Jennifer Melle and Darlington nurse and President of the Darlington Nursing Union, Bethany Hutchison, will give evidence at Sandie Peggie's hearing against the Royal College of Nursing tomorrow (Monday). Support these incredibly courageous nurses! See more with @CConcern 👇🏻 mailchi.mp/christianconcern/…

Domestic violence against women is a national emergency. 3 women a week are killed. Yet nothing appears to be changing - as this shocking case reported in the @sunday_post shows only too horrifically. Police officers walked away and left Brodie to her fate. WRN’s Mary and Cathy are both quoted here and they are right. We don’t want to hear lessons have been learnt. We want material change. Women should be safe, not being murdered by violent men.

We are pleased to see sports minister Stephanie Peacock enjoying the benefits offered by parkrun. We hope that her score was accurate! If she runs at a parkrun where a male has identified into the female category then she should regard her placing as ‘there or thereabouts’. Women aren’t allowed accurate parkrun placings because @parkrunUK policy is that ‘inclusion’ of males into the female category is more important than fairness for females. Our campaign for parkrun to restore sex categories – female and male – continues. Next week many of our members will be taking part in the inaugural Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK event at parkrun. You may spot them in one of our eye-catching Save Women’s Sports T-shirts. If you’d like one of your own please visit our exclusive retailer Violet Vend. Ms Peacock – it’s not too late to get yours for next week… 😉

Send your daughter to Guides for brainwashing... is there a badge for that!

An opportunity missed. Girlguiding could have told the girls that sex stereotypes are limiting and they can hold many different interests, have short hair or long, be themselves and are absolutely fine as they are. Better yet, Girlguiding can provide interesting and entertaining activities that the girls can learn from and leave activism alone. Instead, they are handing out a highly disputed, outdated leaflet from Stonewall. There is no need to mention gender at all at Girlguiding. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…

I’m negative about the bbc..because I know from personal experience how they treated the subject of men in womens sport, & the abysmal reporting of the actual facts, the science, the female voice & the lack of support for female athletes. They went out of their way to ignore the science.

It took TWO people to write this tripe (I won’t dignify them with the title journalist). I’m guessing this was one of two things: - an idea floated by a junior that wasn’t spiked because an editors wanted to be ‘relevant’ and down with the class warriors - a very well-connected intern was in for the week and needed a byline for their CV Either way it’s utter claptrap and another reason why the BBC needs a complete overhaul. Hey @BBCNews stop spending my money on this rubbish.

Congratulations are due to Claire Dowling who has been elected the first female captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. Will having a woman in charge restore fairness to women’s amateur golf? We hope so. For while Scratch Competitions restrict entry to the women’s game to females only, the game for women who play Handicap Golf allows males to self-identify into the female game. The R&A rules state: ‘From the start of 2025, a golfer entering female professional and elite amateur championships organised by The R&A must have been female at birth or transitioned to female before the onset of male puberty to be eligible to compete.   ‘These requirements will not apply at a recreational level where the sport supports inclusivity through the World Handicap System, which enables golfers worldwide to play and compete together on a fair and equitable basis regardless of age, ability, background or gender.’ Women all over the country regular turn up to play handicap tournaments organised through clubs and local leagues to find a male on the opposing team. The rules stating that males who ‘transition before puberty’ may be classed as female are woefully outdated. For the avoidance of any doubt: transitioning a child before puberty is child abuse (cross-sex hormones and surgery on primary school children who are too young to consent… that’s a 🚩 from us). Women’s golf is for women only. We suggest Claire Dowling puts a review of the R&A rules at the top of her In-tray.

If you are a female member of any of these unions who wants to stay a member for local reasons, remember you can still opt out of the political levy. Why fund your union to diminish your voice in the Labour Party? Save yourself the cash and defund the male junketing.

Because what it boils down to - in simple terms - is that women don’t want to have to share a changing room with men like your pal here. That’s it. That’s all we are asking for. YOU won’t have to share a changing room with him because you’re not nurses or shop floor workers. The people you are supposed to represent.

