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1 month

Finally, something that literally all of us can surely agree on.

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2 years

Trying to imagine what teenage me would have said if you’d told him that in 20 years the bloke out of Portishead and the bloke who produced Surfer Rosa would be taking to the internet to savage the bloke from The Office for saying that women don’t have penises.

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I am beyond sick to death of seeing men ask this question of women (and never of other men). Day after day, women lose their time, career progression, privacy, safety and sometimes even their lives as a result of being 'kind'. Women do not have to be 'kind' all the bloody time.

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2 years

This is one of the saddest, bleakest tweets I’ve ever seen.

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2 months

I haven’t paid much attention to the Hay Festival for years, but it must really have been going downhill to have booked Charlotte Church, Nish Kumar and Grace Blakeley in the first place. Yeesh.

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@Tom_D_B_

4 years

Ok, who had “Jedward lead a misogynistic campaign of book burning” on their 2020 bingo card.

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4 years

Does anyone need firewood this winter! JK’s new book is perfect to burn next to a Romantic fire 🔥 Aww get all cozy and comfy can’t wait 😊

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2 years

Dear god, if you can’t understand that Bowie, Prince, Lou Reed, Kurt Cobain, the New York Dolls, the Manics etc. were all explicitly making the point that you can put on make up and a dress and still be a man, I really don’t know what to say to you.

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3 years

It’s frightening how many of our institutions are just rotting from the inside out. This is a union doing the exact opposite of what a union is supposed to do, in order to demand that a university does the exact opposite of what a university is supposed to do.

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6 months

“We’ve aided, abetted and employed genocidal terrorists by mistake”

Philippe Lazzarini

@UNLazzarini

6 months

- UNRWA did not know what is under its headquarters in Gaza. - UNRWA is made aware of reports through the media regarding a tunnel under the UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza. - UNRWA staff left its headquarters in Gaza City on 12 October following the Israeli evacuation orders and as

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@Kings_of_Lydia They seem to be genuinely baffled at a country where women actually have rights that are not just notional but actually enshrined in law. It’s all new to them.

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3 years

When is the penny going to drop for people that Stonewall is no longer the force for profound good that it once was, and has morphed into something dangerous, authoritarian and reactionary in a search for continued relevance?

Safe Schools Alliance

@SafeSchools_UK

3 years

#allisonbailey Ben Cooper QC emails show explicit threat that if Garden Court Chambers don’t expel claimant ( @BluskyeAllison ) Stonewall will sever ties causing reputational damage

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2 years

Cannot for the life of me understand how anyone can watch this and see anything progressive or righteous about it. It’s just narcissistic male rage and seething, visceral hatred of women.

The State Media

@The_StateMedia

2 years

That Owen Jones rant in full.

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3 years

And I’d rather teach my kid to resist the idea that women saying “no” to men is “oppression”.

Matt Wallaert

@mattwallaert

3 years

This really is it: I’d rather teach my kid how to lose well than how to win through oppression.

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5 years

If you believe in science, freedom of speech or women’s rights, this judgment is absolutely chilling. And, speaking as a lawyer, the obvious and enormous flaws in the judge’s reasoning are striking.

Maya Forstater

@MForstater

5 years

Judgement received. Bad news (for now) Stonewall law won this round. Here is my statement in thread form. I struggle to express the shock and disbelief I feel at reading this judgment

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2 years

I can’t conceive of how you get to the point of calling Bette Midler a traitor, and a fascist demagogue worthy of comparison to Goebbels, without pausing to wonder whether you’re completely out of your mind.

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@PennyRed There’s no ‘dogwhistle’. People object to it because it’s overwhelmingly directed at women, and because it never strictly means “be kind”, it means “be quiet, be compliant and put everybody else ahead of yourself”.

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5 years

The quickfire denunciations of Corbyn from those who have until now been telling us we would be morally deficient if we failed to vote for him, are as embarrassing as they are predictable.

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5 years

If you can read this and see anything other than an abusive husband and his enablers, I really don’t know what to say to you.

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2 years

How am I only just discovering that Adrian Chiles is the husband of Kath Viner and the ex-husband of Jane Garvey, and what am I supposed to do with this bizarre information?

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@Tom_D_B_

10 months

I was sceptical about the idea that some GCs have gone down a rabbit hole of online radicalisation, but the proliferation of this sort of stuff recently has convinced me I was wrong.

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@Tom_D_B_

2 years

Imagine being in a senior role in women’s rights advocacy for a prominent NGO and claiming to sincerely believe that there are points of common ground between radical feminists and the Taliban. Just utterly absurd.

