The children who survived in the Columbian jungle for 40 days? One was 11 months ! The older ones must have been brilliant. It's all just incredible isn't it?
Sad thing about Izzard is that women of my generation adored him as a funny Gender Non Comforming bloke. V def a bloke in whatever clothes he wore. Now we feel disrespected cos he says those clothes magically make him something no 60 year old can ever be : a girl.
"Gender-neutral Brit awards nominate all men for 2023’s best artist"
That is what gender-neutral actually means. Knock your immensely dull ,fluid selves out ,you radicals.
Are all the music writers too cowardly to say something about cancelling a woman for having doubts about puberty blockers? NHS and most of Europe have backed off from their use.
Does the entire music industry speak with one voice on this?
I hear Owen Jones is denying he bullies.I first complained to Kath Viner about his bullying in 2018 and said I wanted to take out a grievance procedure.
She said I couldn't as I was not staff. I have the receipts. In the scheme of things this is small fry. I just cant stand lies.
I really hope all you fools who think biology is something you can opt out of , that womanhood is a mere identity, that mothers are just birthing people understand what happens when you stop fighting for women's rights.
Anyone who wondered what that insane 33 tweet thread about not him not being a bully by
@owenjones84
and calling me a liar was really about...here we are.
I am not a liar.
Do RT.
So hard to take sides isn’t it? A woman who castrates her gay son for his 16th bday? Good or bad? Again everything about Susie Green and Mermaids has been known for years. What a sad and appalling and utterly homophobic business this is .
During tribunal Kate Harris co founder of LGBA reduced to tears“I’m going to speak for millions of lesbians around the world who are lesbians because we love other women We will not be erased and we will not have any man with a penis tell us he’s a lesbian because he feels he is”
This is the end of my column that caused THAT letter that meant I left The Guardian.
' Male violence is an issue for women, which is why we want single-sex spaces. Vulnerable women in refuges and prisons must be allowed to live in safe environments '
If you haven't condemned the death threats to Rowling and many other women in the last few years, I don't really care for your ill-informed opinions on Rushdie.
I send love to all of Rushdie's friends and family and those who have supported him all the way.
I don't believe Sturgeon cares about women. Or trans people. She cares about having a showdown with Westminster and she may well get one who may not recognise this legislation. What a terrible and cynical move this is.
Nice Labour woman just knocked on my door. Had no answers at all when I explained why I would not vote for a party that does not know what a woman is.
I felt sorry for her. None of them seem at all prepared or have any way to deal with this basic question.
Those asking me to denounce particular women. No I will not do it. I am against all violence against ALL women. I don't need to agree with anyone 100% to think they should not be threatened. Is that clear enough for you?
If you ever wondered how the Stasi operated look at the madness in Scotland. You can lose your job for liking tweets and be shopped by co-workers. You adhere to central committee ideology or else...who wants to live in that world?
On this platform however 99% of people who have never looked at Mumsnet are slagging it off because its users dared asked MPs if they think biology is real and these MPs dare not answer that question .
What a ludicrous situation.
So that JK Rowling tweet flushed out a load of pompous men and TRAs who think misgendering is a far worse crime than rape. It's good to know what these people's priorities are.
'How did we arrive at a situation where there are shocking and rising numbers of teenage girls presenting at specialist clinics with gender dysphoria, while some who have transitioned are now regretful and infertile?'
I wrote this in Guardian Mar 2020. That went well...
Excuse me if I gag at ex-GuardIan colleagues writing their pro 'freedom of expression' pieces.
Where the fuck have you been?
You have watched the witch hunts and back stabbing and the omissions in reporting and done what? WHAT?
Lily-livered bougie quislings who live for clicks
Please can someone explain to me why calling a deluded man who has committed murder she/a woman is moral, progressive and helpful to anyone? I cannot see how it helps even what it pretends to help. Does this further 'trans rights'? If so, how?
Can the people pointing out that there are poor people in the world and therefore no one should go to a restaurant just maybe get off twitter and do something about it and leave me alone.
The world is full of pain. And sometimes joy .And if you don't know that I can't help you.
It is striking to me that many people remain uninformed on the so called 'gender wars' because they get their news from The Guardian and the BBC. You are not being told the whole story or even half the story.
