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Rachel Rooney

@RooneyRachel

25 days

Previous poetry info & link to buy all books, including MBIM, on my old website ⬇️

rachelrooneypoet.com

Rachel Rooney - Children's poet.

www.rachelrooneypoet.com

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3 years

Dear @PhilipPullman , I was very disappointed to hear you describe me as a 'hateful voice'. Given that you don't know me, I thought I'd introduce myself. I am a trained teacher of special needs who has 30+ yrs experience with vulnerable, and sometimes very challenging children

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One was welcomed into a library for a children's event. One was refused entry to speak in a library about feminism. Make it make sense.

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2 years

@jk_rowling Over the decades I've worked with young women/girls requiring intimate care no males have EVER been allowed this access. This is not progress, it's a safeguarding nightmare.

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2 years

@The_Globe How about renaming yourselves The Flat Earth?

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2 years

@womensmarch No they're not. That's it. That's the other tweet.

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Rachel Rooney

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4 years

Tonight, 3 lads jumped the barriers at the train station. When asked not to by a female worker, one lad shouted back 'F**k off you cunt. Bitch' Couldn't help myself & bellowed 'Mind...Your...Language' in my best teacher voice. He squared up but I kept my gaze. He apologised. 👍

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Rachel Rooney

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4 months

Makes a change from blocking the natural & essential puberty of children, I guess.

Kate Osborne MP

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4 months

My new year’s resolution is to block terfs

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

I have remained polite throughout. You are welcome to trawl my (open)timeline to search for examples of hateful conduct.

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Rachel Rooney

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10 months

@PeterTatchell If he does NOT represent the community why was he leading the march & taking a prime spot behind a megaphone at the speeches? And why did the large crowd cheer?

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Dear publishing people, My Body is Me! was not published by a hate group but by someone who has just been awarded a British Empire Medal for SERVICES TO CHILDREN. Do keep up.

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1 year

National Autistic Society have finally removed its link to Mermaids now they're subject to a full statutory enquiry About time - we've been writing to them for years.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

@SpitfireAudio Christian is entirely right to be concerned about social and medical transitioning of autistic children. I speak as one with an autism dx, who's raised an asc son to adulthood, with training as a specialist teacher working with autistic youth. It is you that needs educating.

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Rachel Rooney

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4 years

The children's book industry is witnessing the most horrific onslaught of abuse towards a much-loved, measured, brave & generous woman author. The overwhelming silence from other authors, publishers, book organisations etc is disgraceful. You should all be ashamed of yourselves

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Rachel Rooney

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4 years

Due to sustained bullying received from within the children's publishing industry for speaking out on gender issues, I am withdrawing from public life as an author for the sake of my mental health. I still have 2 picture books & one poetry collection due which I'll promote here.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

I'm never going to forget who the fuckers were who destroyed my publishing career because I wrote My Body is Me! Nor those who stood by and watched it happen.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 months

I'm reporting @jk_rowling to the police for being a more successful children's author than I am. Everyday she reminds me, simply by being herself, that I'm not and never will be her. World Book Day is a particularly difficult one for me 😭

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Here is the full text of My Body is Me! All 284 (some repeating) words of it. Let me know if you have any issues with the message.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Since the Mermaids debacle in court I'm hopeful this book will become mainstream.

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Rachel Rooney

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4 years

@jk_rowling Hey JK - from a little author to a big one

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Today a taxi driver told me how his daughter, disaffected at school but who loves sports is now bunking off from her PE lessons bc she doesn't want to change in communal rooms or use 'gender-neutral' toilets. Parents stop off at a cafe toilet on way home from school ☹️

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

difficulties such things bring. Last year I wrote a very sweet picture book (have you read it?) which encourages very young ch. to love their young bodies. This book is incredibly inclusive & is as important for ch. with physical challenges as it is for those who may experience

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

A considered difference of opinion over treatment pathways, if you will. Given that nearly 40% of the children who are referred to GIDS show strong autistic traits, I feel that I am allowed to have an opinion on this issue. For my sins I have been openly bullied & my reputation

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

Jessica Ahlberg, whom I'm assuming you must tar with the same hateful brush. I get nothing from the sales of the book. I did not write it to further my career (ha!) or to earn money, I wrote it because I believe in a 'watchful waiting' rather than an 'affirmation' approach.