Heather Barr

@heatherbarr1

2 years

So mystified by TERFs looking at Taliban abuses against women and girls and thinking that somehow helps support their hatred of trans people. Hating trans people is something TERFs and the Taliban have in common.

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@Tom_D_B_

5 years

I still cannot get my head around the fact that everything that Meghan Murphy says here is now considered controversial, almost to the point of being unacceptable. Every word of it is very obviously true.

ScotlandTonight

@ScotlandTonight

5 years

WATCH: “you can’t turn a male body into a female body.” Canadian writer & founder of @FeministCurrent , Meghan Murphy says she doesn’t believe trans people can change their sex, adding she doesn’t want women to ‘feel pressured to accept a naked man in their changing room’.

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2 years

Progressivism is when you think that Jordan Peterson visiting a school is a safeguarding issue, but that men and boys having access to the girls’ toilets and changing rooms in a school isn’t, and the more you think that, the progressivier it is.

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4 years

@djsantero Marzipan is absolutely delicious, to the point that I can just eat a slab of it on its own, and I’m not ashamed.

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5 years

@tomhfh The women you dismiss as ‘trans exclusionary’ dedicate large portions of their lives to thinking about this subject, Tom, because they actually care about other women. The astounding lack of knowledge is all yours. Listen to them for once.

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2 years

The pure essence of the hard left’s contempt for both women and Jews, distilled into one repulsive tweet.

Billy Bragg

@billybragg

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@Jane66588568 @void_if_removed @twtomwilson I’m in Hamburg atm In the pavements are small brass plaques bearing the names of Jews who lived in the building opposite the plaque who were murdered by the Nazis. That began with people deciding they could define someone by their biology alone.

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@PennyRed Literally anywhere and everywhere, Laurie. Next question? The problem isn’t trans people. The problem is changing rules, regulations and laws to provide that gender identity trumps sex. But I think you already know that.

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5 years

2014: same sex marriage becomes legal in the UK. 2020: choosing who you sleep with on the basis of their sex is discrimination. Bizarre. Totally bizarre.

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@jackappleby Might have been easier for me to get than a lot of men because I work in the family justice system. I see the abuse of women by men and the abuse of children by adults all the time. I know what it looks like and how it works. The TRAs follow the textbook.

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@MartinConcagh A lot of that “generation of older feminists” have been engaged in activism for their entire lives and were all over Me Too, you just weren’t paying any attention to them until an issue arose that you disagreed with them about.

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9 months

If the IRA had been constantly firing missiles at all major English cities and had descended on, say, Liverpool by boat and glider to indiscriminately rape, torture and murder 1,400 civilians, I would probably have supported air strikes on west Belfast actually, as it happens.

Nathan J Robinson

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9 months

This is an important point. If the British had responded to IRA attacks on civilians by launching relentless air strikes on Irish civilian neighborhoods, it would have appeared obviously psychopathic and deranged. Yet in Gaza this is considered a reasonable response to terror.

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4 years

This deserves to be just as widely read as her books. A brilliant piece by a humane and courageous woman. #IStandWithJKRowling

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TERF wars

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4 years

Petition for Owen Jones and Frankie Boyle to remain in conversation with each other, and with absolutely nobody else, for the rest of time.

Penguin Live

@penguinlive

4 years

Join @guardian columnist and activist @OwenJones84 as he talks to comedian @frankieboyle about his new book, This Land. You will also get the chance to ask your questions at this livestreamed event, so make sure you're prepared 🤓 Get your tickets here:

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@MysteriosoX Oh for the council to be able to simply remove them, crush them into small cubes and put them back again for the owners to dispose of. Then fine them heavily if they didn’t.

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5 years

@jackappleby First memory of it is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie being piled-on for refusing to say TWAW. Shocked me because she was so obviously right. Then read a couple of pieces by Sarah Ditum and clocked exactly what was going on.

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6 years

@DVATW If 'misandry' ever leads to systematic discrimination and oppression and endemic violence and abuse (which it won't), then come back and ask that question again.

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3 years

Thinking you’re being anti-racist when you’re actually just projecting your own racism onto a beloved series of children’s books is such an epic, hilarious self-own.

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3 years

The magical world of JK Rowling

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4 years

Your occasional reminder that most core Extinction Rebellion activists are not environmentalists in any meaningful sense, they are first and foremost incoherent anti-capitalists... which is why they do stupid things like this.

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@HackBlackburn

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“David Attenborough said our actions are too divisive.” “We’ll prove him wrong - let’s harass that nationally adored bastard.”

