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Woman. Feminist.
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A poem for all time
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Holyrood
10 days ago
First minister questioned over âsecretâ attempt to challenge Supreme Court ruling on sex and gender
www.holyrood.com/news/view,fi...
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First minister questioned over âsecretâ attempt to challenge Supreme Court ruling on sex
Michelle Thomson asked about a report in The Times that in November the Scottish Government wrote to the Advocate Genera...
https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,first-minister-questioned-over-secret-attempt-to-challenge-supreme-court-ruling-on-sex
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Unlawful discrimination is unlawful even if you've successfully bullied everyone into not complaining about it.
#GirlsAreAllowedTheirOwnThings
about 2 months ago
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Brap
about 2 months ago
pca.st/episode/6240...
The marvellous Naomi Cunningham.
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âWhy I'm defending Sandie Peggieâ
https://pca.st/episode/6240e616-9480-407f-a573-31fec788eabe
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Thoroughly well deserved
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@katie_pinns
2 months ago
BREAKING: Olympics to BAN transgender athletes from all female events after review
www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-...
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Olympics to ban transgender athletes from all female events after review
An in-depth review into transgender women taking part in female events at the Olympic Games has taken place ahead of the next edition being held in Los Angeles in 2028
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/breaking-olympics-ban-transgender-athletes-36220688
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Medusa Rising | World Building Women
2 months ago
What is the mission of Medusa Rising? To build a new world centered on women through more powerful feminist coalitions.
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Mission
We welcome young rad fems into a deep sisterhood where we reclaim and reimagine women's social and spiritual history.
https://www.medusarising.org/mission/
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Brap
3 months ago
www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2025/10/31/c...
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Cracking the Code -
The Times has reported that âit has emergedâ that ministers have demanded a regulatory impact assessment of the EHRCâs draft Code of Practice before it can be laid before parliament and brought into f...
https://www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2025/10/31/cracking-the-code/
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Biologists who say this are not doing biology at the time.
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Reem Alsalem
4 months ago
Ahead of the presentation of my report on surrogacy and
#vawg
next week, i thank you for the support for my reportâs findings and recommendations. đ
declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org/joint-statem...
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Joint statement in support of UN report recommending the abolition of surrogacy - Declaration of Casablanca for the universal abolition of surrogacy - Home / Accueil
[French and Spanish translations below] Joint statement in support of UN report recommending the abolition of surrogacy (download HERE) New York, 3 October 2025 The undersigned organizations, represen...
https://declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org/joint-statement-in-support-of-un-report-recommending-the-abolition-of-surrogacy/
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Edinburgh Live
4 months ago
Maria Kelly also said the suggestion she would leak the name of trans colleagues as part of a crowdfunder for her legal action was "shocking" and something she would never do.
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Edinburgh woman changed the 'pattern' of toilets she would use after encounter
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-woman-changed-pattern-toilets-32599044?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1759416058
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4 months ago
Engineer Maria Kelly has taken her employer, the aerospace and defence giant Leonardo UK, to an employment tribunal in Edinburgh
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Woman says she didn't want to be 'witnessed by male colleagues' in work toilets
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scottish-woman-tells-tribunal-didnt-36003967?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1759413820
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Edinburgh Live
4 months ago
Andrew Letton, Leonardo UK's vice-president of people shared services, said he was not aware of the incident but that it, if it occurred, it would have been "distressing" for Maria Kelly.
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Edinburgh woman's 'dignity would have been violated' by work encounter
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-womans-dignity-would-been-32607040?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1759503866
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Cathy Devine
4 months ago
âDisproportionately, these regulations ... have impacted athletes from the Global South. " Correct. Athletes with male DSDs from the Global South. So the athletes who benefit most from the DSD regulations are female athletes from the Global South. Good.
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FiLiA
5 months ago
Love the writing of
@glosswitch.bsky.social
. Can't wait to hear her with Susanna Rustin and Rachel Hewitt at
#FiLiA2025
'If protecting girls matters, it has to be wrestled from the hands of those who might be willing to say the words but only for their own ends'.
thecritic.co.uk/reclaiming-p...
