Canadian Women's Sex-Based Rights
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RT @LeonardPittsJr1: From today’s @nytimes . Sometimes, the truth hides in plain sight. https://t.co/OecgLn...
“Sex has gone from being an objective fact to being a personality trait.” - Kajsa Ekis Ekman, On the Meaning of Sex Today is the last day to get 15% off >> https://t.co/QBPhOG... https://t.co/7WpJRH...
How to Tell if Someone in a Porn Video is a Trafficking Victim
RT @ZUCKERKJ: There are a few papers in the literature showing an overrepresentation of gender-dysphoric youth in in-patient settings, but not this high! https://t.co/kgQ2kD...
RT @comradeswift: "sex work is work" orgs get money from open society, the world bank, the IMF, third wave fund, etc. and yet we're the bad guys chun li?
“Defendant Warner demanded [the then 16 year-old] Plaintiff to ‘get the f*** off of my bus’ and threatened Plaintiff that, if she told anyone, he would kill her and her family.” https://t.co/mW7ibZ...
Orgasm At Any Cost
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RT @MalleyNotagain: 🙄 https://t.co/do61J4... https://t.co/QTgD4A...
Totally normal behaviour. Nothing to look at. Oh wait, a young woman is losing her shit about TEEN DRAG SHOWS. Wtf is wrong with these people. So gross. https://t.co/dgJrip... https://t.co/vW5OHm...
RT @blablafishcakes: By the way, welcome to new followers! Enjoy the ride. It's bumpy. https://t.co/lzhebC...
But what about Allah? Is Allah trans? They feel safe using Jesus but they know damn well that Muslims wouldn’t find it amusing or truthful to call Allah trans. https://t.co/3nH7b3...
RT @duncanda51: @CarverEmily See, if Sturgeon and MSPs had listened to people in the know about trans women criminals. https://t.co/NGyLe8...
This is horrific!
RT @NoXYinXXprisons: No one does what we do for women in prison, or for the CJS. If we are to continue our work, we need your help! xx https://t.co/wC4MDN...
RT @MForstater: The gender self-ID lobby has gone a bit quiet... @AmnestyUK https://t.co/zVuBpZ...
RT @Radical_Notion: "It's time to break and run." https://t.co/MVCLR4...
A talk on the Italian edition of Towards the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood featuring co-editor Ana-Luana Stoicea-Deram and contributor Silvia Guerini will held on the 2nd of March https://t.co/5GSOOW...
RT @WombsNotForRent: Thank you Canada for allowing babies to be ordered and paid for ready for export. #Surrogacy #InternationalSurro... #PeopleTrafficking https://t.co/mAevof...
Lmao 🤣 this is beautiful 🤣🤣🤣🤣🌙
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RT @hispanicpandora: this whole thread. https://t.co/wEAcz6...
Nicola Sturgeon explains Scottish Government’s decision to pause transfers of some transgender prisoners to women’s prisons
RT @C4Ciaran: I asked @NicolaSturgeon about Katie Dolatowski - a transgender woman with a record of sexual offences against girls who was sent to a women's prison last year: https://t.co/TbJo1L...
'Christ on a raft, it's all gone fucking Pete Tong - get me Owen Jones on line one, NOW!' https://t.co/84YbeR...
Nicola 'risk assessment' Sturgeon 🙄 https://t.co/i9xV7F...
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Peter A Smith on Twitter
RT @varindeus: Watching people defend what is essentially a depiction of a golden shower as “art” has been mildly entertaining…
RT @thesoleromero: The world is in a war driven only by those who are at war with themselves. The rest of us are building a new world.
RT @saintrizla: ngl not getting a single bit of therapy or professional treatment after leaving prostitution really did a number on my psychological development
RT @Scot_Feminists: "Half of the transgender inmates in Scottish prisons began transitioning after they were convicted, it can be revealed" https://t.co/erQsmR...
RT @bindelj: At @Womans_Place_UK meeting on the horror of prison for women, and hearing heartbreaking stories of the brutality of custodial sentences. In the meantime, this is going on outside: https://t.co/FIzvi7...
RT @quirkathon: @Womans_Place_UK @MaryamNamazie Both powerhouses! ❤️💪❤️💪
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RT @spectator: What the Census reveals about trans people in Britain 👇 ✍️ Alice Sullivan https://t.co/ti1vdg...
RT @AnnieWellsMSP: An absolute car-crash of an interview from @NicolaSturgeon 👇 https://t.co/UqhT1J...
