🦖Claire 🦕

GC feminist, cat lover, mom.🦕🦖

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

I’ve posted this before, but there are a lot more of y’all now, and I think it’s worth repeating.

Imagine a scenario in which large numbers of white people start saying that they “feel black,” and that because of this feeling, and their enjoyment of stereotypically “black behavior,” they are now not just black themselves, but the most marginalized and vulnerable type of black person.

Imagine them insisting that they should be the main focus of all activism meant to help PoC. Imagine them having operations to darken their skin and mimic stereotypically black features. Imagine them walking around in blackface, and saying it’s the exact same thing as actually being black.

Imagine them being honored as black citizens by the White House, being summoned to talk to the President about issues facing the black community, being supported by celebrities, and having laws passed to make white people who identify as black a protected class.

Imagine these people demanding membership in black organizations, insisting that they receive a share of the reparations that CA is about to pay, and demanding they be given awards created specifically to honor black achievement. Then imagine them getting their way.

Now imagine mobs of them showing up to black events that don’t include them, carrying threatening signs and air horns to drown out any speakers with noise. Imagine them coming up with slurs for any black person who doesn’t accept that white people are black if they say they are.

Imagine them calling for the rape, torture, and mass murder of any black person who disagrees with them. Imagine them getting black people doxxed, harassed, assaulted, fired from their jobs, and investigated by the police for saying that you have to be born black to be black.

Now imagine the government supporting their demands.

That’s exactly the position that women are in right now, with a few extras, like being locked in cells with dangerous men, the sexual predation of lesbians via coercion, and the increased risk of sexual assault in what used to be female-only spaces. Our oppressors are now claiming not only the right to oppress us in whole new ways, but the right to erase our identities as women and rewrite the meaning of womanhood in ways that suit - and include - them.

If you wouldn’t support this kind of behavior towards black people, you have no business supporting this kind of behavior towards women.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

@HarrietHarman Wrong! That’s not what the law ( today) & sex discrimination law says. Single sex spaces have to be single biological sex. That was the whole point of the court case.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

@HarrietHarman No. How are you not up to speed on this?

If women-only single-sex spaces are justified in the first place, they can exclude any man without further justification.

The justification for the space is the expression of necessary exclusion.

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[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

Whereas I find it insane that people with medical training could perform brutal, irreversible procedures on healthy kids to align their bodies with mystical gender spirits

[Why Female Matters 🇬🇧 @whyfemalematter]

@andrewdoyle_com If he turned up for work blacked up and wearing an afro wig he would be fired. Yet he can turn up parodying and appropriating women and that's tickety-boo because..........actually I can't think of a single reason this would be acceptable anywhere, not least in a University.

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

@NeilThin @AndrewDoyle The way this man is dressing is probably sex-related/ sexual harassment of his female students and probably colleagues too. His "freedom" is distressing and humiliating many women, and making their world smaller and their education worse. https://t.co/45tXdhIJxS

[Jonni S🦎 @JonniSkinner]

Well as a survivor I find it insane you are a doctor and you're so brazen as to affirm young kids insecurities and present hormones and surgeries as their only options to feel comfortable in their skin. I find it insane you continue to spread disinformation around medical transition and then are so confident that you won't have to face the consequences of your actions you make posts like this. One day you will have patients or their families reaching out to you wondering why you presented blockers and hormones as the only solution to their distress. They'll be wondering why you made cross sex hormones sound so safe and effective when their bodies and minds only got worse with time. They'll be wondering why you gave them the stamp of approval before they ever had the chance to grow up or have the life experience to know themselves. When they were in a time of need and desperation you made their options seem narrow. It's either transition or suicide, right? You will have to answer for steering them in that direction. I say this to you for you to think about genuinely. I was a trans kid, started medically transitioning at 13 years old. I did not have the life experience to know myself then. A child cannot declare a permanent lasting identity when they are still forming their identity. Growing up is the process of self discovery that leads one to knowing themselves. If you introduce the idea that a kid will be miserable if they go through puberty then block that puberty you've already set them on a completely different course that you decided for them. As they don't have the capacity or the life experience to make such serious lasting decisions.

[Cee🫧 @WanderedOut]

@HelenWebberley You had to leave the UK because you lost your medical license due to malpractice involving a 10 year old boy. You now operate online and profit off of telling children they were born in the wrong body and need to be “fixed”. I don’t know how you sleep at night.

[Prisha Mosley🦎 @PrishaMosley]

@HelenWebberley I find it insane that people with medical training prescribed me anabolic steroids at 17 and cut off my breasts when I needed mental heath care.

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

@HelenWebberley I find it insane you are not serving a lengthy prison sentence, but hey, maybe one day!

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

The AHRC is literally saying that lesbians are not entitled to be recognised in law by a category that accurately describes them because that would discriminate against straight men calling themselves lesbians. This is homophobia on steroids.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

But why isn’t this brave and stunning woman, and others like him on the cover?

Because he blows your cover?

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

Look at them - police don't seem to arrest these men - too busy locking people up for misgendering:

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

It blows my mind that I have been in a federal court case for almost 4 years for knowing this.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

This woman is a warrior. I wish I could do more to support her.

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

Remain lawful? 🤨

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

If somebody like this, who is biological male professes they are going to deliberately & repeatedly break the law when they are aware if the law, what are the police going to do to protect women who have rights - being constantly ignored & belittled ?

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

https://t.co/kmgjaDzsrf