The Ghost of Common Sense

Winner: 🏆 2025 RTS: Scoop of the Year / BBC: Outstanding Original Investigation / British Journalism Awards: Investigation of the Year
✊ Women’s Rights & ❤️🛸

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

135 British MPs are fighting guidance that would deny ‘Paula’ the right to enter women’s and girls’ changing rooms.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Appalling 🧵

I want those who champion men in women’s sport to explain why they’re happy to put girls at risk like this.

[Lobuz @Nitton57L]

God morgon Sverige ☀️☀️☀️

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

“The message was: do what we say.”

The BBC has been totally captured by trans ideologues.

Rob Burley tells FSU Director of Policy and Research @DavidRoseUK that the BBC arranged for Newsnight staff to attend an away day with trans lobbyists.

Trans activists advised staff on which individuals they should work with — and which they should avoid.

In 2013, the BBC adopted self-ID. Its official style guide changed the way the corporation handled trans issues by instructing staff to refer to men who identify as women as women.

Watch the latest episode of the FSU Podcast below with @RobBurl 👇

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

A lot of people have struggled to believe me when I say that the Australian Human Rights Commission is giving pregnancy protections in law to men who claim to be woman, because it’s so stupid it’s hard to believe anyone would say it.

Enjoy:

[Rachael Wong @RachaelWongAus]

It feels like there’s been a shift today.

💥 This morning, @The_Nationals MP Alison Penfold introduced a bill to amend the Sex Discrimination Act and restore sex-based rights and protections for women and girls.

💥 Her speech was excellent, and unlike similar bills, hers was not stopped in its tracks.

💥 Then, at a press conference, she and Senator @mattjcan stood shoulder to shoulder with @salltweets - THE WOMAN who represents every woman and girl who has been vilified, punished or harmed as a result of the lie that men can be women.

And Sall of course, was her usual brilliant self 👇

📣Every federal politician must work together to GET THIS DONE: https://t.co/R2K4FyE9D0

cc: @AlboMP @AngusTaylorMP @PaulineHansonOz @larissawaters

#FixTheSDA #IStandWithSallGrover #Auspol

[UnHerd @unherd]

JK Rowling mansplained, by Sarah Ditum (@sarahditum)

What happened to JK Rowling? If only there were some kind of primary source that could tell us why she became interested in the clash between trans activism and women’s rights — say, a first-person essay.

But alas, the archive is silent. It must be, because why else would two male podcasters have taken it upon themselves to solve this supposed mystery?

This week, the ‘Origin Story’ podcast, hosted by indistinguishable journalists Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey, bravely shouldered the burden of analysing Rowling over the course of two episodes.

Do they succeed? Not remotely. But they do offer a fascinating insight into what happens when a certain kind of progressive man becomes radicalised by Bluesky.

Read more below ⬇️

https://t.co/FQG6I59mww

[Maeve Halligan @MaeveHalligan]

"This ideology is dangerous and, after over a decade of its destruction of real and important LGB activism, I’d say it’s becoming boring. Being called a bigot for challenging it certainly is, anyway."

Read below:

https://t.co/UUfqu9W1xu

[Justice For Fayed & Harrods Survivors @J4FHS]

21 women approached the Met about Mohamed Fayed before he died, and he was never prosecuted.
MPs are now right to ask whether the current investigation, and the historic failures that preceded it, are being scrutinised as rigorously as survivors deserve.

https://t.co/LgzLbjo5gv

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

We now know Andy Burnham:

-Provided £100,000 of taxpayer’s money to fund a group that helped children get puberty blockers

-Believes men should have access to women’s toilets

-Criticised the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex

Labour pose a danger to women and children.

[Maeve Halligan @MaeveHalligan]

"The fact of the matter is: the more kids are trans, the more money she makes."

I spoke to @piersmorgan about my recent speech at the Cambridge Union. There are people profiting from trans ideology - people who must be called out.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Man decides men can go anywhere they like!

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

The leader of the Lib Dems, and the leader and deputy leader of the Green party, think some women have penises. In itself, it seems like a relatively unimportant matter. But it is symptomatic of a contempt for science and evidence-based truth. Could you vote for a flat-Earther?

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

Some extraordinary revelations in Rob Burley’s piece on the BBC in @unherd. Not least this…

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

@Europarl_EN "Transgenderism" is just a way to turn a male sexual fetish into a protected identity. The process legalizes sexual offending, such as voyeurism, and the sexual medical abuse of minors.

Don't believe me? Trans activists say as much themselves 👇🏻

[Sonia Gallego🪬 @SoniaRGallego]

Explosive insider takedown by @RobBurl - how gender identity ideology, Stonewall, and DEI hijacked the Beeb from the inside.
“No debate.” “Be kind.” Bullying. Style Guide surrender.
These are the facts on how Britain’s broadcaster chose a side and betrayed the public.
🔗 ⬇️

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

This is a superb account of how the BBC was captured by the trans extremists and how a few brave souls risked cancellation to fight for impartiality and fair reporting

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

‘Unsworth said the ‘world went mad’ around progressive politics during her time at the BBC, and that the BBC ‘went a bit mad with it’.

‘Pointing to coverage of trans issues, she said there’d been ‘a kind of national bullying..in every institution in society’, adding that dissenting views were often unwelcome within the BBC’.

‘Unsworth suggested that only one acceptable viewpoint was permitted within the organisation and that journalists felt pressure to conform to prevailing narratives’

Unsworth headed News and Current Affairs from 2018 to 2022.

Some of our members met her to complain about and discuss coverage. She listened like a journalist, and asked the questions you’d expect of a journalist. Very few did: only two names are instantly memorable as showing any interest.

@RobBurl has done a magnificent job here.

There’s a paywall but it’s £3 for three months. It’s definitely worth it. This is comprehensive detail.

[Freddie Sayers @freddiesayers]

Extraordinary long read at @UnHerd today.

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

Excellent longread on how the BBC fell to transactivism by @RobBurl @unherd

In 2013. Before Stonewall adopted the T, the BBC capitulated.

It hardwired transactivist language into its style guide.

We will never know how many stories were quietly abandoned or actively suppressed.

The BBC should now say clearly the world is round. There are two sexes. Human beings cannot change sex.

https://t.co/RPFuKsZXaf