Shivan Davis
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Wow, JK Rowling does not hold back against Joanne Harris. Good for her.
“Harris has consistently failed to criticise tactics designed to silence and intimidate women who disagree with her personal position on gender identity ideology"
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JK Rowling was right, as were GC feminists & a small minority on
#edutwitter
. The NHS is starting to move away from the “affirmative” approach. Handy overview of latest in UK gender medicine from the Economist.
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Is it just me or does the tone of this article feel a bit off? Why would you omit the fact that McLaughlin committed rape as well as murder? Or that McLaughlin was incarcerated in 1992 for sexually assaulting a 14 year old?
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1. Lots of talk on Twitter (most of which is absolute nonsense) about JK Rowling's legacy after yet another nasty clickbait piece, this time from Politico. Here's a lovely response from Isabelle Allende when asked by Graham Norton about which book she wished she'd written:
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Let's be frank: the smears being directed at JKR for setting up a female-only rape crisis centre are totally unhinged.
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4. That is, in my humble opinion, indisputably the legacy she'll leave behind. She's uncancellable and that infuriates her critics.
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#Edutwitter
, I can’t believe I have to say this, but referring to the *fact* that 98% of sexual offenses are committed by men *does not* mean to say that 98% of men are rapists. Some people will do anything to make a monster of JK Rowling. Desperate stuff.
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If your defense of free speech only extends to those who hold the same beliefs as you, then you don't really believe in free speech.
#IStandWithJKRowling
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2. "Harry Potter. Because it put kids to read all over the world…I mean you would see seven year olds with 650 pages in their hands reading...
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I watch Question Time every week & I like Fiona Bruce. Usually, she clamps down on misinformation but for some reason chose not do so this evening with India Willoughby, who twice (I think?) claimed to be a "biological woman" and redefined the word "transwoman".
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How flagrantly misogynistic does this movement have to get before more people, particular blue tick folks, follow JK Rowling’s example & speak out?
I see the Be Kind brigade are once more hiding behind their black masks, throwing smoke bombs, screaming 'scum' at women speaking up for their sex-based rights and howling abuse at lesbians for not doing dick.
#LetWomenSpeak
#LesbianStrength2022
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Isn’t it crazy that a man who believes sex is immutable, males can’t be lesbians, children can’t consent to life-altering drugs, women deserve their own spaces & competitions, nobody is born in the wrong boy, is the one being painted as an extremist by much of the media?
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Reading an acclaimed fantasy novel that genuinely includes the line "I am constantly surprised at your surprise in the ongoing oppression conducted by cis white women". Elsewhere in the book, white women, particularly "cis" ones are repeatedly derided. Apparently that's fine now.
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3. "...I think that was a miracle in the times of quick information, when kids can’t concentrate because they are hyper-stimulated, they could sit down and read for days a story, so I wish I had written that book.”
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🧵on gender ID ideology & schools:
1. I am alarmed by the number of educators on
#edutwitter
tweeting about how they plan to defy the Attorney General's advice re gender ID ideology in schools or have suggested that her comments yesterday were unclear.
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In a nutshell, this is why I oppose self-ID.
Source: The Economist
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This is a significant shift from The Guardian, similar to the one taken by the New York Times. In other words, they are trying to offer a balanced exploration of the topic. Journalists should be unafraid to question the tenants of gender ID ideology.
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Call me old-fashioned edutwitter, but telling your 11k+ followers to “cheerfully rot in hell” for liking or retweeting
@HadleyFreeman
’s non-controversial tweets about Mumsnet & grassroots feminism is unacceptable. Classic, “no debate” tactics, though.
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I cannot understand how anyone who has heard of Karen White (or Isla Bryson or Katie Dolatowski for that matter) can go on to argue for "trans rights" in prison if that means putting biological males in women's prisons. Shame on Zoe Williams.
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So many quotable moments but two in particular stand out:
1. Weighing up trade-offs is not bigotry.
2. We are literally experimenting on children.
Thank God for Bill Maher.
If this spike in trans children is all biological, why is it regional? Either Ohio is shaming them or California is creating them.
