Gill Lawrence

biological sex is real. I have a personality not a gender.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Police must stop engaging in ‘woke’ culture wars, says major report. Well done Lord Herbert & Lord Blunket. Let’s hope this sees the return of fair & solid policing & the removal of lanyard-ism (which ought to happen in all public bodies). https://t.co/s1rwzsD1TQ

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'Who does it hurt if we make every space mixed-sex?'
This is who it hurts: the most vulnerable, those without power and influence, the invisible people politicians don't bother to consider when chasing likes and photo ops. If this girl or an adult acting on her behalf wants to take legal action, contact https://t.co/EQnwivL9hW

[Colin Wynter KC @QcWynter]

Our Health Secretary, James Murray, no longer believes either that women can have a penis or that transwomen (sic) are women.
He changed his mind because he has thought about it.
Heavens to Murgatroyd.
if were two things about which no one needed to have any thought, it is those.

[Dr. Dame Katy Denise CH GBE 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇬🪑 @damekatydenise_]

Look at that! I didn’t think folx had them in their homes anymore. Unsightly & dangerous, prone to poor combustion & poses a severe safety risk.

& that gas fire isn’t any better. 💋

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

Once again the BBC frames opposition to the Conversion Practices draft bill as entirely religious in nature. Although this is a religion-based programme, it doesn’t explain at any point that there are concerns that affirmation is seen by many as a conversion practice, nor does it explain that there are also grave safeguarding concerns from medics and psychotherapists. Badly misleading, and the pres was unable to challenge the pro-trans guest on the detail of how the loose and subjective terms ‘abuse’, ‘economic and emotional pressure’ and ‘serious harm’ can be interpreted and exploited.

There’s no balance over time and platforms: these concerns are vastly underreported in the BBC website compared to the lived complaints of transactivists, and the fears of gay conversion by transitioning aren’t there at all.

https://t.co/tSQS1EAwj6

[Rosie Kay @RosieKayK2CO]

From @Fox_Claire
“In better news, I’ve won a ballot to have a debate of my choice in the House of Lords soon. I’ve chosen artistic boycotts as my theme: the way that the arts establishment closes ranks against anyone who is, for example, gender critical or in any way supportive of Israel. I will be delighted to highlight the report by Rosie Kay and Denise Fahmy.”

https://t.co/AOtR3ZC9wh

[spiked @spikedonline]

Andy Burnham’s chief of staff is why drag queens are never off the BBC. James Purnell made it his mission to expunge the Beeb of ‘heteronormativity’. He let Stonewall write its diversity agenda. He should be nowhere near No10, says Malcolm Clark
https://t.co/YswteIQlMZ

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Watch this until the end.

These are the “dolls” that need “protecting”, apparently…

I hope more & more people wake up to the fact that this is the true face of trans-activism.

And some still wonder why they wouldn’t debate…

Any more questions?

[Dr. Dame Katy Denise CH GBE 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇬🪑 @damekatydenise_]

Guess who turned up empty handed because she ‘forgot Spar closes early on a Sunday’. 🙄

@jk_rowling 💋

#HydrationBreak
#WorldCup

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The new Health Secretary has stripped a minister of responsibility for a controversial puberty blocker trial after she raised what were described as “credible safeguarding warnings” about the drugs.

James Murray removed Preet Kaur Gill MP, the minister for health innovation and safety, from her leading role overseeing the Pathways trial.

The trial will involve 226 children who believe they are transgender being offered puberty-suppressing drugs, with girls as young as 11 and boys as young as 12 eligible to take part.

Ms Kaur Gill, a former social worker, has previously voiced concerns that warnings about puberty blockers were being ignored.

It now appears she has been sidelined. By the time the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced on 19 June that the Pathways trial could proceed with minimum age limits in place, responsibility had passed to Baroness Merron, the minister for women’s health and mental health.

A Whitehall source told The Telegraph: “If this trial had stayed the responsibility of Preet Gill, she would have rightly cancelled it, at least until the child victims of the appalling Tavistock scandal had been tracked down to find out how badly damaged they are.

“Instead, in an increasingly desperate attempt to go ahead with this shocking trial, it has been taken away from her.”

Another source accused the Health Secretary of ignoring concerns raised not only by Ms Kaur Gill but also by two other female health ministers.

The source said: “It shows women’s voices are still not being listened to on this issue, and that one man [Mr Murray] – who’s only been there for two seconds – is trying to push it through regardless.”

