RT @LabWomenDec: Calling @UKLabour politicians and members! Come and find out what us dinosaurs are really saying. And learn from biologist @FondOfBeetles where to find those pesky cervixes that are the talk of conference. #LabourConference20...
RT @ClareCAIS: So misgendering is wrong & yet referring to a woman born with a variation of sex development such as CAH, as not a woman, is supposedly OK according to the @TheLancet @richardhorton1 - using an already marginalised group is not the ...
RT @HannahQuirk1: Hi @DavidLammy - As Shadow Justice Secretary, you must know that women in prison have precious few rights to hoard. The right not to be imprisoned with rapists or strip-searched by a male officer who identifies as female should be ...
Parties are in trouble if they can’t use c-word The inability to say whether women have a cervix is insulting to the vast majority of voters Sarah Ditum Monday September 27 2021, 9.00pm, The Times One word has dominated Labour’s 2021 conference. In a ...
RT @sarahditum: Only one word matters for Labour this conference: cervix https://t.co/kBfhmg...
RT @FeministRoar: The most misogynistic statement I've heard from an MP in years @DavidLammy. The three main axes of oppression are race, sex and class. People can't just identify out of privilege. You're equivalent to an aristocrat claiming working ...
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“I spoilt my ballot because women don’t have penises” | Laura Dodsworth | The Critic Magazine
RT @AngryReasonably: So it's a rights conflict and Lammy thinks women should #BeKind and hand ours over; it's not like women had to do much to get them. #NoThanks #LabourLosingWomen https://t.co/TizA6L...
RT @AbigailLaLoca: How dare @DavidLammy suggest that women like myself who have survived early grooming and life-threatening male violence are 'dinosaurs' for wishing to protect their hard-won rights and protections. His words are shameful. ...
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RT @FeministRoar: Here's a transcript of tonight's @Channel4News @cathynewman interview with @RachelReevesMP. I'd like to thank Rachel for being the first Labour MP in this week's discussion to acknowledge female people face discrimination and ...
San Marino votes to legalise abortion in referendum
RT @BPAS1968: On Sunday, San Marino voted overwhelmingly in favour to legalise abortion by 77%! This historic vote overturns a near-total ban on abortions, updating a law from 1865 which made abortion punishable by three to six years in prison ...
RT @HadleyFreeman: Thank goodness, a man has arrived to explain why women were wrong to be upset at being described as “bodies with vaginas” https://t.co/MKs2y0...
RT @TerryDignan: @Womans_Place_UK Dear God. These rights are women's rights! Is this now Labour policy - that women shouldn't be allowed to "hoard" their rights?
RT @Tom_D_B_: Are Labour having a competition to see who can get away with the most brazen bit of misogyny under the guise of “trans rights”? If so, Lammy has just stormed into the lead. Who’s up next? https://t.co/RJjTMC...
A statement from Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
RT @polblonde: I think I'm starting to get it - there's a shadow cabinet rota, kicked off yesterday by Keir Starmer, where they take turns to insult women. It will be interesting to see how they intend to win a general election after declaring open ...
Dear @DavidLammy Please come to our next event & listen to experts (not dinosaurs) discuss concerns around women in prison. As Shadow Justice Secretary, help us make the law work for women https://t.co/QObDDk... #sexMatters 1/3 ...
RT @LesbianLabour: What rights are we hoarding? The right to meet together with other biological women, the right to be safe from violence, the right to services that match the needs of women? If Lammy is your MP, let him know your thoughts. ...
RT @HJoyceGender: Ah yes. Those dinosaurs - raped women who require female-only spaces to recover. Female prisoners who require male murderers to be kept out of the female estate for their safety. Female athletes who require female-only events to be ...
RT @helensaxby11: "Women who want to keep their hard-won rights should be extinct." https://t.co/PnIHIM...
Anti-trans members are “dinosaurs” who want to “hoard rights”, says Lammy – LabourList
"Shadow Justice Secretary David Lammy has told a Labour Party conference fringe event this morning that anti-trans “dinosaurs exist in our own party” who want to “hoard rights”. https://t.co/Hg13hZ... #Lab21 #SexMatters #LabourConference ...
RT @Channel4News: .@cathynewman asks Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves: "The Labour leader's policy is to allow trans people to self-identify their gender. Does that mean if someone was born male, but self-identifies as a woman... that they could ...
A key focus of our manifesto is on the law and criminal justice system. Our next public meeting is A Woman's Place is NOT in prison. https://t.co/QObDDk... with @CrimeandJustice @FrancesCrook @TheHowardLeague @BluskyeAllison @BluskyeAllison ...
WPUK Manifesto 2019 - Woman's Place UK
The right of women to determine the language that describes us is not an abstract demand. It is rooted in the material reality of our lives. It is vital for us to describe our experience; to uphold & improve our rights. Our manifesto: ...
