Unrepentant Woman 💚🤍💜

Woman (don't call me cis). Feminist & Mother, Artist & Friend. All about my sisters and the kids

[Unrepentant Woman 💚🤍💜 @KayefromKent]

They'll never be as sad as the guinea pigs at the Tavistock

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

📣🚨 FSU VICTORY!

A Scottish FSU member was driving on the M80 with his four-year-old son after a day at an amusement park when another car cut him up, nearly causing a collision.

Under his breath, he muttered something racist. The windows were down, but the other driver wasn’t looking at him. The only witness was his young son in the back seat.

Convinced the dangerous driver had been drinking, our member contacted the police. They eventually stopped both cars and reviewed his dashcam footage.

A week later, the police contacted him to say that an offence had been committed — not by the dangerous driver, but by our member, for words he had muttered under his breath in the privacy of his own car.

He was prosecuted for allegedly causing alarm and distress, even though only he and his young son were in the car. It is extraordinary.

The Free Speech Union found him an excellent barrister, and he was acquitted by the Justice of the Peace within minutes.

This is the closest we have come to defending someone prosecuted for thought crime.

This is the extent of police overreach in speech and thought policing. They need to get their priorities straight.

Watch the Free Speech Union’s General Secretary, Lord Young, below 👇

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

For all those in the women's sector who never gave up.

[Róisín Michaux @RoisinMichaux]

“I’m glad someone is finally asking this”

A mass-peaking event unfolding over on Reddit …

https://t.co/inbEZ8Bqrp

[Catholic Church @catholicEW]

Archbishop’s statement on the Draft Conversion Practices Bill: https://t.co/5gowfiVTbS

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

The deadline for telling the parliamentary committee what you think of the draft Conversion Practices Bill is NEXT MONDAY. You can put in a useful response in under half an hour. Don't let the government decide to criminalise ordinary family conversations without having your say! https://t.co/KfbdhW0phq

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

Maugham has until November 19 to make good his threat to judicially review the Bar Standards Board for its failure to punish me for saying things he doesn’t like.

His funders will not know how much this has cost the GLP so far but it won’t be cheap. He paid a team of lawyers to draft the initial complaint, including at least one KC, and paid them again to seek a review of the first refusal. A JR will probably cost about £100k.

I offered to settle my defamation action against him for no costs and no damages - simply an apology. He refused. If he loses this will cost the GLP about £300k.

Do his donors think this is a good use of their money?

[Biology in Medicine @biologyinmed]

We are relieved that @Hilary_Cass and @YvetteCooperMP have taken notice of this breach of safeguarding and the law. Hormones harm patients when not used in line with biological need.
Cross sex hormones are dangerous and must stop 🛑
https://t.co/t96Bcg5UAU

[Kate Harris @Kathari17674744]

When I met Jolyon Maugham a few years ago I asked him what he had against LGB Alliance. He told me that it was because we could not possibly have held conferences at the QEII centre without men organising and funding us. When I tried to discuss this with him further he physically turned his back to me and told me that he refused to engage any further. He silenced me.

Then he took a case to the Charity Commission to have LGB Alliance struck off the register. He wanted to silence us.

Now he is saying he wishes to support women who have been "abused into silence". Are you planning to reimburse our supporters with the £250k your vexatious court case cost us Jolyon?

Let's flip the fear Jolyon - and get you in the dock for terrorising so many women over the years and abusing the law so to do.

[Aletheia @Aletheia_70]

For those asking why students have not come forward about the lecturer wearing prosthetic breasts.

The college (@hilda_beastoxf) JCR exec all declare pronouns. They have 2 x LGBTQ+ Reps, & additional ones for Trans and Womxn (yep!)

This is a culture of compelled conformity.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

This is a devastating and characteristically perceptive article by Hadley Freeman of the Times pointing out that the tyrannical conversion bill is a bait and switch and exploits real gay pain.

This is a journalist who really understand this.

https://t.co/B2a8YDCcBZ

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

🚨 NEW: ‘Perhaps only at Oxford University could the unacceptable so often be considered acceptable.’

I worked with the Daily Mail’s Paul Bracchi on this profile of Oxford University lecturer Matt Rattley.

