Beth

Nan knitted me a scarf!

This is it. This is what it is. This is the point, and it was always the point. The objective of “queer theory” is to make vulnerable people (women, and/or any children they’re protecting) feel like they can drop their guard.

@MFDGEE @HuddlestonNigel @KemiBadenoch What’s the difference between a man who doesn’t identify as a man and one who does, and how would you (or anyone) tell?

@BethUnderscore @HuddlestonNigel @KemiBadenoch Yep family full of women and girls and none of 'em particularly worried about transwomen. Experiences of cisgender men on the other hand....

It has taken Bridget Philipson eight months to come to the same conclusion as most people come to in seconds. And she's our education secretary! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@SpaghettiCassie @lillai23 Nice of them to let her know she was dead, to avoid any Sixth Sense-style misunderstanding. (Seriously that’s horrible.)

@lillai23 When my mum died we got a letter addressed to her informing her that she was dead so her housing allowance would be stopped

Got a lovely threatening council tax letter from the council telling me that my husband has appeared linked to me on my address & to provide proof where he lives He’s been dead since 2020. The same council already have been told this. Several times

@MFDGEE @HuddlestonNigel @KemiBadenoch Do you actually know any women and girls? People who have felt unable to confront hulking great geezers watching them undress in changing rooms and hospital wards for YEARS? Does the Equality Act mean anything to you?

@HuddlestonNigel @KemiBadenoch Do you actually know any trans people? People who have been perfectly reasonably and peacefully using ladies loos (and trans men using mens loos) for YEARS. ? Does humanity mean anything to you?

@PlotWeaver @salltweets @AlboMP @SenKatyG That’s correct. These two directly-opposing claims cannot be compromised on: we can’t meet these men halfway because there IS no halfway point between male and female. Either some men are women or they aren’t.

@salltweets @AlboMP @SenKatyG The legal protections demanded by “trans” are the ability to infringe on the rights of actual women. Their demand is to to be defined by law as women, with access to all women's spaces.

Any politician who opposes woman being accurately defined in law is simply saying that men who claim to be women are more important and have more rights than actual women. You want legal protections for “trans”? Get them without taking away the rights of women & girls.

@kpssreality @salltweets Am I right in thinking “two-spirit” was based in homophobia and misogyny too? As in, it was reserved for men who were deemed not “manly” enough to be considered fully male?

It's highly likely that Australian Aboriginal people have been infiltrated and may even deny that men were ever excluded from women's sacred spaces. Here in Canada the Indigenous crowd subscribes to "two spiritedness" which would means that a man was welcome if he had the correct gender spirit.

There will come a time when every politician who refused to say what a woman is will pretend they never did. If they will lie to you now, they will lie to you in the future.

@kpssreality @salltweets That’s a good point. Usually I dislike that angle (“but what about women whose religions segregate by sex?”) because we shouldn’t have to fight misogynist bollocks with more of the same, but in Australia it might hold genuine legal weight.

@salltweets Pretty sure the traditional women of the Anangu culture of Uluru would keep this man out of their sacred spaces too.

@oliviabaileymp Precisely how many iatrogenically harmed adults & children would constitute the threshold at which your personal vanity might cede to the fact that your "trans-inclusive conversion ban" is the antithesis of responsible policy-making? Give the number.

@BoylanRoger I was going to reply with a picture of Joe Strummer strumming until I realised that’s best saved till Christmas and I will *never* sing the 12th day correctly again.

Enzo Ferrari admiring a Ferrari.

We should all be doing today what the New York Times didn't want us to do. Let's all read the deeply-sourced, well-documented, evidence-based report on sexual violence that the Times chose not to publish, preferring instead to run an opinion article filled with dubious, easily debunked claims. Today the Independent Civil Commision published the results of it two-year-investigation. Based on more than 400 interviews, 10,000 photos and 1,800 hours of visual evidence, the report presents horrific, never-before-seen details of Hamas's systemic use of sexual abuse. That abuse did not end on October 7, but continued for the hostages who were held in Gaza until early this year. Read the report here: civilc.org/silenced-no-mo…

@aefondms @leng_cath You’re right. The blurry man in the immediate foreground (we can only really see his arm) is the one who’s meant to be stepping in and saying this. It’s just SO badly framed that it looks like the woman should say it, and therefore not just useless advice but actively dangerous.

@leng_cath Isn't this about someone else, a third party, intervening?

Just TfL telling young women to initiate small talk and ‘act like a friend’ to men who claim to be women To ‘defuse harassment’? Women owe them nothing

@BettsCaro @UKLabour “Almost two in five (38 per cent) of trans and non-binary people have experienced physical assault to change/alter their sexual orientation” If we’re including “gender-affirming” surgery in this, they might have a point.

1989-2015 Stonewall Campaigns: Repeal S28, equal age of consent, parenting rights, gay marriage You’d have thought if exorcism was an issue, they’d have mentioned it then @UKLabour you’re being conned by perverts Again 🙄

@machpodfann @Gaynotqueer1 This is a fantastic analogy and I will be stealing it.

@Gaynotqueer1 Listening to this is like watching a suspension bridge going TWANG TWANG as it looses more and more wires.

'Woman's surgery was cancelled.' The surgery? To have 'her' testicles removed.

Also relevant is that I’m certain he had victims before me who didn’t report what he’d done to them either. I would never in a million years blame those girls for not somehow preventing what he did to me. He alone is to blame. Sorry, that post has really got my fucking back up.

Incidentally, I did look him up about 15 years ago and he’s dead. But if he had any victims after me (he almost certainly did) NONE of those assaults were my fault. Fuck you for making me feel like they were.

This has really pissed me off. I was sexually assaulted when I was 10. The fact that I didn’t want to lie on a plastic chair for a swab to be taken makes me somehow partially responsible for any of that man’s future crimes? Fuck you.

@DreyfusJames I don’t think you and I are first cousins, so this arrangement might not get the official nod for reasons we’re not supposed to notice.

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@wesyang @cervixen Bullshit. The victim’s reasoning in this case was insultingly ridiculous, and pretty fucking racist, but victims who don’t report a crime are IN NO WAY responsible for what the man himself does next.

Every victim of a violent crime has a moral duty to ensure their attackers are imprisoned. It can seem like a burden to those who have already been victimized -- to have to testify and be subjected to hostile scrutiny by defense attorneys. But it's one of our most important duties as citizens, to protect the next victim from our assailant.

@DreyfusJames @TruthBiologica1 That’s awful, what a terrible thing to have to deal with. Are you OK? Do you think your X account can survive such a wounding blow?

Cannot… stop… laughing…🤣🤣🤣🤣

@ZackPolanski You and your supporters enabled this, endorsed this mindset, and continue to try to legitimise the ideology that will always INEVITABLY lead to shit like this. Don’t you dare say a fucking word about it other than “sorry”.

Horrendous attack in Golders Green. Thinking of the victims, their families and everyone who will once again be shaken by this attack. Thank you to all of those involved with the emergency response.