Jane Smith

Editor, writer, obsessive... (she/her)

[Jane Smith @hprw]

I do not stand with J K Rowling. My trans friends are all just as fabulous as my other friends. And it's not trans people who present a threat in women-only spaces, or safe spaces: it's sexual predators, who are a different group entirely. If you disagree, unfollow or block me.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@hell_line0 I had a baby at 21 weeks because of medical problems. He died in my arms when minutes old. Still impossibly painful, nearly 30 years later. No one would voluntarily go through that. Abortions only happen late in pregnancy when the other options are too horrendous to consider.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@softpinkgiggles Doris Lessing wrote very memorably about how having a baby should have made the mother's life bigger, because of the magic involved, but instead it made it increasingly smaller. I think of her writing, and her wisdom, very often now.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@AlisonMoyet I would love to have heard him speak. His accent sounds fabulous. And by the way, I was in Tesco two days ago and one of your songs was playing and I was transported back to being young and gorgeous again. Love you.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

Apart from me? Yes. Many things.

[Kristina Bolten @Kristinartz]

DOES ANYONE HERE HAVE SOMETHING IN THEIR HOUSE THAT'S OVER 40 YEARS OLD..

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@Judyastley @ma1ybe It's really simple, isn't it? I don't understand why people think it's up to the father when it's not the father's body which is being used for labour etc.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@Nursey1994 @Fly_Sistah @deardrewdixon I'm so sorry. But please know that if you reveal who he is, it won't be your fault if his mother is hurt. He made the decision to hurt you, knowing how his mother would feel if his actions became known. None of it is your fault.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@MrsButters I was three. It was my family doctor. He was the first, but there were many more.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@Luv_Xcuses Pretending that everything is fine

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@KirstieMAllsopp @julesserkin I left the walls of my old house natural lime plaster--a much nicer colour than the pink of gypsum plaster, and much better for that old house than gypsum too.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@NimraShahzadin Gorgeous!

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@tifagirlx Of course. Why wouldn't I be? The ladies room is for women, cis, trans or otherwise.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@mary_jjanet What matters is that teachers can engage their students and treat them with love and compassion. My trans friends are all extremely compassionate, and really good at understanding the world, which probably makes them better teachers than most.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@Ryan_Daigler Yes, and it's awful. Just as seeing people make jokes at their child's expense then laughing at it while their child is confused and uncomfortable is awful. Children deserve better.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@BrendaBlethynUK @AnnCleeves I love Vera. Perfect in so many ways.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@criminographer I lost my second son soon after he was born in 1999 and the pain never stops, I have just got used to living with it. I cannot imagine how awful I would feel if I'd lost him after a couple of years of knowing him. Sending love, because it's all I can do.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@IreneGr35814182 @ABmrJutt We all use TP. But only people with uteruses use period protection, so why should they bear the cost of those products plus the cost of the tax on them?

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@MichaelRosenYes I've said it before and I'll say it again. I am so very sorry for your loss; and I am so very sorry that you have to deal with vile nonsense like this. Don't know you personally, but sending love, just the same.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@tifagirlx I would, and I have done this. No one should be bullied and if there's ever anything I can do to help them I will do it.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@nickimoraa Yes. Without hesitation.

[Jane Smith @hprw]

@Hat3mys3If @Johnsonsnithj @tifagirlx My brother is a priest. Compassionate and kind, goes out of his way to help people. I am so proud of him. He is also gay, and does not feel at all sorry for that nor does he ever apologize for it, because it's who he is, and it's what has enabled him to be so compassionate, etc.