RT @RadFem_KatH: @Finn_Mackay I was one of the women interviewed for this article. You can choose not to believe my "anecdotal evidence" but myself and two other lesbians were all assaulted by the same transwoman at university, and we were targeted ...
RT @Linda_W96: @Finn_Mackay But lesbians ARE being shamed and abused for being exclusively same sex attracted. Lesbians HAVE been pressured to have sex and relationships with trans women, even though they aren't attracted to them. Why are you ...
RT @radicalhag: @Finn_Mackay Hadn't you heard of the cotton ceiling then? https://t.co/UnUPvD... There is nothing alarmist or new about this, and it's to your discredit that you're treating it as a smear instead of listening to the lesbians affected. ...
RT @rad_feminista: @Finn_Mackay I personally know many lesbians who have been harassed and coerced into having sex with trans-identifying males and hounded out of LGB communities if they resist. This is reality, not “fear mongers getting.” Why are ...
RT @s_boudicca: @Finn_Mackay I’m a lesbian that has experienced sexual coercion from trans identified males in real life and online. And I have the screenshots as receipts.
RT @thespiralquirk: @Finn_Mackay Never heard of Morgan Page? https://t.co/bERjfJ... https://t.co/bRln9h... https://t.co/gkqSyz...
RT @andrewdoyle_com: A BBC article has gathered together testimonies from lesbians who feel “pressured and coerced into accepting trans women as partners”. Critics have doubled-down and claimed this is further evidence of transphobia. My thoughts on ...
77 sales on his Etsy shop! Wow 🤣🤣. Tra bully ain't making a living with the lego ripoff design yet. https://t.co/5WZZ5u...
The #Cottonceiling. This "mythical" phenomenon that, we are told, never happens Planned parenthood workshop 2012. "overcoming the Cotton ceiling How to breakdown sexual barriers for queer transwomen" https://t.co/MZ9Zw6...
RT @rafaellacj: Thank you for publishing this, @BBCNews - it’s an excellent article about a topic that should be publicised much more widely. https://t.co/7PERKc...
My research was done in an academic context. The piece on the BBC contain interviews from victims found by Caroline Lowbridge. lesbian experiences of the #Cottonceiling can be found at https://t.co/xXl4Mq... How many rape victims does it take? #metoo ...
RT @Conviction19c: Of 80 responses, 56% women reported being pressured or coerced to accept a trans woman as sexual partner While % may not be representative of wider lesbian community @FrenchFem said it’s important to capture their "points of view ...
RT @FrenchFem: #Lesbiansatgroundze... 2019 80 lesbians participate in the research Their voices have been ignored, silenced & dismissed. Listen to lesbians survivors The #Cottonceiling is the sexual pressure lesbian face to sleep with men who ...
RT @LuxuryMoon: @FrenchFem Will do. Did you see that they have removed it from front page of the website already despite apparently being most read article of the day?
RT @rebelyarns: Solidarity with all the lesbians interviewed in this thorough and distressing piece. Congratulations to @FrenchFem for this long-awaited recognition of an issue that she and her sisters in #GetTheLOut have battled to bring to light ...
RT @wwwritingclub: @GitaSahgal @carolinepennock I can't take credit for the survey--that would be @FrenchFem @GetTheLOutUK Fascinating that Stonewall took over the public sphere using stats based on far smaller samples than the survey in the ...
RT @super_dogz: Remind me, why are men on lesbian dating apps? What could possibly be their motive? https://t.co/hUQ0Na...
RT @OsborneInk: "Outrageous that women don't want my dick in their lives! Screech with me, fellas!" https://t.co/rGGFFG...
RT @coccinellanovem: @socksknitter @FrenchFem And 3 times the size of one of the most oft quoted surveys by Stonewall https://t.co/aBdmvY...
Victims speaking out is not "factual basis" Who benefits from silencing rape victims? #Cottonceiling https://t.co/SiPjxh...
RT @michielvaningen: BREAKING BREAKING: having a sexual orientation is now the same as being a racist. Don’t say you weren’t warned. https://t.co/QxKIZR...
I am very glad that not all lesbians are rape victims too Rosie However I speak on behalf of those who are. #cottonceiling https://t.co/R2PEDh...
RT @dormantwrapper: @sally_hines Funnily enough they're never transphobes until they say no to a trans-identifying male.
RT @RebeccaMKBull: Diva magazine blocking dissenting lesbians and its editor hiding replies from lesbians who disagree with her about the basis of their own sexual orientation is worth noting.
RT @celticgilly: Jones & Ash Sarkar are an absolute disgrace. Imagine accusing lesbians who say 'no' to sex with trans identified males of being transphobic. And then criticising the BBC for reporting the pressure & abuse that these women ...
RT @silkfem: the replies on this are disgusting, 80 women saying they feel pressured to have sex with people they don’t want to isn’t enough for you?? https://t.co/4aDtUW...
Nasty terfs how dare they talk about sexual violence and rape?! https://t.co/r951xg...
