Rebekah ♀

Thought Criminal. Adult Human Female. Official documents must record facts not fantasies. Reality & safeguarding matter.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

We are still waiting - over a year on - for @JohnSwinney to fulfil his promise to meet with us.

[Trina @hightreebud]

.@PoliceScotland @PSOSLothBord The person arrested and charged is a man. Can you explain why you have given a statement to the press that he is a woman?
https://t.co/AqwwQuTj6e

This contravenes your policy to record crimes by biological sex:
https://t.co/XI9t6b0BGb

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

📢 Important intervention from @EHRC to prevent another attempted collateral attack on the @ForWomenScot judgment (see also: Conversion Practices Bill).
This time ScotGov is trying to sneak in “gender identity” through its Human Rights Bill>
https://t.co/uxbvUcpVIG

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The Scottish government has finally been dragged, kicking and screaming, into compliance with the law.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council),

As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display.

I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal.

Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated.

They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive.

Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure.

Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation.

If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice.

I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason.

What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated.

I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this:

Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering.

Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating.

For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media.

Yours sincerely,

Janet Murray

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Giggle has applied to have Giggle v Tickle heard in the High Court.

“We have filed for special leave in the High Court… Because the federal court is saying men can be women in law & making women only spaces effectively unisex, we are going to the High Court to challenge that.”

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

Living in a luxury house in London and sipping champagne on the book festival circuit is about as far away from serving a prison sentence as I can imagine. It’s worth remembering that thanks to Nicola Sturgeon vulnerable women in Scottish prisons are banged up with violent men.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

Now that we know, by his own admission, that Murrell is both a dishonest and corrupt individual I would like the police and the Crown to investigate the evidence that he and others may have been involved in a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice without further delay. 2/3

[Baroness Foster DBE #FreeIran🦁❤️ @jfoster2019]

@DailyMail @CPSUK @ShabanaMahmood @DavidLammy @GBNEWS @TalkTV So you can get 3 years for a ‘tweet’

and let off for gang rape 🤔

@JudiciaryUK ..

This isn’t going away !!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Bravo, @Keir_Starmer, for getting in an Adviser on Women and Girls who thinks the definition of women and girls includes men and boys. That'll definitely win back people who believe Labour's a party for smug, lanyard-wearing, luxury-belief-espousing cultural elitists. 1/2

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Janey Sutherley, the former prisoner accused of transphobia by Alex Stewart, asks if Sturgeon would share a cell with a man.

[Edie Wyatt @msediewyatt]

Because Mr Upton can’t watch nurses undress in his own country he’s traveled to the country where women have less human rights and decided to watch nurses undress here.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

🧵
1 I’m sure @NadiaWhittomeMP will be correcting the Parliamentary record at her earliest opportunity and withdrawing her statement that the @EHRC interim update went “far beyond even the Supreme Court ruling”. Swift J rejected that argument in R (GLP) v EHRC [2026] ⤵️

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

This picture says so much.

"The future is inclusive"

....says a man who served 30 years for first kidnapping and torture and then attempted murder.

I hope @Girlguiding is paying attention to who is protesting against it following the law and getting back to safeguarding.

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Woman of the Day teacher and suffragist Pippa Strachey (1872-1968) of London, the organisational genius behind the very first major suffrage protest, the Mud March, in 1907.

That was 119 years ago, yet today, women are gathering in Westminster, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Manchester, Belfast, Plymouth, and Houghton-le-Spring, because once again, the government is ignoring women’s voices and prioritising the feelings of men — a very small subset of men, but men nonetheless - over the rights of women.

The Mud March featured a brass band, carriages and motor cars carrying women’s suffrage flags and banners, and 7,000 women wearing matching rosettes, with around forty women’s groups from all over the country taking part.

It required much soothing and smoothing by Pippa of "all sensibilities and political disagreements” beforehand to reconcile women’s groups with differing points of view but it was a triumph of diplomacy. Only the Pankhursts’ WSPU declined to attend in an official capacity but many of its leading members were there anyway: Christabel Pankhurst, Annie Kenney, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence.

Today, there will be women’s groups and banners from all over the UK listening to notable speakers drawn from women’s organisations. No “soothing and smoothing of all sensibilities and political disagreements” is needed. We are united and we want one simple thing: for @bphillipsonmp to stop dithering and lay the EHRC guidance before Parliament. Her decision not to do so — and it is a decision — is causing harm to women (and men) and especially to children, because government departments, councils, retailers, employers and schools think they are excused from following the law.

