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Merched Cymru retweeted
Proposed conversion practices bans may seem harmless.
In reality they are a wildly illiberal intrusion into family life that threatens to turn Britain into a Stasi state.
Link to my article (from June) for the Daily Mail here:
dailymail.com/news/article-1…
Merched Cymru retweeted
Brighton Council has now amended its plans for the Withdean Pool to include single-sex changing cubicles (hopefully in separate areas, though unclear). Original mixed-sex design was unsafe for women and girls.
Thank you for listening to residents’ feedback, @BrightonHoveCC.
This is Brighton Council's Equality Impact Assessment for the proposed Withdean Pool with its mixed-sex changing village (via FOI).
‘Does your analysis indicate a disproportionate impact relating to Gender Identity and Sex (including non-binary and intersex people)?’
‘Possibly YES – positive’ 🧐
Women and girls don’t need to worry about their safety in mixed-sex facilities because of ‘cubicle design’ and ‘operational management’.
Merched Cymru retweeted
I feel quite emotional reading this.
It came years too late but I pay my respects to RCEW CEO Ciara Bergman and the Board of Trustees who I know will have pored over this. Thank you.
Women victim-survivors of sexual & domestic violence & abuse deserve women only spaces. Finally.
A clear statement from @RapeCrisisEandW
- Every adult and child who has experienced sexual violence deserves access to to support
- The Rape Crisis National Service Standards recognise the benefit of women only services and spaces
- RCEW Centres MUST provide women-only spaces and services
- This does not mean that they cannot *also* provide services (or referral) for male survivors including trans-identifying men.
rapecrisis.org.uk/news/rcew-…
Merched Cymru retweeted
An Oxford lecturer is still posing in fake breasts despite criticism.
“There’s no evidence that this man identifies as a woman, but transgender demands muddy the water so that normal standards of behaviour are undermined.” @DerryBanShee in @jan_murray’s latest for [Un]Captured.
nitter.cf/jan_murray/status/2115…
“We expect everyone involved in teaching to maintain appropriate professional standards and to treat students with respect.”
That was Oxford University's response when [Un]Captured asked about a male tutor wearing giant prosthetic breasts to work.
Biochemistry lecturer Matt Rattley has kicked off the autumn term with new photos wearing his infamous ‘norks’ - including one in a lecture theatre with students.
The university declined to discuss individual personnel matters.
Full story at [Un]Captured 👇
Merched Cymru retweeted
"Another reason given for the surgery suspension was an approach, also in August, from what NHS Wales calls a “whistleblower” within the NHS. Dr Joseph Chrysostom had submitted a 42-page dossier about the complete lack of regulatory oversight of gender surgery in the UK and its miss-selling to vulnerable patients by the NHS."
What has been going on at the Welsh Gender Service is a big story. Thanks to NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee's commitment to relative transparency*, we can see it unfold.
genderblog.net/welsh-gender-…
* it took them at least two years to pull their finger out, mind you
Merched Cymru retweeted
"“It is right that Labour backbenchers are sounding the alarm on the draft Conversion Therapy Bill. It is a complete mess and the risk of criminalising parents just for trying to support their children as advocated by Dr Cass is clearly unacceptable"
telegraph.co.uk/gift/0b157bb…
Merched Cymru retweeted
This statement by @oliviabaileymp is a mess. The Conversion Practices Bill is amply capable of criminalising normal parenting. There's no "abuse threshold" at all - "abusiveness" is expressly a question of fact for the court/jury.
This was from back in June on the Conversion Practices Bill. There was only a handful of us raising concerns.
I remember being staggered at the time how clear it was that the Minister hadn’t read or understood her own bill. And she didn’t even attempt to answer the question on whether a parent withholding consent for a child to participate in the puberty blocker trial could be at risk of 5 years in prison.
This Minister is now the Chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee.
Merched Cymru retweeted
Another trade union wing member recused from sitting on an employment appeal tribunal because of the appearance of bias when considering gender critical belief discrimination.
Gloria Mills is National Secretary for equalities at UNISON and was President of the TUC.
Some are more equal than others according to Unison.
Unison and the TUC have campaigned against the lawful gender critical views of the sort expressed by Peter Wilkins.
We are reporting today from the Employment Appeal Tribunal of Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (or DSTL) v Wilkins. DSTL is appealing.
Dr Peter Wilkins, a civil servant, won an employment tribunal case in March 2025 for constructive dismissal, harassment and direct discrimination based on his protected gender-critical beliefs.
Merched Cymru retweeted
Honoured to recognise with a Motion in Parliament, @jk_rowling’s tireless work in defence of the rights & safety of women & girls, plus in her Essay, why aspects of trans activism pose risks to women’s sex-based rights and to freedom of speech and belief.
parliament.scot/chamber-and-…
Merched Cymru retweeted
Jolyon Maugham’s campaign against Oxford Street’s Harry Potter Christmas lights is so petty and reactionary it should make Victor Meldrew blush. Leave JK Rowling alone, says Jo Bartosch
buff.ly/2OOgdxZ
Merched Cymru retweeted
3 yrs fighting its own female nurses even though the tryst was warned their position was against uk law & 1.5 million spent of tax payers money! Yet no who made these choices has lost their job! Extraordinary express.co.uk/news/uk/226004…
Merched Cymru retweeted
Two Tavistock whistleblowers warned about its gender clinic long before it closed.
