Women's Rights Network Liverpool & Merseyside

We are a grass-roots movement of Liverpool women & their families defending women's sex-based rights & objecting medicalisation of childhood. DM to join us.

[Women's Rights Network Liverpool & Merseyside @wrnliverpool]

Hello, world!
We are the Liverpool & Merseyside branch of the Women's Rights Network.
We are here to defend women's sex-based rights and resist the medicalisation of childhood and the capture of our political system and institutions by gender ideology.
DM us to join us!

[Women o' Scotland @WomenOScotland]

Did anyone manage to watch the Triggernometry @triggerpod debate with @ThePosieparker and Helen Webberley last night?

Well done if you managed to sit through the whole thing!

For those who aren’t familiar with Webberley: she and her husband no longer have licences to practise medicine in the UK, yet they set up an online gender consulting group abroad, and she prolifically pushes gender ideology online while still referring to herself as “Dr”.

During the debate, Webberley made astonishing claims, such as that puberty blockers allow children to go through the puberty of the opposite sex, and that the over-representation of autistic children in “trans healthcare” is because they’re being misdiagnosed as autistic when really they’re just “trans”. Kellie-Jay brought up very valid issues such as trauma, homosexuality, and the inability of children to understand the implications of non-sexual function in adulthood, yet Webberley brazenly dismissed them. Webberley also made bizarre comparisons of gender dysphoria with appendicitis and broken bones, and failed to explain the length of the process her company takes before recommending puberty blockers.

Konstantin managed the debate brilliantly, often refusing to allow Webberley to evade answering and highlighting the contradictory nonsense she was spouting.

Kellie-Jay achieved a remarkable feat, sitting opposite Webberley and not losing her cool — she’s made of strong stuff!! 💪🏻

The absurdity of what Webberley is pushing shows just how dangerous proponents of this type of “healthcare” are. Much gesticulating to appear authoritative on the matter didn’t fool us; her arguments do not hold up, and we’re more concerned than ever. To think some parents go to Helen Webberley for advice and treatment for their confused children is mind-blowing.

Both women said they’d like to see the other imprisoned: Kellie-Jay for pushing anti-trans rhetoric that harms the feelings of “trans” people, and Webberley for physically harming children. We know which one we think should be in prison!

https://t.co/qaUgAyll58

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

I’m disgusted we live in a country where Labour, Greens & Lib Dem councils are determined to deliberately break the law & not protect female spaces to get undressed or do sport away from males. What else might they choose not to follow the law on, when they just don’t like it?

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

At long last the Lawn Tennis Association has removed the discriminatory policy that allowed non-elite competition to include males in the female category. The previous two-tier policy was grossly unfair to the millions of women and girls who play tennis at club level. @the_LTA policy covers tennis and padel.

Other sports which still have two-tier policies in place (mostly funded by @Sport_England) include:

❌ Cycling - Breeze Rides allow males @BritishCycling
❌ Diving, swimming, masters swimming @Swim_England
❌ Goalball @GoalballUK
❌ Golf @EnglandGolf
❌ Rackets and Real Tennis (Tennis & Rackets Association)
❌ Rowing - recreational rowing allows males to self-identify into women’s sessions @BritishRowing
❌ Squash @englandsquash
❌ Table tennis @TableTennisENG
❌ Ultimate Frisbee @ukultimate @GB_Ultimate

Additionally there are at least 24 sports in England (and more in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) that operate unlawful policies that allow males into the female category or have no policy at all.

Reminder to sports governing bodies: time has run out. The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. Operating unlawful policies risks legal action under the Equality Act 2010.

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

Compiling hate lists of gay rights and women’s rights groups is something we might have once expected from neo-Nazis.

Now Amnesty International is doing it.

[Robert Jessel @robjessel16]

Someone at @Amnesty labelled a women's rape charity as "anti trans" and didn't pause for a microsecond to think whether this was a good idea.

[Women's Rights Network Liverpool & Merseyside @wrnliverpool]

How far Amnesty International have fallen.
How brilliantly the women of Terf Island stand up and speak out.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

WRN have today written to the CEO of @amnesty regarding their recent report.

We have asked for an explanation of our inclusion in their list of 'anti-rights' organisations. We expect evidenced reasons for their assertions - if they are prepared to publish such statements, then they must also be prepared to back them up.

[Women's Rights Network Liverpool & Merseyside @wrnliverpool]

Liverpool and Manchester WRN members at Manchester Uni on Wednesday to protest outside the venue where former Australian PM Julia Gillard was giving a talk.
@salltweets
#IStandWithSallGrover
#gigglevstickle
#JuliaGillardDestroyerOfWomensRights #FixTheSDA

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Yo, Bath, Cambridge, Malvern, Richmond, Cheltenham, York, Poole, Liverpool & Chichester… you lucky people…

From 27th Aug to 28th Nov.

Do come… 😁

[Rosie Kay @RosieKayK2CO]

Quick update: 74 tickets sold for 5 SOLDIERS at Hereford Military Festival.

From zero earlier this week.

Thank you to everyone who has booked, shared and helped get the word out. It has made a real difference.

We are still aiming for 100, so please keep sharing with anyone in Hereford, the military community, veterans’ networks, cadets, military history, dance, film or theatre.

And on Monday we will announce our post-show in-conversation speaker.

Hereford Military Festival
The Courtyard
Sunday 27 September, 2.30pm
Book here:
https://t.co/Le2BUp5gfb

[Lucy Hunter Blackburn @LucyHunterB]

That Julia Gillard comment about having no idea what they were doing when they redefined women in law really is extraordinary.

