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Could there be anything more crass? A 60yo man who thinks heels, make-up and a wig are a passport into and out of womanhood - alongside the faces of real murdered women. Their lives weren't a handful of stereotypes, Eddie. They were women and you don't get to take that word.

@LewisJonathanE She's 80 years old FFS! ProPals need to fuck right off.

Aberdeen (Scotland) "pro-Palestinian" activists are demanding a Jewish actress - who they portray as the devil - not be allowed to perform in a local theater production This is gutter-level stuff

@elonmusk No. Who are the ones that argue most confidently and indeed viciously the peak woke issue, that men can be women? The answer is: leftist woke bros.

@afneil Radio 4's Any Answers? prog was the same thing. Wall to wall the callers blamed the Jews for being stabbed, largely unchallenged by the presenter @tweeter_anita

The old Arabist ‘Camel Corps’ of the British Foreign Office in full cry. Nothings changes. Twas always thus. Attacks on Jews are the fault of Jews for not being sufficiently robust in criticising Israel. Hamas gets a pass. Even antisemitism is in quotes as if it’s not really a thing.

I’ve delivered training to colleagues at Sussex several times in the past couple of years, and I can confirm that Kathleen Stock’s description of a “culture of student complaints, disciplinary investigations, and fear” remains an accurate reflection of how colleagues there are feeling today. You can see it in their eyes. You can hear it in the slight, but constant, stutter in their voices. The descriptions of the problems staff use are hesitant; more is implied than described. “Some of the student interactions we have are…tricky, particularly in relation to, er, protected characteristics.” “We’ve definitely seen a shift when it comes to students, er, behaving, well, presenting in ways that can be, I guess, challenging.” “We’ve had some problems in recent years, which you’ll probably have heard about.” That kind of thing. Every now and again, you get someone in the group who is a hardcore believer ✊. They’ll be the first to test the waters by telling the room that they are also “mindful of neurodiversity”. And they won’t stutter as terms like “safe space”, “LGBTQ+” and “student voice” dance from their semi-grins. This colleague tends not to give their name on the feedback forms at the end of the training session, but I’ll know them by their comment that “The session tended to frame the student as the problem”, or by the one lonely tick in the “disagree” box under the question about whether or not the trainer was effective. However, the hardcore believers are surprisingly rare. Maybe they self-select out of my training in favour of other types of event. Maybe they don’t think they need training. Or maybe I am getting to work with a representative sample and the believers really are a surprisingly small minority. When they speak, I would generally describe the vibe among their colleagues in the room as tired. This is not just a Sussex problem. Other university campuses are very similar, if sometimes a little less hesitant about naming it. However, it’s a very real problem - and, as this @unherd article sets out, no court appeal ruling on the technical meaning of the term “governing documents” will do anything to change the reality of what it’s like to work in a university today. The planet goes on being round. If I am invited to deliver training on Sussex’s campus again, I know I’ll again walk under that underpass that takes me from the station to the buildings that I always need a map to tell apart. And, just as I’ve done on each recent visit, I’ll imagine it was my name on rows of menacing posters lining that tiled tunnel. I’ll imagine I’m walking to work, knowing that the reactions of my managers, all the way up, are almost certain to range from “I don’t want to get involved” to “You’ve brought this on yourself”, with not an ounce of humanity or liberty on offer. And I’ll know that no salary offer would ever be enough to give up my freedom and rejoin the ranks of the permanent university employee. Sadly, the OfS’ errors of process, probably combined with some overzealous interpretation work from the court, have empowered the people in the sector who deny there’s a free speech problem. This ruling will be spun and it will be misinterpreted as some kind of clean bill of health. But, trust me, if you ever find yourself delivering training to a room full of academics, a court judgment like this will seem very unreal indeed.

@_bezpilotnik @JournalistJill @TheGreenParty @ExposedGreens @LesbianGreens @GWDeclaration So, it IS you. And I remember well how you used your sister's death as a shield while acting like one of the worst misogynists on here. Have a care, women of Lemington!

@mrssomerset @JournalistJill @TheGreenParty @ExposedGreens @LesbianGreens @GWDeclaration Ah, I remember this. The immediate context was, if I recall correctly, quite a few people being fantastically weird to me about my sister's death by femicide four months earlier. Have a care!

Nasty little Green Party candidate finally blocked me, after a week of calling women names and defending sexual harassment in the workplace. His name is Peter Mitchell. If you’re a woman and you vote for him, you’re a moron.

@PeterTatchell Why are you so keen for children to remain in their prepubescent bodies, Peter?

Researchers debunk myth that up to 90% of trans children ‘grow out of it’ Virginia Commonwealth University looked at 16 different trans studies & found they did not support the claim that most trans people eventually detransition thepinknews.com/2026/04/29/tra…

@JournalistJill @TheGreenParty @ExposedGreens @LesbianGreens @GWDeclaration Is this the same bloke? We was vile and got his account suspended.

And here’s how he speaks to women who challenge his views on sexual harassment. Women considering voting for @TheGreenParty in Lemington should be aware… @ExposedGreens @LesbianGreens @GWDeclaration

@pochacco_boy Some historic contextualisation of your views there, since you can't deal with the female perspective ('terfism').

@pochacco_boy Media of the 1800s reviewed blackface minstrel shows as high-caliber theatre, praising the 'scientific' precision of the banjo playing and singing, that white performers were preserving the songs & dances of the plantation, framing the mockery as a form of cultural documentation.

i've yet to see a critique of jimbo's drag aesthetics that isn't rooted in TERF feminism, bioessentialism, or conservatism talking points

@TheGreenParty 🖕 you antisemitic loonies.

