The NHS and UK GOV thinks diluting and deleting our words is women's equality
It's really NOT 🚫
Yeah it's another petition they may ignore but boy do we want them turning up for the debate to see who wants to get our VOTES for this next GE when it happens!
Trying to keep positive but really hard too when you wake up and it's like no one cares, but you then you know the stupid online safety act has stopped us from campaigning for our rights
So much we can't even be named
@andyburnham You are the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. We have hostile states attacking us, an impending fuel crisis, a migrant influx threatening to cause total social collapse, and you are banging on about making my holiday marginally cheaper. You silly little man.
These women were deemed too scary for Green Party members to encounter inside Conference.
Our stall was banned.
But you can meet us outside in the sunshine instead!
Read our 8-point Declaration.
Judge for yourself!
#WomenWithLeaflets#ForWomenAndPlanet
There’s one shitty thing about losing tons of weight after quitting a gender transition:
I am now just beginning to see, visually, how much breast binding has disfigured my upper body.
I’ve been able to *feel* the damage and disfigurement the whole time; not only to my breasts, but to my ribs, spine, nerves, skin, breathing and tissue. I have zero erogenous sensation in my chest. None. I’ve felt these things for a long time, even since quitting breast binding about three years ago
But as I lose these last few pounds, I expect that I will have to truly contend with the choices I made at far too young of an age, starting in middle school, to alter my upper body in order to “pass” as the sex I am not. I was told by activists online that breast binding is totally safe and reversible. I was even told this by a doctor.
But breast binding is NOT safe. It does not do reversible damage. That is a lie.
It’s actually quite jarring to see my asymmetrically flared ribs through my shirt. But I think I’m beginning to get a clearer picture of mechanically what all has gone wrong. Without as much fat covering them, side sleeping is becoming a total nightmare.
Anyways, here’s me trying to make the best of an unfortunate situation, by doing what I always do; skating!
Repost if you’ve read this until the end. I hope to potentially reach a young woman or her parents, who may think that breast binding is totally harmless exploration.
TLDR: it isn’t. They’re lying to you.
Meaningless sloganeering that fails to grapple with the fact that male demands for access to female-only services and changing facilities on the basis of self-ID undermine women’s hard-won rights, and illustrates the misogyny of the trade union movement in four short paragraphs.
I received an email from a woman asking if I would speak at her girls' school. She had pronouns in her signature. I said I would have if she hadn't had the pronouns. She asked me why. We ended up in an interesting dialogue which resulted in her saying she didn't realise what she was promoting. Entire school removed pronouns from email. I spoke at the school. We are now friends!
I have finally after 43 years of membership, and being a very active senior staff rep in the NHS, resigned from my union, Unite, over it's refusal to respect women's rights.
It has made it plain that it has no respect for women and believes that men who identify as women make better women than those born female.
🚨 BELONG TO ONE OF THESE 11 TRADE UNIONS? YOU MAY WANT TO LOOK FOR AN ALTERNATIVE
All 11 Labour-affiliated trade unions have issued a joint statement pledging “total solidarity” with the trans and non-binary community. They are:
ASLEF
Community
CWU
FBU
GMB
Musicians’ Union
NUM
TSSA
UNISON
Unite
USDAW
The @labourunionsuk statement calls for expanded trans rights but makes no mention of women's sex-based rights, including access to single-sex changing rooms and toilets at work.
Were female members consulted before this statement was issued?
And what are these unions doing to protect the rights of the women they represent?
Saddens us we can't just. Say these words
Sad it's a struggle to be seen
Damn sure millions agree with us
So if you see this, please sign the petition below 👇🏻
Something inside us feels so down. We never thought it would be this hard to get our words heard.😥
Thanks to 8,450 people who have signed. But we still need 1,550 to reach 10,000.🎯
🤗We just want people to understand why these words matter to us. To support @justsay_mother
@seanapriori@colone1flanders You don’t appear to have understood my argument. Separation of the sexes is not predicated on any individual’s lack of consent, but on society’s recognition that there is provable risk to women and girls in situations that can be exploited by predatory males.
Day 15 of campaigning on our NEW petition
8,415 have agreed with us that sex specific language matters
Please sign the petition
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During @LibDems conference I also spoke on the defending democracy motion. I highlighted the fact that Orwellian denial of basic reality undermines faith in democracy, including when politicians do not speak honestly about basic facts such as female biology. See 👇