Emma Jones

Welcoming males into female spaces and sports excludes women and girls. It is not inclusive and progressive. It is oppressive, harmful and sometimes dangerous sex discrimination.

Amirarsalan Hosseinabad is 16. An athlete from Arak. Arrested during the January protests by the regime in Iran. He was brutally tortured in detention and denied medical care. This is what happens to children who dare to speak out under the regime in Iran. Children are being sentenced to death, and the world keeps looking the other way.

🚨 URGENT: Mohammadreza Abdollahpour, a 28-year-old anaesthesiologist, is at imminent risk of execution in Iran. He was arrested for providing medical aid to the wounded during the uprisings. The regime is murdering the very people who heal the nation. #IranMassacre‌

@adamndsmith It’s an advocacy position as a ‘representative’. Steph’s presence has taken a possible space away from a woman with experience of endometriosis. That’s not inclusive at all.

Here's a list of all the criticisms of her expertise made in the article: 1) 2) 3) They're only challenging her 'lack of lived experience', at 73. Imagine if we said a doctor needed to have experienced every illness in order to treat it?

@RosieDuffield1 @IanCour70323568 I wonder if trolls stirring division do send them threats? But it’s never matched by real-world threatening behaviour from GCs towards TRAs. (But we do see that violent rhetoric in the real world from TRAs)

@IanCour70323568 I was quite stunned when that new MP claimed she had had death threats, "you're not the only one, Rosie!" (it's a competition now?) in a debate where we are on opposite sides. So she's had credible threats/violence from gender critical, feminist women then....?

Significant that so many on the other side were attempting to claim they had been through the same bullying, threats and character assassination you have actually been through. Cry bullies claiming victimhood while completely ignoring the evidenced based harms of what they were advocating.

@jimmycarr I’d only want my teen son in a pub with men aged at least 30 ‘in charge’! Well said on the need to see lots of positive masculinity 👏 These boys are just innocent kids and will one day be our daughters’ partners. It’s essential they feel good about their value to society!

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HERO AT RISK OF EXECUTION #Javid_Khales Javid is a brave soldier who REFUSED TO SHOOT his own people. For choosing his conscience over a "killer commander's" orders in Isfahan, he has been sentenced to death. His name is rarely mentioned, but his bravery is legendary. He chose humanity; now we must choose him. DO NOT LET THEM EXECUTE A HERO! @amnesty @UNHumanRights @CNN @Reuters @UN #IranMassacre‌ #KingRezaPahlavi

@JournalistJill Probably clinched it for him. Generally astonishing they’ve given it to him over all the impressive (female) candidates with actual broadcast experience. They must be justifiably livid.

New director general of the BBC…

@shane58452 @WomenAreReals It’s happened in at least three leisure centres in my region.

@Trueinclusion @WomenAreReals No they don't u idiot

There will be NO male and female dressing rooms, only mixed sex. See quote from the LA Times article in this: On the ground floor, the building’s open-air male and female changing rooms will merge into one larger indoor gender-neutral area with private changing rooms and toilet stalls, Kingsnorth said. “Every single toilet room and dressing room is an individual room,” Kingsnorth said. Kingsnorth said the gender-neutral dressing room design was not mandated by state or federal restrictions but was a priority for the city’s Recreation and Parks Department. On projects like this, Kingsnorth said, “this is something that’s more common for equity and inclusion.”

@LBC @TomSwarbrick1 Do the stats bear this out proportionately? Maybe it’s living in Wales but I’ve known/seen quite a few ‘outdoorsy’ black & Asian people here. Wonder what the visitor stats are for white people who’ve grown up in the inner city - could a city-only childhood be a factor?

‘They might not know what to wear or how to behave...’ @TomSwarbrick1 asks National Trust head Hilary McGrady why she thinks the countryside could be considered ‘less welcoming’ to people from ethnic minorities.

@DandyDuck118582 @BeerInStemGlass @AmandaPCraig Steph’s presence is by its nature *excluding* a woman with actual experience of endometriosis and all the medical misogyny that goes with it - ironically fighting to be heard for starters! Totally inappropriate & demonstrates Steph does not understand the issues at all.

@BeerInStemGlass @AmandaPCraig She remains qualified. Advocacy is what she does.

I should add: I have no objections to male gynaecologists, not least because the surgeon who cured me was a man! But this “spokesperson” isn’t medically qualified.