Now they are raising the alarm about the draft Conversion Practices Bill.
Watch therapists Marcus and Susan Evans explain why it poses serious risks to children, parents and families.
Merched Cymru retweeted
Because a certain kind of man believes that not getting everything he wants from women is oppression. This applies both to incels and to the type of trans-identified man who insists that speech, laws and physical spaces should be reconfigured around his self-image.
Merched Cymru retweeted
The thing is, Mike, we aren't that fussed when we are in the queue at Tesco. We are a bit more worried if the person with a penis is in the locked female psychiatric ward, prison, changing room.
I KNOW! Context is really hard to understand.
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Merched Cymru retweeted
The potential answers are:
a) she doesn't understand it, despite having it explained to her properly;
b) she doesn't understand it, because it hasn't been explained to her properly;
c) she does understand it (the least likely).
GRR, Westminster edition.
Merched Cymru retweeted
The 19-year-old white supremacist planning a mass murder at a Hindu temple in Illinois was transgender.
NBC News Chicago refers to him throughout the story as a male and by he/him pronouns while noting that he "receives hormone injections for gender transition."
Meanwhile, Canadian newspapers continue to refer to both the 18-year old man who murdered eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia and the US-based male charged as his co-conspirator solely as women, honoring the preferred pronouns of both murderer and co-conspirator, with no reference to their sex or their trans identification.
All of these people are men.
BREAKING: Mass Shooting Plot Targeting Sri Venkateswara Temple in Aurora, Illinois, Foiled
A 19-year-old suspected white supremacist, Alexandros Paporakis, has been arrested for allegedly plotting a mass shooting at a Hindu place of worship in Aurora, Illinois.
Investigators say the suspect had been planning the attack for two years and allegedly targeted Indians and South Asians.
Police recovered an AR-style rifle, ammunition and tactical gear.
A potentially devastating hate-driven attack may have been prevented.
Paporakis worked as a cashier at a Taco Bell in Arlington Heights for nearly seven months.
According to a co-worker who spoke to investigators, Paporakis regularly made racist remarks, particularly targeting Indians. He openly identified himself as a white supremacist and frequently spoke about Nazis and armed struggle.
Merched Cymru retweeted
We are heartbroken in WRN Wales at the death of Claire. We send our sympathies to her family and her many friends.
Claire is irreplaceable. Her contribution has been immense. A brilliant mind, a superb campaigner, sharp and analytical, but above all, a wonderful friend.
She is pictured here outside the Senedd, after giving evidence at the Stage 1 Reform Committee on the Electoral Candidates Lists Bill. She said Welsh Government had no legislative competence to do this and that the Bill was discriminatory. She was right. (She always was though).
Her brilliant blog is here: womensrights.network/post/se…
RIP Claire. 💔
ANNOUNCEMENT
It’s with heavy hearts that WRN announce the death of one of our own, the truly fabulous Claire Loneragan.
Claire was a fundamental part of WRN since its inception and had been key to the growth and the success of our organisation. She is irreplaceable as a WRNer and as a Director. Most importantly though, as a dear friend. We will miss her immensely.
We know that all our WRN members will feel her loss deeply, not least her ‘home’ group of Somerset and Dorset.
We send our sincere heartfelt sympathies to her husband Dave, her children, her wider family, and her many friends.
Claire had been ill for some time but maintained her typical good humour, courage (and not a small amount of ice cream) throughout.
When we have needed wisdom, hard work and application, Claire had provided these in abundance. Her hand was in everything that we did. And we all endeavoured to ‘Be More Claire’ as a result.
But more importantly than that, she was always our dear friend.
Goodbye Claire.
We love you so much xx
Merched Cymru retweeted
My latest essay about how therapists can hide behind the neutral position as a way to avoid dealing with conflict within the therapeutic process. However this approach doesn’t help our patients.
stellaomalley.substack.com/p…
Merched Cymru retweeted
The Conversion Practices bill could criminalise the parent who tries to convince their teenage daughter that it's okay to be a lesbian.
If so many teens are moving from gay to trans we have to ask why. This bill prevents that discussion.
Sign the @AllianceLGB letter here 👇
LGB people are not a prop for this Bill.
Lesbians, gay men and bisexual people have signed our open letter because we believe it could harm children who may grow up LGB — and punish honest discussion rather than protect them.
This Bill does not speak for us. Add your name: lgballiance.org.uk/conversio…
#ItsOkayToBeGay
Merched Cymru retweeted
Just once, I’d love to see trans activists and their supporters answer @jk_rowling’s measured and cogent arguments without misrepresenting them or screaming insults.
They could start by reading her latest piece and addressing what she actually says, rather than what they imagine she is secretly thinking.
Too much to ask?
jkrowling.com/opinions/an-up…