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Like Alex, I was privately educated (Y7- end of Y9). Like Alex, I had the privilege of being able to joke around knowing I’d still go on to be successful. Others aren’t so lucky. Those rules are only “silly” if you’ve not worked in challenging schools in deprived areas.
The one thing I will say for this woman is that, had she been my headteacher, the sheer joy of breaking every single silly rule she obsessively enforced would have set me up for life
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Allison Bailey was unable to give evidence yesterday in her case against Stonewall as she was hospitalized. This is India Willoughby’s response. A blue tick troll hiding in plain sight. Not the first time they’ve made abusive comments.
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#Edutwitter
, if your school, academy trust, or (and I can't believe I'm saying this) nursery school or primary school are signed up to Stonewall's Diversity Champion programme or take guidance from them, now really is the time to sever ties: it has become a dangerous cult.
Research suggests that children as young as 2 recognise their trans identity. Yet, many nurseries and schools teach a binary understanding of pre-assigned gender.
LGBTQ-inclusive and affirming education is crucial for the wellbeing of all young people! 🌈
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Can you fathom the extent to which Corbyn would have been a existential threat to national security? He consistently sides with groups or nations committed to eradicating Israel & threatening the West, he consistently fails to recognize our enemies.
Military action in Yemen by the UK & US government is a reckless act of escalation that will only cause more death and suffering.
It is utterly disgraceful that Parliament has not even been consulted.
When will we learn from our mistakes and realise that war is not the answer?
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My issues with this piece are as followed:
1. The writer implies that schools should not be informing parents of their child’s transition. This goes against basic safeguarding. It is overreach unless the school has specific concerns re the parents.
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I can only imagine that Twitter has crashed from all the apologies flooding in to Rosie Duffield. Stella Creasy, Paul Brand and others look mighty foolish now.
In the end, I only breastfed my child for a few weeks.
I then had to stop because I had a cancer relapse and didn't want to poison my child.
Here's me on the bus to hospital for the 1st chemo round, feeding my child for the last time
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Powerful letter in The Times:
"It is grotesque that male gender zealots dismiss women’s fears as unfounded products of their imagination. Meanwhile, the number of women and girls self-excluding from what were once single-sex safe spaces and services goes uncounted."
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This is first-rate journalism. Barnett poses question after question to expose tihe illogical nature of Kelley's thinking and, more importantly, the fact that Kelley cannot offer a shred of evidence of JK Rowling's supposed transpobia.
Stonewall CEO Nancy Kelley spoke to
@BBCWomansHour
about BBC impartiality, JK Rowling and trans rights.
Listen to the full interview on
@BBCSounds
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“I find it impossible to square the society’s stated position on freedom of speech with Harris’s public statements over the past two years and stand in solidarity with all female writers in the UK who currently feel betrayed by their professional body and its leader.”
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The last few days have been so eye-opening. We have a huge issue with antisemitism in this country. Huge. My thoughts and sympathies are with the UK’s Jewish community, many of whom are no doubt living in fear.
London - women removing posters of those missing in Israel. 💔
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I don’t have the energy to deal with this level of disingenuous stupidity.
#IStandWithJKRowling
When JK Rowling sat in that cafe all those years ago, there’s no way she could have known she’d one day be endorsed by Vladimir Putin. Never give up on your dreams.
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Imagine being too cowardly to call a double rapist a man...
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The fact that someone who holds such extraordinarily radical and fringe ideas-- including the belief that a heterosexual male could be considered a lesbian-- ever managed to wield so much power at a cultural and institutional level in this country is astounding.
To make it easier to exclude trans lesbians from lesbian support groups.
To make it easier to exclude trans women from women’s book clubs
To make it easier to exclude trans women from women only shortlists
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Couldn’t help but notice this ironic sentence: “While we don’t actively work on nursery education, we believe that young children should be able to play, explore and learn about who they are, and the world around them, without having adults’ ideas imposed upon them.”
On Friday we put out a tweet that was unclear, relating to gender stereotypes and nursery age children, leading some supporters to ask us what we meant.
Read our statement:
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I'm convinced that JKR receives the amount of bile that she does because she's a woman who has the audacity to air her opinions & a lot of TRAs are misogynists. Will be interesting to see whether there is any reaction to Mr Welsh's comments or not. My guess is not.