@AmandaPCraig It’s worse than being a chief exec for ‘admin’ - it’s an advocacy position, so there is a woman missing from that room who would otherwise be sharing her experience of endometriosis services. Absolutely regressive exclusion masquerading as ‘progressive’.

@RealWrongGuy @ElliottGotkine Guy I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed this story at the time and it’s one of those videos that always brightens the day when it reappears (along with ‘BBC dad’ - maybe you should meet??). You styled it out fantastically.

@Trueinclusion @ElliottGotkine Thank you, Emma. I am very well. Have a great day.

Okay. I admit it. It was me wot done it: I was the producer who - almost 20 years ago - accidentally picked up Guy Goma - @RealWrongGuy - from the wrong reception area at BBC TV Centre and put him on air. Now I’ve written a book about it, along with Goma. “The Wrong Guy: the inside story of TV’s greatest cock-up” is a never-before-told, insider’s account of how a death-defying escape from civil war-wracked Congo put Guy on the path to a job interview at the @BBC - and 15 minutes of improbable fame that has endured for two decades.  
Delighted to say @NickPisa at the @DailyMail has written about the book (and Guy and me) describing it as a “hilarious account…telling in fine detail the buildup and the aftermath of what became television history.” The book is already available for pre-order. Do please take the plunge and buy it. amzn.eu/d/0aodh1Ng

@Labourheartland Exactly - it’s not inclusion. The effect is that there is one less woman with endometriosis advocating for those with the condition. That’s exclusion.

How much more are women expected to put up with? Because appointing a man who identifies as a woman to represent people suffering from endometriosis is not inclusion, it is disrespect. At best, it is tone-deaf. In reality, it's outright misogyny dressed up as progress. A man representing women with endometriosis. Think about that for a moment. Women fought for decades to get this disease recognised, treated, researched and taken seriously. Now they are told to step aside and let a man represent them. Call it inclusion if you like. Many women will call it something else. If women can’t even speak for women’s health anymore, what exactly are women allowed to speak for? Endometriosis is not an abstract identity. It is a painful, often debilitating medical condition that affects women because they have female reproductive systems. One in ten women in the UK suffer from it. Many spend years being ignored by doctors, misdiagnosed, or told the pain is “normal”. Women have fought for decades just to have this condition taken seriously. And now, after all that, they are told a man will represent them. You could not design a more insulting situation if you tried. Novelist Amanda Craig, who has personally suffered from acute endometriosis, said the appointment was “absolutely ridiculous” and compared it to a white person claiming to speak for black people. It is a harsh comparison, but you can understand the point she is making: representation should come from lived experience, not political fashion. This is the problem with identity politics when it loses all connection to material reality. Women are told to be quiet, be kind, be inclusive, and accept that even their own medical conditions are no longer theirs to speak about. So again, the question stands: How much more are women expected to put up with? Because when women cannot even speak about women’s health without being told to step aside for a man, that is not equality. That is erasure. And dressing erasure up as progress does not make it progress. It just makes it harder to challenge. #WomenMatter

Ahoura Safayi Rad is 16. Arrested in Iran for protesting. Now facing execution by hanging. Not for violence. Not for a crime. For simply speaking out. A child is at risk of being executed by the regime in Iran. And once again, the world is far too quiet.

حکم اعدام #اهورا_صفری_راد ۱۶ ساله تایید شد @UNICEF Ahoura Safayi Rad is reportedly at risk of execution in Iran. He is only 16 years old. A child must never face execution.

There is an empty chair at a dinner table tonight. A school desk is vacant. A bedroom is cold. Mahsa Saril, just 14 years old, has been stolen from her family by the IRGC. For the "crime" of asking for a future, she now faces execution. She is a child. SHE IS A CHILD. Say her name until she is home #IranMassacre‌

🆘 URGENT: The Islamic Republic is planning to execute a 16-year-old child! Mohammad Hossein Shokri is just 16. He is a street vendor who sold corn to make a living. He was abducted for simply participating in protests for freedom. Now, this child is facing the DEATH PENALTY. The Islamic Republic targets the most vulnerable because they think no one will speak up for them. Please do not let them hang another innocent child!

An utter scumbag. How are Americans comfortable with their country deliberately starving a nation, just so they can steal their stuff? Why aren't Americans out on the streets opposing this monstrous behaviour?

Mohammad Reza Dayanti (17) is at imminent risk of execution in Iran. Arrested during the 2026 uprisings, he has been subjected to the regime's "fast-track" injustice system. A 17-year-old should be in a classroom, not on death row. Be his voice! #IranMassacre‌