Freelance writer/editor. Often referred to as a ‘so-called journalist’ by those who think men belong in women’s sports and spaces. 🤪 jill
@jillfoster
.co.uk
Thank you to Kelly, Lexi, Sonya, Claudia, Natalie and Louise for sharing their stories for this special
#Cancelled
report.
I was contacted by dozens of other women in similar situations. Most had to remain anon.
So this takes courage 👏 👏 👏
Can't stop thinking about the old man on radio earlier who won £105k and said first thing he was going to do was buy a headstone for his late wife. He'd been saving for ages and couldn't afford one and said the only thing he'd won in the past was the love of a good woman. 😭😭
Rip Curl - a famous surfing brand - have dropped Bethany Hamilton (who lost her arm in a shark attack) from their ad campaigns.
They have instead used Sasha Lowerson to advertise women’s surfing.
Their total contempt could not be more clear.
A VERY long shot…but if anyone was on flight BA177 from Heathrow to JFK yesterday (Tues 4 April) at 1.10pm and landing at 3.30pm and found this little fella, there’s a distraught little boy who would love to be reunited with him. Get in touch if you can help. Thanks
OK. So I risk losing my Twitter account with this tweet as two women have been suspended from Twitter in last few hours for saying something about this player in the Gaelic women’s football team. But courage calls to courage etc. Name of Giulia. No, not the one in blue…
Women! Are you going to ‘sadly open your mouth’ today about your rights and how a certain group of men are trying to erode them?
For some reason, I don’t fancy shutting the f*** up today. Sorry fellas.
In PHSE today my 10yo daughter was told that some girls ‘like to wear boy clothes and some boys like to wear girl clothes’. Apparently all the kids were silent and my kid put her hand up and said: ‘What are boy clothes and girl clothes?’ OMG she is better than me at this. 💜🤍💚
‘It’s just one cycle event’.
‘It’s just one swimming race’
‘It’s just one event at Olympics’
‘It’s just one place in a marathon of 1000s’
‘It’s just Park Run’
‘It’s just PART of the prize money’
‘It’s just a minority of women speaking out’
No. It’s unjust.
#SaveWomensSport
Just off phone to one of the brilliant schoolgirls who wrote the 'Can we have single-sex toilets back please?' letter to Sunak. Wow.🔥Intelligent, articulate, focused, can spot gender BS from 100 miles. Oh lads, you thought you had problems with some pesky middle-aged women...🤣
I’ve just found out that a private party - for women only - has been cancelled in my local area because it’s…women only. Seriously. This has to stop. Women sometimes need to chat, laugh, dance with other women. It’s outrageous that they are being ‘cancelled’ by gender zealots.
A 70-year-old lesbian is visited by two police officers at her home to discuss a 'Keep Males Out Of Women-Only Spaces' sticker.
A violent ex-con is left alone by the police while he urges a cheering crowd to punch feminists 'in the fucking face'.
It's not 'both sides' is it?
Yesterday my husband found a little girl, lost in a theme park. He didn’t approach her but instead signalled to me and I came over and comforted her. We found her parents. Anyone who needs this anecdote explaining to them needs to stay out of the debate on single sex spaces.
If you see this picture and your first thought is: ‘Oh you’re being really unpleasant and harmful by sharing it’ rather than ‘Bloody hell, what is that huge bloke doing on that girls’ sports team’ then I hate to break it to you, but you’re the arsehole here.
My friend's 13yo daughter comes home upset. Her girls' football team lost. 'One of the players in their team was a boy but we weren't allowed to say anything about it,' she says. Boys outperform girls from the age of six onwards. Don't do this to girls' sport. PLEASE.
