Tactical voting got us into this mess. We need change. So vote with your conscience, not for the least bad.
Promoted by the SDP, 72 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4JR
@Provokatov
There are deeper problems, here: these people were expecting it, seem delighted to film it, did nothing to prevent or mitigate it. No-one comes to the victim's aid. No-one soothes or holds her.
The alienation is real.
And how is this going to be enforced - visual inspection? Skirt check? What’s your standardized criteria and how many biological women do you expect will fall out of this screening process? I’m betting, many…
And exactly how is this hetero-patriarchal praxis feminist?
@JtQuinn1
@ruth_madeley
@ISinkovits
It's a neurotic tic.
Inability to contain existential panic at the distressing manifestation of our physical vulnerability (and by extension, mortality) most of us studiously avoid. Some find it overwhelming every time they meet someone with a disability.
Weakness, not malice.
A lot of gentle humour, mutual respect, courage, love and joy at this picnic. According to a number of serious and accomplished gentlemen of the Left, this is the modern face of fascism.
@UnaMcIlvenna
Part of what confuses men about this is we tend not to be conscious of ourselves and our needs, in advance. Very few of us realise "oh, I'd hate to date {lovely woman} I'd feel so insecure and jealous all the time". We assume we're equal to any challenge.
The disgraced Dr Helen Webberley, confirms that (as with Sweden) if the Cass Review suggests we pause on Puberty Blockers, GenderGP will not hesitate ...
UK Pharmacists need to be given mandatory guidance to refuse GenderGP scripts.
@whoisvaibhav
@waitbutwhy
@Calvinn_Hobbes
These are the mistakes we make with our children, that we attempt to atone for with our grandchildren. A key reason that children love their grandparents fiercely.
@LouiseDistras
@WomensRightsNet
That arrest method is absurd. Punitive. Did they ever give you reasons why they couldn't simply invite you to attend at the station?
Arrest at home is meant to be reserved for people who pose a flight risk.
To old friends and colleagues wondering about my sudden shift of gear, I've decided to be public with my politics. I entirely understand if that's not what you signed-up for here and want to unplug - no umbrage taken, whatsoever! But if you want to know more ... (1)
@TedUrchin
This horrible caricature you have of those of us who voted to leave ... what does it accomplish for you, for anyone, really? You seem to be a prisoner of your own resentments.
@RoseWorthesee
@Janebon34813396
They do that.
Notice how he has all his regular clothes with him. He walked there like a regular adult. Then he stripped down to the playsuit to be with the kids.
WPATH has deleted the page referencing the Standards of Care 8 and appears to be overhauling both its leadership listing and member directory - which includes doctors and medics who prescribe "puberty blockers" and perform genital surgeries.
WPATH has thus far escaped regulation…
Autogynephilic men in positions of power urge us to support the "transitioning" of other people's children for one reason: when children sacrifice themselves to gender belief, it validates them - the old men - in their erotic fantasy.
In other news:
(4/6) Gender-affirming care is medical care. It is mental health care. It is suicide prevention care. It improves quality of life, and it saves lives. It is based on decades of study. It is a well-established medical practice.
So, no, it's not a fringe issue, it's 100% central to the contest for our political future, at the very deepest level. If the Left can't get its house in order on this simple question, the Right will be in charge for the rest of this decade, and perhaps the next. (6)
@ask_aubry
That's the excuse.
The reality is he has let some unresolved attachment issues run wild, requiring total control of her body as if to reclaim the mother archetype he's wounded over losing.
The two children are displacing him from Mother. He's enraged.
A dangerous man.
@maraudger
@jk_rowling
This 👆 is precisely the first stage of bigotry. You've judged a person for doing something vile that she does not do. You've closed your ears to evidence and reason. You gain a sadistic thrill from being rude to them in public.
@sineadgibney
Please don't keep mouthing these empty slogans. "Trans rights" only diverge from regular human rights by permitting men to demand to be treated as the opposite sex. Which is bad news for the autonomy of women and girls - in spaces and in sports - and especially bad for lesbians.
@pressgazette
Fuming about this. He is a journalist of integrity making the facts clear to his listeners. You all should be up in arms that the political panjandrums at the State Broadcaster have ruled material sex an "opinion".
@jk_rowling
@KirstieMAllsopp
@SuzyQue27155082
The lack of self-awareness is astonishing, frankly. Having spent a good year dismissing her 'fellow diners' perspectives as a ridiculous moral panic, she proposes that we all be a little more respectful...?
@Constababble
I regret to have to point out that "friendly reminders" hinge on prior agreement on the facts. If Science were your friend you could simply show us, and skip the preachy moralising routine. But the high horse is the whole point, I suspect.
But Adam, you may well ask, isn't this a weird hill to die on? Isn't it all Jordan Peterson cranks and edgelords? That's a handy narrative, but no - it's
@MForstater
being denied work, it's Maria MacLachlan being punched, and told by a judge to refer to her assailant as 'she' (4)
And for what? For the institutionalisation of a cult-like belief in "gender identity", which is in all respects an irrational construct, the "soul" at the heart of a censorious and often misogynistic new religion. The damage it does to egalitarianism is unprecedented (5)
@billybragg
@BBC
This is astonishing. Astonishing. You're barking mad.
Hey, Auntie! Don't put women onto Woman's Hour without checking first with Billy, here, the King of Feminism.
I regret to discover that GIDS clinicians refused to participate in this necessary and urgent work. The full set of excuses they worked up are included in Appendix 4.
@billybragg
Do you also agree with Jonathan's earlier suggestion,
@billybragg
- that the total domination of women's sport by males might be "inspiring"?
@jonathanliew
Your previous remarks leave no room for mystery about your own special interest in this subject. Like many ‘progressive’ misogynists, you seem delighted to have found an acceptable outlet for your disdain for women’s and girls’ sport. We see you, Jonathan.
