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[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

Can I suggest that people screenshot this image.
And every time an MP posts about rejecting the EHRC guidance into single sex spaces, you reply with it and ask if ‘Paula’ should be allowed in women-only spaces.
They won’t answer. But their silence will also speak volumes.

[OJS airdot @OJS_airdot]

@MckinnesTo27644 @Poppy_yyyyyyyy I can so sympathise with this. Glad you got better.

[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.

[OJS airdot @OJS_airdot]

@rubberscamp @akuareindorf Same!

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

Totally fascinating clip. The 👀 that @Jonathan_Hinder gives Derbyshire, as she actively works to get him to describe ‘trans rights’ as a ‘middle class hobby horse’ - which would be quite a gotcha - followed by her disconcerted silence when he just says ‘men’ instead.

She knew exactly what he was thinking of, and he knew exactly what she was doing. But the work on renormalising natural language has paid off. A couple of years ago he would have had to say ‘trans’ in some form, or ‘gender’, to describe events. Now he can just say ‘men’ and the power of that language trickery drains away completely.

[OJS airdot @OJS_airdot]

@Smithiness @LoudBonnet @AudreySuffolk This is what I was wondering about too. If that’s the case then Naomi’s point doesn’t really stand, men could have that same grievance on a different floor.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

As Australia’s sex discrimination commissioner rightly goes viral for insisting that men who claim to be women need pregnancy protections in law, it’s important to put into perspective what is happening to the law:

Men are getting protections they don’t need (pregnancy) while taking away protections women do need (single sex spaces & sport, etc).

This is incoherent and is an embarrassment for legislators with every day the law remains this way.

What you can do: email all MPs & Senators informing them that you want the sex discrimination act fixed - BACK THE BILL.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“In a free society, people can believe whatever they want. If you want to believe men can be women or you’re a man who wants to call himself a woman, that is your business. What you cannot do in a free society is force anyone else to accept it. What is at stake here is the ability to lawfully acknowledge reality.

If you care so much about “trans rights” you can work out a way to get them without destroying the category of women in law, female spaces, sport, services, the entire reality of lesbianism, and punishing citizens for acknowledging reality. The fact that you haven’t even tried makes it appear that destroying the rights of women is the goal.

Any politician who will look an Australian citizen in the eye and tell them that a man can be a woman is admitting that they will lie about anything and everything because the most obvious lie has already been told.

If no one in this room can acknowledge reality and fix an obvious problem you are either malicious or incompetent. The days of dismissing this issue are over. This is not a culture war. It’s reality.”

- my words, read by Alison Penfold MP, in parliament today.

Contact politicians are tell them to BACK THE BILL - “Sex Discrimination Amendment- sex based rights bill 2026”

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

This is a genuine email from NHS England:

"I refer to your email of 27 September 2024 in which you requested information under the FOI Act from NHS England...

[OJS airdot @OJS_airdot]

@salltweets @blablafishcakes The list in the third paragraph is brutal. It’s like some a humiliation ritual at the altar of that fat lump loser of a man. Good luck on Friday Sal, you are amazing and this is so important…. thank you 🙏 ❤️

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

As we approach the Giggle v Tickle decision, I’m remembering that

• I received an Australian Human Rights Commission complain citing “gender identity discrimination” when I was 14/15 weeks pregnant.

• The AHRC was, imo, never neutral. It was gender ideology capture from the very beginning. While they were talking about “assigned sex at birth” and “lived experience”, I was 20 weeks pregnant & found out I was having a girl.

• To settle the complaint in the AHRC - and not have it escalate to federal court - I had to • agree to let him on the woman only social networking app I created • a
let all men who claim to be women on the app • apologize • attend “sex & gender education classes • pay $20,000 • moderate all content on the woman only platform so men who claim to be women weren’t offended by it.

• The AHRC never meaningfully entertained my argument that woman only spaces were lawful. I always felt that their stance was, “you’re guilty, admit it, accept it.”

• While contemplating the magnitude of what I had to do, I thought about my daughter & that I would eventually be teaching her to stand up for herself & do what is right. How could I do that if I ran away when something seemed too hard?

• I said “NO” to what the AHRC was offering. Tickle filed in federal court 60 days later and “Tickle v Giggle” began.

• A federal court case + full appeal & my daughter is about to turn 4 years old. Giggle v Tickle has been in the background of her whole life. Any time the case has been incredibly stressful - and there have been many times, I was losing my hair at one point - I have just focused on my daughter & it instantly became easier. I want her to have rights & will do everything I can to ensure that she does.

• I want every woman & girl to be able to say “NO” to a man, no matter how he identifies, and not be punished for it.

• At no point in the past 4.5 years have I been even remotely convinced that men can be women. Not once. In fact, I’m more sure than ever that they’re not.

• Thank you everyone for the support. It would be impossible to have this fight without it.

https://t.co/5qxNEfrSVj 🩷

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

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[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

What's interesting about this anecdote is not that TED deplatformed her but that they had her scheduled in the first place.

There was a brief, memory-holed moment around in the mid-2010's when it seemed like actual deliberation and debate was going to be permitted. Trans-activists acted to slam the door shut on this process and the whole of institutional America moved as one to embrace transgenderism, to parrot mindless slogans and enforce the false dogmas by punishing those resisted them. Virtually no one knew what any of it meant or what it would entail in practice. (Few know even now.) Everyone accepted by default that there was, as the movement's acolytes claimed, science, reason, truth and morality behind this abrupt departure from the species knowledge embedded within human folkways and intuitions since the dawn of prehistory. (There was none.)

Everyone within the institutions at the time witnessed or took part in this great shuttering of the Western mind -- in virtually all cases, people had to lobotomize themselves in order to believe a falsehood or simply clam up out of self-preservation. In the interim, a gigantic political and intellectual fiasco was building.

[Róisín Murphy @roisinmurphy]

“It’s not the first time in history artists have faced oppression and it won’t be the last.
We should support each other, come together and defend our shared space, our territory, the place where imagination can roam free.
Because if they come for one of us they will eventually come for all. “

On Monday 26/4/26 I gave a speech at the House of Lords, Palace of Westminster to help launch https://t.co/2YhLCM1V7m

Please follow/donate to @Freedom_in_Arts they are doing VITAL work for all of us.”

[OJS airdot @OJS_airdot]

@LAMBCHOPS2721 @GriffinTed48301 @salltweets I agree… something Olympics-scale would be needed for the strikers not to somehow be painted as bigots. See the odd high school sports team that refuses to play against TG opponents

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

What continues to be amazing is, when men who claim to be women demanded access to women’s spaces & sport, they were adhered to almost instantly. When women demand women only spaces & sport it’s court case after court case hoping someone with listen.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

@campbellclaret @jk_rowling @RestIsPolitics @SarahEMcBride Nothing he said is true.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

@mozzer39 @akuareindorf @LGBTQPrideUK You can’t defend class politics while also allowing people to pretend a given class doesn’t exist as a politically relevant group.

You are defending individualist claims of oppression *while ignoring what that means for class politics*.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@mozzer39 @LGBTQPrideUK I actually think gender identity theory is reactionary and aligns more with radically individualist neoliberalism rather than with any left-wing class analysis, let alone with any feminist theory worthy of the name. But these are discussions we can have once we stop name-calling