Beth

Tea, beagle, CWC and crochet.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

We’ve all had a few days to sit with @JuliaGillard’s declaration of whoops and as the minutes go by, the angrier I get. Not just at the admission that, basically, it was a “regret” to open up the legal category of women to men, but at the reluctance to admit it was wrong.

And the fact that it’s only now, after amazing UK women & men are putting on pressure by turning up to her events to remind of her of the whooosy, that she dares to say anything.

Not when @jk_rowling was getting countless r*pe & d*ath threat from the very men these kind of laws were changed to include.

Not when a man in his 50s took a pregnant woman (🙋‍♀️) to federal court, using that very specific Australian law change & institutional capture to his advantage.

Not when @ActiveLesbians were told by the Australian Human Rights Commission that heterosexual men who claim to be lesbians must be included in lesbian events.

Not when @martina came under attack for defending women’s sport, years after already battling for LGB rights.

Not when @KirralieS was dragged through courts for bringing attention to MEN who claim to be women in womens sport.

Not when that very league told the women in that sport if they so much as walk off the field because men are on it *they* will be punished.

Not when media started reporting on school girls not drinking WATER at school because boys were in the only unisex bathroom available to them & no adults would help them.

Not when women prisoners finally got word to the outside that they were in cells with MALE SEX OFFENDERS, locked up with them only because the Gillard amendments to the sex discrimination act (arguably) allowed it.

Not when Jasmine Sussex’s life was turned upside down for stating the fact that men cannot breastfeed infants, and because men can be women in law suddenly she’s the bad guy.

Not when the sex discrimination commissioner told senate estimates that men who claim to be women can have pregnancy protections in law but women can’t have single sex spaces, thereby interpreting the Gillard amendments to give men protections they don’t need while taking away women’s protections we do need.

Not when countless women in Australia and around the world were and are being punished for saying NO to this absolute bullsh-t that men can be women in law.

She said nothing until it started to interrupt her day in the mildest of ways. It’s pathetic.

[God Empress of Mankind @nuhre_]

I like this guy. I like him a lot.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

To be quite clear, the protected characteristic in the Equality Act is gender reassignment.

A "trans woman" is a man with the PC of gender reassignment.

He must be treated no less favourably, because of the PC, than other men.

He doesn't have the right to be treated as a woman

[Donna-Louise @NoLongerTheFuzz]

1/ Adolescence. A Netflix drama with a fictional white boy.
Parliament debated it. Into every school within weeks. To teach boys about misogyny.

That was fiction. 🧵

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors.

There is a process, obviously.

Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir.

Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy.

And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent.

So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass.

Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite.

Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

https://t.co/gYNgARJojg

[MrMenno 🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈🎶 @MrMennoTweets]

Thinking you're a woman because you're "submissive" doesn't make you a woman - it makes you a misogynist

[Caro Betts @BettsCaro]

@SamanthaNiblet4 @pro_nouns @Jebadoo2 @MrMennoTweets Hate to break this to you Samantha, but heterosexual men demanding (and getting) access to every single lesbian space are not “trying to get on with their lives uninterrupted”

And saying no to them isn’t “hate”

[Tracy Edwards @TracyEdwardsMBE]

My charity raises funds for girls' toilets to be built in developing countries so girls can go to school for 4 weeks of the month instead of 3. This isn't rocket science. Why are girls in the UK not allowed as much dignity and privacy?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

1. Women’s spaces are for women. It’s irrelevant how the women look.

2. Men don’t belong in women’s spaces. It’s irrelevant how the men look.

3. Most trans-identified men would give at least one ball to look like Sharron Davies.

[CAMILLE PAGLIA STAN ✨ FAN ACCOUNT @Provokatov]

This is just absolutely brilliant.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

https://t.co/w2TeNzH7wg

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Today, I was given a permanent ban of posting on my Facebook page, @Meta. The page can exist - apparently - but I am not allowed to post on it anymore. The page has been deemed controversial due to the Giggle v Tickle case and increased popularity of 25,000 new followers in a week. I don't want to labor the irony of being banned on a social networking platform while fighting in court for the right to ban men from a woman only social networking platform, it is what it is. Frankly, I'd love to have the same right that you do, @Meta.

Women are routinely punished for not accepting men as women. It doesn't turn those men into women. Nothing will.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Follow the logic.

Women are deluded and naive for thinking predatory and violent men can be kept out of women-only spaces. ‘They can rape you anywhere.’

However, trans-identified men can only be safe in women-only spaces, because no abuser would ever follow them in there.

[Evidence Based Treatment @DoNoHarm79]

There has been a lot of excellent posts on Facebook re Giggle v Tickle over the past couple of days. This one is particularly well written. Rest of post in comments below 👇

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

It is the day after #GigglevTickle and I haven’t woken up believing that men can be women. You can try & punish me for not believing it, but you can never make me believe it.

Men cannot be women.

[黒葉だむ @kuroabam]

番組で見た、寝る前に30秒コレやってから三日連続快眠できてる。（手足をパタパタする）
皆試してみて。

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Big day for Rocky. All his updated test results are in.

A little longer watch but shows you just how many other dogs are being helped.

Not straightforward but you'll be smiling by the end I promise ❤️

[@justsay_mother @justsay_mother]

@e1duchess @me2intheuk @Glinner has shared a number of times
@FondOfBeetles has shared this week
@HeadWarriorTWM has shared it several times
@sharrond62 has shared it, @elonmusk maybe needs to share it for us
we had to ask for research as GOV declined to restore our words!

https://t.co/gwzIuZkls5

[Milli Hill @millihill]

I've written a piece about the discussion I was a guest on Radio 4 today about women only spaces.