Colin Wight
@colwight
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Prof Emeritus (International Relations); Guitar fanatic; NUFC Supporter. Views mine. Yes, I pay for things I value. đď¸
Joined July 2011
@mark_carrigan @ThomsonPat Mistake to think Twitter is a medium for academic exchange. It's not, it's a madhouse, and everyone on it is mad, in both senses of word.
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I donât know how many times I can keep making this point, but if after over 1000 Israeliâs citizens are slaughtered, after families are killed in their homes, after hundreds of young people are massacred at a rave, after hundreds are kidnapped, after reports of rape are rife, if.
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Can we all agree that trans women are a subset of men, not a subset of women.
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Why is everyone calling for a ceasefire rather than for Hamas to surrender? When did supporting barbaric medieval terrorism become acceptable?.
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So what are we going to call the sport of men physically beating women at the Olympics?.
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I genuinely donât understand how anyone thinks itâs ok for men to take part in womenâs sports, to be housed in womenâs prisons, or to take scholarships or win awards that are specifically in place for women. Iâll never understand it.
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People often ask me why Iâm so invested/interested in the trans issue? My response is always the same; given the attack on womenâs rights, the rejection of the science around biological sex, the idea that people can change sex, the ludicrous notion of the female penis, the.
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I will say something that may get me in trouble with some. But Roxy Tickle has every right to dress as a woman (according to prevailing gender norms), to act as he believes women act (again, thatâs going to be based on prevailing gender norms), and even to believe he is a woman.
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Bookmarking this for all the âassigned at birthâ people, and all the âmy child discovered she/he was born in the wrong body merchants. The irony of Pink News running this story should be lost on no one.
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You have to love Twitter. Three eminent biologists (Dawkins, Winston, and NĂźsslein Volhard ) say there are only two sexes and that humans canât change Sex, and Twitter randoms, and Katy Montgomery (as always)) say theyâre wrong. We need a term for this madness. Dunning Kruger.
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If you are a bloke in lipstick and someone describes you as a bloke in lipstick, why is that discrimination? And why should everyone have to pretend to blokes in lipstick that theyâre not blokes in lipstick?.
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Nobody actually believes men can become women and vice versa. Nobody. So WTF is going on?.
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@GrahamScambler The truth always matters. But the truth of the beheading isnât necessary for the moral judgment. The truth of the barbarity is clear.
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An image thatâs going to define an age and shame a country. Forget all those Viking gifs; this is real life. Female defiance.
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Itâs funny how history goes back centuries when certain people want to talk about indigenous people yet only starts in 1948 if youâre talking about Israel.
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In Australia, you can attend a Let Women Speak rally and get called a Nazi by politicians, but if you attend a rally and chant âfuck the Jewsâ (edited because the âgas the Jewsâ chant isnât confirmed. Itâs muffled on the video Iâve seen) youâre apparently a freedom fighter.
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Nigel Farage. Itâs quite simple, really. You can disagree with everything he stands for. You can hate him. AND you can still disagree with how heâs been treated by the banks and some sections of the media because you understand the principles at stake. If you donât defend the.
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One male trait (among others) that trans women donât seem to lose after transitioning (whatever that means in the era of self-ID) is the ability to talk over women with absolute authority in the belief that theyâre the only ones who know what theyâre talking about.
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First, the violence against @ThePosieParker in NZ, now the @Riley_Gaines_ incident. TRAs showing everyone why women need safe spaces and why the âkill all TERFsâ rhetoric should have been taken seriously. Even Biden is now rowing back from TWAW. It may not be the end, but itâs.
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Males commit most male sex abuse of young girls (yes, thatâs tautological, but bear with me). White males commit most male sex abuse of young girls in a predominantly white country. But when hundreds of non-white males conspire to commit sexual abuse of young girls on an.
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Everyone knows males canât become females (and vice versa), so why is there any debate about males in female sports, males in female prisons, males in female spaces? Why are we even entertaining the arguments? Just say no. No males in female only spaces. No.
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Remind me why the wishes of this biological male should override the views of women? âI am determined that I am going to use the female changing rooms. I am not going to be shunted off to a separate facility such as a disabled changing room.â .
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Hereâs a secret. Donât tell anyone I told you. But everyone knows what men and women are. Everyone knows what differentiates men from women. And everyone knows that men canât become women, and vice versa. The only people pretending they donât are crazy or cowards.
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Whatâs remarkable about the Tickle Vs Giggle Judgment (I havenât read it in full yet, so normal caveats apply), is not that the judge ruled that gender identity overrides sex, but that he actually said humans can change Sex. The Judge is clearly a moron.
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The thing with Eddie Izzard was that he was clearly a bloke wearing Womenâs clothing, and make-up, and using that as part of his comedic presentation. It worked because he was not saying he was a woman. It was funny. Now heâs doing the same but saying he is a woman heâs no longer.