Do "terfs" deserve to get rape? https://t.co/iknir6...
RT @Michael_AW77: @CharlieEdmunds @VivJaye If publishing lesbians' stories of being raped is "hate speech" then the extremists demanding those stories be silenced are obviously homophobic. Which is perfectly fine with the activists screaming that ...
RT @M_Addison_Clare: So if I'm understanding correctly... We believe women...until it's a woman we dont like We listen to women...until they say things we dont agree with We support women...until its lesbians stating their boundaries Yep, that's ...
RT @robjessel: "Please support the author of the piece, Caroline Lowbridge."
Who benefit from silencing rape victims? #cottonceiling https://t.co/ZsCjAF...
RT @IDD64: @HazelTarragon @Finn_Mackay @FrenchFem Nobody should be holding a workshop to overcome other people's boundaries when it comes to their sexual orientation. Not ever. It's disgraceful.
RT @HazelTarragon: @Finn_Mackay @FrenchFem Here's the advert for a workshop called "Overcoming the Cotton Ceiling". Translation: how to get lesbians to have sex with males who identify as women. Do you think this is okay? Do you think it's okay to ...
RT @HazelTarragon: @Finn_Mackay The 'booklet' as you disparaging refer to it is actually a piece of research by Angela C Wild. The research is into the issue of males pressuring lesbians to have sex with them because they "identify as lesbians". I ...
Aaand the transplaining begins! Lets recap. Lesbian : same sex attracted female. Trans woman: male who identify as woman Man who calls himself a lesbian by definition breaks lesbian sexual boundaries. You are welcome #cottonceiling ...
RT @terfasaurus: Brilliant short film by @LilyLilyMaynard about the #ComeOutOfStonewall protest in London on the 22nd of October 2021 #MakeMoreNoise https://t.co/uuaCIm...
"Acceptance without exception" except for lesbians who are supposed to accept penises or be called Nazis #cottonceiling https://t.co/R3UoMG...
RT @40yroldlesbian: @FrenchFem @Banonymous100 @GetTheLOutUK @lesbianmetoo I don’t want to get all emotional, but I can’t tell you how important it is to me that this story is told and more people know about it. Thank you Caroline.
RT @RadFemAlliance: Well done to @GetTheLOutUK and @FrenchFem - finally their report #LesbiansAtGroundZe... getting mainstream attention #lesbians #CottonCeiling #solidarity https://t.co/tyxIYG...
RT @GetTheLOutUK: @ForwomenScot @ALLIANCELGB @FrenchFem @stonewalluk We are still looking for testimonies of any type of male violence against #lesbians at https://t.co/3Wpzyy... Many languages available! Please share! @FrenchFem,@womande...
RT @GetTheLOutUK: @WepWomen @BBC @FrenchFem @stonewalluk @ManduReid @TabithaMortonWE @WEP_UK @WEPRaceEquality @WEPLGBTQI We are still looking for testimonies of any type of male violence against #lesbians at https://t.co/3Wpzyy... Many languages ...
RT @GetTheLOutUK: @BevJacksonAuth @BBC @FrenchFem We're still looking for testimonies of any type of male violence against #lesbians at https://t.co/3Wpzyy... Many languages available! Please share! @FrenchFem,@womande... a ...
RT @lesbianmetoo: @bindelj We're still looking for testimonies of any type of male violence against lesbians at https://t.co/FT3Bld... Many languages available! Please share! @FrenchFem,@womande... and Sarah Labrys talk abo ...
RT @WomenReadWomen: A brave 14 year-old girl speaks: "Your policies are dangerous and rooted in sexism. Boys are reading erotica in the classrooms next to girls, and you want to give them access to girls’ locker rooms, and you want to force girls to ...
RT @AWombs: As #Lesbian is trending we thought we would share this. Brilliant discussion feat @luluchops1 @JuliaDRobertson @Aja02537920 and @FrenchFem from @GetTheLOutUK https://t.co/TZDhSW...
RT @catsiesXX: I am amazed this is on BBC News. https://t.co/ukv8Pb...
RT @cringecirce: The irony is that queer theory is non empirical. I have never heard a social justice minded person dismiss research by a minority group based on it being qualitative in nature before. This is lesbophobia. I’m going to say it: this ...
RT @bluecatsarah: I’ve been hearing about this from lesbian friends for several years. Glad @bbc has got round to it at last. Congratulations to @FrenchFem for the research. https://t.co/OvmAxU...
A good guide to live by! https://t.co/cAJre2...
RT @ju5tm3m3: @jezkemp @adamndsmith @BBCPride Exactly. What are you doing to support these lesbians?
RT @injiduducu: @adamndsmith Would lesbians stop complaining about corrective rape and conversion therapy please, it’s making the males doing it looks bad
RT @loveradio3: @FrenchFem @GetTheLOutUK @lesbianmetoo Here’s the link for your followers’ positive feedback - 🙏 https://t.co/1ObHJ4...