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2 years

I’m a very long way from being a fan of Suella Braverman, but the determination in some quarters to believe that she’s not intelligent enough or not diligent enough to understand the law, is pretty revolting, and very obviously nonsense.

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5 years

Nobody is entitled to have their ‘sexual needs’ met. To say that somebody should have their sexual needs met is to say that they should be entitled to treat somebody else as a means to an end, rather than a human being in their own right. That is abhorrent.

Lindsay Beyerstein

@beyerstein

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A parole board sent a convicted wife-murderer to a sex worker *because* they knew he was a danger to women but wanted to make sure he got his "sexual needs" met. The guy murdered the 22-year-old sex worker.

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3 years

Are Labour having a competition to see who can get away with the most brazen bit of misogyny under the guise of “trans rights”? If so, Lammy has just stormed into the lead. Who’s up next?

Woman’s Place UK

@Womans_Place_UK

3 years

"Shadow Justice Secretary David Lammy has told a Labour Party conference fringe event this morning that anti-trans “dinosaurs exist in our own party” who want to “hoard rights”. #Lab21 #SexMatters #LabourConference

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2 years

@billybragg That’s not remotely what she’s saying, Billy, but then you already know that.

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2 years

It’s important to engage with this seriously, because it’s a genuine assault on free expression. But it’s equally important to point at it and laugh, because it’s completely insane.

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4 years

Postmodernism in a nutshell. They don’t believe that how we describe something follows from what we observe about it, they believe that how we observe something follows from how we describe it. Upside down and back to front.

Yeyo

@RealYeyoZa

4 years

Biologists attribute human sexual dimorphism to millions of years of sexual selection. Gender scholars blame birth certificates.

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1 year

Helen Joyce is beyond reasonable, and this sort of stuff from a Labour MP is dismaying and embarrassing.

Kate Osborne

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1 year

The Home Sec suggesting MPs read this book is a disgrace, it shows a lack of respect for equality laws in this country & is yet more evidence of this Govt desire to attack the trans community in a divisive culture war.

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5 years

It’s like an echo from the 16th century, in which @MForstater is Copernicus, pointing out that the earth orbits the sun whilst an establishment invested in an irrational ideology desperately tries to convince itself otherwise.

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5 years

It never ceases to shock me that we’ve arrived at a place where prominent feminists are fervently arguing that men’s feelings are more important than women’s rights. It’s scary.

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4 years

It must take quite something to lecture others about being kind whilst being Frankie Boyle.

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2 years

Oh look, the nice, sensible liberal men have got together again and decided that any mention of the material reality and importance of biological sex as regards women’s rights is “reductive”, “horrible”, “grim”, a “stain” on British politics and a “cynical election gambit”.

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@v_j_freeman I grew up in the fanciest part of East Dulwich at that time, and can report that it contains quite a lot of people like that.

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6 years

@MunroeBergdorf This tweet is quite something: the projection; the misogyny; the complete absence of any grasp of reality. I'm repulsed, and yet I cannot look away.

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I’m not sure how this “Waterstones Dad” guy is supposed to be an archetype when there are literally only about half a dozen of him in existence. This just… doesn’t actually describe any real people.

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@MollieBoss @PennyMordaunt @Commonswomequ @MariaMillerUK This is enabling and participating in male abuse of women and girls, pure and simple. It is staggering that there is anybody out there who cannot see it.

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5 years

@Danny_Nedelko Please tell me this is a parody account? Nobody could possibly be this off the scale misogynistic, could they?

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3 years

This is a classic of the “start off by sounding conciliatory and apologetic, then spend the rest of the piece explaining why you were right all along and your opponents are awful” genre.

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2 years

@pdkmitchell Er, I love all those things, in part for their gender non-conformity. Nicky Wire was my idol as a teenager. My problem with your ideology is the insistence that gender non-conformity trumps/negates sex and that gender non-conforming men are actually women and vice versa.

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The problem is that your lot are now saying that a man who wants to put on make up and a dress is actually a woman. It isn’t the make up and dresses themselves that are the issue. Far from it.

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4 years

Lord knows you shouldn’t put too much faith in writers as heroes. But it’s difficult to see Margaret Atwood, author of The Edible Woman, of all people, cheerfully denying the reality of biological sex in humans by tweeting about slugs, without feeling acute despair.

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5 years

If you are sacked for stating the fact (because it is, after all, a fact) that human beings are sexually dimorphic and cannot change sex, the law will not come to your aid, because the law regards your statement of fact as a human rights violation. Insane. Completely insane.

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One of the most depressing revelations of my adult life is that the liberal centre left’s attachment to free speech, which I naively took to be principled and absolute, was actually essentially opportunistic and contingent.

