Laurie Penny

I’ve never claimed to speak for all women. However, as a feminist, I will never accept that biology is destiny. And as a Gryffindor, I’ve always tried to stand up for what I believe is right. Even in the face of powerful opposition.

J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling

Janice isn't claiming to speak for all women, @PennyRed, but given that you aren't one ('the category of "woman" does not fully describe my lived experience') it's hard to see why you should be speaking for any women at all. Literally nobody thinks the Supreme Court ruling

Scroll down this literal thread and you’ll find transphobes calling me a man, presumably because they’re assuming I’m a transgender woman. But sure, you can always tell, right?

@ultracrepidity @ultra_crepidity

@PennyRed This assumes we can't tell men from women. We are very very good at it.

RT @PennyRed: Ok, question: TERFs insist that banning trans women from women’s loos will stop predatory cis men coming in pretending to be…

Ok, question: TERFs insist that banning trans women from women’s loos will stop predatory cis men coming in pretending to be trans women. But-trans men now HAVE to use the women’s loos. So how do we now stop those same predatory cis men coming in pretending to be trans men?

Protest for #transrights in Parliament Square is now so large it has had to spill onto the green- otherwise hundreds of people would have been forced into the traffic. (Making a note of this in case anyone later claims that this is some sort of act of violent disorder)

RT @PennyRed: Trans people are afraid today, after years of being scapegoated, insulted, slandered and humiliated in the British press. An…

What, exactly, is ‘over’? Seriously, can any ‘gender critical’ person explain to me what precisely they think is over today?

Caro Betts @BettsCaro

@PennyRed Straight men aren’t a “vulnerable minority” no matter what they’re wearing Get a grip. It’s over.

RT @LBC: "How did you end up on the same team as the self-confessed sex offender?" James O'Brien asks those who see trans people as a thr…

Trans people are afraid today, after years of being scapegoated, insulted, slandered and humiliated in the British press. And plenty of media figures are enjoying their fear. Gloating over a ruling that will be used to hurt and exclude a vulnerable minority group. The sadism is

Turner doesn’t speak for all women, and certainly not for all feminists. TERFs seem to think this ruling legislates trans people out of existence. It does not. Trans people will continue to exist. They will continue to deserve dignity and human rights. How is this ‘over’?

Janice Turner @VictoriaPeckham

Yes, we’ll #bekind and magnanimous. But the crazy, vicious, exhausting battle which cost women so much is over and - 🥂- we won. My ⁦@thetimes⁩ column. https://t.co/c9uSLc5hGb

As a British feminist, I’m ashamed to see my country normalise the sort of bigoted attitudes towards trans people that, elsewhere, are almost exclusively the territory of the far right.

You know it’s a bad day for trans rights in Britain when friend from the USA are texting to say they’ve seen the news and ask if you’re okay.

RT @PennyRed: "The right sort of ethically suspect protagonist still does far more political damage by force of personality than they do by…

Babe there are clubs you can go to for that sort of thing. I briefly worked at one. I wasn’t very good at it because I kept talking about politics.

Has anyone checked on Francis Fukuyama?