Norfolk Women #SexMatters

We are a group of reasonable women protecting our sex-based rights,challenging the imposition of gender identity ideology on health, education & other sectors.

[Norfolk Women #SexMatters @NorfolkWomen]

Women's rights matter. It's in the Equality Act.

Our NHS trusts must reinstate sex in their equality policies and impact assessments, @HWNorfolk @nandwics.

#SexMatters

[Norfolk Women #SexMatters @NorfolkWomen]

Join us in London.

#OneYearLater

[#199 Days Later @acts_grassroots]

Blog post from @SexMattersOrg - giving you a sneak preview of the excellent speakers at some of the locations. Protests planned for #OneYearLater  https://t.co/9fae6M0Erh

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Ten days on from the Supreme Court Judgment and we see that Bristol University still hasn’t got the memo. For the avoidance of doubt @BristolUni if you advertise a WOMEN-ONLY swim session it must be for actual women who are biologically FEMALE. No men allowed, however they dress. Women-only swim sessions for those who identify as female are mixed-sex swim sessions and fall foul of the Law.

We’re sure it’s only a matter of time before the offending poster is removed and replaced with one that complies with the Equality Act 2010.

Our Leisure Centre report revealed that in England, Wales and Scotland, only 28 of the 139 women-only swimming sessions exclude males who identify as women. In Northern Ireland there were no (zero) women-only swimming sessions. Link to the report in the next post.

[la scapigliata @lascapigliata8]

Y chromosome - in absence of T (eg. CAIS) - confers sporting advantage over female athletes, and this led to relaxation and abandonment of T-suppression rules. Allowing any males (XY) in female (XX) sport IS the status quo, and it compromises fair play for women and girls.

[Sarah Novello @Arathusela]

Please use this form to mail your MP - it's easy!

[Emily WD🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Wommando]

Paedophile Richard Taylor, 61, who downloaded so many images & vids of children age 6-12 being sexually abused & raped that police had to stop counting them, has walked free.

Defence said Taylor was "illiterate" & "he didn't know what he was looking for"

https://t.co/BfYGMWjyt0

[REDUXX @reduxx]

An Italian man who identifies as a "woman" is set to become the first male to participate in the female category at the Paris Paralympics.

Valentina Petrillo said those who don't want him to compete against females are "on the same level as Hitler."

https://t.co/Q0IdHdENgn

[FairPlayForWomen @fairplaywomen]

This is an unbearable watch. Condescending, uninformed and misogynistic. He doesn’t get it and clearly never will. There’s a fundamental conflict of rights and we need brave leaders to tackle it not shirk it.

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

So from now on, I shall be submitting my every comment and thought (particularly those mainstream views which most people agree with) to the former Labour Prime Minister so that it may officially be de-toxified...

[Norfolk Women #SexMatters @NorfolkWomen]

Here's to one of #KingsLynn 's finest women!
Thank you, @TheAttagirls.

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Woman of the Day satirical novelist and playwright Frances Burney born OTD 1752 in King’s Lynn, one of the first women to make writing novels respectable even though they mocked societal expectations of women. She wrote of the difficulties women faced in getting an education and taking control of their own lives. Virginia Woolf called her “the mother of English fiction”.

(You might want to fortify yourself with a cuppa before you read to the end of this, by the way).

Fanny didn’t learn the alphabet till she was eight - her father favoured her elder sisters because he thought they were more intelligent - but once she mastered writing, she couldn’t stop. Odes, poems, plays, songs: her “scribblings” were prolific but at the age of 15, she burned them all. Her stepmother didn't think it appropriate for women to write. At the age of 16, she began to keep a daily journal addressed to “Nobody” in which she chronicled personal and public events from the early reign of George III to the dawn of the Victorian age.

Fanny’s first novel, Evelina, was published anonymously in 1778 when she was 26. She wrote it in secret, disguising her handwriting fearing it was too well-known to publishers through her work as her father’s copyist. The first publisher she approached rejected it because it was anonymous but the second attempt was successful; her brother James posed as its author.

