Cathy

💚🤍💜 Adult human female.

[Prof Jo Phoenix @JoPhoenix1]

Today, I am launching Phoenix Publications Ltd - an independent press for gender critical and other writers who refuse to be cancelled, censored or quietly dropped by a publishing industry that has lost its nerve.

Setting this company up is not something I had in mind 35 years ago when I became an academic. The last few years has taught me that there is a demand for intellectually independent, critical and engaging books, memoirs, testimonials, short form books and other non-fiction. It has also taught me that the audience for gender critical work is huge and hungry.

So, welcome to my publishing house.

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[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

Remember, every person who says they are disgusted by the Supreme Court judgment is admitting that:

They’re disgusted that female sexual assault survivors might meet in a support group to open up about their trauma, without men being present.

They’re disgusted that lesbians can socialise exclusively with other lesbians, without men being present.

They’re disgusted by new mothers gathering together to discuss breastfeeding or post partum problems, without men being present.

They’re disgusted that girls can play sport with other girls and shower, change and dress, without boys being present.

They’re disgusted that organisations - which realise they are too male dominated - can’t fill any female quotas with other men.

They’re disgusted that vulnerable female prisoners and arrestees can’t be searched by men or kept in a cell with other men.

They’re disgusted that women can have their own things.

They’re disgusted by the Equality Act 2010.

They’re disgusted by the law.

Isn’t that disgusting?

[💙Fiona Macdonald @Fiona44444]

I have good news. I'm delighted to share that Judge Campbell refused PCS Union's strike out application rejecting their argument that my indirect discrimination case had no reasonable chance of success. You can read my update here: https://t.co/6tWcRAFZK5

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

Those who say the sex and gender debate is about “a tiny minority” are looking through the wrong end of the telescope.

It’s about a concerted attempt by activists, backed by governments, institutions, and NGOs, to deny that humans - like all other mammals - are either male or female. It’s about an attack on reality.

If you can get someone to believe a man can be a woman, you can get them to believe anything.

If people are threatened. fired, taken to court and convicted for pointing out that a man is a man, or that it is impossible to change sex, freedom of speech is lost and you are living under a tyrannical dystopia.

It’s not about “a tiny minority.”
It’s about all of us.

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

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[SEENinSport @SportSEENuk]

Urgent!

@GOVUK is proposing to allow boys into all under 18s girls’ school sport - unless it is deemed unsafe…

… ignoring both unfairness & the evidence that it puts girls off sport

Use SEEN in Sport’s guidance in the next post to respond to the KCSIE consultation 1/

https://t.co/YLRmotlaEo

[WRN Kirklees & Wakefield @WRNKirklees]

@KirkleesCouncil
@MyWakefield

Have you reviewed your policies to ensure they comply with the Supreme Court ruling on single sex spaces?

We wrote to you in Sept 25
Kirklees you failed to respond
Wakefield, you stated you were reviewing them through an internal working group

[Michael Foran @michaelpforan]

The disinformation being spread about the judgment in Good Law Project v The Equality and Human Rights Commission is shocking.

https://t.co/Eqtx7vvo8O

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A young detransitioner, Fox Varian, has won $2 million damages in a medical malpractice lawsuit, in which she sued the psychologist and surgeon who approved her for a double mastectomy, aged 16. Varian's mother testified that she'd been against the surgery, but was pressured into agreeing because she'd been told that unless her daughter transitioned she was likely to commit suicide.

As the floodgates open, and more and more detransitioners sue the clinicians who subjected them to an unregulated medical experiment, gender identity activists will almost certainly continue to ignore any evidence that fails to support their preferred narrative. They'll keep insisting that hardly any transitioned people regret their irreversible procedures, that gender clinicians know exactly what they're doing, that surgeries, cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers are of proven benefit and that minors who're denied these treatments will to kill themselves. All of this is a lie.

