Hard to believe that in 2026, in the seventh year of the Covid Pandemic, schools are shutting because of rapid spread of Covid (correct), but trying to make the school safe by wiping down surfaces (covid is *airborne*).
Happy August 4 Gender criticals!
Your regular reminder that from tomorrow a man can walk into a woman's toilet and if challenged say he's a trans man and the BBC news said he should use it!
Careful with that monkey's paw.
You could not write a better punchline to the "protect women and girls" TERF academics joke, than them all coming out to eulogise the wife-beating paedophile Rod Liddle.
Good morning to everybody except people still crying because they've found out that if you say offensive stuff at work and/or harass your colleagues you can get sacked despite your protected beliefs . To them, welcome to reality
@notwaving Hey if this happens again, you can very loudly say ‘meta stop recording’, and the glasses will respond. (They don’t actually have individual voice recognition tech in them yet)
Right. This is important, and I need every “gender-critical” man, woman, mineral and vegetable to pay attention, unless you possess significant financial independence or happen to be a billionaire.
If you start spouting shit like this at work, you WILL get fired.
No enchanted legal cavalry is coming over the hill to rescue you. An employment tribunal will examine what you actually said, where you said it, who heard it and how your conduct affected colleagues and service users.
“But J.K. Rowling says it” is not a protected philosophical argument. It is the workplace equivalent of producing a mouldy wizard card as evidence.
Rowling can broadcast this filth because nobody can sack her.
Even if her publisher dropped her tomorrow, Hollywood stopped answering the telephone and every licensing executive fled screaming into the sea, she would never need to earn another penny. Her children are grown or nearly grown. They have lives of their own. Their mother happens to possess more money than Croesus with a merchandise department.
The principal damage Rowling can inflict upon herself is reputational.
You do not possess that protection.
You have rent. A mortgage. Children. Energy bills. Car payments. A manager called Steve who already thinks you spend too long smoking behind the bins. You may depend upon references, professional registration or the goodwill of colleagues who do not want to hear you describing trans parents as sexual predators over a tuna sandwich.
Rowling can spend every morning firing radioactive obscenities from the battlements because the castle is already paid for.
You can lose your livelihood before lunch.
I consider anti-trans politics inherently toxic. I also have no desire to see ordinary people become unemployed, impoverished or unable to support their families because an enormously wealthy celebrity persuaded them that screaming her latest fixation in the canteen constituted heroic dissent.
Imagine that. A dreaded “TRA” advising people not to ruin their lives.
So, for the love of whichever god, goddess or sentient woodland fungus you recognise, do not repeat this shit at work.
Do not say it in the canteen.
Do not say it on your fag break.
Do not put it in the staff WhatsApp.
Joanne can afford the consequences of behaving like Joanne.
You cannot.
The Tavistock Clinic was closed due to an outrageous coordinated lying campaign, driven by @bbcnewsnight and two terf reporters it employed at the time.
Journalists with integrity would revisit what happened.
10,000 patients over 10 years. Just 8 complaints. All about waiting times.
The claim 1,000 patients waiting to sue - stone-cold lie. #Newsnight
They did an irreversible genital surgery on me as a minor without my consent but since it was to make me more in-line with my AGAB the right-wing isn’t giving me a million dollars to cry on tv
We've received confirmation that former Harry Potter (children's) author JK Rowling has been reported to @PoliceScotland for inciting hate and "intent to cause harm and humiliation," in violation of Scottish anti-hate laws there (where she resides).
Men are in my comments crying because I said period products should be free since menstruation isn’t a choice
And they keep replying with:
“Food should be free too, hunger isn’t a choice.”
Like… yes? infact
I actually agree.
I hate Rowling, worst thing for women since...men. I don't get it, she repeats the WORST of violent male points like "what was she wearing" & we're supposed to thank her? How does that protect me as a woman. Enables the WORST parts of male violence, & I'm supposed to thank her?
With trans hate now protected and enshrined in UK law - 30s Germany levels - Britain is a scary place at the moment.
The anti-trans people movement has unlimited funds - and can even intimidate @AmnestyUK into taking down factual content.
What are you going to do @andyburnham@UKLabour@Lord_Collins ? Do you hear any of these alarm bells?
Rights and protections stripped. Legal recognition gone. A genocide warning on us.
Some men have periods. Some men get pregnant.
Soon, women who are trans will also be giving birth.
Sorry terfs and Mr Pope 🙏 - but that’s real world reality and science.
How are tampons feminine?
Well done @waitrose . Don’t bow to the ignoramuses and luddites. ✌️💚🏳️⚧️
I grew up watching Ann Widdecombe tell me that as a gay boy and then man I was perverted, immoral, diseased, corrupted, not fit to be a parent or even a member of society. She maintained her homophobia throughout her life despite knowing many gay people in her own party ...
If the UK Government passed a law saying Black people must use separate facilities, would you obey it? Would you enforce it?
Exact same with Trans Apartheid.
@bphillipsonMP
So they need to prove their son can't work to claim Universal Credit, but the local job centre is not wheelchair accessible. So whilst they wait for a face-to-face assessment, they have to look for work for him. Applying for jobs that he can't do.
The cruelty is the point.