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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

11 months

What this guy says is libellous. There is no evidence of any threats being made by the organisers. If he has a shred of decency & any common sense he will publicly withdraw that claim.

Ross Patterson

@Ross_Patterson_

11 months

We spoke to Johnny, who was protesting the book launch. He said this: (Unfortunately the video was corrupted, but we still captured audio.)

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

5 months

Hilarious. A petition from a bunch of people who wouldn’t know an unsound methodology from a ripe banana. Just parrots. But useful. A convenient list of people whose judgment you shouldn’t trust. And a guide to where not to send your kids when they go to uni.

Feminist Gender Equality Network

@NetworkGender

5 months

Calling all academics! Unsound methodology, unacceptable bias, problematic and unsupported conclusions. As academics we regard The Cass Review as dangerous and potentially harmful to trans children Sign our open letter today.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

So, the Oxford student protesters finally went too far, invaded the Wellington Square offices, manhandled a staff member & attempted to barricade themselves in the VC’s office. Now arrested. I’d of thought sending down would be appropriate. And assault & criminal damage charges.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

@rejserin @forevercoco3 @Fragqueeny @helenstaniland How many visits are there in the UK to sex segregated toilets and changing rooms every day? The number must be in the millions? How many females per day are misidentified as male & challenged? 0, 1, 3, 4? I’d guess zero on many days. So your argument is that we should set public

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

It’s not the job of universities to take an official public stance on international affairs. It’s not their job because universities are communities of scholars & learners •who have different opinions• which in liberal democracies they have a right, even an obligation, to

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

7 months

The process produced a result we don’t like. The process was fair & nobody cheated. We demand the result be annulled because…we don’t like it & feelz. Signed Edinburgh Staff Pride Network. Average age 14.5

Staff Pride Network

@UoEStaffPride

7 months

We're concerned about Simon Fanshawe's uncontested election as Rector due to his ties with the LGB Alliance and statements on trans identity. Read our full statement and support the petition for change: #InclusionMatters

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

2 months

@SomeLatinWord Who decides what is “hate speech”? You & people who agree with you? Are others allowed to express an opinion on the matter or is there a test you want to set before you grant them a say?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

@rejserin @forevercoco3 @Fragqueeny @helenstaniland policy to obviate the occurrence of of an incredibly low frequency event. That seems daft on utilitarian grounds unless you want to argue that no females get any positive utility from sex segregated facilities, which appears to be empirically false, or that the disutility

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

11 months

@ChemBioJonny Then put it in the public domain so everyone can judge the nature of the “threat”. Otherwise it is just blah blah. It’s utterly bizarre to regard speaking to defend oneself in a university governance forum as “bullying”. You sound as though you are at primary school,

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

@PaulCanOnlyGet1 Post your address. I’m sure you’ll be hospitable enough to open yours up to any casual passer by who needs a slash or a dump. What’s your objection?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

10 months

@Nancy_M_K Which human rights are trans people in the UK currently denied? Please itemise so that the citizens & their representatives can best consider whether: a) they are rights; b) whether they are actually denied c) in the event that the answers to a) & b) are yes. c) how to rectify

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

6 months

@stephenwhittle @Baroness_Nichol Nature understands nothing as it has no consciousness. But you know that so why come out with this baloney? And yes, we the human beings are the ones that make the concepts. But they are not arbitrary. If they did not correspond to the “thing in itself” we would not understand it

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

10 months

@ThomasWillett9 @a_gay_man_cph If you believe Forstater didn’t win - in the normal English language use of that word - then something is wrong with your understanding of the law. Courts don’t award aggravated damages to folk who lose a case. Perhaps you are using “win” in some novel sense known only to you.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

10 months

@PriyamvadaGopal This is a test of your moral integrity. @ProfAliceS ‘s settings allow anyone to reply, that is completely obvious to anyone who looks. If you are honest you’ll admit you made a mistake. It is also the case that the letter you chose to sign is a denunciation in the ordinary

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

2 months

@helenstaniland @OuiMignon @skyenotruby It’s a source of great amusement to see just how many folk pretend to be Martians who don’t understand how human societies work. Conventions,norms, rules of behaviour, social sanctions, shame, they apparently have never heard of them, yet they live among us!