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Reclaiming âprotect girlsâ | Victoria Smith | The Critic Magazine
Earlier this year, I took part in a radio discussion about feminism, kindness and womenâs work. Iâd thought it was going quite well, then towards the end it took a slightly odd turn.
https://thecritic.co.uk/reclaiming-protect-girls/
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Cathy Devine
5 months ago
Do you only care about males with DSDs who are not white? Or do you ever spare a thought for females without DSDs who are not white and never make it to the world stage because athletes with male DSDs have taken their places/careers/medals?
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Aurora New Dawn
5 months ago
đ˘ We're hiring! We're looking for a (female only) Children & Young Personâs Advocate to join our team and support children at risk of domestic abuse, including sexual violence and stalking within a domestic abuse context within the Thames Valley area. Apply by 27 September đ
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Gudule Martens
5 months ago
To summarise: If "trans women are women," any man can get access to the women's showers (no transition needed), any man can replace women athletes with men, and any rapist can get free access to more women, after being caught. If you tell me you don't see the problem here, you're lying. TWAM. /
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Gudule Martens
5 months ago
People here on BlueSky are still telling me: "Trans women are women." Of course, this is objectively nonsense since the requirement for being a trans woman is that you have to be male. But here are some trans women that further prove the problem with that statement. đ§ľ/
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Cathy Devine
5 months ago
'Imane Khelif has appealed to the court of arbitration for sport over World Boxingâs decision to bar the 26-year-old from its events without a preliminary genetic sex test.' No. Female boxers & women everywhere are completely over 'passport sex'. Female sport is for females only.
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5 months ago
The trans medic was born Theodore Upton but this information will be removed from written submissions by Sandie Peggie and her chosen witnesses and experts.
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Dr Beth Upton's birth name to be redacted in official Sandie Peggie documents
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/dr-beth-uptons-birth-name-35826321?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1756724469
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Joey is a "community safety organiser". Joey is selective about who he recognises as deserving of safety.
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Cathy Devine
5 months ago
Do you have any analysis of relations of power, value & hierarchy between different groups of people or are you just a liberal individualist? Those of us on the left have an analysis of income & wealth inequality (socioeconomic class) just as we have an analysis of sex inequality (patriarchy).
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Gudule Martens
5 months ago
Men demanding the right to ogle women and girls undressing, never was, and never will be, a matter of "human dignity". Saying "no" to these demands, however, is.
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Gudule Martens
5 months ago
Men are responsible for 99% of sexual offences against women and girls. It's common sense to keep all men out of women's spaces. That's all we ask. Since you opened the door: prison stats show that trans identifying men are, in fact, more predatory than the average men in prison.
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Like "Shut the **** up, TERF" or "The only good TERF is a d*** TERF"? Is that kind of aggressive dehumanisation you mean?
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5 months ago
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Very pleased and proud to share a birthday with Harry Potter and his creator JK Rowling
6 months ago
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Cathy Devine
7 months ago
EHRC Chair: 'told trans activists that personal attacks on her and her staff have âgot to stopâ.' 'While feminist campaigners had acted in a âdignified and respectfulâ manner, trans rights activists had made it harder for her staff to come to work in safety.'
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https://archive.is/2025.06.11-200201/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/06/11/watchdog-tells-trans-activists-personal-attacks-must-stop/
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Dr Rachel Broady
9 months ago
Women and girls' humanity is overlooked across the world (and has been throughout history) because of their sex.
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AudreySuffolk MBE
9 months ago
@quaker.org.uk
is there a place still in Quakers for those of us who consider Supreme Court ruling in ForWomen Scotland case to be legally & morally correct? I have experienced years of harassment for this. Please advise as seriously considering whether to give up my membership
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9 months ago
16th April 2025, the day women in the UK got their rights back.
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9 months ago
Today's strip is about the law:
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I wonder how many public boards in Scotland are going to have to make changes now...
9 months ago
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No-one has lost anything that was rightfully theirs as a result of today's Supreme Court judgement. Not rights Not reputation. Nothing.
