Hixey KPSS #IstandwithMF,JKR,RD💚🤍💜

Animal, veg & min but mostly adult human female. Political agitatoress, lax mother, louche wife, occasional pilot. Available for far flung adventures as & when.

[India's hairline @indiashairline]

Julie Buchill's 2013 rant about troons (the one that got her banned from writing for the Guardian) has re-emerged. It would be terrible if people today were to read such bigotry, so please don't share the link with anyone
https://t.co/vxmCctp8aP

[FiLiA @FiLiA_charity]

Following the launch of our Quick Guide, we are pleased to share our full FiLiA Campaigner’s Toolkit – How to Object to a Strip Club in England & Wales, which contains all the knowledge & expertise every woman needs to fight a strip club.

Download here: https://t.co/uEz1h3bde3

[Anne Jenkin @Baronessjenkin]

Definitely worth a read 👇

[FiLiA @FiLiA_charity]

#NoMoreStripClubs – a campaign for:

⛔️An end to licensing of strip clubs.
⛔️Existing venues to be closed down.
❤️‍🩹Women currently ‘working’ in strip clubs to be supported with routes to exit the industry.

🔗 https://t.co/ohsBQpioyD

#WomensVoices #LifeNearStripClubs #VAWG

[Rob Burley @RobBurl]

Extraordinary to watch this back: a film we put out on Politics Live in 2018 which included coverage of the intimidation faced by women who protested in defiance of the aggression and who ended up winning the argument. https://t.co/uboTb0OQ8t

[FiLiA @FiLiA_charity]

The Government’s Women’s Health Strategy recognises a real issue: too many Women are still ignored, dismissed or misdiagnosed in the NHS.

🔎➡️ https://t.co/7PCnV1wiIG

That acknowledgement matters, but it must lead to real change.

#WomensHealth

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A young detransitioner, Fox Varian, has won $2 million damages in a medical malpractice lawsuit, in which she sued the psychologist and surgeon who approved her for a double mastectomy, aged 16. Varian's mother testified that she'd been against the surgery, but was pressured into agreeing because she'd been told that unless her daughter transitioned she was likely to commit suicide.

As the floodgates open, and more and more detransitioners sue the clinicians who subjected them to an unregulated medical experiment, gender identity activists will almost certainly continue to ignore any evidence that fails to support their preferred narrative. They'll keep insisting that hardly any transitioned people regret their irreversible procedures, that gender clinicians know exactly what they're doing, that surgeries, cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers are of proven benefit and that minors who're denied these treatments will to kill themselves. All of this is a lie.

Speaking at the WPATH conference in 2021, British endocrinology consultant Leighton Seal admitted 'we are doing procedures here where we don’t have outcome data.' A woman from Utah said she felt gender clinicians like her were making it up as they went along: 'Because I feel like we’re all just winging it, you know? And which is okay, you’re winging it too. But maybe we can just, like, wing it together.' (https://t.co/dW4xXKUzOY)

This will go down in history as one of the worst medical scandals of all time. Adults inside and outside the medical profession sold troubled young people like Varian the idea that all of their complex trauma would be resolved by removing healthy body parts.

As more and more detransitioners arrive in court, the public will learn the full extent of the harm done to kids in the name of an ideology. Clinicians performing these 'treatments' will go down in history as barbarous activists who betrayed a sacred oath: to do no harm. But we should never forget how many people outside the medical profession urged these young people on, gleefully assuring them that anyone advising caution was an evil bigot. There are people in elitist professions like publishing and academia, not to mention politicians and celebrities with young fan bases, who did all they could to champion the idea of gender identity, and kept pushing it even as the evidence of harm mounted. They're just as culpable as the clinicians. Too lazy to think more deeply than the fashionable mantras that got them social media likes, too arrogant to look at evidence from anyone outside their political bubble, they've slurred whistleblowers and attacked anyone with valid questions. In doing so, they've created a cultural climate without which this appalling tragedy could not have taken place.