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Nobody is banning trans people from competing in sport. They are insisting only that they take part in the correct category. And nobody is stopping trans women from competing in womenâs sports because theyâre trans. Itâs because theyâre male. Really, itâs not that hard.
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Alice Cooper now Santana. Good to see some of my heroes speaking up. But JFC saying a man is not a woman is not anti-trans. And the more people who keep stating obvious truths the easier it becomes for everyone. A man is not, and never can be, a woman.
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Can we all just be clear please: when people talk about trans rights, what theyâre really talking about is the right of biological males to trample all over the rights of biological females. Thatâs why you donât hear much about trans men in this debate; theyâre biological females.
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I love the way the media are describing those chanting âgas the Jewsâ as a âminorityâ within the rally at Sydney the other day. When Neo-Nazis gate crashed a Let Women Speak rally earlier this year, all the women attending were condemned as Nazis. Consistency, clearly not a.
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So Iâm really sorry for @salltweets that the judgment went this way. She doesnât need this in her life, and she certainly doesnât deserve it. This is a man narcissistically demanding male entitlement and being handed it by the Australian courts. Hopefully, Sall will fight on. Not.
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Whatâs currently happening in an Australian court is insane. Even Roxy Tickleâs barrister thinks heâs a man. So what makes him a woman is that he thinks heâs one. And that Australian law says thatâs ok. I get the impression that the judge has some sympathy with @salltweets case.
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@RossKneeDeep The owner has no way of knowing if the product they import will be subject to tariffs, or how much. If this story is true (I doubt it) then the owner is scamming his workers to increase his profits.
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TRAs draw up a list of GC people and radical feminists to get banned, and the only thing the GC people and radical feminists are worried about is the embarrassment of not being on the list. đđđ.
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Regarding the trans debate, the only thing you need to ask yourself is: how many women youâre prepared to sacrifice for the delusions of men that think theyâre women? Sacrifice in sports, prisons, jobs, awards etc. If your answer is more than 0, youâre probably a misogynist.
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@geeklyamanda Iâm guessing nobody expected a lesson from a scientist thatâs wrong. Maybe itâs a good job youâre looking for alternative employment.
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So, I want to use the Giggle vs. Tickle case to illuminate something about the recent GC infighting. This is my opinion, and Iâm guessing Sall thinks all the infighting is counterproductive (sheâd be right). So please donât drag her into any comments on this. She doesnât need it.
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⢠Nobody is assigned sex at birth. ⢠The sex of a baby exists before anyone has knowledge of it. ⢠Nobody is assigned a gender at birth. ⢠Babies donât have a gender in the womb.
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@KirstieMAllsopp @SloaneFragment Unfortunately Kirstie, people have the no debate receipts. You might want to rethink this. Itâs so blatantly wrong.
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The video doing the rounds of @neiltyson making a fool of himself by stepping into the gender debate illustrates that a lot of the men doing this (and there are far too many whoâve done it), simply donât understand the issues. They confuse sex with gender, are dismissive of the.
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Well, Iâm feeling really angry. A Philosopher on here told me that we should accept people for who they say they are, and that not to validate them was to deny their existence, hasnât validated my identity after I told him I was Jimi Hendrix. Not only have I not ceased to exist,.
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Thing is, trans people never crossed my radar. Iâd met them, some were/are friends. They were just people who wanted to live their lives a certain way. A bit strange. But what the hell. But as soon as they start with the TWAW stuff. No youâre not. Iâm not doing reality denial.
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For years @salltweets couldnât get interviews or TV appearances to talk about the problems she was having just trying to set up an app dedicated to Women. Now sheâs an international icon at the forefront of the struggle for womenâs rights and known globally. Chew on that all the.
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So the freeing of the hostages has really sharpened the dividing lines. A group of barbaric terrorists take hostages, hide them in civilian homes, and when some of the hostages are rescued the rescuers are apparently the bad guys. You can try and spin this anyway you want.
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I just find the whole Scotland thing depressing. Donât forget class in this analysis. The majority of women that are going to suffer are going to be of a lower socio economic group. Certain women donât care because itâll never affect them.
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Iâve refrained from saying anything about this so far, because I donât like comments based on someoneâs appearance. But what strikes me as utterly absurd about this are the academic feminists looking at this and still insisting TWAW. Making clowns of themselves.
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Unbelievable as it sounds, the Australian courts are likely to say that a biological man is a woman. Every Australian knows thatâs nonsense, even the trans ones, but weâre all going to be expected to lie. Itâs beyond crazy. Anyway, at last the media are waking up to the issue. Go.
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Talk about outright lies âŚ@abcnewsâŠ. Not only should @mediawatch look at this. But Iâd say itâs defamation.
