🏁 K🅰️+e Lewis 💚🤍💜🦖

Adult human female Bibliophile. Pronouns are me/my/mine. Gender atheist #EndFGM #NoThankYou #WomenBornNotWorn #RespectMySex

[Annie Bishop @AnnieBishop123]

We’ve come a long way baby or at least we thought we had. I found this letter in the house that I bought

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

Those who say the sex and gender debate is about “a tiny minority” are looking through the wrong end of the telescope.

It’s about a concerted attempt by activists, backed by governments, institutions, and NGOs, to deny that humans - like all other mammals - are either male or female. It’s about an attack on reality.

If you can get someone to believe a man can be a woman, you can get them to believe anything.

If people are threatened. fired, taken to court and convicted for pointing out that a man is a man, or that it is impossible to change sex, freedom of speech is lost and you are living under a tyrannical dystopia.

It’s not about “a tiny minority.”
It’s about all of us.

[Qais Alamdar @Qaisalamdar]

''Girls are being raped. Not metaphorically. Not as legal shorthand. The day their bodies bleed for the first time, they will be made pregnant by a man four, five, or six times their age, and their small bodies tell the rest. Thirty-two per cent of deaths for Afghan girls aged 15 to 19 are pregnancy-related and Afghanistan's maternal mortality rate is among the world's highest, 521 deaths per 100,000 live births.'' - Writes @NasimiShabnam

https://t.co/JP2QCCzYkI

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

Useful thread regarding recent UK tribunal.

The claimant is a Muslim woman with PTSD (a disability) whose workplace allowed men to use female facilties.

Her claim for discrimination was successful *on the basis of her being a woman.*

Her being Muslim (assumed modesty) and disabled (potential trauma) were unsuccessful claims.

That is (IANAL), neither of those characteristics were judged to have placed her at a specific disadvantage over and above the baseline of *being a woman*.

Many women have been weaponised in the general debate. Women have felt pressured to reveal sexual trauma to justify why they want safe, female-only spaces. Religiously modest women have been held up as rhetorical shields.

No more.

Being a woman is sufficient.

[Anna Maria Junus @JunusAnna]

If they really wanted to be left alone - then they would have left a woman alone who was literally minding her own business in a tiny corner of the web providing a safe shelter for other women.

But nooooo. They had to go and destroy that too.

[Janet Inglis @ThatAussieWoman]

These are just a few of the projects in Africa and South Asia, where single-sex toilets are recognised as practical and necessary facilities for the safety, hygeine, privacy and cultural needs of girls.

Needs that are ignored and diminished in the face to build the so-called 'gender-neutral' (in reality mixed-sex) toilets that are being forced on school girls in wealthy, (supposedly more advanced) nations.

Larger players like UNICEF, World Vision, and Save the Children routinely include separate boys’/girls’ facilities in their school WASH programs across dozens of poor countries.

Several links to UNICEF articles and reports about the importance of single-sex toilets in schools.

WASH in Schools - global monitoring where basic sanitation requires single-sex improved toilets.

Link: https://t.co/H523fx7ocx

https://t.co/2JH4tSucVY

Core Questions and Indicators for Monitoring WASH in Schools (JMP WHO/UNICEF, 2018): Details indicators for separate girls’ and boys’ toilets.
Link: https://t.co/pmWRpTEMDB

https://t.co/h9nqJHdMxC

Toilets Help Restore Learning, Health, Safety, and Dignity (UNICEF Timor-Leste, 2025): Describes rebuilt "inclusive toilets" with gender disaggregated (separate) flush toilets in schools.
Link: https://t.co/Xpon37zcKk

https://t.co/Xl0LcN8hTz

Enhancing Inclusive Learning Through Girls’ Changing Rooms and Modern Urinals (UNICEF Ghana): Focuses on gender-friendly sanitation to support girls.
Link: https://t.co/jKXNZ7AWlB

https://t.co/Xl0LcN8hTz

My School Latrine is My Dignity (UNICEF Ethiopia): Highlights gender-segregated improved latrine blocks.
Link: https://t.co/r6endKxnge

Clean Toilets, Brighter Futures (UNICEF Kenya): Improved gender-segregated facilities in schools.
Link: https://t.co/s7pV7R9sNb

One of UNICEF's guidance notes claims that single-sex toilets pose 'challenges' for some 'non-binary' individuals and calls for safe, inclusive options to be offered as a third option. But their WASH standards and school projects prioritize separate facilities for boys and girls.

https://t.co/day4Y9OsDo

There are many more projects in poor countries working to build single-sex toilets in schools - because the need is obvious and the link to better education and outcomes for girls is proven.

Why is this knowledge being ignored when it comes to our girls?

[HeCheated.org @hecheateddotorg]

🧵Parkrun has recently been in the spotlight regarding the battle for women's rights.

The organization allows men to run in a "female" category where they are then ranked and their times are compared to those of actual female participants.

