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Fishcakes/cabbage/mash. Don’t follow me just because I follow you. It’s just terfery, lost and shelter dogs and cats, The Small Faces and The Monkees.

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@Oingo_Boingo @BluskyeAllison We have jobs, or run businesses, that are threatened by Stonewall UK’s totalitarian efforts to impose a religious test on us. We are investing.
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@sonicdrivein @edentorres121 Your manager was polite, professional and remained ready to help in the face of provocation intended to get him to say something ‘wrong’. You could use this as training for all your employees, who may face belligerent entitled customers of all sorts, at any time.
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@OBlezzings Do you have a husband or a hamster?
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@marksandspencer @b_biffa Please please please stop saying ‘gender’. You are subject to the Equality Act 2010. you have made the choice to have mixed-sex changing rooms without, it seems, thinking about the effects on several groups of your customers with protected characteristics. You messed up, own it.
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@DalgetySusan @NicolaSturgeon ’Officer’ meaning he is a student? Does @EdinburghUni have any sanctions for fascist suppression of speech?
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@TillyLovesBooks Was it a ‘single mistake’? You expressed a wish to deny one person freedom of speech and a legal livelihood, to deny other people freedom to choose what to read, and to deprive your employer of property. I hope you find a job soon but also that you will read up on human rights.
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@LadyBleach @jk_rowling News outlets calling him a woman are lying. News outlets should, in general, not lie.
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@zackbeauchamp In the UK, women have rights. Real rights, not ‘as if they were men’ rights. So maternity leave, abortion. I don’t know what went wrong in Canada.
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@LPStaySafe I honestly don’t care about Jane’s feelings. They are his problem.
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@DrSarahLiu This whole thread is jaw-droppingly unimpressive. You don’t understand biology (mammalian sex is not a ‘social construct’, it’s how humans evolved); child development; or how to find an MoJ FOI response, for starters. The last, at least, is in your purported field. Wow,
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@McDonaldsUK @Paula_Griffin65 Glad to hear this. You have every right to exclude trans-identifying men, including those with GRCs, from women’s toilets. EA 2010, Sch 3, paras 26-28. Your manager was respecting other protected characteristics.
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@jessphillips Brianna Ghey’s murder was a horrible act and a tragic loss. But Brianna was not a girl, in law or in fact. Not a femicide.
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@billybragg @Womans_Place_UK @jk_rowling Billy, you are a straight man. Why are you obsessed with shouting at lesbians and gay men about another demographic to which you do not belong?
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@HnschenKlein81 @jk_rowling @ReadyBurge @lisanandy ‘Katie’/Lennon Dolatowski, Amy George/Andrew Miller, Isla Bryson/Adam Graham, just in Scotland, where JK lives. The first two targeted little girls. Is that enough?
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@Daniel_Grigg @jk_rowling Kathleen is consistently thoughtful. Emma is flailing for relevance and stoking hate for another woman in the service of her acting career, which she said she had retired from.
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@ReduxxMag @WDI_USA In this horrific instance, are they seriously trying to defend the ‘honour‘ of Dana Rivers? What is going on? it has to be basic misogyny, it can’t be explicit allegiance to a family murderer, surely?
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@AshReganALBA He harassed and discriminated against a humane, experienced woman. He did even worse. He divided raped women into good and bad (‘bigots’) which is the purest misogyny. He denied ‘bad’ raped women support and forbade his organisation signpost to another service.
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@partar400 Well done, you are a hairy bully.
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@sharrond62 Also, every last one of India’s followers could use male pronouns for you, and you’d still be a woman.
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@RioTheatre What other rape videos do you screen?
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@samuelcoates @Louise_m_perry I agree on the excellence of the series, but I have to say that Sarah Lancashire is beautiful. She is downplaying it, extremely well, because she is very very good at acting.
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@mattxiv Well, now she’ll just have to settle for being beloved for her generosity, clarity of thought and courage.
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@JohnJamesNI @mrjamesob @ThePosieParker @LBC He’s gone full MRA there. Any man taking it personally that women don’t want any men around them in certain situations is to be avoided in all situations.
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@troonytoons @SukiTrans He’s broken, and we are all supposed to accommodate him.
