Sue Lyon

Living in London Docklands. Adult human female. Kidney transplant 1986.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Very much enjoying the IPSO ruling in Molly v Sunday Times.

The press should note that columnists are at liberty to call Euan a "bloke", a "lunatic", and "Mr Molly".
https://t.co/aY2SByLBa0

[Sue Lyon @LondonTouch]

@lb_southwark As a adult human female Southwark resident (and voter), I really object to your wasting my council tax on a fruitless, virtue-signalling attempt to disobey the law. Grow up and stop being an idiot.

[amelia @ameliabombelia]

@ripx4nutmeg @Dis_Critic I sent in a complaint, got this back:

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

🧵 I’m thrilled to have signed with @cintopress for my forthcoming book “WOMEN EXIST: how the gender critical movement defeated Stonewall Law”
The book will explain how & why UK law has upheld women’s rights against the demands of transactivism…/1

https://t.co/TweXEHsgle

[Polly Clark @MsPollyClark]

A few weeks ago I applied for a part-time post teaching on the Writing Poetry MA at the Arts Council-funded Poetry School.

It didn't go well.

Link to read below.

[Sue Lyon @LondonTouch]

@DannyBeales Like all the others, you either wilfully don't understand the law, or you are really thick? Or both?

[Cllr Mandy Clare @MandyClareTERF]

Brilliant 🤩

[Gill, Nebraskan Land Seal 🇮🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 @Gillian_Philip]

Bloody well put @ShelaghFogarty

[💙Fiona Macdonald @Fiona44444]

There are lots of cases worthy of support but Elspeth represents the Sex Equality and Equity Network inside the Civil Service. They have been inspirational to others but have been hounded for stating material reality. The case is very soon. https://t.co/lTippDNvOg

[Levi Pay @soppystern]

Here, @WilliamJHague. In just three minutes, I typed a new, additional section for your piece to camera.

This is what also needs to be said:

“The responsibility for protecting free speech and academic freedom do not rest on one colleague’s shoulders. They are ours to shoulder, as an institution.

The protest we saw in the video footage certainly appeared to me to be an unacceptable interference with our ability to function as an institution. We will investigate it fully, and we will take action where students or staff are found to have acted inappropriately, by either staging or permitting actions that go beyond the kinds of civil protest I just described.

For all future events - whether delivered as part of this series of events (if they are reinstated, as I hope they will be) or delivered in any other area of the University's activities - I want to be absolutely clear. There will be disciplinary consequences, up to and including possible expulsion or termination of contract, if people overstep the boundaries of 'protest' and enter into the realm of the 'heckler’s veto' .

For clarity, let me spell out what I mean by the 'heckler's veto'. This is where the impact of your actions is not just to make one voice or opinion (perhaps your own) heard, but also to prevent others in our University community doing what they are paid, or indeed paying, to do, or to prevent those who disagree with your position position from themselves being heard.

I repeat, there will be disciplinary consequences, up to and including possible expulsion or termination of contract, if people overstep the boundaries of 'protest' and enter into the realm of the 'heckler’s veto' .”

This is what needs to be said.

Almost everyone agrees the events should go ahead; that bit is easy to say. The questions that remain are about what the University and its constituent Colleges will do to make this happen, who is shouldering the responsibilities here, and what the consequences will be of overstepping the boundaries. It is no good leaving these aspects unsaid or implied.

Universities normally receive an invoice after I draft things for them, but you can have the above free of charge.

You're welcome.

[Tracy Edwards @TracyEdwardsMBE]

Love this!! KEEP TERFING!!

[Sue Lyon @LondonTouch]

I just supported this case! https://t.co/WojvC2b8zp via @CrowdJustice

[Sue Lyon @LondonTouch]