9 months ago
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Labour Women's Declaration
9 months ago
"This judgment must be read by every member of the Labour govt..sent to civil servants, sports bodies, NHS trusts & every HR department in the land. The capture of our national institutions by this misogynist ideology is not over, but the end is in sight"
www.thetimes.com/article/c3a0...
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A historic victory â but did we need a court to tell us what a woman is?
It has cost vast sums of public money and crowdfunded donations for the Supreme Court to uphold the common sense position that sex is real
https://www.thetimes.com/article/c3a0ea77-1058-4e03-abf2-d1990ce10852?shareToken=a33d923d7490ed021d26210e7b7e49e9&s=09
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Kiri Tunks
10 months ago
Thanks to all the women who came to the launch of the
@filiacharity.bsky.social
TU Women's Network. Great contributions and great questions - even some respectful disagreement... Women make unions stronger. Join the network
www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
#UnionsForWomen
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Jeni Harvey
10 months ago
Do I hate men?
#notallmen
But is it really so ridiculous and dangerous for women to do so considering all that Hollie goes on to list? There is no moral equivalence when the balance of power is so skewed. It is not the same thing.
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Wild Womyn Workshop
10 months ago
Still opposing women's erasure by the men who pretend to be us.
#terflife
www.wildwomynworkshop.com
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Mara Clarke
10 months ago
Who is reporting people having abortions in Malta to the police? DOCTORS. Reminds me of meeting with CEDAW, who didn't believe us that N Irish doctors would report women. We were right, they were wrong, and we activists are the ones following "first do no harm."
timesofmalta.com/article/most...
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Most abortion police reports come from doctors at Mater Dei Hospital â data
Abortion is illegal in Malta, except when performed by doctors to save a womanâs life
https://timesofmalta.com/article/most-abortion-police-reports-come-doctors-mater-dei-hospital-data.1107549
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Cathy Devine
10 months ago
'Current evidence does not suggest there is a categorical athletic advantage for transgender female athletes when compared with ... female athletes'. Completely false
@law.ucla.edu
The cited paper compared recreational overweight TW to elite females.
williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications...
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The Impact of Transgender Sports Participation Bans on Transgender People in the US
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/impact-trans-sports-ban-eo/
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11 months ago
Support our vital work âĄď¸
southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/acceler...
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#AccelerateAction - International Womenâs Day 2025 - Southall Black Sisters
âI tell you what freedom is to me. No fear.â - SBS service user âWomen are so strong even after defeat.â - SBS service user âWithout women,
https://southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/accelerateaction-international-womens-day-2025/
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Sonia Sodha
11 months ago
Female colleagues should never be expected to share changing facilities with male colleagues regardless of how they identify. It's wrong, and unlawful. But that's what happened to Sandie Peggie, a nurse working for NHS Fife. Today's Observer column.
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No woman should be forced to change her clothes in front of a male colleague | Sonia Sodha
A case brought by an NHS nurse over a shared changing room could be the tip of the iceberg
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/09/no-woman-should-be-forced-to-change-her-clothes-in-front-of-a-trans-colleague
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Jennifer Milligan
12 months ago
Just posting this NHS page on Turner Syndrome - it is a female specific DSD. Myself and my friends with this DSD are not gotchas
www.nhs.uk/conditions/t...
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Turner syndrome
Turner syndrome is a genetic disorder that only affects females. It causes a wide range of symptoms and some distinctive characteristics.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/turner-syndrome/
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Brave
12 months ago
For folks who got the Emergency Alert, stopped the noise and lost the Alert Message because it isnât stored on your phone texts etc (at least on an iPhone 11)
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Cyclefree
about 1 year ago
Cricket and Afghanistan: not normally subjects of interest to me. But the treatment of women is. Why England should not play cricket against Afghanistan -
www1.politicalbetting.com
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Agree. To do anything else would be unconscionable.
#ItsJustNotCricket
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Sisters Salon Brighton #CreatingWomensSpaces
about 1 year ago
The ICC must boycott the men's Afghan team. With Afghan women stripped of their basic human rights
#ItsJustNotCricket
Take action đ
brightonsisters.wordpress.com/action-four/
#RespectWomen
#EndGenderAparthied
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