No misogyny in trans activism though. Oh no no no, what would ever give anyone that idea.
Why would Mermaids' CEO retweet this? @ForwomenScot @ChtyCommission pic.twitter.com/xK5533a6tF
— Neverfallingforit (@Neverfallingfo1) June 4, 2021
Ah yes how dare women be middle aged. Bitches. They should all drop dead at 25 because what possible use are they after that? Stupid old ugly dullards.… Read the rest
Some (necessarily cautious) reactions.
As this case is active I am posting this news report without comment other than to confirm I’m aware of the case & taking an interest as someone who is passionate about #CivilLiberties & #WomensRights. #WomenWontWheesht https://t.co/5vSSqHQ3yZ
— Joanna Cherry KC (@joannaccherry) June 4, 2021
If this is the case, can we all show @millar_marion extra support today. This is off the scale. Please share. Thanks https://t.co/MJZURFegee
— James Dreyfus (@DreyfusJames) June 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/LabWomenDec/status/1400513139553280003
… Read the rest.@policescotland didn’t charge people who have used this platform to call me racial slurs, threaten me with violence, or dox me. But now they’re charging Marion Millar, for…? What kind of justice is there for women using social media
Brunel University has suspended the threats guy.
University statement on threats posted on social media pic.twitter.com/VinX4SQ3Eq
— Brunel University London (@Bruneluni) June 4, 2021
Murderous threats are the kind of thing that should be referred to police.… Read the rest
Wild Woman Writing Club had a fine old rant and I’m just going to quote it instead of posting all the tweets.
https://twitter.com/wwwritingclub/status/1400563906708398098… Read the restto shoot women’s rights campaigners, and several more organisations have bailed out of the sinking Stonewall ship, and several more countries have rejected self-ID, and a think tank is calling women’s rights campaigners “feminazis,” and TRAs are still calling WRCs antisemites, and a ‘pro bono’ project is attempting to get a lesbian & gay group’s charitable status revoked. So much happening, with such speed. Change is gathering pace. It makes you wonder.
Why are so many people so seemingly desperate to make women shut up about the simple fact of human sexual dimorphism, and the simple fact
I’m already climbing the walls with rage over Scotland’s assault on women, and now there’s yet another load of poison from Stonewall.
Stonewall has advised organisations to replace the term mother with “parent who has given birth” to help boost their ranking on an equality leaderboard, The Telegraph can reveal.
That’s not “equality.” Pretending mothers don’t exist is not equality. Trying to erase women from childbirth is not equality. Trying to disappear women is not equality.
The controversial charity has advised employers wishing to be included on their Workplace Equality Index that they must remove all gendered language, and allow those who self-identify as a woman to use female toilets and changing rooms.
And “self-identify” means just “say.” … Read the rest
And in case we don’t have enough material yet…
Sooooo, thinking that bio sex is real and matters makes a woman…. Hitler in lipstick. I’m not kidding. This is seriously what this actual, real, genuine, not-fake think-tank claims (though they can’t spell inadvertently) https://t.co/7q2ZZmwsLa
— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) June 3, 2021
Say again?
Wo. Feminist women are…Hitler in heavy makeup.
Let’s see if Sophia Siddiqui’s writing is as malicious as that image.
The rigid biological notion that ‘a man is a man, a woman is a woman’, is central to how the far Right mobilises across Europe in order to enforce heterosexual norms.
Is it “rigid” and a “notion” though? Or is it just reality? Is it a “rigid biological … Read the rest
It’s now in the news. The Times:
A prominent feminist has been charged with a hate crime for alleged homophobic and transphobic social media posts.
Marion Millar, 50, from Airdrie, was charged under the Malicious Communications Act for tweets published in 2019 and 2020. If convicted she faces up to two years in prison.
The messages investigated by officers are understood to include a retweeted photograph of a bow of ribbons in the green, white and purple colours of the Suffragettes, tied around a tree outside the Glasgow studio where a BBC soap opera is shot.
Two years in prison for that?
Peak Stalinism.
… Read the restIt is one [of] at least six tweets reported to Police Scotland. The nature of
Guns identify as edgy jokes.
The joke wasn't in the best of taste and it wasn't something you have to publically agree with, but publically appologizing to transphobes and reporting a trans person to the bigoted police shows us that you're words of acceptance don't stand for anything.
— Brunel Marxist Society (@BrunelMarxist) June 3, 2021
Threatening people with guns isn’t “an edgy joke.”
A lavender ribbon isn’t a noose, and a gun isn’t an edgy joke.
Men are not women, and men who say they are women are not victims of women who don’t agree.… Read the rest
David Paisley tells Gay Ireland News & Entertainment what makes him so awesome:
… Read the restDavid Paisley is a Scottish actor and LGBTQ+ activist. He has had roles in Holby City and Casualty and currently plays Rory Murdoch in the BBC drama series, River City. He has also been fighting against the wave of transphobia that has crashed across the UK in recent years.
Just speaking out in support of trans people, even as a cis white man, has led to vicious online abuse, being targeted by a certain Father Ted writer and threats of legal action from an MP. He recently set up an organisation called the LGBT+ Glitterati to “create a positive voice of support for all members
Glinner on why they charged her:
https://twitter.com/millar_marion/status/1339695997929353217?s=20I’ve been reliably informed that the tweet for which she is being charged is this one. It’s a Suffragette ribbon.
Unbelievably, they’re claiming that this is meant to be a noose.
What does a noose actually look like?