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

@rejserin @forevercoco3 @Fragqueeny @helenstaniland experienced from an incredibly low probability event is so great it outweighs everything else, which seems utterly implausible.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

3 months

@bescofield @Witch_Of_The @benappel That’s like saying, hopeless alcoholics are still going to get behind the wheel when they are drunk therefore we should not have laws about drink driving. We mitigate the harm we can. Starting with not destroying social norms that permit females to challenge obvious males in

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

6 months

@No7Sammy Oh dear, they must have been distraught when the court found she was directly discriminated against and awarded compensation & aggravated damages, the latter no doubt occasioned by the persecutory climate created by some of the “brave” signatories.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

8 months

@zoesqwilliams @sandymatheson10 @JoPhoenix1 Would that be the same WH that gave Professor Sally Hines a platform to insult the nation’s intelligence by chanting repeatedly TWAW rather than articulate a coherent argument?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

10 months

So in summary: ONS introduced a new question into the census but despite the unparalleled level of resources a national statistical agency has to investigate the quality of the data it collects it can’t reach a conclusion about quality. Very impressive. Some of what they say

Professor Alice Sullivan

@ProfAliceS

10 months

It is disappointing that the ONS have not simply held their hands up and acknowledged that their gender identity question was poorly designed They acknowledge implausible patterns in the data, but fail to draw the obvious conclusions.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

9 months

@TheStephOfStars @Jozinhagirl @SVPhillimore And the sections of the EA 2010 that specifically permit single sex sport & details the conditions under which discrimination is legal. I’ve just reread them & they seem to exist. Did I imagine them? Was I dreaming? Or are you a bit of a fibber?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

11 months

@TheRedTentCo @Stregatornata Brune Park. @BruneParkSchool Apparently putting learning first. But putting girls second, something parents & the wider Gosport community have a right to know.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

6 months

@S0phieSparkles What objectively was there a risk of? You seem very sure so you should be able to spell it out.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

11 months

I’m more than a little alarmed that my university involved Stonewall’s chair in putting together a toolkit on free speech. That would be Stonewall whose slogan is “No Debate”. I’d love someone to ask her how “No Debate” is compatible with free speech.

Jo Bartosch

@jo_bartosch

11 months

Horrified that the @UniofOxford VC seems to be suggesting censorship on campus is necessary, & that she's grateful to former @stonewalluk chair David Isaac for creating a toolkit on 'how to navigate free speech'.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

7 months

@stephenwhittle It would really help folk to know what you actually believe if you would give some straight answers to some straight questions. 1) Should a male, convicted in the UK of rape who believes he is a woman do his bird in the female prison estate? Yes or No?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

3 months

@RachelCDailey A woman should be able to tell a potential predator (that is, all males) to get out of the women’s bathroom. If you undermine the norms that allow her to do that or worse prevent her from doing so you increase the risk to females. It is as simple as that. It’s males.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

11 months

Yet we are told there is no free speech problem in universities. The pocket Stalins who would like the event cancelled will pull the usual stunt of claiming their failure is evidence of a lack of a problem & that they were just exercising their free speech (to deny it to others)

Professor Alice Sullivan

@ProfAliceS

11 months

Edinburgh UCU @ucuedinburgh have demanded that senior management prevent a book launch for "Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader" from being held at @EdinburghUni They've written to thousands of staff denouncing the book and its authors.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

@garylfrancione Wait till Billy learns that Churchill & Stalin were on the same side in WW2. Though there could be some entertainment listening to him try to explain which was the good guy & which the bad guy.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

It’s outrageous this is still going on. UCL should be ashamed. The facts of the matter seem pretty clear. This shouldn’t take more than a couple of weeks to investigate & resolve. Making the process the punishment is adding insult to injury.