@salltweets
My personal view has always been that if you have a penis and testicles, wherever you should be, it shouldn’t be anywhere designated for women only. I don’t see why there’s anything contentious in that.
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Pesky TERFS & GCs quibbling over...*checks notes* major child safeguarding concerns.
Due to intolerable abuse, we have made the decision to close the helpline and webchat services for the rest of today and tomorrow. Next week, to enable us to take all volunteers off the rota, we will reduce hours to 9am to 6pm only.
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2. School leaders in particular should be better-informed about the issue: they should be aware of the findings of the interim Cass Review, they should have read the govt guidance issued in Feb & they should have a strong grasp of the Equality Act.
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This cult-like ideology has totally infiltrated the publishing world. Fascinating to see the disconnect between the public and our cultural gatekeepers.
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5. I think a lot of teachers arguing against Braverman's comments are good people who are, unfortunately, incredibly misinformed about gender ID ideology, the extent to which it has infiltrated our schools & some of the worst aspects of its ideological demands including:
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3. I’d add that they should be taking note of the Tavistock’s closure (labeled as “unsafe” by Cass) & the numerous recent criticisms of orgs such as Stonewall who have been offering legal advice based on the law as they’d like to to be rather than what it actually says.
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Reader, in a delish twist of irony, the author thanks their sensitivity reader in the acknowledgements section. You couldn't make it up.
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The 'protest group' in question are called 'Get the L Out', a grassroots movement for lesbians. To fail to include that detail in the article is misinformation by omission, an omission that I can only assume to be deliberate and ideological
@BBCNews
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4. Schools leave themselves open to legal challenges should they go down the route of ignoring government advice. You can no longer make the argument that they were not warned.
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There is *such* a double-standard on edutwitter when it comes to discussing gender-ID ideology. It’s proponents can say anything & smear anyone meanwhile people (mostly women) get shut down constantly for wrongthink.
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6. Threatening to abolish single-sex spaces, putting children on a medicalised pathway, propagating regressive gender stereotypes, pushing pseudo-scientific concepts, etc.
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If you’re describing the women’s campaigning against GRC reforms in Scotland as ‘transphobes’ then you’ve either lost the argument or you don’t have one. Women are entitled to protest against their rights being infringed.
#edutwitter
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This BBC article frustrates me-- not just because it champions regressive gender stereotypes as if they are somehow forward thinking (Did you know you can be a girl *and* have short hair?!) -- but because doesn't even attempt to be impartial.
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"But shame on Nike if even a few, appalled by their body’s unnerving new need for a real bra, get conned into starving self-hatred by Mulvaney’s Tinkerbell faux-girlishnes."
A tour de force of an article on Nike's shameful partnership with Dylan Mulvaney.
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7. Those of us working in education urgently need DfE guidance before September and a more mature, thoughtful conversation around the issue.
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Please stop taking people for fools. It isn’t doing your cause any good— quite the opposite in fact. Everyone knows that LT has unfair advantage. Everyone. You’re not fooling anyone. The Emperor has no clothes.
Great data driven article on Lia Thomas. Please read. 🙂
Why the data shows trans swimming champion Lia Thomas didn’t have an unfair advantage
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Went into my local Waterstones yesterday (Chesham). No Victorian Smith or Hannah Barnes on the new non-fiction shelves. No Bindel, Stock or Joyce. Of course, they did stock Shon Faye and Munroe Bergdorf. Strange, we’ve silently succumbed to a new form of censorship.
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Drag Queen Story Hour is the weirdest & most unpalatable dark corners of the culture wars. It doesn't take long to come across images of performances that are incredibly sexualised & inappropriate for children. Is it sheer partisanship that makes people struggle to call it out?
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8. Finally, I think it is unhelpful and wrong to attack individual educators or threaten their employment status. The goal should be to educate others about the dangers of gender ID ideology and to try and to inform educators, not attack them personally.
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...and has said publicly, ‘Cancel isn’t a dirty word. We habitually cancel things we no longer want."
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I see Owen Jones has sent his 1 million followers after Kathleen Stock. Seriously, are these people so blinkered that they can’t tell when someone is being sardonic?
