Janice Turner
@VictoriaPeckham
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Columnist & interviewer, The Times. Orwell Prize for Journalism. Trustee of @AldeburghCinema.
Joined July 2009
JK Rowling set up and fully funds a women’s refuge because, thanks to men like him, raped women in Scotland had no single sex support service.
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On February 26 the England cricket team will play Afghanistan. WHY?.Are England men happy to validate a regime which denies women all human rights from education to simply walking in a park? Now the Taliban are cracking down even on women going online. Boycott the ICC.
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Women are not just hobbled men, smaller men, lesser men, men who adjust their body chemistry. We are our own selves and we deserve our own sports. My @thetimes on justice for female athletes.
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Owen Jones is seriously encouraging his 1 million followers to harass a politician in the street, maybe outside his home, less than a year after David Amess was stabbed. Has he lost his mind?
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Only a man would think womanhood is a costume you can shed like a pair of high heels. My @thetimes column on "girl mode", "boy mode" & Eddie Izzard.
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Just when you think the case for women’s sex-based rights is clear, the Darlington nurses - forced to undress with a man - show how embedded gender misogyny is in our institutions. Shame on @UNISONSteve for his attacks on his own women members.
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JK Rowling launches service for women victims of sexual violence before Scotland brings in self-ID law.
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“Women have very little idea of how much men hate them": Germaine Greer. Well, from Plymouth to Kabul, from the far Right to the hard Left, today they aren't short of clues.
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Protestors against the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman did this today. This is a statue commemorating not just Millicent Fawcett but all women who fought for female suffrage. In case anybody is in any doubt: this is a men’s rights movement
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77 women have been killed with a man as main/only suspect since Sarah Everard six months ago. Sabina was just one. The killing of no other group but women is treated as “white noise“.
Her name was Sabina Nessa. She was a 28-year-old primary school teacher in Catford, described by the head teacher as “brilliant, kind and dedicated to her pupils.” She was killed walking home mid-evening through the park. #SayHerName .
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This is despicable from @BenPBradshaw. Men kill loads of women anyway, so why bother keeping the few safeguards women have.
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Hamas made the ultimate revenge porn on October 7 so why the silence and doubt about their rape of Israeli women? My @thetimes column.
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Lily Cole & the vacuity of modern hashtag-feminism. Putting Instagram posturing before universal human rights. I bet Afghan women are celebrating the “diversity” of wearing this shroud.
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Strange that "Incel" is now being discussed as a type of terrorist, yet misogyny is not a hate crime.
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"The womb is not an interchangeable Lego part, a crop to be harvested, a vessel sold to the highest bidder for rent or sale. It comes attached to a woman." .My @thetimes column on why we need to talk about the ethics of womb transplants.
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How gender ideology has cost the taxpayer £millions - with more huge payouts to come. My @thetimes column.
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On the day fair play & safety are at last restored to women's football, netball & (soon) cricket, it's worth remembering decisions to admit men to female categories were made behind closed doors with no female player reps present.Then any woman who questioned this was a pariah.
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Helen Belcher complained to IPSO about that column, claiming inaccuracy and discrimination. I am delighted to report that IPSO, after careful deliberation, has not upheld a single one of Belcher's allegations against me. The full ruling is here.
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The capture of the ONS by gender ideologues was a dangerous and disgraceful episode. And here we see the end result: the downgrading of data gathered from the 2021 census. What a shameful and expensive episode.
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2021 divided the sheep from the goats. My last @thetimes column of the year celebrates all the fearless, uncompromising, truth-seeking 🐐🐐! .
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This was a deeply upsetting episode, a grave slur against my career and character. I am glad it is over. I am still awaiting an apology from Helen Belcher. ends.
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@afneil Andrew, I wrote this in @thetimes 6yrs ago. Other female journalists @HadleyFreeman, @helenlewis, @sarahditum and @suzanne_moore were also raising the alarm & we were vilified. Yr support now is most welcome, but also a lesson for men not to tune out women.
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All I ask is everyone railing at the government for not banning “trans conversion therapy” read the Cass review. Understand concerns about unintended consequences don’t come from religious zealots but respected clinicians who care deeply about young people
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The Olympic boxing travesty shows the IOC’s institutional contempt for women - this is exactly how they think female sport should be run. My @thetimes column.
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I spent a week at the Pelicot case, one of the most disturbing things I've ever reported on, & examine the many issues arising: French rape law, pornography, complicity & the defiant courage of Gisele.@thetimes has taken my long read outside the paywall.