RT @RoddyQC: Very effective questioning, highlighting some of the difficulties and inconsistencies apparent in this ongoing debacle. https://t.co/pnoscC...
Not good enough https://t.co/i8Y5w2...
What exactly is she trying to say here? Or not, as is more likely the case. "Clarity" We think not! https://t.co/OyAxe9...
Black babies stillborn at almost twice rate of white babies, ONS figures show
RT @legalfeminist: The @Commonswomequ will be considering the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill tomorrow afternoon. https://t.co/4FXEtF...
RT @JohannLamont: @Channel4News @C4Ciaran Not sure the line that we had to do this because people have now noticed that sex offenders are in women’s jails is quite the strong defence the First Minister seems to think it is.
Feminist Question Time 28 January 2023 [COMPLETE WEBINAR]
RT @Womans_Place_UK: @LibraPoppyGirl @UCLwomenslib @ld_toff @ucl @IOE_London @akuareindorf @joannaccherry @bindelj @HJoyceGender @Docstockk 😀 https://t.co/zlYPIN...
RT @SistersSalon2: And very proud that Brighton is over represented at #UCL's #Ed4WomensLib.... Our very own @janeclarejones, @Radical_Notion and @Fem_Thought are here too! TIX https://t.co/9IX4vu... https://t.co/2HiiaY...
Trans-identifying males are transferred into the female prison estate. Trans-identifying females are not transferred into the male prison estate. This means that we still know which sex is more violent. https://t.co/wcsR9B...
Reframe your trauma, hen. https://t.co/6PzF2C...
RT @jk_rowling: 'Sturgeon’s opponents are wholly entitled to scream “We told you so”. Because they did and then they were treated as though they must be bigots. And so, here we are. What a disgrace it all is.' ✍️@alexmassie https://t.co/WoYthM...
RT @kmckenna63: Why is Nicola Sturgeon acting like a poundland Donald Trump? My column in The Herald https://t.co/wwOW7P...
Double rapist, Adam Graham, was interviewed last year and complained that @NicolaSturgeon was not moving fast enough on trans rights. Is this one of the vulnerable and marginalised people we hear about? https://t.co/FSMrAp...
RT @UCLwomenslib: @ld_toff @Womans_Place_UK @ucl @IOE_London @akuareindorf @joannaccherry @bindelj @HJoyceGender @Docstockk We'd love it if a group at a university outside London would offer to organise one.
"The trans lobby, like the sex industry lobby it is so closely aligned with, to some extent relies on making women less than human, so it then becomes easier to strip everything of value from us." https://t.co/s3zt2q...
Cinema Sabaya – Official U.S. Trailer
Serial rapist sentenced to 20 years in prison, committed three rapes in 2017
RT @Cosmocarboni2: @shiny02 https://t.co/Zwve48...
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RT @Wild_Womyn: When you are trying to rationalise a crazy idea, then you sound like a crazy person Trans women are men. https://t.co/WUXxmY...
Husband of woman burned alive in gruesome Brooklyn killing hoped for happier ending
Halifax County Sheriff’s Office still looking for information in 2022 cold case
RT @jk_rowling: I don't know about you, but excluding women from women's prisons just because they've got penises, male pattern baldness and have committed a couple of rapes seems awfully TERFy to me. https://t.co/1OtW8K...
Video takes center stage in trial for woman accused of shooting 16-year-old during argument in front of Westside gas station
Let's get @GussieGrips elected! https://t.co/d22L2f...
How should she know the answer, she's not a biologist! - ✨
One of our favourite artists in solidarity with one of our favourite writers ♥️
RT @StandingforXX: What a wonderful turnout. #LetWomenSpeak https://t.co/looQCg...
RT @SVPhillimore: I will be speaking about suing @eventbrite and the wider implications this has for all of us on Feb 11 to @DeclarationOn and then hopefully on Feb 12 with @andrewdoyle_com. Read more about my case here https://t.co/hghA2M...
Thanks @RtvLondon for having us on #WhatsUpLondon. We are so excited about this year’s #IWD breakfast on March 3rd. See you all there! https://t.co/WjYE6W...
Woman, 93, dies after Austin hit-and-run, Chicago police say; photo of car wanted released
Thanks so much Stephanie, I really enjoyed speaking with you! https://t.co/V5T26r...
We would also very much like to know what the @EngenderScot position is on prisons and if they have asked the membership for their views... https://t.co/MUrvPW...
RT @jameskirkup: With apologies to the women whose names I didn't manage to include in this piece. https://t.co/Tlo5IJ...
