Women don’t earn womanhood through obedience, kindness, or agreement. They don’t lose it by being difficult, outspoken, or unpopular. The attempt to shame women into accepting an ideology by suggesting that disagreement makes them not women is manipulative and deeply sexist.

This unqualified bore says his secondhand opinions are “not up for debate.” Yes they are. At a university all opinions are up for debate. If you cannot defend your opinions rationally, either they are indefensible or you are too stupid to defend them. In either case you have no right to force them on students who have expressed their wish to attend a lecture by doing so. thetimes.com/uk/education/ar…

“Why do you care?” is not an argument. It is an attempt to shame and scold people out of discussing policies that affect language, law, sport, prisons, safeguarding, medicine, schools, and women’s rights. If it shouldn't matter to me then it shouldn't matter to anyone, so what are you doing here? Women are allowed to care about the definition of women. Lesbians are allowed to care about sex-based boundaries. Parents are allowed to care about safeguarding and medical ethics. Women and girls are allowed to have boundaries, to have those boundaries respected by men and boys and to be concerned when their reasonable concerns are ignored and shot down by some random woke scold with "Why do you care?" Calling that “obsession” is just a way to avoid answering the actual arguments or engaging ingood faith. And if this is supposedly no big deal, then it should be no big deal to say sex is real, women are female, and gender identity does not override everyone else’s rights, language, or boundaries. If it's no big deal for women to be redefined, then it's no big deal to not do that shit, too. It really should be no big deal to say sex is real and the infalsifiable gender identity of a tiny monority does not override everyone else’s rights or boundaries. Speculating about my psychology instead of answering the argument is just name calling and bad faith concern. Women are allowed to care about laws, language, safeguarding, sport, prisons, medicine, and sex-based rights. "Why do you care?" is yet another deflection, ad hominem, and attempt to suppress the argument rather than addressing the concerns in good faith. Thank you for demonstrating my point about common rhetorical tactics of trans activists in this exemplary example.

Mr. Davies, For a brief, fleeting 10-15 years, WE ALMOST HAD IT. The years between 1998-2012, roughly, we were very close, when no one really gave a damn either way. I remember it distinctly. An enormous shift in attitude’s & acceptance had occurred, after the horrors of being gay in the 80’s to the early-mid 90’s. I was NOT alone in feeling this, even amongst the upper echelons of the ‘Gay Mafia’ I used to hang around with said the same. The original aim was EQUALITY & we were, more or less, there. Then along came identity politics, gender ideology & Que*r Theory, which screwed everything up. Stonewall’s CEO, Ruth Hunt, said in 2014/15, & I quote, that their shift in focus was “known to be controversial, that it would be difficult, that people would LOSE by that & that herself & the staff thought THAT WAS A PRICE WORTH PAYING.” In other words, they KNEW this would receive pushback, yet were unwilling to listen or engage with those of us who had serious concerns. A subsequent Stonewall CEO, Nancy Kelley, called lesbians “sexual racists” for not including men in their dating pool. Michael Cashman called for those who had questions, predominantly women, about this shift to be “defecated upon” & there was “no debate” to be had. And NOW look where we are. Look around at the utter mess we’re in. If you’re going to “look at yourself as an idiot”, at least be aware of WHY you might feel that way & what part you, yourself, played in it. You cannot cheerlead & encourage an ideology that has caused so much destruction & damage, & then pretend to be flummoxed as to the reasons WHY everything has got so much worse. Just so we’re clear…

Yes, period huts are back. Because girls just aren’t embarrassed and awkward enough about menstruation. But what happens when the trans-identified boy feels excluded from the period hut? What if he feels less of a girl? Perhaps it would be easier just to tell girls to stay home.

I personally can't stop thinking about how Monica will live forever in Lizzie's Stormy Weather novel, because she gave her the quotes, the courage to write it and live it #Rivals

the fact that monica and lizzie started the conversation by saying they aren't brave enough to divorce because of the kids and end it determined to fight for themselves because they want their daughters to be free 🥹 there was a storm raging outside AND inside the characters too

“It is undeniable that there are women who are against women on this issue [trans]… I’ve always likened these women to the women who were against women getting the right to vote. Women’s rights have always been won against opposition from some men & frankly far too many women.”

So we have to change society so the men who can't function in the men's room can function, and if the result is now women having less ability function in society, too bad. They should have thought of that before they were girls.

Why infertile females are still female in under 2.5 minutes

Scratch the surface of "gender identity" and it's pretty dresses, submissiveness and cake-baking. Every time. Female mind my arse.

Christopher Hitchens identifies the creation of identity politics as the moment the left lost. I wonder if he imagined the damage it would still be causing nearly sixty years later.

Aggressively dominant male mammals typically urinate to scent-mark their territory. “I’ll piss where I like." "I❤️pissin' on TERFs." They think they’re women. But can you imagine a better walking, talking, reeking advertisement for toxic masculinity? #SexMatters

If the policy announcement was "Men not allowed (by law) in women's changing rooms" and the main point of rebuttal was the men who want to go into women's changing rooms saying "How are you going to stop us then?" we would judge things very differently. ...

The leader of the Lib Dems, and the leader and deputy leader of the Green party, think some women have penises. In itself, it seems like a relatively unimportant matter. But it is symptomatic of a contempt for science and evidence-based truth. Could you vote for a flat-Earther?

It's amazing how men who tend to be the ones in political power - do not understand how voting works. So here's Voting 101. Both men and women vote. They are not divided into "men vote right, women vote left." You will find both sexes on both sides...

Every time I want to humble myself, I read entrance exam questions from formerly prestigious universities that were written over a century ago. We live in the ruins of an advanced civilization.

This is, as many people have said, a tremendous speech. I'm neither surprised nor too worried that the vote was lost - that many students voted against women's and LGB rights. As a student, I was passionate and a bit dogmatic, confident that I was on the right side of history. But when I heard counter arguments, even if they didn't persuade me straight away, they went round and round in my head for months and years. They bugged me. There will be plenty of cambridge students today who are unsettled, reflective, moving towards their own 'hang on a minute' moment. It's difficult to overestimate the importance of what @MaeveHalligan and her colleagues have done, and the effects will filter out over the decades to come. Just having the arguments is tremendously important. To present them as intelligently and articulately as they have done is a magnificent bonus.

"No, I don't subscribe to this 'kindness' - I'll tell the truth instead." I spoke at the Cambridge Union last night about LGBs, children's safety and women's rights. Full video here: