Joan of Norn Iron

A decent Northern Irish woman. Love to set the world to rights. Be true to thine self. 🇮🇪 🇺🇦

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Yes, period huts are back. Because girls just aren’t embarrassed and awkward enough about menstruation.

But what happens when the trans-identified boy feels excluded from the period hut? What if he feels less of a girl? Perhaps it would be easier just to tell girls to stay home.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

** An open letter to @AlboMP **

Dear Prime Minister Albanese,

Let’s get one thing clear: women are adult human females. You know it, I know it, you even said it in the lead up to the last election when asked “what is a woman” by Piers Morgan.

But we have a big problem.

I’m sure you have heard, last week, the Federal Court delivered its judgment in Giggle v Tickle, the “what is a woman” legal case that has been fighting in federal court for the past four years. To put it very simply, there are two sides to this case: women, adult human females, who want to ensure that woman is a single-sex category in law and women & girls have access to single sex spaces. The other side, which includes your human rights commission, insists that men who claim to be women are women in the eyes of the law. The full Federal Court sided with the man who claims to be a woman. Yes. A male won the “what is a woman” court case. Giggle v Tickle has turned Australia into an international laughing stock.

This decision is seismic. It means women cannot run women-only businesses for women. It confirms that the ordinary meaning of sex has been twisted beyond recognition. It means men can be women in law. The Australian Human Rights Commission, captured by ideology, has weaponised the sex discrimination act against women, the very demographic it was enacted to protect. They’ve even argued in court that men who claim to be women need pregnancy protections. They’ve pushed the view that sex is a spectrum, changeable, and that anyone objecting is the bigot. Is this something you agree with? Do you, Mr Prime Minister, think men need pregnancy protections in the law?

And there are real-world stakes here: Girls at school are holding their bladders all day, refusing to drink water, because boys who claim to be girls are in their bathrooms and they don’t want them there. Women prisoners are locked in cells with male sex offenders who simply “identify” as women. Female athletes are losing podiums, matches and safety. This isn’t inclusion - it’s the demise of women’s rights.

Prime Minister, some of your ministers say, “we need to protect trans rights”. With all due respect, sir, your government can protect so called trans rights without stripping rights from women and girls. Every other citizen manages to exist without demanding access to the opposite sex’s protected spaces. Why not try to get “trans rights” without destroying the rights of women and girls? Have you ever even tried? 

The fact that Labor hasn’t even mentioned Giggle v Tickle and women’s rights - while Liberals, Nationals, and One Nation politicians speak out - tells us everything. This week has been silence from the Labor Party. No trans visibility day parades on this one. No pride posts. Why? What don’t you want Australians to know?

You boast about your 50 per cent women in cabinet. Good for you - you can accurately recognise what a woman is when it suits you. But the rest of us aren’t allowed to without fear of punishment. And can I ask, if you filled that cabinet with 50 per cent trans women, would you still call it equality between men and women? Think about that.

While the UK, the United States and even New Zealand are waking up, rolling back the nonsense and restoring sanity and realizing that gender ideology is a failed experiment, your government is turning Australia into the laughing stock of the world. “Giggle v Tickle” isn’t just a punchline overseas - it’s proof Australia is upside down.

I want to tell you something really important: If you will lie about something as obvious as men being women, we can assume you will look us in the eye and lie about everything. 

Tell the truth. Fix the Sex Discrimination Act. Reinstate clear biological, accurate definitions of man and woman. Protect women, girls and single-sex spaces. Actually do something.

Because, at the moment, Mister Prime Minister, I’m doing your job for you.

[Maeve Halligan @MaeveHalligan]

"No, I don't subscribe to this 'kindness' - I'll tell the truth instead."

I spoke at the Cambridge Union last night about LGBs, children's safety and women's rights. Full video here:

[Gwen Music🌊☮️🎶💙 @music_gwen]

@S_U_Network Betty White 💔
Tig Notaro
Tiffany Haddish
Kathleen Madigan
Leanne Morgan
Catherine O'Hara 💔
Joan Rivers
Lily Tomlin
Kate McKinnon
Janeane Garafalo
Wanda Sykes
Madeline Kahn 💔
Cloris Leachman
Jane Curtin
Tracy Ullman
Etc.

[Sarah Raviani @sarahraviani]

Erfan Soltani is only 26.

He is one of many Iranian protesters now facing execution. His family has spoken out, risking their own lives, in a desperate attempt to save him.

A source close to the family says: “The family is under extreme pressure. Even a close relative who is a lawyer tried to take on the case but was blocked and threatened by security agents. They told him, ‘There is no file to review. We announced that anyone arrested in the protests would be executed. Erfan’s sentence is Moharebeh (Waging war against God); it is final and will be carried out.’”

Do not let the regime silently murder another innocent Iranian. Be his voice.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Message from inside Iran:

Please help us. The situation here is horrific. It is a full scale war. The regime’s forces show no mercy. They shoot protesters in the head and heart and even finish off those already wounded on the streets. In hospitals the wounded are being kidnapped and killed.

Masih please tell the world we need help 💔

#IranRevolution2026
#Iran

[Joan of Norn Iron @cherrypres]

@largacty2 @Glinner Please get help.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Translation: JK Rowling is using her fortune to help women being tormented by insane, misogynist crossdressers.

[Joan of Norn Iron @cherrypres]

@mickperrin @ardalsfolly ‘The venting opportunities’ - Ironic. Zero respect for moral cowards.

[Joan of Norn Iron @cherrypres]

@ardalsfolly Zero respect. Moral coward.

