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Rower 💚 Coach 🤍 Bitch Troll From Hell 💜 Loathsome Bigot. Posts about rowing (occasionally) but mainly women’s rights.

[WRN Scotland @WRNScotland]

There was a big win for girls in Scotland today.
The Court of Session has ruled that West Lothian Council @LoveWestLothian multi-user unisex toilets in a primary school amounted to indirect sex discrimination against female pupils.
Common sense was upheld. GIrls deserve privacy, dignity, and single-sex facilities especially in schools.
Full judgment here:
https://t.co/bXB2JiY0wB
Scottish councils and @scotgov need to stop ignoring biological reality and follow the law.

[Coach @rowinggeek]

@Shellzzybellz @sharrond62 @Specsavers I only know of this from the one branch I used. Could be different elsewhere…

[Coach @rowinggeek]

@WomensRightsNet That’s one heck of a list of speakers!

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

🥁 ANNOUNCEMENT 🥁

The speakers for the first ever Women’s Rights Network conference are confirmed … watch our short film to reveal the brilliant line-up…

Feminism: What’s The Point?
Date: Sunday 5 July
Central London
Tickets: click on the link in the next post…

[Coach @rowinggeek]

@WeRtheMods Nasturtium with round leaves. Sunflower is the leggy one. You’re gonna need a bigger pot…

[Coach @rowinggeek]

@UoLWSS Good news that meeting was productive. Keep pushing. Change doesn’t happen overnight …

[Cathy Devine @cathydevine56]

Translation:
Dozens of MPs want to remove the sex discrimination provisions for 51%+ of the population.
Women, girls & people who are same-sex attracted.
Consolidated in the 2010 Equality Act on the basis of sex.
They are regressive, sexist, homophobic, an utter disgrace.

[ThisIsntWorkingPodcast @IsntWorkingPod]

Why did @skytv just release a pronoun-packed advert that looks like it's from 2018? Our take:

Now that 'no debate' is over, it's clear that employees and customers don't like gender ideology. Market forces are finally working as they should - at least within private sector orgs that still have enough sensible, competent staff who are accountable for maximising profit and minimising waste and risk. They have dumped #Pride2026 and want to depoliticise their workplaces.

(Hence the enthusiasm for our next 'This Is Working' employer event, details⬇️)

So, who are the hold-outs?

Perhaps surprisingly, some corporations (like Sky) now lag behind smaller (but still big) employers. Here, market forces are working less well than we might expect - seemingly because of too many layers and too little accountability.

In some cases, it's avoidance or cowardice. In some, activists have overpowered senior leaders. And in other cases the activists ARE the senior leaders (eg. Sky's Group COO Nick Herm, also 'Executive Sponsor for LGBTQ+').

Then we have the public sector, charities, book publishing, arts orgs, the unions, the media, advertising, etc, where liberal/ progressive, 'be kind', coercive control mechanisms are seemingly (and bafflingly) more powerful than profit, providing a service, or safeguarding. After years of this (they fell early) there are now too few sensible, competent people left in these orgs to fix the mess. They might be cooked.

It is the failures of these hold-outs that deserve special scrutiny. *They* are the outliers. The rot has set in, and organisational dysfunction will be everywhere by now (@AmnestyUK is a great example).

The orgs that are quietly starting overdue conversations, pulling out of the madness, and prioritising productivity/ profit are behaving exactly as we'd expect them to.

Their survival instinct is strong, normal and healthy. (It's just a bit late thanks to years of 'no debate').

So the best questions to ask in 2026 are:

Why *aren't* we seeing the same survival instinct appearing in the orgs where it's missing?

What has gone wrong and can/ will it be corrected by the people who are currently in place?

If not, what would it take to dislodge them, and will that happen before the org collapses in on itself?

Yes, it really is that serious.