Evelina, written in letter form, was that rare thing: a novel with a female protagonist. Moreover, it sent up eighteenth-century society and its opinions of women, mocking the masculine values that constrained women’s lives. Pre-Austen Austen. Fanny was an astute social commentator with a keen ear for dialect and her book was an instant success, leading everyone to speculate on the identity of the writer, universally assumed to be a man. She was wary of public reaction but after months of speculation, owned up: “My little book, I am told, is now at all circulating libraries. I have an exceeding odd sensation when I consider that it is now in the power of any and every body to read...”

Fanny’s father had guessed the truth and made peace with it, especially as her work earned literary and critical acclaim. For the first time, it became respectable for women to write novels and her second one, Cecilia, published in 1782, brought her more fame. Her plays though were a different matter. Apart from one, they were not performed in her lifetime because her father suppressed them. All but two of were published for the first time only in 1995.

After a stint of five years as Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, Fanny married a French emigré when she was 41 and they had a son. She resumed her writing with the support of her husband who acted as her copyist. Her third novel, Camilla, was published by subsciption in 1796 - one of the subscribers was a Miss J. Austen - and the profits from this literary work enabled Fanny and her husband to build their own house but in 1802, her husband moved the family to France in the hope of recovering property lost during the French Revolution.

In Paris in 1810, Fanny consulted a doctor about pain in her breast and in 1812, underwent a mastectomy conducted by “seven men in black”. Conscious throughout - surgery was in its infancy then; no antiseptic, no anaesthetic - she recounted the details in a letter to her sister as ‘Account from Paris of a terrible Operation’: “Monsieur Dubois placed me on the Mattrass and spread a cambric handkerchief upon my face. It was transparent and I saw through it that the Bedstead was instantly surrounded by the seven men and my nurse. I refused to be held; but when, bright through the cambric, I saw the glitter of polished steel – I closed my eyes.”

It is one of the most compelling early accounts of a mastectomy. Fanny survived the surgery by 29 years. She died in 1840 at the age of 87.

“O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman’s liberty.”

[Norfolk Women #SexMatters @NorfolkWomen]

This. It's about women's consent.

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

About the so called "spousal veto".

It is about women's consent.

https://t.co/hYYVUKQckL

Rape in marriage was only found to be illegal in 1992 - you may as well call that a "spousal veto" on sex.

[Norfolk Women #SexMatters @NorfolkWomen]

We'll be there.

#LetWomenSpeakNorwich

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

Do come if you’re nearby!!! And If you’d like to help fund this event details are here too!! Let Women Speak Norwich | Let Women Speak https://t.co/sSqcwPVxDj

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

Even if you've filled out our survey please do it again as we've updated!! Your data will not be used twice. https://t.co/f4gtV7dku2

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

The judgment is here https://t.co/4AnVWlgZ4F

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

similar people doing similar acts in other universities, unions, political parties, media organisations, corporations carry on regardless?

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

And all practiced in the name of equality, equity, inclusion etc. By people who would think themselves as good. How much self examination will they (and other “good” people similarly judged as unlawful discriminators and harassers) will these people and organisations do? Or will

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

protected, treated equally and supported in their work, there was a groupthink approach, with certain groups seen as the beneficiaries of equality law and policies and others not. There was open season for unlawful discrimination and harassment without sanction.

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

The @JoPhoenix1 case is in one sense a run of the mill successful ET claim, and is not binding precedent on other cases. But it is also a fantastic case study encapsulating how the whole way equality law, in many workplaces has gone wrong. Instead of ensuring everyone was valued,

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Women who have been raped. Women suffering from unimaginable trauma and seeking help.

A man in charge of a rape crisis centre likes to speak to them and considers this ‘fun’.

Don’t slam the door on your way out Mridul.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

The delicate sound of RCS throwing the Edinburgh centre under the bus...

This statement is, however, deeply dishonest. They need to step up and own that they created the situation that led to the appointment of MW & all that followed.
https://t.co/mTy9BNjV0r

[Norfolk Women #SexMatters @NorfolkWomen]

A woman of courage and conviction - @MaggieOliverUK

[Charlie Peters @CDP1882]

Maggie Oliver’s testimony here is extraordinary. Speaking without notes, she is lambasting the chief constable sat opposite her.

She said: “I take great exception with the speech you’ve read today. This report talks about the past. But I want to bring it into the future. And I’m sorry Mr Watson but the failures that happened then are still happening now.”