“If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion...”
Abigail Adams, 1744
Today we launch Conservatives For Women.
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“Suella Braverman will announce a lifetime ban on sex offenders changing their name and gender in a bid to close a loophole that is allowing criminals to evade the sex offence register.” 👏👏👏
“Miriam Cates, the Tory MP…said: “Only women experience the menopause and only women can become mothers. Universities are supposed to be seats of learning, not spreaders of disinformation.”
Very strong statement on single-sex spaces and service providers in the Commons today from
@trussliz
Minister for Women and Equalities: "The law is clear, it's on their side, and we will defend it"
#SexMatters
#RespectMySex
A very strong start from new Minister for Women and Equalities
@KemiBadenoch
"The Equality Act is a shield, not a sword, it is there to protect people of ALL characteristics, young or old, male or female, black or white, gay or straight"
Thanks for the question
@AJRichardsonMP
“So I’m sorry if you feel like you need to boycott Strictly for a tweet I made about a drag show, but I don’t think 12-year-olds should be doing overly sexualised drag acts. That’s my personal opinion, that’s all.”
“What I think is silly is to make laws and policy based on something intangible nobody else can see,” she said to roars of approval. “Are we supposed to accept what someone says about their gender identity on their word alone? That is open to malfeasance.”
This is outstanding from Miriam Cates MP in the GRR (Scotland) debate just now. Watch to the end to see some of the appalling behaviour every female MP who has spoken about women's rights has been subjected to today. Disgraceful misogyny
@HouseofCommons
“Joe Rogan asked how he moved from girl to boy mode, and Izzard replied: “I take off my heels.” Women, many with unadorned fingers and flat shoes, boiled at the arrogance of a man defining the female condition by the sexist crap they’ve long abhorred.”
Women? It's a terrible shame that we can no longer believe the BBC when it comes to items like this; will this prove to be adult human females attacking a boy? Will we ever find out? Are the BBC quoting the police report? We no longer trust them either.
1/2 “This would make clear that having a certificate does not give male people the right to compete in women’s sports, or to undress or shower with women and girls, or to be employed in a job that involves intimate contact with women (such as where a
“What I want is an investigation into how parliament was overruled by a small cluster of people in the NHS,” she says. “How did they manage with their bizarre belief systems to act directly against an Act of Parliament? That is my underlying concern.”
We don’t care what data Emily has, a woman is not a man with artificially lowered testosterone. Stop invading womens’ sport; it isn’t yours.
#SaveOurSports
This is a terrible headline. It isn't prejudice, it's the public being better informed of how illiberal the 'trans rights' movement is. And that is due to women (and a few men) refusing to be silenced, even though they lost friends and livelihoods.
“One senior MP said: ‘It is concerning that this seems to have been done without consultation with any women.
‘And, as usual, women are just expected to make way when the men’s facilities retain their original door sign.’”
1/3 “Many women are astounded by men’s insouciance about the removal of women’s single-sex spaces. I’ve realised why. Good men don’t know why they matter, and predatory men are eager to erode them. Decent men don’t realise how constantly wary women have
1/3 “Karen Varley, founder of
@CforWomenUK
said that while Baker has a history of serious violence and was “freely inciting others to commit violence against women, in full view and hearing of police officers”, women “are told we are bigots if we express
“Ms Stock has said that the claim that “transwomen are women” is a fiction, and argued that spaces where women undress and sleep should remain “genuinely single-sex”.” 👏👏👏
"It prompted an insider at the school to tell this newspaper that “drag is a highly sexualised parody of women; fine on the stage, not fine in schools”.
The parents’ group
@SafeSchools_UK
said “once again, safeguarding has gone out of the window”"
Miriam Cates asked: “Why are women being re-educated to suppress their natural and understandable discomfort about being forced to share intimate facilities with a man?”
#SexMatters
With all the lies and obfuscation on the issues of sex and gender, how refreshing it was to hear
@KemiBadenoch
give a straight answer to a deliberately disingenuous question.
@BackingBadenoch
because she understands
#Safeguarding
and cares about privacy and dignity for girls.
“Primark said it would keep gender-neutral changing areas while also creating new “women only” spaces which would be accessible for both cis and trans women.”
So MIXED SEX then…
@Primark
is not safe for women and girls.
#TranswomenAreMen
“Mhairi Black said that “bad actors” & “50-year-old Karens” were responsible for the debate over transgender rights & suggested those who vocally disagreed with her views on such issues could not be “decent” people.”
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes…
“Heads must roll at the DfE – of every civil servant who has allowed the fear of challenging gender ideology to overcome their duty to safeguard the nation’s children.”