@[email protected]

@zoesqwilliams

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I usually find the free speech debate exhausting, but I had a fine old time fighting with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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2 years

In a very crowded field, this might be the most offensive tweet I’ve ever read. Beyond repugnant.

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5 years

@sally_hines Stop trying to make ‘biological sex is a social construct’ happen, Sally. It’s not going to happen.

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3 years

@NellFrizzell Broadly agree, but in respect of the Israel-Palestine conflict specifically, it’s roots are not colonial. It goes back much further than that, and is far more complicated. We need to know about much more than just the role of the British in order to properly understand it.

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@broderick @NewStatesman Have no fear, Captain Woke Beard is here! His superpower is woman-hating.

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@robinince Next to nobody is staying that trans people specifically are a danger. They’re saying that male people, regardless of how they identify, are a threat to female people, and that self ID in law would make life much easier for predatory/abusive/violent men. This is basic stuff.

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Yeah, but the penicillin didn’t turn your pneumonia into, say, a grapefruit, or a tawny owl, or Francois Mitterrand. There are insurmountable obstacles, and good reasons for not pretending you can overcome them.

Ash Sarkar

@AyoCaesar

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"You don't get to opt out of nature", well I treated my pneumonia with penicillin and didn't die, so get fucked mate.

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@LibDemLaura @EdwardJDavey @MumsnetTowers Mumsnet is 'used to groom people who just want advice on baby stuff'? Listen to yourself. These are not impressionable children, nor are they 'transphobes'. They are grown women, worried about the rights their predecessors have fought and suffered for.

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6 years

@Docstockk There's such a lack of empathy in this "well if I'm fine with it, then everybody else should be too" attitude.

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4 years

This is fascinating, because it shows that Sarah actually pretty much agrees with JK Rowling. She completely misunderstands both what she purports to be attacking and what she purports to be defending. This well-meaning ignorance is dangerous.

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They aren't 'split'. They all want to throw women under the bus, they just disagree slightly on how big the bus should be and what speed it should be travelling at.

Labour leadership contenders split over trans group pledge card

Candidates differ on pledge that describes Woman’s Place UK and LGB Alliance as ‘trans-exclusionist hate groups’

www.theguardian.com

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What terrifies me is that this is not borne of ignorance or stupidity. Alice Roberts is, obviously, an incredibly intelligent and well-informed person. She knows that what she is promoting here is nonsense on stilts: misogyny, and a perversion and mockery of science 1/2

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Ian Dunt: my level of cringe-posting about Keir Starmer will never be surpassed. Caitlin Moran:

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@sally_hines Yes. It’s almost as if somebody who fights for women’s rights on one front will probably also fight for them on others too? Who knew? You might be on to something there, Sally.

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@CWiebrecht @memoreejoelle @macleanbrendan @afterellen Another bloke loving the opportunity to hate women whilst labelling himself progressive and a feminist. You’re not fooling anybody, Colin.

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2 years

Describing transness and gender identity as “a god for the godless” really is saying the quiet part loud, isn’t it?

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1 year

I know I shouldn’t be at this point, but I am still genuinely shocked at two Labour MPs spreading deliberate disinformation about the EHRC in an effort to discredit and undermine it. It’s staggeringly dishonest and irresponsible.

Angela Eagle DBE

@angelaeagle

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Presumably this advice on rights for lgbt+ people applies to the current protections in the Equality Act & not the ones you seem to support taking away - especially from trans people

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Whatever your position on the substantive issues, it seems to me that lawyers, of all people, shying away from open, honest and pluralistic debate is an extraordinarily bad idea, and one that is bound to ultimately lead to poorer legislation.

LGBTQ+ Solidarity at the Bar

@LGBTQBarristers

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This morning, a group of over 100 barristers, pupils and students sent a letter to Middle Temple to express our profound disappointment at the organisation of the inaugural Middle Temple LGBTQ+ Forum. This is the letter in full. Please read it.

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I’m repeating myself, but: even if it was true that you could eat this cheaply with just a bit of savvy, why, in a developed western democracy, in the year or our lord 2022, should anybody bloody well have to?

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@NoKnownFuture @socksknitter @LennartVassnes @helenstaniland @GlasspoolGloria @AfrikaSamora @LilyLilyMaynard @FilmLecturer @HubbleVicky @AK_Adriana @K_IngalaSmith You’be got that precisely backwards. Trans activism is patriarchal. The women resisting it are, by definition, very much not. You’re welcome.

