@EyeEdinburgh@eilidhfife@BedraggledC @ariellekersey At that age I was sure I was a boy. My parents love reminding me how I wanted to be a ball boy at Wimbledon. They encouraged me to do the things I enjoyed, cut my hair short, play "boys" sports. Not once did they try to tell me that I was a boy. And you know what? I wasn't.
“There is no ban on trans women in sports. They just need to compete in the proper category - which is the male category”
“It’s that simple” says @Martina
Yet @the_LTA welcomes males to play at all levels of grassroots women’s tennis, up to & including club championships
It’s quite amazing that the state will give women this much police protection against trans activists so we can safely hold a rally advocating for women only spaces… but not actually allow us to have women only spaces even for safety.
I will be pursuing a press complaint against you @DailyMail for this revolting, dangerous, damaging headline.
His poor daughter went to live with him after a difficult life, hoping for love and stability. He got her blind drunk & raped her. She killed herself.
Shame on you.
Colchester @marksandspencer I asked where the women’s changing room was to try on swimwear. Manager Andrew (he/ his /him) says gender neutral changing areas are “completely safe” for women and girls. For asking him this question, he told me to leave the store. @SexMattersOrg
Yesterday when I was watching my son play football from my car another car pulled up beside me and its occupants stood in front of my car blocking my view (it was cold and drizzle so getting out of the car wasn’t ideal). I popped my head out and asked if they could please move over just a little bit so I could see. Within seconds an angry man was waving his finger in my face telling me not to tell his family what to do. I thought he was going to hit me. Another man told him to calm down and step away from me. I didn’t let him see my fear but my heart was beating so fast I felt like I was going to have a heart attack. It took about an hour for my body to stop being in fight or flight mode.
When a man claims women haven’t objected to their presence in female spaces this is why..
The NHS put a mentally ill woman in a men’s psychiatric ward and she was raped within ONE HOUR. Do you understand now what a woman is and why that matters, Health Secretary @jamesmurray_ldn??
Heartbroken: The Taliban has formally recognised child marriages under a sweeping new family law regulation that sets out rules for marriages involving minors and establishes specific guidelines governing virgin girls. Where is the UN and international community?
In my Olympics the E.German women took 6 x 1-2-3s & 2 relay golds. For 20 years women raced against people they knew had a huge unfair hormone advantage. I can tell you it’s soul destroying after training 6 hrs a day 6 days a week. It’s the biggest reason I had to speak out
When Allyson Felix became pregnant, Nike threatened to cut her sponsorship contract by almost 70% because of her pregnancy.
They told her:
“You should know your place… and just run.”
Amid all this, at seven months pregnant, Allyson had to undergo an emergency C-section due to a serious complication.
Her baby girl spent over a month in the neonatal intensive care unit.
But two years later, Allyson qualified for her fifth Olympic Games, with her daughter in the stands cheering her on.
Allyson left Nike.
And she founded her own shoe brand: Saysh One.
At the Tokyo Olympics, she ran wearing her own sneakers, carrying the motto:
“I know exactly where my place is.”
With 11 medals, she surpassed Carl Lewis and became the most decorated American track and field athlete in history.
And to all women, she gave this message:
“I raised my voice and built this company for you, so that you’ll never have to train at 4:30 in the morning, five months pregnant, just to hide it from your sponsor.” ❤️
🧵In July 2024 I broke news that the BMA was planning to vote on a motion to "disavow" the Cass Review & work with others to oppose implementation of its recommendations. Nearly two years' later, the union has officially dropped its opposition, after conducting its own review.
New Oxford University study on BBC reporting of 'transgender' people:
Since 2000 in the UK
• 11 were murdered (mostly killed by their male partners). This generated 137 news stories
• 20 committed murder. This generated just 58 news stories, of which only 23 mentioned trans
Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet."
Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution.
Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer.
The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss.
The wool is then:
- Naturally flame-retardant
- Naturally antibacterial
- Moisture-wicking
- Biodegradable
- Renewable, annually
- Carbon-storing while in use
The replacement, in performance fabrics:
- Polyester
- Polyamide
- Acrylic
- Polypropylene
- All petroleum-derived
- All shedding microplastics on every wash
- All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce
- All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years
A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals.
A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years.
The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic.
The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer.
The polymer also has not been asked.
Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made.
Brian is selling it at a loss.
The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical.
Reject plastic. Wear wool.
Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.
A very inebriated man just sat down next to me at the train station and said: “Alright, gorgeous.”
I didn’t like the look of him, so I got up and moved.
“Couldn’t get away quick enough, could you love?” he shouted after me, laughing.
Then he stood up. For a moment I thought he was going to follow me.
He didn’t - but as he staggered off in the other direction, he hollered across the station: “She needs to be f**ked up the arse, that one.”
This is the reality women are navigating - every day, often without saying a word about it.
And yet we’re told that if a man puts on a dress and calls himself Susan, any discomfort we feel about sharing intimate spaces makes us the problem.
Trans ID’d men: women don’t have a problem with me in the ladies, they never say anything
Trans ID’d man when challenged: *punches young woman multiple times in the face, potentially fracturing her cheekbone*
Portsmouth MP @StephenMorganMP supports these men in women’s spaces
More women have been arrested for calling males 'men' in the past 10 years than men have been arrested for calling women 'bitch' or 'whore' in the past 1000 years.
Try not to choke on your cornflakes but the Guardian has written a piece acknowledging that sex cannot be changed and explaining why males who went through male puberty have an unfair advantage over women in sport.
As Tanya Aldred writes:
‘These physical advantages mean that the fastest 14-year-old boys run the 100m more quickly than the women’s world record; the No 1 women’s tennis player, Aryna Sabalenka, lost last December’s battle of the sexes game to an out-of-shape Nick Kyrgios, then ranked at No 671 in the world; and if there were no category for women at the Olympics, there would be no female medallists – except in equestrian events, and possibly static shooting. This does not mean that women’s sport is lesser, it just means the two sexes are different.’
Please no one tell ‘right side of history’ woke bros Owen Jones, Jonathan Liew, Alistair Campbell etc
Link below ⬇️
@xx_xyathletics now - one year later - we have a run club of over 100 women from around the country who believe in that strength too. We celebrate and support each other because we know that there's something special about being a woman and an athlete that you can't just don like a costume.
@adamndsmith Prison stats show men who pretend to be women are MORE likely to endanger women.
More that 70% of men who lie about their sex in prison are in there for violent and sexual crimes compared to men who don't lie at 17%
The sooner you stop talking rubbish, the better.