119 years ago, Pippa, who had no experience of organising anything like this, made it a full team effort. The Artists’ Suffrage League produced posters and postcards. The marchers’ rosettes were made by the Actresses’ Franchise League. The London Society for Women’s Suffrage placed ads everywhere to publicise the event and encourage women from all walks of life to attend. Everyone played a part. It was a stroke of genius.

Rachel Strachey, close ally of Millicent Fawcett and Pippa’s sister-in-law, wrote: “In that year, the vast majority of women still felt that there was something very dreadful in walking in procession through the streets. To do it was to be something of a martyr, and many of the demonstrators felt that they were risking their employments and endangering their reputations, besides facing a dreadful ordeal of ridicule and public shame.”

Does that sound at all familiar?

Thousands of women set off down Rotten Row with the brass band leading, Millicent Fawcett at the front, followed large contingents of women from all over the country, marching under banners that proclaimed their various professions and trades.

The only thing that couldn’t be planned for was the weather. On the day, it rained incessantly: “mud, mud, mud" everywhere, according to Millicent Fawcett, which is why it was known as the Mud March.

Today, it will rain incessantly in Cardiff, which is where I’ll be with my @WomenOfWessex sisters. It won’t put us off, any more than the mud did 119 years ago. We women are made of stern stuff.

Back then, The Observer warned that the women’s movement should “educate its own sex rather than seeking to confound men". That’s straight out of NHS Fife and NHS Darlington’s playbook, don’t you think?

The pro-suffrage Morning Post (now The Telegraph) deplored the "scoffs and jeers of enfranchised males who had posted themselves along the line of the route, and appeared to regard the occasion as suitable for the display of crude and vulgar jests". The Graphic (later the Daily Sketch), also pro-suffrage, carried a photo of a man dramatically holding up a pair of scissors "suggesting that demonstrating women should have their tongues cut out".

Today, we face derision and similar threats from masked men. No, I’m not going to repeat them. You all know exactly how much male fury is unleashed whenever women dare to speak up in defence of their lawful rights. “Both sides”, my foot.

Four days after the Mud March, NUWSS leaders met with the Parliamentary Committee for Women's Suffrage to discuss plans for a private member’s Bill proposing that women should have the vote subject to the same property qualification that applied to men. Relatively few women would have qualified and the sponsor was hopeful.

The Bill was talked out. It took another eleven years before women over 30 were accorded the right to vote, and 21 years before all women were enfranchised on the same terms as men.

The Supreme Court’s clarification of the Equality Act 2010 is almost 365 days old, yet public servants are still hounded for recognising biological sex, NHS staff are still denied access to single-sex changing rooms, women are still denied lawful single-sex services and placed at risk. Lesbians still face exclusion because they do not accept men as lesbians. Women in prison are still locked up with men.

All of this is unlawful, Ms Phillipson. All of it. You could put a stop to it tomorrow. You would have the law and the courts on your side, so what’s holding you back?

Women are rising.
#OneYearLater #SupremeCourtRuling

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Trump : "We have put the world on notice that America will NOT allow men to compete against women in the 2028 Olympics. WE have the Olympics."

[Reza Pahlavi Communications @PahlaviComms]

Announcement: Prince Reza Pahlavi’s office has been informed that five players from the Iranian women's national football team: Fatemeh Pasandideh, Zahra Ghanbari, Zahra Sarbali, Atefeh Ramazanzadeh, and Mona Hamoudi, have left the team’s training camp and successfully sought refuge in Australia.

These five courageous athletes, currently in a safe location, have announced that they have joined Iran’s national Lion and Sun Revolution.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Please, protect these young women.
@FIFAcom
@FootballAUS
@OfficialFUFA

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

She did it AGAIN!!!! Idk how @JenniferSey keeps doing it but she does.

I’m definitely not crying over this one. My eyes just leak like this sometimes.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay

To all the women being forgotten about. Except by a few of us.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Today, let us remember Atefeh who was hanged for “crimes against chastity”.
She was 16 years old and she’d been raped.
Death to the misogynist monsters of the Islamic Republic.
Long live Iran.