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@GarySpedding @helenstaniland Insults, insults, insults.

Lets be clear here; transphobes & terfs are bigoted. You do not represent the majority of women or even the majority viewpoint of women on these issues. Being inclusive of Trans people is not an attack on women or women's rights. As we have seen this isn't merely about men who transition to women but also women who transition to become men. You're attacking and hating on both these vulnerable groups, singling them out, and encouraging discrimination, hatred and violence towards them.

After decades of women being told they're bigoted for fighting to retain female single sex spaces, or refusing to call men she/her, or objecting to children being medicalised life, Gary here comes along to say that nothing is being demanded from women.

@DocLibertarian @landondonovan @united Ever watch Air Crash Investigation? These rules were brought in because of crashes and deaths caused by pilot fatigue.

@landondonovan @united The US makes these rules for Pilots with no wiggle room for common sense.

I’ve been traveling 100k miles/year since I was 16 and this was easily the worst travel experience of my life. No transparency, no clarity and no respect for the passengers who were treated horribly all evening/morning. Absolutely shameful from @united

@NewstalkFM Just how bad is this data?

Labour has said they fear releasing data on the nationalities of people allocated social housing could lead to “disgusting” abuse on social media. newstalk.com/news/housing-5…

BOSTON ATM

@GarySpedding @Susanshox Glass ceilings are glass! Full stop!

Trans women are women. Full stop. After decades of feminist activism, my realisation has been that womanhood isn't reducible to a narrow, biological gatekeeping exercise. This isn't 'men's rights activism'—it's progress. Excluding trans women from feminism and female spaces because of their genitals or chromosomes is the exact kind of essentialism patriarchy has always used to control and diminish women. This sexualisation and focus on genitals is also really gross. Trans people aren't asking biological women to 'sacrifice' anything; they're asking for basic dignity, inclusion, and the right to exist without being attacked, subject to violence and intimidation, and put at extreme risk of being murdered for how they navigate a world that already punishes gender nonconformity at present. The idea that acknowledging some women have penises (or had them) makes someone a bigot is just a rhetorical shield for exclusion. It's also exclusionary to women who have genuine medical issues such as hermaphrodism and androgyny. Feminism that punches down on the most marginalised isn't feminism—it's reactionary hatred. My position is the consistent one: solidarity with all women, including trans women. Your version sounds a lot more like defending a hierarchy, protecting a cult, and supporting the patriarchy than liberating anyone.

Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council), As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display. I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal. Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated. They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive. Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure. Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation. If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice. I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason. What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated. I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this: Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering. Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating. For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media. Yours sincerely, Janet Murray

On the 15th of September 2025, the day I confronted Micheál Martin about my daughter Katie. That was 9 months ago. 39 weeks. 273 days. And I want to tell you where we are now. Since that day, Katie has seen two more consultants in Ireland. She has now been referred on to another consultant again. The HSE also sent us to the Paley Institute for a second opinion. Dr Paley’s findings were clear. Katie’s hip is critical. She has a dysplastic hip, a twisted femur, a retroverted pelvis, and a labral tear. Dr Paley said Katie needs reconstructive surgery, including a labral repair and femoral and pelvic osteotomy, before the window for reconstruction closes. This is the surgery we are trying to get Katie to Florida for. Then Katie was seen by Mr Merchant in Cappagh. He said that if he operated, Katie’s hip would pop back out again. He has now referred Katie on to another consultant, with a view towards a possible hip replacement. So this is where we are. One surgeon is saying Katie needs complex reconstructive surgery now, while there is still a chance. Another is saying her hip could pop back out and has referred her on again. And while everyone discusses, refers, delays, and passes Katie from one consultant to another, Katie is the one left suffering. Katie is 19 years old. She has just finished her Leaving Cert. She should be looking forward to college, independence, friends, and the next chapter of her life. Instead, Katie has had to defer college because the pain she is in is too severe. Her friends are moving on with their lives. Katie is stuck in limbo. Her hip is critical. Her pain is daily. Her sleep is broken. Her future is on hold. Since that day, there have been promises, phone calls, emails, appointments, referrals, second opinions, and politicians saying they would help. But Katie is still here. Still waiting. Still suffering. Still being failed. This is why we are fundraising. This is why we are trying to get Katie to Florida. This is not a holiday. This is not a choice any mother ever wants to make. This is me trying to get my daughter the surgery she needs before that chance is gone. Ireland has left Katie waiting long enough. Katie deserves more than sympathy. She deserves action. She deserves a future. She deserves the chance to live without pain controlling every part of her life. Please keep sharing Katie’s story. Please donate if you can. Every share matters. Every euro matters. And every person who keeps Katie’s story alive matters. We are not giving up on her. GoFundMe: gofund.me/0bd40ba5d

@JohnCon72636524 Oor Nessie

@sinnfeinireland @MaryLouMcDonald Why are you in favour of killing people before they’re born?

