Thank God she was doing something meaningful

Lewis Hamilton is steely-eyed missile man #F1

A majority of people of all ages and political shades prefer single-sex toilets. So why do more than 100 MPs want to reject official guidance that will support single-sex spaces, services and sports? Write to your MP using our tool: sex-matters.org/take-action/…

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Please let this be true. Also @NUFC , those donkeys need an upgrade

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Appalling 🧵 I want those who champion men in women’s sport to explain why they’re happy to put girls at risk like this.

Listen to this smart woman. It’s why the silent majority is not being heard right now. But history shows us this over & over, yet still we haven’t learnt.

Introducing the Scottish-American travel dictionary 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We’ve put together this guide to keep the Tartan Army out of trouble in the States. Read carefully to avoid confusing the locals, deeply offending the country, or being interrogated by Homeland Security over a sandwich.

This person came to Ireland via France. He must have flown. Did he fly to France from Sudan? If so, did he have a refugee visa to do that? I know it’s not the first safe country you reach etc but did he have a French refugee visa? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crr8…

10 Words/Phrases that end the debate before it even starts

Hey, 🇮🇪, let’s play these lads at cricket, they sound grrrrreeeaat

If Donald Jessica gets a sequel, so do I. Happy 250th, America. 🇺🇸🙄🧠 #VeryStableGenius #PartTwo #parody

The more I read about the wonderful women who fought to break down barriers to allow women to fulfil their potential, the angrier I get towards the women who are happy to give up our hard won rights to cults that require women to be covered & men in frocks who invade our spaces

Enough has been enough from first day a man was shipped into a women's prison. There is no reason at all for men to be imprisoned with women. Men's personal issues have nothing to do with women & they should not be foisted upon women, especially not in enclosed, confined spaces.

My nieces’ beloved cat Leonard has gone missing in Burwash, East Sussex. It’s been 4 days and he has a medical condition. I’ll offer a £1000 reward to anyone who finds him.

I don’t frame it as rights lost “because of trans people.” That is your framing. The issue is rights and protections weakened by policies that replace sex with gender identity. Women have a right to name themselves as a sex class. Women have a right to female-only spaces where privacy, dignity, trauma, or safety matter. Women and girls have a right to fair female sport. Lesbians have a right to define their orientation as same-sex attraction. People have a right to speak truthfully about sex without being threatened, punished, or smeared as hateful. Those rights do not have to be completely destroyed before women are allowed to object to them being redefined, narrowed, or made unenforceable. Trans people can have ordinary civil rights without everyone else being required to pretend sex is irrelevant.

As a lesbian, I am so tired of this nonsense. I am tired of corporate Pride and activist Pride. This week HelloFresh decided that the best way to celebrate Pride Month was to post jokes about preparing for anal sex and offering high-fibre recipes to help people "prep". They then doubled down with a discount code called BOTTOMSUP. Inclusion! WOO! 🙄 The thing that frustrates me is that people like me have spent years defending gay rights against accusations that we are hypersexual, inappropriate, and incapable of ordinary family life. That was one of the central prejudices gay people faced. For decades, opponents portrayed gay men in particular as sexually obsessed and depraved. They argued that homosexuality was all about sex rather than love, commitment, relationships and family. The fight for equal rights was partly a fight against exactly that caricature. And now here we are. A major multinational company has decided the best way to celebrate Pride is to publicly discuss anal sex. What an achievement. The same-sex marriage movement wasn't about sex. It was about love, commitment, and the ability to build a life with the person you love. It was about family and equality before the law. Most gay people are not what the weirdos in the HelloFresh marketing department think we are. We go to work, pay bills, walk the dog, argue about whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher, and try to build a decent life together. You know... Normal things. The overwhelming majority of gay people just want to be accepted and left alone. We want the same freedoms, responsibilities and opportunities as everyone else. We don't need multinational corporations making dirty jokes about us to feel "included". What makes this even more ridiculous is that HelloFresh's core market is clearly not radical "queer" activists with blue hair and septum rings. Their customers are overwhelmingly middle-class couples and families. Busy parents. Professionals. People with disposable income who want convenient meals after work. How hard would it have been to make a genuinely wholesome Pride advertisement? Two mums cooking dinner with their kids or two husbands hosting friends. A same-sex couple just making dinner together or flipping a coin to see who has to cook. A simple message acknowledging families and love. Instead they went with rectum jokes. Somewhere along the way after the TQ hijacked our movement, Pride stopped being about acceptance and started being about performance. A small but influential group of activists have convinced themselves that being as shocking, vulgar and sexually explicit as possible is somehow brave and intrinsically "queer". They think boundaries of any kind are oppression including standards and decorum. They think manners are censorship. The result is campaigns like this one and somehow people are shocked when there is backlash against us all. I actually feel really sorry for gay men in particular because one of the oldest stigmas they have faced is the idea that they are dirty, promiscuous and defined entirely by sex. This campaign reinforces that stereotype. If you wanted to design an advertisement that would make ordinary people roll their eyes and think Pride is ridiculous, or shield their children's eyes in horror, you would struggle to do better than this. The irony is that HelloFresh's marketing department thinks this is progressive. It's regressive and distasteful. It takes decades of work by ordinary gay people who want to be seen as neighbours, colleagues, parents, partners and family members and reduces all of it to a crude sexual punchline. The people who fought for our rights wanted dignity, but the people most enthusiastic about Pride today seem determined to turn it into a fetish convention with corporate sponsors.

It’s almost a week since I left hospital after becoming unwell. I’m on the road to recovery now, however, there is one thing I’ll never forget or forgive. My bag was stolen from a ward while I was incapacitated and the staff were likely busy trying to help me. (I have no memory of that time.) Whoever stole that bag, I have no words for you, but I do have a picture of you when you tried to open the phone. I know it’s a long shot but has anyone in the Carmarthen area come across a bag like this? I suspect my phone and purse was swiped and the bag discarded sometime between the 30th and 31st of May. I had other sentimental stuff in that bag that has no value to anyone but me. If by chance anyone has spotted it, please DM me. Thank you.

In honour of @akuareindorf and @ForWomenScot who’ve been doing a sterling job of *explaining something quite straightforward to idiots* I’ve made an easy-read version that, hopefully, MPs may find more digestible