The #cottonceiling #lesbiansatgroundze... research was never meant to be a quantitative study. It aimed to uncover the voices of silenced Lesbians victims Interesting to dismiss a research on what it's not meant to do. https://t.co/V4cf5z...
RT @LGBAllies_Cymru: The RaRE report so often quoted as showing ‘suicide risk’ is tiny. 27 self-selected under 26 yo people, however troubled, do not offer an evidence base for policy. Details of survey failure https://t.co/XniZAF... @FrenchFem has ...
This is exactly what it's like https://t.co/jly7NS...
RT @doodleswoo: @BBC @BBCNews the cotton ceiling is real and has been called out for years by women like @FrenchFem Congrats for publishing this excellent piece by Caroline Lowbridge
RT @Conviction19c: @FrenchFem @BevJacksonAuth @andrew_b72 @BBC And the author of the article makes this clear. Much needed research often begins like this. Identify issues that need exploration through small qualitative sample then make case for ...
RT @RareTweets4: @FrenchFem Well done on getting the story published.
RT @reel_woman: Great to see your work highlighted in that BBC piece @Gettheloutuk @LesbianMeToo @FrenchFem
He is lovely https://t.co/e5wHid...
RT @K_IngalaSmith: @FrenchFem @BevJacksonAuth @andrew_b72 @BBC 'Proper academic research'? Don't we hear that all the time as feminists. Epistemological gate keeping is a joke, especially from those institutions that are cowed by trans ideology. In ...
Watching the (L)GBTQ turn against lesbians victims of sexual violence by trans woman is quite a sight. What a happy family! #getthelout
Lesbians are called terf, their experiences of sexual violence dismissed. This has been going on for years. #cottonceiling exist https://t.co/xXl4Mq... https://t.co/Ik8YDM...
RT @FeministRoar: I see the usual misogynists are furious lesbians are being given a platform to talk about how an environment has developed where they feel pressured into sex with straight men and have been subject to sexual assault and rape. Thanks ...
Important action RT Please send your supportive message to the BBC regarding Caroline Lowbridge piece on the #cottonceiling here https://t.co/kTfdQg...
RT @lnmackenzie1: @FrenchFem @GetTheLOutUK @lesbianmetoo So pleased to see your work referenced so extensively, Angela!
RT @gc_fem: The #cottonceiling is what peaked me. This article and the brave women who share their stories is essential reading. Lesbians do not do penis. Anything said to the contrary is coercive and condoning rape culture. https://t.co/0JySkC...
RT @WepWomen: @FrenchFem is a brilliant artist & feminist activist. To support her work: https://t.co/B7GYHS... #GetTheLout #lesbiansatgroundze... #wildwomynworkshop ...
For #Cottonceiling follow @lesbianmetoo and visit https://t.co/xXl4Mq... Lesbians report their stories of sexual violence including by men who identify as lesbians Let them not be silenced anymore! #cottonceiling #lesbianmetoo https://t.co/Y61qfc...
RT @Sparrlyten: @BevJacksonAuth @BBC @FrenchFem https://t.co/xKLKEp...
RT @WepWomen: #MVAWG comes in many forms Thankyou @BBC for finally covering this research by @FrenchFem @GetTheLOutUK This is @stonewalluk version of inclusion Lesbians do not have penises #homophobia @ManduReid @TabithaMortonWE @WEP_UK @WEPRaceEqua ...
RT @GetTheLOutUK: Following this we have set up @lesbianmetoo , an online project to record the experiences of lesbians confronted with sexual violence including #cottonceiling rapes. Read lesbians testimonies here https://t.co/7lDIJh...
And here we go again!. Lesbian victims Of.sexual violence are called anti trans, terfs and transphobes, Bigoted BC they do not want to sleep with men who idemtify as lesbians. This is the #cottonceiling coercion and denial. Right there In front of ...
RT @K_IngalaSmith: Wow. Looks like the BBC have remembered what balance looks like. I'm particularly pleased so see @FrenchFem's important research on sexual violence perpetrated on lesbians finally getting some mainstream coverage. ...
RT @Whatfreshhell5: Amazing and wonderful to see the superb @FrenchFem interviewed in the mainstream press. #TeamTERF https://t.co/5amBu5...
RT @MForstater: Amazing. The cotton ceiling and Stonewall's homophobia is published by @BBCNews (Congratulations @FrenchFem and @ALLIANCELGB ) Stonewall should not be training schools or employers with this homophobia. https://t.co/cxNwvO...
RT @GetTheLOutUK: What is the #Cottonceiling? Watch @FrenchFem Present the Cotton ceiling report at @FiLiA_charity two years ago: https://t.co/qeWfCh...
RT @BevJacksonAuth: Finally, @bbc publishes an important article on the “cotton ceiling”. This is a topic that has been researched brilliantly by @FrenchFem but receives far too little attention. Please RT widely. We’re tired of hearing “this never ...
RT @HJoyceGender: This is a really well done piece of journalism. A fearless approach, simply asking a bunch of different people what they think, and then writing down the answers. It’s a reminder of what we’ve been missing from our national ...