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3 years

in scenarios that you & most authors would probably not survive a day in. I have an exemplary record in schools in this, and as a visiting author. I have also got a late autism diagnosis & have raised an asc son to adulthood as a single parent of 3, with all the accompanying

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Rachel Rooney

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10 months

If I were a responsible children's author who'd attended a rally at which the key speaker called for violence against any specific group of people, I would be at pains to put out a public statement distancing myself from that behaviour & message. Just saying.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

everytime you see the word 'gender' replace it with 'sexist stereotype' & it all becomes a little clearer. 'sexist stereotype affirming' 'assigned sexist stereotype at birth' 'sexist stereotype journey' 'sexist stereotype non-conforming' 'sexist stereotype identity' etc

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2 years

@PoetintheCityUK @ToonLibraries @britishlibrary Couldn't you find a female composer?

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1 year

I've worked with children ever since I stopped being one - 42 years & counting. I've seen many pedagogical/child-rearing fads and approaches come & go. Nothing comes close to the current dangerous 'wrong body' propaganda peddled by teachers, parents & children's authors.

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

smeared by a handful of authors.Your friend CV even tried to curtail my already low income. Mostly these allegations were made from behind a block. I have never responded publicly to their claims about me, nor have I stooped low with claims as to their motives for doing so.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Gender identity is to Sex as astrology is to astronomy.

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

discrimination due to skin colour or for those who live in same-sex households. The book was published by @Transgendertrd an organisation reputable enough to give evidence in the recent Keira Bell case in the high court ( have you been following that?) I wrote the book with

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

@UN_Women You can't copy & paste womanhood. You can't copy & paste womanhood. You can't copy & paste womanhood. You can't copy & paste womanhood. You can't copy & paste womanhood. You can't copy & paste womanhood.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

When I get to 20k followers I'm going to celebrate with a thread of all the attacks I received within children's publishing for simply pointing out what we all now know to be true regarding the unethical treatment of vulnerable children.

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Rachel Rooney

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5 months

So. Farewell Then Eddie Izzard. Former comedian And current narcissist. Yes. It is time to hang up your detachable breasts. Some may pronounce it Be Right On But even Brighton thinks you've made a tit of yourself. E.J. Thribb

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@MailOnline Meanwhile, countless autistic, lesbian & vulnerable women & girls are waking up to the fact that they have undergone elective mastectomies bc they believed this bs.

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

@jk_rowling This targeted abuse must be called out so us lesser known authors don't suffer it too.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Who did it better? The picture book for toddlers that depicts an elective double mastectomy on the front cover or the one telling young children they are perfect as they are? One is celebrated, one villified. You choose.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Imagine running a literary agency & thinking that it's fine to remove a muslim woman author from the shortlisted image, circulate it & then boast about this on twitter. Grow up.

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Rachel Rooney

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After the industry bullying I received for publishing My Body is Me! I stopped writing. It just dried up & I haven't been able to write for 4 years. Recently, I had an idea for a rhyming picture book - a lighthearted one about magic words. Pleased, I sent the text to my agent

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Rachel Rooney

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This was my lowlight. The 'I guess' is chilling.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

I can't believe I'm STILL seeing children's authors support Mermaids. What the f**k does it take to make them see sense!

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Rachel Rooney

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1 year

Joanne Harris' response on Radio 4 seemed to be 'It's all very complicated'. From where I'm standing it is pretty simple. I wrote a book encouraging very young children to love their bodies. Joanne Harris, along with other SoA management committee members retweeted

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

A Facebook memory of a painting my son Milo did 10 years ago❤️

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Which message would you rather your 11-19 yr old daughter absorb through social media & in books? (Thanks to @moleatthedoor for the improved version)

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1 year

One of my nieces just got voted Person Most Likely To Get Cancelled in her end of school yearbook. (She defends @jk_rowling ) #proudauntie

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

In the 30+ years of working with disabled children, I've never once told them their bodies are wrong & I'm not about to start saying it to able-bodied children.

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Rachel Rooney

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I'm getting lots of private messages of support ( some from people in the industry) Apologies if I don't respond straight away. I'm trying to conserve my energies right now x

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

Fuck it. I'm coming out as non-binary. Buy my books.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

We're conducting a mass social experiment on children. We've an entire generation of 7 year olds who've been told, since birth, & by trusted adults, that their bodies MAY be innately 'wrong' & need fixing. It's not the win some think it is. I'll retweet this in 10 years.

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Rachel Rooney

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I've spent most of my adult life working with children, some of who are typically abled and others who have physical, sensory, neurological or medical differences & challenges. And guess what? Not one of them was 'born in the wrong body'. Not one.

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Rachel Rooney

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Remember when a clique of children's authors smeared my good name bc I published My Body is Me! with Transgender Trend? These people continue to have writing careers while supporting & fundraising for #Mermaids , an organisation with paedophile links & safeguarding red flags.