#MenatWork are at #Ed4WomensLib this Saturday, #UCL: 'We Have To talk with Our Boys.' One of 20 workshops, 5 panels, 3 plenaries and about 850 women (and a few men) @UCLwomenslib https://t.co/BxO0NA... https://t.co/rQMl3m...
Chicago crime: Police release photos of man who allegedly attacked 2 women in River North
RT @women_people: Who's going to #Ed4WomensLib conference on Feb 4th in London? I am, I'll be there with as much jewellery as I can carry. @Womans_Place_UK https://t.co/uVczC4... https://t.co/IYW4gT...
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Detroit man found guilty of shooting 7-year-old girl with rifle
Janet on Women’s Rights Activism in 2022 in light of NZ legislation
The Return of the Jedi: The Fight Back Begins. If not you, then who? talk by Rex Landy
Fern Kickson on her successful complaint to the Media Council
Feminist Question Time Aus/NZ 28 January 2023 [COMPLETE WEBINAR]
RT @RussellFindlay1: I have requested a statement from @NicolaSturgeon in the Scottish Parliament tomorrow. The First Minister must answer questions about her chaotic u-turn on dangerous criminals being sent to women's prisons. ...
Agree with this! While well paid policy makers, politicians, Gov funded orgs and civil servants shirked their duty, @mbmpolicy did their job for no pay and little thanks. This should shame those in power. https://t.co/zZMEyg...
Deputy resigns after investigation for improper search of Pontiac mom, 2 sons who froze to death
Listen to Amanda talking about “Laura”, 6 foot 3, no hormones. For some reason, in Scotland Laura’s demands seem to be paramount. Reality doesn’t matter. https://t.co/0hPMu6...
Thank you @PeterAdamSmith for pressing the FM on this. More journalists should do so. https://t.co/JwJYEF...
Watch @NicolaSturgeon wrestle with reality. It is not possible to insist that transwomen are women for all purposes while keeping women in prison safe. Sometimes the reality of sex must trump gender identity. https://t.co/a76AkT...
Friends and family come together to remember fallen officer Keona Holley
Excellent news. The so-called "experts" are being forced to reveal what's behind their policies. #healthcare Judge: Pediatric Docs Must Turn Over To Gov. DeSantis Info About Why They Support Transitioning Children https://t.co/NmGvSY...
Yes, of course that is why! Nothing to do with self-ID being exposed for the catastrophic nonsense that it is! https://t.co/W3r4Or...
Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing: The lesbian bar https://t.co/utWBbK...
RT @OkBiology: #JustSayMen 👌 https://t.co/Gxsvr8... https://t.co/JIQM8o...
RT @treesey: Former prison governor @HotchkissRhona speaks about life in the women’s section of HMP Greenock aka Gateside Prison. (Speaking in Alloa, December 2021) https://t.co/iTvZZ4...
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A very bad tempered Nicola Sturgeon gets hoist by the petard of her own silly ideology. https://t.co/yutDLe...
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Amanda Benson has been Cornton Vale as an inmate and knows what she is talking about. If her words do not make your blood run, cold, then book a session with a counsellor: https://t.co/TP6aFK...
RT @VanLesbians: “We - the women - we want our fucking stuff back. We want our women’s prisons, our women’s sports, our women’s refuges, our women’s bogs, our right to same-sex care, our fucking WORDS.”#WomenWontWe... https://t.co/kQkSTp...
Isn't the treatment of female prisoners supposed to be trauma informed? The majority of rapes are never reported. let alone charged or convicted. You cannot guarantee this while there are males in the prison estate. https://t.co/LCfx85...
RT @GitaSahgal: About time. Godman convicted of rape in Indian court. @feministdissent https://t.co/sJ90VB...
WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF ISLA & TIFFANY?! Why is this any different to any other violent prisoner? Are the media supposed to cover it all up if they claim a special identity? https://t.co/ED4Cs0...
RT @glumirror: In Australia, sex workers can now be sued if they refuse to be raped. https://t.co/89Am2z...
RT @NurayOnoglu: "Men’s sexual neurosis is taken to be a fundamental comment on society as a whole, women’s resultant brutalisation, isolation and objectification? A little sideshow.” via @kseniatatarnik1 https://t.co/NMSIND...
RT @rhtlkm: What the idea of “sex robots” tells us about prostitution https://t.co/jaTMLx... via @nordicmodelnow ...
RT @RadFemsCardiff: @LeanneWood @ProstitutesColl @nordicmodelnow ‘a very high correlation between purchasing sex and raping women – so it suggests that prostitution buying itself makes men more violent.’ https://t.co/vxp7gJ...