Speaking at the WPATH conference in 2021, British endocrinology consultant Leighton Seal admitted 'we are doing procedures here where we don’t have outcome data.' A woman from Utah said she felt gender clinicians like her were making it up as they went along: 'Because I feel like we’re all just winging it, you know? And which is okay, you’re winging it too. But maybe we can just, like, wing it together.' (https://t.co/dW4xXKUzOY)

This will go down in history as one of the worst medical scandals of all time. Adults inside and outside the medical profession sold troubled young people like Varian the idea that all of their complex trauma would be resolved by removing healthy body parts.

As more and more detransitioners arrive in court, the public will learn the full extent of the harm done to kids in the name of an ideology. Clinicians performing these 'treatments' will go down in history as barbarous activists who betrayed a sacred oath: to do no harm. But we should never forget how many people outside the medical profession urged these young people on, gleefully assuring them that anyone advising caution was an evil bigot. There are people in elitist professions like publishing and academia, not to mention politicians and celebrities with young fan bases, who did all they could to champion the idea of gender identity, and kept pushing it even as the evidence of harm mounted. They're just as culpable as the clinicians. Too lazy to think more deeply than the fashionable mantras that got them social media likes, too arrogant to look at evidence from anyone outside their political bubble, they've slurred whistleblowers and attacked anyone with valid questions. In doing so, they've created a cultural climate without which this appalling tragedy could not have taken place.

Never forget, because only by learning the lesson can we stop this happening again.

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[Dr. Dr. P: No human is 'trans'. It's a lie. @Psychgirl211]

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[Cathy @cathy_ev]

@WRNLeeds Brilliant work! Thank you.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

Dear friend (who thinks I’m unkind - or even homophobic),

Remember how much we loved Boy George and Marilyn when we were growing up? Our parents weren’t thrilled by men in make-up and dresses - but we thought they were cool. They were expressing individuality and challenging rigid gender stereotypes.

You and I both grew up supporting gay rights for a simple reason: people shouldn’t be punished, excluded or shamed for who they love.

That belief hasn’t changed.

But being gay, lesbian or bisexual is about who you’re attracted to. Gender identity is about how someone understands or describes themselves.

Those are not the same thing.
And treating them as if they are puts women and girls
at risk.

Here’s the crucial difference.

Boy George, Marilyn, David Bowie - and others before them - pushed boundaries around gender expression: clothes, make-up, performance. But we knew they were men - and so did they.

They weren’t demanding entry to women’s spaces.
They weren’t claiming women’s awards or competing in women’s sporting categories.
And women weren’t being forced to agree that the man standing in front of them was a woman - or risk social or professional consequences.

We both have daughters now - young women just starting their adult lives. I’ve taught mine that no means no and I’m sure you’ve taught yours the same.

But that message becomes meaningless if our girls are also being told they must say “yes” to any man who says he’s a woman - even when their instincts say otherwise.

If a girl isn’t interested in make-up or stereotypically feminine things, she may be told she’s actually a man - rather than a strong, independent young woman who dresses and behaves as she pleases.

And if she’s same-sex attracted, she may face pressure from men who identify as “lesbians” and expect access to her spaces - and her body - something we'd never have accepted as progressive or 'kind' when we were younger.

Single-sex spaces - toilets, changing rooms, hospital wards, refuges, prisons - exist because women need them. Not because all men are dangerous, but because male violence is a reality and sex-based boundaries reduce risk.

Women cannot know which men pose a threat and which don’t. That’s why all must stay out of women's spaces. Good men understand this - without question.

I know you want to be kind. So do I.

But kindness isn’t asking women and girls to surrender their privacy, dignity or safety in order to prove they’re “tolerant”.

Or calling them 'homophobic' or bigoted for saying no.