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Women to @campbellclaret : please engage with our writing, legal opinions, pragmatic solutions to defend our rights & protections. AC to women: but I've already spoken to my wife/daughter/one female friend. That's quite enough women for me!.
“Trans people have enough on their plate”. Watch Alastair Campbell claim that he hasn’t been brainwashed, and then explain how he’s been brainwashed.
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The same liberals who worry about veal calves or ethical coffee think it’s “progress” to rent the wombs of impoverished Mexican women. My @thetimes column on the looming battle over UK surrogacy law.
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Is a “gran” the lowest unit of human life. Me in @thetimes today. Some VERY indignant Times reader grans in the comments.
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NHS London would rather women with limited English risked ovarian cancer than they use clear, correct language. A disgraceful neglect of public health.
Anyone with ovaries can get ovarian cancer. Knowing the symptoms can help you spot anything abnormal. If things don't feel normal or if any symptoms get worse, contact your GP. #OvarianCancerAwarenessMonth.
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The pivotal moment, when Sturgeon realised she could not square ideology with reality. The only way to get self-ID into law is secretly, without scrutiny. (That's how it was done in other countries.) .Openly debated, the cognitive dissonance will destroy the ablest politician.
Does Scotland’s First Minister believe all trans women are women? . Scottish Gov has just implemented an effective ban on trans prisoners who’ve committed sexual & violent crimes against women being moved to a women-only prison. @itvnews
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Women relearned an ancient lesson: if we don’t defend our rights, no one else will. My @thetimes column. on an accidental feminist movement which will never, ever be caught napping again.
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Why should we turn more troubled children into lab rats because activist MPs like Sian Berry & Stella Creasy will never believe puberty blockers are harmful? My @thetimes column.
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“The “It Might Never Happen, Love” guys don’t think women deserve legislation which protects us in principle: we’re expected to pray careless laws, framed for others’s benefit, don’t hurt us in practice. My column for @thetimes on misogyny & the GRR.
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The Democrats in their ideological insanity gave Trump this massive win + sensational photo op. They let the president who destroyed abortion rights to become the saviour of women & girls’ sports.
PROMISES MADE. PROMISES KEPT! . President Trump signs an Executive Order to BAN men in women’s sports! 💪
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Brains in jars & why asking questions is bigotry. Civil servants are being trained in gender fallacy which breaks their own code and ignores the law. My @thetimes column.
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England men lost the match. Afghan women have lost everything.
On February 26 the England cricket team will play Afghanistan. WHY?.Are England men happy to validate a regime which denies women all human rights from education to simply walking in a park? Now the Taliban are cracking down even on women going online. Boycott the ICC.
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Tony Blair: ‘Voters don’t want a situation where women can’t talk about being women’.
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On @BBCWomansHour biological male, Robin Moira White, tells women if they object to getting undressed or showering in front of men, they should exit female facilities & change somewhere else. Male entitlement sure runs deep. This, of course, is the story of the Darlington nurses.
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Who will be on the wrong side of history in the end? Those calling for children (2/3 girls, 1/3 with autism, majority gay) to be rushed onto a medical pathway of wholly unproven treatments. Or those who wish to address therapeutically all their mental issues, traumas & needs?.
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I am so through with activism whose only objective is to pull down things others nurtured and loved. But never, ever to build anything new.
🔺Baillie Gifford ‘set to withdraw funding from all book festivals’.
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What is most upsetting about the mammograms row is it is pitting women against women. "I don't mind having a man doing my scan if it saves me from breast cancer" Vs "It's intimate & painful – I only want a female radiographer." [thread].
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@PennyRed Laurie, seriously, did you read the judgement? Trans people, thankfully, are protected from harassment & discrimination under the EA. Stop the histrionics and let’s work out the compromises for everyone to have safety and dignity.
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How many mothers thinking that wearing a white dress for a global photocall the day after you’ve given birth is, er, incredibly brave. 😬.
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In response to my column 👇, I am being contacted by other civil servants given unscientific & legally fallacious training, in breach of 2010 Equality Act. This also violates the civil service code & I want to write more, so if you’ve also received such training my DMs are open.
Brains in jars & why asking questions is bigotry. Civil servants are being trained in gender fallacy which breaks their own code and ignores the law. My @thetimes column.
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Does @EdwardJDavey not understand how insane this sounds? And how it enrages women? A male leader blithely giving away women’s rights to single sex refuges, prisons & sports. A man who cannot even bring himself to SAY the word “woman”.
