[Jane Waring @CreeAnt]

A Labour voter all my life (71 now) but I have never felt as ashamed of @UKLabour as I do now, watching MPs queue up to explain why they’re abandoning women, proving that they’re happy for my granddaughters to have fewer rights in future than I have had. Wretched cowards all.

[Gail Halliwell 🇬🇧 @HalliwellGail]

@DreyfusJames E.

We know what you really want 😃

[Gail Halliwell 🇬🇧 @HalliwellGail]

@DreyfusJames Yes please, I’m just about done with this shit!

This planet needs an asteroid, and it can’t come soon enough 😢

[Olive Oil (MERF) @sinton_alison]

@cityoflondon They don't want "private cubicles" they want men kept out of the women's pond. What are you not understanding?