Diane Holyoak

@j_bettany @bindelj But for a quick overview of why as a socialist feminist I reject POMO gender identity ideology you cant top Amanda MacLean's excellent article "A World Without Gender" weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1330/a-…

Have we finally officially dispensed with the always ridiculous notions of ‘toxicity on both sides’ and ‘most marginalised and vulnerable’ now? thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

@catherineordway @UNSRVAW @UN_SPExperts @UN Oh do fuck off handmaiden to the patriarchy .. what you have shared is utter bollox! Sex matters when it comes to ensuring a level playing field in female sports. #NoToMalesInFemaleSports

@UNSRVAW @UN_SPExperts @UN Repeating a legally and morally incorrect position harms all women. Many of the issues with the IOC policy are addressed here in this FAQ: docs.google.com/document/d/10A…

UN expert @UNSRVAW welcomes International Olympic Committee policy protecting female categories in sport. “The policy restores dignity, fairness and safety for women and girls in Olympic sport.” ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

@catherineordway @UNSRVAW @UN_SPExperts @UN It's a terrible document. I don't even know what 'morally incorrect' means. You are simply showing that you are miles away from understanding this argument, the evidence, the concepts, and human rights. And miles away from even understanding why you have lost. Comprehensively.

@catherineordway @UN_SPExperts @UN You are entitled to your opinion. My position is legally and morally sound. Many competitive sports associations, other than the IOC have made the same u-turn moths and years ago and moved to protect the female category in sport. The evidence is simply too overwhelming to ignore.

@catherineordway @UN_SPExperts @UN Really? What’s offensive about it? Why cannot people like yourself do their homework before they speak? It is not the first time i have spoken out and in fact i did a whole report on women and sport, including the issues you refer to: ohchr.org/en/documents/t…

I have not seen a single mainstream media outlet give this the attention it deserves. Israel blew up an entire Lebanese town, an ancient place. It should be headline news. There’s footage of it happening. Imagine this was your town, and you saw every building blown up by a terrorist army to prevent you from ever returning. You would at the very least expect wall to wall coverage. Instead it passes without a word. It’s not the only town Israel has blown up. And sadly it probably won’t be the last.

The lads get together to have a moan about the birds

@ForWomenScot @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret We know they can differentiate between the sexes because women are the people they don’t interview about defending women’s rights. Males are the people they do interview to explain why women don’t know what’s best for them

A transactivist group calls for attacks on the property of public intellectuals - i.e. academics and experts who engage in public discourse. Elected politicians are also listed as 'good targets' alongside civil society organisations. Jolyon Maugham KC says this is 'legitimate'. And he has the gall to appropriate the rallying cry of those who fought for liberty and democracy in Spain. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

The former RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch warned people about #KeirStarmer before the election. Most of the media laughed it off. Many in Labour dismissed him. But he understood exactly what Starmer represented. Lynch said Starmer’s Labour was managerial, not political. A party run by lawyers, advisors, and communications professionals rather than people rooted in labour history, trade unions, industry, or working-class communities. A party that believed in management, not representation. Stability, not change. Administration, not politics. He warned that if Starmer won, Labour would not govern as a movement, but as a management team. If anything, Lynch understated it. What we have seen is not a political Prime Minister but an administrative one. Government by briefing note, by focus group, by legal framing rather than political vision. A Labour Party reshaped from a political movement into something closer to a corporate structure with MPs. Under Starmer, Labour has been changed more fundamentally than even under Blair. Blair at least had a political project. Starmer’s project has been control. Centralise the party. Remove internal opposition. Sideline unions. Purge members. Control candidate selection. Control messaging. Control policy. The result is a Labour Party that is now barely recognisable as a working-class party, and barely recognisable even as a democratic political party. It behaves more like an administrative arm of the state than a movement representing the people. Alongside this has come something else that should worry anyone who cares about civil liberties. Expanding surveillance powers. Restrictions on protest. Speech laws framed as safety. Increasing police powers. More powers for the state, fewer rights for the citizen. All passed in the language of responsibility and stability. This is managerial politics. Not leadership, not representation, not democracy in the traditional labour movement sense. Management of the population. Management of expectations. Management of decline. Mick Lynch saw a managerial Labour Party coming. What he didn’t see was a Labour Party rebuilt as a machine: centrally controlled, staffed with loyalists, a government with authoritarian instincts and no roots in the labour movement at all, parachuting in MPs with little to no experience outside political offices, hand-picked acolytes from outfits like Labour Together, selected not for independence or service to their communities, but for loyalty to the leadership. MPs whose first duty is not to their constituents, not to their country, but to the party machine and the people who control it. Labour didn’t win power for the people. Starmer won power for the global oligarchy and that little club he's been a member of since 2019... @PaulKnaggs , Labour Heartlands

