Blakkr

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@NickKristof @ZiauddinY @bbclysedoucet please cover this.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

This is a total betrayal…Do not even dare to speak on behalf of wounded women.

An Afghan man, perfect English, telling you women in Afghanistan are fine. Just fine. Don't worry.

This is not nuance. This is normalization. This is normalizing Taliban.

Let’s women in Afghanistan talk.
Women who have been flogged. Women who have been imprisoned. Women who have been denied an education. Women who have watched their lives disappear under gender apartheid.

We the women of Iran have seen this movie before. Just watch the second video.

An Iranian man, same perfect English, so relax, saying IRGC the terrorist organization that massacres protesters, and morality police are not that bad, they’re just fine and women if you don’t have fun with them!

To every Afghan woman, every Iranian woman: Be louder than these men.
Do not let anyone with microphones, normalize what is being done to your bodies, your lives, your freedom.

@UAGApartheid

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@vladlobachevsk2 @RepWPH At least you are using the word Woman. Do you understand how offensive it is to erase it?

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@vladlobachevsk2 @RepWPH You can clarify legal parentage without reducing women to ‘gestating parents’. Every human being was born from a female body. ‘Mother’ is not an outdated technicality, it names a biological and emotional reality. Legal precision shouldn’t come at the cost of women’s dignity.

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@PolitlcsUK @billcurtis0 And another example of @MerseyPolice bias. https://t.co/RijH6gY1Lj

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

‘Darren Rigby, who sent hoax death threats to schools is jailed’

All girls’ schools were specifically targeted. Rigby ‘threatened to carry out deadly attacks supposedly in response to the treatment of ‘transwomen’’. None of this features in the coverage across outlets, despite the evidence emerging in email evidence and in court, neither does it feature in the Merseyside Police report.

‘I’m going to kill every girl and woman staff member I come across’

‘I'm going to shoot and stab all your girls’

It’s a crime of extreme misogyny in the cause of ‘fighting trans oppression’ but any mention of ‘trans’ has been erased by the police, PA and all news outlets. In addition the BBC report hides the fact that it was a crime against women and girls.

https://t.co/mEtjqOXI7D

https://t.co/MjqUMeGDGa

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@JournalismSEEN @JournalistJill This is the perfect example of bias to pass on to Matt Brittin at the BBC.

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@NadiaWhittomeMP https://t.co/zZkzTL1pSB

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

Does @NadiaWhittomeMP realise what it means to “legislate to make the Equality Act trans-inclusive”?

Destruction of the protected characteristics of sex & sexual orientation.

No protection for anything single-sex, from toilets to being gay.

Lesbians at the sharp end, as ever.

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@hayfestival https://t.co/lCVUlCbC7F

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

“When women advance their careers by sacrificing the rights and safety of less powerful women, they may well qualify as successful politicians. Feminists, however, they are not.”

🦊 | ✍️ | @jo_bartosch
https://t.co/EHED3UPovn

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@LouiseGrace12 @WomenDorset I had this issue with my daughter and customer services refused to state the UK policy.

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@JamesSoxtp @WomenDorset @Bozenka_2023 Yes and most @hm stores have very flimsy curtains. The ones here are velvet. I got my local store to put heavier drapes in but it’s still not good enough.

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@WomenDorset I raised a complaint with @hm last year about an issue with their changing rooms in Cambridge. They were dismissive then obstructive. My daughter was distressed by finding herself in there with 2 teenage boys and a man. I had no idea they were mixed, there was no signage.

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@jacksnack23 @TheFP Look at the guy’s face.

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@sharrond62 The rise in misogyny plays into this.

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@joss_prior @Labourheartland You don't really have any counter arguments do you?

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@bbcnickrobinson @EHRC https://t.co/xVyHJGkBSE

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

There’s a different and more coherent way of being a Devil’s Advocate than using the language of activists themselves: ‘dignity’ - ‘want to be who they are’ etc as Nick Robinson does here. If a pres is going to use activist language it should be more clearly signposted: the BBC Academy teaches that you shouldn’t adopt activist language as if it were the BBC’s own.

Of course the BBC does that all the time: it’s a breach of a fundamental principle that’s written into its style guide.

We have no doubt that DG Matt Brittin has been reassured that the problem of bias has been dealt with by recent guidance to always make ‘sex’ clear where it helps audience understanding. That means a certain complacency has crept in. But while self-ID is still in the style guide, bias is still the order of the day.

There’s still a belief in ‘true trans’ because the internal conversation didn’t dig deep enough. It never reached the nefarious reasons why men are so obsessed with access to female spaces and the erasure of sex as a legal status. It only scratched the surface.

We’ve written to Mr Brittin to explain this and to warn against this type of complacency, while trans affirmation is still written through its news and creative divisions.

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@joss_prior @Labourheartland Your map ignores trans men. Also it’s misleading because it treats women’s spaces’ as one simple legal category. They are not. Toilets, prisons, refuges, changing rooms, hospital wards and sport all involve different questions of privacy, dignity, safeguarding, fairness and risk.

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@joss_prior @Labourheartland Why do you always centre trans women instead of trans men?

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@KirstiMiller30 @JPMasters @RitaPanahi You are appropriating our oppression.

[Blakkr @blakkr_]

@JournalismSEEN Oh the irony.

[The Voice of the Listener and Viewer (VLV) @vlvuk]

Huge congratulations to @BBCkatyaadler on winning the VLV Award for Best Individual Contributor to TV 👏👏👏👏👏 @bbcpaddy "This is the most important award.... I still love what I do and its a privilege to do it!"