Robbie Spence

... the old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patriarchy mori.

[Robbie Spence @RobbieSpenceUK]

It's Pride month. https://t.co/Qr0qap9sWp
No flags in my local Sainsbury's or Tesco this year. I wonder why.

[ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg]

We now know of at least eight cases in the last three years in which a senior Pride officer has turned out to be a paedophile. Most of these stories were ignored by BBC News, which has a Pride section which is entirely promotional

[Robbie Spence @RobbieSpenceUK]

@ThatNukemGuy @Glinner @supertolerant the protective use of force, like yanking a toddler out of the path of a fast car, is not violence

[A Different Kind of Honey @DifferentHoney]

@BevJacksonAuth

[Patrick🕸 @STILLTish]

This is horrific. Autistic boy who needs a care worker to go everywhere with him,failed capacity tests and the @NHS STILL removed his genitals. People should be in prison.

[ToothbrushMaestra @ToothyMaestra]

@NadiaWhittomeMP Men should be segregated from women and girls in certain circumstances.
I want men segregated from me and my daughters.

Transwomen are men.
Trans girls are boys

#StopTellingLies
#Election2029

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

@NadiaWhittomeMP The bare minimum that women are asking is not to have to share a women-only space with men like this. And yet you still fight for him and not them. Why?

[Loppy Oubridge @LoppyOubri26414]

@NadiaWhittomeMP The LAW as clarified by Supreme Court, remains that women means biological women. You're wasting your own time& everyone else's time.

[Maureen O'Hara @OHaraMaureen9]

@NadiaWhittomeMP @PulaRJS The Code of Practice relates to a Supreme Court judgment that the definition of sex in law is biological. This judgment protects single sex spaces, without which women are put at increased risk of harassment, abuse and violence. Your motion can't change the law.

[Diana Toynbee @diana4hereford]

@NadiaWhittomeMP Nadia, are you telling girls and women in the Global South that their desire for spaces where they can be safe in the knowledge that they won't come across a male person are bigots?
Unfairly framing this right as "segregation" merely shows you put men's wants above girls' needs.

[Robbie Spence @RobbieSpenceUK]

@GreenFemsUK @djandyhealey Quakers in Britain want to ban ‘conversion practices’ … but let’s not stop concerned parents and carers or teachers and therapists talking to gender non-conforming children about why they feel the way they do. https://t.co/pfWaAZxoaj

[Green Feminists UK @GreenFemsUK]

This episode is important listening to help prepare to fight the Conversion Practices Bill in Parliament.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Possibly, as Minister for Health, James Murray could compel the adult gender clinics to hand over the data they refused to give to Cass. We might then find out just how much benefit these interventions confer long term, without needing to perform experiments on children too young to give meaningful consent.

Read the testimony of the ever-expanding numbers of detransitioners. Grasp that these young people, many of them extremely vulnerable - autistic, care-experienced, abuse survivors, same-sex attracted in unsupportive families - have been irreparably harmed, left with their fertility destroyed, unending medical complications and profound psychological damage.

This is a medical scandal of epic proportions and people of power and influence are still too frightened of trans activists and trans lobby groups to do the right thing and put an end to the insanity. Kids are being sacrificed to ideology and cowardice.

[Ol Rappaport ✡️🕎🇮🇱 💙💛 @OlRappaport]

@CharlieWalsham_ @MayorofLondon Have you found time to attend the@novaexhibition now that it's been extended? https://t.co/MkiAizKyed

[ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg]

@CharlieWalsham_ The councils that don't fly the flags are presented in an almost AI slop negative way; no explanation why is even attempted - zero mention whatsoever of single sex spaces, fetishes on display, many former supporters feeling ostracised, commercialism, paedophile organisers etc

[Charlie Walsham @CharlieWalsham_]

This unbalanced BBC News report is, to me, a perfect example of where the corporation is going wrong. It presents the issue as if there’s only one reasonable perspective, when the Pride movement, as symbolised by the Progress Pride flag, has become genuinely controversial. An impartial report would acknowledge that and explain why many people no longer feel comfortable displaying it.

Most people have no problem with the LGB community. Nor do they have a problem with trans people as individuals. People should be judged by the content of their character. The disagreement is about rights and the safeguarding of children.

