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

[Woman2023]

I just want to thank all these women for speaking out for women despite the obstacles put in their place. It's getting easier for the rest of us now.

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.

There are so many ❤️❤️❤️

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

@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.

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

Tomia Antoniazzi Welsh MP

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