👏👏👏
@specalot
“The root of the problem is a fundamental misunderstanding of the Equality Act 2010, often exploited by those with a separate agenda. The Equality Act is a shield, not a sword. It is about preventing discrimination, not social engineering.”
@KemiBadenoch
Dr Caroline Johnson MP said: “Adolescent boys should not have access to spaces where girls undress or sleep, and vice versa. Most parents and teenagers would be in agreement with that.”
Strong words from
@sajidjavid
following a Q from
@JamesSunderl
on the Cass review into GIDS:
"NHS services in this area...overly affirmative, bordering on ideological"
Reassuring to hear the Sec State for Health is listening to those who have raised concerns.
“Only the Talent Games, which drive selection, will be female and open,” a spokesman said. “All the rest will be self-ID. It’s hard to see a rationale for this, other than the influence of high-profile male divers. Tough luck for female divers.”
“Patients with dementia “should still be challenged” if they express discriminatory views about transgender staff, the 97-page guide states, while their relatives “may be removed from the premises” if they do the same.”
A very welcome development: “
@RosieDuffield1
@joannaccherry
and
@Baronessjenkin
have joined forces to help ensure policies across the public sector that are based on gender identity theory are documented and scrutinised.”
This is how to answer questions. Minister
@KemiBadenoch
cuts through the obfuscation.
A woman who understands that NO is a complete sentence!
If only all politicians could be as clear.
#SexMatters
Shocking:
@haylesdixon
in
@Telegraph
“An NHS Trust taking over care of trans children from the Tavistock clinic is being trained by controversial charity Mermaids, The Telegraph can reveal.” Will the NHS never learn?!
“Super hateful”!? Are they like, twelve? 🤣
“The museum doubled down on its decision on Saturday, saying it “unequivocally stands with nonbinary and transgender communities”.”
We will be happy to come and talk to you
@WilliamJHague
and explain why women have the right to defend their single-sex spaces, sports, & services, & have the right to maintain boundaries. When men are included, some women are excluded. Why won't men listen when women say NO?
“I’ll probably get a lot of angry letters now from WI members.”
@WilliamJHague
tells
#TimesRadio
the Women's Institute should welcome transgender women.
1/2 We are organising. Thousands upon thousands of us, from every party, every group, from every walk of life, in every corner of the UK. 2022 will be the year our politicians will hear our voices raised loud and clear - we are adult human females, we count and we vote.
I don’t think our politicians have the slightest idea how much anger is building among women from all walks of life at the attempts to threaten and intimidate them out of speaking publicly about their own rights, their own bodies and their own lives. 1/3
“I think the most interesting statistic is that the amount of trans [people] who actually surgically get altered is minuscule. So you are talking about men in women’s changing rooms.”
“There’s been this move to say that everything that JK Rowling has said on this issue is wrong and in bad faith, and part of that has been to lie and misrepresent my case,” says
@MForstater
“Joan Smith, the feminist author and adviser to
@SexMattersOrg
said: “The Welsh government is completely captured.”
She added: “It is not the job of publicly-funded organisations to change the language when the public is clearly against gender nonsense”
“The proportion supporting the idea has dropped by 21 points in two years, from 53 per cent to only 32 per cent.”
Support falls for trans people to change sex on birth certificate
For the avoidance of any doubt, we will make our position clear: we stand with
@StandingforXX
and stand with all women who are getting on with DOING rather than pontificating
#LetWomenSpeak
#TheHouseIsOnFire
Good grief
@miriam_cates
our jaws dropped too. Yet another man who has no empathy when it comes to women’s lives. Disgusting man who cares about men feeling insulted but not about women being raped 🤬
'It is insulting to trans women!'
Broadcaster, Michael Crick, reacts to the plans by the Health Secretary to ban trans women from female wards.
📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604
🖥️ GB News on YouTube
“Cambridge University alumni are pulling funding from their college in an intensifying row over the master announcing she was boycotting a “hateful” gender-critical speaker.”
“To anyone not blinded by this dogma, the argument is obvious. You cannot let men claim to be women just because they feel like it and thereby gain entry to women’s toilets, women’s changing rooms, women’s refuges, women’s jails.”
“Children referred to Gids were ten times more likely than the national average to have a registered sex offender as a parent, while 42 per cent had lost a parent through death or separation, and 70 per cent had more than five “associated features”…”
We will post the whole debate later, but this is important: the opening speech from Miriam Cates MP, 33 minutes of blazing sunlight on the disturbing RSE materials being used in our schools
#Safeguarding
#edutwitter
Westminster Hall debate today
“The Tavistock claimed that it did not have emails or minutes of meetings with Ms Green but after the information regulator threatened court action, it released more than 300 pages.”