The Free Speech Union

@SpeechUnion

4 months

University College London (UCL) continues to investigate its "concerning" decision to BAN academic and FSU member Michelle Shipworth from teaching her own course, following complaints from a Chinese student that discussing modern slavery in China as part of a data analysis

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Philip Swallow

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2 months

@ProteanRedux @SVPhillimore Why should Stonewall not be held to same standards as any other charity? You make an empirical claim in the public domain, you evidence it. If you can, all well & good, if you can’t you withdraw it & apologise for misleading the public. Or face the consequences.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

5 months

@KirstieMAllsopp @helenstaniland Don’t we live in a society in which our behaviour is partly governed by social norms? We rely in everyday life on people adhering to tacit rules with the threat of sanctions, in this case under discussion rebukes & public shaming not guards or the police at the door. Norms &

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

6 months

@davecrossx How do you know they are trans & not cross-dressers or female impersonators? How do you know? Or do we just have to accept your word?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

@rejserin @garylfrancione This is an equivocation, playing on the meaning of “accommodate”, you are a PhD student, you must know this, so no need to cut you any slack. Serving a customer vegan food generates no negative externalities. The business profits, it is a mutually beneficial exchange. “

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

8 months

@RossMcCaff Does it or does it not have published timings & thus rankings within sex and age categories? Arguing that it’s fine for males to run in the female category amounts to abolishing the female category. If that is what you want to argue for at least have the honesty to admit it.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

2 months

@TakedownMRAs @MForstater @fawcettsociety Strange. Here I am reading the UK’s Equality Act 2010 and it clearly gives me the right not to be unlawfully discriminated against by an employer or service provider on the basis of my sex. I take it you’ll be revising your opinion.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

8 months

@billybragg @DrPamSpurr @ThePosieParker @BBC @blablafishcakes You do know that TRAs routinely refuse to appear on the same media platform as GC folk? The latter do not normally refuse to appear with TRAs. So it is going to be a bit difficult for the BBC to produce the form of balance you require. In effect you are arguing for a TRA veto.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

5 months

@mimmymum What are the legitimate criticisms in your opinion. Most of the criticisms I’ve seen swing on matters of fact about which the critics are simply wrong ie claims about double blinding, the reasons for rejecting studies, the quality assessment tool. What else have you got?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

3 months

@yuanyi_z Back in the dark ages when the idea that we are all a bunch of wasters that need to be controlled by form filling was just getting going, Stanislav Andreski Prof of Sociology at Reading was sent a form asking him to explain the research methods he used. His reply was: thinking.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

9 months

@beccajiggens @michaelpforan @RedGiant1974 It would be more informative if rather than have a childish meltdown you educated folk by carefully trying to explain why you think the things Dr Foran wrote are wrong in law. That would be genuinely illuminating.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

6 months

@S0phieSparkles By whom? And how is it linked to a speaker giving a talk about a completely unrelated issue?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

6 months

@S0phieSparkles So no answer then. Plus ca change.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

3 months

@itsTRANSylvania In other words she correctly identified that transwomen are male & then expressed an opinion about what actions should follow from that. Actions that are permitted by UK law. So in your eyes it is transphobic to a) tell the truth; b) advocate for something that is legal. Genius.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

3 months

The obvious question we should all be asking the Met here is: what is there to investigate or enquire about that takes 10 months? The facts of the matter are not disputed. The law is not under dispute. This seems like the sort of intimidatory tactics used in a Police State.

