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Emily Bridges on ITV: “Why didn’t JKR spend her money on women’s rights?”

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SidewaysOtter · 23/04/2025 22:11

https://x.com/ffswhatnow/status/1915102795461480758?s=61&t=Og74NL350OdVbEJ3Se9Iw

Why didn’t JKR spend her money on rape centres, women’s rights and abortion rights?

Because a) she already does, b) she already does and c) we already have those.

But thanks for popping along to mansplain it all to her, and us. Much obliged, I’m sure Hmm

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GargoylesofBeelzebub · 25/04/2025 06:49

I thought "Emily" was kicked out of women's sport long before the supreme courts ruling?

SinnerBoy · 25/04/2025 03:49

I meant potless, not spotless!

SternJoyousBee · 24/04/2025 19:44

Ohyoudodoyou · 24/04/2025 09:58

Well that’s very interesting. Wish him well, that is a very difficult surgery for a young person to have and lifetime implications.

And still won’t make him a woman.

I hope it doesn’t cause him to many medical issues in the future but there is nothing he can do to become a woman no matter how much he twiddles his plaits.

Waitwhat23 · 24/04/2025 19:07

To be honest, I think it's more likely that no-one said no to him as a child. Over indulged and over insulated by all.

puffyisgood · 24/04/2025 19:02

murasaki · 24/04/2025 19:01

Not unlike Susie Green

not many are quite in that league but, yes, quite.

murasaki · 24/04/2025 19:01

Not unlike Susie Green

puffyisgood · 24/04/2025 19:00

Waitwhat23 · 24/04/2025 18:51

He really was never told no as a child, wasn't he?

I'm sorry to say so on Mumsnet, but in the cases it's exceptionally common for the mothers to be culpable in very large part. Mama Bridges shows to me mind many signs of being a seriously misguided individual.

Waitwhat23 · 24/04/2025 18:51

He really was never told no as a child, wasn't he?

puffyisgood · 24/04/2025 18:49

SabrinaThwaite · 24/04/2025 14:22

Dropped in 2020 I think.

Not sure when the muscling in on women’s events started, but probably not long after that.

www.skysports.com/amp/more-sports/cycling/news/15264/12101251/emily-bridges-coming-out-as-trans-in-cycling-is-a-crucial-step-on-my-journey

according to this, Emz was cut from the men's setup in mid August 2020 (not yet medicalised in any way), and looking to make it as a "trans athlete" no later than 12 October 2020, by then (call it 8 weeks max later) already certain that synthetic hormones had a profound enough on Emz's own performance (not trans performance in general) to make Emz's participation in the female category fair.

https://www.skysports.com/amp/more-sports/cycling/news/15264/12101251/emily-bridges-coming-out-as-trans-in-cycling-is-a-crucial-step-on-my-journey

Emily Bridges: Coming out as trans in cycling is a crucial step on my journey

The intense Great Britain academy programme produces future Olympians - but for one of cyclings rising stars who was excelling in mens track, gender dysphoria was the greatest challenge. On Coming Out Day, Emily Bridges explains how her life has taken...

https://www.skysports.com/amp/more-sports/cycling/news/15264/12101251/emily-bridges-coming-out-as-trans-in-cycling-is-a-crucial-step-on-my-journey

MrsKeats · 24/04/2025 18:32

She did though??

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 24/04/2025 17:21

@Mollyollydolly IMO he's a dangerous man in a powerful position. I think the other staff suck up to him.

Probably through fear of being sacked and/or cancelled.

Mollyollydolly · 24/04/2025 17:18

Paul Brand, head of ITV News is a massive TRA. Also see any reports he does on surrogacy or assisted dying. He finds it impossible to be impartial. I'm waiting for Malcolm on X to do one of his mega threads on him. IMO he's a dangerous man in a powerful position. I think the other staff suck up to him.

WallaceinAnderland · 24/04/2025 15:54

ErrolTheDragon · 24/04/2025 00:04

I’m not on x - what are the comments like so far?

They are hilarious

"That's Charles Hawtrey" 😂

I'm now thinking Miss Ire would make a great drag name.

SabrinaThwaite · 24/04/2025 14:22

puffyisgood · 24/04/2025 13:11

my limited understanding is that the previous incarnation of Emily was a really good cyclist, was in the male GB setup for a while, & was cut for reasons that included an injury. the decision to try and qualify as female followed really hot on the heels of this cutting, weeks or at most months later.

