Tag: The Cotton Ceiling

: Arched ceiling, with curved glass panels, in one of the basement offices of the Liverpool Cotton Exchange. Its the cotton ceiling, get it?

Allison Bailey; why did the judge ignore her cotton ceiling accusation?

During the Allison Bailey tribunal we heard a lot about "The cotton ceiling". Which is a phrase used primarily by anti-trans activists nowadays to frame transgender women in particular as predatory men. This is a deliberately unfair reading meant to monster transgender women.
Which has the word "Ofcom" sitting on a thick bold underline which changes from burgandy to a dark purple, then a light blue, light green, yellow, orange, pink, a tiny slither of a lighter pink, a red and then purple again. A lot of people are probably about to find out I am terrible at naming colours, but I did this alt-text for you, my screen reading friends :)

My complaint to Ofcom re: ‘that’ BBC article

I am writing to complain about the article originally headlined; "We are being pressured into sex by some trans women". In this letter I intend to set out what my issues with the piece were and how the 'solutions' offered by the BBC's ECU have not at all addressed that problem. The outcome I am searching for is a full retraction and apology for the piece. In my opinion this article does not mean journalistic standards and serves only to elevate gossip of known anti-trans agitators to a position it simply does not belong.
A wide shot of JK Rowling reading from The Sorcerer's Stone in The White House Gardens

JK Rowling, lesbians and The Cotton Ceiling

If they believe it hard enough, perhaps they can will it into existence but I doubt it. Trans people just don't want to have sex with rancid nasty bigots. We want to have sex with people who love us and respect us, like anyone else.