Keri Howe #LabourPartyStrike 💪🏻🕊🌹🌍❤️

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@Martina @PeterTatchell @guardian A friend of mine was a doctor living in Papua New Guinea, she told me about the tradition of cannalism there. Does Peter Tatchell campaign for cannabalism too? Or just TWAW misogyny and paraphilias? - tuck in 🤮 smithsonianmag.com/travel/sleepin…

@Martina @PeterTatchell 🚩 @PeterTatchell, Did you write this article about adults sexually abusing children? Did the @guardian print it? x.com/i/status/20578… Children cannot consent to sexual abuse or trans ideological nonsense - medical or surgical mutilation nor sterilisation and anorgasmia #CSA

Toilets & changing rooms must be used on basis of biological sex, new guidance says How will this be policed? It's impossible! Already biological women who are deemed insufficiently feminine are being falsely accused of being trans & harassed. SHAME! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@PeterTatchell Nope. I have short hair, no makeup, wear blue jeans and a t- shirt and yet no woman looks twice …. It’s not too complicated,Peter. And don’t worry about us “Tomboys” , we can take care of ourselves…

@Arias1229224 @UKLabour @ShabanaMahmood @GOVUK I've been a political activist for years. None of it challenges me personally.

@LabourKeriHowe @UKLabour @ShabanaMahmood @GOVUK What the most challenges you get being a activist

Wake up @Keir_Starmer, @AndyBurnhamGM & every 'trans women are women' misogynist creating a political war in @UKLabour, Any politician who pretends men who identify as 'trans' are women, can't represent the needs of girls or women. #MisogynyIsAPoliticalChoice #NoBodyCanChangeSex

@LabourKeriHowe @UKLabour @ShabanaMahmood @GOVUK Of course he doesn't mean it, he's playing the blind faith labour lovies, desperate to fall for the propaganda peddling He played his hand early in this battle. Sadly he backed the men & we should never forget that

@Woman_AHF @UKLabour @ShabanaMahmood @GOVUK I still think Andy Burnham & every 'trans women are women' misogynist should be removed from power - including Starmer. When a misogynist shows you they are a misogynist, every woman should believe them. I will never support any of them, including Streeting. #LabourPartyStrike

@UKLabour @ShabanaMahmood @GOVUK I hope Andy Burnham means this: #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #NoBodyCanChangeSex x.com/i/status/20577…

