The Prettiest Rose 🌹

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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@AvaLovelaceX The evidence of irreversible harm to vulnerable children has been mounting for years. Like everyone else who's lied about children being maimed in service of an ideology, you deserve to have your words preserved for posterity.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

Christ on a bike, it’s pretty much on track to wipe out almost all cervical cancer.

Don’t get vaccine advice from actors.

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

@HJoyceGender is remarkably collected in the face of this injustice. It’s more than Kafkaesque - she wasn’t even questioned before a crime with her name was recorded on the national police database. And yet @GBNEWS is the only broadcaster interested in this total police capture.

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

"There's nothing radical about believing that men and women are material realities and sometimes in law and policy and life that matters." That's @jk_rowling's position, and nearly everyone else's too.

@DerryBanShee with @benleo & @Nanaakua1 on @GBNEWS

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

We have now read the whole judgment and it is "10".

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

We are delighted that @ForWomenScot has been successful in its appeal to the Supreme Court, and that the position of the Scottish Government has been rejected.

The court has given the right answer: the protected characteristic of sex – male and female – refers to reality, not paperwork.

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

The CEO of @AdvanceHE has written to university vice chancellors acknowledging that "certain policy statements" cited in the @officestudents decision on @SussexUni "originated in part from" their template.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I do not believe that we should sacrifice the safety, dignity and privacy of millions of women to appease a minuscule minority of men who believe themselves to be women.

Respectful, but firm - no access to women only spaces, or sports.

Basic fairness over ludicrous ideology.

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

It was just over five years ago that @suzanne_moore wrote this column for the Guardian. I happened to reread it this morning, every paragraph remains as salient as it was then, and how prescient it turned out to be.

https://t.co/pdkJTrF64n

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

A little note to remind everybody that Christmas is very hard for some people.

As an alcoholic of 25 years (nearly 4 sober now) as well as severe anxiety / depression sufferer here are some little things that might help understand friends / family suffering (1/8) 🧵

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I have written to the Minister this morning, asking to take appropriate steps to ensure that women are not strip-searched by biological men.

We must put an end to this madness, and prioritise the safety of women and girls.

Say NO to state-sanctioned sexual assault.

[TransgenderTrend @Transgendertrd]

Very good news.

A judge has granted permission for a judicial review of the CQC's decision to register GenderPlus, a private trans clinic for children set up by ex-Tavistock staff.

Case brought by @sueevansprotect and the mother of a trans teenager.

https://t.co/R4CxUCpqDx

[The Prettiest Rose 🌹 @prettiest_rosy]

@47kasz #Baltasore

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

We are appalled that two security guards who evicted five males from the female toilets at @Butlins Skegness have reportedly lost their jobs.

Families heading to the resort for half-term breaks next week may be rightly concerned. Are the female toilets and changing rooms at Butlin’s safe?

WRN Lincolnshire has contacted @Butlins Chief Executive to express concern that women and girls' privacy and safety are being sidelined in favour of men who are 'identifying as women'.

[Serena @Serena_Partrick]

This Thursday is the first global Women's Visibility Day.

Women will be wearing red to remind our leaders that we are female human beings, 51% of the population, & we are not going to be silenced.

Wherever you are in the world, wear red on 10/10/24, & make it our day: #XXDay ❤️

[The Prettiest Rose 🌹 @prettiest_rosy]

@DreyfusJames I often knocked my bedside glass of water over, groping for it in the dark or shaking the duvet too hard while making the bed. I got a set of these flip-top glass bottles, absolute GAME CHANGER. Doesn’t spill if you knock it over (and even better, will keep your lemonade fizzy!)

[Ginger Tucci @Ginger_Tucci]

Very much in love with my new umbrella…..

[𝕄𝕖 🫟 𝕄𝕪𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕗 🫟 𝕆𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 @MeMyselfOnline]

A few weeks ago, the company I work for issued compulsory "training", including statements such as:

“Remember, if Cathi is trans, saying ‘she used to be a man’ isn't accurate. Trans women are women, and they've never not been a woman”.

I shit you not.

So I've waited till today, when the company hosts one of its quarterly meetings with all the top brass across several sites, in person and online, to read out a statement on exactly what I thought of this “training”.

I made reference to the precedent set when @MForstater won her appeal in June 2021, and levelled an accusation to the entire company that they are indirectly, and possibly directly, discriminating against all its employees under the protected characteristic of their freedom of belief.

You could have heard a pin drop. At first.

The result?

HR is now bricking it. The training is no longer compulsory. They're taking matters under review, and I've had so many hugs and messages off support from my female colleagues. My boss shook my hand.

It isn't easy speaking up. I've been very nervous till today. But as @ThePosieParker keeps telling me: if not me, then who? If not now, then when?

I think it was important that someone saw a gay man stand up and defend the women he works with, and send a message that this absurd nonsense has no place being forced upon us.

I've sure I've made plenty of enemies at work today and pissed numerous people off.

And I'm glad. I'd do it all again in a heartbeat because it's simply the right thing to do.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Women’s sport is not there as a support structure for males with an identity crisis or a dysphoria. It is there to offer 51% of the world fair, safe & equal opportunities of sporting success. Sex is real & immutable. Why are women rights & safeguards being so casually thrown away