Some heartwarming news to end the week. Monkey just got back from his NYC adventure. He says he’s been up the Empire State Building apparently?!(OK, so not original monkey but thanks to the kindness of strangers, his owner is none the wiser. Our secret’s safe yeah?) Thank you ❤️
A VERY long shot…but if anyone was on flight BA177 from Heathrow to JFK yesterday (Tues 4 April) at 1.10pm and landing at 3.30pm and found this little fella, there’s a distraught little boy who would love to be reunited with him. Get in touch if you can help. Thanks
Ah...this might explain things. This is Sophie - just been appointed to the Crown Prosecution Service. The same CPS which has just issued the new guidance (mentioned in my tweet below) about wives being 'domestic abusers' if they don't help their husbands to 'become women'.
The CPS says that a wife who refuses to help pay for her husband's transition to 'become a woman' is now a 'domestic abuser'.
Show me ONE eg of a woman asking her husband to pay for her to 'become a man' and I will take back everything about this being a MEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
A male cyclist who won in a men’s race recently, is going to cycle in a woman’s race because apparently he’s now a woman. Must be lovely to be able to dip in and out of womanhood. If I could choose, I’d dip out when having to walk home alone at night or ask for a pay rise. 🙄
Just spoke to a former female prisoner. She is totally traumatised. What is happening in women’s jails right now is something that we should be ashamed of as a society. Will write more on this when I can.
This person is angry that a vigilant hotel worker recognised him as a man ‘dressed like this’ and gave him a key to the unisex changing rooms.
A perfect compromise surely for these complex times? No. He wants access to women’s changing rooms. And herein lies the entire problem
We knew, didn’t we? From the moment the breast pump - out of ALL other items - was placed so ‘casually’ with the washing up that this was never about water rates or even gender but everything to do with a man gleefully playing out a fetish to as many people as possible. We knew.
Nearly 16m people have seen *that* tweet with *that* picture of *that* man breastfeeding a baby.
Fewer than 800 people have ‘liked’ it.
I think Mika has Peaka’d the world.
Some [Lab MPs] have 'whispered' loudly about 'f****** terfs' as I walk past. Then, I'll see them on TV saying: 'It's terribly concerning that women haven't been able to talk about this issue.' Their hypocrisy is monumental.' Well said
@RosieDuffield1
🔥
@miffythegamer
Disingenuous. It’s never about ‘people’ and their ‘visability’. It’s always about men and the impact they’re having on women. And that’s the only problem I - and millions of others - have with it. Get used to it.
The reason why Eddie Izzard is not - and never will be - a woman is because if there ever comes a moment where he doesn't want to be, he doesn't have to be. The rest of us don't get to opt out.
I would rather never write another word again as a journalist than report that this depraved man is a woman.
Shame on my colleagues that continue with this farce. Don’t be surprised if your readers don’t trust another word you write…
The CPS says that a wife who refuses to help pay for her husband's transition to 'become a woman' is now a 'domestic abuser'.
Show me ONE eg of a woman asking her husband to pay for her to 'become a man' and I will take back everything about this being a MEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
Thirty female pool players threatening to sue. Three female anglers quit. Not to mention the 44 (at least) female football players refusing to play against a man in a Sheffield league. And these are only the ones we know about. The numbers are growing.
BREAKING NEWS: First UK court challenge to restore fairness in sport. Thirty female pool players threatening to sue. Crowdfunder launches TODAY
#fairplaywomen
The CEO of
@Wickes
thinks women like me - who believe female-only spaces/sports are necessary - are ‘bigots’ and not welcome in his store. My dad (retired builder who still does all my decorating, tiling etc) spends about £15k a year there. I’m just about to WhatsApp him…
In Australia, right now, Sall Grover is in court trying to protect female-only spaces from men like this who want ‘in’. More dystopian is the fact that the Australian Human Rights Commission has joined the fight against her.
I salute her bravery.
#IStandWithSallGrover
Angry men upset that we don't still live in an age where JKRowling needs to ask for her husband's signature before she can donate £70,000 to anyone she damn well pleases.
Craig - keyboardist for the band Elbow - becomes latest artist to speak out about charity Mermaids and how gender ideology harms gay kids. Within hours he had to delete Twitter account. He could have stayed quiet. We could all stay quiet. But we know, don’t we?
