Irene C

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉

Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.

For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable. The re-definition of 'woman' to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women's and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors.

It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.

If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it.

#ArrestMe #AprilFools #HateCrimeActScotland

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[Irene C @IreneCowper]

@ediz1975 Even Systra, operating Tracsis ATC installations, eg for Southwark Council, have said that the rubber ATCs across the road cannot count slow traffic; it is common knowledge now.

[Irene C @IreneCowper]

@ConfidentCyc @hcanna1 @HaringeyCyclist @HappyHaringey @KidicalMassLond @HaringeyLiving @London_Cycles @francesca_kms @LondonCycle3 @theJeremyVine @Hackneycyclist @hackney_cycling @BikeabilityUK Hey, how about *every* cyclist doing bike ability? Learn to ride safely on roads with . . . da da daa ... cars! So they can cycle safely wherever they want, not just on LTNs.

[Irene C @IreneCowper]

@Superdry How do I send back returns to Superdry? Evri delivered, but Evri does not seem to do their returns. The "returns" links on the web page don't go anywhere.

[Irene C @IreneCowper]

Appalled to hear on @BBCWomansHour @SophieHagan peddling the idea, and her new book, that it is OK to be very fat. This is not about taboos of perfect bodies, nor feminism. Obesity causes health problems, to personal and national cost. Obese children cannot even play properly.

[Irene C @IreneCowper]

#WriteCBC @cbcreative Sand blows into endless snaking patterns; tips of marram grass teasing the low dunes. Small waves, welling and falling, darken the shoreline. Gulls jostle above.
He scans the barbed wire and anti-tank scaffolds, remembering ice cream and sandcastles.

[Irene C @IreneCowper]

@elonerrigby1 @jst_a_statistic @BBCBreaking Of course people are grieving! Have you ever grieved? Did you go the Town Hall to grieve?

[Irene C @IreneCowper]

@jst_a_statistic @BBCBreaking @elonerrigby1 Do you actually know that? For sure? You are able to accuse? Event before anyone - anyone! - has had the chance to investigate?

[Hamilton and Neale @HamiltonNeale]

We urgently need good careers guidance: here's how to do it http://t.co/waoofxZwhE via @guardian

[Irene C @IreneCowper]

Hello Twitter! #myfirstTweet

[Irene C @IreneCowper]

@HamiltonNeale Something of this kind is way overdue, I keenly await its launch.