1/2 “When a maternity bill last year used the dehumanising “pregnant people”, a Lords amendment restored the words “mother” and “woman”. Mordaunt fought to reject this but was leant on by No 10, speaking at the dispatch box in high dudgeon,
“Trans rights demonstrators prominently displayed signs proclaiming “arm trans kids” and “trans joy will outlive you all”.”
These are not rational people yet their ideology has taken a firm hold. Where are the grown ups?
“It's either that the woke producers didn't do the basics with research, or they didn't care. This apology means nothing unless they also issue an on-air clarification - they must do due diligence on this topic”
@fairplaywomen
Read the whole thread. Read it. Look at the pictures. Anyone who thinks these men are vulnerable and go through so much pain just to 'be who they are' then justify this. Try it.
And don't buy anything in
@houseoffraser
ever again.
#WomenHaveHadEnough
#LetWomenSpeak
#AGP
Hi
@houseoffraser
, now we know this man was flashing his penis in your stores, can you clarify if you allow him to use the female changing rooms? A staff member describes him as a regular…
“Later, when Miriam Cates, a Conservative MP and friend, spoke of her concerns around safeguarding, he accused her of being a bigot before crossing over to the Tory side to sit on the side benches, very close to her, staring as if to intimidate her.”
“Mr Barclay “hit the roof” and ordered an investigation earlier this year after £165,000 of taxpayers’ money was spent creating a guide to advise NHS doctors to communicate with patients in a “gender-neutral” way.”
Here is what happened at the end of the session today; it was NOT
@Conservatives
talking out this bill. Anyone who doubts that can watch the whole session on parliament tv. Labour simply do not want to protect women and children. They are in the grip of a devastating ideology.
“'Let women spe ...,' tried Ms Parker's troops.
Their words were lost in the volley of filth from the trans rights brigade, who were generally younger and, if they will forgive me, a good deal more masculine.”
@StandingforXX
"There appears to be nothing in the Gender Recognition Act precluding someone with a violent past from obtaining a legal gender change. Evidence is surely mounting that the Gender Recognition Act needs to be reviewed and tightened."
“At no point has Rowling wished ill on transgender people. On the contrary. What she has done is voice concerns – which a lot of us share – that women are in danger of being erased in an orgy of “people who menstruate” and “chest-feeders” wokery.”
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1/2 “None of this is really about the trans rights of adults. It is about the pushing of extreme gender ideology on to distressed children. Any basic model of safeguarding has gone out of the window. It is a complete negation of the duty to ‘Do No Harm’
Miriam Cates MP asks questions as to whether loopholes in the DBS check system have been considered; the answer is shocking
@NoXYinXXprisons
and many others have been pointing this out for a long time
#SafeguardingFail
“Children are telling adults that unisex facilities are making them feel, to quote a Year 11 pupil at Oasis Academy Mayfield in Southampton, “extremely vulnerable and uncomfortable” and yet no one appears to be listening to them.”
Whenever Ms Nokes gets her views into the press, views we vehemently disagree with, it does remind us to post this video. I minute and 15 seconds of clarity.
"How are you defining 'trans'...?
#WeBackBadenoch
Times reader comments always worth reading: “Caroline Nokes just does not get it. Gender dysphoria is a disorder, not a sexuality or a normal lifestyle choice. The case is completely different from the struggle for gay rights.”
#NokesForTheBlokes
“One mother who raised concerns about the policy was told by a local provider that if girls were uncomfortable with a boy in their bedroom, they needed “to be educated to respect the identity of the male person”, it is alleged.”
#Safeguarding
1/2 “Backbench Tory
@NickFletcherMP
who is planning to speak, told the Mail: 'We need to get back to being able to use plain English words like man, woman, sex, with everyone knowing
1/2 On the issue of the hiring of what we consider to be a totally unsuitable person for the role of 'Speak Out Champion' at the
@CPSUK
, we have considered two possibilities: EITHER the CPS did not even do a cursory check
@RishiSunak
Mr Sunak has pledged to produce clear guidance explaining sex in the Equality Act means biological sex, and self-identification does not carry any weight in law.
A letter from the Minister for Women and Equalities, Kemi Badenoch, to the Ofsted Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman, requesting that Ofsted carry out a snap inspection of Rye College, in East Sussex.
#edutwitter
“The campaign has led to outrage on social media, with critics questioning why a male model without breasts had been asked to model a sports bra.
@millihill
a feminist author, said she found the advert “more insulting than words can articulate”.” Indeed!
“If Matilda is a woman, surely her older sister should have the title? Matilda can’t have it both ways. She’s either a man or a woman and must give something up.”
Having his cake and eating it, obviously
#MalePrivilegeRules
“Alister Jack, the Scotland secretary, responded: “I think the honourable lady deserves a lot of respect for her courage and standing up on this issue.””