Maya Forstater

@MForstater

3 months

I am being investigated by Met Police for a tweet about a male doctor examining female patients without their informed consent @MailOnline

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

6 months

@S0phieSparkles Correct. But if you want anyone to take your opinions seriously you surely have to defend them. Otherwise they are nothing more than farmyard noises like moo & baa & folk are entitled to conclude you have said nothing worth listening to.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

9 months

@mbp_phillips @Seano299 @SVPhillimore Sean’s legerdemain is so obvious a child of 3 would spot it. Words do indeed have a number of different meanings not all relevant to the point being discussed.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

3 months

@ProfDaveAndress Can you elaborate on that? Where would we find irrefragable evidence that Duffield has campaigned for anyone to “harmed” in the normal English language meaning of the word? I’ll accept direct quotations or sound recordings of her actual words. Receipts or you are, sir, a liar.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

@katemdavo @rejserin I’m interested in the reasoning that led you to this conclusion. The gentleman could have waited until the floor was open for questions & demonstrated their command of evidence based reasoning then. Nobody would have stopped them. But they *chose* to interrupt the speaker. Out

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

8 months

@Chican3ry What is your principled argument for permitting males to run in the female category? The only one I know is that timings & rankings should not be categorised by sex. Which amounts to abolishing the female category. If that is what you want then have the honesty to admit it.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

10 months

@gottabekd35 @TheVikingDane @Irakaf2 Inclusiveness is great. How do you accommodate people who want it recognised that their sex is determined at conception & observed but not assigned at birth? Is there a tick box for them?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

10 months

This. But Prof Gopal won’t respond, just as she didn’t when folk pointed out her ludicrous attempt to smear @ProfAliceS . Her tactics are to perpetrate a falsehood, ignore everyone who points it out, & quickly move on to her next cause. Basically the Trump/Johnson playbook.

Mary Leng

@mary_leng

10 months

@PriyamvadaGopal @ProfAliceS This is weapons grade gaslighting from you. The only reason the letter was written was because Advance HE platformed a speaker (namely Alice) who was arguing that there is a clash between (what’s being demanded in the name of) trans rights and women’s rights. The condition it…

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

@johnarmstrong5 The BMJ denied it would reject a paper for political or ideological reasons…after rejecting 2 papers for political and ideological reasons. We are lost.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

10 months

As a 17 year old lad when first Blondie came to prominence I had no doubts about what sex Debbie Harry was. Anyone who did clearly had a brain of glass.

Scottish Suffragette🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ScottishSuffra1

10 months

Watching a documentary of Blondie and some blue haired fanny said that Debbie Harry was so gender neutral and listening to her voice you don't know if it's male or female..........fuck.....right....off.....stop trying to spoil my past, you've already spoilt my future you sad fkrs

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

5 months

It is, of course, totally clear in the report. Which really requires us to ask questions about the competence & motivations of the commentators that Stonewall relied on for their initial opinion.

Stonewall

@stonewalluk

5 months

In early analyses of the Cass Review it was unclear how and why research had been graded, and the consequent impact this would have on the report's recommendations and implementation. We are grateful to Dr Cass for taking the time to clarify that both 'high' and 'moderate'

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

10 months

@gottabekd35 @TheVikingDane @Irakaf2 You seem like a nice physician. Maybe a bit of work to do on empathy & bedside manner. And for people that don’t understand the term Cis or find it offensive or don’t give a damn about gender but know what sex they are, how do you include them?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

2 months

@MForstater And there we have it. Kennedy gives the game away & utters obvious bullshit. Kennedy is not going to be sued for quoting someone’s actual words.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

2 months

A materialistic analysis. The scanning & labelling of the views of historical figures that offend contemporary mores is a nice little earner. Jobs for the boys & girls with 2.1s in the soft social sciences & humanities. And a steady demand. As mores change more labelling is

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2 months

You couldn't make it up. The wokerati of Camden Council have decided that this statue of my great-aunt Virginia Woolf in Bloomsbury needs a QR code to explain her 'offensive' attitudes @Telegraph

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

10 months

@MForstater @Max_Morris @stephenwhittle Max seems to have gone strangely silent. Perhaps he is suffering from a bout of amnesia & needs time to collect his thoughts or consult his diary. Or maybe he is taking time out to write those invitations to Biggs, Pike, Hilton. & Sullivan to join the conversation.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

