JAG xx TERF

Trade Unionist WOMAN MUM JoJo.I am not free until every WOMAN is free, even when her shackles are very different from my own. Proud to be living on Terf island

[JAG xx TERF @JoseyGraham]

@IssyIssyIssyOi @SistersofLister 😂 😘

[No Men in Women's Prisons @NoMinWPrisons]

#203Years since the 1823 Gaols Act was introduced. Elizabeth Fry mandated sex-segregation in prisons, protecting women from rape & sexual abuse. Sat 29th August we will celebrate her & protest as to why #203YearsLater there are still men in women’s prisons around the world.

[Gay Men’s Network @MensNetwork1]

1/ Amnesty International chose to libel the Gay Men's Network as an "anti-rights" group along with several LBG organisations. We object to NGOs who espouse gender ideology misusing their formidable funding and influence in this fashion and we are seeking a formal apology.

[Linda Wilkinson @LindaSWilkinson]

@BevJacksonAuth @Glinner @chiaracapraro Chiara, I was Chair of AIUK for 6 years. Who on earth authorised this absolutely ridiculous and defamatory report? I want to know, as I imagine do the members, if you have any left that is.The checks and balances, where were they?

[Seán Ako 🇮🇪 @TheAkoFiles]

I interviewed the director of amnesty at Dublin pride a few weeks ago and he spoke as much shite as you’d expect.

[Dr. Dame Katy Denise CH GBE 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇬🪑 @damekatydenise_]

I would appreciate it if you didn’t retweet this video of Peter Tatchell sounding a bit noncey. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Hey @waitrose. Please can you identify which people other than women need to use tampons for their periods?

Can you name even one man who needs tampons? One. That's all you need to provide. I'm waiting...

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

I see this video has gone somewhat viral again recently…

It still blows my mind that all these people have is their mantra…“but, but transwomen are women”.

They are not. Transwomen are literally males.

Don’t pander to this make-believe. Just say no.

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

If you want to complain to Amnesty international for branding a bunch of civil society organisations "anti-rights" this how to do it.

email to: [email protected]

https://t.co/LOBWuc4Z6o

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

One of the worst developments in Britain over the past decade has been the ideological corruption of the police

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Woman of the Day biologist and geneticist Nettie Stevens, born in OTD in 1861 in Vermont, discovered the chromosomes we now know as X and Y, and published a research paper in 1905 establishing that XX chromosomes = female and XY = male.

Unusually for those times, her father was keen for his daughters to have a good education. Nettie thrived at school, worked hard, was always top of her class. After a spell as a teacher, she enrolled at a teachers’ college in Westfield, Massachusetts, completed the four year course in half the time, and achieved perfect grades in algebra, chemistry and geometry.

Teaching then was one of the very few professions open to women and she returned to it in 1884, but science still called to her. She once told a student, "How could you think your questions would bother me? They never will, so long as I keep my enthusiasm for biology; and that, I hope will be as long as I live."

Nettie saved hard and secured a place at Stanford University in 1896, majoring in physiology, and graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1899. Her summers were spent at Stanford’s Hopkins Seaside Laboratory, studying the microscopic anatomy of organisms (histology) and cells (cytology). In 1900, she earned a master’s degree at Stanford with her thesis Studies on Ciliate Infusoria and had discovered two new species of single-celled organisms.

Early in 1901 and at the age of 39, Nettie began working for a doctorate in cytology at Bryn Mawr. By then, Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance had established that an offspring inherits equal numbers of chromosomes from each of its parents — observable by microscope — but nobody knew how sex was determined.

Most scientists then believed sex was not decided at conception but by non-biological factors such as temperature or nutrition acting on a fertilised egg. Fast forward about a century or more and we have a new cohort of supposedly intelligent people still trying to argue that sex is determined by feelings or clothing or hair slides, despite the vast body of wholly conclusive evidence.

Nettie applied for funding for her Ph.D, saying, “I am especially interested in the histological side of the problems in heredity connected with Mendel’s Law, and I know that there is need of a great deal of painstaking work along that line.”

