Sarah Nova @SlauHaus Twitter profile

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Sarah Nova

20 days

"Trans Issues" connection map work in progress. Mandy Rhodes connection from Scottish @EHRC to the Conservative Lord Ashcroft-owned Holyrood Magazine, as well as Stella O'Malley and "Trans kids: it's time to talk" documentary.

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Sarah Nova

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3 years

@EHRC All debates of importance are polarised. What was more polarised than civil rights in the 1960s? Throwing up one's hands at a "polarised" "debate" between a minority and those trying to deny rights to that minority, is to side with those trying to deny rights to that minority.

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@jk_rowling Associating a minority with a safeguarding risk is inviting distrust and public hatred, and discrimination to be directed at that minority, and is inconsistent with supporting that minority.

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@jk_rowling Those who argue about how statistics should be recorded, will naturally need to observe statistical principles. The UK Government observes a 2% margin of error to ensure robust conclusions to be drawn from statistics, and trans people at 0.5% are fewer than this margin of error.

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@HolyroodDaily So instead of the holistic, whole life treatment of puberty blockers which gives children time to reflect until they are mature enough to make the decision, Cass proposes chemically lobotomising them with anti anxiety and depression medicine which could be for life.

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@BenInLDN Way to make trans rights a more popular cause in Scotland.

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"Royal College of General Practitioners tells GPs without specific expertise in transgender care not to enter into agreements" This is the engineered off-ramp my GP used to avoid prescribing my GIC approved HRT. The BBC helped create this hostility.

Living as a woman is 'best decision' despite £4K HRT bill

Despite the hurdles, Raya describes her post transition life as "almost indescribably better".

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sarah Nova

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@AidanCTweets That's why there was a "the man who" moment with Sunak. Sunak broke kayfabe. He demonstrated that the "trans debate" was neither an abstract, victimless exercise, nor a polite exercise, which threatens the continuation of the pretence.

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@DarkEden21 "Mr and Mrs Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much." It's hardly "call me Ishmael" is it?

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2 years

@AleaKootz @delaneyplanet If they are saying that using the correct pronouns is too big a thing for them to manage to do , then it does sound as if they are making a big thing of it.

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@HolyroodDaily Notice the use of "distress" which downplays and muddies what the patients are going through rather than the statistically validated and isolated DSM V diagnosis of "gender dysphoria" which the patients would have to be diagnosed with before qualifying for treatment.

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1 year

@mimmymum Did you ever get the feeling that some of these folks with "reasonable concerns" might be enjoying themselves just a little bit too much to be being concerned?

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2 years

@mariellaf1 I think you may have managed to "spawn this interesting piece" by attempting a standard BBC practise of using JK Rowling as if she were some kind of slam dunk irrestistible atom bomb against trans people, and Graham was just a bit too clever for this.

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@notCursedE See "just asking questions." "Just having opinions." "Questioning conventional wisdom." etc.

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@EmiliaB71 Erdogan has accused people complaining about poor building standards having killed thousands of people in the earthquake, of politicising the earthquake.

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@MxVivianWulf I call this "after abuse." Abuse of the word "after" where the skim-reader will identify this as a causal link, but which comes with a slippery deniability if anyone criticises this.

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@JaneyGodley One of the many reasons why railway stations need to be staffed.

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@pawgtism @alexkrokus The top hat and the monocle would tend to contradict that.

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@DPJHodges @OwenJones84 Using women's rights as a stick to beat minorities with is not the same as supporting women's rights.

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@dakotaweulf @HaileyPiperSays Don't you mean the Bush UNcut?

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2 years

@josephjames94 She can stop people publishing stuff, but she's not going to be able to do anything about what people think of her.

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@PinkNews @harriepw So trans kids had better return to keeping their heads down at school or risk having their individuality beaten out of them at home. This is affirming a beat-it-to-fit-and-paint-it-to-match model of the socialisation of children,

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2 years

@bindelj "There was no question of impeding on the freedoms of others" That wasn't what the homophobic bigots said then, it's not what the transphobic bigots say now, and by and large most of them are the same people.

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5 years

@3BodyProblem @gitsost @evankirstel These drones are getting super scary.

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3 years

@boneysoups What does the tree expect, if it transitions on the NHS?

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9 months

@exiliaex @christapeterso Is there any evidence that the King was consulted? Maybe it was more prudent not to tell him and try to fix the problem before he found out?

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@JustBully114729 @PinkNews That's a picture of the Tory MP.

