Wendy Stephenson

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things - Confucius

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Just to remind these same folk:
You’ve not lifted 1/2m kids out of poverty. You’ve just moved them over a bureaucratic line on a Whitehall spreadsheet.
Your ‘workers rights’ are destroying entry-level jobs, hitting young people disproportionately, where unemployment is now over 16%.
You have not transformed the NHS. It’s still the same old wheezing leviathan, just with a lot more dosh and still dismal productivity.
And you’ve nationalised steel and rail before. It was not the prelude to an economic or industrial miracle. Plus you will now have to include their demands for capital/subsidies among all the other priorities already crowding in on the public purse.
Other than that your reminder was useful. Thank you.

[Wendy Stephenson @WendySteph]

@HeadWarriorTWM

[Wendy Stephenson @WendySteph]

@ThePosieParker @HeadWarriorTWM TERF when you meet her in private - not so much in the HoC and she still lost her seat

[Genspect @genspect]

500 women a year under the age of 25 getting medically unnecessary bilateral mastectomies on the NHS — in the absence of a diagnosis and without any scientific justification — is a scandal.

1,000 vaginoplasties, hormones dished out to adults after just two appointments, and even phalloplasties are now being offered.

This is not ethical medicine, for anyone, of any age.

This week’s guest on Beyond Gender, Dr. Louise Irvine of @canSG_org, calls for everyone to “start questioning and challenging this.”

[John James @JohnJamesNI]

Excellent- as a gay man I want the fire service to put out fires.

I don’t need pink fire engines or drag queens.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

A welcoming present just out this morning for a Mr A Burnham to underline just how limited his latitude as PM will be:
The UK government borrowed £23.3 billion last month, 30 per cent or £5.4 billion higher than a year earlier.
It was also more than the £18.8 billion expected by most economists and the £17.7 billion forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility, the UK’s independent fiscal watchdog.
 The interest payable on government debt rose to £11.7 billion, the highest ever recorded in any May.

[TransgenderTrend @Transgendertrd]

We've heard of adoption agencies prioritising ways to recruit more members of the 'LGBTQ community' as adopters. As @SurrogConcern says, giving a baby to two men places that baby with the highest risk profile group for committing child abuse. Baby Preston was utterly failed.

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

NEW: For Women Scotland win again! Scottish government's policy of putting men in female prisons ruled unlawful.

Full judgment: https://t.co/1ApTIJfBV2

[Wendy Stephenson @WendySteph]

@MenAtWork_MC @Susan_E_J_USA C

[Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee]

This is brilliant news

[Renée Hoenderkamp @DrHoenderkamp]

Shouldn’t you just focus on keeping women and babies safe during the most dangerous thing a woman ever does?

[Emily @EKaht]

People who cheat in sports do, in fact, deserve to be called out for it.

This boy is an unsufferable crybully. 🧵

[Colin Wynter KC @QcWynter]

Say what you like about The Sun, but it can still coin a killer headline.
🥁🥁

[Gill, Nebraskan Land Seal 🇮🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 @Gillian_Philip]

From one of the most distinguished and respected voices in children’s publishing comes this endorsement of the report:

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

One of the ‘trans women’ openly boasting about going to the women’s pond and defying the law last week included Sarah Jane Baker, a man who served 30 years for kidnap and torture.
This is who the GLP fights for…

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The US has circulated its version of the Memo of Understanding with Iran to G7 leaders in France. It’s as bad if not worse than expected.
— The moment it’s signed (Friday) sanctions on the export of Iran oil are lifted. So the regime can start replenishing its coffers immediately.
— The US commits to doing nothing to undermine or destabilise the Iranian regime (it started the war to remove it).
— The US specifically commits to ending its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz but Iran does not commit specifically to returning the Strait to toll/fee free transit exactly as before the war, with no Iranian control/regulation whatsoever .
— All sanctions against Iran will be dropped should phase two negotiations go well. And America will withdraw its forces from the region.
— The US ‘undertakes’ to work with Iran and Gulf allies to create a $300 billion reconstruction package for Iran. So America will now become a partner with the tyrants of Tehran, who Trump only recently wanted to overthrow, in rebuilding their economy.
— All matters related to Iran’s nuclear capabilities are kicked into the ‘final agreement’ in 60 days time (or longer if necessary).
— No mention of Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities or its financing of terrorist proxies.
And that’s just about it. When Trump insisted the war would only end with ‘unconditional surrender’ it never crossed my mind he meant his own.

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

Ben Cooper is a prince among men. So grateful for his brilliant advocacy work, and proud to know him.

[Malcolm Clark @TwisterFilm]

Fantastic news! Surrey Pride was run by two child abusers until recently. It is now run by the men’s sexual partners. Despite promising to publish its review of safeguarding failures the organisation never has. Surrey Pride represents a clear and present danger to kids. 👇

[TransgenderTrend @Transgendertrd]

Amnesty's message to vulnerable young women: get your healthy breasts surgically removed and you can be one of the cool crowd too.

Amnesty bookshop in Kentish Town uses this dangerous and irresponsible messaging to celebrate Pride.

With a backdrop of the trans flag of course.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

135 British MPs are fighting guidance that would deny ‘Paula’ the right to enter women’s and girls’ changing rooms.