With love,
Janet

[la scapigliata @lascapigliata8]

Can we come up with a list of books, essays and recordings done by feminists since the 1970s, raising alarm and opposing transgender ideology? For all the men who keep believing “feminists created this” or “feminists never said anything”.

https://t.co/caeuZNv8yk

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Mmmm. Very pretty & professional looking, I’ll admit…

I’ll also admit I wasn’t instrumental in LGB activism, like Bev Jackson, Kate Harris or Fred Sargeant, but, if I may, I’d like to correct the multitude of errors that litter this statement (again, very pretty, all typed out neatly, by Miffy The Whiffy Gamer… either from some bot or his imagination)

But let’s get a few facts straight, shall we?

I’ve been a vocally out gay actor since 1990. In those days, if you were gay, & open about it, you were only cast in gay parts. And it was bloody difficult.

I worked for The London Gay Theatre Company in 1992 & 1994. I was in many different LGB plays throughout the 90’s, & was interviewed & spoke about being “openly gay” with Gay Times, Attitude, The Pink Paper & many other gay publications. In every interview I gave, it was mentioned (much to my eventual boredom & to the irritation of the gay press, who seemed to be frustrated at me for not believing that being gay was the most interesting thing about me.)

In 1993, I was part of the West End cast of “Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens”, alongside Regina Fong, Simon Fanshawe, Trudie Styler, Kim Cresswell & many others. The show was about those who’d died from AIDS, & every night, we raised a significant amount of money for AIDS charities. We also all performed on the main stage at Pride that year.

In 1994, I was in New York during the Gay Games, where I made a film about lesbian ice skating, which we shot on location. I marched with Ian Mckellen (who was also in the film) & Martin Sherman, to celebrate the Games.

In 1996, myself & 6 other openly gay actors were part of a successful little indie film called “Boyfriends”. Again, we all vocally supported gay rights in various interviews.

In 1997, Stonewall invited me to their Equality Show at the Albert Hall, to high kick with the Tiller Girls, as part of a small group of out performers, including Stephen Fry, Jimmy Somerville, Simon Fanshawe, to encourage others to come out & be proud. Yes, we were actually “celebrated” by Stonewall back then, believe it or not.

In 1999, I played a controversial, purposefully vile gay character in Jonathan Harvey’s sitcom ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme’. It was controversial because it was one of the first gay characters that was entirely comfortable with his sexuality, was vulgarly open about it & wasn’t always portrayed in a positive light. The gay press were not happy, initially, but it apparently grew on them. The series continued until 2001. Again, I did interview after interview discussing & championing gay rights.

In 2000, I played Bette Midler’s ‘openly gay’ musical accompanist, Oscar, in the short lived sitcom ‘Bette’. Being a series regular, I used my voice in interviews to speak up for gay rights.

In 2004, I took part in the first series of Gordon Ramsey’s Hell’s Kitchen, raising £40, 000 for my chosen charity The Terence Higgins Trust, which I publicly supported & endorsed endlessly.

Do bear in mind, there was no social media as we know it now.

I joined Twitter in 2014. From 2000 to 2014, LGB people had achieved equality & for the first time, it seemed to be ok to be gay.

I rejoined the fight online when I saw the damage the TQ+ was now was doing to the rights we’d, as gay people, had already won, at much cost. I was reluctant & angry, as I’d thought we’d been there, done that, bought the t-shirt etc. But no.

So if you mean I played no part in the fight for LGB rights, you’d either be wrong or lying. The world didn’t start with the advent of the internet.

Perhaps if I stuck on a red beret, a dress, held an Antifa flag & hollered at a crowd through a megaphone to “punch terfs in the f**king face”, I’d already be lauded as a “champion of LGBTQIA+ rights”.

Maybe that was my mistake…🤷

Please RETWEET as my reach is yet again severely restricted. Thank you.

[Cathy @cathy_ev]

@TracyEdwardsMBE @JournalistJill Signed and shared - it is utterly tragic that women and babies are being neglected and damaged in this way. We will lose confidence in birth from midwives and women.