World Athletics has decided to exclude transgender women who have gone through male puberty from female events. The body's president, Lord Coe, said "decisive action" had been taken to "protect the female category in our sport"
Finally.Brilliant
@sharrond62
for your campaigning
Last thing on boring Owen Jones and his entourage.I am not bound by the social media guidelines of The Guardian that managing ed brought in to stop his rampages. Former colleagues are.
I will say what I like
He is a bully
The management is complicit in this cowardice
Shameful
Meanwhile this is what people call "progressive".
Some of us have been trying to tell those fully signed up to this that you need to think about what you are supporting. Does this help trans people? Really?
How so many have fallen for this made up concept of gender identity, have no idea of safe guarding, refused to accept that women have boundaries is still astonishing
Watch them make their excuses but we won't forget those who thought putting women and children last was radical
What this Mermaids/LGBA tribunal is highlighting is that there is no room for plurality of belief. At all. Mermaids worldview is absolutely totalitarian.
Can some of you guys who write about politics and are considered "names" fucking get off the fence.
You are watching lefty/gay/refugee women being intimidated in Manc for discussing single sex provision ie the existing law. And yet you stay silent?
For shame.
The questions that none of these people answer:What is gender identity ? Who invented it? How is it different from regressive gender stereotypes? Does everyone have one? At what age does this feeling become reality? How does that happen? What if you dont believe in this concept?
The Guardian still failing to report why the Tavistock is being closed. Cass is clear that a different model is needed as well as more evidence on puberty blockers. FFS reporters should at least report even if you stop your columnists doing "wrong think"
Never will forget how
@HadleyFreeman
supported me at The Guardian while certain others of the great and good put their heads down For them to lose a writer of such terrific style and range is v stupid of them. But they are backing themselves into a corner A real prize for the ST
'The truth is that the left has fucked up monumentally on gender identity ideology and until it owns the mistake, it will continue to hand the right valid talking points.' Yes. I have no trust inThe Guardian/Labour /Left. They are rowing back but how did they let all that
This comment by
@billybragg
perfectly sums up what left wing women have taken from left wing men over the last few years. The problem isn’t whether Julie Bindel and I are correct on the issues, but that certain right-wingers agree with us.
If you’ve spent any time at all on the
Every day on here women give examples of abuse and threats from Trans Right Activists. We show you images and videos and yet this is never condemned by those who could stop it. Not Starmer, not the hard left kids who chant the mantras, not the Unions, not most MPs.
Enablers all.
Stop rewriting history . Toxicity on both sides? Women like me have had death and rape threats to us and our kids for years .They sure as hell were not coming from gender critical feminists.
I am not cis. I do not have a gender identity. My sex was not assigned at birth. You can believe this patent nonsense but some of us are actually woke.
One thing achieved today. Left the Greens
'I want nothing to do with a party that does not understand biology or understand that feminism is intrinsic to sorting out the climate emergency.
Have sent several emails explaining this But I suppose I am a non-man so you don't care'
Am sure J.K Rowling is now rethinking her entire career. From now on she will only write about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens. After all up to now, no one has wanted to read her have they?
If you cannot condemn Hamas, understand their backing from Iran when we know how they treat women.The Taliban supporting them, then please don't follow me.
When people show you who they are, believe them. I am horrified by comments here and yes I have been to Gaza etc.
Every time I look at this place I am deeply shocked by the overtly anti-Semitic tweets and refusal to believe what Hamas is and what it does. Solidarity with those who do know and those everywhere who are suffering.
Women may believe in biological sex and not lose their jobs over it.
If you live in The Guardian/BBC/Stonewalled bubble , you may not know this but the law continues to establish this. At some point every one will have to catch up and report this reality.
God some of these people are thick. Marx was a materialist. When I left the Guardian I described my view as materialism. Marx said ‘social being determines consciousness’. Engels also says ideas don’t determine reality. This is why gender ideology is inherently right wing.
Sturgeon is in trouble. I believed in an independent and progressive Scotland. But that is not my shout.
Now I just see authoritarian ,despotic and corrupt behaviour. Desperate stuff.
Women betrayed and for what? For what?
Things change gradually then suddenly.
Cass. Holland rejects Self ID. Stonewall seen to be publicly feeding misinformation to MPs. Mermaids heavily impacted in this scandal. The wheels are coming off the bus.