5 months

@helenstaniland He can’t & still would be protected under EA by virtue of gender transition. Disappointing to say the least that a judge misrepresents their legal position & what is actually at stake.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

6 months

@No7Sammy Perhaps they had a party to celebrate failing to successfully defend the case & celebrate losing their organization over £100K plus their own costs. Judging by the performance of some in court they would be daft enough to do something like that.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

11 months

@aulichmusic @WomensSocIre @LindaLove35 @ChemBioJonny @ProfAliceS @Docstockk No special expertise required; Is the normal way for academics to react to a book whose content they disagree with: A) Write reviews, write criticism explaining why it is wrong; B) Sit down protest, attempt to cancel & then disrupt the book launch? Chemists can answer

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

9 months

@Seano299 @mbp_phillips @SVPhillimore This is absurd &obviously question begging. Saying that males are not females does not = “being against trans people” which is a more or less meaningless locution. Of course you want to make the elision because you think it helps with the mud slinging. But it is bonkers.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

8 months

So, the plain person’s translation: unless you, without question or qualification, accept what children say about themselves as an accurate description of reality, you are committing genocide. Proof, if any was needed, that some academics specialise in poisoning the commons.

Sarah Phillimore

@SVPhillimore

8 months

It’s basic premise is that trans children have always existed and denial of this is - of course - genocide. I had not realised this word had begun to misused as early as 2017, or that we could have such a thing as ‘procedural genocide’.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

7 months

@PjThinker @michael_merrick @policy_uk The table is utterly uninformative about anything that is relevant to a point about admissions standards. It makes the article worse than it otherwise would be.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

1 year

I remember a prominent sociologist saying to me, must be 20 years ago, that the most significant social change in their lifetime was the growth of cohabitation.

Lewis Goodall

@lewis_goodall

1 year

So for personal reasons, marriage has been on my mind. Have been reading @ONS data on the subject. I hadn’t quite realised just how big and rapid the changes have been over the past 50yrs. Says something about or misunderstanding of the past and about being young(ish) today🧵

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

10 months

@gottabekd35 @TheVikingDane @Nora58902166 @Irakaf2 That sex isn’t determined at conception?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

express themselves. Universities are not churches, there is, or should be, no dogma that all members of the community are obliged to sign up to other than the usual norms of academic conduct & the usual norms of civility.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

7 months

Apparently the term “natal sex” is “pathologizing and stigmatizing”. How very bloody convenient. The only reason folk use the tautology is because TRAs use equivocation about the meaning of words to frustrate the clear articulation & communication of arguments & indeed facts

Professor Alice Sullivan

@ProfAliceS

7 months

1/ The Pride Run Director at New York Frontrunners Justin Solle @justcallmeJCS has responded to our paper showing that sex matters even for non-binary athletes. @johnarmstrong5 @georgeabtsports Our response does not mention conflicts of interests...

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Philip Swallow

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1 year

@tarch85 @HJoyceGender Great a definite claim with empirical content. Please tell us which human rights they are proposing to remove & which they are denying. Then we can all look at the evidence & see whether what you say is true.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

2 months

@TakedownMRAs @MForstater @fawcettsociety So, a sex based right then. If you are my employer you must not treat me less favourably than an equivalent female *because I am a male*.

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Philip Swallow

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1 year

@ProfAliceS I hope they are going to have special classes just for folk of Chinese descent to help them cope with the symbolic violence occasioned by the cultural appropriation of Tai Chi by folk who do not identify as Chinese. The trauma must be debilitating.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

9 months

@GenDocJustice @SVPhillimore @DeathlyAcorn Does she misgender them or does she refer correctly to their sex?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

10 months

@PriyamvadaGopal @ProfAliceS English language meaning of the word. No amount of equivocation or casuistry can deflect that simple semantic fact. She linked herself to the letter so everyone can see what you put your name to & draw their own conclusions as to who is a stranger to the truth.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

7 months

@billybragg Telling lies is not cool. The mother was not in the public gallery at the time.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

9 months

My union leader commenting on an issue that has nothing directly to do with the HE sector. An issue which members will have all sorts of different views about. What next? A UCU line on whether Jesus is truly the son of God?

