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@LGBTQPrideUK @DeboraSinger1 @AmnestyUK @SexMattersOrg @Transgendertrd @FrancesShipsey @AmnestyNews @chiaracapraro @AllianceLGB @WRNBarnet @ruthdraper17 If you see women’s rights as a far right agenda, that’s a you problem.

This is the third time in the last week I’ve seen a gay man being celebrated for destroying a woman’s life for years. It’s not the 1940’s, we aren’t in the Middle East. There is no excuse for stealing those years from someone.

I handed my friend my phone this morning and showed her some of the public comments posted about me in recent days. By people I know - and who know me. Former friends, colleagues, contractors, clients. “She’s gross.” “She’s relentless.” “Is she trying to be Katie Hopkins?” “Awful woman.” “What a piece of work.” “Hateful, harmful and wrong.” “It baffles me that people have continued to associate with her.” “Her actions only seek to cause harm.” “Why do good people go bad?” “If you give someone enough rope …” “It makes me feel sick just reading it,” she said. “I’m not sure I’d be able to cope. And they’re saying these things because you believe people cannot change sex? Yep. These are not strangers on the internet. Many are people I’ve: - Enjoyed coffee or a beer with - Sent flowers to when they were sick - Had dinner with - and picked up the bill - Laughed and cried with - Helped professionally and financially That final comment: “If you give someone enough rope” - keeps coming back to me. Because the phrase means: if you give someone enough rope, they’ll hang themselves. And some of the people participating in these discussions know full well that someone in my life did exactly that a few years ago - and how profoundly it affected me. Thankfully, I have strong family support around me, good mental health and genuine friends who see the whole Janet - not simply the version it has apparently become socially acceptable to condemn. But what if I didn’t? Most people go through periods in life where they are more vulnerable than usual. Grief. Illness. Depression. Isolation. Exhaustion. And this kind of public pile-on culture can have very real consequences. Caroline Flack is one example that comes to mind. I can usually forgive - if not entirely forget. But I must admit I’m struggling here. Because I’m comfortable with disagreement. I also understand that people respond emotionally to contentious issues. But betrayal is harder to forgive. One comment accused me of sinking to a “new low”. But I don’t think you get much lower than publicly attacking someone - without even taking the time to properly understand the situation - simply because they hold lawful views you disagree with. I imagine some people will claim it’s not what I say, but the way I say it. In the absence of any convincing argument for why men should access women and girls’ single-sex spaces, it’s often the only criticism left. But they know as well as I do that there is no “nice” way to say a man is not a woman. Yet it still needs to be said. And it is not remotely “hateful” to state biological reality. That, for me, is the part I find hardest to forgive.

As a transsexual I have been using male spaces from the moment I came out. That is now 14/15 years. I have had no incidents. Nor are there any incidents recorded in the UK.

Tell you what it must have been class if Peter Murrell got your name in the SNP secret Santa

Simon wants to ensure little girls and adult men share communal changing rooms This is what trans activism is about, it’s what it’s always been about - the removal of women and girls boundaries

You'd think they'd be embarrassed to get this much wrong in so short a post!

@owenjonesjourno @akuareindorf @EHRC We have those conversations AS WELL not INSTEAD. We also think women who are in those situations deserve to flee to crisis centers that are women only, to further protect them. You don't. Why?

@owenjonesjourno @akuareindorf @EHRC Femicide, rape and sexual assault are crimes of opportunity which rely on access to the victim out of public view. That is why so many of these crimes involve partners & family. Single-sex public spaces restrict male access to female victims. That is why they must be retained.

@owenjonesjourno @akuareindorf @EHRC Well here’s the deal Owen. Women can stop spending our time, money and energy fighting transwomen’s colonisation and appropriation of what belongs to us if they agree to stay out of our spaces. That will free us up to deal to spend all that on tacking the issues you think we must

The 1976 UK heatwave was one of the most intense, prolonged periods of high temperatures in British history, lasting from 23 June to 27 August 1976. But no one blamed cow farts and the weather maps certainly didn’t look like a volcano had erupted over Britain.

@LegateCorvus Wrong. He was forty blocks uptown getting high when the riot started. We weren't led or inspired by drug-addled, homeless, profoundly mentally ill, criminal, crossdressers who pimped gay teens. Even he admitted that he wasn't there; why won't you?

The UK just “smashed” its May temperature record… but here’s the part the Met Office conveniently leaves out: The PREVIOUS record was set in 1922. That’s 104 years ago. Long before SUVs, private jets, or modern CO₂ emissions. Heathrow Airport didn’t even exist yet. The area was literally farmland and small villages. So if a 1922 heatwave could produce nearly identical temperatures in a world with ~130 ppm less CO₂, maybe, just maybe, natural variability plays a much bigger role than the panic merchants admit.

A new definition of woman has dropped, everyone! Heather here thinks “woman” = what your neighbors think of you. x.com/heathermassey2…

To save replying to all those complaining that linking Sturgeon to Murrell’s embezzlement is “misogyny” a reminder that she was not only his wife. She was his boss and as long time leader of the SNP she had ultimate responsibility for its governance and oversight.

@vanessahodgesx But how does Owen know? He can’t have inspected all of their genitals, surely? 🤣

When you write lads 3 times, you summon one ….

@4NonyaBusiness @Alisdisgrace @MrTCHarris There’s no legitimate aim for segregation by race. There is a legitimate aim for segregation by sex. But you knew this.

@Alisdisgrace @MrTCHarris Like black leagues for sports? Segregated schooling? Black baseball, the black track team, etc.? Separate drinking fountain, separate locker rooms, separate bathrooms, back of the school bus?

If trans women "just want a place to pee", then a third, neutral space will be more than adequate. If they reject that, then we will know they want something other than "a place to pee".

Ironically, those of you getting verbally aggressive/angry & threatening violence because of women’s *legal* right to single sex spaces are proving exactly why they are necessary. So, thank you.

Sex is underpinned by genetics. I can infer @alxhwtt genetics by observing he is male. That is, I reckon he has a Y chromosome and all the associated genes. He has a healthy Sox9 gene. He has a healthy androgen receptor gene. He has a healthy desert hedgehog gene. If he has fathered children, he has a healthy AZF cluster. And so on. I can also infer other genetic ‘data’ he possesses by the colour of his eyes, hair and skin, by the shape of his earlobes. We routinely infer genetic ‘data’ by the visible characteristics of others. And often, this includes medical data, when we meet someone with Down Syndrome, for example. “Genetic data” under GDPR is not what is written in your face or your blue eyes. It is personal data resulting from the analysis of a biological sample. It is processed data, stored for a legitimate purpose. And to pre-empt arguments about SRY screening in sport: yes, that is almost-certainly special category data. People are allowed to collect and process special category data when it delivers human rights. The UNESCO International Declaration on Human Genetic Data, Article 5 permits genetic testing for “any other purpose consistent with [...] international human rights law.” Women have the established human right to equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex. A federation could easily argue that sex screening upholds these principles by protecting fair competition. I expect them all to do so under any legal challenge to screening regulations.

'I'm very inclusive and hate gender stereotypes, that's why I'll tell a butch lesbian that she looks like a man'

Interesting way of writing "his penis"