How did a gifted young academic - with a first-class degree, academic prizes and prize-winning essays become the lecturer who wears enormous prosthetic breasts to teach students at one of the world’s most prestigious universities?

A talented musician, too, who played bassoon with Somerville’s musicians, performing works by Beethoven, Poulenc and Bach.

And how did behaviour that has prompted repeated complaints come to be defended, by some, in the name of ‘freedom of expression’?

This is a story not just about one Oxford lecturer, but about an institution - and the questions it appears unwilling to confront.

And perhaps the most troubling question of all is why so many people inside Oxford appear afraid to speak out.

Read below 👇

[Northern RadFem Network @FemNorthern]

Nottingham, tonight, the first female only reclaim the night event for years.

Well done @NottsRtN for organising this event.
Women from Northern RadFem Network are making trip to support this event.
See you there.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Stonewall has been given unprecedented access to Downing Street and helped the Labour Government draw up its “chilling” Conversion Practices Bill.

The Telegraph has revealed that the controversial charity has been supplying Downing Street with research to justify the proposed law.

Under the Bill, parents, therapists and religious leaders could face up to five years in prison for having important conversations with gender-confused children or sharing their faith’s teachings on sex, gender and marriage with their congregations.

Stonewall’s head of policy was reportedly invited to a meeting at 10 Downing Street to discuss the proposed law and made recommendations to the MPs scrutinising the Bill.

Dennis Kavanagh, director of the Gay Men’s Network and a criminal barrister, said his organisation had not been offered similar meetings. He told The Telegraph: “The level of government access afforded to Stonewall is extraordinary, particularly in view of their extreme position on gender matters and their poor track record in accurately stating the law.”

Published in June, the Bill’s impact assessment cited a Stonewall survey to argue that conversion practices were so prevalent that new legislation was needed — even though conversion practices are already illegal.

Read more below 👇

[Dr Pam Spurr Psychologist & Artist 🟢⚪🟣 @DrPamSpurr]

🚨 Calling all TERFs: we CAN make a difference tackling a business, org or charity one at a time that's AVOIDING the law!

Excited to say my persistent challenging of The Bridge Women's Charity's women-only gym, in Southwark, means it'll now be MEN-free.

This is their new guidance (left image) & part of the CEO's email to me. (Note her pronouns 🤪)

ps amusing that in previous emails she used my title & spelt my name correctly (far right image). BUT when she had to concede defeat she misspells my name & doesn't use my title 😀)

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

Imagine being in your first week of social work training and being told that some of your fellow students might be there to gain access to vulnerable children.

Shocking, right? But this social worker’s point applies anywhere adults work with children. Some people will seek out those roles for the wrong reasons. And the person whose behaviour you need to question might be the nicest person you know.

She also makes an important point about why safeguarding starts with having a clear sense of what’s normal and what isn’t. Once that boundary starts to blur, it’s easier for someone to cross it without being challenged.

I wish I’d seen this video years ago. I can think of times when something felt off and I kept quiet because I worried I might be wrong or cause offence.

Thanks @JournalistJill for highlighting it.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

"she said his short skirt left his underwear visible. In her description, he was sitting with his legs apart, 'airing his b***s in a miniskirt', flanked by two women in dresses."

It's revolting that @UniofOxford has allowed this man to harass & intimidate women.

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

The government is tendering for an organisation to run its Conversion Practice Victim Support Service.

£180,000 for two years.

It has spent £471,232 on this helpline over the past 5 years and released no data about how many times the phone rang.

If anyone can download the tender documents I would appreciate it.

https://t.co/P5DjZbPh4Y

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Even loving parents could end up being jailed if the Government's trans conversion Bill becomes law.

I'll gladly go to prison to save a child from being harmed by trans ideology.

My column for @TheSun. Link to full article here ⬇️
https://t.co/5YuZXEhFOg

[Anya Palmer @anyabike]

This is like the assisted dying bill all over again. This is no way to legislate
https://t.co/QxV8mubZ8b

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

How on earth an organisation that misrepresented the law to so many institutions, for so many years, to such devastating effect, be allowed anywhere near another law that could potentially net them millions and cause more untold damage, is a government scandal in its own right.