Twinsplustwo

Realist, writer, former teacher. Feminist 💜💚🤍 with a passion for community & justice. 🦖🧙‍♀️

[Labour Heartlands @Labourheartland]

Let’s stop pretending this is about toilets.

That is the smallest doorway into a much bigger argument.

This is about women’s rights: the right to assemble as women, organise as women, speak as women, and be represented as women.

It is about dignity, privacy, safeguarding, safe spaces, fair sport, single-sex services, hospital wards, refuges, changing rooms and the basic right of women to set boundaries without being smeared for it.

The toilet door is only the symbol.

The real battle is whether women are still allowed to have anything of their own.

https://t.co/1pN4Wg68C3

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Every life matters.

One law. One standard. For everyone. 

This is about justice, for Henry, for his family and for all our children. They deserve better.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

I fear I have been too hard on Nicola Sturgeon for not seeing the camper van parked on her mother-in-law’s driveway. I now understand her husband hid it behind 108 loo rolls. Apologies.

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

I've written about the dishonesty of the MPs opposing the EHRC's Code of Practice on single-sex services

https://t.co/0dDN04Fx1e

[Twinsplustwo @TwinsplusTwo]

@IpswichGov recycling scheme has made one fundamental error- recycling c. 20% card not 50%. Two of us have filled the “containers” bin in a week….

[Twinsplustwo @TwinsplusTwo]

https://t.co/5dDVC0oKJc

[Twinsplustwo @TwinsplusTwo]

Sums up the state of the country….

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

As if we weren’t already enough of a laughing stock on the world stage, the UK has chosen a drag queen to announce our scores at tonight’s Eurovision.

[Dr. Dr. P: A "dreadful, middle-aged woman" @Psychgirl211]

@salltweets

I am in tears at your courage.

You speak for every woman in the world.

"Enough is enough".

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

The Federal Court here literally means "clothes and makeup". They are literally protecting clothes and makeup ahead of biological sex. This is a quite extraordinary state of affairs for Equality legislation designed to protect women to be in.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

An Australian judge has ruled in favour of the gentleman on the right.

Who claims he was discriminated against by the woman on the left - who removed him from her ‘female only’ app. On the basis that he was male.

Tickle (right) claims he is female.

In fact, the appeal judge went further than the original ruling - finding direct rather than indirect discrimination and ordering Sall Grover to pay $20,000 in damages (double the original amount), plus costs of up to $100,000 (to cover both the main and cross-appeals).

On the basis that Grover excluded Tickle from the Giggle app. And then refused to re-admit him on the basis of ‘her gender-related appearance’.

Now Grover is off to the High Court. To defend herself against claims of ‘sex discrimination’ - against an individual who anyone can clearly see, on sight, is male.

Insanity.

@salltweets has my full support - along with the support of many people here in the UK.

And this case is a reminder of why women (and men) must continue defending single-sex rights and spaces. Relentlessly.

While the impact is felt differently in different parts of the world - due to differing legal systems - it is clear that we are witnessing a global attack on the rights of women and girls.

We cannot afford to stay silent about it.

[Emily Wilding Davison🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Wommando]

@DavidLammy "Inhumane" waits for victims of horrific crimes - so you're getting rid of jury trials because of huge court backlogs - but suddenly have extra court capacity for patriots? 🧐

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

It is the day after #GigglevTickle and I haven’t woken up believing that men can be women. You can try & punish me for not believing it, but you can never make me believe it.

Men cannot be women.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

The only reason why anyone is this scared to answer “adult human female” to the question “what is a woman?” is because there are men claiming to be women and they’re absolutely vicious if you don’t validate their delusion.

[Jahanzib Wesa @jahanzibwesa]

Heartbroken: The Taliban has formally recognised child marriages under a sweeping new family law regulation that sets out rules for marriages involving minors and establishes specific guidelines governing virgin girls. Where is the UN and international community?

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

This is what it is to be Jewish and go to synagogue in @MayorofLondon’s London. Coming out the tube to chants of the ‘River to the sea’ - the call to murder Jews.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

If you fuckers think we are abandoning Sall Grover or giving up on her, I can assure you you are most certainly wrong.

#IstandwithSallGrover

She is not alone

She is not defeated

She is not without global support

The UK is right behind you Sall

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

Essential reading from @RobBurl. As I've said before, no one who denies the BBC's long history of bias on trans issues can call themselves its friend. Rooting it out is key to its survival. It must be a priority for Matt Brittin.

https://t.co/Wkf5USprDm

[Twinsplustwo @TwinsplusTwo]

Brilliant article on Starmer and the state of British politics

[Will Self @wself]

https://t.co/AJCrWLS9Kb

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

This is the best piece on Starmer you will read today, perhaps this year

[TransgenderTrend @Transgendertrd]

A mother has instructed lawyers to send a pre-action letter threatening to lodge a claim for judicial review against East Riding of Yorkshire council, after a boy who identified as female was secretly allowed entry to her daughter's all-girls school.

https://t.co/dH7Y7L2MUg