Sinn Féin Leader @MaryLouMcDonald has announced that the party will move legislation in the Dáil next week to remove the mandatory three-day wait period for abortion in early pregnancy sinnfein.ie/news/legislati…

I’m going to unpack some of this. 1. The premise that women are unknowingly carting around a Y (with SRY) is massively over exaggerated. The risk of Surprise SRY is minimal. 2. The risk of Surprise SRY is, however, non-zero. But in reproductively healthy women who have had periods and, more definitively, had kids is as near to zero as one can map in science. 3. That is, if you are a person who got a period before 16yo (ish), who has ever been pregnant or who has had the kind of screens that are offered to women (like cervical screening) without any drama, I’d bet my house you don’t have SRY. 4. If you have proof you have popped eggs and/or seen your ovaries, you would be almost singular (literally in the scientific record, the second case to my knowledge) if you also have SRY, functional or otherwise. If that’s me, with my entirely healthy reproductive system and physiology, I’m writing myself into a paper. 5. If you are born appearing female but actually carting around a Y with an SRY, it will almost always make it’s presence felt during puberty. You won’t menstruate, your GP might then discover unusual anatomy etc. Nobody in the U.K. should be getting Surprise SRY. 6. Ironically, Mums to boys are the most likely confounder (via fetal microchimerism). It should not need to be said that picking up some cells from the baby boy you’ve carried in your belly doesn’t change your sex. The carrying of the baby boy, almost certainly from your own egg, refutes that. 🙄 7. If, despite being an apparently healthy woman, you get a Surprise SRY, that means you’re an interesting woman, not a man. It also means that you won’t be excluded from female sport. Because whatever your genetics, sport is divided on bodies. 8. The lay person’s fascination with genetics and the cultural position that DSDs are “just normal variation” has led a fair amount of even normally-sensible people down a dumb rabbit hole. They are medical conditions that are really rare. 1/20k is a binned frequency that we use in genetics to describe things that are really rare. It’s not a measured number, it’s almost qualitative.

@JC_1901 @TLM_Ryan And in the same way, all of the Netherlands players are Dutch.

@colmod99 @TLM_Ryan So to answer your question, 20 of the 26 American players are American.

Casually turned on Japan v Netherlands game. The Japanese national team has Japanese men playing for Japan as you’d expect. The Netherlands? Not a lick of European ancestry. Literally all Africans. Europe is dead.

@JC_1901 @TLM_Ryan And?

@colmod99 @TLM_Ryan The “natives” as you say? They didn’t call themselves “American”. The term “American” came with the Europeans. The first people to start calling themselves “American” were the Yankees.

@WickAbortions @DermotKearney3 @Emilie_Dye With an attitude like that, it would be doing you a favour to end your defective life.

@DermotKearney3 @Emilie_Dye Nothing is wrong with aborting defective pregnancies. Kids cost as much as a luxury cars to raise. Nobody wants to pay for a new Ferrari that has been salvaged.

One of the things that changed my mind on the topic of abortion were the blatant lies from the pro-life camp. No, 75% of late term abortions are not healthy pregnancies. - 77% are due to severe genetic abnormalities - 9% from a direct physical threat to the mum - 14% due to severe psychosocial circumstances (ie the late discovery of pregnancy due to rape or incest, life threatening DV, mum in psychosis) Thankfully, late-term only accounts for 1-2% of abortions. And none of those circumstances are ones where forcing a birth is a positive result.

@JC_1901 @TLM_Ryan The first people who arrived in what is now the USA?

@colmod99 @TLM_Ryan Who were the first people to call themselves “Americans” ?

This Germany Curacao game shows why the expanded World Cup is so embarrassing. Can you imagine a serious team losing 7-1 to Germany before all these new teams were let in?

@claregarry6 @DermotKearney3 @rjpark @MaolanF @Kimber9mmUC @alex_kobylarz @Bdhital84 @tristanever1201 @ProfJoannaHowe @melanieselwood @FLOTUS @POTUS Only a pro-choice bloke, obviously.

@DermotKearney3 @rjpark @MaolanF @Kimber9mmUC @alex_kobylarz @Bdhital84 @tristanever1201 @colmod99 @ProfJoannaHowe @melanieselwood @FLOTUS @POTUS Of course a bloke knows more about terminations than a woman.

These barbaric monsters like @melanieselwood who advocate for baby torture and murder are exposed by this bill. There is no reason for a late term abortion. Ever. It is monstrously cruel to the baby and it does not fix a single health problem for the mother that could not be fixed by inducing a live delivery early. The sole reason for feticide in a late term abortion is to kill the child. 75% of late term abortions in SA kill perfectly healthy children and unlike Melanie, I don't think we should be killing the disabled children either. Help us defeat the evil Greens and pass the first prolife bill in Australian history next Wednesday as we seek to ban third trimester abortion👇 SA RALLY FOR BABIES | Wednesday 17 June | 5.30-6.30PM North Terrace, outside SA Parliament | We need you ❤️

@JDunlap1974 If you have to “enforce” respect, it’s not respect, it’s coercion.

A foreigner refuses to stand for the national anthem. However some soldiers make sure respect was quickly enforced

@Independent_ie If AI really worked, you’d require fewer workers. Wouldn’t you?

Demand for workers with skills in AI rose 83pc since 2019, new PwC report finds buff.ly/SHAPkMr

@claregarry6 @Bdhital84 @rjirish45 @Kimber9mmUC @TrustJesusAlone @alex_kobylarz @DermotKearney3 @tristanever1201 @ProfJoannaHowe @melanieselwood @FLOTUS @POTUS And to remove it, it has to be killed.

@Bdhital84 @rjirish45 @Kimber9mmUC @TrustJesusAlone @alex_kobylarz @DermotKearney3 @tristanever1201 @colmod99 @ProfJoannaHowe @melanieselwood @FLOTUS @POTUS Abortion removes a foetus. We have been over this.

@SeppBlatter When @SeppBlatter is the sensible one in any disagreement, you know something is rotten.

A FIFA World Cup host country must guarantee two fundamental principles: the safety of the country — and the unrestricted entry of all qualified teams, officials and referees. The case of referee Omar Artan from Somalia is against one of these obligations. FIFA must never compromise the universality of football. #Fifa #Somalia #GianniInfantino #CAF #OmarAtan #DonaldTrump