I can’t believe you haven’t closely followed my Very Hard Work of knocking up in ten minutes two (2) shit t-shirt designs for a laugh 🙄. I imagined making the #DerangedHarpies one for @filiacharity.bsky.social but it's tomorrow and I haven't.
Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.
Looking at my calendar I see time's a bit short to do many more mannikins for 5th Nov ceremony but I'd like to add Stephen Miller and maybe Boris Johnson to the pyre. There are other figures I deeply detest but they're harder as they have fewer strong visual clues I can work with.
PPS I’m unlikely to reply tonight as I’m packing to travel to @filiacharity.bsky.social conference tomorrow to gather with women, learn about global feminist action, fight for women’s liberation together and/or be topped up with fury. Excellent.
PS I have no idea what on earth you mean by ‘nativist fascist’ and ‘birth caste’. It’s the gender conservatives and gender identity lot who are in thrall to biological essentialism, suggesting women as a sex are reduced to our biology because we are women and know sex is important. Fuck that.
I gently suggest you rethink your equating of a ‘post-op transsexual woman’ with a woman with a hysterectomy. It’s breathtaking offensive. Plus it amazes me, frankly, you’ve got away with the term transsexual when, if us radfems use it, the grief we get is off the charts. All the best to you.
How special would that be? Wouldn’t it be amazing to be in your own group, to celebrate yourselves as you are, for us all to do this, to fight for your liberation, to pursue a genuine civil rights movement rather than asking women to budge up and deny our liberation.
Our biology is the least of it, really. And it wouldn’t matter if sex wasn’t the axis of how women are oppressed. You’re right about social perception, wider concept so of meaning of humanity, our understanding of ourselves. What I don’t get is why we can’t celebrate trans people for themselves.
It’s impossible to change sex. It’s possible, obviously, to have what we used to call a ‘sex change’, which is either ‘gender artificial care’ or maybe extreme body modification to look as close as possible to the opposite sex as possible. If people want to do this, fill your boots.
What I see is a systematic process to undermine women’s rights and lesbian and gay rights under a so-called progressive cause. It is unbelievably offensive. This only serves male supremacy and patriarchy and narrows human flourishing.
If you want to change the law, fine, follow the proper processes, get support from parliamentarians, write the white paper, do the consultations, draft the bill, put it to parliament, get the votes. If you’re all so confident, do it. Because it sure as shit didn’t happen before.
processes, remove the ability of women to discuss and challenge the means of our oppression and remove and reduce resources protected for women. It’s an incredible move. My point is our own views about whether trans-identifying people are the opposite sex really is immaterial.
Your mates did not allow any debate on this matter to actually discuss what this might mean to our legislative framework or implementation. It’s been a brilliant strategy to change practice (not the law) by stealth, attempt to change the meaning of women and sex bypassing normal legal and political
And how I’d witnessed the women’s sector implementing in a small number of cases where sex matters. What the person involved in drafting said it meant at the time is irrelevant because that was not how it was implemented until more recently, it was not how it passed through parliament, etc, etc.
What historical inaccuracy? The Equality Act 2010 flows directly from , and incorporates, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 plus other legislation on equal pay, race, disability. The judgement reflects the understanding I have always had of the EA and implementing single sex spaces.
The Women's Institute, the Church of England, the Scouts and the British Muslim Network are among those co-organising solidarity events tomorrow. The Together Coalition coordinating an effort involving faith networks, schools + charities,including British Future www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Tomorrow, a week on from Thursday's attack on the Manchester synagogue, this will be marked as a day of solidarity and mourning by civic groups from across all faiths and none. You are also invited to join online sharing #britainstandstogether
The UK Supreme Court passed its judgement on how sex is defined in the Equality Act 2010 so this is what we need to work with. If you and others want to change this definition, you need to use the proper legal and political channels. What we each believe about biology is irrelevant to the law.
It’s hard to move forward without an open and honest exploration of needs and rights of the different groups with a shared protected characteristic like gender reassignment; religion or belief; sex; or, sexual orientation. Especially when these needs and rights appear to conflict.
For all your care for anti-racism and presumably anti-Islamophobia and anti-semitism, it’s interesting to me that in the small number of cases when sex matters and women need single sex (rather than single gender) spaces, your demands lead to the exclusion of some Muslim and Jewish women.