RT @Garbzij: She painstakingly & courageously researched Pornhub for years & her findings are summarised here: https://t.co/XdL3kI...
RT @Garbzij: Sign here to DEMAND POLICE DO NOT CONSUME PORN AT WORK. Porn is not just sex, a lot of it now is an actual crime scene. https://t.co/2KW41N...
For anyone who missed the excellent @SexMattersOrg media webinar last week featuring @HJoyceGender in conversation with our trustee @conrad_roeber the recording is available online now 👇 https://t.co/lrPE0i...
Sex Matters media guide webinar 26th January 2023
RT @KhakanQureshi: Soon it'll be #lgbt history month. I'm quite ready to speak at your events. Let me know. My email address is in my profile. Thanks #awardwinning #activist ...
Petition to Dominic Raab MP: Stop sending pregnant women to prison
RT @NehandaMusic: My favourite performance ever...@FiLiA_chari... #FiLiA2022 https://t.co/PGYjQj...
A Woman's Place is NOT in prison: Lucy Baldwin (London, 27 October 2021)
#KeepPrisonsSingleS... #AWomansPlaceIsNOTI... #KPSS Please sign this petition to stop sending pregnant women to prison https://t.co/fJnnal...
RT @GitaSahgal: Glad to see a second UN expert speaking out. This is the Special Rapporteur on Torture. Putting rapists into women's prisons lacks any common sense or compassion and violates rights. @feministdissent https://t.co/EAfUOl...
This is a really clear statement of what the DfE needs to do in writing its trans guidance. Start from safeguarding and put gender identity firmly in the unproven, unevidenced, belief box. https://t.co/IUBNZT...
Scottish Prison Service Policy written by trans lobby group
RT @WalsheSam: The Reality Of The Sex Trade & Why Abolition Is The Only Way Forward! Looking forward to running this workshop at #Ed4WomensLib @Womans_Place_UK @UCLwomenslib @SPACEintl @centreWJ https://t.co/4sS7oO...
China's Sichuan frees unmarried people to legally have children
'Health authorities in China's southwestern province of Sichuan will allow unmarried individuals to raise a family and enjoy benefits reserved for married couples, in the latest effort to bolster a falling birth rate.' https://t.co/79Cmmw...
Ahh sadly our team can’t make it but it looks amazing please let us know how it goes!
It appears that the UN "expert" who @SP_EHRCJ relied on over the SR on VAWG, is compromised. Shocking and something that @JoeFitzSNP needs to explain. https://t.co/pYtUSl...
RT @Survivorexit: Am sure the young girls are now in #prostitution thanks to this #pimp, how do get bail after all this . @nordicmodelnow @CATWIntl @UNWomenWatch @unwomenafrica https://t.co/hiD578...
THREAD To participate in a workshop lead by @mbmpolicy @forwomenscot join them at #UCL this Saturday #GRRbill #Section35 #KPSS https://t.co/BxO0NA... https://t.co/PrfypG...
Hexham stabbing: Family pays tribute to Holly Newton
'The family of a "bright and bubbly" teenager who was stabbed to death have paid tribute to her.' https://t.co/qqOYlp...
Deadline for our Receptionist/ Admin assistant post is this Thursday 2nd February. Apply here: https://t.co/l8VYDz... https://t.co/nb5bd6...
Reports: Rights of children in NI undermined by religion
"These reports lay bare the undue influence of religion on the lives of children in Northern Ireland. It is wholly unacceptable that religious doctrine continues to abridge the rights of children in the 21st century." @NatSecSoc ...
RT @LBC: 'Being male should exclude you from a woman's prison, full stop.' Director of the Keep Prisons Single Sex campaign, Kate Coleman, condemns the transfer of transwomen from male prisons to female prisons. @NickFerrariLBC https://t.co/Buos8L...
LGB Alliance NZ on Twitter
An encouraging and hopeful start to the week as New Zealand All Black Campbell Johnstone becomes the first All Black to come out publicly as gay. 👏 https://t.co/X6pKs4...
A "measured" piece would not repeat Willoughby's unverified and inflammatory claims about people wanting to "eliminate" anyone without challenge. https://t.co/6zMcfz...
London Metropolitan police officer exposed as prolific sex offender, reject myth of police “reform”
RT @WingsScotland: Sturgeon still refusing to say whether rapist Adam Graham is a man or a woman. https://t.co/dXEfdx...