I just supported this case! https://t.co/WojvC2b8zp via @CrowdJustice

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. A 42-year-old mother of two came to my office complaining of jaw pain and crushing fatigue. She ran half-marathons. Her EKG was normal. Another doctor had sent her home with anxiety medication.
When I got her into the cath lab, I found severe microvascular disease — plaque choking the tiniest vessels of her heart, the ones standard angiograms routinely miss.
Her heart had been starving in silence while everyone told her she was stressed.
She is alive today. Too many women like her are not.
Heart disease kills more women than every cancer combined. And medicine is still diagnosing it through a male lens.
84% of cardiologists report having patients in the past year whose heart disease was misdiagnosed by another physician. Women with a STEMI heart attack have a 59% greater chance of being misdiagnosed compared to men. Women with an NSTEMI — 41% greater chance.
The reason is structural. For decades, we screened, tested, and treated women using a template built for men.
Men's heart attacks announce themselves — the crushing chest pain, the clutched fist, the Hollywood collapse. Women's hearts whisper. Crushing fatigue that feels like wearing a lead vest. Jaw pain written off as TMJ. Nausea blamed on a stomach bug. An ache between the shoulder blades blamed on a long week. Shortness of breath blamed on being out of shape.
For years, medicine called these "atypical" symptoms. They are not atypical. They are female-typical. Half of humanity is not a variant.
And the biology runs deeper than symptoms.
Women have smaller hearts and narrower coronary arteries. Plaque doesn't only clog the big highway vessels — it hides in the microvasculature, the tiny branches feeding the heart muscle itself. A woman can have a heart attack with a completely "clean" standard angiogram.
SCAD — spontaneous coronary artery dissection — occurs 90% of the time in women. Often young, fit women with zero traditional risk factors. It's the leading cause of heart attack in women under 50, accounting for roughly one quarter of all cases in that age group. Most doctors have never diagnosed one.
And some of the most dangerous cardiac risk factors are hidden in women's medical histories where no one thinks to look:
Preeclampsia or gestational hypertension doubles to quadruples lifetime heart disease and stroke risk. Pregnancy is the body's first cardiac stress test — and these complications are early warning sirens, not closed chapters.
Autoimmune disease — lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis — far more common in women, turbocharges inflammation and plaque formation at any age.
Cardiovascular disease in women aged 20-44 is projected to surge nearly 50% by 2050.
The youngest patients in my practice keep getting younger.
What every woman should ask her doctor — and what every doctor should be asking:
"Given my pregnancy history, autoimmune status, and family history — what is my full cardiovascular risk?" If they don't ask about preeclampsia or gestational diabetes, volunteer it.
"Should I have an Lp(a) test and a coronary calcium score?" Standard cholesterol panels miss too much. Lp(a) is genetic, one-time, and most women have never been tested.
"My tests came back normal but my symptoms haven't stopped — what's next?" Normal stress tests and angiograms can miss microvascular disease, spasm, and SCAD. Persistent symptoms warrant coronary CT angiography or cardiac MRI.
And if something feels wrong — say these exact words to your doctor: "I am concerned this could be my heart."
That single sentence changes the workup. Do not soften it. Do not apologize for it.
80% of heart disease is preventable. But the playbook has to be built for female biology.
Two decades ago, I wrote one of the first books warning that heart disease was the number one killer of women and that medicine was diagnosing it through a male lens. It was recognized by First Lady Laura Bush at the White House during the early years of the national conversation about women's heart health.
I'm haunted by how much of that book I could republish today unchanged.
The science has advanced. The awareness has grown. But the gap between what we know and what happens in the exam room is still costing women their lives.
Share this with every woman you love — and every doctor who treats them. READ MORE: https://t.co/4LRugiY8q2

[Michael Foran @michaelpforan]

It is unfortunate that these protesters have chosen disruption over genuine intellectual engagement grounded in academic charity and rigour. In attempting to shame students into deplatforming these lectures, they manifest the antithesis of what a university stands for.

[Sue Lyon @LondonTouch]

@swklibdems Can local residents make the decision on allowing men in women's changing rooms? Sure that would go down well in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe.

[Sue Lyon @LondonTouch]

@swklibdems @VMMChamberlain Southwark voter here. (1) What about standing in solidarity with real women? (2) Why not just get on and obey the law? Voted Lib Dem once. Never again. Idiot.

[Paintings of London @PaintingsLondon]

'Gloomy Old London' by Harriet Lawless
https://t.co/JjrWLjEVgL

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

I've written the inaugural piece for my legal Substack on this week's attempt by MPs to block the @EHRC Code of Practice:

EARLY WARNING | Are MPs plotting to overturn For Women Scotland and dismantle women’s and LGB people’s discrimination law rights?

https://t.co/D0mxelouWb

[Adele Waters @AdeleWatersRx]

So all NHS records must now record sex - gender is optional. So why is NHS England not playing ball? https://t.co/jaZmBD8id6