See the differences?
One, there’s that thick heavy overlapping knot, that’s built to take a lot of weight. Two, there’s the direction: the noose is at the bottom, so that the weight of the body pulls the knot tighter and strangles the victim. Three, there’s the coarse thick rope, again built to take a lot of weight. A piece of lavender ribbon with a small pinned loop at the top is not a noose. … Read the rest
Speaking of “malicious communication” (not to mention threats) –
And this one pic.twitter.com/TG5twg39b6
— Susan “The Actual Susan” McDonnell (@sleeepysandy) June 3, 2021
We have referred the matter to the police and the outcome of their investigation will determine our next steps. [2/2]
— Brunel University London (@Bruneluni) June 3, 2021
Your statement appears to conflict with your actions, here you are seemingly supporting the threat of violence towards women (h/t @SinclairJM1987). Are females safe on your campus?#MVAWG#pride #WomenWontWheesht pic.twitter.com/gQrFX6Ug6v
— Dr EM (@PankhurstEM) June 3, 2021
Yeah whatever. TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.… Read the rest
Marion doesn’t “harass and intimidate” trans people. Also, she’s a woman, and thus at a physical disadvantage compared to men like India Willoughby. This claim of intimidation, from a man talking about a woman, is the usual gaslighting bullshit that’s so central to this evil berserk reverse-everything stupid ideology. … Read the rest
Meanwhile…
https://twitter.com/ladyduckpojok/status/1400461259812708358That’s perfectly all right yeah?… Read the rest
Horrible, enraging news:
Apologies for mistakes in original tweet.
Old thread follows:https://t.co/oqS05BtnEO— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) June 3, 2021
Charge is malicious communication with hate crime aggravator.
— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) June 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/Docstockk/status/1400422188281483272
The rage is like bubbling lava right now.… Read the rest
Oh go take a running jump. Women aren’t required to “balance” our rights with those of men.
Our CEO, Sam Smethers, reflects on the importance of empathy in order to balance the rights of both women and trans women in relation to the debate around sex and gender identity.
Trans women are men. Women get to focus on our own rights. Tell the men to have some empathy for us why don’t you.
… Read the restFor me, it’s about independent (evidence-based) thinking, clarity of voice and speaking truth to power. On the issue of sex, gender and identity I have refused to simply pick a side, although I am repeatedly told to, and instead maintain that this is complicated and
The “Good Law Project” fundraiser for their attack on the LGBA:
Charitable status is earned by those who serve the public good. Denigrating trans people, attacking those who speak for them, and campaigning to remove legal protections from them is the very opposite of a public good.
None of that is what the LGBA is doing. He’s not very scrupulous with his accusations, that fox-basher guy.
Whatever sweet nothings the so-called “LGB Alliance” whispered into the ear of the Charity Commission
That’s just rude, and kind of sexist. We’re meant to think the LGBA people are like prostitutes.
… Read the rest…the truth was set out in a speech by LGB Alliance director Bev Jackson on 9 March 2020. She described their real
Another Karen! Ok she’s not white and she’s not calling the manager but shut up, she is a Karen. She doesn’t do what male journalists tell her to do. Bitch.
Naomi Osaka, currently the highest-paid female athlete in the world, announced that she would withdraw from the French Open. She cited preservation of her mental health, the same explanation she’d provided earlier when she publicly declined to participate in tournament-related news conferences.
“Diva behavior,” declared the lead sportswriter of the Telegraph, following the news-conference revelation. “World sport’s most petulant little madam,” decreed Piers Morgan, taking a break from his bizarre Meghan Markle fixation to harass another young woman of color.
Karen. Karen Karen Karen Karen.
… Read the restSo from my limited, headline-osmosis
NPR is on the job! If you’re at a loss for how to pronoun, NPR is there to help!
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1400121652441145344Down pointing backhand index to you too, you lovely helpful advicey people.
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1400121311318401033We heard you the first time but ok I guess.
Shall we read their cute 101 guide? Oh let’s.
“Pronouns are basically how we identify ourselves apart from our name. It’s how someone refers to you in conversation,” says Mary Emily O’Hara, a communications officer at GLAAD.
No, pronouns are not how we identify ourselves apart from our name. Not basically or any other way.
… Read the restThis guide was created with help from GLAAD. We also referenced resources from the National Center for Transgender Equality, the
The blog that former president Donald Trump launched last month after he was banned from Twitter and Facebook is no more.
Jason Miller, a spokesman for Trump, said that “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” has been permanently shut down after all posts were scrubbed from Trump’s website.
Trump rolled out the blog last month after being absent from social media since January, but his effort to regain some of the attention he received with his headline-grabbing tweets largely failed. An adviser told The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey that the former president wanted to open a new “platform” and didn’t like that this platform was being mocked and had so few readers.
And the way … Read the rest
The Times reports on the Jolyon/Mermaids lawsuit:
Stonewall has backed transgender activists in a legal challenge to the charitable status of a rival campaign group that is accused of “denigrating trans people”.
I think it’s a little underhanded to call the LGB Alliance a “rival” group…as if Stonewall were some kind of obvious Rightful Owner and the LGBA a trespasser. Stonewall doesn’t own All Things NotStraight, and anyway it’s far more about the T these days.
… Read the restIn their objections to the Charity Commission’s decision, the groups argued that “charitable status is earned by those who serve the public good. Denigrating trans people, attacking those who speak for them, and campaigning to remove legal protections from them is the very