She was granted $1000 (£80k in today’s sterling) and topped that up with a further $1000 when she was awarded the Ellen Richards Prize in 1905 for the best scientific paper written by a woman. At this stage, she still hadn’t made her breakthrough discovery but so meticulous was she that she had refashioned her microscope to get a clearer image of her research material.

Despite being excluded from scientific dialogue, talks and seminars — you know the reason why — Nettie was ready in 1905. She published a series of papers demonstrating that sex is determined by the chromosomes you inherit from your parents.

“We find that the evidence is overwhelmingly on the side of the view that sex is determined in the egg; but to the question of how sex is determined in the egg, no thoroughly convincing answer has yet been given”.

“Since the male somatic cells have 19 large and 1 small chromosome, while the female somatic cells have 20 large ones, it seems certain that an egg fertilised by a spermatozoon which contains the small chromosome must produce a male, while one fertilised by a spermatozoon and containing 20 chromosomes of equal size must produce a female.”

The Matilda Effect took over. Edmund Wilson, who had been working on the same line of research (he had ignored eggs as “too fatty” for his methods and examined only sperm) was credited with Nettie’s discovery *after* changing his own research paper to incorporate her findings.

He did grudgingly acknowledge her work. In a footnote. That’s where you can still find the history of women: in footnotes.

A second man, Thomas Hunt Morgan, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933 "for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity" and admitted that Nettie had "a share in a discovery of importance”, but not until after her death.

Nettie died in 1912 of breast cancer, aged 50, just before she could take up a research professorship.

[LabourLGB @LabourLGB]

We are devastated to learn that @AmnestyUK have left us out from a list of wonderful organisations who stand up for the rights of women, children and LGB people. Sob!

[Autism care and share @autcareandshare]

Hi everyone im looking for some help support or some information for a single mum shes feeling incredibly lonely and isolated she has 2 young children one has cerebral palsy and is non verbal autistic,she lives in Wandsworth London, does anyone know any support groups communities or families that maybe meet up in that area that she can connect with, she's a mum to two send children feeling really low and alone any information would be greatfully recieved, kind regards Adam.

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

I disagreed loudly, and 100%, with #AnnWiddicombe on the treatment of pregnant prisoners, maternity rights at work, Brexit and v many other issues. But she was extremely supportive of my stance on women's rights to single sex spaces, and the hounding and cancellation of those who agreed. As so often in the febrile world of Politics, it's almost always possible to find some common ground. And whatever her views, she was a formidable woman, active in a political world still dominated by men. #RIP

[London & UK Street News @CrimeLdn]

On Edgware Road tonight..

[JAG xx TERF @JoseyGraham]

Police appeal after man ‘masturbates’ in front of woman on London Euston train https://t.co/DEcOeruWOE

[Cath Leng @leng_cath]

Gift link to Telegraph article on the Met paying @glinner £25K for his ludicrous treatment during and after his arrest at Heathrow

Doing the bidding of transactivists at the drop of a hat was expensive - hope the cops feel ashamed of themselves

https://t.co/wmg7a0evVG

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

An outrageous appointment - of someone who corrupted the UK’s institutions and cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal fees.

[la scapigliata @lascapigliata8]

During my medical career, I looked after several trans-identifying male patients who were admitted to the psychiatric ward on 1:1 suicide watch, due to repeated and relentless suicide attempts following "gender affirming surgery" ie. castration, penectomy and neo-vagina creation. These men had a history of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts, which their psychiatrists and surgeons believed could only be relieved by drastic body modification.

What has stayed with me after all these years is that they were some of the most distressed patients I have ever seen. They were not only distressed because they realised surgery hadn't cured their troubled feelings, but because they had to live with their bodies being irreversibly mutilated. It goes without saying that severe psychological distress isn't conducive to the kind of self-care most gender reassignment procedures require post-operatively. This can lead to an increased rate of complications that further impact on the patient's life in an iatrogenic (doctor-caused) vicious cycle that could've been avoided.

These patients, and many other adults who suffer worsening physical and mental health following “gender reassignment“ interventions, tend to get overlooked in conversations about iatrogenic harm, because most people believe that adults should be able to do whatever they want with their bodies. However, adults can also be vulnerable, and the onus needs to be on the medical profession to only provide interventions for which there is robust evidence that benefits outweigh the harms.