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When you read what Robert Webb actually said about Mermaids you realise how extreme those calling him a “transphobe” and a “terf” actually are. It’s almost laughable were it not such an obviously sinister attempt to smear him.
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A short tweet: students aren't given enough reading material during the school day. Everything is chopped or chunked or reduced to bullet points on a PPt slide.
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@SteveChalke
Please. You were rightly criticized for using incorrect statistics, then criticized again for stubbornly standing by them even after you were informed they were misleading, then for a third time for declaring that your lived experience meant that they were true.
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One of the most unforgivable consequences of the CAGS debacle is that so much of our focus on Year 11&13 rather than those year groups who have had more than 6 months of remote learning (at the most). How can we "bridge the gap" if our energy is spent on marking & moderation?
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After 13 years out of office, Labour are finally on the brink of being in power with the opportunity to change the country for the better.
Clive Lewis: We'll see about that...
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2. The writer takes issue with the EHRC clarification that ‘sex’ means ‘biological sex’. This isn't 'anti-trans' but simply a clarification that upholds women's rights in specific situations: single sex spaces, crisis centers, prisons, etc.
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This week’s lead article in The Spectator is well worth your time. It’s a rallying cry for free speech & public debate that provides an overview of how gender ID ideology crept into various institutions and of how it’s being roundly defeated.
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This is the same Novara sub editor who celebrated the October 7th massacre. Not someone to be taken seriously.
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The problem with this ridiculous take is that when various institutions sought advice on LGBT equality law from Stonewall, they were told they were getting the law as it stood, not on how Stonewall would like it to be.
Following the Alison Bailey tribunal a lot of people seem surprised that Stonewall admit to pushing LGBTQ+ equality further than the current law.
Like pushing for an equal age of consent, LGBTQ+ protections in the Equality Act, equal marriage etc.
It's literally why they exist.
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Genuinely pathetic, not to mention racist & untethered from reality. We have record levels of immigration, with many coming from outside of the EU, and the UK is one of the most successful multiracial societies on earth. Identity politics is so poisonous.
🎙BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake has said an overwhelmingly “white” working environment is affecting his mental health ⤵
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It should be incumbent for those of us in education, particularly for headteachers having to deal with a lack of guidance on this issue, to read this article from
@Transgendertrd
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#edutwitter
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8. The writer makes conspiratorial and unfounded allegations about EHRC members. This article by Baroness Falkner is well worth your time on the impact of such allegations:
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There are a number of teachers on
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who need to accept that they are/were gravely wrong on this issue. I’m not looking for an apology but I would like to see some contrition.
🔴 Children allowed to ‘socially transition’ face grave psychological risks, review concludes
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These people are clearly using the word “Zionist” when what they mean is “Jew”. It’s blatant. It’s widespread. It’s Jew hatred.
A friendly reminder that we are boycotting the Zionist scumbag Timothée Chalamet.
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3. The writer alludes to Rosie Duffield and makes unfounded accusations of ‘transphobia’, linking to a spurious Pink News article as proof.
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"If Sunak does become PM, he’ll be the first non-white leader in Britain (probably in Europe – although i'm happy to stand corrected). But it won’t be an Obama moment because Britain is not obsessed about race: which is one of the best things about this country."
Six reasons to be optimistic about a Rishi Sunak premiership
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Outright lies. This is why this is such a highly emotive issue: children should not treated as guinea pigs or face being irreversible harmed to prove an ideological point.
Puberty blockers (temporary, reversible) are more benign than going through a puberty that can’t be undone.
If you can’t see that, then you really need to reflect on your biases and whether you consider
#trans
people *at all* when you form your opinions.
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5. The writer makes ridiculously hyperbolic claims such as ‘trans peoples’ lives are at stake’, to which the obvious response is: how? Of course, no evidence is provided.
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6. The writer suggests this has been a ‘one-sided debate’-- what did you expect when Stonewall have been pushing ‘no debate’ as a strategy?
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4. The writer doesn't bother to explain why Westminster blocked the SNP’s GRA bill, wrongly describing it as an undemocratic move.
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One of the most patronizing responses to women’s rights campaigners is the argument that they are being manipulated by RW press and should vote for Labour & Starmer, a party who continue to struggle to define what a woman is.