@UKLabour @ShabanaMahmood @GOVUK x.com/i/status/20575…

My thoughts on the @EHRC guidance laid yesterday; this is not about non-existent "rights". It is about the safety of women - mothers, sisters, wives, daughters. We men need to hear their voices. Virginia Woolf : "Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes". My intro on @TimesRadio yesterday: Where I live there are two different routes to and from the tube station. One, let’s call it Acacia Avenue, is quiet and residential. The other, London Road, is a busy major route with lots of traffic. At all times of the day, I automatically head for Acacia Road. It’s just much nicer. The women in my family, on the other hand, will never willingly make that walk after dark. They live with an anxiety that most men find it hard to imagine, and frankly, rarely think about unprompted. Last year 739,000 women were sexually assaulted in Britain. Virtually all such assaults - nine out of ten - are perpetrated by men. One in four women have been attacked at some time in their lives. Acacia Avenue is exactly the sort of place in which most women fear that they become vulnerable, and they are right. As the author Virginia Woolf once wrote " Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes". I think this is the right context in which to understand the furore over the guidance being laid today by the government, over the meaning of the words man and woman when it comes to providing services and facilities in workplaces. Many men think this is about a rather arcane dispute about who gets to use what loo. For their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters, it isn’t. In a previous life, as Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, I had a hand in writing this country’s equality laws, in particular the 2010 Equality Act. It never occurred to any of us that there could be any confusion or dispute over the meaning of the words man and woman. But it has taken a decade of campaigning, a Supreme Court judgement and now hundreds of pages of guidance to settle the issue. This is not about so called trans rights, which are completely unaffected by this guidance, since no-one has ever had the right to walk into a changing room reserved for teenage girls. What it does mean is that women and girls are guaranteed the protection they deserve, and that their safety, which we spent half a decade drafting law to ensure, is protected. But the whole business illuminates some serious issues in our politics. First that many of our institutions, in spite of the fact that they always knew what the right thing to do was, decided to ignore the fears of their women customers and employees, under pressure from noisy pressure groups. Instead, the people who were supposed to be the grown ups behaved as though the law said what campaigners wanted it to say, rather than what it actually said. They settled for what they hoped would be a quiet life. In a democracy, there’s little point in Parliament deciding anything if the law is then made an ass by activists intimidating bosses in companies, schools, universities and the media into doing something different. Second, at the heart of the campaign to undermine the Equality Act is an idea that we specifically rejected in 2010, so called self-identification. That is to say, that it should be up to the individual to decide whether they have what’s called a protected characteristic - are you male or female, are you black or white. The problem is that self-ID would destroy the operation of any law against discrimination. Look, it would almost certainly have been to my advantage as a young man to self-identify as a handsome, white public schoolboy. None of those things is true of me. And at various points I am pretty sure it’s been to my disadvantage. It is certainly statistically likely to have been to my disadvantage. But according to the logic of those who say that self-ID should be the rule and that anyone should be able to decide for themselves whether they are male or female, black or white or Asian, were I to complain about racial discrimination, it would be difficult for anyone prove that I’d been discriminated against because of my race since anybody to whom I’d lost out could just tell the courts that they too were black. I know that sounds like Alice in Wonderland but you can google the case where a chap, both of whose parents are white, insisted he should get money from the Arts Council because he so identified with the black struggle that he considered himself black, and everyone should accept his point of view. In the United States and Brazil exactly such outlandish claims have been made and people rewarded to the disadvantage of people actually born into minority families. I have even been told about firms who, when reporting their gender pay gaps have put men who just happen to like wearing dresses at weekends - nothing wrong with that, let me be clear - into the female column and told their women employees that they really haven’t got anything to moan about because statistically they are paid equally, and they should get back in their box. So today’s guidance isn’t just another tiresome chapter in culture wars. It is , I hope, a halt to the efforts to undermine one of the most important pieces of legislation on the statute book, by people who, for their own reasons, would prefer us to be living in the 1950s world of Mad Men.

@TrevorPTweets @AjaTheEmpress @EHRC Thank you again Trevor Phillips. Every human was born from a woman. #WomensRightsAreHumanRights.

@rich_haddon @BevJacksonAuth Oh, do wind your neck in with your cliché-ridden, discredited, tired attempts to silence LGB people with your hackneyed lies. You’re panicking because you KNOW your grift is up. Bore off. 🙄

@rich_haddon @DreyfusJames @BevJacksonAuth 'trans women are women' misogynists harm women whilst they protect homophobes and paedophiles. Why would anybody defend any offensive man trying to mask himself in womanface, ignoring women's needs to enter women's changing rooms/single-sex spaces or to groom autistic/gay kids?

@DreyfusJames @BevJacksonAuth James Dreyfus 🤣🤣🤣🤮 I remember when you were funny! Just in the one show where you rode the coat tails of Kathy Burke. Twat.

Can’t wait for the day these white cis women realise that their rhetoric is just segregation

Everyday needs to be #DetransAwarenessDay

@thewinterdollx If men who identify as 'trans' 'women' cannot stop themselves from harming women and children, they need to be in a male psychiatric ward or male prison. #NoBodyCanChangeSex #WomensRightsAreHumanRights x.com/i/status/20575…

Literally stop me?😅 you’re honestly deluded if you think I’ll ever use the men’s toilets as a WOMAN! 🏳️‍⚧️

Men who identify as 'trans' are protected by the Equality Act 2010 in men's changing rooms and loos. Women can say 'NO'. #ConsentMatters #WomenWillNotBeSilenced #SexIsREAL x.com/i/status/20575…

Wake up trans activists, Women are not male paraphiliacs dressed like their mothers. #WomenAreNotMannequins Nature does not do Halloween costumes. We are all sentient humans. #WomenAreBornNotPorn #NoBodyCanChangeSex #WomensRightsAreHumanRights youtube.com/results?sp=mAE…

@ThePosieParker @Glinner Women are not men. #NoBodyCanChangeSex x.com/i/status/20575…

@ThePosieParker @Glinner Male paraphiliacs who cannot stop themselves harming women should be in a male psychiatric ward or a male prison. Not rubbing their naked moobs like Mr Willoughby did in a women's bathroom on Big Brother. Women don't rub their breasts in women's loos. x.com/i/status/20574…

I'm no rocket surgeon, but what did Cliff and The Shadows do?