Thank you: JK Rowling, Kathleen Stock, Kellie Jay Keen, Jo Phoenix and many more

Was thinking about the TERF BAR and remembered this:

LAST ORDERS

Women, fair women,
sit yourselves down,
it’s the Mumsnet terven,
where your sorrows you drown.

You’ve stickered and ribboned
all over town,
now let’s get plastered,
and dispense with the frown.

Boiledbeetle 21st September 2023

Tomia Antoniazzi Welsh MP

Personally grateful to Rebecca Reilly-Cooper for deconstructing it all at a philosophical level in this essay. Written back in 2016.

https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-that-gender-is-a-spectrum-is-a-new-gender-prison

@EdithStourton 'No, thank you' when the interviewer tried pushing her to make statements she wasn't comfortable making.

That was the women's tokyo olympic weightlifting winners press conference after Lauren Hubbard lost

relatable moment for many women I think.

I'd just come on to add her and also another baroness, Anne Jenkin - out and proud GC, who works closely with Rosie Duffield and Joanna Cherry.

Also that American sportswoman, can't remember either her name or the sport, who first came out with 'No, thank you' when the interviewer tried pushing her to make statements she wasn't comfortable making.

Also 'Cubana Angel' who made the Wi Spa complaint and was absolutely vilified for it, including for being - shock horror, how very dare she - a Christian.

Let's not forget Sal Groves who is in court soon fighting for the right to say 'no' to a man.

Yes. I remember every time there was a Q&A with a politician MN banned questions about gender ideology, but questions about biscuits were encouraged.
So many intelligent, educated women chucked off MN, then the FWR board divided into the naughty corner and the one where the subject couldn't be mentioned.
Thank goodness for courageous women and men.

33% of LGB Alliance membership is gay men, there's also the gay men's network and a growing frustration at the gay dating sites which by including transmen and the men who want to sleep with them (but not the boring old fashioned kind of gay men) become actually quite hostile places for homosexual men.

That one of those gay men could own/run a bar doesn't seem an implausible claim.

Baroness Nicholson, and the sensible members of HoL who made their voices heard and came down strongly on the side of common sense and women’s rights.

Never felt so strongly that we need to keep a second chamber.

There are so many ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you from me, am so grateful for their bravery but horrified they had to sacrifice so much in 2020 something for stating that biological sex is a fact.

Thank you Emma Bateman, Dawn Furness, Shahrar Ali, Tina Rothery, Helen Steel, Jenny Jones, and all in Green Party Women.

Thank you to the Labour Women's Declaration, Liberal Voice for Women, Conservatives For Women.

The resistance is far behind here in Oz and most of us are keeping a low profile. But we are finding each other, talking, building networks, and doing what we can within our own spheres of influence.

Those who have stuck their heads about the parapets: Katherine Deves, Moira Deeming, and Claire Chandler.

Would love a TERF bar! Or just the right to meet publicly to be honest...

@CorruptedCauldron he has been at it more from a freedom of speech angle, but I remember the first time I saw this video the sense of relief I felt that someone I thought was a clear thinker hadn't bottled the basic step of thinking people expressing biological reality,and basic safeguarding, shouldn't be called bigots. It was a bit bleak at the time, there had been what felt like a few false dawns of push back,so getting a laugh at the same time as reassurance was good. And he's great live,for the record 👍

Seconded.

Thanks to all the women who have put their heads above the parapet at great personal and professional risk so that other women don’t have to. And thanks to the male allies too. Jonathan Pie / Tom Walker was mentioned upthread, I didn’t know he had ever waded in?

Just wanted to share a YouTube video from Magdalen Berns for anyone who may not have come across her before. She had razor-sharp intelligence and spotted the dangers of genderist ideology long before most people had any idea what was going on.

The mumsnet team, the kiwi farmers, and X

Seconded, both.

From 'cool as fuck' Auntie Jo Phoenix's substack (I don't know why the text is so large, sorry).

All the Black women on Lipstick Alley's Feminist Forum.

Genevieve Gluck. That woman likely has PTSD from the kind of journalism digging she does, she must have platinum status frequent flier miles for how many times she has to fly into Malaga Airport.

Thank you to Mandy Rhodes.
Thank you Susan Dalgety.

Indeed. So young and so eloquent, she should have a bright future.

Also another man but there are a few on here - Ricky Gervais for bringing the laughable ridiculousness of it all to a wider audience.

Can I add to the long list Edie Wyatt and Kit Kowalski in Australia who do a weekly podcast which goes in depth on fascinating topics from an analytical feminist liberal angle, but never get anywhere near the reach that others get. Latest edition on You Tube below:

Also another shout out to Isla Mac who teams up with with Robbie Travers, an old uni buddy of the late Magdalen Burns [who was instrumental in calling out this nonsense], who spends time going through proposals in great depth to help formulate your thinking. Latest issue, the Schools Guidance is below: