Kim Barrett

Londoner in the north west. Ex-BBC Sport journalist, traveller, away day Millwall fan. Women’s rights advocate.

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

When political leaders say they will not enforce the law, they are telling women: “you do not matter.”

@DerryBanShee joins @JuliaHB1 on @TalkTV to discuss councils and public bodies refusing to follow the law on single-sex spaces.
📺 https://t.co/cthIox8yIy

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

CRICKET NEWS: The inaugural Women’s Masters World Cup launched yesterday at Malvern College with an invitational women’s match between England and an International XI. Organised by the Senior Women’s Cricket Association the event has attracted players from all over the world for the month-long tournament that sees fixtures around Worcestershire and Wales.

But, spectators at yesterday’s match were somewhat puzzled to spot at least SIX male cricketers on the pitch.

Fielding for the International XI was Annalise (Andrew) Britton from Wales who told his Facebook followers how thrilled he was to have made his debut and looking forward to playing for Wales on Monday at Colwall.

Batting for England we spotted another male, Amy (Andy) Holmes a BBC journalist with 3 Counties Radio, who has previously spoken extensively about his ‘trans’ experience and is an LGBTQ+ mentor for the No Boundaries Cricket Club.

We also spotted two men on the pitch from Gunnersbury Women’s Cricket Club. Gunnersbury, one of the oldest women’s cricket clubs in the country, was very vocal in its opposition to the ECB ban on men in women’s cricket and vowed to ‘stand by their trans players’.

We emailed the organisers last week to clarify the entry criteria for the WOMEN’S Masters World Cup but received no reply. We wanted to know:

❓Why does the Women’s Masters World Cup include men, given the Supreme Court ruling that the word women ONLY applies to those whose sex is female?

❓Did the organisers ask all the women players for their written consent to play against males given the considerable increased risk of injury they face?

❓Is the event insured as a mixed-sex event? If insured as a women’s event do the insurers cover the additional risk of males bowling and batting at women?

❓Are the men using the female changing rooms and toilets - a clear breach of the law?

Reminder: the fastest recorded speed of a cricket ball bowled by a male is 100.2 mph. The fastest recorded speed of a cricket ball bowled by a female is 82.1 mph.

This milestone in women’s cricket should have been a cause for celebration. Last week hundreds of female cricketers descended on Malvern to celebrate the centenary of the first women’s cricket match at Colwall Cricket Club. We wonder what those women who walked out onto the pitch at Colwall in 1926 would have thought of the game they fought so hard for being hijacked by men.

[Nora Calder @NoraTheBora]

“Inclusion” is a word I’m genuinely beginning to despise, it is used as a weapon to shut down legitimate boundaries. Exclusions exist for a reason

We exclude adults from children’s spaces. Drunk people from driving. Spectators from the field of play. Unqualified people from certain professions. And men from women’s single-sex spaces.

A boundary is not hatred. Privacy, dignity, safety and fairness depend on exclusion.

[Jo Bartosch @jo_bartosch]

Got this out today too- ‘pissed-off women don’t have the cultural clout of male sporting stars, whose intervention can turn a long-running feminist battle into headline news overnight.’
https://t.co/ckaAiF05Cb

[jj Nine Wolves 🇳🇴 @julieninewolves]

Thank you, @sophaller
As a lesbian — just like Megan Rapinoe — I am done staying quiet. Megan, you rose to the top of women’s soccer as a biological female.

You took every advantage of the sex-based category that Title IX and decades of women fighting for fairness created. Now you turn around and call the defence of that same category an “attack on women” while defending males in our sports, our locker rooms, and our categories.

That is not allyship. That is betrayal. Sex is real. Same-sex attraction is real. Lesbians are same-sex attracted — not “same-gender.” Women’s sports exist because of the permanent, performance-relevant differences between the male and female sex classes.

Pretending otherwise does not make you progressive. It makes you willing to sacrifice actual women and actual lesbians for an ideology that erases us.

I stand with Sophie. I stand for sex-based rights. I stand for same-sex rights. Save women’s sports.

Save gay and lesbian same-sex rights. No more silence. No more straw men. No more sacrificing females on the altar of male feelings.

#SaveWomensSports #SexBasedRights #SameSexAttraction #LesbiansAreWomen

[Samantha Smith @misssamsmith]

@DerryBanShee “An angry and entitled man broke a woman’s eye socket.” @bbcradioulster “Woah, lady! Watch your language.”

[Kim Barrett @KimDBarrett]

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[euan mccolm @euanmccolm]

“Men cannot breastfeed and the desire by some to do so is not proof that they are, essentially, female but the grim manifestation of a grim perversion.”

my @scotonsunday column:

https://t.co/FPLkYzOHfl

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

Absolutely heartbroken and furious on behalf of @rachelsfletcher. In yet another parallel universe, an exemplary female police detective has been sacked without notice today for complaining (in the office, no members of public around) about male violence, misogyny, sexual violence, and her fear that the force capture re gender woo would mean female officers may be required to strip-search male suspects. Total disgrace, and a terrible loss not only of a career, but to the victims of male predators she helped bang up.

[Charlie Walsham @CharlieWalsham_]

There must be countless frontline police officers who are absolutely exasperated by this. It also suggests that police forces across the country, funded by the taxes we all pay, have been captured at a managerial level, just like many other institutions, including the BBC, where I work.