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"We have to...differentiate between sex & gender. That is the bit where it gets really tricky because trans activists don’t want us to do that. They want us to say they are exactly the same…There is such a thing as biology & we need to be ...
RT @SexMattersOrg: “Much of the UK’s flagship anti-discrimination legislation was passed by previous Labour governments (...) We call on the Labour Party to make clear the circumstances in which it believes women should be able to expect female-only ...
RT @MaternityAction: Are you a #midwife or HCP working with #Afghanwomen in the UK? ✅We're running another FREE webinar on 13th October. It'll cover access to housing, support & primary healthcare for Afghan women who are pregnant/new mothers. ...
RT @cathynewman: Shadow chancellor @RachelReevesMP tells me on @Channel4News #Brexit is partly to blame for fuel crisis but vows no @UKLabour govt would reverse it. She also says someone born male who identifies as a woman would not get access to a ...
“There is enough obfuscation in medicine and healthcare without adding to it. Already medical research works against women with modelling and testing based on male bodies…” Blog by @kiritunks from 2018 https://t.co/fnjFiB... #cervix ...
Cervical cancer is a women’s issue - Woman's Place UK
RT @kiritunks: Thank you to @mbmpolicy for organising this excellent letter to Times. Glad to have signed for @Womans_Place_UK - @UKLabour MPs and officers would quickly improve their understanding of the law (and the quality of their media ...
RT @HadleyFreeman: How have Labour ministers not prepared an answer to this question which they were obviously all going to be asked today? Rachel Reeves on LBC, Ian Murray on Women's Hour - all floundering over this? Aside from anything else, it ...
Helen Marot (1865-1940) US. Librarian. Trade unionist. Cofounder of the Free Library of Economics & Political Science in Philadelphia and Women's Trade Union League. She was a key activist in the major union fights to improve women’s pay & ...
Helen Marot (1865-1940) US. Librarian. Trade unionist. Cofounder of the Free Library of Economics & Political Science in Philadelphia and Women's Trade Union League. She was a key activist in the major union fights to improve women’s pay & conditions ...
In view of the embarrassing media responses from @UKLabour senior figures this w/e, we suggest they go to this #Lab21 meeting to hear the informed, mature, respectful debate women having been trying to have... https://t.co/TtVCVJ...
"He [@Keir_Starmer] is telling women that they cannot speak about their own bodies, forbidding language to women in his own party and beyond it and that is an act of political aggression." @JeanHatchet on @LBC @NickFerrariLBC https://t.co/55Ixlw...
RT @JeanHatchet: Just spoke on @LBC about @Keir_Starmer dictating language around “woman”…clip here if you want to listen. I did say more. I could rage all day. We all could. https://t.co/HobQQt...
RT @mbmpolicy: We are signatories to this letter in today's Times, along with @Womans_Place_UK @ForwomenScot @fairplaywomen @SexMattersOrg @LabWomenDec and @nia_endingVAWG https://t.co/7TOKEU... https://t.co/akXKaa...
Dear @Keir_Starmer @AnnelieseDodds @RachelReevesMP @LucyMPowell @johnmcdonnellMP A useful primer to help you understand the issue https://t.co/KGrhlk... More insight & info available from us, @mbmpolicy @fairplaywomen @ForwomenScot @SexMattersOrg ...
We have signed this letter organised by MBM Policy alongside other women’s groups https://www.thetime...
Thread. A reminder of battles won only very recently… https://t.co/Tf5mNR...
When will women feel safe on UK streets?
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RT @polblonde: Labour shadow ministers respond to any question about women's rights and single-sex spaces by talking about trans people. Feels like a deliberate deflection. Like being asked about the weather in the UK and talking about the terrible ...
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#cervix #lab21 #LabourConference21 #Labourlosingwomen https://t.co/twtIJs...
conference - LGB Alliance
RT @womensart1: A statue of Anne Lister (1791-1840) by artist Diane Lawrenson, has just been unveilled in Halifax, UK, by actor Suranne Jones (who played the diarist in the series 'Gentleman Jack'). Lister is often described as the first modern ...
RT @CforWomenUK: Fantastic news! So pleased to see @_Lisa_Townsend added to an already stellar lineup of speakers. This is a conference that matters. See you there! https://t.co/MNIp9Q...
RT @Lachlan_Edi: Sex is important for much public health messaging, including HIV prevention and detection. When we pretend men have a cervix to appease an illegitimate demand, we are not being kind or compassionate, we are being recklessly ...
RT @ClareCAIS: Dear @StudentDocBen please stop talking about things without having any real understanding of the complex issues that we face, this only leads to increased stigmatisation, especially when you refer to ‘intersex’ children, which is a ...
Keir Starmer ‘is denying scientific fact in trans row’