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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social · 3h

For those like me who had not heard of the Yogyakarta Principles:
The Yogyakarta Principles (masterminded by Michael O’Flaherty) - women’s rights were not considered.
sex-matters.org/posts/update...

The Yogyakarta Principles: women's rights were not considered

Julie Bindel and Melanie Newman talked to Professor Robert Wintemute in The Critic.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 5h

Translation:
The mastermind behind the 'Yogyakarta Principles' which have no international human rights treaty recognition, is still attempting to erase women's & girls human rights which have explicit & established treaty recognition. On the basis of sex. Not gender identity.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 5h

Translation:
The mastermind behind the 'Yogyakarta Principles' which have no international human rights treaty recognition, is still attempting to erase women's & girls human rights which have explicit & established treaty recognition. On the basis of sex. Not gender identity.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns following April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said. Michael O’Flaherty, the European Council commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK following April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · Sep 12

Against Extractivism of Women & the Natural World; and Looking Forward, this book is a moment in time, captured.

‘With detailed testimony and wise commentary, @rahilag.bsky.social captures the blood, sweat, & tears of 10 years of British feminism, 2013-2023.’ ~ Melissa Farley

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 5d

Smashed windows and graffiti at the FiLiA conference.
FiliA aims to amplify the voices of women, particularly those who are silenced or unheard, and to defend women's human rights. But clearly, they shouldn't be allowed to discuss anything at all without the prior approval of trans activists.

BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET FiLiA ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE

The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's segregationist Supreme Court ruling.

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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 5d

These are the misogynists who don’t think women should have their own conference.

They are bigoted and misogynist.

BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET FiLiA ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE

The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's segregationist Supreme Court ruling.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 4d

A perfect example of why women need single-sex spaces for safety, dignity, privacy, and for organising politically as a sex class. Male violence is never acceptable.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 2d

Handful of violent protesters & bloke with megaphone attempt to stop largest grassroots feminist conference in Europe where 2.5k women discuss women's global political & legal rights.
Organised by aptly named 'Bash Back' dripping with male violence vibes.
Male entitlement & men's rights activism.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 2d

Handful of violent protesters & bloke with megaphone attempt to stop largest grassroots feminist conference in Europe where 2.5k women discuss women's global political & legal rights.
Organised by aptly named 'Bash Back' dripping with male violence vibes.
Male entitlement & men's rights activism.

BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET FiLiA ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE

The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's segregationist Supreme Court ruling.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 4d

'Lisa-Marie Taylor added that the charity "campaigns for a world free from patriarchy where all women and girls are liberated."
"The activities of a small, violent minority will not diminish the spirit of sisterhood and solidarity which FiLiA embodies,"'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trans activists vandalise FiLiA feminist conference in Brighton

The Bash Back action group said it vandalised a Brighton conference venue ahead of the event.

www.bbc.co.uk

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

US activist Angela Davis and novelist Toni Morrison walking together in 1974, by photographer Jill Krementz #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth US

Monochrome photograph of two Black women walking down a street towards the viewer, the subject to the right looks at the other as if in conversation, while the other looks down as if listening

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K.Flynnx (St.) @kflynny369.bsky.social · 4d

An this is why I would not vote Green or encourage my family members to do so.

Women are human and have the right to meet and have freedom away from male intimidation.

Shameful that a FILIA event is attacked with the support of a Green Party member.

Brap @brap.bsky.social · 4d

@sianberry.bsky.social
Green MP blames women for being attacked by men.

The Green Party is a men’s rights party.

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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 4d

This is how you respond to male violence.

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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 4d

@sianberry.bsky.social
Green MP blames women for being attacked by men.

The Green Party is a men’s rights party.

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Marwoodl ♀️ @marwoodl.bsky.social · 4d

Trans activists attack a women’s rights conference

Lisa-Marie Taylor: “It is shocking and saddening that a conference for women to discuss domestic abuse, sexual violence and lesbian safety, has been met with smashed windows, graffiti and intimidation.”
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www.thetimes.com/article/e683...

Council refused feminists security after trans activists smashed venue

Organisers of a conference in Brighton applied for a protection order to shield them from protesters who later broke windows and sprayed paint on the building

www.thetimes.com

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Red and green-ish @redandgreenish.bsky.social · 8d

I wish we'd stop referring to men such as Trump, Farage and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon as strong men. They're bullies, and all bullies are cowards. There's nothing remotely strong about these men, except their need to control.

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K.Flynnx (St.) @kflynny369.bsky.social · 10d

The number of people who can’t get their head around the purpose and working of the Equality Act is quite staggering.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11d

Hampstead Heath swimming ponds considering limiting transgender users’ access

Trans swimmers currently able to use a mixed pond or either of the segregated ponds for the gender they identify as A consultation has been launched on transgender swimmers’ access to Hampstead Heath ponds, which could result in them being banned from using the pools for the gender they identify as. The Kenwood Ladies’ and Highgate Men’s ponds are gender-segregated, with trans people currently able to swim in whichever they feel most appropriate, or use the Heath’s mixed-gender pond instead. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 10d

Yep. Rigged survey.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 10d

It's relentless male rights activism. Exhausting.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 10d

Swim according to sex or choose mixed sex like everyone else.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 10d

Please look at the swing voters result. Which was the one I posted. Rather than telling me everything else matters more. It's exhausting trying to get Democrat supporters to acknowledge that LGB rights are not the same as 'trans rights'.
End of conversation.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 10d

You know best. Carry on.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 10d

No it isn't.
The women's pond is for women only. Men have two other ponds to swim in.
It's the law. Women means female-only.
Because women have rights to privacy & dignity too.

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 10d

Bollocks. It's just that males are not entitled to services provisions & sports for females.
HTH

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 10d

'Hampstead Heath swimming ponds considering limiting transgender users’ access'.
Translation:
The swimming ponds must stop men, however they identify, using the women's pond.
It's the law.
Men have two other ponds they can swim in.
Women have rights too.

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