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Sarah Nova

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3 years

@JonathanHaynes Many of the loudest voices in the so-called "gender critical" movement are not those of feminists themselves, but rather of social conservatives whose self-professed alliance with feminists often seems like a convenient cloak for transphobia.

Prof Alice Roberts💙

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I'm taking a holiday from Twitter for a while. I've argued for reason, compassion and empathy in discussions about sex and gender. That's opened me up to more hate, bile and even misogyny than I've experienced before. I'm sad and shocked. Humans can be so much better than this.

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@RJHorvath @KatyMontgomerie Hydrogen isn't even a binary: there's hydrogen, deuterium and tritium.

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@PennyRed What annoys me is when people mistake Wuthering Heights for a romance.

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@tuktuk5678 @EoinHiggins_ America got there long ago - see the phenomenon of dance marathons in the Depression era. There is a film on the subject called "They Shoot Horses Don't They?"

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@PeterTatchell @jamesdifiore @Docstockk Anti-trans campaigners would love the framing of the "debate": "Trans rights versus women's rights."

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@pmgentry There was an anecdote told by Simon Callow that the director Milos Forman took him to dinner to talk about his part in the movie Amadeus, and asked him, "do you ride whores?" He meant "do you know how to ride a horse?"

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@shaun_vids How to prevent a powerful far right movement in the UK. Just rebrand the far-right as the centre-right. Job done.

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@OwenJones84 What Graham Norton is doing is a masterstroke because he has recognised the nature of what is going on in the media and online, and that it is one-sided agitation and not a "debate." What he is proposing is more of a real debate.

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@doublehelix Most people in a bus queue end up catching a bus. Therefore joining a bus queue puts people on an irreversible pathway to bus travel.

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@BBCLookEast Investors in commercial property want a workplace culture of bums on seats, regardless of productivity, to ensure the safety of their investments.

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@christapeterso Here is a contemporary drawing that proves otherwise.

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2 years

@PrestonMitchum If somebody uses a slogan does that deny it to anybody else? No! But denying it to other groups who are in distress, does deny it to others.

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@BadWritingTakes Rapid Onset Internet Derangement Syndrome (ROIDS) is an exciting new field of study for psychologists.

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@_banquos_ghost_ The police said it was a targeted attack.

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@LaurenD2212 The concept of a privatised prison is an abomination.

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@benjamincohen @mimmymum The Holocaust had beginnings, and a build up. The message from the Holocaust is "never again," and yet if we had to wait for a full-scale Holocaust before declaring a problem, then that would be far too late.

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@ExpressPolitics Had the "public will" been a consideration there would have been no LGBT rights in the first place.

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@christineburns I think this neatly sums up the way the press and the BBC go about portraying the anti-trans "culture war."

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@ZJemptv Once blockers became available there was no longer a morally neutral position on treating trans children. From then on, "letting nature take its course" became a choice made by humans.

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@BrynnTannehill It's time we had a moral panic about the rise of religious totalitarianism.

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@amolrajan @DeccaJourno "I take absolutely no view whatsoever on the issues that she raises." Apart from awarding her a nomination in a frankly weird prize and taking the political Establishment line of calling what was mostly reasonable criticism with a tiny bit of the usual Twitter trolling, "abuse."

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2 years

@minusplnp This needs to be analysed from top down as well as bottom up. Social media is one thing, but politics and the national press and broadcasting are quite another, and it should be alarming to all citizens that mainstream media should see such a rapid onset of anti trans views.

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@natachakennedy @waslottie @KemiBadenoch To give some idea as to what this is about, see the proposed civil service guidance for trans employees. Getting rid of gender neutral toilets and requiring an almost impossible to get GRC to access single sex spaces go hand in hand. It's harassment.

Leaked Document Exposes Transphobic Draft Guidelines for UK Civil Servants

Exclusive: Senior civil servants told VICE News they were “terrified” by the draft internal policy document, which is expected to be published soon.

www.vice.com

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@jk_rowling Have you heard of satire? The ultimate prize of satire is to entice those portrayed in satire to become participants in satire of themselves. You presenting a picture of a big eyed anime girl as some kind of serious threat must surely be an example of this?

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@mariellaf1 And now you're quoting a Spiked author writing in a religious-right adjacent weekly, which is full of anti-trans content.

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@EHRC This doesn't seem to stop the EHRC pursuing a religious government inspired policy of playing off trans rights against women's rights by amplifying anti trans narratives as though they are grass roots women's rights opinions. The EHRC must be made independent or disbanded.