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As Australia goes ballistic about the Womenâs World Cup, it does irritate me to watch the media prattle on about the value of female sports when that same media was writing off women standing up for female sports as bigots and Nazis not so long ago. I canât name them all, but.
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All the people catastrophising about this need to get a grip. First, itâs simply upholding the law. Second, why should the wishes of biological males struggling with their identity override the wishes of females for privacy and dignity? Third, itâs now up to the NHS come to come.
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One thing that the atrocities of 7/10 have revealed (although it was clear before) is that the âprogressive Leftâ would rather support some of the most regressive, anti-LGB, anti-women, anti-freedom, anti-democracy, regimes in the world than express any sympathy for 1300.
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In light of the events in NZ today, itâs worth reflecting on precisely what justifies calling @ThePosieParker a fascist. The fact is, Iâve never seen her say anything that suggests fascism. And Iâm referring here to a political theory definition of fascism, not the Twitter.
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I donât know anything about Imane Khelif. About their life, whatever medical conditions they have, or what they know about their medical situation. Because the results of the tests they undertook havenât been made public weâre all guessing. I donât think they should be the.
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@deves_katherine @IWDBrisMeanjin As far as I can tell, it simply means; âthe right to do anything I want when I want, and the right to make others believe the things I believe.â.
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A story for all the âjust let people be who they say they areâ crew.
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This person is a sociology professor. Let that sink in. And then think about where your children go to university. Think carefully about where your children go to university.
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@lomas_scot Only idiots (and children) think in terms of good guys and bad guys. And only utter morons canât distinguish between innocents killed as collateral damage in combat and incidents intentionally killed as part of a campaign of terror. You want to stop it Charlie, get on to your.
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When you have no arguments you snitch. And yes, Amy is a biological male. Thatâs a fact. Come at me for stating scientific facts.
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Perfect from âŚ@polblonde⊠. âBehaving like an angry toddler exposes the childish narcissism at the heart of trans activism, which has always sought to conflate even the mildest opposition with hate speech and genocide.â
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In terms of the trans debate, the only thing you need to ask yourself is: how many women youâre prepared to sacrifice for the delusions of men that think theyâre women? Sacrifice in sports, prisons, jobs, awards etc. If your answer is more than 0, youâre probably a misogynist.
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I still donât understand, and probably never will, why one of these is ok and and the other is universally criticised. đ¤ˇ
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David Tennant is the walking embodiment of the Helen Joyce law.
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Puberty has always been a difficult time for adolescents, particularly for girls, whose bodies undergo significant changes, added to the social pressures they face about the âperfectâ body. But itâs a part of human development and maturity. I canât believe weâre actually trying.
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For all those people who think the âwhat is a womanâ question is just a culture war trope, itâs actually a great way to find out if someone is a liar or not. Because everyone knows what a woman is, so if they hedge or avoid, theyâre lying. A good politician test.
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@vanessa_young56 It may interest you to know, or not. That many transgender people now claim to have changed actually changed sex. And if itâs only a change of gender (a bit like Boy George really) then they wouldnât be claiming access to female spaces, or claiming thereâs a female penis.
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This is a must watch. Great to see a mainstream Australian TV channel taking this on. The stories are heartbreaking. The doctors speaking out are heroes. And the interview with Prof Ian Hickie was revealing, just not in a good way. Heâs clearly a professor thatâs not heard of.
De-Transitioning: The most controversial Spotlight story this year. 7NEWS Spotlight, tonight 8:45pm on Channel 7 and 7plus.
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Hereâs a thought: rape crisis centres are not political re-education camps.
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Professor of Gender Studies writes a piece. My only takeaway from this piece is that Iâve now moved into the camp that thinks itâs time gender studies departments were disbanded. đ¤Śđťââď¸
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Why arenât the TRAs up in arms about the shooter being misgendered? He [sic] was born female and was transgender. Which means that according to the rules, he [sic] is a trans man. Yet all the media in Australia are referring to him [sic] as a trans woman. Do you think they donât.
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@stephenwhittle Sex, like gravity, is what it is, Stephen. We can, of course, use words in any way we want. It doesnât make the way we use them valid. Once upon a time, there were laws denying women the vote. Human laws have a history of being wrong. Defining legal sex in a way contradictory to.
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@theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling Wouldnât the cyclist be guilty of the same offence; using the phone/camera while driving?.
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Itâll depend on what the contract JK signed in terms of movie rights, but Emma might just find sheâs not even asked. Somebody needs to do some serious growing up.
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@laurahelmuth @audubonsociety I donât know if you genuinely donât understand the paper or if youâre wilfully misinterpreting it. But either way, as the editor of @sciam this is embarrassing.
