Dr Viv Pointon 💜🤍💚

Remember this article from Jenni Murray in 2017. Totally reasonable, nothing extreme, just saying men can’t be women. Then there was all the protests, calls to cancel talks, The BBC warned her, restricted her on air, and by 2020 she left Woman’s Hour. But she never backed down, even as the pushback continued for years. This is how speaking honestly costs you in public life. But she was forever right. Rest in peace, brave and courageous Jenni Murray. thetimes.com/article/490f2f…

@BBCBreaking @RooneyRachel A woman who knew what a woman is. Unlike the current bunch of numpties on Woman’s Hour.

Dame Jenni Murray, who presented the BBC's Woman's Hour for more than 30 years, has died bbc.in/4bkxpjW

Such sad news. Quite upset to hear Dame Jenni Murray has gone. Way too soon. Go sort ‘em out in heaven, Jenni. 😢

@oolon Intersex is an inaccurate term for DSDs. Every DSD is a variation either from the male or from the female. There is no middle sex. Some DSD males, mistakenly assigned female at birth, have excelled in female sports after experiencing male puberty. No conflation with trans.

"LGB Alliance" CEO just outright calling intersex cís women "men" now. After years of them saying intersex=/=trans (It isn't) and now they just conflate the two groups as their hated "men" In a sane country they'd be stripped of charitable status x.com/KateBMwriting/…

Everyone knows Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. 💡 Everyone is wrong. His name was Joseph Swan. Born in Pallion, Sunderland. Son of a failed entrepreneur. No university. No laboratory. No backing. Just a chemist's apprentice in his home town who couldn't stop thinking about light. He worked on it for twenty years. Along the way he invented bromide photographic paper. Artificial fibre, the process that led to rayon. Over seventy patents. And still nobody had made a lightbulb that worked. Then on the 18th of December 1878, in a lecture hall in Newcastle, he switched it on. It burned bright. Then it broke. But the idea was proven. ⚡ Six weeks later, 3rd February 1879, he demonstrated it again. This time it worked. Seven hundred people watched the room light up. Eight months before Thomas Edison. Edison heard about it. Filed a patent. Then sued Swan in America. The US Patent Office found against Edison. ✅ Edison sued Swan in Britain. The British courts found against Edison again. ✅✅ As part of the settlement, Edison was forced into a partnership with Swan. The company was called Ediswan. Swan's patents. Swan's filament design. Edison's name first. Eventually Edison bought him out. Swan was knighted in 1904. The Savoy Theatre, the first building in the world lit entirely by electricity, used his bulbs. Edison got the credit. Swan got a knighthood nobody remembers. And history forgot Sunderland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Did they teach you his name? Together we keep our history alive. proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. 🙏 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

This has been a great money maker for planners, surveyors, lawyers, environmentalists et al. A giant job creation scheme, in reality.

@GH81573850 @ManOfKent15 Allowing faith schools and curricula, extending postal voting, permitting Sharia courts, not banning cousin marriage etc.

@ManOfKent15 What makes you say they’re courting the Muslim vote? I see no evidence for this.

Can someone explain to me why both the Greens and Labour are courting the Muslim vote if Muslims make up only 6% of the population? Labour has abandoned the white, working class, who I'm sure account for more than 6% of the population.

Something is clearly out of balance when someone earning £10k and someone earning £140k take home the same net amount. No wonder so many hard-working people and entrepreneurs are leaving the UK. Would you want to live in a country that punishes hard work and jobs creation?

Should the UK drill for oil and gas in the North Sea? Please retweet for the largest sample 🙏

I didn’t watch today. Last week’s shambles was too excruciating. The man is an absolute charlatan. I long for him to be gone - if a mechanism exists - but fear who might be chosen next by the diminished membership.

We must all be tolerant of Muslims worshipping in public. But Jewish people can't go to a football match in Birmingham. See the hypocrisy now.

@thewinterdollx No.

LADIES : Are you OK with a trans woman as me using the ladies room if you're in there?🏳️‍⚧️

@LGBAllies_Cymru That would only work if you were one of the people whose listening is being monitored.

Is there any chance we could save Women's Hour by collectively agreeing a day to switch it off and back on again?

@esfemboy @speakoutsister Get back to me when you have a fully functioning vocabulary.

@VPointon @speakoutsister You dont know shit about fuck 🙄

It's utterly hilarious that straight people think there is an "LGB community" that somehow existed completely independently of trans people. And shows they don't know the first thing about anything related to queer people,past or present.

@Ellie_BoatBird @speakoutsister Simply not true.

@VPointon @speakoutsister Rubbish! Trans people have always been part of the community. People like you are outliers, always have been. Poll after poll shows that you are just a vocal minority, supported by christofascists and right wing media.

@Kareshy_Oruta @speakoutsister I guess you’ve not had much life yet.

@VPointon @speakoutsister Not once in my life have I ever felt that one of these communities existed independently of the other. Trans people are my brothers and sisters, as are male and female homosexuals.

@SFHTUnion @speakoutsister Can you squeeze any more bile into this misspelt incorrect response?

@VPointon @speakoutsister Gay man here, Vic, and you are full of sht. LGBT were always together. Keep yr fake-feminist incel sht to yrself.

@TTRPG_Ben Interesting point. Many LGB folk would have preferred that Stonewall worked for the legalisation of homosexuality overseas rather than embracing the T after we achieved equal marriage rights in the UK.

@VPointon "won everything we set out to achieve" and there are countries where it is illegal to be gay and the punishment is death. There are people being beat up in downtown London or new York for "looking gay". You didn't win. You gave up the fight for equality for everyone.

@AlexWillows2000 @speakoutsister This really isn’t true.

@VPointon @speakoutsister “And it shows they don’t know the first thing about anything.” Imagine saying that about someone else, after having written what you just did… Meanwhile in the real world, trans people have been part of the community since before stonewall…

@bbeeeeeepp @BBCWomansHour I’m not angry, more disappointed. And “middle-aged” is flattering - thank you.

@VPointon @BBCWomansHour this never happened. can none of you strange middle aged Brits find a normal hobby these days? must all 500 of you be on this website 24 hours a day making yourself angry about trans people?

Well, well @BBCWomansHour gaslighting women again. Now where did I put my surprised face…?