This article on the importance of using sexed language in the context of breastfeeding will be open access for only a couple months. Even if you don't have time to read it now, download it now!
'Losing Women, Losing Breastfeeding: A Crisis of Words'
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According to to LibDems, “We share the widespread disappointment at the review's lack of evidence and perpetuation of harmful stereotypes.”

Bonkers, indeed.

When your letter against the Cass Review is signed by Andrew Wakefield, then some alarm bells ought to go off that you are on the wrong side.

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I wrote about the implications of the Cass Report for US debates: “If you still think that concerns about child medical transition are nothing more than a moral panic, then I have a question: What evidence would change your mind?”

Here’s a gift link:

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Do you support Sall Grover in her Australian Federal court case ?

Like this post if you do - and retweet if you ❤️

#TeamGiggle
#TicklevsGiggle
#IStandWithSallGrover

🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉

Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their

How much damage will this clype’s charter cause before it’s binned? Excellent piece by Iain Macwhirter (and not just because he name checks me 😊) share token

thetimes.co.uk/article/b98314…

He also claims men with GRCs are legally women & that that binds MY perception & speech, rather than solely concerning the man's paperwork & relations with government. If Police Scotland is similarly bigoted against GC people & legally ignorant, my points are amply made 2/2

Here's the full 15 mins on the Scottish Hate Crime Act. Thanks to studio guest Matthew Stadlen for beautifully illustrating the risk to sex-realist women - he thinks my simple manifestation of GC belief - I call a trans-identifying man a man - is 'hateful' & 'transphobic' 1/2

if a grandfather without a 'woman' identity wanted to do this- if a grandmother wanted to do this- medical professionals would surely refuse. so they are ~using~ a baby, to validate the identity of a man. and that is an absolutely insane ethical failure if anything is. 🚩🙅🏻‍♀️🤬

We are developing the UK menopause education and support programme and we need to hear from all women - how do they want menopause education and support to look? It's your last chance to have your say - our survey will close tomorrow afternoon. Please share. #menopause

“My extensive research was possible only because the University of Oxford paid my salary and the Department of Sociology let me pursue my curiosity without hindrance.”

Good on Oxford Uni

How I took on the puberty blocker orthodoxy – and won - apple.news/ATVhDqJh9QTa4F…

Made by an 11 year old and her mum who've given me permission to share. Happy Mother's Day! Words matter. Woman and mother mean something very different to people or parent. We won't be diluted, colonised or erased. The word is woman!

Are you travelling by Southern this weekend? My friend Lucie desperately needs your help. She has spent nine months hand making this beautiful quilt out of disused kimono silk for her oldest friend's brand new baby:

On #IWD2024 #InternationalWomensDay we stay committed to defending women’s health care. We have specific needs and also specific discrimination due to our sex. Proud to be campaigning for women’s rights in health care.

Important & revealing thread.

I wrote about my disciplinary (one of them) and truth at the BBC. It makes me so frustrated that we have to reveal private details about our lives for a cause that is natural and just and in the public interest.
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My complaint just sent to the Guardian's editor Katharine Viner regarding this article: shorturl.at/mswDL

Great deep dive into use of research to try to hoodwink the gullible, the ignorant, the captured and the people who want to be kind…& all the bad faith actors, too.