What is wrong with the phrase, “woman adult human female”?. Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey says the phrase "doesn't really encapsulate the debate. a trans woman is a woman, a trans man is a man". #Marr
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The civil service wasted £117,000 - and a talented woman’s career - because it ignored the equality law it is supposed to enforce. My @thetimes column on a stupid, avoidable Whitehall farce.
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Last year, the trans activist Helen Belcher claimed that that my journalism for The Times on gender issues had precipitated a wave of suicides of teenagers.
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If @RoryStewartUK had shown the tiniest interest in women’s writing & views he would know we suggested the very same compromises 8 years ago. And women were sacked, vilified & physically threatened for doing so.
Rory Stewart weighs in on the UK Supreme Court's landmark gender ruling 🏛️
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Any woman who believes in the reality of sex supports Donald Trump. Them’s the rules. Honestly wtf happened to @mrjamesob?.
"How did you end up on the same team as the self-confessed sex offender?". James O'Brien asks those who see trans people as a threat: "is Donald Trump your man?"
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Not content with putting women under house arrest, banning their faces from view, their voices from being heard (even in prayer) the Taliban now demands houses be built so women can't see out of a window. Surely Joe Root @root66 won't play ball with this regime?.Boycott the ICC.
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Why do so-called progressives, like Greens @carla_denyer and @sianberry, still regard the prescription of unproven, dangerous drugs to children - which put them on a pathway to sterility & sexual dysfunction - as the measure of a caring society? .It really is totally bizarre.
Trans activist Green Party MP, @sianberry is 'worried & fearful' that damaging drugs won't be available to kids anymore. She asks "Do you understand this is at heart discriminatory?".@wesstreeting replies her "intervention is why we should listen to clinicians not politicians"
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Why did it take Trump to say men competing in women’s sports is ridiculous? On the cowardice of the left + the right to speak the whole truth. My @thetimes column.
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Whatever your opinion of @KemiBadenoch she is the most interesting Conservative politician of this Parliament. I interviewed her for @thetimes about Nigeria, race, her parents, marriage and values.
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An award-winning choreographer has lost the dance company she founded in 2004. Her ordeal began at a party she held for young dancers at her own home, where she said biological sex is real.
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Seven years, 7,300 testimonies from child sex abuse survivors who suffered mainly in silence for an average of 4yrs. If the Tory party hadn’t trashed our government, maybe we’d be talking about the Jay report. My @thetimes column.
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Mothers. Mothers ARE female. Every single human on the planet came out of a female. But this cannot be said any more. Not some Titania McGrath joke. It’s a London theatre which can’t say the word “‘mother”.
@AliLag6 We’re specifically looking for female identifying mothers. But, we have several other call outs that are live as well as this one, which we are welcoming male playwright submissions. ^J.
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The ideological private school Left does not understand working class aspiration. On @jessphillips & class war. My @thetimes column.
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When people ask why I started writing about this toxic issue, I say: because of teenage girls. Their lives, bodies & mental health. Now male politicians are treating them as collateral in pursuit of conference applause. My @thetimes column.
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The bravery of Afghan women. Protesting against armed men who could summarily execute them right there.
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Plus my colleague Lucy Bannerman @TimesLucy, speaks with a patient who was put on puberty blockers by GIDS for four years, about the horrific side-effects. My puberty was chemically delayed. I was their guinea pig.
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For years, trans activist groups like Gendered Intelligence have disseminated guidance to schools which, in ignoring the protected characteristic of biological sex, have breached the 2010 Equality Act, compromising girls’ safety & privacy. I mentioned this today in @thetimes
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I replied in a Times column . In particular, I said that I was alarmed by Belcher – and the trans movement at large – irresponsibly weaponising suicide for political purposes, in direct contravention of the Samaritans reporting code.
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“I say no to the new puritans, the sex deniers and the body snatchers.” A passionate, eloquent & defiant piece by choreographer & dancer Rosie Kay.
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How dare a female MP, a victim of domestic violence, who Owen has piled on relentless for a year, complain she feels unsafe at LP conference. Every woman who believes biological sex is immutable & important should stay home in her kitchen.
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Cass was a skirmish, now prepare for a war. The adult gender clinics refusing to share data reveal the problems ahead for evidence-based treatment. My @thetimes column.
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Keir Starmer must respect women or lose them: my @thetimes column on his cowardice over Rosie Duffield & the most poisoned chalice in politics.
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Dear all the guys who stay out of the gender wars, this is where we are now. For writing an acclaimed book about how discounting female biology endangers women, @CCriadoPerez is a transphobic bigot.