RT @djandyhealey: What kids are being taught at the Woodcraft Folx these days.... https://t.co/YdIxFG... https://t.co/F6jtwd...
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RT @markthehibby: "The Scottish Government have been shamed into doing this after a huge public backlash!" #ResignSturgeon #SturgeonDestroyerO... #Untenable @andrewdoyle_com @NoXYinXXprisons @ForWomenScot https://t.co/G0ciOA...
RT @helensaxby11: I wrote this for the @TheCriticMag about the way that dehumanisation is working to make women's reality invisible. https://t.co/7WseWJ...
RT @CalumA_Steele: This! The corruption of language leading to cauldrons of word soup to simply avoid the truth has to end. https://t.co/acO2zJ...
‘He has ignored pleas from feminists in the Labour Party, refused to show support to female MPs bullied by activists, and dismissed every warning about the risks posed to women by transactivist extremists’ @LabWomenDec https://t.co/nWmDRE...
The Two Fridas: An Introduction to Frida Kahlo’s Famous Large-Scale Painting (1939)
What Legal Prostitution Ads Are Like
RT @GitaSahgal: Thinking of Gandhi on the anniversary of his assassination by a Hindu fanatic who is greatly admired by our rulers and their followers today. @NatSecSoc ,@feministdissent,@... https://t.co/OCZ8ut...
Over a quarter of #FiLiA2023 tickets sold. - Building Sisterhood and Solidarity - Amplifying the Voices of Women - Defending Women's Human Rights #Glasgow https://t.co/X6dOC6... https://t.co/cJnV6I...
Scotland says transgender prisoners with violent pasts will not go to women’s jails
Build A Girl UK Badge Machine, organized by Lesley X
Please help raise money for @fiona_broadfoot ’s brilliant Build a Girl project. https://t.co/HF54H0...
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‘Swept under the rug’: A mother’s fight for justice
'In the months before Veronica Nelson died alone on the floor of a prison cell, charged with minor offences but not convicted, she wrote a letter about her mother.' #VeronicaNelson https://t.co/WLugea...
Transgender rapist should not be considered a woman, says victim
"It could have had terrible consequences. It's a pity it was only after public pressure that Nicola Sturgeon saw sense. Adam needs to be in a male prison, whatever he says he is." https://t.co/3wnSPd...
Starmer isn't working for women
RT @LucyHunterB: And yet I am not aware of any "concrete examples" from other countries that have introduced selfID of politicians losing their careers by standing up for people like Isla Bryson. Even anecdotally. It's a mystery. ...
Coroner finds Indigenous woman's death in custody was preventable
Belgium: family say death of Belgian-Tunisian woman in custody not suicide
'Sourour Abouda is the third person of north African origin to die at the same police station on #Brussels’ Rue Royale in controversial circumstances in two years.' https://t.co/ZTQIN1...
RT @Womans_Place_UK: Our blog on women’s prisons and transgender prisoners from2021 https://t.co/aiAMAa... /14 ...
RT @Womans_Place_UK: Here is Rosie Duffield MP https://t.co/exljUk... /11 ...
RT @Womans_Place_UK: Here is Jo Phoenix https://t.co/IDPtrG... /10 ...
RT @Womans_Place_UK: Here is Lucy Baldwin https://t.co/5IzLbW... /9 ...
RT @Womans_Place_UK: Here is Frances Crook, ex-CEO of @TheHowardLeague https://t.co/iaFFCn... /8 ...
RT @Womans_Place_UK: Here is Allison Bailey speaking at the same meeting https://t.co/Qm0odq... /7 ...
Fantastic points made here by Kate at @NoXYinXXprisons https://t.co/Hzwtle...
RT @NoXYinXXprisons: Ask yourselves this: if this REALLY WAS a turnaround by NS, why aren't Chapman, Harvie et al up in arms about it? They are not. So what does that tell you about the long term plan???
RT @LucyHunterB: Just to note: this urgent review was first trailed in December 2018. We and others tried to find out what if anything was happening for nearly 3 years, and it has now been underway properly for about a year. https://t.co/256Mh5...
Not good enough https://t.co/t59NXc...
Objectification...f... a cause? PETA's unethical treatment of women
Objectification...f... a cause? PETA's unethical treatment of women https://t.co/1vCq4e... https://t.co/qzDXC1...
Two men who purchased a baby through a surrogacy contract refer to the infant as "hand luggage". Surrogacy turns women into factories and babies into products. https://t.co/RjpwPX... https://t.co/C7dOzk...
It takes a village to sterilise a child