Woman of the Day Kate Adie born OTD 1945 in Whitley Bay started off as a station assistant at BBC Radio Durham but yearned to be a reporter and got her big break in 1980 when she was the first on scene as the SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy siege. She crouched behind a car door

We were going to bill this ‘Opinion’ but it has a lot of background, much more than made it to the BBC, Guardian or Mail. ⁦BBC Woman's Hour⁩ you have the broadcast time to pursue some of this. NB to all: ‘He’ used for Mridul and the sky didn’t fall spiked-online.com/2024/09/14/the…

I was thinking about the distinction between 'sex realist' and 'gender critical' ...

"If our neighbours hear our voices, it's a very big sin."

I stand with Bev, Kate and all lesbians currently being demonised and threatened for not welcoming men into their reserved spaces and dating pools. It gets no more homophobic or misogynistic than trying to pressure and shame lesbians into pretending men can be women.

sharon cowan Sharon Cowan Brindley, who claims to be unaware of calls for her to be fired, is responsible for the catastrophe at Edinburgh Rape Crisis. She has betrayed rape survivors' trust in the most brazen ways imaginable. Scottish rape survivors deserve far, far better. Brindley has to go. 9/9

We know that the BBC rejected a pitch to profile Storme for Stonewall’s 50th anniversary.

Fucking hell. One of the men who raped Gisèle reciprocated, drugging his own wife and inviting Pélicot round to rape her. These men are reducing women to dolls or gadgets that they’re inviting their mates over to play with. And then getting off on diminishing women like that.

This actually brought a tear to my eye. The applause for Giselle Pelicot outside the courtroom She is incredible

The bravery of Gisele Pelicot continues to astonish me. Today, her husband Dominique Pelicot finally admitted in court that he was a rapist. She was applauded as she left court.

All articles about pediatric gender-transition treatment should address the fact that a half-dozen systematic literature reviews—the gold standard of scientific evidence—have found the supporting research weak and largely inconclusive. And while many other pediatric treatments

No, it's the mantra of a quasi-religious socio-political movement that's doing untold damage to young people and women.

It has ‘The online paedophiles walking free after accessing child abuse images’ One X account - Emily Wilding Davison - has been cataloguing such cases for months. mol.im/a/13863659

An infallible recipe for poor mental health and lifelong unhappiness is believing that unless the entire world validates your self-perception, it hates you. If you move through life telling yourself that unless you can force other people to play along you'll 'be 'erased', if the

Amber Thurman’s blood will forever stain the hands of the doctors and administrators at Piedmont Henry Hospital who sat back and watched her die. It will stain the hands of the legislators who voted for the unclear and punitive legislation that cost Amber her life. It will (22/)

A great conversation 👍🏻

Bookmarking this for the next time someone tells me no one's claiming to have changed sex. 'Fetishist Could Avoid Charges Of Exposing His Penis To Women Because He’s “Legally Female”'

The man who assaulted Kellie-Jay Keen gets arrested. #LetWomenSpeakSheffield

Here is the man who assaulted Kellie-Jay Keen just now at #LetWomenSpeakSheffield Make him famous