Dropped in 2020 I think.

Not sure when the muscling in on women’s events started, but probably not long after that.

www.skysports.com/amp/more-sports/cycling/news/15264/12101251/emily-bridges-coming-out-as-trans-in-cycling-is-a-crucial-step-on-my-journey

puffyisgood · 24/04/2025 13:11

SabrinaThwaite · 24/04/2025 09:59

Bridges was a Junior GB team member and broke a national 25 mile time trial record.

Injury meant he was dropped by Team GB.

my limited understanding is that the previous incarnation of Emily was a really good cyclist, was in the male GB setup for a while, & was cut for reasons that included an injury. the decision to try and qualify as female followed really hot on the heels of this cutting, weeks or at most months later.

SinnerBoy · 24/04/2025 12:22

I agree, but I doubt that either is likely to sue him, what with him being spotless. And probably insane.

Datun · 24/04/2025 11:48

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 24/04/2025 10:17

Jonathan India Willoughby put a post up on X the other day with I think 5 different claims, one of which was that the location of where the judge who delivered the ruling lives and that it's next door to JKR, who is secretly his BFF.

JK's response was calm and swift, stating that she had never lived in x place, never met the judge and beautifully refuted all his other lies points too.

She's a far classier woman than me, from whom he'd have got more of a FTFO reply.

I can't help thinking, and this is just a hunch, that defaming a billionaire and a Supreme Court judge in the same sentence is probably not the smartest idea

JellySaurus · 24/04/2025 11:38

In another 10 years TWs will be complaining about how unfair ageism is to them.

Naaa, they'll just identify as transage.

needmoresheep · 24/04/2025 11:26

SidewaysOtter · 24/04/2025 10:47

Love the phrase "waffle-by" Grin

Would this be the good prof who was on TwiX yesterday suggesting that women's rights campaigners (or "grifters", apparently) were "older women whose relevance had disappeared"?

The internalised misogyny is real.

Misogyny and ageism.

In another 10 years TWs will be complaining about how unfair ageism is to them.

Columbidae · 24/04/2025 11:26

SabrinaThwaite · 24/04/2025 11:17

This photo is a classic.

Yep, look at the size of him. The woman is wearing heels as well.

And the picture of him as one of two TW on the podium upthread.

needmoresheep · 24/04/2025 11:23

And India Willioughby uses the offensive term cis-women. IRL that term is only really used by TRAs.

SabrinaThwaite · 24/04/2025 11:17

Columbidae · 24/04/2025 10:45

From my recollection, EB was considered a rising star in men's cycling.

Whenever I hear about EB I recall a twitter post, which I think was made by Jean Hatchet. It was a set of photos highlighting how the media deliberately manipulated the public perception of TW athletes.

In interviews and photos EB was presented as vulnerable and feminine. He was never deliberately shown standing next to women. He was pictured showing only the upper body or face and at favourable angles. And then there were photos showing the truth of how massive and male EB is in real life. It really showed you how little you could trust what you were seeing.

This photo is a classic.

Emily Bridges on ITV: “Why didn’t JKR spend her money on women’s rights?”
SidewaysOtter · 24/04/2025 10:47

ItisntOver · 24/04/2025 09:37

Remember the Whittle waffle-bys?

The RMW interventions (mostly seem to be oblique and delivered through the mechanism of MN moderator deletions).

I still don’t know if I’m disappointed that we’ve never been scolded on site, so to speak, by Lia Thomas’ relatives or Harriet Hayes’.

Love the phrase "waffle-by" Grin

Would this be the good prof who was on TwiX yesterday suggesting that women's rights campaigners (or "grifters", apparently) were "older women whose relevance had disappeared"?

The internalised misogyny is real.

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Columbidae · 24/04/2025 10:45

From my recollection, EB was considered a rising star in men's cycling.

Whenever I hear about EB I recall a twitter post, which I think was made by Jean Hatchet. It was a set of photos highlighting how the media deliberately manipulated the public perception of TW athletes.

In interviews and photos EB was presented as vulnerable and feminine. He was never deliberately shown standing next to women. He was pictured showing only the upper body or face and at favourable angles. And then there were photos showing the truth of how massive and male EB is in real life. It really showed you how little you could trust what you were seeing.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 24/04/2025 10:45

And again.

Emily Bridges on ITV: “Why didn’t JKR spend her money on women’s rights?”