I honestly think the only way to root this ideology out of public life is to elect a government that is determined to put women’s hard-won sex-based rights first, safeguard children, and have the courage to call out fetishistic men for what they are. They’re not pioneers of some new civil rights movement. They’re what they’ve always been, and they shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near women’s safe spaces.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Sophie Cunningham gets grilled by WNBA reporters for saying men shouldn’t be able to play women’s sports. Refuses to back down. “I said what I said.” Eloquently defends women’s sports as woke reporters press her. Love all of this. Well done @sophaller.

[GaelsForFairPlay @GaelsFairPlay]

We've just listened back to yesterday's Nolan Show (Chris Buckler standing in), which featured a discussion on Fèile an Phobail's cancellation of the @ni_wrn event. We were genuinely taken aback by the misinformed and vitriolic comments about 'the people on that panel' made by People Before Profit's Fiona Ferguson.
To be clear: Gaels For Fair Play is an all-Ireland group of grassroots Gaelic Games members campaigning for fair and safe sport for women and girls who play Gaelic football and camogie.
We are opposed to the @LadiesFootball transgender policy because iIt has been established, unequivocally, that inclusion of males in the female category cannot be balanced against safety and fairness for female players.
We know this because science, empirical evidence and basic common sense tells us so. Asking the custodians of our sport to protect the female category is not 'pumping out hatred'.

We do not wish to 'exclude' trans people from Gaelic Games.
We believe everyone should have the opportunity to participate but respectfully ask that trans-identifying males compete in the correct sex category in the interests of fairness and safety for females.
Trans-identifying females, who accept that biological diferences would make it difficult, if not impossible, for them to compete in a men's team, play in the correct sex category. Why, then, is it unthinkable that trans-identifying males would do the same?
We have repeatedly called on the GAA to foster an inclusive environment in men's Gaelic football and hurling in which trans-identifying males can feel safe, welcome and valued. This is the model of inclusion all ethical and responsible governing bodies should strive for; not a flawed version where the price of 'inclusion' is the removal of fairness and safety for women and girls.

We wonder if Fiona, as a committed feminist, might find it concerning that the LGFA will not disclose to female Gaelic footballers if a male is present on the pitch, thereby denying women the right to give informed consent about what happens to their own bodies. We hope it would also concern her to know that women who were injured after being tackled by male players chose not to raise the incident with the LGFA because they were afraid of being stigmatised.

Lastly: it's news to us that groups such as ours are 'heavily funded by right-wing groups in America' given that the placards we did up for our last protest were A4 posters sellotaped onto the back of a Cornflakes box. We are entirely self-funded and are raising this issue because we think women and girls deserve fairness, safety and dignity in our sport; it is a disgraceful slur to brand our words as 'hate speech'.

https://t.co/gzq5IMWleX

[LabourLGB @LabourLGB]

Great to be able to promote @Glindonmary 's wide-ranging article in Journal. Here's a link to Mary's Facebook page: https://t.co/ppjgIXqsgz and the article is reproduced below. Enjoy!

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

Female workers at the Home office were walking to another building entirely to avoid using new unisex toilets. But there were no headlines about their fears...

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

Our weekly Substack round up is back. This week's theme is: when does journalism becoming activism? Including:

- Should Amnesty Be Advising Journalists?
- The BBC's pronoun Muddle
- Does The Bookseller have a blind spot?
- The Guardian: Right of Reply or a verdict?

Link to read below 👇

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[Neale Hanvey🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @JNHanvey]

A Scottish newspaper using correctly sexed language and taking trans extremism seriously.

It’s time for every news outlet to follow suit.

Looking at you @bbcnews in particular. https://t.co/WmMbZ1tptd

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Taking our clothes off in public when we don't get our own way is totally something we women do, so this definitely isn't something that would only occur to a narcissistic male bully.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Ministers telling the house and committee they feel "uneasy" about the chemical castration of 200 more kids in Autumn, euphemistically called the "puberty blocker trial" should carefully consider the legal implications of this law.

Because an inquiry is an inevitability.

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

We have also written to @amnesty about our inclusion in their recent report ⬇️

Re: Amnesty International UK publication “A Growing Threat – The Anti Rights Movement in the UK”

Dear Ms Moscogiuri, Ms Horton and Mr Ruthven,

Seen in Journalism is a network of journalists and content makers committed to restoring accuracy and impartiality in reporting on sex and gender.

We are writing regarding your publication A Growing Threat – The Anti Rights Movement in the UK, released on 8 July 2026 and removed shortly afterwards.

Your report wrongly labelled several UK organisations, including Seen In Journalism, as “anti rights”, and linked gender critical groups to misogyny, homophobia, and anti-abortion activism.

These claims are inaccurate, misleading and seriously harmful.

Seen in Journalism has never opposed the rights of women, LGB people, or even those who identify as transgender. Nor have we ever campaigned on abortion. Presenting us as part of an “anti rights” movement misinforms the public and damages our reputation.

The report also described organisations supporting parents, detransitioners and young people as engaging in “conversion practices”.

This is a serious allegation presented without evidence.

Given Amnesty International’s influence, these mischaracterisations carry weight.

We demand that Amnesty issue a clear public apology and correction addressing the false statements made about Seen in Journalism and other groups.

We would appreciate confirmation that this matter is being formally reviewed.

[euan mccolm @euanmccolm]

Scottish feminists are on the frontline of the battle to preserve human rights and @AmnestyUK is not fit for purpose. My @scotonsunday column:

https://t.co/HWr379rELJ

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

As a former major fund-raiser for Amnesty - I produced the first five 'Secret Policeman's Balls' - I renounce the mob who have taken over Amnesty

Amnesty used to be about trying to do something about TORTURE