Discussion about fairness in women's sport just starting on
@theJeremyVine
's show on radio. So far, two men who are now ID'ing as women have been on and now another bloke is on. Any chance of any...er...women being interviewed? Just a thought?
I have 400 Fbook contacts. My average post receives 50-80 likes. When I mention women’s rights, it’s about 10. But then a flurry of private messages arrive thanking me for saying something. People are afraid to discuss women’s rights. Think about that for a second.
I'm going to be labelled 'bigot', 'transphobe', 'far-right' and 'liar' when my next feature is published. Know what? After talking to a suicidal mother, whose voice was trembling as we spoke about what had happened to her child at school, I'll take it all. Bring. It. On.
I will never forgive the people in charge who told these girls to ‘re-educate’ themselves if they felt uncomfortable undressing in front of male swimmer ‘Lia’ Thomas.
More of Paula's opening statement at the Congressional hearing today. How can someone listen to her and still advocate for women to be forced to compete and undress with males?
And to think many of these members of congress opposing our protection are parents of daughters...
What's changed? Ten years ago, had Izzard stood for Labour candidate, pink nail varnish, lipstick, heels 'n all, plenty of women would have voted for him. The moment he said he WAS a woman, entering women-only spaces, our tolerance evaporated.
No.
You deliberately chose an inflammatory word -'disease' - instead of 'epidemic' to do exactly what you're accusing Badenoch of - driving hate.
When confronted, you had to swiftly backtrack.
Now you're doubling down when everyone can see what happened. Beyond embarrassing.
At yesterdays
@Commonswomequ
I made clear the Equalities Ministers inflammatory language runs risk of driving trans hate crime up.
Many MP's referenced her use of the word epidemic.
The Minister called me a liar - there was no lie as you can see for yourself in this video.
My friend’s 10-year-old daughter was told in school assembly BY A TEACHER this week that if she didn’t feel any attraction to anyone then that was ok. She was asexual. What the actual fuck?
They're discussing Cass on
@bbc5live
and Adrian Chiles has picked up on the fact that although girls were disproportionally affected, it tends to be men who are the 'expert voices'. Owen Jones responds by telling him to use the right language about 'trans women'.
For
#InternationalWomensDay2024
, we are celebrating our amazing members, the women across the world who work tirelessly to safeguard the rights of all women & girls. Every day leading up to
#IWD2024
, we will highlight incredible grassroots women.
Let's celebrate our
#WRNWarrior
…
For those not familiar with the gender identity debate, Scottish politicians voted tonight to ALLOW registered male sex offenders to self-identify as women. What can POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!?! 👀👀👀🏴🏴🏴
Hi
@bbc5live
in your report today about children avoiding the toilet at school and developing urine infections, it’s not just about ‘school rules’. Pls ask about the no. of girls avoiding them because they are mixed sex. I’ve spoken to plenty this week. Stop ignoring this issue.
It took me 24 hours and a few basic journalistic skills but I've now intervwd several parents across UK about what is really happening in schools when it comes to gender ideology. None of it involved me tweeting 1m followers to ask school bullies for their side of the story.
Roxy Tickle told court today that he was a woman because he'd taken drugs, had surgery to get a 'vagina', and removed facial hair. He said 'on a practical level' he used female changing rooms and played in female sports teams.
And still some wonder why women are angry.
This lot recently kicked out a 90yo woman who had volunteered for them for 60 years because she didn’t understand pronoun-use. This is their statement about ‘inclusivity’.
BTW MS affects four times as many women as men. It’s almost like the SEX of a person matters sometimes. 🙄
I love watching
@HJoyceGender
debate men like
@MatthewStadlen
. He's absolutely fuming, accusing her of being 'hateful' and 'transphobic' for not kowtowing to one of the nastiest misogynists out there, while she smiles and calmly explains the law to him. Exquisite.
"The law does not impact on other people's perception"
Sex Matters'
@HJoyceGender
on
@TalkTV
with
@JakeBerry
on whether it's "hateful" to use sex-based pronouns ⬇️
My dad popped in to see me today to give me £30 so I can get a taxi when I visit London this weekend because: ‘I don’t want you to get Covid on the tube’. I am 47 years old. ♥️
My blood boils and my heart breaks for the women I’m interviewing about being cancelled.