I've never been a fan of identity politics, but it's really only been in the last 3-4 years that I've come to see it in all its glorious authoritarian potential, and it's time to say "stop". It isn't liberating or progressive, it's a cult of power and control. (2)
Why is Grace Lavery an icon, and Rachel Dolezal a pariah?
Serious answers only, please - steelman this for me. I want to boil this dogma down to basic, solid, credible propositions. Ones that we could explain to a puzzled schoolkid.
@amayadeakins
@jk_rowling
You were doing a plausible job until "it didn't include any testimony from transgender people" blew your claimed expertise to pieces. Stop spreading disinformation for three days and actually READ the report.
@MatthewStadlen
You name and shame individual women for their sex realism. You denounce them as morally despicable. Or, as here, you suggest by insinuation that they're behaving like children.
You simply can't allow that their arguments are reasonable.
How can you not be self-aware, here?
@UglaStefania
You guys had the tacit support of *some* - not all - women, so long as it seemed plausible that (a) you were gay men (b) you'd had the surgery and (c) that your mental health was medically supervised.
Your "Rights" movement has kicked these props away.
Here's your consequence.
I have no phobias. But this ideology treats democratic accountability as a hate crime - and it's precisely this facility to dismiss criticism of authority that attracts anti-social and anti-democratic impulses around it. It's a sucking void that is now harming women (3)
@cecinestpaspipe
@BluskyeAllison
Yes, and that they will be unsuccessful in deflecting such suits onto Stonewall - the buck will stop with them. Every. Single. Time.
@HumzaYousaf
Deeply, dangerously irresponsible for a First Minister to post this. Shocking.
You know what you're doing when you post these comments, as anti-semitic hate crimes in the UK leap by a factor of 4.
If you don't - LOOK AT THE COMMENTS you have inspired. And delete.
@DreyfusJames
@billybragg
@jk_rowling
Billy's a 'good German', James. No, he wasn't aware of the lies, the medical experimentation, the vicious bullying. He never took part in that. All he did was ask people causing a fuss about the new uniforms to be kind.
@amnesty
What would his sentence have been in any neighbouring state for kidnapping, torturing, mutilating and murdering a soldier of that country?
You're picking your battles unwisely.
@SocalAntifa
You've done more to harm trans lives today than staying at home would have. If trans influencers had their wits about them they would beg you to stop claiming to act in their name, to justify chasing those gang thrills you're clearly buzzing from.
You're the enemy you hate.
@Isla_macy
From the Laughing Auditor vid yesterday and this, is anyone noticing a pattern of very, very comfortably middle-class students and YAs on the frontlines there? What's that all about?
@TimesRadio
@Glinner
@StigAbell
It's fascinating how poorly briefed presenters on this topic are. Those of us who've taken the time to wrap our heads around the whole phenomenon are given an insight into how superficially a professional journalist is typically going to read into it - by the nature of the beast.
@babybeginner
Scary to see how the narcissistic vortex of madness is laundered into respectable-sounding language in a respectable-seeming publication.
@daraobriain
@HedgeRollis
@HJoyceGender
You're a public figure, chap. You earn money on the basis that people have some sort of pre-existing interest or attachment to your public persona.
How are you not getting this?
Please will anyone posting
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
today explain precisely how there can be a right to be treated as the sex you're not?
(I'm aware Sunak's a posturing grifter. But the point you're all objecting to is objectively correct.)
@L__G__B
Sounds like he's a toxic personality that's refusing to accept a gender neutral space he's been offered. No collective space has room for aggressive narcissists.
In honour of
#IWD
, a fairly in-depth thread on what the core issue is with the Bill
@ScotGov
has introduced. Lot of folks like
@MhairiHunter
and
@agcolehamilton
are spinning this as simple admin, as Sturgeon did last night. That's a lie.
Thread:
@GoodwinMJ
So - 62% don't have a stake. Among the remainder, Israel *marginally* more supported than Palestine.
Labour & youth - Palestine
vs.
Tory & elderly - Israel
Naivety vs. Experience
@stellacreasy
Why are you having a go at the woman retweeting this, and not the man who made the comment? Like every last one of your Labour colleagues who've taken up cudgels on behalf of the pretendy mother? Is
@PaulEmbery
too tasty for you?! 🧐😂
Any MP got the balls to throw this into PMQs on Wednesday?
* Will the Prime Minister join me in congratulating Maya Forstater on her success on appeal last week, establishing that common sense views on gender and sex are protected from discrimination under the Equality Act 2010?
@realjohnmurphy
@blablafishcakes
@BBC
When a male says "I feel like a woman" what he means is he relates powerfully to the stereotypes a sexist society projects over women's reality. He feels compelled to inhabit their oppression, objectification and infantilisation.
If this were race, you wouldn't need to ask.
@valasule
@PattyArquette
You went and roared in grandpa's face. Towering over him. Performing for the camera. You have absolutely lost your moral compass if you think you speak for 'love'.
@KirstieMAllsopp
He's performing a Japanese Schoolgirl fetish in public and you don't notice. It's normalised, unremarkable.
Those who objected to Spears' sexualisation of schoolgirls at the time on the basis of slippery slope arguments can look at you now with a full-on "Told You So" expression
The so-called Arse/Elbow binary - a thread.
I realise many of you will find yourselves, as I do, endlessly having to argue whether arses and elbows are a binary, as traditionally believed, or in the light of modern science, are better conceived of as in some sense a spectrum.
@AnnelieseDodds
I would again encourage you to reassure conscientious clinicians like Dr Az Hakeem, by explaining how your law would not drive people like him out of this practice area, leaving gender non-compliant kids at the mercy of ideologues and quacks?
Please say.