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mum, reader, thinker, cook

[Jane, Empress of the Known Universe (not GP)🏳️‍🌈 @blablafishcakes]

MADE IT!!! Fantastic. https://t.co/znZkSjY3dV

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

Oh and if you if you want to meet "Katie", the TERF who successfully stuck it to the man after stupidly being charged with Gross Misconduct by her Large Multinational Employer, she will be propping up the bar with her TERFy chum. Katie's story is here:

https://t.co/X2b8B1fM0r

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

This is disturbing. I do not think the court can compel language in this way.

[Jo Marshall @JoFMarshall]

Naomi Cunningham has represented gender-critical clients, to date, in multiple tribunals using accurate sex pronouns, without judicial rebuke.
In the Sandie Peggie case last year, even Judge Kemp allowed Sandie’s team to do exactly that, as sex was material to the claim.
Today, it is disappointing to observe that a different judge has directed Naomi to use “they/them” for a claimant with a GRC in the SEEN v Defra case.
This is surely compelled speech: forcing Naomi to affirm a belief she rejects in open court. Gender-critical belief is protected. Accurate language on material facts (sex) is core to justice, not “harassment.” Courts should not be policing pronouns to favour one ideology.
Plus what about ECHR Articles 9 and 10?
Naomi will, no doubt, have plenty to say about all of this in due course, having recently written an article about the interrelationship between pronouns and their Equal Treatment Bench Book. https://t.co/XvASBLsJwt

[Simply_Shula @Simply_Shula]

The #HijabiMan hashtag is going viral, calling out Islam over its gender roles, double standards, child marriage, and the oppression of women.

More hilarious examples in the thread:⤵️
🧵

[National Association of Scholars @NASorg]

Three prominent scholars are calling on Harvard to re-hire evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven, calling her cancellation over defending biological sex an act of intellectual vandalism.

Restoring her would send a powerful message against cancel culture.

https://t.co/lKclPLNN4G

[Joan Smith @polblonde]

Me on Andy Burnham’s record. He may be an unknown quantity for many voters, but not for women who know his history of enthusiasm for gender ideology:

Women have reasons to fear a Burnham premiership - UnHerd https://t.co/nASXvKzkUQ

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

Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com has written about Through The Looking Glass, the report that exposes the scandal of children’s publishing. Link below.

[Susan Dalgety @DalgetySusan]

Nicola Sturgeon is a public figure. Her bank balance has been bolstered for nearly 30 years by taxpayers’ cash and she has a gold-plated public sector pension to look forward to. She now uses that public profile to secure lucrative TV and publishing deals and is very happy to charge people to listen to her self-regarding views.

The fact that her husband has just been jailed for stealing from the organisation which she led for most of the period when his crime spree took place, and that she benefited from that spree (albeit she denies knowing the source of his largesse) seems to have passed her by.

Nicola - you are the story. You know that and your faux outrage and distress is as performative as your period in office. If you really don’t want to be centre stage then cancel your public appearances and sack your PR team. Build a low key life, doing good works and giving back. Think about someone other than yourself for a change.

Then and only then can you say “no comment”.

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

If trans identifying men don’t want to be DNA tested, they don’t have to be. But if they want to compete with women, they will have to prove they are female.

[Cathy Devine @cathydevine56]

Such a lovely evening last night for the launch of Sex, Gender Identity & Sport @routledgebooks
Many thanks to @ProfAliceS for chairing, @KerryMcGawley & @mara_yamauchi for speaking with me, & @UCLwomenslib for hosting & organising.
What a brilliant audience!
Braving the 🔥🔥🔥

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

“The Government must now reflect on the corrosive effect publicly funded lobbyists have had on single-sex provision who operate with no understanding of law and who have now cost the taxpayer millions...We remain horrified that the [Scottish Prison Service] ever thought this policy morally justified, let alone lawful.”
https://t.co/cfu9wTHyZp

[Jo Bartosch @jo_bartosch]

Omg, @Rebecca_SPaul stood up to tell the Health Secretary to listen to his unease about the trial. He's walked out.

[Hadley Freeman @HadleyFreeman]

The last 15 seconds. Utterly disgraceful

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Watch closely new video showing the U.N. reaction: as courageous former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky confronts October 7th denier Reem al-Salem—by recounting the horrific abuse she suffered from Hamas—the U.N. rapporteur on violence against women sits there stone-faced. No empathy.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

We just forced a vote in Parliament to stop the Puberty Blocker trial.

The Government voted it down.

These children are perfectly healthy. They need our care and support - not to be experimented on with life-changing drugs.

Expertly argued by my colleague @drcarolinej

[Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS @Sorelle_Arduino]

@KemiBadenoch @arbroathjessie @ForWomenScot Please hold @JamesTCobbler to account Kemi, there are still violent men in the women’s estate in England and Wales despite the Supreme Court being clear that this was never lawful

[Alistair Grant @alistairkgrant]

🔥 Editors tell Holyrood journalists to ignore media 'pen' restricting ability to question MSPs

https://t.co/9GGmc8R2Cv

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

At UCL @mara_yamauchi pays tribute to @cathydevine56 who has stood up for fairness and integrity for women in sport for so long. 👏👏👏👏

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

It is grossly irresponsible for Baroness Cass, a trusted voice on child gender interventions, to make misleading and unevidenced remarks in support of a puberty-blocker trial. Children must not be put at risk to prop up this unethical and discredited treatment.
https://t.co/L1vjCdRJFY