Jo Grady

@DrJoGrady

9 months

The UCU has stood in complete solidarity with the trans and non binary community in recent years. We will not stand by and see this latest attack from a vicious right wing government go unchallenged. Solidarity and love.

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Philip Swallow

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11 months

It is hard for me to understand how any academic who has the vaguest comprehension of the meaning of free speech within the law, academic freedom & the purposes of a university could be a member of @ucuedinburgh . If I worked there I would want nothing to do with it.

Professor Alice Sullivan

@ProfAliceS

11 months

I am deeply saddened by the behaviour of @ucuedinburgh We need to fight for a union movement that acknowledges women's rights and the value of scholarship and debate.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

7 months

@stephenwhittle And what would you recommend they do when the first XY insists on joining it? What practical advice would you give them?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

Tell me you know nothing about the history of British universities without telling me you know nothing. Who commissioned this moron to insult our intelligence?

Times Higher Education

@timeshighered

4 months

“Universities are shifting focus from simply imparting job-specific knowledge to nurturing critical thinking, communication and problem-solving abilities – skills that empower students to adapt” - Urbi Ghosh looks at how HE needs to evolve #THECampus

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Philip Swallow

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4 months

@miffythegamer @sally_hines @Hilmarsdottir70 @JoPhoenix1 @EdinburghUni Did anyone say anything unkind to him or cause him any harm before he chose to stand up and interrupt the speakers?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

7 months

@ERunswickBMA Not such a great example. If I were to believe that gay sex is a sin, which I don’t because I don’t believe in the concept of sin, I wouldn’t be discriminating against anyone by not having sex with men nor by publicly stating my belief, meaningless as it is.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

Evidence that BMJ editorial decisions influenced by editor’s personal views about social politics. If this is true, & the email trail seems to show it, I can’t see how they can retain the confidence of the scientific community. BMJ should be drawing the obvious conclusion.

Chris Havergal

@CHavergalTHE

4 months

Gender-critical academics @johnarmstrong5 & Michael Biggs allege discrimination over BMJ rejections as emails reveal an editor labelled one “transphobic” and that other’s social media had “coloured our impression of [his] manuscript” via @jgro_the

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

6 months

An economist that has never heard of Principles of Political Economy. I wonder if he has heard of Marshall, Jevons, Edgeworth? Do economists live in a perpetual present? I doubt many physicists read Clerk-Maxwell but most would be ashamed to say they had never heard of him.

Professor Alice Sullivan

@ProfAliceS

6 months

"Note that I am an economist and modeller and have no idea who John Stuart Mill is". This could explain why Michelle's head of dept did not understand why he should defend her academic freedom. Does UCL need an induction for HoDs forcing them to read On Liberty?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

7 months

@ERunswickBMA It’s not obvious to me that it is a core GC belief that folk can’t change gender. It is a core belief that they can’t change sex & it is a core belief that the concepts of sex & gender denote different things & also that conflating them leads to unproductive confusion.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

3 months

@bescofield @Witch_Of_The @benappel places they should not be. We rely on the usual ways in which social norms are policed, including sanctions like shaming, calling out, challenging & internal senses of guilt. All social norms are broken from time to time. It doesn’t imply that a world without social norms is a

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

9 months

@LevinsLaw @michaelpforan @GenAffirmative @fkrougman “And when was the last time you beat up your partner?”

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

9 months

@FegzAndGegz @mara_yamauchi That was boorish & if I might say so, rather stereotypically male. Any actual arguments as to why females should be delighted that males who say they are women should appear in the female listed timings? I’ll settle for one or two clearly articulated ones.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

6 months

A very perceptive comment. We know that locus of control is a very important psychological trait. Put that together with increasingly delayed entry into adult roles, household formation, stable partnership formation & parenting & you have the fertile soil for the “me project”.