[Tracy Edwards @TracyEdwardsMBE]

This is personal as my God Daughter has been horribly traumatised whilst having her baby - all preventable. Please sign this Petition: Appoint a Maternity Commissioner to improve maternity care for mums and babies https://t.co/IHuK3qYI0T

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Woman of the Day and the first woman medical physicist Edith Anne Storey, born OTD in 1869 in Dublin, overcame every manmade obstacle placed in her way. During WW1, she significantly reduced surgical risks and mortality rates in frontline field hospitals through her innovative use of X-rays. She treated and saved thousands.

Denied a degree and forced to resign as a lecturer on the grounds of her sex, she simply found a way around it all. It was the pattern of her life.

Academically brilliant, Edith achieved a First in the the University of Cambridge’s notoriously difficult Mathematical Tripos in 1893 while at Newnham College. Cambridge refused to award to degrees to women then - about 900 in all - so she became a Steamboat Lady and travelled to Trinity College Dublin for her BA and MA.

She established physics labs and taught medical students at the London School of Medicine for Women, helping her radiologist sister Florence to set up early X-ray services at the Royal Free Hospital, but growing resistance to women in professional roles forced her out after 15 years. She was given £300 severance payment. She put it to good use later.

When WW1 broke out, the War Office refused to consider women for military medical roles. Edith joined Dr Elsie Inglis’s Scottish Women's Hospitals instead - it was noted for its highly effective all-female medical units - and was deployed to field hospitals in France, Belgium, Serbia, and Macedonia.

Field hospitals were generally just a row of tents with temporary operating theatres and basic facilities. Edith planned and ran the X-ray department at a 250-bed tented hospital at a chateau in NE France. Funded by Girton and Newnham Colleges and entirely staffed by women (apart from two part-time male drivers), the project was so close to the frontline that in September 1915, she described the tense atmosphere. "The town had been evacuated, the station had been mined, and we heard the heavy guns ever going at night time."

There, she pioneered stereoscopy to locate bullets in the bodies of wounded soldiers - 3D imaging similar to CT scans - and introduced X-ray diagnostics for gas gangrene, where the presence of interstitial gas - gas trapped between the intestines, for example - that signalled the need for immediate amputation to save lives.

When her SWH unit was redeployed to Serbia, Edith travelled by steamship and night train to set up an X-Ray facility in an unused silk factory, paying for a portable generator to light the whole hospital and enable X-ray operations. She helped to treat around 100 patients with severe injuries including frostbite, lung wounds, and head trauma, before her unit had to retreat from enemy and set up shop in a drained swamp in Salonica. Despite the truly awful conditions there, she added an electrotherapy department and equipment for muscular rehabilitation. She also personally repaired X-ray systems on two hospital ships damaged in a storm.

By this stage, I was fully convinced that if Edith took over No. 10, she’d have the country sorted by teatime, but when she applied to the War Office for a position as an army camp radiologist, it said No. No women allowed. Perhaps it thought she was more suited to sitting at home and knitting socks.

In October 1917, she returned to head X-ray departments at SWH hospitals in Royaumont and Villers-Cotterêts, France, and supervised the closure and retreat from Villers-Cotterêts under fire when German troops overran the area in March 1918. By June 1918, she was treating over 1,300 cases per month at Royaumont, an average of 44 cases per day without a day off.

After the war, Edith lectured at King's College for Women until retiring in 1925. An obituary noted, “Her lectures on physics mostly developed into informal talks, during which Miss Stoney, usually in a blue pinafore, scratched on a blackboard with coloured chalks, turning anxiously at intervals to ask, ‘Have you taken my point?’”

This remarkable woman died in 1938 at the age of 69 and I am unable to give you any inspirational quotes from her - she was a doer, not a talker - but once more, I wonder just how advanced we might have been as a species if one-half of the population hadn’t expended so much time and effort over the centuries holding back and obstructing the other half.

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

But NO actually. We're not going to stop campaigning for our basic human right to single sex spaces, free from men who would like to be women but are not, never have been, and never will be.