J.D. Vance (2024).

This cannot be allowed. It’s deliberately removing opportunities from girls in ‘girls sport’, that positively changes their lives, & giving them to boys, who already have vastly more opportunities available to them compared to females.

‘Same pattern of lies repeated decades later.’ Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Dr Dionne Joseph, believes that gender transitions for young adults are one of the biggest medical scandals of our time, as a Finnish study reveals transitioning impacted mental health symptoms.

@Sorelle_Arduino @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret @SarahEMcBride Why is McBride’s discomfort at using (or unwillingness to use) male facilities more important than the discomfort of the women whose space is being encroached upon? The great gaslighting continues aided & abetted by men who think undermining women’s rights is kind & reasonable.

@RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret @SarahEMcBride , three men discuss the fact women don’t get to exclude cross dressing men from spaces we undress just because we feel ‘uncomfortable’ The patriarchy is alive and kicking 🙄 Transactivism is a male supremacy movement

The survey has 41 questions but Q35 is the key one for sport If you only have a couple of minutes, you can press return for each question till you reach Q35 The issues with the KCSIE guidance for sport for Q35 are listed in bullet points in the following post 2/ Link to the SEEN in Sport guidance for responding to the consultation ➡️ seeninsport.org/consultation-o…

Urgent! @GOVUK is proposing to allow boys into all under 18s girls’ school sport - unless it is deemed unsafe… … ignoring both unfairness & the evidence that it puts girls off sport Use SEEN in Sport’s guidance in the next post to respond to the KCSIE consultation 1/ consult.education.gov.uk/independent-ed…

It is the biggest medical scandal of our time. The sooner wider society realises the horrors we have been visiting on young people the sooner it will stop. Then there should be prosecutions.

Your walk is physically growing your brain. That’s not a metaphor. Every year after 50, your brain’s memory region shrinks by about 1-2%. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh put 120 older adults into two groups. One walked 40 minutes a day, three days a week, for a full year. The other just stretched. Brain scans showed the walkers’ memory region grew by 2%, undoing one to two years of shrinkage. The stretching group shrank by another 1.4%. It changes how you think too. Stanford tested 176 people on creative tasks while sitting and then while walking. Creative output jumped 60%. Even on a treadmill facing a blank wall. Every single person who walked outside produced at least one strong original idea, while only half the seated group managed it. The boost stuck around even after they sat back down. A 2024 review in the British Medical Journal looked at 218 studies and found that walking and jogging worked about as well as antidepressants for depression. For people already dealing with clinical depression, a separate analysis of 75 studies found the benefit was about 4x what it was for everyone else. You don’t even need 10,000 steps. That number came from a 1960s Japanese marketing campaign for a pedometer, not from any medical study. When researchers tracked over 226,000 people, every extra 1,000 steps per day lowered the risk of early death. Around 9,000 steps a day is enough to cut that risk by 39%. A pair of shoes and a door. No prescription needed.

“Women are forbidden from ­relationships with other women in prison, so why are relationships with men not only tolerated but accommodated? Even worse, we don’t know if women are being coerced or forced into sex with male prisoners.” dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-…