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@zoesqwilliams @speakoutsister What did Jo Phoenix do or say that is, in your view, ‘anti-trans’?
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@RealTayChaTLC It is not assigned. Sex is a real thing, not a construct, and not something mothers, midwives, nurses or doctors choose on birth.
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@Evie_tweeting @EllaSGordon Keep providing receipts for this case, please. That you don’t even have the sense to keep this mean-spirited, discriminatory nonsense to yourself shows that your employer has failed to explain the EA to you.
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@CPSUK You are considering mitigations for sexual assault by deception, based on the perpetrator’s declared view of herself or himself, creating a set of people allowed to do this, while for the rest of us it would remain a crime. What did your legal advice on this look like? The EIA?
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@TransKidsRule You are dealing with the fact that other people’s children have rights, too. Something you could have explained to your son a long time ago.
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@Womans_Place_UK @MaggieChapman @scottishgreens @mbmpolicy @ForWomenScot It is binary. It’s how mammalian evolution happened. This is like reading debates from the 1700s.
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@BBCNews @barbarnana21 You wrote a lot about Beira’s place, but you missed this about what Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre did, which was in the judgment, and a spiteful failure of a charity to direct people it refuses to help to somewhere that will.
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@SuellaBraverman @ukhomeoffice Exhibitionism is a crime with proven escalation. Coercive control, the same. Mocking online is not hate, and has no proven escalation, forensically. Retrain your forces: rape threats are more serious than ‘you are not a woman’.
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@Martina @Cougarmania @MrRypod @KemiBadenoch @jk_rowling @Glinner @IndiaWilloughby I loved you when I was 7 because you had the prettiest name at Wimbledon. I am still here, loving you, because you are just outrageously honest and correct on this. So glad I was watching your wins (and losses against lovely Chrissie) in real time.
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@mjeslfc I am so sorry. Your sister should still be here. The horrific physical damage, and the psychological grip, of anorexia are hardly acknowledged, let alone understood. We are all better for you being here.
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@nazirafzal Really? He was part of the ETBB that said a man accused of rape should be referred to as ‘she’ including by the victim. That is not the rule of law, it is the rule of the people who get to write the law.
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@GogurtJimmy @jk_rowling No-one does, because she never said any such thing.
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@Broonjunior Thank you, very interesting. Very clear note, too. Struck by this: ‘A theme among those seeking cancellation of the event included prefacing their remarks with a professed belief in free speech while denying that right to others and denying third parties their choice to attend.’
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@BethOttawa @feministfp @InfoDignity If your feminism doesn’t involve laughing at Mr Dunning-Kruger here, it’s definitely not feminist.
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@Fausto_Sterling Er, most recently she provided funding to rescue over 100 women judges from Afghanistan, where their lives were in serious danger.
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@NicolaJBarker @yvetterusse11 The suit is asking that a single-sex service be provided, not that mixed-sex services be ceased. All women means all women, not any men, however they identify.
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@EmmaHardy196290 @Transgendertrd @SexMattersOrg @ThePosieParker @Glinner @jk_rowling @SafeSchools_UK @AHSYork @AHSYork , you are wrong. 12-year old children should never be asked to discuss books with content like this in class in front of their peers, or with teachers. It is abuse in itself. In any class, an unknown number of children may already be subject to abuse. Think for a moment.
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@RollingStoneUK Bergdorf is a racist, homophobic, misogynist man. Assuming your researchers can see the same internet as the rest of us, you don’t mind about this.
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@PaulfrYorkshire @bindelj @VeniceLaura @Baroness_Nichol Yes, the council helpfully declared they had deliberately discriminated against her on the grounds of belief. Belief is a PC in the Equality Act.
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@BethanyinCBR Why are you so angry that people don’t agree with you? Why does calling women names make you feel good? Please talk to someone about your hate euphoria.
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@ForbesWomen Do you think that ‘Barbie pouch’ (it’s not a pouch) is better or worse than ‘gash’ (it’s not a gash) or ‘front hole’ (it’s not a hole, and it’s not the front opening on a woman)?
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@turretboi @MarkHamill Hahahaha. She’s responding to a trans-identifying man, who has been clearly misogynistic, homophobic and racist on this platform and others, saying he is ‘more of’ a woman than she is. Of course she’s going to point out it’s nonsense.
