Joan Smith
@polblonde
Journalist. Author of novels & non-fiction, including ‘Misogynies’. ‘Unfortunately, She Was A Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome’s Imperial Women’ is out now.
Things just got a lot worse for NHS Fife
1/ A most unusual statement. Despite protesting they have no capacity to steer public opinion, NHS Fife try to do exactly that with an overly long ramble that varies between outright mendacity and “we’re saying this but not quite saying this libel”. This is called “being cute”
"What started as a debate for political anoraks & activists...has now become entirely mainstream. Ordinary women are simply fed up of being asked to “suck it up” regarding biological men in their changing rooms, public toilets..." @rob_marchant writes⬇️ labour-uncut.co.uk/2025/07/22/lab…
Just imagining the scenes when new patients arrive at A&E departments run by NHS Fife. No one able to tell what sex they are or how they should be treated.
Shame on you @Independent This horrific killing was committed by a man.
As Ofsted Chief Inspector I was often accused of being Islamophobic for talking about some tough issues in education and children’s social care that absolutely do need to be discussed openly and honestly. I share others’ concerns about the plan to create and embed a definition.
Those acts are already illegal under existing religious hate crime laws. People have *already* been sentenced for those crimes (I will link below.) I asked the Minister leading on this work to send me examples of anti-Muslim hate incidents which were not covered by existing law.…
Witchfinder General: How many volunteered for the ducking stool other than the one currently getting a right ducking? Service Manager: Not aware of any others WG: Quelle surprise
JR: You said 200 women use the room. How many complainted other than SP CM: Not aware of any others.
The conduct of NHS Fife bosses is a disgrace. They've failed in every possible way: morally, professionally and as leaders. They should be sacked and never allowed near the NHS again. This goes way beyond Fife. It's a national scandal - a shameful reflection of how the Scottish…
This is the SNP’s Scotland, where ideology trumps the law. Constituents are rapidly losing faith in the leadership of NHS Fife. Both their position & that of the SNP Scottish Health Secretary Neil Gray MSP is increasingly untenable.
Me on the government's new statutory guidance on sex education. Another blow for 'gender identity' nonsense. @unherd unherd.com/newsroom/uks-n…
"first, nothing has been worse for the gender movement than the cleansing light of the courts... Second, no job has more of a whiff of 2020 than the diversity officer. They exist to confirm their employer’s moral purity by “improving diversity & inclusion” thetimes.com/article/2063c1…
For years, activists smuggled gender dogma into classrooms. This is the first serious pushback, writes @polblonde 👇 buff.ly/eLuI10r
The UK hasn’t banned trans kids. It’s banned ideology masquerading as education, writes @polblonde 👇 buff.ly/eLuI10r
Our campaign on women targeted for egg donation is in @thetimes Thank you @VictoriaPeckham for this great piece highlighting risks to young donors, lack of honesty on ads, financial exploitation with payments of £985 @DHSCgovuk @scotgov stop this now. thetimes.com/comment/column…
Today we are quoted in @thetimes & @Telegraph as it’s revealed the number of older people pursuing surrogacy is soaring. People in their 60s, 70s, 80s are applying for parental orders for surrogate born babies. This despicable situation has gone far enough. Ban it now @DHSCgovuk
It's the week NHS Fife met the public and didn't like what they saw. The public didn't like NHS Fife much either. Proud to be a member of the Sex Matters advisory group, btw.
Sex Matters’ CEO Maya Forstater (@MForstater) responds to NHS Fife tribunal statement:
💔💔URGENT APPEAL💔💔 Our rescuer who feeds dogs at a lake location in Bosnia has this morning noticed a new addition to the strays who live there 💔💔 This poor girl has been dumped overnight and is so confused💔 She has obviously been someone’s pet, as soon as she saw our…
A&E is full of people having heart attacks, strokes and bearing terrible injuries. I’m just wondering if a big bloke who sobs when he hears a woman say hurty words should be working there.
APPEAL UPDATE ❤️🩹She is now safe and has been named Bo 🐑 Sadly we have only just got her 1/2 way funded but we couldn’t risk her moving to another location and losing her so we had to send out our rescuer. She is a young girl and just look at her curly sheep fur🥰🥹🐑 If…
‼️LONE WANDERING PUP URGENTLY NEEDS HELP‼️ We have just been sent this video of this lone pup 💔 Young, alone and being ignored by everyone nearby💔 He/she has probably been dumped or watched his/her siblings die on the streets, and we can’t ignore the cry for help and not at…