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@jessesingal Comparing women being asked to engage in prostitution with doctors being asked to provide healthcare is, morally and intellectually, deeply unserious. You’re just trotting out a variant of “sex work is work”. It simply isn’t.

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@paulcrider Have no fear, Captain Woke Beard is here!! Wherever there’s a feminist, there’s a man to tell her she’s doing feminism wrong.

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Another “sensible”, “moderate” male commentator who simply hasn’t done his homework on this issue and is determined to just view it through a lens of “Tories bad, opponents of Tories good”.

Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

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If Sunak really believes in what he's doing, he is an idiot. If he is simply buckling to the reactionary wing of his party, he is a coward

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@Leftie_laura Could you explain why?

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@GoldmundUnleash Healthy males respect women's autonomy and individuality and regard them as, you know, actual people who can do as they damn well please, rather than accessories to be possessed by men. But clearly you wouldn't know anything about that.

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@helenstaniland Definitely an element of “you see, ladies, this is what happens when you don’t all toe the line” in the frankly horrible comments of Owen Jones, Brian Paddick and others.

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3 years

@MatHempell “Everyone says my new book is atrocious nonsense. You should buy it!”

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6 months

I tend to the view that this is symptomatic of a lot of broadly liberal/left people with strong political views wrongly thinking that those views are really just neutral common sense and rationality, and therefore not actually political at all.

Hannah

@teaforpterosaur

6 months

Feel like there's "feeling politicised by others" and there's "writing that you're a High Court judge and here are your strong views about sex and gender all over Facebook" and this is, let's be honest, the latter

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"We weren't paid to come up with this dangerous, regressive, illiberal, misogynistic policy, we were daft enough to come up with it all by ourselves" is not quite the great defence that Sal Brinton seems to think it is.

BBC Radio 5 Live

@bbc5live

5 years

Liberal Democrat President @SalBrinton tells @EmmaBarnett a donation made by a firm which markets drugs in gender-identity clinics to delay puberty did not impact party policy 🗣️"Our position on trans issues in the party has been consistent for at least five years"

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6 years

@scaredsmallbird @FeministRoar The point that Simone de Beauvoir was making is literally the complete opposite of the point that you think she was making. Oops.

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10 months

@JonnyWorst It’s obviously being used innocently in this case (and in the vast majority of cases). There’s no way that Emma Bridgewater are making pro-paedophilia mugs and that John Lewis are selling them.

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@francesweetman Sultana would be an absolute body blow to the cranks. But also McDonnell would be a hilarious and long overdue comeuppance.

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4 years

@janeclarejones It’s just such a laughable and transparently bad faith argument. You could say the same about any area of medicine, because judges aren’t medical experts. You’d end up arguing against any judicial oversight of the medical profession at all, which would be... quite a take.

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2 years

@markhookway Very obviously not, because it’s completely incompatible with the integrity, safety and fairness of women’s sport. It’s not complicated.

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@Tom_D_B_

5 years

@ajventer @sianj247 @VictoriaPeckham Do you really not see the absurdity of you, a man, dictating that feminists should be pro-prostitution and pro-porn, when genuine feminists have been documenting and campaigning on the profound harm that those things do to women since long before you were even born? Pipe down.

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@Tom_D_B_

3 years

Thread. Bravo Rosie Duffield. This is what courage looks like.

Rosie Duffield MP

@RosieDuffield1

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Ths is my local newspaper. They feature this Conservative Cllr every week. His political interests seem mostly to involve concreting over our green spaces and he became leader recently after staging a coup against a fellow local Tory cllr...(long 🧵)

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4 years

This morning’s mood: trying to get my head around how fundamentally out of your mind you have to be to try to organise a pile on against Joan Bakewell, and get her expelled from Labour over an innocuous tweet, and think that makes you anything other than a complete arsehole.

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1 year

Hello, nice to meet you, I’m absolutely stark raving mad.

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5 years

There is not a chance in hell that she actually believes this stuff, because she’s not an idiot. But she feels compelled to pretend she believes it nonetheless. When somebody like Alice Roberts is this committed to something so self-evidently absurd, we’re in a very dark place.

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4 years

If anyone wants a good way of showing solidarity with @helenlewis today, I can recommend buying and reading this. It’s brilliant.

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6 months

An incitement to genocide projected onto parliament should be a watershed moment in British politics. But it probably won’t be.

Chris Rose

@ArchRose90

6 months

A genocide chant about Jewish people was projected on to Big Ben last night whilst we heard of reports of Labour MPs feeling intimidated and threatened by pro Palestine mobs. The @metpoliceuk allowed this to go ahead. This sums up the pathetic state of the UK.

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