TransgenderTrend

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We've challenged Mermaids' claim to speak for trans-identifying children since 2015. We've gathered evidence, investigated & campaigned. We've said Mermaids isn't fit for purpose. Mermaids & those cheering them on must be held to account for their actions.

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Rachel Rooney

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Friend's son got a behaviour point for saying 'Goodbye, Sir.' to his 'non binary' bearded male teacher, when leaving the classroom. Apparently, he was supposed to use their first name. Seems a bit extreme to me.

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Rachel Rooney

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@jk_rowling Me:specialist sen trained with over 30 yrs teaching experience + personal/familial understanding of autism having similar concerns writes a picture book encouraging young children to celebrate themselves *as they are*. Them: bigot writes terrorist propaganda! Solidarity JKR x

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Rachel Rooney

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I've been going to Pride on & off since the mid 80's & I don't recall any of the top speakers there having a history of kidnap, torture & attempted murder while bearing a placard inciting death to a children's author. Maybe I just didn't look hard enough.

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Rachel Rooney

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1 year

I've just received the most heartening email from someone within the children's publishing industry. Anonymity protected because, well, you know...

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

@ex_vangelical @SchoolReading Can I ask why you liked this defamatory post? Have you read mine & JessicaAhlberg's book? Are you saying that we shouldn't send a message to 3-6 yr olds encouraging them to love themselves?

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Emotive framing of gender-critical authors as 'transphobes' is disingenuous & manipulative. Our warnings about the dangers of puberty blockers, the failures at Tavistock GIDS, the scandal of cavalier medicalisation of autistic youth are now recognised to be valid & ahead of time.

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Rachel Rooney

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The last few days have been awful for me since someone in publishing quote tweeted something I'd written & claimed they were the subject of it. ( Not that any of my followers had a clue who it was & the person getting no backlash!) This has resulted in 100's of their chums

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3 years

Yesterday I was sent a long email from a primary school teacher. She's happy for me to share it here. I suspect there are many stories similar to this one out there.

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Rachel Rooney

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As a student I worked night shifts in a hostel for women on probation & parole. The manger told me that every woman resident was there as a consequence of male abuse, coercion & control. #KeepPrisonsSingleSex

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Rachel Rooney

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@blablafishcakes 'Are children really more emotional and irrational than adults?' If you've never had to exactly align the panda picture with the spout of the sippy cup for fear of a 3 hr meltdown then I guess not.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Hey, @Autism I think you need to update your links on your website. Why are you signposting autistic youth to #Mermaids in the light of the safeguarding scandal that is unfolding? We have been warning you about them for years.

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4 years

I think I might be in love with JK Rowling. Which is kinda weird 'cos I'm straight & I've never read Harry Potter 😂

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3 years

Is there a children’s author, educationalist or librarian on Twitter who is outraged that a library felt this was appropriate entertainment for children when promoting #SummerReadingChallenge ? Just me then?

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Thank-you JKR for noticing & speaking up about the negative targeting that I (and other gender-critical authors) have received within publishing.

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@KatharineQ JK's position is always used against her as some kind of gotcha. And yet this was the chair's response to me - knowing full well what was happening to me ( a member) I was blocked after this.

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Rachel Rooney

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5 months

Children's publishing has created a world where an established publisher can produce a kids book depicting an adult male with self-harm scars identifying as a girl yet will demonise an indie picture book & its author for telling young kids they're fine as they are. Shame on you.

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**New** "This is a dangerous book. It introduces confusion to children where none was necessary." A child clinical psychologist reviews The Gender Book, a picture book for 5 -12 year-olds.

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A is for Autists. A number of these thought that transition would fix their unease. B is for Bullshit. The lies that were spread to mess with the body and fuck with the head. C is for Cis. It's Latin you know! A quick way of telling if someone is slow.

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

What aspect of 'heterosexual males sexually harassing women who aren't interested in them' do you not understand?

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Rachel Rooney

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@SocialCareWales Try this book for 3-6 year olds. It celebrates every child, what their bodies can do for them & busts sexist gender stereotypes. It incidentally features same-sex parents. Available from @MyBodyIsMeBooks

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I, at 60, have no concept of what it 'feels like to be a woman'. So how can a 5 yr old boy make life-changing decisions to go down that pathway when they have difficulty identifying & naming basic feelings such as anger, jealousy, anxiety etc. Social transitioning is wrong.

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Rachel Rooney

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7 months

What are little girls made of? Dresses and bows and goodness knows. What are little boys made of? Shirts and ties and stereotyped lies. 🤡🤡🤡

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Peter Tatchell insists that we all have a gender identity, dictated by our clothes. The audience member shouting out "rubbish" at the end is just glorious.