Just off phone to a lesbian who now has to organise women-only social nights IN SECRET so the venues are not targeted by TRAs and she is not sent threats.
This is OBSCENE. 😡😡😡
Spent week intervwing women about unisex facilities. Some are survivors of rape, some disabled, some women of faith. Some just women who want to feel safe. It has been heartbreaking. I will continue to do all I can to ensure their voices are not drowned out in this toxic debate.
Whatever your views on KJK, know this: every single person in that baying mob supports the right of men to take part in women’s sports, be housed in women’s prisons, access women’s rape and DV refuges. Every single one.
This is the teacher whose ‘critical thinking’ lesson about JK Rowling recently went viral.
Sounds like the activists are already targeting his employer as punishment.
Perhaps give him a follow and some support? We need more people like him…
Attack on the YouTube channel & Standing up to the mob.
“Their actions are revealing. I cannot articulate it as well as they can articulate themselves.”
A quote from Dr Hilary Cass in The Times today. Please feel free to post this screenshot underneath every single person dismissing her gold standard report. They clearly only have one agenda. And it’s not to protect children.
Look at this. A female US State Senator’s breathtakingly condescending tweet about swimmer Riley Gaines, who is currently fighting tooth and nail to stop men like Lia Thomas competing against females and undressing in front of females.
With friends like these eh?
It can be hard, when we're young, to not win a trophy sometimes. But we grow up and realize it’s not the end of the world and we don't need to turn that loss into our entire personality.
This is one of the slides shown to my kids today at school. Absolutely FASCINATED to know what 'Another Sex' is...I will be asking the teachers tomorrow. 😡😡😡
The BBC platform a ‘lactation trainee’ without ANY challenge from a real (sane 👀) expert about how men’s milk for a baby can actually be of a ‘higher standard’ nutritionally.
Don’t be fooled by the language
Pure anti-women propaganda. Appalling.
As a freelance journalist, I’m always v nervous about calling out editors. I still have bills to pay.
But sod it. If you’ve ever wondered why Metro carries so many opinion pieces by men larping as women or women who suck up to men larping as women…this is one of their comm eds.
Personally I know of three children being 'trans'd' by their idiot parents and equally dangerous teachers. All under 13. All girls. One of them clearly distraught at being told by adults that she is a boy. Two of them autistic. Badenoch may be wrong on many things. But not this.
Self-ID and social transition add up to a very dangerous ideology that can have terrible effects on young LGB children, who are being put on a medical pathway to irreversible physical changes.
We are not going to run away from this issue. We will sort it.
Teachers are not allowed to give paracetamol to pupils without parental consent. Yet some believe they are qualified to change a pupil's identity behind a parent's back, even when a clinical psych report says it could damage the child. My latest story...
Halifax Bank are embroiled in a Twitter row over whether employees should wear he/him, she/her etc badges. This tweeter has highlighted fact that women employees earn 60p for every £1 that men earn at the bank and that, for me, wins the internet today 👏👏👏
I'm a pretty decent person. Kind to friends, family, colleagues, strangers. I volunteer for charities. Am on the PTA and a school gov. Am DBS checked. Trained in First Aid. I like kittens.
I've just been added to a list of 'Nazis' on Twitter because I support women's rights. 😂
I have never heard a better explanation about why so many parents are invested in the idea of the ‘trans child’. We all know someone like this. We all know what an impact they can have on a workplace…
Every time she tweets,
@jk_rowling
makes me - and dozens of other women I know - that bit braver. And what better time to gather up courage than on the eve of International Women's Day. Don't be silent.
Just done interview with a polyamorous woman who is a mother-of-three with one male partner (who has girlfriend), one girlfriend (who is married with kids), one sex-buddy that she sees once a month and one hugs buddy.
Think I'll put my thermal PJs on and watch Bake Off.