You've had a weekend every week of your life. 🇬🇧 Nobody told you where it came from. The lie-in. The Saturday game. The Sunday roast. ⚽ All of it began in the cotton towns of Lancashire. And it started with a whistle. 1840: A mill hand worked 6 days a week. 12 hours a day. Sunday was for church. Saturday was just another shift. So the workers took Monday off instead. They called it Saint Monday. 🍺 The owners called it idleness. They docked their wages for it. But a mill can't run without its hands. So the mills and the mill hands made a deal. Turn up on Monday. And on Saturday, the whistle goes at 2. 1850: Parliament made it the law. Every mill in Britain stops at 2 on a Saturday. Half a day. All their own. The other half day followed, trade by trade, over the next century. And what do you do with a free Saturday afternoon? You play football. The whistle went at 2. So kick-off was at 3. It still is. ⏰ 1879: A magazine printed a strange new word from Staffordshire: week-end. The world had no word for it. Because the world didn't have one. America was still working Saturdays in the 1920s. Lancashire had stopped at 2 for 70 years. Every weekend on earth started at a mill gate in the north of England. They teach you the mills. They never teach you that ordinary mill hands made Saturday happen. Nobody told you where it came from. It came from ordinary British people. That's what Proud Of Us is for. The mill hands made a deal and kept it. So do we. No sponsors. No ads. No agenda. Just people like you. Send this to someone who's off today. They gave you your Saturday. Give them a minute of it. 👇 proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

11 unions standing together against women's sex based rights.

First USA #parkrun today at Roosevelt Island! This was a fun (and a little tricky!) course. Mostly trail with some boardwalk - I took it way too easy on the second mile trail portion, but passed 2 guys in the last 800m for 1st F, 3rd overall! We need @RRRunnersUK USA !!

Still fighting this ridiculous ban from spectating and playing by Ultimate Pool. Now it's just a waiting game. Next legal stage is case management.Please share or donate if you can to help reach the target ❤️ Thanks for all your incredible support 🙏 ❤️ crowdjustice.com/case/banned…

Let down by the police. Betrayed by Welsh politicians. An Asian grooming gang that targeted teenage girls in Rhyl was jailed for a combined 81 years. When making initial arrests in 2022, police shockingly missed crucial mobile phone evidence. Missed opportunities is a recurring theme in Wales. The Jay Report previously found that neither Welsh police nor local councils had an accurate picture of children at risk of sexual exploitation. Victims deserve transparency on how far these institutional failures went, who was responsible, and absolute accountability. 1/3 dailymail.com/news/article-1…

What I thought was going to be a REJECTION... ... turns into one of the most INSPIRING conversation I've ever had. 📸

The award is from the U.S. Olympians & Paralympians Association, the alumni. When I asked my peers to stand up for female-only sports, they did … along with coaches, sport administrators, parents, feminists, fans, and 4486 other athletes. Those IN SPORT want fairness for females. Thank you @xx_xyathletics - the logo is a powerful stand for women.

Have a great weekend, everyone. Well done to anyone who ran. Make sports fair for women. @xx_xyathletics @RRRunnersUK #SaveWomensSports

Maybe you hear right-wing politicians talking about violence against women and children in relation to immigration so much right now because these are the very cases your side decided were too politically inconvenient to confront. Victims like me were sacrificed on the altar of multiculturalism. We were ignored. Dismissed. Blamed. Failed over and over again. And perhaps they talk about it because, even now, survivors like me are still attacked and vilified by people on the left simply because of the colour of our abusers' skin. Maybe they talk about it because justice was withheld from us, our experiences were minimised, and acknowledgement was refused because telling the truth didn't fit the narrative you wanted to protect. For years, victims like me were treated as an acceptable price to pay for preserving a particular political ideology. So when people on the right stand up and talk about what happened to us, don't lecture us about them “weaponising” our suffering. Where were you when we needed you? Where was the outrage when children were being abused? Where was the political courage when authorities were being warned? Where was the concern for victims when acknowledging what was happening risked creating uncomfortable conversations about race, culture and immigration? The right didn't create these scandals. They didn't create the institutional failures. They didn't create the victims. The victims were already there. And when the political establishment failed to speak for us, others eventually stepped into the silence. Yes, some politicians may now use these cases politically. That is the nature of politics. But don't pretend the conversation exists because someone on the right invented it. It exists because thousands of children were failed. It exists because warnings were ignored. It exists because institutions chose protecting reputations, political narratives and community cohesion over protecting vulnerable girls. And it exists because survivors like me refused to stay silent. You don't get to condemn the people shouting about these injustices while ignoring the fact that we were left screaming into the void for years. The greatest political weaponisation of our suffering wasn't when politicians finally started talking about it. It was when vulnerable children were effectively sacrificed because telling the truth was considered too politically dangerous.

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