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@OwenJones84 @MatthewdAncona @helenlewis Tell you what, Owen. You’ve interviewed lots of men you disagree with on your YouTube channel: eg Piers Morgan, Paul Embery & Jacob Rees Mogg. So why not invite gender critical feminists? Helen Joyce, Kathleen Stock, Helen Lewis, Julie Bindel or Sarah Ditum. Lots to choose from.
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At last the EHRC is balancing all rights rather than selling out women. My @thetimes column.
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In the gender wars, it’s men’s turn to be kind. On toilets & a renegotiation of social norms. My @thetimes column.
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So many senior people came forward to tell me Penny Mordaunt lied about her role in the maternity bill. Her shameless volte face on gender issues for political expediency makes her completely untrustworthy as PM.
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Parents are being cut out of their children’s lives when they’re most vulnerable. It’s time @GillianKeegan had the courage to end Stonewall & Mermaids’ ideological grip on schools.
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Malice, betrayal, cowardice, blind groupthink… what the tribunals brought by feminists reveal about the organisations which drove them out. My @thetimes column .
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The only thing preventing me from standing outside No 10 shouting “resign” is the thought of another three-month Tory leadership election. 😩.
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This will be a mindblowing thread for some. Mainly men, I suspect. This is why feminists will not tolerate ANYONE, whatever their politics, who undermines the safeguarding of girls.
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Boris Johnson called the £186m report, money “spaffed against a wall”. (Another reason never to let him near high office ever again. ) The financial cost - let alone the human price - of child abuse is incalculable.
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Just rang my bank to cancel a credit card I must have dropped to learn someone had cancelled it already. ie found it, then taken time & effort to get through endless "Press 1 for blah. " phone system for a stranger. No idea who it was, but thank you! People can be marvelous.
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England cricketers should not play ball with gender apartheid. Boycott the Afghanistan match on February 26.
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Blessed are the whistleblowers. From Children in Need to the Church, it takes moral courage to speak the truth. My @thetimes column.
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Write to the men who will play Afghanistan:Jos Buttler, Jofra Archer,Gus Atkinson,Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Ben Duckett,Jamie Overton,Jamie Smith, Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Saqib Mahmood,Phil Salt, Mark Wood.Rob Key is MD of England Men's Cricket.
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This motion was so men had equal access to join the “breast imaging community”. 🤔 .And women alarmed at the thought of men doing mammograms have now cancelled appointments. Yet the SoR blames the media rather than its own careless proposal to destroy a women’s service.
@VictoriaPeckham Please see the attached photos. it appears that the move towards reruiting males into the mammogram service is not being driven specifically by a lack of radiographers but by males asking for entry.
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For 200yrs prisons have been segregated by sex: women jailed with men are terrified, abused & raped. Putting double rapist Adam Graham in a women's prison is the reductio ad absurdum of the idea a man is a woman solely on his say-so. My @thetimes column
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The brass neck of the Fawcett Society in proposing it lead a women’s caucus when it has cowered from feminist debate for years. Me in @thetimes .
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@campbellclaret OK, well get Helen Joyce or Maya Forstater or Hillary Cass or Kathleen Stock or the For Women Scotland women, or Akua Reindor on your podcast. And have a serious discussion about this issue, which you always waft away. Then women might believe you are listening to their side.
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@BenKentish You don’t think a candidate who verifiably lied should be held to account, whatever the subject? I’d prefer a PM who is honest about previous actions & espoused views. Seems a pretty fundamental test of character. Also for women ie 51% voters, if not you, this policy matters.
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Very concerning that @jolyonmaugham doesn’t believe black women are British. But anyway I’m far from telling women to breed for the nation. As the foxkiller full knows, which is why he’s scared to link to the actual piece.
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On the day the Tavistock child gender clinic is ordered to close, here is my recent @thetimes magazine piece which explains why.
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A very important victory. A company cannot discriminate simply because an employee believes biological sex is immutable & relevant in law. This will mean a great deal to many women (and men) who fear for their livelihoods simply for speaking the truth.
Here is my press statement: .
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Cricket is one of very few ways to put pressure on the Taliban. They love cricket & pose with Afghan cricket stars in the Gulf. It is the only "Western" pleasure they have not banned. They relish the prestige of being among the top eight elite ICC nations. Meanwhile. .
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If only there was a test available on earth to distinguish between male & female humans. 🤔.
IOC is gaslighting the world. Bach says there’s no solid scientific way to tell who is a woman! He is taking us all for fools.
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