It's two years today since I spoke at @Womans_Place_UK first public meeting. "The word woman means ‘adult human female‘. Adult human female cannot include male. For women to make this statement now however, is now described as hate speech and bigotry."

Those involved in progressive politics should ask themselves how it can be progressive to seek to remove women's rights to use words which name our common experiences or to use threats, violence & 'no platforming' to intimidate women from engaging with politics of sex & gender

"Forcing women to accept a new definition of our reality so that some men can call themselves women just replicates the gender norms of male domination and female submission and it cannot be considered remotely progressive". Text version of speech here https://helensteel12.wordpress.com/2017/12/26/my-speech-to-a-womens-place-public-meeting-in-cambridge-on-23rd-nov-2017/