Bye-bye Sky....
👋

[Coach @rowinggeek]

@mara_yamauchi @Jonathan_Hinder And a most excellent side eye… 👀

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

Looking for UK people who have abandoned veganism in the last year or so. For whatever reason. For UK newspaper interview. Get in touch if happy to be interviewed and pictured. PlsRT Thanks #journorequest

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

@GMB This is male police officer Skye Morden.
Why not get him on GMB or ask your audience if they think female police officers should share changing rooms with him? ⬇️

[Coach @rowinggeek]

GMB must have employed someone solely to hide replies on this post... it's worth a look. Even the @GMB editor must have got the message by now... the gaslighting isn't working. Men - keep out of our spaces and sports.

[Good Morning Britain @GMB]

Trans activists have described 'manufactured outrage' surrounding the use of single-sex spaces, citing new data showing only a handful of complaints have been made in the year since a landmark Supreme Court ruling on the definition of women and sex.

It comes as The Women's Rights Network has threatened legal action against a Police force in South Wales for failing to officially stop trans colleagues from using women-only toilets.

Caroline Lewis reports.

[Coach @rowinggeek]

@GMB Hey GMB these are MEN being excluded from women's spaces. Accuracy is important in journalism. When you say trans women you mean MEN, MALES.

[Coach @rowinggeek]

@roseveniceallan @SarahLudford I’m surprised it was still there when you left the building …

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Be very careful who you listen to… especially if they are earning a very good living from prescribing drugs ‘off’ label from a foreign country

[Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin]

"We asked 100 people to name something you might hide down the side of a house. You said a motorhome...."

[quibble @QuibbleUK]

Hello, we are Jonathan and Abigail - unashamed pedants who want to bring this affliction to bear on all things public policy and practice.
We believe that details matter, especially in public administration. This is why today we are founding quibble: a campaign to fix the small stuff.
Think, for example, about the cookie banner that we click on every webpage. Each instance is not a big deal, so we just put up with it. But its cumulative impact adds up - on average we press it 5 times per day. The European Commission estimates that it costs EU citizens 343 million hours per year.
And who is there to represent the impacts of seemingly minor issues like this in a systematic way? We want quibble to be the answer. In the case of the cookie banner, lots of advocacy has rightly focused on privacy, but has this meant that user experience has taken a backseat? We believe there are ways to improve user experience without compromising on privacy. We will share more about this soon.
Consider another example. Did you know that in some government-run car parks you can be fined for a minor keying error, such as accidentally typing a zero instead of an “o”? Again, we will come to the detail of this quibble in the coming weeks, but for now just consider again the question: who? Who is there currently to systematically represent the interests of the parker who is given an unfair ticket?
An inherent feature of consumer interests is that those who have them rarely have enough other things in common to make collective organisation and representation feasible. This is the gap that quibble seeks to fill. Now of course excellent consumer interest groups exist. But understandably quibbles might not be at the top of their lists. Our hope is that quibble will be complementary; picking up the bottom-of-the-list issues faced by various groups - the stuff they are almost too embarrassed to raise because they are too small.
We are not embarrassed about detail. If you’ve ever had a splinter, you know small things can have a big impact. This is what quibble is committed to tackling, and our wider hope is that by doing so we will also incentivise policy makers to be even more careful about detail.
Check out our website here, including our first four campaigns: https://t.co/gZiqqHbhIL

[Wales-Women’s Rights Network 💜🤍💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @WRNWales]

We're told nobody is above the law - but @gwentpolice have decided they are.

Handcuffed by leadership so weak it has to ask "staff networks" for permission to scrap unlawful policies.

So gullible it bends the knee to activists rather than experts.

@rebeccacamber at @DailyMail 👇
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https://t.co/CNCqSqcMYZ

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Parkrun can’t have it both ways. Either they offer this 👇🏼 or they become one big inclusive non competitive category participation event. Presently they are committing indirect sex discrimination because their practise discriminates again biological females. Plus they receive tax payers money to grow female participation for which they have no metric to measure with a self ID policy.