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Sarah Nova

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4 years

@EGilnan @ExtraSmallRobin 16 for blockers renders them useless. Ironically the perverse "judgement" that was totally contrary to logic, came about as the result of an action brought by someone who started blockers after 16.

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3 years

@freddymcconnell @MarkGevisser "Gender ideology," "sex is real," and "denying biology" are the right wing and religious transphobes' version of "all lives matter." They address an issue that has been raised by nobody, and by implication, straw-man the target, while diverting attention from their real intent.

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@EmilyGorcenski I demand the return of the 3.5mm jack plug socket. And how about user replaceable batteries while we're at it? We know how these governments and tech companies care about green credentials.

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@IntelCrab Lessons learned many times over in World War II, at Monte Cassino, Caen and Stalingrad: a bombed / shelled city is much easier to defend than one that is undamaged.

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@JoPhoenix1 One might expect that people who are critical of gender might focus more on the 99.5% of the population who live gendered existences, rather than seeming to spend nearly all their time being critical of gender only when trans people do it.

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@OwenJones84 Now the media can't now claim that the WHOLE of the Manchester Pride march has been infiltrated by "Transgender Ideology" or that the LGB Alliance has widespread support within the LGBT community.

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Despite its name, Stonewall seems to want to be part of the furniture as a business-schmoozing NGO operation. What LGBT people need is a street fighter that honours the name and origins of "Stonewall" and recognises the scale of the assault against all bodily autonomy #CassReview

Stonewall

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The Cass Review, an independent review of gender care services for children and young people, has been published today after almost four years. We know that elements of the review and how it is covered in the news may cause concern for trans children and young people and their

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@PennyMordaunt @GEOgovuk "Trans orthodoxy" is a far right dog-whistle which reverses victim and victimiser. Maybe you should set up an inquiry into how many people suddenly appeared to become left-handed when it became more socially accepted and teachers stopped trying to suppress the behaviour?

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@wizardingnews So far, none of the cases where Rowling threatened libel action have gone to law, at least not till a ruling. One wonders if she came up against anyone with deep enough pockets and a bloody enough mind, whether she would be considered still to have a reputation to be protected.

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@lunarcrossing_ It's not often you see a cat with a drinking problem.

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@jk_rowling @TrustFundOzu Doesn't exactly look serious to me, while this looks very serious, presents visibly trans trans women as difficult to distinguish from predators when in a single sex space and at their most vulnerable, and therefore seems capable of encouraging hostility to trans women.

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@setoacnna @EHRC It's worse than that: the Equality Act explicitly excludes the possibility of a purely biological definition of legal sex.

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@EHRC From the first page, already getting "sex not gender" vibes, but if this relates to that purist biological narrative, this will not help you because the Equality Act already points to legal sex as incorporating gender, in the reference to non physiological attributes of sex.

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The first BBC report that attempts to be really even handed about the government sponsored persecution of trans people (a "Profile" programme on Kemi Badenoch) gets censored. #r4today

BBC Radio 4 Kemi Badenoch profile pulled after inaccuracy claims

Women's rights groups had criticised the programme for including claims that Ms Badenoch was 'anti-trans' and accused it of being 'disappointingly inaccurate'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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@RozKaveney The temerity of "gender criticals" to say that gender should never refer to sex, when they use sex as a Schrodinger's term which means both sex and gender, until selecting one of those meanings suits their argument.

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The BBC openly acting as an anti trans rights pressure group, not as an impartial broadcaster with a duty to inform the public. The idea that valuing social justice and individual liberty should disqualify someone from helping children should scare everyone #r4today @BBCNewsnight

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Carcrash interview about @stonewalluk on @BBCWomansHour right now. The BBC keeps digging itself deeper.

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@EuanYours @friendoftala Ego won't let her. That's why she's in this situation. She's stuck in an ego-driven feedback loop, screaming louder and louder into the abyss of social media while the abyss gazes back into her.

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@DadTrans Having watched this entire campaign, coming from the deepest parts of the the political Establishment in the UK, it would appear that there has been more detailed planning and organisational skills devoted to this than Covid, the war in Ukraine, or the cost of living crisis.

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@Wellstonist Speaking as a Brit, but who is indirectly involved because our politicians seem to be keen on copying what goes on over there, Biden should not stand for president for the simple reason that he seems to be the only person in the US who could lose to Trump.