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@Krat0s0fsparta She’s a really good-looking young woman. horrible to think she can’t see it.
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@benjamincohen You are begging the question. No-one has a ‘gender identity’. Some people fit that description into feelings they have. All children have a sex.
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@EndoSouthC @PompeySteph This decision is the opposite of beneficiary-centred. Ask your Trustees to look again at your articles.
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@viabank @theDykeProject Freedom of association is a human right. Who are you to deny that to lesbians, you homophobic fascist?
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@PantiBliss Which other people should be prevented from exercising their human rights? Have you got a list?
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@PhilipPullman @DatCatDer @come_unhinged @amoozeboosh well then, you could correct those ‘some people’. Rather tHan scold the person with correct statistics. Unless you think some facts should not be shared with people, including ‘some people’.
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@FilmTVFan1 How interesting that you take this personally. If I said I didn’t want you to change my catheter, would you respect that?
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@HRC Not true. She won her case for unlawful discrimination. Imagine, she had human rights.
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@kayeedub @ayricheh @FondOfBeetles @JosephFCMiller @SciConservative @RosesPaintedRed @Nefer_Linde A woman who has had a hysterectomy is a woman without a uterus. A transwoman is not ‘without’ a uterus, because he was never going to have one. Because he is a man.
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@BenPBradshaw Hateful and hurtful? Reminding a child that sex is immutable is education. Keeping chidren’s toilets single-sex is safeguarding, and respects dignity and privacy.
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@RTN2MONKE @RichardDawkins Well, he’s a scientist, so he doesn’t need to bother with star signs, auras, body thetans or self-declared ‘genders’.
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@FernRiddell It is not complicated. Trans-identifying men have human rights, and protection against discrimination on the grounds of their identification. A man being extorted for sex at work has the same rights as a woman.
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@shereebekker We have less skeletal muscle strength, most notably upper body strength. It is not wrong to say so. We have stronger immune systems and better internal organ protective measures against cold. Can you guess why? If you think ‘different’ means ‘less than’ that is your problem.
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@brianpaddick Rubbish. Abortion is a women’s rights issue, and single-sex prisons, rape crisis services, sports are women’s rights issues. You have no standing here.
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@Tintern_Film @anyabike There was no ‘culture war’ until men started saying they they really were women. Two women were raped by a man. He should be in a men’s prison. The court should not have used female pronouns. Which of the preceding 3 sentences is wrong?
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@jammach It’s worrying that at no point in their ‘ethics’ training have they been taught about consent outside of ‘consent to treatment’, human rights, or that even if they don’t think women have human rights, the job requires them to behave as if they do.
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@karenowhatevs @genderisharmful @British_Airways @bindelj Please answer this. Women and men use your lounge, and should be allowed privacy and dignity.
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@polblonde @BBCWomansHour @Emmabarnett Hi Woman’s Hour, when we are menstruating we are not gestating, nor creating, another human life. We are just being women. I hope that is ok.
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@guardian Seriously? Horrible Owen Jones is one of the most poisonous misogynists writing for mainstream media today. keep him on for clicks if you like, but the MRAs who like him are not going to subscribe. I would be sad, except I am not. You’ve been hopeless for years.
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@testosteronejew I wish you well. You wish me hell. i’m happy with my position.
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@K_IngalaSmith I don’t agree it was ‘abject’. Women were platformed at hustings and we got to see how feeble the positions of other candidates were.
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@HazelAppleyard_ What a truly horrible person. Of course de-clawing is illegal, you nasty person who should not have any pets.
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@EmiliaB71 Stop the ‘blanket ban’ misdirection. Men were always subject to a blanket ban from women’s sports. You are arguing for a wheedling ‘special cases’ licence, for which there is no evidence.
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@Temperance_Brew @twitwacivist @lascapigliata8 @BraddockBessie @CrossStChapel @SheffLibraries Babies are out, got it. Toddlers? Four or five year olds? What age is ok for Sophie to think they have the power of consent to sex? (Clue: it’s all rape)
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@girls_women What what what? Childbirth is a thing that sometimes kills women. It never kills men. Who asked this question?