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

How to respond when an institution such as girl guides or a school insists it is right for trans identified boys to enter single sex spaces.

Child development theory rooted in cognitive, social, and psychosocial maturation, shows that pre-pubertal and early adolescent children require protected, sex segregated private spaces (changing rooms, toilets, showers) for healthy psychological development. Allowing boys who identify/present as girls to enter these spaces undermines this protection and introduces risks that contradict evidence-based principles.

1. Piaget & Kohlberg: Concrete Thinking and Gender Constancy

Children under 12 think concretely (Piaget). They categorise gender by visible biology (genitals, body shape), not abstract "identity." By age 6 - 7, they achieve gender constancy (Kohlberg) - understanding sex (but NOT gender identity) is permanent and private spaces reflect biological reality. Girls in changing rooms expect privacy based on shared female biology, something that is essential for body acceptance during puberty.

A boy’s presence (regardless of presentation) disrupts this concrete schema, causing confusion, shame, or anxiety at a stage when children cannot process abstract "identity" claims.

2. Vygotsky & Bandura: Social Learning and Cultural Tools

Private spaces are cultural tools teaching boundaries and sex specific safety through language, symbols, norms, and practices passed down through More Knowledgeable Others (MKOs) in the child's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). Children internalise these tools, turning interpersonal processes into intrapersonal understanding.

(Vygotsky). Children learn through observation and reinforcement (Bandura). Girls use  same sex peers as a way to normalise female bodies.

A boy’s entry introduces conflicting cues, reinforcing the idea that biology is irrelevant - contradicting natural schema formation and also normalising boundary violations.

3. Erikson & Marcia: Psychosocial Development and Identity

Erikson’s stages (industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. role confusion) require safe spaces for body exploration without opposite sex exposure. Girls face heightened vulnerability during puberty (breast development, menstruation); intrusion risks shame and inferiority. Adolescents need exploration before commitment (Marcia).

Mixed spaces prematurely impose adult ideological concepts, risking foreclosure on confused schemas rather than healthy integration.

4.Winnicott & Bowlby: True Self and Attachment

Private spaces provide a "holding environment" (Winnicott) for authentic body acceptance. Opposite sex presence can feel impinging, hindering True Self emergence and fostering False Self compliance (e.g., pretending to be comfortable to avoid "transphobia" accusations).

Secure attachment (Bowlby) develops through predictable, safe boundaries. Violating sex-segregation erodes trust in adults' protection.

5. Bem: Gender Schemas and Flexibility

Bem showed healthy schemas are flexible but grounded in reality. Girls' spaces reinforce accurate categorisation; mixing based on presentation imposes rigid, essentialist "identity" schemas ("feelings override biology"), blocking androgynous and gender non conforming development.

Conclusion
Developmentally, girls' private spaces are essential for allowing concrete understanding, boundary learning, body acceptance, and safe maturation. Allowing boys entry - regardless of presentation - introduces confusion, shame, and risk at vulnerable stages. We need to protect single sex spaces to support natural schema formation and psychological/physical safety. Instead, we are at a situation where ideological inclusion prioritises an adult construct - transgenderism - over children's needs and safeguarding requirements.

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

"Women of a certain age"

Susan 53, Marion 54, Trina 54. I'm 53.

We are the generation born with the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.

We came into a world where (at least on paper) women had equal rights. We are the first girls who could be everything a boy could be.

The Supreme Court determined that the law protecting women's rights can only be interpreted coherently if it recognised that "woman" means female.

Now the government is wringing its hands that this means "rolling back of trans rights".

It doesn't.

It was never the right of trans-identifying men to have women's spaces, women's awards, women's data records, women's refuges.

"Trans women" are men. Sad men, overconfident men, men who like the idea of themselves as women.

They infringed on our rights while the first generation of women who had them were busy having our babies.

Women wants our rights back @Keir_Starmer