Ms Kaur Gill is not the first senior figure to have been sidelined during this process. In March, the MHRA announced that its chief medical and scientific officer, Professor Jacob George, whose safety concerns had led to the Pathways trial being paused, would no longer be involved.

Read more below 👇

[Rebecca Paul MP @Rebecca_SPaul]

Always remember that Labour voted for the puberty blocker trial to go ahead knowing full well the harm that will be inflicted on children as young as 11.

And almost all the Lib Dems couldn’t be bothered to vote.

Shameful.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@WombleFlyBoy I think the fact that the First Minister personally signed off on wasting taxpayer money on an attempt to keep men in women’s prisons is noteworthy. Hubris and misogyny combined.

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

@jk_rowling He repeatedly says that he's 'listened to clinical experts', but has only ever named Baroness Cass. But, as I put it to him, there are dozens of experts who are against this trial. Why hasn't he met with any of them?

[Amelia @makeukgood]

We all know exactly why you don’t want this video to be shared. Your officers were already on the scene, they stood by and watched the white lad get knocked down, then only moved in to arrest him once he was back on his feet. Have you still not learned anything from Henry’s case? This is disgusting and completely unacceptable. The officers involved must be properly investigated, and the man should be released immediately.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

What on earth is going on here?

Parliament voted to abolish blasphemy laws back in 2008 — 18 years ago.

The Government’s decision to introduce a non-statutory official definition of Islamophobia — repackaged as “anti-Muslim hostility” — has effectively revived blasphemy laws for Islam alone.

In a free society, no religion should be afforded greater protection than another. We are losing our fundamental right to legitimately criticise and debate a single religion in this country.

It is not a criminal offence in this country to criticise or mock the Prophet Muhammad.

The Free Speech Union wants to help. If you know anything about this case, please contact us at [email protected].

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

I've been sitting on the evidence for this Girlguiding story since March.

Even then, it took months to persuade a mainstream publication to cover this aspect of the investigation.

For an independent journalist, pursuing a story like this without the backing of a national newspaper's legal team carries obvious risks. But I persisted because I believe there is a strong public interest in asking whether organisations entrusted with the care of girls are putting safeguarding first.

This investigation involved months of conversations, verification and painstaking work. Unsurprisingly, some people have suggested that concerns about these issues are exaggerated. That is why I'm sharing some of the publicly available material I found online.

To be absolutely clear, there is no suggestion that this individual has done anything wrong.

Indeed one could argue he has also been failed by a system that affirmed and accepted him as a Girlguiding leader and later appointed him to a 16-person advisory committee - apparently without sufficient scrutiny of his suitability for the role.

The greater failure, however, was towards the girls and women who should never have been expected to accept males in a single-sex organisation.

I hope this story helps explain why many women believe this debate has never simply been about being "kind". It is about safeguarding, boundaries and whose interests are prioritised.

I'm grateful to everyone who helped bring this story to light, including women who spoke to me privately and helped with research. And @Glinner who reminded me how important it was to tell this story.

And I do think we should ask why it was so difficult to secure national coverage of a story that many people would regard as being firmly in the public interest.

[Dr. Dame Katy Denise CH GBE 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇬🪑 @damekatydenise_]

Before you twats start, no it bloody well isn’t! 🤬

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Possibly, as Minister for Health, James Murray could compel the adult gender clinics to hand over the data they refused to give to Cass. We might then find out just how much benefit these interventions confer long term, without needing to perform experiments on children too young to give meaningful consent.

Read the testimony of the ever-expanding numbers of detransitioners. Grasp that these young people, many of them extremely vulnerable - autistic, care-experienced, abuse survivors, same-sex attracted in unsupportive families - have been irreparably harmed, left with their fertility destroyed, unending medical complications and profound psychological damage.

This is a medical scandal of epic proportions and people of power and influence are still too frightened of trans activists and trans lobby groups to do the right thing and put an end to the insanity. Kids are being sacrificed to ideology and cowardice.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Scottish taxpayers, against the vast majority’s will, funded an attempt by the government to keep men in women’s prisons. Never have I been so tempted to move to Monaco and give all the money I’ve been paying in tax to groups fighting the rank misogyny of Swinney’s government.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

I hate seeing the LGB movement that’s made so many important strides, being taken over by the T&Q (what ever the Q actually stand for?) but one things for sure no way must these men ever ever be allowed in changing rooms with our daughters 👇🏼