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♀️ Gender Atheist ✌️POW Supporter 🌟 #HoldTheLine. Remain curious. Remain Human.

[F ε ε 🐝 💜 ♀️ @optimistic4lif3]

The WPATH Files — Environmental Progress https://t.co/dn454ZiLmM

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Being biologically female means having a body that is observably organised to produce large gametes (eggs), as opposed to a body organised to produce small gametes (sperm). A woman is female whether her eggs have been fertilised or not. A man can never be female.

[University of Leicester Women in Sport Society @UoLWSS]

Leicester SU have REJECTED our application, saying our society isn't needed (see full reasoning in the form in our bio).

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@KirstiMiller30 @thetimes You and everyone else who insists that incarcerated women should be guinea pigs in your little social experiment should never be allowed to forget it. 8/8

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

🚨 UPDATE: Scope has reversed its decision and reinstated my choir

Pleased to say Scope has now reinstated the invitation for my choir to perform at the London Marathon tomorrow.

While this is a win, the distress and uncertainty caused by this situation has taken its toll. At present, only one fellow choir member has said they feel comfortable performing tomorrow. Understandably so.

In a statement published on their website this evening, they’ve confirmed the choir is not political - and never was.

They also acknowledge that my gender-critical beliefs, cited as the reason for dropping us, are lawful -and that those views are mine and separate from the choir as a whole.

All of which we knew all along.

However, they go on to describe gender-critical views as “highly polarising” and potentially “deeply upsetting and alienating” - language and ideological framing that echoes previous public commentary that presented my lawful, mainstream views as extreme.

While this is a win, the distress and uncertainty caused by this situation has taken its toll. At present, only one fellow choir member has said they feel comfortable performing tomorrow.

We are now considering our options.

[Dr. Dr. P: A "dreadful, middle-aged woman" @Psychgirl211]

No.

This is not mere "clownery".

Mr Matt Rattley should not be permitted to attend work @UniofOxford to lecture students, (many of whom I imagine, are foreign and paying whacking great fees), presenting in this indecent manner.

This is an implicit threat to all women girls.

This is an implicit threat to his female students and colleagues.

This is Matt Rattley saying, "I can do whatever I please and nobody can stop me".

This is highly antisocial, abnormal, boundary-violating, paraphilic behaviour.

And we should not be afraid to say so.

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

https://t.co/4B2FyV140y

[Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS @Sorelle_Arduino]

Important to remember this isn’t just about changing rooms, Upton admitted he wouldn’t leave the room if a rape survivor asked for female care unless explicitly called out

He is also accused of complaining when a women with dementia called him ‘son’

He is not fit to practice

[Carilyn Johnson @CarilynJohnson]

Warrior. 💪❤️

[F ε ε 🐝 💜 ♀️ @optimistic4lif3]

@ThrillaRilla369 No

[Outspoken Women @women_outspoken]

1/6 Your photo, Helen, shows Dr Sophie Quinney, Medical Director of the Welsh Gender Service, standing beside one of the men she thinks we ought to include in women's sports and changing rooms. A man who spent much of yesterday's demo yelling insults and threats at us. Quinney is

[ISGlobal @ISGLOBALorg]

⚖️ For decades, medical research has used men as the default group.

In the past decade, only 4% of clinical trials included pregnant women, leaving major gaps in knowledge and care.

Bias in clinical settings continues to shape diagnosis, treatment and outcomes.

#GenderBias #GlobalHealth #WomensHealth #WorldHealthDay
https://t.co/QUncSTGuHa

[spiked @spikedonline]

The NHS has a women problem. From being left in unbearable pain to being refused diagnoses, women are routinely abandoned or belittled. There are too many horror stories to ignore, says Georgina Mumford
https://t.co/hzWGOOoRBF

[Michael Foran @michaelpforan]

Tip: don’t take legal advice from doctors who don’t even have a licence to practice medicine in the U.K., let alone law.

[Lainey @CopperScorpion]

@JLTPoetry @Glinner @PlusNin9 @ThePosieParker Are you that psycho who stalks James Dreyfus?

[DJ Lippy @JocastaMoney]

How do we convince women that transwomen are not a threat in their single sex spaces? By threatening them with death every time we meet. Trans logic 101

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

I’m definitely not wrong about the sadism. I got the information from an expert in the field. You may not have put this together, but I’ve been a cop for almost 20 years. I’ve worked sex crimes, Narcotics, and Homicide. I know _exactly_ what men like you are. I know what you enjoy, and why you enjoy it. I also know that paraphilias cluster: men like you are more likely to have multiple fetishes than to have just one, and masochism and sadism are frequently comorbid.

I’ve served with men like you. I’ve arrested men like you. I’ve gone through their hard drives, their devices, and their videotape collections. I know exactly what goes on inside your head when you’re getting all dolled up in womanface. I know you use yourselves as substitute victims when you can’t get the real thing. I know that if you have daughters or wives or sisters, or if you live with your mom, none of you hesitate for a moment to dress up in their panties to masturbate. I know you get off on trespassing in women’s spaces, and I also know that if you continue doing these things, after a while you get used to it and the arousal goes away. The next move? Taking the depravity a step further — which is why men like you start out by going out cross-dressed at 1 o’clock in the morning when no one can see you, and work your way up to the point at which you are openly masturbating in women’s bathrooms.