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@DavidLammy @UKLabour @ForeignAffairs Basically says my opponents don't accept reality. That's nonsense - they just want to forge a better reality, but it looks like Labour just wants to maintain the status quo and shrug their shoulders saying they are being "realistic."

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@k_sonin @chipslasagne2 @SarahAshtonLV If Russia's LGBTQ people can't stop Putin destroying their lives, they can't stop Putin starting and prosecuting a war.

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@guardian "Debate." You're kind to yourselves, aren't you? Agitation against a puny and voiceless minority, using sloganeering and misrepresentation, conducted by those who have been given access to a platform with national reach which their victims are denied, is not a "debate."

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@itvpeston @Peston @MhairiBlack @ITV Typical UK media approach to this which is to attempt to play off trans rights against women's rights. It's not valid and playing off rights against each other and presenting minorities as a threat are insidious authoritarian paradigms.

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@EHRC The margin of error used by the Civil Service for decision making using statistics is 2%. At < 0.05% of the population, trans people are fewer than this margin of error so any argument about trans people skewing statistics is nonsense.

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@CaelanConrad Rosa Parks and suffragettes were fighting a powerful status quo. Anti trans campaigners are fighting FOR the powerful status quo.

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@theFoxFisher Trans is the prefix to "transgender" not "woman." "Trans woman" is short for "transgender woman."

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@_NatashaDevon Please don't reinforce the narrative that predators need to pretend they are a different sex in order to get what they want or to break the law, or that they need to enter single sex spaces in order to do so.

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@OnizukaGoat2 @HolyroodDaily Because delaying puberty is not castration.

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@DavidPaisley The thing that seems to get Growling waving the libel stick about the most, seems to be anything that looks like compromising her status vis a vis children, maybe because they are the target market for her book sales.

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@BBCPolitics The pattern is to associate an innocuous phrase with anti-trans campaigning. This results in protest or sacking and an appeal to an outraged public by pointing to the innocence of the phrase. So by repeating this the BBC makes itself part of an anti-trans strategy @EdwardJDavey

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@DouglasKMurray @unherd As a gay man, Owen is very well qualified to defend trans people from the recent Establishment / social conservative and religious conservative onslaught in media and politics. Exactly the same methods are being used now as were used against gay men and lesbians not long ago.

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@BBCNews Is it any wonder that trans kids and their parents are abused when BBC News repeatedly frames trans people in terms of rapists and predators?

Nick Robinson

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Can a rapist be a woman? Does the case of Adam/Isla show the limits of Trans Self ID? Or is the row proof we are living through a dangerous Culture War? Listen to my half hour conversation with the new chair of ⁦ @stonewalluk ⁩ ⁦ @iain_w_anderson ⁩

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@KatyMontgomerie The journalists know damn' well what they are doing.

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@the_smarkus @AyoCaesar The correct plural of mouse is meeces.

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@RozKaveney The hypothalamus is so basic that switching it off would cause the person to die. It's also so basic that it is shared with all vertebrates, so it doesn't make us human.

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@billybragg Spectator journalist Ed West.

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@DrDebraSoh More importantly, being anti trans is not pro woman.

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@EuanYours 'Ban Online Anonymity' is an attempt by the political Establishment to allow people's employers or prospective employers to police their online free speech.

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@helpmeskeletor If this was Hillary Clinton, then the issue of trans rights was given as an example and not apparently directly mentioned by Clinton, which raises the question of what the heck is going on at the Financial Times?

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@speakoutsister Reproductive rights were always one of the main targets. Trans rights are just the foot in a door which religious conservatives are terrified will close forever, locking them out of their control of human rights, which they regard as their birth right.

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@Mermaids_Gender @BBC While they are at it maybe the BBC could explain why they never seem to mention that Ireland has had self ID for the past 5 years. One would have thought this was relevant information. What are the chances of it being left out of seemingly every news report on self ID I've heard?

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@OwenJones84 And, as a gay man, Graham probably has an idea of who's next.

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@Zupancia @ak_mack @WSJ Or a map showing that Russia has China's approval.

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@James_Treadwell It isn't about trans people, but strangely trans people have become the focus of a narrative that we can be difficult to distinguish from predators? Is it not possible to see how such narratives might paint a target on the backs of trans people in the minds of the public?

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@bbcnickrobinson #r4today Yvette Cooper says she wants to unite Scotland by ditching gender recognition reform, presumably assuming that the misinformed on policy is unpopular. By that standard, male homosexuality would never have been decriminalised in 1967. @justinonweb

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