There has been a lot of talk about how this is necessary for "inclusivity" without any explanation as to why. In fact, many of the men who run in the "female" category had no problem previously running in the "male" category, and parkrun even offers a "prefer not to say," option so that men who don't want to call themselves men don't have to.

Despite all of this, these men receive quite a bit of support in registering as "female" without the majority actually understanding who it is they're really supporting.

So I'd just like to take a minute to introduce you to a few men who believe themselves entitled to run as a "female" participant. Of course, this is not all.

(click on the show replies to see them all)

[Claire Hallissey @HallisseyC]

I've just finished a morning interval session. That's the reason I'm still able to 'battle' for 1st lady at parkrun. I wasn't magically born an Olympian, I worked hard to get there. I was, however, born a woman.
#makeparkrunfairforall #inclusivity

[🏁 K🅰️+e Lewis 💚🤍💜🦖 @KJLewisTweets]

@DreyfusJames @JillCollier16 Can’t, busy washing 👅

[Jon Pike @runthinkwrite]

Here's a response to the IOC policy from @FimsOrg, an academic organisation led by Yannis Pitsiladis. They have been the main proponents of the testosterone-suppression programme to allow males into female sport. I'll post the link, then a thread ...
https://t.co/BauD2bMWOm

[SEENinSport @SportSEENuk]

“There are many more girls for whom
being asked to participate with boys detracts from their enjoyment and experience.”

Please read this excellent report from @Womeninsport_uk showing that the majority of girls want boy-free sport, starting at primary school 1/

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

"All the guff about the Supreme Court ruling being too complicated to work out is ridiculous. There is not a middle ground here: either men can enter women’s spaces or they can’t..." @suzanne_moore always 🎯

Labour is breaking its promises to women...

https://t.co/BCxXUen5M9

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Ambition Before Duty. The Minister Who Put Her Career Ahead of the Law.

Next Wednesday marks one year since the Supreme Court ruled, unanimously and without ambiguity, that sex under the Equality Act means biological sex. One year since the law was settled. One year since the Equality and Human Rights Commission drafted its code of practice setting out what that ruling requires of hospitals, schools, gyms and public bodies. One year since Bridget Phillipson received that code and chose to sit on it.

What has changed in twelve months is not the law. The judgment stands. The code is ready. What has changed is the credibility of the minister charged with implementing it. Baroness Falkner, who led the EHRC until November and oversaw the drafting of that code, has now said plainly what many had suspected: Phillipson is withholding guidance not because it requires further work, but because publishing it would cost her politically. The activist MPs whose votes she needs for promotion would not forgive her. So women wait, and the minister keeps her powder dry (Martin, 2026).

That is a specific accusation, made by a specific person with direct knowledge of the process. It is not a political opponent guessing at motive. Falkner submitted the code. She watched it stall. She knows what ready looks like, and she knows the guidance is ready. Her conclusion, that personal ambition is the operative factor, carries weight that no government spokesman can easily dismiss. The Labour response, that Falkner had demeaned the office she once held, did not address the substance. It attacked the witness. Which leaves the charge unanswered.

Consider what the title Secretary of State for Women and Equalities actually represents. Not a departmental portfolio in the ordinary sense, but a stated commitment, a promise woven into the office itself. To hold that title while deliberately withholding the legal protections owed to the women you nominally represent is a contradiction so stark it requires no elaboration. The office makes the accusation. Falkner supplies the motive. The anniversary provides the measure.

Falkner went further still, and her wider observation deserves to be heard. She drew a parallel with the grooming gangs scandal, noting that this government has a pattern of institutional inaction driven by fear of upsetting particular constituencies. The comparison is uncomfortable precisely because it is not new. The structure is familiar: a known problem, a clear remedy, a minister unwilling to act because the political cost of action outweighs, in their private calculation, the human cost of delay. Those doing the waiting are never the ministers.

Starmer's position is untenable on its own terms. He told Parliament the ruling must be implemented in full. His minister is arguing for a case-by-case approach that restores the incoherence the court rejected. He is a lawyer. He knows what a unanimous Supreme Court judgment means. He also knows what his backbenchers want. The gap between those two things is where women's rights currently reside.

The government's rebuttal speaks of sober leadership and treating everyone with dignity. Fine words. But dignity is not delivered by a code of practice that lives in a ministerial drawer. Protection is not real if it exists only in statute while the guidance that would make it operational is suppressed for career reasons. The court has done its work. The EHRC has done its work. One minister has not done hers.

"Phillipson is withholding guidance not because it requires further work, but because publishing it would cost her politically."

[HeCheated.org @hecheateddotorg]

In the 2022-2023 school year, there were at least 51 'trans'-identified male athletes participating in girls' middle school and high school sports in the United States.

There have been at least 159 'trans'-identified males on record who have participated in girls' sports in the United States. Almost all of these have been within the last 10 years.

Including boys who do not identify as 'trans,' there have been at least 517 males who have participated on girls' teams.

If each male affects 50 female athletes (those they compete with and against in the conference), that is a MINIMUM of 25,850 female student athletes negatively impacted.

