It's lucky for women that they have men like Owen Jones to tell them what they really should have been doing.
The problem being, Owen, that every time we tried to talk about women's specific needs, we were told we were being exclusionary, that female people had no specific needs or rights, and to die in a grease fire.
So maybe fuck off? pic.twitter.com/sHc31hQrMI
— Harvey Jeni (@GappyTales) April 17, 2025
In New Hampshire, debating NH SB268 – "Permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances".
"It takes unrelenting coercion to make people pretend that a man is a woman." My testimony on NH SB268, restoring women's sports and spaces. pic.twitter.com/JiXVWfPZxW
— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) April 16, 2025
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And Janice Turner:
The question that has made politicians sputter or, in the case of Nicola Sturgeon, implode their careers, is answered. Campaigners held their collective breath for legal caveats, but none came: the ruling was categorical and clear.
The concept of woman does not include male persons who, with a bit of admin and £6, have acquired a gender recognition certificate (GRC). Or as a placard outside put it more bluntly: “Women are born, not some bloke with a form.”
Moreover, self-ID — the notion that a person has a right to access changing rooms or sports based upon nebulous inner gender — is utterly finished. As is the dishonest, deliberate muddying of legal waters by LGBT groups who have insisted gender and sex can be used interchangeably. The law has upheld the gender-critical, or rather, common sense position: sex is real.
Services and protections that generations of women battled to create — from rape trauma support groups to female sports — no longer have to worry about being sued by trans-identifying men. Lord Hodge gave a special mention to lesbians “who have historically suffered marginalisation” and whose right to gather for social or romantic reasons was under serious threat from those who believe lesbians can have penises….
This judgment must be read by every member of the Labour government (who should be grateful they will not now be called upon to clarify the Equality Act, as many feared). It should be sent to civil servants, sports bodies, NHS trusts and to every HR department in the land. The capture of our national institutions by this misogynist ideology is not over, but the end is in sight, thanks to the bravery and determination of the women who wouldn’t wheesht.
Our statement in response to the @UKSupremeCourt ruling in @ForWomenScot vs Scottish Ministers pic.twitter.com/9rFSEdwfoB
— LabourWomen’sDeclaration 🦖 (@LabWomenDec) April 16, 2025
Well there we go:
"The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex."
Supreme Court rules that “woman” means biological woman in the Equality Act 2010 and “sex” biological sex, reserving legal protections intended for women for women, and protecting women’s rights to single-sex spaces services and sports. Hugely significant win for @ForWomenScot.
— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) April 16, 2025
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There are many people who should never be forgiven for allowing this stupidity and cowardice to fester, leading to all manner of damage, bullying and cruelty. But today is a day of celebration. Yes @ForWomenScot 💃❤️
— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) April 16, 2025
“font-size: 11pt”>Dart had addressed the umpire as she got to her feet shortly after Boisson walked past her during the second set of her first-round encounter in the Rouen Open. “Can you tell her to wear deodorant,” Dart asked. With the umpire seemingly confused, she then seemed to repeat the question, “Because the smell,” Dart said. “Can you tell her to wear deodorant? She smells really bad.”
Bravely reviving that favourite old theme in British comedy about the French and their personal hygiene – the Monty Python Montgolfier brothers, for instance.
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A federal judge just ruled that two fathers can't wear pink wristbands that say "XX" to silently protest male inclusion in women's sports
The judge said the female chromosomes, XX, are a "demeaning and harassing assertion"https://t.co/AKpAovWWQn
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) April 15, 2025
It’s not ok to unleash these men on women. We don’t need to protect these men. We need to be protected FROM them. pic.twitter.com/NdpffbuKIS
— Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙♀️🦉🐈⬛ 🦖 (@babybeginner) April 15, 2025
