NEWSistersNI

A news channel, made by Northern Irish women. We discuss the contemporary news affecting women and girls, in NI and internationally.

[NEWSistersNI @NewsistersN]

@sleepymammabear @doghoundhunter 14 years ago this guy was a twit on twitter. Big massive arguments going on...

[NEWSistersNI @NewsistersN]

Hypocritical inclusion

[Jane Keeps Receipts @JanesReceipts]

Last year @FeileBelfast hosted an event focused on trans views on women’s rights. No balance, run by Féile themselves. This year was balance in line with their charity aims. But they bowed to activist pressure at the very last. Only one voice is being heard here. That’s wrong.

[Brian Canavan @briancanavan1]

A woman's group banned from @FeileBelfast and the local award winning reporter who sees misogyny everywhere is tweeting about Tommy Robinson.....if your ever in any doubt about where priorities are.

[NEWSistersNI @NewsistersN]

@sleepymammabear @FeileBelfast A cowardly and profoundly worrying decision.
Women who believe sex is real ARE being demonised.
You should be ashamed of yourselves.
This is discrimination.

[NEWSistersNI @NewsistersN]

This!

[Chris Logan @GusLogie1971]

This is an awful decision, kowtowing to the zealots within society. This is a chance for those people who disagree to come and engage matters. Cancelling women because some men disagree is profoundly misogynistic behaviour. Shame on the organisers for being cowards.

[NEWSistersNI @NewsistersN]

For the Deputy Chief Constable to flippantly dismiss so many more serious decisions, that will have been made by the PSNI, since the Good Friday Agreement is absurd.

[WRN NI @ni_wrn]

Quite a shocking statement considering the deep rooted issues of misogyny and abuses against women exposed in the PSNI. Surely dealing with that is harder than not marching in a parade.....??

[REDUXX @reduxx]

WALES: A transgender pedophile has been jailed once again after being found in violation of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order related to possessing prohibited images of children.

Scott Henwood, also known as Scarlett Lee, was described as a "woman" by media.
https://t.co/uduvDoDeSd

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Trans-identified men in Edinburgh are fortunate enough to be welcome at the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, which was headed for a while by a trans-identified man who believed, and said publicly, that women who wanted a female-only service were bigots. That same rape centre admitted a male as a client because he called himself non-binary. The man was subsequently convicted for rape.

Beira’s Place was set up by me to provide women in Edinburgh and the Lothians with the female-only service they were being denied. Internal emails between ERRC staff were revealed during an unrelated court case, which showed them to be angry and dismayed that there was now an alternative service for women. One might have thought, reading those emails, that ERRC staff’s priority was the ideological conversion of rape survivors rather than the provision of a service that traumatised women required to feel safe after rape.

Beira’s Place has been exceptionally busy since it opened. We’ve taken on more staff and are currently looking for larger premises. We’ve helped women who’ve admitted that they didn’t want to use the alternative rape centre because of its very loud and public ‘trans women are women’ stance. We are also open to any and all trans-identified women who need support after rape.

In short, you’ll be relieved to hear that the trans-identified men for whom you feel such empathy and compassion aren’t losing out. It was biological women who were being shamed for their entirely legitimate desire for a male-free space. Apparently you’d have preferred that situation to continue, but I think you’ll find that most people, whether male or female, will see that as evidence of your cruelty, not mine.

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

Best go after a rape crisis centre eh, @AmnestyUK ?

[Róisín Michaux @RoisinMichaux]

Latest:

“The standoff over self-ID in Montenegro signals a broader impasse over LGBTIQ+ rights. Progressive politicians are full of enthusiasm for “legal gender recognition” as long as the details of what it entails are not revealed. At a certain point, however, the surface gets scratched, and when it does, very few people in the political class seem ready or willing to stand up and say: yep, queering the civil registry is a fundamental right.”

https://t.co/FR7GFiHkEn

[Jon Burrows MLA @JonBurrowsMLA]

This man is an utter disgrace, as is his wife Eleanor. His eventual sentencing should reflect his complete lack of remorse.

https://t.co/JwdTs73oCY

[Belfast Telegraph @BelTel]

Strange debacle reveals a broken and secretive civil service where vast effort goes into hiding basic information from those who fund this elaborate bureaucracy
https://t.co/5zs0n3VsRY
https://t.co/5zs0n3VsRY

[The Irish News @irish_news]

Police have confirmed they are investigating “criminal damage” at Rathfriland water tower after entry was forced ahead of flags being erected on the 110ft structure.

The investigation follows claims from unionist councillors and an MLA that complaints over the flags from a Sinn Féin representative were “fake outrage”.

Read more: https://t.co/E2WeCpY3xi

[Olivia Maurel @maurel_olivia]

“I was not a miracle. I was a contract.”

I was born through surrogacy. This book tells the story too often missing from the debate: the child’s.

In Search of My Mother is finally available in English. 📖

Please repost, children deserve to be heard.

https://t.co/TiHjXMXFbk

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

The women’s charity sector and police lie and collude about LWS midlands and me.

Jenna Athi who was "very upset and angry" (I believe she works for Changing Futures)

PSCO Sue Rutter agreeing "yeah" to a group that "lied about who they were and snuck in" and how we called her very useless and to go home last year at our 'gathering'.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

Jukes tried this ‘guilt by association’ move on me once as we engaged on X as well.
When he couldn’t make his feeble point about men in women’s spaces stand up, he went looking for GC accounts who had used words like ‘groomer’, screenshot them and asked: ‘How can you associate yourself with this?’
It’s a manoeuvre even a sixth form debating society would shun. Note how the one tweet he uses to smear @bindelj has no mention of the two things he’s accusing her of. Then he turns off replies. Pathetic.

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

Under this UK government, 15 year olds will be considered too young to buy an energy drink but 11 year olds will be considered old enough to take puberty blockers…
https://t.co/CPsUKeD1v0

[ruth allum @mgtruth]

The shocking thing is that there are up to 40 further victims who’ve since come forward. One a child of 9.
Where is their justice, their closure?

[The Countess @TheCountessIE]

Amnesty got off lightly in 2020 when they signed a letter demonising Irish women who were defending women’s sex-based rights.

And the silence from Irish media and politicians was deafening.

Good to see them getting their comeuppance at last.

They have long fallen from grace.

Go @jk_rowling

[WRN NI @ni_wrn]

*Event* We are hosting a panel at this year's Feile an Phobail, Respect, Rights and Reality, bringing voices from around Ireland and Europe to discuss the reality of womens rights
Tuesday 4th August 11am.
@SexMattersOrg @TheCountessIE @AthenaForumEU @GaelsFairPlay
@FeileBelfast