Minatat

Woman = Adult Human Female. #IStandWithJKRowling #SexNotGender

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council),

As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display.

I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal.

Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated.

They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive.

Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure.

Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation.

If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice.

I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason.

What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated.

I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this:

Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering.

Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating.

For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media.

Yours sincerely,

Janet Murray

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

I have just been arrested by the police in Madrid, Spain.

My phone and passport have been seized but I had a second phone in my pocket so I’m writing this from the back of the police car.

I was at Puerta del Sol for just 5 minutes.
Police told me I cannot have conversations in the public square. I researched the law and spoke with a lawyer and.they are wrong.

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

His name is Taufa’ase’e Tei, and he calls himself "Trixie"

[Katie Kookaburra ❌❌ 🥸 @K8T1144]

If people don’t like their sexed bodies, it doesn’t mean they’re in the wrong body. It means they need therapy in order to get used to their body because they’re going to be stuck with it for the rest of their lives. I’m not sure why this isn’t obvious to some.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

A 15-year-old girl who had loved wrestling since she was four got put on a mat against a fucking male while the adults in charge knew exactly what they were doing.

She didn’t know. They did. By the end of that match she was sobbing and running to her mother after getting digitally raped through her singlet. She still had to shake the bastard’s hand. Her own coaches just walked the fuck away.

Her mother reported it the next day like any decent parent would. The law and their own policy said report it to the Title IX coordinator immediately and get law enforcement involved within 48 hours.

These gutless fucks did nothing for 53 days. Fifty-three fucking days of silence while they protected their precious policy and kept letting males into girls’ sports.

Only when a journalist started asking questions did these cowards suddenly remember how to do their fucking jobs. The next day they finally filed the report.

The principal had the balls to call the mother afterward and say they take this shit “very seriously.” Seriously? You spineless pricks sat on a sexual assault complaint for nearly two months and only moved when the press showed up.

And what did it cost? The girl quit wrestling. A sport she’d loved since she was four years old. She quit because she no longer trusted the adults in charge to protect her. Students bullied the shit out of her after the story broke and not one coach or administrator lifted a finger to stop it.

They protected the policy. They protected their own asses. They left the girl to carry it alone. Fuck every last one of them.
(article below)

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Appalling 🧵

I want those who champion men in women’s sport to explain why they’re happy to put girls at risk like this.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

He shoved his fingers through her spandex, digitally penetrating her.

The victim shouted to her mom that his fingers were inside her "c**chie."

This is so disturbing. She's a 15-year-old girl & this young man assaulted her in public in a wrestling match.

[🤍𝕁𝕆🤍 @jomickane]

If you want cheering up have a listen to Scottish Nana reading Wonky Donky 🤣🤣

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

In the UK, 11 trans people have been murdered since 2000.

In the same country, from 2009 - 2021, 16 women were murdered by serving or retired police officers. Not killed by officers in the line of duty — flat out murdered.

In 2022 alone, 11 British women were killed by male strangers. 12 were murdered by their own sons; 150 British women have been murdered by their own sons since 2012.

On average, a woman is murdered by a man in the UK once every 72 hours.

Where is the Day of Remembrance for the women murdered by their own sons? By their husbands, their fathers, their brothers? By serving police officers?

In the last 25 years, there have been nearly twice as many trans-identifying murderers than there have been murder victims - 20 murderers, versus 11 victims — and yet we’re told to believe that this is a genocide, while our own dead go ignored and unnamed.

These people are, per capita, the safest demographic in the UK, with a homicide rate of 0.38 per 100k (for women, it’s 0.50 per 100k, and for normal men, it’s 1.23.) but we’re supposed to believe that they’re being physically exterminated? Or is genocide another one of those words that has deliberately been stripped of its meaning, like “woman” and “female”?

Who gains when people are conditioned to roll their eyes at the word “genocide”? When “woman” has no meaning in law or policy? What is the end game here?

[Amy E. Sousa, MA Depth Psychology @KnownHeretic]

“Educate yourself, it’s not a fetish!”

So I did, and it is! 🤷‍♀️

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

11 trans people have been murdered in the United Kingdom since 2000. All of them were killed by somebody they knew.

In that timeframe, 20 trans people have committed homicide in the UK, including one stranger killing.

There is no trans genocide.

There isn’t even any real persecution.
When it comes to homicide, trans people are the safest demographic in the western world, and it’s past time that members of that community stop pretending to be the most victimy victims ever to be victimized.

[Kate Barker-Mawjee @KateBMwriting]

@ApsanaBegumMP Will you invite a trans woman into the women’s section of your mosque?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I challenge every single person who believes minors should be enabled and even encouraged to transition to read this first person testimony to the end.

1/3

via @IWF https://t.co/3276o4tg8J

[David Vance @DavidVance]

Hello @marksandspencer
I think you need to issue a public apology to this lady who was treated so badly by your store manager. Or perhaps we need a mass boycott??👇🏻👇🏻

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

When women say they are being silenced, this is what they mean…

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@nyaraVT Women should not be limited, punished or abused because of their femaleness, but their being female is an observable fact. It is also the basis for their historic oppression. Replacing verifiable sex with gender identity helps nobody but men trying to take women's rights.

[Naomi Cunningham @LoudBonnet]

This. If it was about wanting somewhere safe and private to pee, third spaces would be fine. It’s not. It’s about claiming territory, validation, and winning.

Dominating, intimidating and humiliating women is the point.

[Maeve Halligan @MaeveHalligan]

Not all young women. Not by any means. And any 'consensus' is meaningless when the price of disagreement is harassment and social exile. You're not measuring opinion, you're measuring fear.

[REDUXX @reduxx]

A woman in New Hampshire had her @PlanetFitness membership revoked for "transphobia" after complaining to staff about a male using the women's locker room.

The man was later identified online as a transgender registered sex offender.

https://t.co/aF0wcaS9gQ

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

HOLY SH*T. The man who invaded the female locker room at @PlanetFitness has reportedly been identified as Christopher Beaulieu, a REGISTERED CHILD SEX OFFENDER.

Christopher was previously convicted of felonious s*xual assault of a MINOR.

After gymgoer Judy Walcott reported his presence in the female locker room to staff, Planet Fitness CANCELED her membership due to "transphobia."

Any comment @PlanetFitness?