I did not expect "because he won't say what a woman is" to suddenly come up as a reason not to vote for
@Keir_Starmer
— but it did this morning, watch
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7. The writer claims that trans people have been ‘disenfranchised’-- again without providing any evidence– to which, again, the obvious response is how?
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Congratulations to
@Baroness_Nichol
& all the other women who campaigned for this cause. You have been vindicated & deserve an apology from all those who have slandered you. On a side note, it's interesting to see how "quietly" Labour have shifted their position on this. Good.
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Lord, grant me the strength to accept negative criticism with the same grace, dignity, humility, and good humour as Jolyon Maugham.
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Today’s Times editorial on the Cass Review doesn’t hold back.
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Males have far higher sexual offending rates than females; transwomen are males. Women are not human shields. Simple.
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Such flagrant displays of antisemitism on the street of London are making a great city an international embarrassment.
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This is a lie, obviously. GIDs was closed because it was deemed 'unsafe' by Hilary Cass, because it was blinded by ideology, because it failed to conduct long-term studies on the impact of puberty blockers, because it affirmed gay/lesbian/autistic children as 'trans', etc.
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The usual crowd are slandering Katharine Birbalsingh. Teachers, non-teachers, parents and non-parents, I ask you this: do you think teachers should be teaching students about BDSM in RSE lessons? Because I’m pretty sure they shouldn’t be.
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Soviet-level propaganda from Mermaids. Black is white. Up is down. War is peace.
It’s extremely distressing to see the UK’s equality watchdog, the EHRC, seeking to strip trans people’s rights from the Equality Act 2010. By redefining sex, they support removing the rights and protections trans people have had for over a decade 🧵
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Do you know what the intifadas were, how much death & suffering they caused? Do you understand what chants like “from the river to the sea” & “there is only one state, Palestine 48” imply?
Beyond depressed that antisemitism is acceptable on our streets & flooding social media.
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Whatever your position, I think we can all come together in agreement that Starmer is incredibly slippery on this.
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"The problem in schools is not just that parents are not being informed, but that schools are taking a political approach to children who self-identify as “transgender” – the same approach that put children at risk at the Tavistock clinic."
#edutwitter
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So I've been targeted by an unknown student on
@tiktok_uk
. They deemed it appropriate to publish a photograph of me with the caption "He looks like a sex offender". Horrible walking around an institution when you know that potentially hundreds of students have seen said video.
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Teachers like Beth might think they are doing the right thing by keeping secrets from parents but they are being reckless & arrogant: teachers are not mental health experts & could, in fact, be causing harm & sowing confusion.
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“Almost nobody is talking about trans issues. I do sometimes just wonder why on earth we spend so much of our time discussing something which isn’t a feature of the dinner table or the kitchen table or the café table or the bar.”
-Keir Starmer
He's got a long way to go...
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Homophobia and misogyny being peddled by UN Women. Lesbians are same-sex attracted females. Males cannot be lesbians, no matter how much activists try to contort the meaning of words.
Remember, trans lesbians are lesbians too.
Let's uplift and honour EVERY expression of love and identity!
Happy International
#LesbianDay
!
@free_equal
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The Times deserves a lot of credit for their coverage of GIDS. Today’s editorial absolutely eviscerates the Tavistock & the trans activists who held them capture.
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Those of us working in education should read
@AbigailShrier
's book.
In Dec 2020,
@AbigailShrier
's book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, was chosen by
@TheEconomist
as one of their best books of the year. It's now the
#1
best seller in Amazon's LBGTQ+ studies category.
#ROGD
#psychology
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Take a look for yourselves. The comments by TRAs about Stock's appearance at the Oxford Union are mainly cruel, homophobic quips about her appearance. Why? Because that's the best they've got.
@rizpossnett
Am I wrong is seeing Kathleen Stock as, for all intents and purposes, a trans man?
It's like she's fighting against everything gender non-conforming except her own particular expression of gender non-conforming.
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& sorry to generalise, but Gen Z come across in this piece as uncritical thinkers with a herd mentality issue.
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@tomhfh
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Imagine running an education firm & coming to the conclusion that Gavin Williamson is the man you need to improve your organisation.
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This is a bizarre and ill-conceived response, diminishing both antisemitism & misogyny.
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