[Sonya Douglas @SonyaDouglas]

This is horrific.
A “truly international network” of organised drug-facilitated rape and sexual assault spanning dozens of countries on every continent.
Every platform giving space to these predators should face prosecution also. https://t.co/jy2Gmct6iH

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

.@amnesty has long been a corrupt men's rights movement. At the beginning of 2014, a whistleblower gave me the story that it was trying to adopt a policy of blanket decriminalisation of the sex trade, including pimping and brothel owning, without consulting members. I wrote this at the time, in the Mail:

SINCE its foundation more than 50 years ago, Amnesty International has gained a formidable reputation as a global campaigner against oppression.

To people living under authoritarian rule, the organisation has rightly come to be seen as a symbol of hope and a force for freedom.

As a left-leaning feminist, I have strongly supported Amnesty's efforts to promote the human rights of women around the world.

But it is precisely because of this admiration that I am so dismayed by this new initiative, which runs counter to its entire ethos as a bulwark for people suffering abuse, exploitation and maltreatment.

The call for the decriminalisation of prostitution or what it describes, with offensive understatement, as the 'sex work' industry is dressed up in soothing, politically correct rhetoric about women's rights. But the reality is that legalisation would represent official state approval of those who keep this vile trade going.

The astonishing proposal shows absolutely no understanding of the dark, misogynistic world of prostitution, where coercion is rife and brutality endemic.

Amnesty tries to pretend that women selling their bodies is similar to other forms of labour - with one passage in the document explicitly drawing a parallel between women who 'choose to become sex workers' and 'miners and domestic foreign workers'.

Having researched prostitution, one woman who I interviewed described her life of seeing at least ten male customers a day as 'a form of torture'. That is just the sort of injustice that Amnesty is meant to be fighting. Yet Amnesty, in an abject inversion of its ethical values, has somehow persuaded itself that surrender to money-driven, masculine sexual aggression represents progress towards liberty.

Far from representing any form of advancement for women, the decriminalisation of prostitution would lead to more abuse, more violence, more subjugation.

This was made clear in Australia where legalisation of the brothel industry in one state resulted in a fourfold increase in the number of trafficked women working in legal brothels. In a dreadful euphemism, Amnesty admits that 'the context' of the sex work industry is 'imperfect'.

'Imperfect' is one way of describing a trade built on physical abuse, rape, child sex abuse, sadism and greed. It is highly offensive of Amnesty to pretend that this is similar to other industries.

In what other job do the occupational hazards include beatings, theft of earnings, sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, forcible removal of childecriminalisation dren, constant threats and even death? In fact, there can be few more dangerous activities for women. It is telling that many of Britain's worst serial killers, like the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe or the Ipswich killer Steven Wright, regularly visited prostitutes.

In the same self-deceiving vein, Amnesty claims it will not support of prostitution where violence or coercion are involved. But that is just more confused thinking. Intimidation is at the very core of this world.

Very few women end up selling sex through their own free choice. Trafficking, menaces, drug addiction and financial pressures all play their part.

Recent research has shown that 67 per cent of prostitutes have suffered violence in childhood, 61 per cent had experienced violence from 'clients' and 74 per cent had endured mental and physical health problems as a result of their involvement with this trade.

Absurdly, Amnesty seems even to have accepted the notion that paying for sexual services is a basic human right for men.

By definition, men who are willing to pay for sex already have a contemptuous attitude towards women - they are not interested in an equal relationship, or a meaningful exchange with a partner.

Instead of proposing legalisation, Amnesty International should concentrate on freeing women from the clutches of these men.

The end of prostitution might be a distant ideal, but it is still far better than Amnesty's grubby collusion with misogyny.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

"It was a different time".
Well done @WRN_Manchester's Cath Dyson 👏 for asking the question of former Australian PM Julia Gillard.

Not a hint of regret from Gillard in her answer, but a clear admission that she didn't foresee any of the consequences of her horrendous actions in erasing women's and girls' rights. No one raised this apparently.
Gosh, how on earth could she have possibly then be expected to anticipate the outcome? (sarcasm)
@salltweets

[Women's Rights Network Liverpool & Merseyside @wrnliverpool]

What is done can be undone.

[Genspect @genspect]

Portugal may become the latest European country to reconsider gender self-ID laws. Proposed reforms would reintroduce clinical assessment for legal sex changes and restrict legal sex changes for minors. As more countries review evidence on youth gender medicine, policymakers are being forced to confront difficult questions about safeguarding, informed consent, and child protection.

Read more at the link in our replies. ⬇️

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Great news for the Darlington nurses.

How appalling though that the NHS Trust were prepared to spend so much public money fighting this case, - instead of just complying with the law and respecting the rights of their female staff.
Money that could have been spent on patient care.

[Women's Rights Network Liverpool & Merseyside @wrnliverpool]

@DarlingtonUnion Congratulations!

[Darlington Nursing Union @DarlingtonUnion]

Very pleased with this news, which has been a long time coming. Thank you to the Christian Legal Centre/Christian Concern and everyone who has supported us throughout this ordeal.

The Nursing and Midwifery cases against the Darlington nurses for speaking out about this experience must now be urgently dropped.

This is not over. This is the next frontier on this issue. 👇🏻

[Women's Rights Network Liverpool & Merseyside @wrnliverpool]

This is excellent news, of course, but it wasn’t a ‘trans changing room, was it? It was a female changing room.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Trust pays £187k over trans changing room tribunal https://t.co/t22C1LzCP1

[Jo Bartosch @jo_bartosch]

Nearly there on this petition calling for sex based language. Please support https://t.co/e3CKWODaFz

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

Women want their words back!

We are women and mothers.

We are not vagina-havers, chestfeeders or birthing people.

Please sign and share to force the government to consider us as humans.