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When I began to speak out about gender ideology & the harmful indoctrination of children I was firmly told by someone who had power over my publishing career to keep quiet bc 'there's a lot of money behind it in publishing'. Behind it. Not in it. 🤔

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Seeing as Ricky Gervais is trending, here he is with my sister in law being 'gender fluid' back in the day.

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4 months

A man who says he is a woman, a woman who says she isn't a woman and a woman who knows what a woman is walk into an Employment Tribunal...

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2 years

4 generations. My mother is the baby.

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Rachel Rooney

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11 months

Gay representation in picture books for young children. How it started. How it's going.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Today, as @jk_rowling is trending, i have just finished my last workshop for children. I’m contemplating my future life outside of a publishing career. My first task will be to set down in writing, in no uncertain terms, the full reasons why I have come to this decision. ✍️💪👋

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Rachel Rooney

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Why are adults encouraging boys & girls to reject their biological sex & what are the consequences? Why are we saying there's a right way ( any way!) to 'feel like a boy/girl' & how might a child interpret that? Why are we creating artificial boxes to put children in?

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

How many light bulbs moments does it take to change a Mermaids supporter?

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

@MForstater It would help if National Autistic Society didn't link to Mermaids on their website.

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Rachel Rooney

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4 years

Just heard today that my eldest son & his flatmates are taking in a mother & son who are escaping domestic violence 💚💚

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Rachel Rooney

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9 months

As someone who has had their career destroyed for speaking out on this, I've nothing to left to lose. I fully intend to continue challenging & highlighting the teachers, publishers, authors & literacy agencies who promote the 'wrong body' message to children. Get used to it.

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

Proud to be one of JKR's 14 million followers. And proud to be followed by her. That is all.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Hello to my new followers 👋 I'm a children's author & teacher who has raised concerns around teaching of gender ideology & the treatment pathways for children with dysphoria. My thoughts on this align with those of Dr David Bell speaking here...

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The Tavistock gender identity clinic “experimented” on vulnerable children It should rightly be viewed as a catastrophic failure.

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Rachel Rooney

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4 years

Today, as a teacher & as children's author, I feel heard & vindicated🙂 .

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Imagine a picture book that tells 3-6 yr olds they can choose to be a boy or a girl - or indeed neither/ both. This isn't progressive - it's gaslighting & destabilising for children.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Yesterday, as I was listening to a gender activist shout at me, I was accused of 'nodding like a man' - like it was some kind of gotcha. So odd. How does a man nod? What was the point he was trying to make?

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Rachel Rooney

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4 years

I've got a horrid feeling that when lockdown ends, I'm going to be like one of those soldiers still hiding in the jungle 20 yrs after the war.

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Rachel Rooney

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28 days

Remember those authors who signed a letter stating puberty blockers were harmless? Recall the mid-grade book which recently won shedloads of industry awards telling kids that puberty blockers were a viable option to stop you going through the 'wrong puberty'? I do.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

@PhilipPullman The MAN in the photo was intimidating women. To pretend otherwise is plain dishonest.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

Another children's publishing big hitter 'comes out' as they/them complete with candy coloured profile, flag and cheers. Call me cynical but the inclusion of another hetero adult male into the alphabet community will do nothing for gay rights or for genuinely dysphoric children.

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Rachel Rooney

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4 years

No child is born in the wrong body. There's no such thing as innate gender identity. There are only 2 sexes. Women and girls are entitled to single-sex spaces. Autistic & gay youth, particularly girls are being damaged by gender ideology. This is my considered opinion.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

@PhilipPullman @RabbiZvi @AmandaPCraig Ah, but do you despise men who turn up at a peaceful women's meeting to harass & intimidate?

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

Can anyone in publishing/education tell me why one would put an illustration of a young adult with an elective double mastectomy on a picture book for 5 yr olds? Is this appropriate for a book that purports to promote body positivity to very young children, particularly girls?

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Rachel Rooney

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4 years

It's #GenderWooWoo day. Here's a slide Mermaids use in their training to try to convince parents & teachers that a child may need their services. Stop trying to offer simplistic (dangerous) solutions to complex, vulnerable, developing children's needs.

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Rachel Rooney

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3 years

Happy Father's Day to all the single mothers out there who stepped up when they stepped down 💐

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

I've gained around 1000 followers since people became aware of recent events. Most seem to be book readers who are interested in children & education. This should send a strong message to the publishing world.

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Rachel Rooney

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2 years

It's a loss for me - & dare I say it, a loss for children's poetry too. On the plus side, there's a certain liberation to be had :) Fingers crossed my supporters keep buying my books & my lurkers actually read the gender/ sex articles I post here.

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