A Clear July

Adult human female. Woman. Mother. Citizen. Left wing. Currently politically homeless. Pro women's rights, children's safeguarding and biological reality.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

This is a man. A man who exposed his penis to children. Journalism is supposed to accurately report reality. Media organisations that brazenly push the quasi-religious belief that men are women if they say so cannot be trusted.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Finally, after 3.5 years, I feel like I can emerge from the Giggle v Tickle bubble I have been living in and it feels so good.

How am I feeling about it all?

So, so, so good. Better than I have ever felt before. Not just relieved but confident.

We took facts & the correct construction of the law into the court room. No emotion, no ideology. Just reality. This was the instruction I gave & it was achieved.

Activism is for outside a court room. Inside, it’s all about the law. My legal team consisted of some of the best legal minds in the country. Noel Hutley SC is one of the top 3 silks in Australia with over 40 years experience. He knew exactly what he was doing and his brilliant final oral submission will echo in my mind for the rest of my life.

Bridie Nolan & @katherine_deves have been with me on this insane rollercoaster every day for 3.5 years. We have lived & breathed this case every second of the day. We have laughed, cried, yelled, sighed, and had hours long Zoom brainstorming sessions while cooking dinner, hanging out washing & raising the 9 daughters we have between us. Everything we do is for those girls.

The Sex Discrimination Commissioners interpretation of the law is bonkers. It is gender ideology in legalese. It is an attempt to enshrine a zeitgeist into legislation, while ignoring every group the sex discrimination act exists to protect in favor of one group: men who claim to be women.

If they need to create the Men Who Claim To Be Women Act, create it. But women need laws too and the sex discrimination act has to not only include but protect women otherwise there is absolutely no point to it.

The executive branch in Australia (aka the SDC) has gone rouge. The legislature is doing nothing about it. That leaves the judiciary. They are the checks & balance. And in that sense, there is every chance right now to establish that the system is working as intended.

In the first round, the trial was a circus and the judge was aggressively hostile. An appeal court is very different, and this court room felt very different. It is the second highest court in the land and very dry. Some might say boring. Judges are supposed to ask questions and doing so is absolutely no indication of their thoughts on the issue in front of them. It is them doing their job. They need to understand every aspect of an argument to decide on it.

To win, we only need two judges to side with Giggle. While I would love all three, I don’t need to be greedy.

Will this go to the high court (the highest court in the country)? Probably. I would definitely take it if need be, and I have no doubt that the other side feels the same.

Finally, I do want say: I cannot wait to never talk about him ever again.

The fight isn’t over yet, but we’re in the strongest position we have ever been in to win it.

Thank you everyone for the overwhelming support. It means the absolute world to me. Together, we have proven that while gender ideology has institutional support, the power of the people want reality.

I couldn’t do this without you.

https://t.co/5qxNEfrSVj 🩷

[Suzanne van Dalen 🎗️ @vrijehuisvrouw]

After every professional who was supposed to help her failed to notice she was starving herself and near death, her parents arrived to the smell of decomp.

And with their dead daughter in the room the police CORRECTED them when they used her name.

This ideology needs to die.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

There are simply no words for how stupid this woman is.

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

A customer of Asylum Hair and Beauty in Durham received this text message after her appointment.

In a conversation with her stylist, when the topic came up, she said that men cannot become women and children shouldn’t be sterilised.

She has now been banned from the salon.

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

This really struck me from JK Rowling"s excellent interview. It's clear she understands how those who target children from unloving or cruel backgrounds often do so by convincing them it's care or love https://t.co/MeVEU9kgQo

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

Any man who describes doing mammography as a "desirable and enjoyable career" that he'd like to "access" is precisely the worst sort of man to allow do it.

[Will Harley 🇧🇪🇬🇧 @Hardley76]

If you let even one male, however he identifies, use a woman's space, then it's not a woman's space anymore - it's mixed-sex. And that means all men are allowed in.

Why does this basic principle elude so many people?

[Progressive Misogyny @JustMisogyny]

He really doesn't see women at all, does he?

If he did, he wouldn't have posted this.

Because he'd immediately see that it applied to women.

It's hugely revealing.

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

10 years ago I tried to argue with Owen Jones about gender. I know it was 10 years ago because I was pregnant and trying to point out the cost to feminist political analysis of gender neutralising reproductive language >

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Women fought for years, not to pretend they weren't women, but to seek to redress the wrongs done to their sex class because of their biology.

Women and girls are coerced, persecuted and controlled all over the world by the larger, stronger male. Even in our most liberal societies, women remain subject to sex-based violence and assault, still see their reproductive rights challenged and are still threatened with rape and even death by men angry that they're sticking up for their rights.

'Womanhood' is not some quasi-mystical state into which men can identify. Pretending it is makes both studying the harms done to actual women, and enforcing women's rights, impossible. A straight man who likes wearing stockings is not a lesbian. Wanting breasts doesn't make a teenaged boy a girl. Both are male, and giving them access to women's single-sex spaces has caused proven harm to women and girls.

How does taking away single-sex spaces away from vulnerable women advance feminism? How did three men occupying the medal podium at a women's sporting event help female athletes?

You cannot describe what you're too frightened to admit. You cannot defend what you can't define. The last decade has seen a wholesale attack on the rights our foremothers fought for. It continues to astound me that privileged young women who've benefited from those advances all their lives are proudly urging on the dimantling of the protections and spaces that were so hard won, and pretending this is progressive.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

It isn’t @RosieDuffield’s or any woman’s fault if a trans-identified man is upset because the Supreme Court told him he’s not a woman. Sections of the media that have been reassuring him he became a woman the moment he said he was one could do with some self reflection, though.

[Jo Bartosch @jo_bartosch]

Dear broadcasters, instead of asking about the feelings of crossdressing men who are angry they can be excluded from female services & spaces, could you reflect on the relief felt by most women?

[DJW @The_AngloSaxon]

@JamesEsses @Girlguiding @Girlguiding needs to follow the law, which is very clear. Otherwise they will be held accountable for their safeguarding failures towards girls.

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🚨A whistleblower from @Girlguiding has been in touch.

Volunteers have been instructed that, irrespective of the Supreme Court judgement, boys who identify as girls can use female camp rooms and toilets. Worse still, parents must not be told.

This is a safeguarding nightmare.

[Serena @Serena_Partrick]

If you're terribly upset about women having legal recognition and rights, separate from all men, have you considered the possibility that you're just a misogynist?

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

10/

"Do you think the demands of transvestites to use opposite sex toilets are consuming disproportionate media attention compared to abolishing homosexuality in law or allowing male rapists into the female prison estate?"

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

1/ Questions the BBC are not asking of any guests on the Supreme Court Ruling:

"If The Scottish Government won, a "trans man" could be lawfully sacked for breastfeeding or becoming pregnant, isn't "trans activism" therefore too focused on "trans women?"

[SkankyGelato @FindingDore]

@BBCWomansHour @Conviction19c I donated. And I’m glad to have done so against the tide of people, like this interviewer, who can’t see women in any way other than through the prism of ‘but what about the men’

Misogyny so ingrained it now makes sense that Women’s hour haven’t touched this issue before

[MrMenno 🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈🎶 @MrMennoTweets]

1 / So @BritishVogue published 60 pics from this weekend’s ‘trans’ protest against the Supreme Court ruling that blokes aren’t women

They left out most violent / threatening ones… but still included some

Here are my ‘faves’ 🥴

We start with the Three Aged AGPs promoting their single “It’s Not A Fetish (I Love My Boobs)”