We need more "problematic" and "troublesome" women. Anyone who says otherwise is just not paying attention. These brain dead puritans just want to make more and more rules. For women. What miserable lives they must lead, correcting each other the entire time
#IStandWithJKRowling
If I was editor of a liberal newspaper I would really be asking myself why women cannot write about women's rights in it . And then I would wonder how I got like this ....
What I would ask Caroline Lucas is why did the Greens become science denialists and embrace a bonkers ideology that turned away many of its best activists? For what?
This. Spare me the podcasters , the reasonable men, the both sides cowards. You watched as people like me had to shield our kids from rape threats. You still never answered the basic question "What is gender identity beyond the expression of regressive stereotypes?"
Spare me the men who ignored the women losing their jobs, sporting careers, the death threats, the isolation, the abuse, the physical violence, NOW rocking up with pompous views about JKR being “a bully”.
You tolerated quite a lot of hardcore bullying up to now, pal. 🤔
Frabjous day! The Guardian have asked me back to take over OJs column and also do a bit of music crit. Its not quite the apology I wanted but its some kind of progress right?
The whole Bragg convo just shows how the so-called left casts women talking of their rights as somehow inherently right-wing. The trans 'debate' has really seen all the misogyny of the left surface. It has been so damaging. There is so much work to be done.
🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉
Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.
In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their
Outside this X bubble it is important to know you cannot bully women out of jobs because we believe in material reality. Case by case this is being shown. This is not a right wing culture war and dumb lefty guys ought to get real. Women, often gay, are being persecuted. Wake up!
I just want to say I used to go see Izzard, a wonderful brilliant comic. I did Start the Week with him when he started talking about being a transvestite and his childhood loss. I thought him brave and cool and no issue. What happened? Ego and this pretence of actual womanhood?
Self ID off the table for Labour. As it should be. This was not achieved by the Labour Party I am afraid but many women outside it who would not shut up. Just don't tell Guardian America or Guardian Australia as they will have to do more letters.
We are back here:The tweet Twitter doesn't let you like anymore
'Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?'
So was it "transphobic" to worry about the medicalisation and sterilising of gay and often autistic kids?
The dominos are falling. The silence is broken. The lies are being held up ..
Don't answer this with mantras.
Understand what has been supported and who has been harmed.
The Left is lost. No safe guarding/moral compass. Novara Media telling kids how to get off script puberty blockers. The Guardian not reporting what is actually happening? Ultra-capitalism sells babies, bodies, surgery.
I will stop. I actually want to write about Morris dancing .
How dare a self-made woman choose how her to spend her own money? Where will this madness lead? Imagine. Women will be demanding the vote next. Oh its 2024...
New baby grand daughter born last night. Haven't seen her yet.
The everyday miracle of a new person coming into the world though...
So just happy, happy, happy. Which is not a very Twitter thing at all these days but really its lovely.
X
its hilarious watching the Guardian music critics who are fully behind this kinda thing have to deal with the consequences of it. They called me transphobic simply because I dont want the erasure of women, womens language or womens spaces This is entirely what they have enabled.
@simonjedge
@theJeremyVine
I think you have enough intelligence and information Jeremy to work it out. Whether you have the guts to do so is another question.
Every single day women contact me saying they are scared to speak out as they may lose their jobs.
I understand that of course and it doesn't happen to our male allies BUT the tide is turning.
Use your voice now. Women and girls matter.
We matter.
Everyone worth reading in The Guardian is subtweeting the rancid Owen Jones. But did you all really need to hide behind a Gaby Hinsliff column explaining rape is bad? Even when done to Jewish women?
Stunningly obvious that 'lived experience' matters. Many women here are talking about babies/breastfeeding and how difficult it can be.
Then a load of ideologues telling us that men can breastfeed who clearly have never done it or ever looked after a baby? Latch on.
To reality.
And if anyone thinks I am implying that the Guardian 'management' takes the position it does on what it declares the 'non-existent culture war' on trans/womens' rights because of profit rather than principle. Don't worry I am not implying it, I am saying it.
Bragg, Ronson ,O'Brien, Vine, Jones et al. All the guys who tell us that culture war does not exist and happily ignore the rights of women, the evidence piles up in front of you . From many directions now.
Wake up.