Helen Smitheman

[Helen Smitheman @SmithemanHelen]

@mrsSkys I thought there is also an element of protecting the child’s right to know who their mother is?

[Cervixen of the Clitorians @cervixen]

I really appreciate you saying this. That makes sense to me, and I think it is an important distinction.

If dysphoria can stem from social rejection, punishment for gender nonconformity, or being treated as “wrong” for being a feminine male, then that is not evidence of being female. It is evidence of how cruel, restrictive, and inaccurate gender expectations can be.

And honestly, that is part of my concern. Feminine men should not be made to feel that their only path to peace is to stop being understood as men. A man can be feminine, unmasculine, sensitive, seductive, shy, gentle, or nonconforming and still be fully male.

So I agree that social rejection can create profound distress. I just don’t think the solution should be redefining male and female. I think the solution more lies with challenging the social penalties imposed on nonconformity and challenging a narrow view of femininity and masculinity, or male and female.

[Helen Smitheman @SmithemanHelen]

@treesey @WomensRightsNet TBF this was in 2024 before the Supreme Court ruling in 2025. This view was consistent with the EHRC guidance in 2011 as championed by Stonewall and other trans activist organizations.

[Helen Smitheman @SmithemanHelen]

@hothingsgirlsay Can’t wait for your analysis of her!

[MJ Murphy @hothingsgirlsay]

How language hides harm

[Women o' Scotland @WomenOScotland]

Here’s Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton claiming that “the biggest threat to women and children in our society is not trans people but instead predatory men”.

Yes, Alex, they are — that’s exactly why we don’t want men in our spaces. And a man wearing a dress does not diminish his risk of being a predator; it probably increases it.

We know not all men are predators, but decent men understand that we have to keep all men out of women’s spaces to keep them safe.

These DEI-worshipping politicians need to stop hiding behind the myth that men who call themselves “trans” can’t be predators. Male-pattern violence does not miraculously vanish with ‘transitioning’ or the granting of a protected characteristic label.

The same blind worship at the altar of DEI has also led them to ignore patterns of predatory sexual behaviour by men from certain ethnic, cultural or religious groups — all because noticing would be “racist.”

Bizarrely, his statement was made in defence of the harms of gender ideology to women and children:

ML: Gender ideology is harmful.
ACH: Look, predatory men!

We shouldn’t ignore those harms, @agcolehamilton, just because predatory men are a risk, it’s not a competition — they overlap, and both need tackling! 🤦‍♀️

What a joke, @scotlibdems.

[Ursula Doyle @suladoyle]

You know who else was born into a working-class family? Sandie Peggie. Bridget Phillipson didn’t lift a finger to help her, or any of the other working-class women who have been forced either to share private spaces with men, or take their employers to a tribunal.

[Helen Smitheman @SmithemanHelen]

@fallawanna3 @KirstiMiller30 Course they do but what does that have to do with gender identity?

[Helen Smitheman @SmithemanHelen]

@hothingsgirlsay Thank you for your contributions - they are excellent and so informative.
Just a minor point - why do you film in your car? An awful lot of trans activists do the same so is it a gentle bit of mickey taking?

[Helen Smitheman @SmithemanHelen]

@sexrealitybites Her video clips are excellent but why oh why does she film in her car???

[Helen Smitheman @SmithemanHelen]

@Poppy_yyyyyyyy Surely these are squat toilets- commonly found in Asia and Africa??
Urinals are attached to a wall not the floor.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Well said Mia

[Sex Reality Bites @sexrealitybites]

Changing your looks and voice doesn’t make you a member of the opposite sex or gender.

The claim that “gender is separate from sex” is a philosophical or ideological belief, not an established scientific fact.

If gender is a social construct, then it stemmed from and developed around the sexes and the expectations, stereotypes, and roles associated with them. You don’t somehow adopt the “gender” of the opposite sex as though it exists independently of sex itself.

More importantly, huge numbers of people ignore the social expectations associated with their sex and simply do what they want.

There is no right or wrong way to be a man or a woman.

This includes being a woman that changes her voice and body hair distribution with “T” and gets her breasts removed. This is called BODY MODIFICATION. No more, no less. It may feel “affirming” of something to you, and other true believers in gender identity— but that’s it. Nothing about you changed except some looks stuff.

It’s surprising how many people treat the activist claim that “gender is separate from sex” as though it were an objective scientific discovery rather than a particular framework for understanding human experience. Like beliefs about souls, essences, or thetans, it is ultimately a metaphysical claim that not everyone shares.

Trans is a belief framework to label people with gender distress, who mimic their idea of what they think they would look like and express themselves like HAD THEY BEEN somehow born the opposite sex. It is some sort of maladaptive “medical mental health treatment path” for people struggling with who they are—and once you see it, you can’t unseen it.

[Jenny Reilly @crit_gen]

Yet again @BBCWomansHour presenter Nuala McGovern tells a gender critical woman that others may disagree with her. They never appear to do this with men identifying as women who are invited onto the show. @joannaccherry was exceptionally good in this interview.

[Helen Smitheman @SmithemanHelen]

@NoCapPicard @isgaldemsugar https://t.co/RyPeub24s8

[Zachary Elliott @zaelefty]

A trans activist asked me, “Why is it so hard for you to accept that not everything fits into neat boxes?”

Here is my response.

[Zachary Elliott @zaelefty]

A trans activist asked me, “Why is it so hard for you to accept that not everything fits into neat boxes?”

Here is my response.

[Don't Listen to words. Watch their actions. @wakeuptotheleft]

@hermionegingol1 He needs to be locked for the safety of the society, there’s no such thing as a trans kid just like there’s no trans adults.
The only difference between a cross dresser/transvestite of 100 years ago and today’s so called trans is the advancement of plastic surgery.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

Men who ID as women are placed in women’s jails because the state recognises them as women.

Men who ID as women inherit titles/money etc as ‘first born male’ under primogeniture legislation because the state recognises them as men.

See how this works?

[teresa smith @treesey]

This is what puberty suppression & x sex hormones did to one 13 year old boy, leaving him at 23 years old as man unable to orgasm