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@PennyRed Everywhere you mentioned. Why do you assume otherwise?
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@ICMPLondon You have no understanding of human rights, nor of anti-discrimination law in the UK. Stay out of it until you understand them, even a bit. Sentiment is not reason.
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@teaforpterosaur @BellatrixBurns The easy way she thought and typed ‘us’. Shudder.
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@GoodLawProject @Mermaids_Gender Yes, imagine if lesbians could have lesbian-only groups! And say they are interested only in women on dating apos! Your first witness thinks that’s bad. Do you?
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@breeallegretti How would they be unsafe?
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@carolinefff @TheAttagirls @jk_rowling @Telegraph Good job by the Telegraph. Sometimes the best reporting just represents exactly what happened.
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@rizpossnett Take 5 minutes out from empathising with SJB and think about Amy Parsons. Her AGP partner murdered her for objecting to his fetish. Of the crowd cheering on SJB’s call for violence in response to disagreement, there were undoubtedly a number of AGP men. You chose their side.
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@TuttingM This is genuinely dehumanising.
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@GilmoreJNurse Just to be clear, you are saying Hurray for Albert. Albert should get to do whatever Albert wants. Please explain why, and how much, you are proud of yourself for asserting this.
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@scottishgreens @patrickharvie How does this Bill do anything for LGB rights?
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@a5h3rrr @Chican3ry @AvaTomboy Reported. Murder is never positive. This was a child.
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@usacycling Why wasn’t Killips disqualified for assaulting another racer? Hardly sporting, although that was clear about him from the get-go.
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@OnjaliRauf ‘I hope I dream that dream again’ such a sharp description of grief and love. Sarah’s parents have both expressed the horror of this hideous murder so bitingly.
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@JamesEsses @Lauralols @stjohnambulance Hi @stjohnambulance , do you do the same (build in one cajoling and then one scolding page) if a person ‘prefers not to say’ about their religion, sexual orientation or anything else? Who on earth told you this was in any way sane?
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@NickFletcherMP @CPhilpOfficial Thank you and @WomensRightsNet for picking this up and not letting go. There is a question of officers’s rights too. A trans-identifying man should not be able to insist on being searched by women officers.
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@lorraine @hannahw253 Hannah is a man, who uses spaces for women. Hannah might be a friend of the show, but he has no respect for women.
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@IndyVoices @theothercoogan Well, tbh, it DOES mean ‘something completely different’, in that a ‘trans woman’ is something completely different from a woman.
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@alicemydaughter @LydiaXXUntoward No. The sign denotes that it’s not a women-only space while he is in there, so he is not violating any boundaries. This is extremely easy to understand, so I can only assume you are motivated not to understand it.
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@AliceDreger How does your last command fit with the preceding ones? Please explain. Please also explain what you mean by ‘intersex’. You seem to be Naomi Wolfing here.
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@CaolanRob @MadPercy2 @jk_rowling I have a smidgen of sympathy, because you are still young and 14m people know how petulant and misogynistic you are, which must be uncomfortable. But better that than Byline Times and @hopenothate continuing to pretend that they don’t both share that view. Good luck in future.
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@LisaJoanGrant The number of people who think lesbians should have sex with men, and be shouted at and shunned until they do, is bigger than the number of lesbians. Well done. Progress.
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@suzanne_moore We both remember what some ‘left-wing’ men in the 80s said they wanted to do to Margaret Thatcher. I got into a few heated arguments about that. Some men really think assaulting ‘bad’ women isn’t just misogyny put through a colander.
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@TullipR Oh Ritchie, I cannot imagine what you are dealing with every day. It hurts to try. It’s frankly astonishing how much energy and care you have put in to educating others while this is going on. Love and strength.
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@ThamesVP I think you mean ‘both boys and girls’. That’s how normal copy would be drafted. Even ‘all children’ would be better. Every child is either a boy or a girl, because those are the sexed terms for human children.
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@NoisyBits We get it, bros before hoes.
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@scib0rg @LadyLunc Yes, she can. It is totally reasonable to stipulate no male carers in such circumstances. Any trans-identifying man who sought to override this would not be fit to work in care.
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