Finally, I don’t give a good goddamn if my anger disappoints you. Take a good look in the mirror, “Jenni JingJing.” Why would any normal human being give a flying rat’s ass what a predatory pervert like you thinks about anything?

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

There is no Woman of the Day today. Instead, I want to explain why I do what I do. No one really knows who first said, “History is written by the victors” but I’d bet you any odds it was a man.

Think of your schooldays and count the number of times you learned about the roles played by women in shaping history, other than regnant Queens and perhaps Marie Curie and Florence Nightingale. Yet women lived, worked, networked, debated, campaigned, organised, invented things and built them too - but you’d never know this if your lessons, like mine, were confined to history books.

For a practical example, just look around you. Fridge, washing machine, dishwasher, ironing board, home security system, call waiting system, car heater and windscreen wipers, even the very first computer algorithm: all invented by women.

Are you surprised? Confined to the house, denied access to higher education, barred from engineering, denied entry to all branches of science and the professions for centuries, those bright analytical minds turned their attention to their immediate surroundings and saw what was needed to free them from domestic drudgery.

In return, history ignored women’s achievements, glossed over them or consigned them to dusty footnotes. If all else failed, their work was credited to - or stolen by - men, the phenomenon known as the Matilda Effect, first identified by feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage in 1870.

In 1993, it was named for her by historian Margaret Rossiter who said, “It is important to note early that women’s historically subordinate ‘place’ in science was not a coincidence and was not due to any lack of merit on their part. It was due to the camouflage intentionally placed over their presence in science.”

Once you see it, you cannot unsee it - the Matilda Effect is everywhere - but now substitute ‘history’ for ‘science’. The proposition still stands. What I try to do is to pierce holes in that camouflage by writing about the almost-invisible women of history who overcame manmade barriers and changed the world.

As a Second Wave feminist, I thought we’d won all the big battles, that it was just a matter of mopping up the resisters and dragging them into the 20th century. I did my bit to redress the balance in an overwhelmingly male environment, but how had I managed to miss the barefaced theft of our words, our spaces and services, our sports? How had we suddenly been reduced to a walking collection of body parts?

It was a wake-up call.

Once I saw, I couldn’t unsee the terrible damage being done to girls and young women who did not conform to the offensive sexist stereotypes being imposed on them by men who mimic women and their inane female cheerleaders. It made me fearful for non-conforming girls: tomboys. They need to see strong women as role models, women who don’t care about performing femininity, women who defy convention and do things their way. If you can see it, you can be it.

So I went digging around in those dusty footnotes, found a little gold and started from there. I found thrilling tales of women who were inventive, resourceful and brave. Then I started sharing what I found more widely, tied to the calendar as Women of the Day.

How do I find them? Often by pure chance. I go looking for one woman, spot a couple more names along the way - women whose stories really resonate with me - and file them away for the right time. Women’s history had been right under my nose the whole time. I just hadn’t realised that you needed to dig a little. The rather unexpected bonus was that in giving them a voice, I found mine.

I am a conspicuously law-abiding woman, a former prison governor, and if you had told me when I retired that one day, I’d be standing outside a police station in protest at the hounding of gender critical women and singing “Go catch some rapists” to the tune of Guantanamera, I’d have advised you to seek immediate medical attention for the effects of the bump to your head.

But here I am, telling women’s stories, and behind the scenes, pursuing a second career as a women’s rights activist. I won’t ever fall asleep at the wheel again.

Tomorrow, I’m off to Cardiff with my Women of Wessex sisters, to protest about @bphillipsonmp’s inexplicable decision to delay laying the EHRC Code of Practice before Parliament — and make no mistake about it. It IS a decision; one that is causing real harm and damage to the rights of women and the protection of children.

Some of you come for the occasional stories of women in history hiding in plain sight, but I hope you stay because you care about fairness and safety for women. For now, I leave you with this thought from the 1949 memoirs of Somerset suffragette Nelly Crocker (1872-1962):

“Modern young women seem unaware of the price paid for their political and social emancipation, and modern historians have greatly ignored the struggle”.

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

Finland tracked every gender-referred adolescent in the country for up to 25 years.

Their psychiatric needs didn't improve after 'gender reassignment'. They surged.

A landmark peer-reviewed study just dropped. Here's what it found. 🧵

[Julia Mason MS MD @JuliaMasonMD1]

Oof, check out those numbers. Finland is somewhat unique in their ability to follow ALL the gender patients, not just the ones who come back to the gender clinic with a fruit basket.

[Women o' Scotland @WomenOScotland]

One week to go! On Saturday 11 April, Women o’ Scotland will stand outside the Scottish Parliament with women from across Scotland & the UK.

We’ve had enough. Our governments must stop ignoring the Supreme Court ruling on sex.

Come and join us! Make our voices heard!!