[Joan of Norn Iron @cherrypres]

@BBCNews BBC is forever BROKEN.

[Maia Poet🦎 @thepeacepoet99]

@Glinner is absolutely a father figure to me.

He was battling gender ideology back when I was still a teenager convinced she was born in the wrong body.

Back then, most adults were too scared about their own reputations, to speak up for kids like me. But not Graham.

He fought for us before the world caught up, at great cost to himself, before it was trendy to be an anti-woke cultural warrior.

Graham Linehan is a hero, a role model and an inspiration. He is the embodiment of truth, authenticity and courage.

I speak four languages, but I cannot think of the right words in any of them, to express just how grateful I am to you, Graham.

When so many others had sacrificed their critical thinking skills to the woke mob, YOU, Graham Linehan, chose to be the adult in the room and it cost you everything.

These vicious ideologues have already kicked you while you were down and you still got back up and continued to fight for the rights of women and children across the world. This time will be no different.

I am so lucky to know you. Thank you for everything.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

We think you’ve gone and fvcked us all over because you couldn’t settle for being treated like everyone else, that’s how. No, you had to be the center of attention, and to validate your own delusions by sterilizing and mutilating other people’s kids, and removing them from their homes. You also destroyed women’s safe spaces, ruined women’s sports, got women raped and murdered, and gave the schools the power to lie to parents about the physical safety of their own children.

Now the backlash is coming, and instead apologizing for dragging all of us down with you - because that is absolutely what you are doing - you’re desperately and despicably trying to pin the blame on gays and lesbians who have never wanted anything more than to be tolerated and left the fvck alone to live our lives.

Your inappropriate, entitled, and predatory behavior has provoked such overwhelming, incredulous disgust that people who didn’t mind gays - or even trans people - a decade ago now can’t wait to shove us all back in the closet and lock the door forever.

And who can blame them? You’ve done an excellent job of ruining the reputation of the entire LGBT community, and of destroying every last bit of the progress that took decades of careful, deliberate inoffensiveness, and respect for the boundaries and values of the rest of society to achieve. Thank you so much.

We spent fifty years trying to show straight people that we aren’t just a bunch of degenerate freaks who can’t wait to convert their children, that we don’t want to tear up the social fabric, or spit on their values, and what do you do?

You march down streets chanting “we’re coming for your children”; you force your way into women’s spaces in order to sexually exploit both the spaces and their female occupants; you convince millions of children that they’re “born in the wrong body,” and need hormones and surgery in order to be themselves - not because you care about their wellbeing, of course, but because you think that the existence of so-called “trans kids” validates the claims of trans-pretending adults; you demand that that all of society change its definitions of man and woman, male and female, sex and gender, boy and girl; you insist that everyone cater to you, lie to and for you, and put you on a pedestal as the sacred Victim Caste; you demand the perversion of science, you threaten and even attack women at their own events, you urge violence against women at yours, and you commit all manner of perverse, deviant, and unbelievably disgusting sexual acts in women’s spaces — which you film, and then upload to the internet so that the whole world can see how incredibly fvcking sick you are.

In short, you come along and bring every fear and every homophobic stereotype they’ve ever believed to loud, demanding, rainbow colored life. You separated mentally unstable children from their parents, preventing them from getting real therapy, and some of those children _died_ — how the fvck did you think people were going to react to that?

And now you don’t even have the decency to admit what you’ve done; instead you’re trying to pin this on the people who spent the last decade doing everything we could to undo the damage you have caused, and to stave off the catastrophic results of your unhinged, entitled, predatory actions.

If we do get through the next four years without losing the right to marry, or hell, the right to be openly gay, it will be entirely due to the people you deride as “fascist bootlickers” — the same people who got you your rights in the first place, you ungrateful, greedy gang of petulant children — and their unceasing efforts to mitigate the cataclysm that you have unleashed upon us all with your insanely selfish behavior.

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Oh, yeah - and stop claiming to be Romani, you ridiculous, hysterical, culturally appropriative pathological liar. We’ve had this discussion, and I’ve got the receipts — you’re about as much of a Romani as you are a man. 🖕

#LGBWithoutTheT

[Joan of Norn Iron @cherrypres]

I’m done with Twitter. Done with Musk. You will find me on BlueSky with the same handle if interested. It has been lovely interacting with you all xx

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Goodbye, America.

Never speak to Me again.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Mariesaurus XX @mariaceratops]

This isn't just misogyny, it's M&S misogyny.

Girls are not 'things' - no matter how progressive and inclusive you think you're being

[Michael Oxford - AKA The Santa Cruz Mountain Goat @SCMountainGoat]

I turn 41 in 30 minutes.

I have no wife, no kids, my father is gone, I haven't talked to my mother in nearly 20 years, and my relationship with my sister isn't great.

I'm not going to pretend I'm happy about any of it, and I'm not sure why I'm telling you guys this.

Maybe it's because I think about these things a lot.

I'm not looking for advice, or sympathy.

I guess Im just getting it off my chest, and trying to be transparent with you.

I'm just another guy on the internet who's life hasn't turned out the way I thought it would.

Thank you all for being here, especially those of you who I interact with regularly.

[All On The Board @allontheboard]

It’s World Menopause Day.
We can’t pretend to know what you’re going through, but we can try to show you we care.

#WorldMenopauseDay #Menopause

[Emma Harriet Nicholson @Baroness_Nichol]

⁦@Butlins⁩ ⁦@jk_rowling⁩