One of the callers to
@theJeremyVine
's BBC show today was 'Jackie', a man who had 'transitioned' to be a trans woman last year? Said he was 78 I think? So what I'd like to ask Jeremy, is what insight do you think Jackie could offer about women's sport. Because over his 70+...
Not a single mention that this was male-on-male crime. They could have used the phrase: 'who identifies as a woman' anywhere in this report. But chose not to. They want you to believe that this was a female killer. It's not even journalism anymore...
Here's the moment
@BBCNews
journalists falsely portrayed the male murderer Scarlet Blake (also known as Fangze Wang and later Alice Wang) as a woman, to millions of UK viewers.
Remarkably, their previous story reached out to fact checkers BBC Verify..but were somehow not deemed…
I've just been told this was a line in THAT Woman's Hour interview so now I'm going to HAVE to listen.
‘I’m a cis het woman and we need to move away from this being seen as a gynaecological disorder’. Jody - Head of an endometriosis charity 🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡
‘She was convicted of rape’
‘She will be sentenced’
‘Her trial’
This man is a rapist. After being arrested - surprise!! - he announces he is ‘a woman’.
And journalists and lawyers fall over themselves to affirm him.
My ❤️ is with his poor victim.
Sam here thinks
@RosieDuffield1
should not be a Labour MP. He is ‘disappointed’ that she is able to stand again. He says she does not represent ‘our values’.
Entitled, arrogant…these men are a threat to women’s safety, dignity, privacy.
Get them out
#IStandWithRosieDuffield
Rosie Duffield should not be a Labour MP, it is incredibly disappointing to see she is being allowed to stand again for Labour. She does not represent our values and should have no place in our party.
Think about this next time someone says the gender debate is just a ‘culture war’ or that people who speak up are ‘being played’.
Because tonight, in the UK in 2023, ordinary women need a ‘massive police presence’ so they can watch a film about women’s rights. A film.
Six out of seven GIDS clinics refused to participate in the
#CassReport
Imagine not even wanting to help an investigation examining evidence and hoping to improve treatment for children suffering with all kinds of problems.
That's the story, right there.
Update: I'm told that the Pop N Olly video featuring this abomination has been removed from the Y7 lessons. But I'm not leaving it there. I want to find out more about what's going on within PHSE and other lessons. Not the end. But a positive start. Will keep you posted.
Nothing like an MRA Twitter pile-on to motivate me. Just out of school gov meeting where I’ve managed to get them to change all mentions of ‘gender’ to ‘sex’ in the policies. My work here is done for the day. 😊
This is who the BBC brought on as their ONLY ‘expert’ for the ‘Men Can Breastfeed’ story - a ‘non-binary, gender queer’ researcher (and lactation TRAINEE). No actual pregnancy and birth specialists available?
My children come out of school today telling me they have been to Lego club. They've been building the PRIDE flag. Their little friend tells me she's been building the 'pansexual flag, the ACE (??) flag, the ally flag.' This girl is 11.
@elliebgomersall
Just think…if you’d quietly called yourself Ellie, worn whatever you liked and loved whoever you wanted to love without trying to inveigle your way into women’s things, JKR (like most people) would have had your back. What a shame. You messed up.
Interviewed a young woman today who had been victim of male-related trauma as a child. Admitted to psych ward at 15 for self-harm. Told the staff she was nervous around men. Who was her first one-to-one carer in ward? A man. Appalling.
If Sir Robert Winston was made CEO of an endometriosis charity, I dare to say most women wouldn’t mind.
But a man who protests outside a women’s conference where fellow protestors hold up signs saying ‘Suck my d***’ then yeah, that’s er, problematic.
An open letter asking editors to re-examine their policies on reporting sex and gender in stories.
Signed by 70 journalists, writers and production staff (more offered support but could not sign for contractual reasons/fear of losing work)
A parent whose teenage son is now identifying as a woman just told me something horrifying. A certain private GP who 'helps' gender-questioning kids sent the boy puberty blockers as a 'freebie' for his 'first time'. Just when I think I can't be more shocked by this cult.