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Marion Calder said: “Q Manivannan should stop trying to colonise our spaces. What Q is calling for would amount to a clear breach of the law and workplace regulations. “The women who have contacted Q may not be the same women who contact us, who have been raped and assaulted by men who claim to identify as women, including ones with long hair.” thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…
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Unqualified people with extreme gender beliefs practically run Brighton. This is a longstanding scandal, thank goodness it's finally been investigated. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c932…
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“Throwing women under the camper van” exquisite

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Why should I support Pride, a movement that supports the harming of our most vulnerable children to affirm the sexual proclivities of autogynephiles? I feel shame and anger at a society that turns a blind eye to this child abuse.
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‘Darren Rigby, who sent hoax death threats to schools is jailed’ All girls’ schools were specifically targeted. Rigby ‘threatened to carry out deadly attacks supposedly in response to the treatment of ‘transwomen’’. None of this features in the coverage across outlets, despite the evidence emerging in email evidence and in court, neither does it feature in the Merseyside Police report. ‘I’m going to kill every girl and woman staff member I come across’ ‘I'm going to shoot and stab all your girls’ It’s a crime of extreme misogyny in the cause of ‘fighting trans oppression’ but any mention of ‘trans’ has been erased by the police, PA and all news outlets. In addition the BBC report hides the fact that it was a crime against women and girls. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0e2… southport.thelead.uk/p/hoax-…
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Follow the logic. Women are deluded and naive for thinking predatory and violent men can be kept out of women-only spaces. ‘They can rape you anywhere.’ However, trans-identified men can only be safe in women-only spaces, because no abuser would ever follow them in there.
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Article in pipeline. The Solidarity Trap Young women in their teens and twenties have come of age in an institutional culture that presents support for transgender identity as the natural extension of progressive values they already hold. Feminism, as it has been transmitted to this generation through education, social media, and popular culture, has been substantially reframed around the language of inclusion, allyship, and the rejection of exclusionary boundaries. To question whether a male bodied person should have unrestricted access to women's changing rooms is, within this framework, not a safeguarding question. It is a question about whether you are a good person. To be continued....
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Jessi Harris is a 70 year old butch lesbian who medically transitioned in 1989. She detransitioned roughly 30 years later. Jessi read a chapter from her book “Down the Rabbit Hole” at Detrans Awareness Day in DC youtu.be/EfASsqcRGcc?is=v3sv…
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Why the Scottish Election result is a triple-whammy blow for women archive.is/2026.05.11-053735…
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If you understand the mechanics of grooming, it is so clear what is being done to children through 'gender affirmation'. This is essential reading 👇
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Soon I’ll be launching TERF Times: a weekly round-up of UK news for those unwilling to abandon reality, alongside links to 'feminal' commentary from around the world. 👀
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A few weeks ago, the company I work for issued compulsory "training", including statements such as: “Remember, if Cathi is trans, saying ‘she used to be a man’ isn't accurate. Trans women are women, and they've never not been a woman”. I shit you not. So I've waited till today, when the company hosts one of its quarterly meetings with all the top brass across several sites, in person and online, to read out a statement on exactly what I thought of this “training”. I made reference to the precedent set when @MForstater won her appeal in June 2021, and levelled an accusation to the entire company that they are indirectly, and possibly directly, discriminating against all its employees under the protected characteristic of their freedom of belief. You could have heard a pin drop. At first. The result? HR is now bricking it. The training is no longer compulsory. They're taking matters under review, and I've had so many hugs and messages off support from my female colleagues. My boss shook my hand. It isn't easy speaking up. I've been very nervous till today. But as @ThePosieParker keeps telling me: if not me, then who? If not now, then when? I think it was important that someone saw a gay man stand up and defend the women he works with, and send a message that this absurd nonsense has no place being forced upon us. I've sure I've made plenty of enemies at work today and pissed numerous people off. And I'm glad. I'd do it all again in a heartbeat because it's simply the right thing to do.