There should not be or have ever been a single male in girls' sports, because girls' sports are for FEMALE ATHLETES.

Each and every piece of legislation against this is justified.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

American soccer star Megan Rapinoe owes her entire career to the existence of a protected female category. Now she’s criticizing the IOC for protecting that category for the next generation of women and girls.

My latest for the @nypost.
https://t.co/qkaitBOAMR

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

Dear Phoebe,

I read your Observer piece this morning on the reported “exodus” from Girlguiding - and I was genuinely shocked.

Not because you presented a different perspective to my recent Telegraph reporting on the problems within Girlguiding. That’s part of journalism.

But because you chose to include the case of a six-year-old little boy who reportedly tried to cut off his own penis - after being told he couldn't be part of Rainbows (the section of Girlguiding for 5–7 year olds). Presenting it as evidence of a problem with Girlguiding’s admissions policy.

It is not.

It is a deeply distressing account involving a very young child - and, on any view, a serious welfare concern. Framing it otherwise is a profound failure of editorial judgement.

You also refer to this male child throughout using female pronouns, including the phrase “her penis”.

I appreciate this may reflect current editorial conventions. But it sits uneasily with the basic duty of a journalist to report clearly and accurately on material facts.

I was already aware of this case through my own reporting for the Sunday Telegraph. I made a conscious decision not to include it at this stage - both because a minor is involved and because of the ethical considerations that arise when reporting on such sensitive situations.

Those considerations are not optional.

You will know, as I do, that journalism is not simply about presenting competing narratives. It is about establishing facts clearly, handling vulnerable subjects with care and exercising judgement about what should - and should not - be used to advance an argument.

I trained as a journalist in the early 2000s - a good 20 years earlier than you did - but to my knowledge nothing has changed.

Good journalism should bring clarity. It should not muddy the facts - in order to promote an ideological position.

In this context, that means being clear about sex - a material fact that is both legally and practically relevant.

I appreciate you may be under pressure from colleagues or editors to frame stories in a particular way - or to use she/her pronouns, or the phrase “her penis”.

But that doesn’t make it right.

Earlier this week, the Manchester Evening News reported a violent murder as being committed by a woman - one of many examples of inaccurate reporting around sex and gender.

In this case, even the Crown Prosecution Service - the public body responsible for prosecuting criminal cases in England and Wales - also reported the crime inaccurately.

So that’s two professions we should be able to trust to tell the truth - providing inaccurate information.

Crime statistics matter. Without accurate data on who is committing serious violence, we cannot properly understand it - let alone prevent it.

I considered raising this privately, or writing to your editor. But this issue is too important to be brushed aside with a “thank you for your feedback”.

I’m happy to discuss it with you privately, or to support a conversation with your editor if that would be helpful. But I hope this gives you - and your colleagues - serious pause for thought.

Because it is very much needed.

Janet

[Dr Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2]

So let's break down the timeline:🧵
2016 - I start to read mutterings in Guiding groups about girls who are "now boys" and people asking if they can stay in Guiding. No, say the mods, they are boys now, why would they want to?
Early 2018 - I am now aware that this is policy and

[🏁 K🅰️+e Lewis 💚🤍💜🦖 @KJLewisTweets]

@Hengist123 @babybeginner @BBCNews Yes, according to their email

[Alan M @Heavy_Boab]

Reading the replies this morning it’s obvious a lot of people in these comments would not survive one single day living with Tourette’s. Not one.

People think Tourette’s is just “saying a bad word.” That’s the level of understanding we’re dealing with here.

They don’t see the violent motor tics that don’t stop even when someone is injured. Repeatedly jerking your neck, slamming your arm, hitting yourself, twisting joints until everything aches. Over and over and over again.

They don’t see the breathing tics where it literally feels like you’re suffocating. Your brain forcing you to gasp, gulp air, repeat the same breath pattern again and again while your chest tightens.

They don’t see the exhaustion. The headaches. The muscle pain. The constant battle of living inside a body that won’t do what you tell it to do.

And then people sit on the internet and confidently declare that coprolalia must be intentional.

No. Coprolalia is when the brain forces out the most taboo, socially unacceptable words against the person’s will. Often the exact words the person fears saying the most because they know it could hurt people. But instead of learning that, people are back to making the same argument again and again.

“If that might happen, he shouldn’t be there.”

You realise what that argument is, right?

Segregation.

Exclude people with neurological disabilities from public life because their condition makes you uncomfortable.

I’m seeing that argument repeatedly and it’s disgusting.

Honestly, I’m just thankful I don’t live in America, because a huge amount of this loud, confident ignorance seems to be coming from there.

People would rather stay angry than spend five minutes understanding what Tourette’s actually is.

If you actually want to understand instead of shouting into the void, watch this: https://t.co/9AWhvW9nca

Even kids can grasp this condition when it’s explained to them. Tourette syndrome causes involuntary tics and vocal outbursts that the person cannot control.

Apparently that level of understanding is still too much to expect from some adults.