Ellie Rofe

Je suis femme. Scepticism is self-care. Any poor judge of character is a friend of mine.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

I've been meaning to update this for ages.

Trans isn't a coherent ideology.

Therefore it's not a coherent political identity.

There are no rights that trans people don't have.

There are no entitlements that can be given - without creating terrible second-order consequences.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

@sleeepysandy @Mr_Andrew_Fox Yeah, some of these posts are extremely shady. You can see the misinformation start to fly.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

This is true, but they also work on the other side of the coin. CRT didn't magically come into being as a great idea that everyone suddenly agreed with in 2016, after all.

It was absolutely astroturfed into 'consensus' online and then force-fed into every institution - even though the vast majority of people *still* don't find the theory at all compelling. It's a minority belief that now influences much of our public sphere - including piles of evidence that's been provided for years that police are being indoctrinated with it.

You don't get much more divisive than assigning different treatment to people depending on which category you've divided them into.

Our enemies have already sown the seeds of division years ago. Now they get to reap their crop.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Bear in mind that during the inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing, it came out that security guard Kyle Lawler had actually spotted suicide bomber Salman Abedi before.

Abedi was fidgety and sweating in a bulky jacket on a warm night, and carrying a large backpack. Lawler had a “bad feeling” and thought something was wrong, but he hesitated and failed to report it properly. His exact words:

“I did not want people to think I am stereotyping him because of his race… I was scared of being wrong and being branded a racist if I got it wrong and would have got into trouble.”

22 innocents were killed; hundreds scarred for life.

This bloodbath should have been the final wake-up call about the lethal insanity of “anti-racism” and the deranged cult that treats being called racist as the ultimate unforgivable sin.

Instead, Britain doubled down and rammed this poisonous ideology even deeper into the College of Policing’s training.

Time to scrap the race-baiting training and fire the ideologues. Or keep burying more young, innocent Brits.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

One of the things I've come to understand as I grew up and moved away from fairytales is that yes, brave and stubborn women have fought for our rights and fought hard - but we only got them because we convinced enough decent men in our society that they should dispense them. And because there were enough decent men to convince in the first place.

There isn't some cosmic Rights Fairy who waves a wand and that's it. It's a constant negotiation. And we have to negotiate from the people with power. For women, even when we have positions of power it's somewhat illusory - because when you strip away democratic instruments (which can be lost in a nanosecond), men ultimately have the physical power.

So our freedoms and rights depend on us constantly renegotiating them (as you've done so bravely with trans ideology) and on there being enough men who agree.

We don't have to imagine this. We can see what happens in Afghanistan, for example. Women there aren't willing particpants in their subjugation. But even if they fight, there are not enough men there who view them as equal humans for the negotiation part to bear fruit.

Some people - many women especially - really don't seem to get this at all and behave like we can just float on forever on a magic rights carpet.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

@MancSam1985 I don't know. A lot of them have similar backgrounds to everyone else. I just think they're brainwashed in their NGO/charity/legal/political career to constantly value comms over competency.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

This is fundamentally the issue.

Politicians have been consumed by spin. It's eaten their brains and left them 'managing the narrative' instead of 'fixing the sodding problem'.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Our country is run by people who believe that the best way to solve a problem is to pretend it doesn't exist.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

@Sonas1679060 I can't believe it. My trust in perverts to do the right thing has been totally destroyed.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

This is as much a shock to me as it is to you, but it seems like perverts have worked out that mixed sex changing rooms are a great place for them to ply their trade. Nobody could have foreseen this, but I guess we should... I dunno... make sure women can have single sex spaces.

[Emily Wilding Davison🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Wommando]

🚨 MAN CAUGHT FILMING WOMAN IN DUNDEE OLYMPIA MIXED SEX"CHANGING VILLAGE"

Craig Ellingford, 44, caught using his phone to secretly film a woman undressing in Dundee's Olympia leisure centre, has walked free.

CCTV shows the pervert watching the woman enter a cubicle in the venue's "changing village", checking if anyone was around, then "tiptoeing" into the adjacent cubicle.

The woman spotted a phone being held under the divider and pointed towards her. When challenged, Ellingford reportedly fled the scene.

The victim was left visibly shaken, distressed and close to tears.

Ellingford was ordered 165 hours of unpaid work and added to the sex offenders register for just NINE MONTHS. 9 months? Ridiculous!

🚫 This is far from an isolated case and just one of the reasons women's single sex spaces are vital.

Voyeurism offences have been reported in mixed-sex "changing villages" across the UK. They are a gift to perverts, and continued access coupled with pathetic, lenient sentences like this, they will continue. Appalling.

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

To the progressive mind the concept of a white victim is forbidden. For them it’s a category error. Their stubbornness in this position is stupidly unempirical and flies in the face of data which shows disproportionate white victimhood in interracial violence.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

@Calavera437 I think the judge stated that it couldn't be proven that they knew Digwa had stabbed Henry so the family - other than the mother who had handled the murder weapon so definitely knew - weren't charged. CPS appears to have believed it wouldn't get past 'satisfied so you are sure'.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

@BalthazarGrimm @RichardGlyn99 @TheSimonEvansX I guess it would be hard for Starmer to ask for her wishes to be considered when he avoided making any comment whatsoever on her daughter's brutal murder.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

@RichardGlyn99 @TheSimonEvansX Why is it 'bizarre and implausible'? If the same thing happened to my nephew, it's exactly what I'd call for.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

@RichardGlyn99 @TheSimonEvansX I don't think you understand how debate works, love. Crack on.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

@SVPhillimore I suspect like most people with personality disorders, they were much sweeter when they were getting their own way.

Now that people are reasserting boundaries and removed the sacred forcefield, the anger will only rise and rise.

[Emma Harriet Nicholson @Baroness_Nichol]

A big Trades Union seems ignorant on Employment Law

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

@TheSimonEvansX This 'heat of the moment' commentary is desperate.

"I don't think you have, mate" was not issued in a frantic state of emergency triage.

Nor was "I know, but we have to check".

They just sounded like weaselly little bullies trying to impress the bigger boys at school.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

@eliska2502 @janeclarejones @AudreySuffolk I enjoyed that little moment, coming hot on the heels of "extremely elegant prose stylist".

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

Yes. Henry Nowak's family also spoke of wanting to drive change and learn lessons. Nigel Farage's question referred to something explicitly 'two-tier' in the current police code of conduct that should be changed - i.e. a practical solution. I don't buy that the parameters of public debate should be set entirely by the grieving family, but even if they were, this was in the remit of what they had called for