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Tidying up my pinned tweet. Improved version: Why is it acceptable for men who choose to ID as women to demand space segregated from men, but not for women to demand space segregated from men? As smarter women than me have noted: being “kind” & misusing words helps no one.

@GussieGrips This makes me like both you and Dame Jenni even more!

It’a funny how the death of someone you didn’t know is saddening. She let me say “hold in a fart” on WH to explain how to #DoYourPelvicFloorExercises. That led to my first complaint from professional peers who thought I was vulgar. They weren’t wrong, and neither was Dame Jenni.

Aye, such a "formidable voice" that the BBC first silenced her and then bullied her out. Save us your crocodile tears

@BBCRadio4 @BBCWomansHour The best thing you can do in her memory is platform some similarly talented, older women to make up for silencing her on key issues important to us. Dame Jenni Murray was relevant, honest and interesting. Look at @BBCWomansHour now, a shadow of its former self pandering to men.

Dame Jenni Murray, best known for presenting BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour from 1987 to 2020, has sadly died at the age of 75. Mohit Bakaya, Controller, BBC Radio 4 and Director of BBC Speech Audio has paid tribute tribute to Dame Jenni. “Jenni Murray was a formidable voice in British broadcasting who was warm, fearless and beloved by listeners,” he said. “During her decades at Woman’s Hour, she helped shape the national conversation with intelligence, rigour and a remarkable ability to connect with audiences. Jenni leaves an indelible legacy on generations of listeners. “We are profoundly grateful for her outstanding contribution to Radio 4, and she will be deeply missed.”

More on Jenni. I was told she was not allowed to do interviews on @BBCWomansHour about anything related to trans because she knew humans can't change sex. Now the programme promotes gender rubbish every week.

I’ve always liked Dr Amir Khan. I follow him on TikTok - he seems warm, kind, and clearly adores his mum (“Mama Khan”) - which is usually the sign of a decent guy. But his recent debate with Piers Morgan on ITV's Lorraine show left me cold - and genuinely concerned from a safeguarding perspective. Because Khan - a practising GP: - Says he “identifies” as male (rather than simply is male) - Dodges the question about whether trans women (i.e. biological males) should use women’s toilets - Claims men - not trans women - are the problem when it comes to male violence towards women (seemingly unaware that trans women *are* male) Women cannot know which males pose a risk. So the rule has to be simple: all males stay out of women’s spaces. Women know this. Piers Morgan knows this. Yet Khan - a highly trained medically trained professional - seems unable to grasp this basic common sense. Many women prefer female doctors - particularly for 'women's' issues - but sometimes that just isn’t possible. Which means trust matters even more. But how can women trust a male doctor who can’t clearly say what a woman is - and who appears to think women’s sex-based rights and spaces are less important than men's feelings. Honestly? I’d much rather see a male GP who wasn’t half as “nice” as Khan - but at least knew what a woman was.

In terms of Vaclav Havel’s famous 1978 essay “The Power of the Powerless”, about the greengrocer who refuses to conform, Jenni Murray was one of the first to remove that sign from her shop window Stonewall knew the potency of her refusal: they made sure she paid for her sedition

Euthanasia is routinely offered to Canadian seniors unsolicited. Muriel says she was offered MAID: •By her family doctor •By a specialist •By a funeral home  “This is almost being advertised and promoted,” she told me. How do you think this makes seniors feel?

@BBCRadio4 @BBCWomansHour Hypocrisy on stilts. You hounded her out of @BBCWomansHour for the crime of understanding biology & speaking out in defence of women’s rights. WH is now a male fetish pandering embarrassment. Tuesday of this week being an absurd example of how far you've fallen.

We want free speech. The "trans" activists want to silence us. Last night @elonmusk shared a post from @Riley_Gaines_ featuring @xx_xyathletics. It has 5.7M views. That's a lot of reach for us! I suspect the activists didn't like it. A few hours later we were banned from running ads on Meta. The message we received with no explanation: "You can't create or run ads" "You can't use or share audiences" (no targeting) After a spike in traffic & sales post Elon tweet, traffic took a nosedive. How surprising! Mass reporting is the likely culprit. This is what the "trans" activists do. They can't engage our argument. So they try to silence us. They are terrified that when others hear our reasonable and fact based case, the genie will be out of the bottle and we will win once and for all. So the censoring and silencing and mass reporting has intensified. Earlier this week @BrookeSlusser was banned from @tiktok_us When I spoke at the Supreme Court in January, the "other side" just tried to drown me out with loud music. They gave no speeches. They chanted slogans and played loud house music. That's not a defense of their position. That is an attempt to silence ours. And now, US Masters Swimming is considering a lifetime ban for a woman who spoke up when a man stole her national swimming title. She's the offensive one needing to banned. Not him. And yet, here in CO, we got the Save Women's Sport initiative on the ballot with over 170k signatures. We're winning. But we aren't done. Join us.

Dame Jenni was a skilled broadcaster. She was the canary in the goldmine for the BBC on contemporary women’s issues. If only they had listened to her instead of sidelining her.

Mia Cathell, from the Washington Examiner, highlights the unprecedented inclusion of Radical Feminist input on this women’s spa case, including Board President of WoLF, Elspeth Cypher. @dcexaminer Thank you! washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4…

@LibVoice4Women @whjm Her last sentence on WH was brilliant: ‘If you do a programme like [@BBCWomansHour] you have to consistently remind yourself that women are a vast range. There are many different stereotypes that fit our gender, so there's no one stereotypical woman’ … ‘but our sex we share.'

The Cameraman's Revenge is a 1912 stop-motion picture by Polish animated movie pioneer Władysław Starewicz. It is notable for it's use of real dried bugs as "actors". These are just fragments, the actual movie is about 12 minutes long.

I truly believe that if the BBC had allowed journalist Jenni Murray to do her job, we'd have smashed NoDebate years ago. From 2018 GRA consultation on, Womens Hour would have looked at it all. We'd have had the debate. That's how important she was & why she had to be silenced.

RAY BOLGER (best known for playing the ‘Scarecrow’ / ‘Hunk’ in ‘The Wizard Of Oz’) lays it down with George Washington & Abraham Lincoln in this clip from APRIL IN PARIS (1953) The creativity, the imagination & the execution is just outstanding

A bit silly, but edited this meme years ago for Magdalen’s channel. @bindelj defending Jenni Murray during a cancellation campaign. RIP to an OG

"Retiring from rugby was the biggest mistake of my life". Telling that abusing his wife and mother of his 5 kids for years isn't his biggest mistake. You might have thought it would be, but no. Happily, Hogg is "finally valuing himself" now. Phew. telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…

Heartbreaking to see what is happening to the residents of the former Sonas Retirement Village in Enniscrone. Imagine being in your 80s, having sold your family home for the security of a retirement village, only to be told you must leave by June 5th because the building was sold to a private company. This is an absolute failure to protect our older people. With rental availability at an all-time low, never mind suitable accommodation, where are they supposed to go? #Sligo #Enniscrone #HousingCrisis #Safeguarding #ProfitOverCare irishtimes.com/ireland/housin…

RIP, Jenni Murray 💐