Clare Moffat

Mum, Wife, Business Owner, Political heckler! Newly Discovered Crossfit Junkie!

[Glasgow Warriors @GlasgowWarriors]

One more run out in red for Shug tomorrow 🦁

[Clare Moffat @claramof]

@SouthTyrolCrime @jk_rowling No, that requires empathy. This is missing completely from this conversation. The current trans and non binary activists tell women what they want and do not empathise with how that impacts women, or the trans women who have quietly gone about their business for years.

[Billy Kay @billykayscot]

What cataclysmic event will it take to get Scottish unionists off their knees. A rich, oil-producing country now has no capacity to refine oil. One of the cradles of the industrial revolution is being asset stripped to ensure dependency on England. We must be independent.

[Aamer Anwar✊🏾🏳️‍🌈#BlackLivesMatter @AamerAnwar]

“The right to life is enshrined in law. We cannot allow the NHS to continue delaying this treatment. These children have a right to receive the medication that could save their lives, you need to act now” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@neilcgray @ScotGovFM https://t.co/pl3PnMqRbs

[Clare Moffat @claramof]

@Daily_Record Is it overcrowding or a result of the decades of bed and nursing reductions?

[Clare Moffat @claramof]

@ilkleymax Me - love a banana sandwich!

[Ruth Davidson @RuthDavidsonPC]

My God, the courage.

[Clare Moffat @claramof]

@GBNEWS Nope not any type of bull dog

[Glasgow Warriors @GlasgowWarriors]

The moment 💙🖤

#WhateverItTakes ⚔️🛡️

[Clare Moffat @claramof]

@sicockcroft1973 @Louise_katz You missed the Welsh, NI and Scottish options?

[Simon @sicockcroft1973]

Could I please ask you to retweet this to get a truer result. Who will you be voting for?

[Clare Moffat @claramof]

@GuillermElodie Yes

[Clare Moffat @claramof]

@MattWalshBlog At no point in this argument is the living child post birth actually considered! A woman considering abortion may be unfit to mother - if there are no abortion possibilities, should we hand the baby to the father to raise? Regardless of the situation resulting in pregnancy?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.

I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.

Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.

Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.

Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.

I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.

I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

Please listen and share.

[Clare Moffat @claramof]

@albieamankona @jk_rowling @munroebergdorf1 @jk_rowling has a stance over compelled speech and scientific biology , that does not mean she would be nasty to individuals! This is an attempt to draw out more drama that is unrelated to the subject in hand.

[Kate @campervanwoman]

Pretty despairing to hear the newsreader on @BBCPM announce that sex is a protected characteristic in the Hate Crime Act. It isn’t. It *really* isn’t. This was about 20 mins ago and I was driving, but there’s been no correction. It’s a pretty major error.

[Clare Moffat @claramof]

@Eve_Barlow I chose humanity over the Zionist actions

[Charlie Herbert @Charlie533080]

Chance of this little fella planning the 7 October attacks, or holding any of the hostages are pretty slim, I reckon. But many people on this platform will go on justifying his injuries on that basis. Deranged.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

To Israelis still able to feel. Stop your government. Take to the streets to demand an immediate ceasefire. Enough is enough.
https://t.co/N5WDNRFIkD