The UK government must ACT NOW and: • Condemn the Israeli Navy’s illegal actions against the Flotilla • Demand the safety and release of all British Citizens involved in this mission • Stop all arms exports to Israel immediately • Do everything in its power to end this ongoing genocide

@blablafishcakes So now he's trying a bit of copyright infringement. Is there any area of the law that he's NOT incompetent at?

The trans-activist fox basher is actually selling these on his website 😳😬 💰

@Drag_Crave Andrew Tate: "I hate women." Drag performers: "Oh my god, ME TOO!!!"

@alexrubner @jammach 🤣🤣

@jammach With Phillimore it runs deep, with JCJ it runs shallow

Sarah Phillimore is now arguing with the Auschwitz Museum, in defence of a woman who claims that only 271k died. Knowing how litigious she is, I hesitate to say more. But you'll all draw your own conclusions, I hope.

@alexrubner Such an odd woman. Her go it alone attitude is certainly doing the trick.

@JustMisogyny See also: 'misgendering' is genocide; attempting to assassinate a president is fine 🤔

How it started How it's going

@AdamZivo He is the Griftmeister General of Canada. Look at his CV. A man riding the Alphabet People gravy train to the end of the line. A nasty bloke too.

I applaud Fae for this initiative, which seems rooted in open dialogue, good faith debate, and building bridges through inviting difficult conversations. Regardless of where one stands on trans issues, I hope we can all agree that this approach is good for Canada.

@latsot @scope @jan_murray Done. I'm a monthly donor to @scope and I'll be very closely reading what they reply about my concerns. If they don't support disabled women, they'll lose my support.

We've all rightly been outraged at the way the disability charity @scope treated @jan_murray's choir by dropping them from performing at Sunday's London Marathon and then (presumably having sought legal advice) reinstated them in *very* bad grace. It's a scandal that cancellations like this for legally-held beliefs are still happening. However, I think many people have forgotten what Scope is supposed to do and what implications this attitude from its leadership has for the (actually) most vulnerable people in society. Scope is a disability charity. Its remit is to campaign and lobby on behalf of disabled people, to provide information, advice and support when they need it and to create opportunities for disabled people. How can disabled people trust Scope to have our interests at heart when it has demonstrated such intolerance for sex realist views? In particular, how can disabled women who need same-sex care trust Scope to advocate on their behalf, provide them with accurate and up to date information and advice on this subject and to support them - and give them a voice - when they need it most? Disabled people - especially women - who need care face extreme risk from those who are supposed to provide it. Disabled women are physically and sexually assaulted by male carers at a sickening rate. Same-sex intimate care for disabled women who require it is an urgent priority. But the major disability charities, including Scope, do not agree. They've been silent on the matter for years. They're silent because they've pulled a Stonewall; they know they'll lose donations if they work in the interests of the people who need them most. And yet they hoover up donations from brilliant, well-meaning people who don't know this. So can everyone who has been so brilliantly vocal in support of Jan's choir please, please also consider contacting Scope to ask them about their policy regarding same-sex intimate care for disabled women? Could you ask them what they do and plan to do to lobby for same-sex care, to support disabled women who need it and to make the voices of those women heard? Thank you so much. @hen10freeman @sharrond62 @jan_murray @WomensRightsNet @BevJacksonAuth @Glinner

@Goldfiinger @jan_murray @ClareCraigPath Is this really true? I've given them money for years :(

Scope is a massive scam, I once worked in their finance department. They managed to pay hundreds of thousands in top level salary yet only bought 3 wheelchairs in the whole year. Total fraud. Shop on every high street in the country, run by volunteers bless them. Yet directors each get paid more than the total spent on wheelchairs each year. Total fraud.

On Saturday evening I got a personal email from the Scope CEO that said: ‘Following reflection, we would like to restore our invitation to the choir to sing at the marathon tomorrow. We do this wholeheartedly and do hope you will be able to attend as per the previous arrangements.’ Had he sent this email after our telephone conversation on Thursday afternoon, it’s likely I’d have accepted. I may even have chosen not to tell the choir - why upset them unnecessarily over a ‘misunderstanding’ that has been resolved? But they didn’t. Instead they doubled down - and later tripled down - by publishing multiple damaging public statements about me. So I did not take up this invitation. By this point I’d had to tell the choir they had been excluded over MY lawful views. The damage had already been done - to all of us. So I pulled together a group on Saturday evening - and we found our own spot at Mile 15 As you’ll see from this video people were clearly very ‘distracted’ by my presence 🙄.

@jan_murray Far too late. The damage is done @scope You've completely mishandled this. Time for some hard reflection on your founding principles - they were never, ever about denying biology or policing people's thoughts.

@SarahSillymore @SpeechUnion Oh yes, that famously lucrative path of championing free speech. Do you even hear yourself?

@SpeechUnion Of course you are. You have unlimited funds from very lonely, scared and gullible people. You predate on them like wolves

A choir has been dropped by a charity from the London Marathon over its founder’s gender-critical views. The Singing Striders, who regularly support runners from the sidelines, were invited by Scope to perform this Sunday. They’ve now been removed because one member — founder Janet Murray — holds gender-critical beliefs. Scope said her views conflict with its “commitment to diversity and inclusion”, reportedly following two anonymous complaints. Janet Murray told The Telegraph: “When cancel culture reaches something as joyful as a choir supporting marathon runners, it’s a sobering reminder of how insidious it can be.” Gender-critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010 and were reaffirmed by last year’s Supreme Court ruling. Yet cases involving people penalised for holding these views remain the largest category at the Free Speech Union. This is deeply unfair to a choir that has supported the marathon before and spent months preparing. We’re here to help if needed! Read more below 👇