Barbara Ann Jennings

Mostly women's rights. Other stuff available on FB & the 'gram if you prefer. 💚🤍💜
16th April 2025 💯

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@SamanthaNiblet4 @Tinkabel198 Well, according to you, the parents would have no idea of the baby's gender until it was old enough to tell them itself, so it's a bit hard to understand how they'd know anyone was 'misgendering' it. 🤷🏻

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@FondOfBeetles Terry Pratchett totally understood this.
Guards! Guards! (Literature) - TV Tropes https://t.co/SnnnfEWpFY

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@akuareindorf @Mary1Eleanor @Rhammified @ForWomenScot @DavidWootton69 @Scott_Wortley Anyhoo...
https://t.co/IVeQnrx3ZR

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

If anyone is interested:

The strange case of Melanie Field: is an individual civil servant’s views on policy relevant in legislative interpretation… https://t.co/xIPJFcLgRG

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@akuareindorf @Mary1Eleanor @Rhammified @ForWomenScot @DavidWootton69 @Scott_Wortley How the b heck could we operate as a society if we determined what our laws mean not by what they actually say as interpreted by the highest court in the land but by what someone says a bunch of six hundred odd someone elses meant them to say sixteen years ago? It's mental.

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@SarahjevsEvans She is your mews.

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@MartinJDowns @CareyBrian @michaelpforan I doubt if you will. They are not generally very keen to enter into dialogue.

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@MartinJDowns @janeclarejones @michaelpforan I'm sure if you asked them they would argue that his lectures harm trans people by questioning their existence & that they are protecting trans people from that harm. To me it's more akin to historic attempts by the Catholic Church to silence "heresy". See, for example, Galileo.

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@DannyWxo @jk_rowling Well, yes. But the question is, which group do they belong to? Is it men, women, or something else which has never been adequately defined?
Until that question is resolved, the issue will remain.

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

Well said, @Jebadoo2.
Whatever support @michaelpforan needs, he shall have.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

1/ When trans activists aren't harassing lesbians, one of their preferred tactics is to silence gay men

One such gay man, Associate Professor Dr. Foran of Keble College, Oxford has just had to cancel a lecture series because some people go to university to shout and not to learn

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@michaelpforan It's appalling that this has been allowed to happen. I'm so sorry, Michael.

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@OakesMarianne @ForWomenScot If trans people & their allies had not been insisting on an incorrect interpretation of the law since 2015, no confusion would have arisen. And if trans people stop using facilities they are not permitted to use, that will help dispel the confusion as quickly as possible.

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@OakesMarianne It isn't broken & doesn't need fixing. The @ForWomenScot judgment clarified the law & confirmed that it has been law since 2010. The Code tells organisations how to implement that law. The assertion that trans people could use facilities that did not match their sex was wrong.

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@TracyEdwardsMBE @Lostlain1 @SamanthaNiblet4 @ForWomenScot Perhaps if Nicola Sturgeon had answered a few of these questions a bit earlier she wouldn't have looked like such a twit when, entirely predictably, Isla Bryson came along.
https://t.co/AV81q26jrC

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@SamanthaNiblet4 @MrMennoTweets Samantha, I was around for a lot of the period when gay people were fighting for their rights. Gay men like Menno never once, not once, made the sort of demands of me that trans-identified men make now.

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@Kittyka21153868 @siobhanworld @charlesarthur They're generally very effective

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@MLady24737 @siobhanworld @charlesarthur She is! And her sister.

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@outfoxnu2 @siobhanworld @charlesarthur Some can - usually younger agile cats. My own have never been able to, even when they were kittens. They'll work with you to ensure your cat can't get out.

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@foolrushingin @siobhanworld @charlesarthur It's brilliant.

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@RedPandaSpirit @siobhanworld @charlesarthur No, sadly it is expensive

[Barbara Ann Jennings @bar_jen]

@siobhanworld @charlesarthur Let me know if you have any questions. I've had this fencing for sixteen years and it's always worked really well for me.