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Stonewall's CEO coming out very clearly with what their intention has been all along. Nice to see some honesty at last. So the aim is to get biological males (trans women) into lesbian spaces, including presumably their beds. To get biological males (trans women) into women-only
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@alice_isa_ âPlus this doesnât even consider gender!â Why would it? The issue is identifying sex from skeletons. Whatâs the relationship between skeletons and gender?.
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Donât the TRAs realise that every tweet they post about Kathleen Stockâs appearance (manâs clothes, manâs hair, sitting like a man), is confirming the gender critical view that transition is mostly about conforming to regressive gender stereotypes?.
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@NicolaSturgeon @scotgov Itâs not a devolved matter. Thatâs the point. You went outside your competency. Mind you, you didnât seem to care much about reality either, or the opinion of the Scottish people.
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Itâs remarkable to see all the âtransphobesâ coming out in support of this. Canât think why. đ
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Men defending Lia Thomas I get. Itâs a piss take on women. Thatâs what Misogynists do. What I really donât get is the women defending it, or almost as bad, the women being silent about it. I canât get my head around that at all. Hopefully the madness will end soon.
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Itâs a sign of a sick society: . âIt is astonishing that writing like Chuâs â which expresses such a low and degraded view of women â is now celebrated by polite society and rewarded with prestigious prizes. We have to stand up to this new misogyny.â
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The idea that the trans debate is just a âculture warâ issue drives me nuts. How can the status of reality, science, biology, materiality, Womenâs rights, and, yes, trans rights be relegated to just a âculture warâ issue? Besides, culture is political too.
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What the whole boxing issue has revealed to me is that a lot of people, both men and women, actually donât think that sports should be categorised according to sex in the first place. I wish theyâd just be honest and admit this; then we could argue on that basis rather than.
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After the FINA decision, is any Australian journalist, @zalisteggall, or public commentator going apologise to Katherine Deves for the dreadful treatment she received? The FINA decision completely vindicates the work she and @SWS_australasia has done. Itâs science.
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As reports are emerging that Katherine Deves and family have had to flee their home due to deaths threats over her defence of saving Womenâs sports, some people (@samanthamaiden @vanOnselenP and @Peter_Fitz ) should be reflecting on their treatment of a woman in politics.
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So, in the UN, we have a female, Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, who thinks women and girls should be allowed to speak in defence of their rights, and a male, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, an Independent âExpertâ on Protection against.
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Democrats reflecting on what went wrong and how to make sure it doesnât happen again. Itâs quite simple really, and @salltweets puts it perfectly. And itâs not really about the trans issue. If you try and make people believe something thatâs obviously false they wonât believe
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Self-ID - the idea that people are who they say they are and that we should all believe them - will go down in history as one of the paradigmatic instances of insanity at the collective level. That societies not only believed such an idea but put it into law is wild. To quote one.
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The moment you realise âkill all TERFsâ isnât a metaphor.
New angle of the violence at today's #LetWomenSpeak event in NZ. KJK and security are barely able to escape the crushing mob of deranged trans activists. Remember, this is the "right side of history".
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And full kudos to @jk_rowling for daring to speak out in support of Maya. That was a pivotal moment. Given all the hate she got for doing so, I hope sheâs enjoying a glass of champagne now.
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Syllogisms only work if your first premise is sound. TRAs trying to do logic. âď¸đ¤Śđťââď¸
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This is priceless. Apparently the person who wrote the John Hopkins non-man piece. âMy voice is like this because I grew up in New Jersey. đ.
Texas tech #nursingstudent extra credit. I had the honor of speaking to Paula Niera, RN about #transgender health at #AANPHPC. What nursing organization do you want to be a part of and why?
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âTransgenderism is every capitalistâs favourite fad right now because they instinctively recognise that it is neoliberalism in drag. It is a hyper-consumerist ideology, with its off-the-shelf identities, which entices the young in particularâŚâ
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Iâm not gay, but the big point about the @AllianceLGB not losing the case is that homosexual men and lesbians have the right to organise around their specific concerns. Whoâd have thought that needed a court case in 2023.
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This is a form of collective insanity. And under Self-ID the haemoglobin wonât change at all if the donor just identities as another gender. Are you all mad? @NHSEngland
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So I guess Trans women are not women then. Whoâd have thunk that?
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How crazy is it that women canât call themselves women, because it upsets men that claim to be women because they feel like it? And for some âfeministsâ this prioritising of mens feelings over Womenâs existence is the essence of feminism. Seriously, who needs misogyny?.
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@MMKavanagh Theyâre mad at you because youâre making claims about the science you canât back up. Iâm mad at you because youâre an embarrassment to the profession.
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@ucu @DrJoGrady Your job, your reason for being, is to be pro the workers, not a subset of the workers. And when disagreements emerge between groups of workers you donât take sides. Youâre failing in your core mission. Youâre writing yourself into irrelevance. Which is a shame as workers need.
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