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Because it’s important that all facts are considered when making important decisions regarding the health and welfare of children, below is some information that I hope @WesselyS, as Chair of the Oversight Board, will find of interest before proceeding with the controversial Pathways Trial. As exposed by @joshhowie on GBNews, there is currently a culture of suppression and silence concerning anything to do with the controversial topics of ‘sex and gender’ throughout psychological services and the academic discourse associated with it. x.com/joshxhowie/status/1995… This is an ongoing problem in academia further evidenced by @ProfAlicS who is now taking the drastic action of taking the University of Bristol to Court: x.com/ProfAliceS/status/2003… This means that important research like that of @wontsomeonethi2 that shows that children lack adult comprehension skills is simply not getting through: x.com/wontsomeonethi2/status… sciencedirect.com/science/ar… There are several reasons for this stifling of information, but I argue that one of them is because individuals who are invested in promoting the idea that humans should be facilitated to mimic the opposite sex because of psychological issues, have the ear of people like yourself and are only providing you with a one-sided point of view. Take for example James Palmer, who has previously said "It's got to be a good thing is that there are people out there that want to explore their gender. The fact that it's in the younger age group has got to be a good thing.” "For a young adult, to be able to come forward, to seek that expertise, earlier [rather] than much much later in life, that's got to be a good thing". telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06… archive.ph/NVIN2 It is deeply concerning that the person who has been appointed to set up ‘Gender Identity Services’ in this country believes that people should be encouraged to explore the erroneous idea that humans can change sex if they mimic the opposite sex. “Once all seven regional hubs have opened, Palmer says “we will get to where we want, which is that individuals, as soon as that [gender] incongruence starts to be truly persistent, even at a young age, will be able to get access to an NHS service”.” theguardian.com/society/2025… This is a political claim asserting that those who reject sexed stereotypes are somehow in need of medical interventions that facilitate mimicry of the opposite sex. It is not science. It is ideology dressed up as science. Another example is Peter Fonagy who has said “There is no question that the way we, as a society, respond to the sexuality or gender identity of others is often detrimental to their mental health. It is profoundly wrong that people we know and love fear rejection from their friends and families – and feel vulnerable to abuse and fear violence – simply because of their sexual or gender identity. “Being accepted is a human need. It is not a privilege to have that need met, but a basic right, one from which all other opportunities flow. When we can all assert our sexual and gender identity, and when we have the respect we need to feel proud of who we are, we will have a fairer society.” annafreud.org/news/new-resou… Professor Fonagy is making a false equivalence here because he is conflating same sex attraction with those who erroneously think humans can change sex with the use of euphemisms like ‘gender identity’. Claiming to be the opposite sex is delusional, it is not the same as same sex attraction. ‘Gender identity’ is a contested notion that has not received adequate academic scrutiny. It is the belief that changing the perception of one’s sex by mimicking the other sex equates to actually changing one’s sex. Although its origins are elsewhere, it was largely promoted through psychological services via Queer ideology, which has previously been discredited by me here: x.com/TamaraSearsUK/status/1… It’s perhaps worth mentioning that Jeremy Clarke, the Director of @AlbanyTrust, is also a supervisor at the Anna Freud Centre under Peter Fonagy. In his evidence to the IICSA Clarke boasted about how the Albany Trust hosted the first ever conference for those who pretend to be the opposite sex: “We were responsible for the first international conference on psychological needs of transgender people undertaking gender transition, and support needed across the spectrum of gender identity issues, held in 1969.” webarchive.nationalarchives.… The ideas promoted by the Albany Trust have continually been contested by feminists, gay rights organisations, and therapists, but you won’t find hardly any of these opposing points of view in any publication associated with psychological services as there is an ongoing culture of censorship surrounding these issues as evidenced earlier. Unfortunately, the Albany Trust has history when it comes to promoting contested narratives. Their involvement with the PIE only properly came to light because of the investigations of the IICSA: iicsa.org.uk/reports-recomme… Jeremy Clarke was instrumental in creating the Memorandum of Understanding Against Conversion Therapy. Originally intended to address only conversion practices concerning those who are same sex attracted, in 2017 the term ‘gender identity’ was added without discussion or debate. spectator.com/article/the-do… There is an ongoing dispute regarding how it came to be included. Claims from both parties to the debate can be read here: telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10… and here: therapistsagainsttransphobia… I trust I don’t have to provide you with the history concerning RCPsych’s involvement with this problematic document. Further history which Peter Jenkins has provided can be accessed here: x.com/judge148/status/199847… The debates regarding the contested notions of ‘gender identity’, ‘gender dysphoria’ and ‘gender incongruence’ have never been aired. They are terms that were created by differing factions involved in promoting the idea that humans can change sex. The Pathways Trial document repeatedly conflates ‘gender identity’ ‘dysphoria’ and ‘incongruence’. Do you not find it strange that these terms are treated this way in an allegedly scientific document that permits experimentation on children? Given that @wesstreeting has quite clearly stated that he ‘is only following clinical advice’ it seems quite likely that the blame for any adverse effects of the trial will quite likely fall to you as Chair. Is that really a risk worth taking at a time of academic censorship on the topic? There is a lot more information waiting for you should you wish to receive it. I urge you to stop the trial going ahead or at least delay it until rigorous academic discussion and debate can occur. The lives of these children depend on it.

So I have some questions about the new Mental Health Act. "The act will also strengthen the rights of children and young people to make their wishes and feelings more central to decision making, ensuring they, and those close to them, are consulted and involved where appropriate with decisions around their care and treatment." "The Mental Health Act implements reforms proposed by Sir Simon Wessely in his landmark Independent Review of the Mental Health Act in 2018. Sir Simon is a chair of psychological medicine at King’s College London and a world-leading figure in the field." Given that @WesselyS is the Chair of the NHS England Children and Young People's Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board, the Regius Professor of Psychiatry at Kings College London and has a background in military trauma rather than child exploitation, I'd welcome clarification on what expertise he has in recognising coercive control (or grooming) techniques as applied to children? The language surrounding the inclusion of children's wishes for their care may sound benevolent, but I trust @WesselyS agrees with me that it is entirely inappropriate when it comes to their future sexual functioning? What safeguards will be put in place to prevent those children under coercive control from being exploited under the Act? england.nhs.uk/commissioning… I trust @WesselyS also agrees with me that it would be a travesty for @KingsCollegeLon to be caught up in an embarrassing situation like those that @AlbanyTrust and @MindCharity found themselves in previously? x.com/i/status/1841888163079… Many of us have grave concerns that the rhetoric around how children can understand and consent to the elimination of their sexual functioning through the Pathways Trial has remarkably similar echoes to the scandals of the past which have claimed children can 'consent'. Are you aware of the history @WesselyS?
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