Sarah Phillimore

@SVPhillimore

6 months

I have enormous sympathy for the generations after mine - my £20k starting salary in 1996 was enough to get me a two bed flat in Zone 2 in London with a garden - that was my ‘reward’ for playing the game. What ‘rewards’ do we now offer? Little wonder that people take refuge in

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

9 months

@doctoriaindarcy @whtwldbabsdo @WomensRightsNet @DulwichHamletFC @FA You favour punching those you have a political disagreement with in the head?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

3 months

@bescofield @Witch_Of_The @benappel their survival depends on it.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

1 year

@michaelpforan @JFr4ser @helenstaniland @AlanHill Never ceases to amaze me when people say things that imply they have no idea how the normal conventions of social life work. Have they just been beamed down from a flying saucer to find out how humans organise their social lives?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

4 months

A nice little reality check for them. It’s not a video game. Fuck around, find out & plenty of time in the rest of your life for regret while you flip burgers.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

7 months

@runthinkwrite The folk that pretend they are aliens & don’t understand how social norms are policed are so tedious aren’t they? Clear rules, norm of honesty, calling out those that obviously break rules, sense of shame. It’s how human societies work.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

9 months

@KatyMontgomerie Sex in humans is the two developmental pathways coded for in our genes that, barring pathology, lead to organisms capable of producing one of only two types of gametes along with correlated physiological & anatomical variation. There’s the definition you say can’t be produced.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

3 months

@bescofield @Witch_Of_The @benappel paradise or even possible. A photograph BTW gives no sense of whether this person would pass in real life where one can see, their height, hand size, shoulders, gait, pelvic angle. Women, the old fashioned sort, can read all of these things rather easily. They have to. Sometimes

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

1 year

@MusicSolitaire @Tryfan_73 @MForstater Interesting. Which piece of legislation gave a male who says he is a woman an unqualified right to play on a women’s rugby team, get changed in the women’s dressing room, take up a slot on an all female shortlist, take up residence in the female prison estate?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

7 months

@stephenwhittle two males who say they are women? Yes or no? 4) Is it in your view acceptable for a male police officer who believes he is a woman to strip search a female suspect? Yes or no? 5) is it acceptable in your view for a male counsellor who believes he is a woman to conceal his sex

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

2 months

@alicemydaughter @rejserin There certainly are people with a DSD. They are all either male or female. There is no 3rd sex. Sex is about potential function in sexual reproduction, which is how we Homo sapiens do it. There are only two roles. Making large gametes or small gametes. If you really believe there

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

7 months

Don’t look for in space what you have lost in time. This is worth 40 minutes of anyone’s time. Absolutely riveting. The world is poorer for his man’s passing. I went into a bookstore in Tel Aviv & bought a couple of his books. It was early in the morning, the lady at the

Fania Oz-Salzberger 🇮🇱🟣⚖️ פניה עוז-זלצברגר

@faniaoz

7 months

In his famous last lecture of 2018, my father, Amos Oz, spoke of the future of Israel and Palestine. He gave an honest and painful reply to a Palestinian requesting to return to his ancestral family home. And he suggested where hope can emerge from. Is it still relevant?

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

7 months

@stephenwhittle 2) Should a male who believes he is a woman be allowed to take up a place on an all women short list to be a candidate for a political party? Yes or no? 3) Is there anything wrong in your view with a “gender balanced” panel at an academic conference consisting of two males and

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

3 months

@rejserin @garylfrancione @EvaPoen @Tara_lyn1 Fail. Elementary fail. The author is not a biologist. They are some sort of queer theorist who seems to have been an almost perpetual student. More effort needed if you want to pull the wool.

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Philip Swallow

@PhilipSwallow2

1 year

@Dorianlynskey @Docstockk A lot of people seem keen to hear your informed opinions about the arguments @Docstockk puts forward in her book. Why not discuss them with her publicly? Isn’t the public interrogation of ideas how the citizenry learns to know a hawk from a hand saw? Surely what Orwell would say

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