Mandy

Trans women are women, and you dont speak for cis women like me, cis women are suffering abuse because of the EHRC discriminatory decision.

Was asked to make a scarf, and decided to try fisherman's rib. I love the feel of it in super chunky (3 x DK) it's sooner squishy! Luckily it knits up quick as I imagine there will be days when it's too hot to have it on my lap (when it gets that long)

Trying to work out which Supreme Court is being talked about in posts is not as simple as it should be

You might be surprised how keen your kids are to be near the coast

And I am with you in that if someone claims that a skeleton buried with a spear cannot be a woman warrior they are talking out of their bumhole.

So I think it's crazy to use a skeleton and what it is buried with to assume the gender roles of a society that we have no other means of investigating, especially when the underlying assumption is that they had a two genders model when we know not all societies have that model.

I disagree that it is measurable. The reclassification of the sex of so many skeletons when they were DNA tested shows that the physical signs used to sex them at first clearly are not dependable, but as we know some women have XY chromosomes and some men XX, DNA testing isn't definitive.

Ah, great then, I wasn't sure if you.meant a private photo had been used without consent

I read books on my Kindle app on my phone...

I dont believe that DNA defines gender, so I don't believe it is possible to identify the sex of a skeleton.

I don't really get whether you are pleased or cross about that?

Photo of my Dad

Happy Father's Day Dad. Missing you, you would be 83 now. I wonder how life would have worked out for you had that boy not killed you in 2001 xx

Well, she may be going cap in hand to Alan now!

A petition on change.org for cis women to sign to show that what's happening to the trans community is not in their name www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

Newscast - The Trans Ex Judge Challenging The Supreme Court Gender Ruling - BBC Sounds Victoria McCloud is in the Newscast studio.

You can listen to the interview on Sounds if you are in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Why so sad kitty?

Reading the EHRC consultation on the Supreme Court decision I realised that they are saying that a lesbian couple is heterosexual if one of them is trans, and if a straight man takes up with a trans women, that's a homosexual relationship. What twisted world is this?

The photo shows a drainpipe with a sign next to it saying 'do not tie your dog to this drainpipe'

This sign tells a story

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I would quite like this on my wall!

Biology is not binary: a letter from biologists, doctors, and other experts to Bridget Phillipson, Minister for Women and Equalities

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Inclusive Toilets: How to respond to the new UK sex-based rules. You can't tell someone's biology by looking. You can't know their chromosomes without testing. So don't try. Sex isn't always visible or binary. Most people don't know their own chromosomes. Interrogating bathroom users is invasive and illegal. Everyone deserves safe access to facilities. Inclusive organisations can uphold dignity and privacy by refusing to enforce impossible, discriminatory rules.

This seems wonderfully sensible, re the bizarre new loo and changing room 'policing' suggestions from various organisations and Politicians in the UK.

I live near Unthank Newtown

None of it makes sense

Take care of yourself!

'Miriam was tired of womanhood. She wanted simply to experience life as an anonymous human being of flesh and blood. She was tired of having to adjust to other people's ideas of what a woman should be.'

J.G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur

I get it Miriam.

Liberty defeats Government appeal as Court rules anti-protest laws are unlawful - Liberty

LIBERTY DEFEATS GOVERNMENT APPEAL AS COURT RULES ANTI-PROTEST LAWS ARE UNLAWFUL

This should be on every UK News channel

www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.

This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

So what's your response these days when Britney comes on the radio?

I read that their roots spread quite a distance