We watched the debate, any woman who dared to speak out was treated disgracefully 🤬
@ScotSecofState
Over the years, we've been threatened, harassed online, doxed, & had attempts to prevent us operating, from individuals & from corporates.
But 3 years on, our PM knows what a woman is, we have the support of the majority of our MPs, and we're strengthening the EqA.
#ToryTerfs
“It was decided not to display the schools the women had attended, because they didn’t want to draw attention to the fact that Gibson’s school was a boys’ school."
Indeed, the name *Eton* would have rather given the game away...
#SaveWomensSport
1/3 “I would like to be clear that there is no ‘hierarchy of rights’ under the act, therefore we should not hold one protected characteristic in higher regard than another.”
Letter from RtHon
@KemiBadenoch
to public authorities
A WMS by the Minister for Women and Equalities,
@KemiBadenoch
We are grateful to Ms Badenoch for dealing with this, it is long overdue. Kemi gets things done.
“Stonewall has dropped guidance advising groups on its workplace schemes to remove the word “mother” from their policies.
Lobby group said it would no longer reward higher ranking scores to employers who replaced “mother” with gender-neutral alternatives”
“Last year the Scottish government allowed GRC-holders to change the date and location of their weddings on their marriage certificates to protect their identity. When public documents can be falsified at whim, what is “truth”?”
1/2 Helen Joyce from
@SexMattersOrg
said “Reassuring service-providers they won’t be sued if they exclude all male people, however they identify, from women’s spaces is vital for women and girls.
“I think she’s been very, very brave, but she’s certainly persona non grata to the millennial generation in publishing,” says Craig. “I think that generation is very frightened about being at all unpopular…”
#IStandWithJKR
It matters not that those 'transwomen are very valued', what matters is fairness & safety in football at ALL levels. The
@FootballAssoc
must grow a spine and protect female players, especially those who are feeling pressured to accept men in their teams and feel unable to say no.
I raised the case of a woman badly injured by a collision with a transwoman (male) player during a football match in Sheffield & Hallamshire Women’s Football League. Allowing biological males to play football against women & girls is unfair & unsafe. FA must act.
@fairplaywomen
The stand is packed away and Team
#ToryTerf
are now all safely home. We delivered our first event, had conversations with hundreds of people, and witnessed the oil tanker that is gender identity ideology finally being turned around by our ministers. Much to digest and act on.
“A government source said the Business Secretary, who is also the equalities minister, had "huge admiration" for Baroness Falkner and had privately made clear that she would not tolerate her being "hounded from office" for doing her job.”
Kelley and Stonewall have crossed a line today, in collusion with
@BBCNews
Any organisation who continues to work with Stonewall must consider their position. This is an abhorrent comparison. Thread:
1/ Nancy Kelley, CEO of Stonewall likens "gender critical" beliefs to anti-Semitism. The core tenets of the beliefs that she objects to are that sex is real and that it matters. The only motivation for this crass comparison is to justify
#nodebate
“Referring to attacks on JK Rowling by transgender lobbyists, he said: “People aren’t allowed to… speak or give lectures before they’ve even said anything. That cannot be right. It’s censorship.””
“Mermaids appears to seek to marginalise & exclude parents from their children’s actions and behaviour, knowing nothing about the particular family relationships and dynamics. Safeguarding principles and law should be at the forefront of any such charity.”
My train today delayed 2 hours due to the breakdown of an earlier train. Perhaps
@south_railway
could invest money in trains that work rather than virtue signalling paint jobs?
@Conservatives
@tory_women
"Jeanette Towey, 66, who has suffered with endometriosis since she was 15 and has had five miscarriages due to it, said she was 'sickened' by the appointment." Jeannette is one of our directors and we applaud her for sharing her harrowing experiences.
The scenes from Auckland show how easily mob violence is stirred up against women. NZ Politicians and those in the UK who have gleefully stoked this fire, hope you are proud of yourselves. We stand with
@StandingforXX
and those who
#LetWomanSpeak
Sending love and support to KJ ❤️
"But Badenoch shot back: “We are free to have disagreements on how to deal with the menopause, but that in and of itself is not a display of my commitment to women. I think women know exactly how committed I am to women’s rights.”"
Yes we do
@KemiBadenoch
No
@Telegraph
this is wrong; no such thing as 'when she was a man'. He is a man and remains a man whatever he say, wears, or does to his body. Those poor victims, having to see reporting like this and hear him called 'she' in court. Shameful.
Well we have had quite a day….😉
This was the day when all our work was recognised by our outstanding Minister for Women and Equalities
@KemiBadenoch
🔥
Let’s continue the conversations tomorrow
#CPC23
#ToryTerfs