Accepting self-identification - whereby any man can declare himself to be a woman and society is expected to accept that - undermines the hard-won sex-based rights of biological women. Defending those rights is not a regressive or bigoted position. It is a progressive one. Wanting to protect women’s single-sex spaces does not mean wishing anyone harm. It means recognising that rights can come into conflict.

The same applies to children. The sharp rise in the number of gender-distressed young people being referred towards medical interventions with potentially profound and irreversible consequences is a legitimate cause for concern. I believe that many of these young people would simply grow up to become healthy gay, lesbian or bisexual adults if they were given time rather than encouraged to see themselves as having been ‘born in the wrong body’.

This is what I believe, and it is what many people who choose not to wave the Progress Pride flag believe too. I want to protect women’s rights, safeguard children, and prevent young people from making life-altering decisions that they may later come to regret when it’s too late to undo the consequences.

The real intolerance comes from activists who insist there is only one acceptable view. If you disagree, you risk being labelled a bigot, ostracised, reported to your employer or driven out of public debate. That isn’t tolerance or inclusion. It’s ideological bullying, and we must resist it every step of the way.

[Robbie Spence @RobbieSpenceUK]

@TheFamousArtBR @DreyfusJames @HaydenHewitt https://t.co/XPht6BUSB7

[Robbie Spence @RobbieSpenceUK]

@0419837104x @CharlotteCGill https://t.co/aOnG5Cgcx6 is a well-known venue used by Christian groups and the like

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

“Queer Quaker Residential Weekend” recently took place

Here’s how Rani found it, who’s “both trans and lesbian”:

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

More details about Queer Quaker Residential Weekend

[Emma Roberts @QuakerEmma]

Yes. *sigh.
I suppose one Quaker perspective on this is that we hope people, like Rani here, find supportive community and yet… many of us who are also sex realist will always stand up for women’s rights and lesbian rights.

I continue to speak out and to publish a range of long form interviews showing that the wider Quaker communities are welcoming and fairly sensible.

Thankfully we have a growing Sex Matters to Quakers group which continues to speak out.
They have recently published a 7 point statement on the matter.

Sex Matters to Quakers: This we can say
June 2026
1. Sex Matters to Quakers like being part of an inclusive church and community as much as all Quakers, and we believe this extends to those who hold sex-realist views and those who do not.
2. ⁠We advocate for both the protection and respect of lawful single sex provision, on the basis of biological sex (such as toilet provisions and residential accommodation) in Quaker settings, plenty of third ‘gender neutral’ spaces in proportion to need, and common sense in smaller venues.
3. ⁠We believe both of these statements are coherently centred in a loving concern for all, and are more accurately, fully and truthfully the ‘sense of the meeting’ expressed by the wider Quaker community in Minute 31, 2021.
4. We challenge the interpretation of this Minute which has become dominant in BYM discourse and communication ever since. Minute 31 is long and contains many aspects about learning together, and about cherishing each person. We believe it is possible to be inclusive of differing perspectives on this issue and that this is what is happening, in practice, in Quaker communities across the country. We are testimony to that.
5. We rejoice in our Religious Society which, from earliest days, has recognised that of God in every person and that each member and each attender brings unique talents and insights to the Society. We are dismayed that a polarising interpretation of Minute 31 is being presented in our central communications which is holding back our path to greater unity.
6. We have been moved by the testimony of those who are gender diverse in our friendships and community networks and we are mindful of not causing unhelpful distress while maintaining our own integrity. In our own network we do not police pronouns, but have found that the main practice is to use individuals’ chosen names, avoid using biological pronouns where this is contested and use neutral pronouns if need be. In our personal friendships, this approach seems to work and is a good example of how communities live together in harmony while not always in total agreement.
7. We advocate for Quaker plain speaking in relation to the material realities of sex, such as in safeguarding considerations, allowing for compassion to be present in each interaction- speaking truth in love.
Friends, this we can say.

We welcome comments and observations.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'This is going to be terrifying for parents!'

Barrister Dennis Kavanagh warns that Labour's Conversion Practices Bill could see parents, teachers, and doctors jailed for up to five years if they do not use pronouns or or new names for LGBT people.