Sarah,

As it may have been a while, a quick primer

SHE IS A WOMAN HER SEX IS FEMALE

HE IS A MAN HIS SEX IS MALE

😉

Good luck Sarah! It's time.

You have my unbridled support. I do this in real life. It’s madness that it’s even controversial to call a male “he”.

The Scottish rapist is my argument. I will never call him “she”. So why should I call any other male “she”? The only reason would be to make a judgement call on someone’s character. A “nice” male gets “she”, a borderline male gets “they” and a bad male gets “he”? Why bother? It’s probably transphobic to judge trans people like this and hell will freeze over before I call a rapist “he” so the whole idea can just get in the bin.

Incidentally I looked at the Guardian to see if they were reporting the Scottish rapist. The first article had “she”. The second didn’t. I think Libby Brooks has peaked🤣🤣.

Here she is, in their Law section:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/26/trans-woman-isla-bryson-found-guilty-rape-not-be-held-in-womens-prison-sturgeon

Isla Bryson, a transgender woman found guilty of raping two women before transitioning, has been moved from Scotland’s all-female Cornton Vale prison to a male facility after an intervention by Nicola Sturgeon.

The first minister told MSPs earlier on Thursday that Bryson would not be incarcerated in the women’s prison “either short term or long term”, after a report saying the offender had been transferred there on Tuesday prior to sentencing prompted outrage across the political and campaigning spectrum.

😍GO SARAH! WOMEN WILL NOT BE SILENCED OR CALLED MAD FOR SAYING THE TRUTH. NOT IN 2023.

I remember when Venice Allan was asked why she used sex-based pronouns (with the thinly veiled accusation that it isn’t the #bekind thing to do).

Her reply was.

”It is politically essential”

Pithy, sound bitey and there is absolutely no further vaguely reasonable comeback to that. Maybe one for your Arsenal?

Good luck and do it do it do it! It is politically essential that you do!

Glad to see the link in that Twitter thread by Safe Schools Alliance to Pronouns Are Rohypnol by Barraker

I remember when it was posted on here and my visceral 'Yes!' Reaction to it.

Can't link on phone I'm afraid.

This made me laugh out loud.

In disbelief, but also it is insanely hilarious.
You Witches!!

Well, why, Thank you!

I’ll add it to my list of descriptors: bigot, fascist and witch.

Together with ms Sturgeon’s assertion that people who disagree are all sorts of phobic, misogynistic AND racist, I think we have a full house.

Will now read the rest of the thread in order.

Must add, I don’t really think most of the posters here are any of the above.
Except witches, it does have the feel of a rather lively coven. So I do take the accusation of cauldron-stirring as a compliment in a way.

Well done Sarah.

This is such a significant shift. Because all of a sudden, to any sane ears and eyes, watching BBC news presenters debase themselves referring to Isla Bryson as she, is utterly cringy. And if that sounds and looks wrong, well then, why is it ever right to not just stick with the bins of the language and go for sex based pronouns.

This is a petition to update the Equality Act to make clear that the characteristic ‘sex’ is biological sex.
⬇️

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/623243

@Spero I've been thinking more about your tweets.

I know there is the fear of being in trouble for misgendering. But you know that bit in the equality law, that we never seem to be allowed to use. The bit, and I paraphrase, about being allowed to discriminate against a group of individuals if it's a legitimate means to a legitimate aim.

well you aren't on tv to talk about one transwoman and then purposefully misgender him.

You are, and no pressure here Sarah, representing all of us women here. Look at how many posts have been deleted on this and the JKR v IW thread.

How in order for our posts to remain we've had to stop. Modify our speech. Talk in abstract terms rather than what we all know we are really talking about in order to make our point and keep a post standing.

In some respects we are having to use a completely different language to communicate as our every comment is monitored.

And yet someone on this thread had to you accused women of being mad, and had refused to clarify and ignores your further attempts to elicit a response. Basically called us witches and we've been quite happy for their words not to be deleted. That was a personal attack on us by someone who had just proclaimed to never make personal attacks.

Yet posters on here have had their posts deleted on here and other threads for correctly sexing an individual.

So, I think Sarah you should be loud and proud from now on in interviews. Directly using the right sex for the people who are being discussed or who are not the sex they claim to be. Surely this has to be a legitimate means to a legitimate aim? You are speaking not not just yourself but 1000s of other women.

and if the worst happens you know we will all help you with the gardening.

Boiled x

I know there is the fear of being in trouble for misgendering. But you know that bit in the equality law, that we never seem to be allowed to use. The bit, and I paraphrase, about being allowed to discriminate against a group of individuals if it's a legitimate means to a legitimate aim.

There is another bit in the equality law that we never seem to be allowed to use. The bit, and I shall also paraphrase, about both freedom of belief and of absence of belief being protected.

Nobody would consider prosecuting anyone who denied Jesus's divinity, or who wore shorts in areas were Orthodox Jews or Muslims live.

Our right to disbelieve the trans ideology and to refuse to lie is protected. Thanks to Maya. We must exercise this right and make it the norm, just as the TRAS have tried to make their disingenuous Be Kind the norm.

Good luck, Sarah.
You were fab in that interview btw.

I'll just keep stirring my cauldron...

I've just added the toads tongues to mine, they apparently help with the flow of words.

Exactly. We keep being reassured we have these rights yet continually get stopped from asserting them. And why? To appease men?

NO. JUST NO. NO DEBATE.

Anyone in need can borrow my daughter's cauldron.

JellySaurus · Today 13:09

“I know there is the fear of being in trouble for misgendering. But you know that bit in the equality law, that we never seem to be allowed to use. The bit, and I paraphrase, about being allowed to discriminate against a group of individuals if it's a legitimate means to a legitimate aim”

There is another bit in the equality law that we never seem to be allowed to use. The bit, and I shall also paraphrase, about both freedom of belief and of absence of belief being protected

Nobody would consider prosecuting anyone who denied Jesus's divinity, or who wore shorts in areas were Orthodox Jews or Muslims live

Our right to disbelieve the trans ideology and to refuse to lie is protected. Thanks to Maya. We must exercise this right and make it the norm, just as the TRAS have tried to make their disingenuous Be Kind the norm.

Thank you JellySaurus and whoever wrote the first paragraph. This sums up so much.

It is difficult to exercise these rights though when so many public institutions including schools, the NHS, the OED App, and even judges have been captured by gender identity ideology and make it seem as though ‘sex ‘ is meaningless compared to gender and may remove the word sex altogether.

To try to make the Government react to make the Equality Act have relevance in real life as it is now in George Orwell’s 2023 non-think U.K.

please consider signing this petition to update the Equality Act to make clear that the characteristic ‘sex ‘ is biological sex
⬇️
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/623243

I like a multi use cauldron.

I'm a haggis.

bollocks the spell has gone wrong.

Can someone reverse me?

Exsmelliearmpit!✨

HTH

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nope. It's has to be the toads tongues...

Or.....

Is there a wizard hiding in plain sight on the thread making counter spells?

OK come on. Which one of you is the man?

(And if women can be wizards don't shoot me, I've never read HP)

😁sorry, I've just seen what you wrote exactly! I did an Asterix bleep over it over it on first reading!

Well Sarah, it looks like you're not alone in your thinking.

Dude, your mask slipped a bit there.

@BashirWithTheGoodBeard ohhh. I thought you'd come on to tell me which poster was a man.

But you're just commenting about Robin. And Robin isn't one of those.