Never forget, because only by learning the lesson can we stop this happening again.

https://t.co/6Z9rV8wI00

[FiLiA @FiLiA_charity]

Today the Prostitution (Offences & Support) (Scotland) Bill will be debated in the Scottish parliament. We ask Scottish MSPs to attend & engage in the debate & ensure they take this opportunity to stand with survivors & hear their calls for protection.

🔗https://t.co/T7Of9gijUD

[FiLiA @FiLiA_charity]

🧵 As we head into #NewYear2026, we were happy to hear the news that another venue which relies on the exploitation of Women is shutting, with #HootersLiverpool announcing its closing this month.

https://t.co/ow802ZQ98P

[Preet Kaur Gill MP @PreetKGillMP]

Today marks 50 years since the Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Act came into force, backed by the Equal Opportunities Commission.

50 years on, women are still fighting for equal pay, protection from discrimination, and for sex-based rights to be upheld in law and in practice.

[Genspect @genspect]

🇬🇧 @wesstreeting says the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial was 'approved by experts.'

The REC minutes show no doctor was present at any of the meetings that reviewed and approved the trial. The only physician on the committee, a Paediatric Intensive Care Consultant, submitted written comments but never attended.

No one with expertise in endocrinology, psychiatry, or fertility was in the room.

Read the minutes: https://t.co/oX5be3agem

[FiLiA @FiLiA_charity]

We will help Women get involved in shaping what this strategy delivers locally. Significant funding will flow to public bodies and Women must be meaningfully involved in how it’s used.

https://t.co/kONe1Dg6EA

[FiLiA @FiLiA_charity]

🧵We welcome the long-awaited #VAWG strategy, published today.

It includes some promising initiatives, many of which were signalled ahead of today’s launch, and it is positive to see renewed focus on this national emergency.

https://t.co/0rUBHXQhw3

[LabourWomen’sDeclaration @LabWomenDec]

BREAKING - In @guardian live reporting, @wesstreeting acknowledges unease about puberty blockers while defending the decision to proceed with a trial. But he says...he is following the clinical advice. 1/2

https://t.co/xCtD0uiEyW

[LabourWomen’sDeclaration @LabWomenDec]

Labour Women’s Declaration says the GIDS experience shows why caution is essential. @wesstreeting must listen to the clinicians and whistle blowers calling for the trial to be paused. 2/2

[LabourLGB @LabourLGB]

@LesbianLabour
@XSupport and @Safety :@LesbianLabour hacked - visible in search from @LabourLGB but redirects on compose. Urgent restore for LGB Advocacy group.
Case ID Access 98899663

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Three brilliant women.

Maeve, Thea and Serena founded the Cambridge University Society of Women - the only dedicated single-sex society at the university. In the face of cancellation and abuse they fought for women to have a space for free speech and free association.

Courage calls to courage everywhere.

@KemiBadenoch, @mimsdavies and I were delighted to meet these remarkable women. Please do follow their work @CUSocOfWomen!

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

@BellaSankey @kuningan Yes you’re quite right Bella, “Tory Boy” is political advocacy at its finest, you’ve done your residents proud 🙄. Calling it out as embarrassing isn’t denying you your free speech to act like you’re five on social media.

[FiLiA @FiLiA_charity]

🧵Last month, FiLiA welcomed our new Director of Research, @DrLauraFavaro, who will bring together FiLiA’s diverse strands of research to establish a dedicated space for the production of high-quality, feminist-driven research: the FiLiA Research Hub.

#16Days #16DaysOfActivism

[FiLiA @FiLiA_charity]

The FiLiA Women’s Assembly is a space for Women to come together and connect, build skills, form networks and take action on the issues that matter most to them. Whenever policies affect Women, Women must have the power to shape them.

🔗https://t.co/tVrO2nyCAo

#IDPD2025 #IDPD