Overruled

Psycho in a kimono

Maugham insults women, calls them bigots and blocks them when they attempt to defend themselves. Never one to show any class at the best of times, this is extraordinarily reckless even for him.

Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore

I am making formal complaint to the Bar Standards Board. This is appalling, disgraceful conduct.

Maugham is pretending he doesn’t know that the murder rates/violence he mentions is based on data extrapolated from Brazil, where a high percentage of trans-identified males are in sex work (work I’m sure Maugham believes is terribly empowering). Language like this is going to get a woman hurt one day, and Maugham won’t just have the blood of a fox on his hands.

Again, WTF is going on with male barristers?

Imagine if you had this guy on your side in a case!

Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender

Oh god. Oh god oh god oh god. This man thinks that sex-separation in PRISONS is comparable to sex-separation in MOSQUES

Neil Fawcett @BarristerNF

@trinityb38 @silkiecarlo @maitlis Yes. Society has gender segregation by tradition, based on traditional and often unfair views of gender. Some societies have very different types of segregation. I find it interesting for eg that many westerners are outraged by segregation in mosques, but not in prisons.

Colm O’Gorman still hasn’t resigned

Action by ObjectUK

He’s still pretending the letter didn’t say what it said, still pretending a human rights organisation calling for women to be silenced is a perfectly normal state of affairs, still desperately gaslighting the grandaughter of Amnesty cofounder Sean MacBride.

Iseult White @iseult

Connacht Tribune - See people can read the letter. All over Ireland. And around the world. #ChillingEffect #IReadTheLetter

A🌍G @piekna

Very eloquent letter to the editor in this week's @CTribune #WeWillBeHeard @TCDFFT, @radicailin, @Ire_LGBAlliance, @WomensSpaceIre https://t.co/F6k0zaSIlp

The spell starts to lift?

Kutie Herzog @kittypurrzog

Wowowowww. This is the same kid from that “coming out” clip that everyone was sharing last week. https://t.co/Q4jtLLDe6b

4thWaveNow @4th_WaveNow

From the @TranshoodFilm documentary on @HBO, mother of a young child she once claimed was transgender: "In restrospect I can't believe it happened. It was a huge mistake. Children are not transgender. He's a boy, he was born a boy, he's always been a boy, he'll always be a boy." https://t.co/6XOaChpNMx

Chad Felix Greene @chadfelixg

This little boy was filmed for the documentary Transhood following up on his experience and he pleads with his mother to stop putting him on TV telling her all of this ruined his life and it was the worst mistake he'd ever made.

But certain mysteries remain

The spiteful young woman behind the Joanna Cherry letter can be forgiven—she’s only 16, and will look back at her behaviour with shame—but the journalist egging her on is the real mystery here. Conor Matchett, what is wrong with you?

(Sidenote: love the way ‘transgender’ now means ‘has short hair’).

Oh, very good

ElizaPetch @ElizaPetch

Patriarchy : women should do the washing up. Gender Critical : both sexes can do the washing up TRAs : the member of either sex who does the washing up is the woman

It’s everyone’s favourite part of the site!

LeLeche League turning off the comments so people won't discuss their pandering to fetishists at the expense of women and children.

Big day today.

Judgement on Keira’s case coming in at 10.30 this morning.

Good luck, Keira. If the world hasn’t gone completely mad, you’ll win, and you’ll save so many lives from this awful cult.

Wild Woman Writing Club @wwwritingclub

Keira Bell: “There was nothing wrong with my body” - Woman's Place UK

womansplaceuk.orgKeira Bell: “There was nothing wrong with my body” - Woman’s Place UKThe following is the English copy of an interview that Raquel Rosario Sanchez requested with Keira Bell for Spanish feminist platform Tribuna Feminista.

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