Caroline Grebbell

Art Director. Writer. Occasionally grumpy.

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

Let me tell you, then, Jessie, why I’m a TERF.

See, there’s a man in California who’s doing life for a third strike armed robbery. His first two strikes came from kidnapping young women on two known occasions, and forcing them to fellate him.

Mr. Carroll is a 6’2, 250 lb, fully intact man with a beard. He doesn’t take estrogen or wear women’s clothing. He doesn’t use a woman’s name. Nevertheless, the state of CA agrees with Carroll that he is actually a woman, and he was transferred to a CA women’s prison, where he was given a female cellmate.

He impregnated her.

Technically it was rape, because inmates can’t legally consent, but that didn’t stop the prison officials from giving him another female cellmate. Whom he also raped.

When this victim reported him, he counter-accused. She - all of 5’1 and 120 lbs - went to solitary, and he — 6’2 and 250 pounds — got a third female cellmate.

Whom he also raped.

Mr. Carroll is back in the men’s prison he should never have left, and it only cost three women the injury of being raped for the state to figure that out. You claim to care about poor women — do you care about the incarcerated woman impregnated during her prison term? They’ll take her baby when it’s born, too — so the trauma affects a second generation.

This is not an isolated incident. Incarcerated women are incredibly vulnerable to sexual abuse, even when they aren’t knowingly locked in cells with a convicted male sex offender whom guards know raped his last two cellmates. Oh — and to make matters worse, the judge has decreed that the victims must referred to Mr. Carroll as “she.”

You claim to be a feminist, and yet you have turned your back on perhaps the most vulnerable population of women in the Western world. You claim to be a feminist, yet you abandon other women to suffer at the hands of violent men, brushing aside their pain with a quip about toilets and genitals.

Genitals become extremely important when someone is forcing his way into yours.

Ask me how I know.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

I am absolutely devastated
Men who claim to be women have more rights than actual women in Australia.
It is women who are being discriminated against, not the men who claim to be us.

But in a sense, nothing has changed: we will all wake up tomorrow & men will still not be women.

[Thea Sewell @theasewell05]

lIf you do anything today, watch @MaeveHalligan at the Cambridge Union. I genuinely think this was the first time many people in that room were confronted with the hard reality of the trans debate, rather than the slogans that usually surround it.

@BuckAngel was exceptional: calm, articulate, humane. Ultimate respect.

And then there was Helen Webberley. I remember once thinking the criticism directed at her by GC women was excessive, especially the claim she was ‘pure evil’. After hearing her speak, I no longer think that. She is totally insincere. I can deal with hard ideologues- they believe they are telling the truth; they are genuine, @HelenWebberley is different.

One audience member, a trans-identified male and former patient of hers, stood to speak during points of information. His account of how he had been treated was deeply disturbing.

Watch the full debate. It is worth your time.

[Caroline Grebbell @grebbell]

@staylorish Well, your idea of feminism was wrong Alan. Not as clever as you think pet.

[Caroline Grebbell @grebbell]

@mark_mackillop Grammatically correct. Your point?

[Caroline Grebbell @grebbell]

It is.

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

This is brilliant.

[Bill Moon @BigBillMoon]

Bye, lads.

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

🤣Dying! Someone replaced The Spice Girls’ vocals and removed the music.🤣😂🤣

H/T: sergiolotauro

[Caroline Grebbell @grebbell]

@TheCinesthetic helmet

[Caroline Grebbell @grebbell]

@GWDeclaration @TheGreenParty Brava.

[Caroline Grebbell @grebbell]

https://t.co/1tnYyGtGQR

[Caroline Grebbell @grebbell]

@JRalbol @Gaynotqueer1 @MaureenMottra10 Yawn

[Caroline Grebbell @grebbell]

The Epstein scandal has given us a glimpse into a sordid world inhabited by powerful men https://t.co/Ly11Huz4PS

[Caroline Grebbell @grebbell]

@ModelRevealed @holyroodmandy Nonsense.

[Caroline Grebbell @grebbell]

@agcolehamilton

[Caroline Grebbell @grebbell]

@HumzaYousaf

[Helen Rumbelow @HelenRumbelow]

I didn't know what I would discover when I started to read the Epstein files. I'm not sure many women realize how far our world is run by a club of women-hating men

[Caroline Grebbell @grebbell]

@WomensRightsNet @MarinaHyde Not just the rich and powerful, as was witnessed yesterday at the @ScotParl. So many men voting against @AshReganMSP’s #Unbuyable bill. So many men, from all sections of society, not giving a f*ck for vulnerable women and girls. It’s despicable. #waronwomen

[Scottish Feminist Network @Scot_Feminists]

Language rarely heard in Parliament but it's the language of men who buy sex, about the women whose bodies they use. @MaggieChapman would no doubt call it a job appraisal. We'd call it inhumane, vile, degrading & those men should be kept away from all women.

[Alison Weir- Deliberately defiant @WeirAlison]

@AshReganMSP was absolutely magnificent today. She has fought like a lioness to protect women and girls. Bravo Ash.

#Unbuyable