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I am concerned about gender ideology & it's impact on safeguards for vulnerable women & children.
I have written 3 blogs for @WomensRightsNet you can read them here👇
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
Jun 14
Ditto.
This is an insult to millions of women who lost their breasts to cancer .
Jun 14
Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council),
As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display.
I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal.
Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated.
They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive.
Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure.
Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation.
If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice.
I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason.
What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated.
I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this:
Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering.
Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating.
For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media.
Yours sincerely,
Janet Murray
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Self harm has become something to celebrate rather than recognising that it is a response to trauma & support & help is needed
This is a despicable part of gender ideology cutting arms & double mastectomies are used by businesses to increase their revenue
Absolutely hideous
Ugh. This is DISGUSTING @LushLtd. Teenage girls love to shop in your stores and here you are happily encouraging them to CUT OFF THEIR HEALTHY BREASTS in the name of trans pride.
This is beyond repulsive. It's dangerous and sick. No parent should allow their child near your stores.
Please share: #BoycottLushNow
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
Jun 14
A childhood dream fulfilled but scoring Scotland’s winner in our first World Cup game in 28 years is just bonkers! The support last night and back home is just as expected. Quality! Let’s keep going!! 🏴🏴
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
“It’s 50 years since I was select to represent Great Britain at the first Olympics to allow females to row. We fought so many battles to get there! Now here we are still fighting. I truly believe that any XY body in women’s sport is a cheat. This stops here.”
Lin Clark, the first British woman to win a rowing World Championships, gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games, and Olympian, brings her unique insight as a trailblazing sportswoman to the panel Women’s Sports: what’s next?
Come and listen, and find out what the next battles in women’s sport will be, at Feminism: What’s the Point? 2026 on Sunday 5th July
Tickets available via the pinned post on our profile.
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
In a sea of misinformation & misapprehension from various Lab, Plaid, LD & SNP MPs following the govt statement on the @EHRC Code, here's Lab MP @tracygilbert72 bringing a breath of fresh air with her welcome of the Code's clarity and confirmation of protection for women & girls.
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
Jun 13
Slash prisoner numbers and end reoffending by using rehabilitation and community justice. Internationally renowned expert Karyn McCluskie whose groundbreaking work cut gangs and street crime by 60 per cent promises smart justice not soft justice will change Scotland.
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
Jun 13
This deluded MP is so wrong. Nobody should be voting for him in any upcoming elections. He is putting all biological women in danger and he does not care.
Jun 12
LGBT people deserve to be able to live freely and safely.
I don't believe the EHRC's guidance is helping to make that possible.
My statement on why I've signed EDM 240 to stand up for trans people in my constituency and across the UK.
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
Jun 13
#Scotland🏴#worldcup2026
Jun 12
Waiting to board our flight in Washington and there are 3 Scotland fans in kilts walking past. An American lady says" I love your skirts"
"They're nae skirts lassie they're kilts , We're Scots not Trannies" I genuinely Lol #tartanarmy #fifaworldcup @jk_rowling
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
“What is needed is constructive dialogue about how the law can work for everybody, based on a shared and accurate understanding of the law as it is, rather than the law as activists would prefer it to be.”
Akua Reindorf KC knows equality law inside out and back to front… she will be joining the panel discussing Women and the Law: is the contract between women and the State broken?
Come and hear her speak at Feminism: What’s the Point? 2026.
Tickets available via the pinned post on our profile.
See you there…
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
“As a default setting, I will not say ‘she’ of a man, because that’s paying lip service to a belief I don’t share.”
Anyone who’s followed the employment tribunal case of nurse Sandie Peggie, will be familiar with Naomi Cunningham’s incisive questioning and dry wit. We’re looking forward to hearing her contribution to our panel Women and the Law: is the contract between women and the State broken?
Come and join the debate at Feminism: What’s the Point? 2026.
Tickets available via the pinned post on our profile.
See you there…
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
Jun 11
If you employ a man in a strappy dress who calls himself ‘Ms Starshine’ as a childcare and after school club worker, don’t be surprised if he starts offering to kiss the children.
Also, you should be locked up for ignoring instincts that have kept children safe for millennia.
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
“We have the right to hold everybody to account and for our views to be respected and not just dismissed as transphobia.”
Rosie Duffield MP joins the panel discussion ‘Has feminism made women more free’ with specific reference to Culture.
Come and join the conversation at Feminism: What’s the Point? 2026 on Sunday 5th July
Tickets available via the pinned post on our profile.
@RosieDuffield1
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
Introducing the speakers for the panel discussion: ‘Has feminism made women more free?’
Joining us at our first national conference on 5th July are…
- Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1
- Susanna Rustin @SusannaRustin
- Victoria Smith @glosswitch
- Maeve Halligan @MaeveHalligan
The legal and social barriers that once limited our lives have largely been dismantled. We have the right to work, own property, start businesses, borrow money, participate in public life without male approval.
But what has that freedom delivered in practice? For younger women, is life more free than it was for their mothers, or have new pressures and constraints emerged?
Come and listen to the panel discuss women’s freedom and whether contemporary feminism is delivering on its promises.
Link to ticket sales in the next post:
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
“Feminism is an unfinished revolution - and now we’re facing concerted efforts to roll back what we’ve already achieved.”
Writer and historian Joan Smith, joins the panel discussing ‘What is Feminism For?’
Come and listen, and ask questions, at our first national conference: Feminism: What’s the Point?
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
Well done Charles Davey! We hope your brother listens.
You are absolutely right to say this: "Opposition to single sex spaces demonstrates a sad lack of insight, understanding or compassion for girls and women in a society tainted by violence against girls and women".
And we are all very grateful to @LibVoice4Women for their continual honesty and courage in standing up to the harmful ideology in their party.
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
A lawyer who doesn’t understand that the Code reflects the law 🤦♀️
Jun 10
I've joined more than 120 colleagues in signing this EDM to reject the EHRC Code of Practice.
Trans people deserve love and equality. I’m worried these new rules won't achieve that.
We need a proper debate in Parliament on them, and what they mean for our trans constituents.
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
Calm & authoritative responses by @EHRC chair to @CommonsWEC include ⬇️on #Stonewall's 'No Debate':
“I think one of the reasons why discussion has become so unpleasant in this area is because for such a long time that dialogue was prevented from happening”
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
1/ I went to Parliament to watch the Women and Equalities Committee. The chair of the EHRC Mary-Ann Stephenson (MAS) and CEO John Kirkpatrick were giving evidence, the other adults in the room were Rosie Duffield and Rebecca Paul MP. Other than that it was the slow kid's table.
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Mary Howden 🏴 💚🤍💜 retweeted
Jun 9
There are now 15 Scottish MPs who have signed the Early Day Motion Susan Murray @mpsusanmurray Liberal Democrats @LibDems is the latest Scottish MP to sign.
Write to Susan Murray if she is your MP ask her why she doesn't want to follow the law?
Jun 6
🧵There are 14 Scottish MPs who signed the Early Day Motion (EDM 240 / 65938) to reject the EHRC guidance protecting single-sex spaces.
This guidance reflects the @ForWomenScot UK Supreme Court ruling on biological sex in the Equality Act 2010. It gives providers clarity on the law.
These MPs want to undermine women's rights and same-sex spaces.
❗️We expect better from Scottish representatives
❗️We would like to know why they want to remove guidance that reflects the law
Full list of signatories: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-…
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