Dr. Jane Clare Jones
@janeclarejones
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Writer. Philosopher. Radical Materialist Feminist. Anti-fascist. #ProfessionalAntiBullshitMerchant. Founder @fem_thought. Editor @radical_notion.
Joined December 2010
What Jane is up to:. 1. New writing project (link in bio).
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When you deface a statue of a suffragette because women stood up to you and won you are in an anti-feminist men's rights movement.
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John, I understand this is difficult for you to grasp, but I'd like you to contemplate the possibility that the most important thing about women's definition in law might not be men's feelings.
The fact the court failed to hear the voice of a single trans person may help.explain why today’s decision lacked humanity & fairness & instead replaced them with a narrow definition of the Equality Act. There has to be a better & empathetic way forward that respects trans rights.
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We're not debating whether you exist. We're debating whether your metaphysical beliefs about gender identity should become the basis of law and public policy, thereby erasing the political recognition of sex, and the existence of female people as a specific class in law.
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If anyone wants to understand what patriarchy is just remember that a group of men were able to assert their desires over obvious reality for more than a decade and a huge number of people just went along with it.
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Dear Trans Rights Movement,. You could have focussed on anti-discrimination. You could have focussed on resources. You could have campaigned for services that you needed. You could have paid for research into medical treatment and the best outcomes.
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To all the big important people in civil society who cannot get over how upset they are. YOU TRIED TO GIVE AWAY OUR LEGAL EXISTENCE AND RIGHTS WITHOUT EVEN CONSULTING US BECAUSE YOU DECIDED HALF THE POPULATION MATTERED LESS THAN A SMALL GROUP OF MEN WHO WANTED OUR RIGHTS AND WE.
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I'm sorry, didn't you just intervene in a Supreme Court case for the purpose of asserting men's interests over women's?. I think I'll get my advice on resisting patriarchal oppression elsewhere thanks.
The past year has presented a bleak future for many women and girls amid attacks on gender equality. Women’s rights cannot continue to be under assault like this. Join us to fight for gender equality for all women, everywhere. Our annual report on the state of the world’s human
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And you banked your entire political strategy on the thought that women were too busy, too stupid, too compliant, too powerless, and too despised by this society to do anything to stop you. Big. Fucking. Mistake.
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I am sufficiently incensed but the responses of people - many of them bepenised - to JK Rowling’s establishment of a rape crisis centre for women, to need to pop back in to say….
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Instead you tried to erase sex, force your way into women's spaces, take our language, take our political movement, destroy our political analysis, demonise us, silence us, intimidate us, and medicalise children without a proper evidence base.
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Dear TRAs. We understand that you are not capable of accepting that you don't get what you want because women exist and also have rights under the law. We understand that your entitlement is such that you still believe that you can make the world do what you want by having a.
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We have heard their voices very loudly for well over a decade. Their voice has said:. 'Women must be erased in law and they should lose all rights to spaces and resources of their own. There must be no word for the class of female people that excludes males, they should not be.
🏳️⚧️ I attended today’s Trans+ Solidarity briefing in Parliament. 🗣️ Trans voices must be heard. Their rights are being debated, yet too often they’re left out of the discussion. 🤝 I’m proud to stand with the trans community in the fight for dignity, equality and inclusion.
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I've just had the venue for my launch event cancel on the basis that they "are proud of our relationship with the trans community and feel it wouldn’t be appropriate.". Such a terribly powerless minority who could in no way be implicated in coercion or suppression eh Stonewall?.
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Translation: It is unlawful for anyone to fire us for not believing your sex denying bullshit. Clear?
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Dear people having a tantrum. You are screaming because the government has decided to *not* criminalise people doing exploratory therapy with young people experiencing distress over their gender.
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Dear American libfems. While you are all busy pretending women are not the sex who get pregnant and anyone who says they are is evil, your reproductive rights are being removed. Can you fucking focus please.
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All you need to see to understand how this happened is the amount of time given on the airwaves in the last two days to trans people's feelings compared to the amount of time given to the feelings of the women who had to fight for ten years to protect their own defintion in law.
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But you were fine with women being forced to search males weren’t you?. Or women not being able to refuse a medical examination from a male?. Or lesbians being told they should be attracted to males?. Seems like there is a differential distribution of compassion in your calculus.
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Dear academics who are keeping their mouths shut because they are scared. Especially those of you who contributed to this shitshow and maybe didn’t understand it would end with teenage girls cutting their breasts off and women self excluding from the rape crisis centres second.
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Let's play a little round of 'spot the fascists' shall we?
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Dear British Medical Association. You have lost your minds,. And everyone can see you. Yours, reality based people.
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This is MASSIVE. One main reason I wanted to do the census work, is because it cuts to the conceptual core of this whole mess. The things Justice swift said in court today. Sex has meaning in law, it has meaning in the census, that meaning IS NOT GENDER IDENTITY.
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Women exist. Women are complete human beings with their own needs. Women who have been subject to extreme male violence *need their own spaces to recover from that violence away from males.*.
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You can misgender us all you want. We'll still be female. We still won't give a crap about your gender bollocks.
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How do you think women felt when JK Rowling wrote her essay and the internet was full of the people you are defending threatening to rape and kill her a thousand different ways?????. HOW. DARE. YOU. NANCY. HOW DARE YOU.
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The wokeists have developed a nasty habit of condemning fascism while talking in the lexicon of fascists. But this is the most revolting example I have seen.
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No Owen, what is gruesome is your obsessive monstering of feminist women who have an analysis of sex class oppression, and who understand the structure of gender and how it harms women far better than you.
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@TheLancet We're not 'offended.' We're angry with you colluding with the political erasure of women. Especially in a context when you are supposed to be rectifying that historic erasure.
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@NadiaWhittomeMP Nadia, you put men in women's rape crisis centres. Don't you dare tell us there is no benefit to women of making sure that is over.
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Okay, at this point I am getting incandescent with this. This absolutely bone deep assumption that women are responsible for male people's feelings. That we should erase ourselves to cater to male people's feelings. That it is our fault that a political movement spent 30 years.
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So, as we predicted, it looks like the first major blocks to really start falling are sport, and paediatric transition. There's still a long long way to go. PUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLL!.
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@jade_wayfarer82 @jk_rowling Carry on calling women names to try and coerce them. Everyone is watching now.
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No. We are not your mirror. We do not exist to validate you. We are human beings, in our own right, with our own needs. And we are never ever going to comply. All respect and gratitude to JK Rowling. As before, as always, women will build ourselves what we need, come what may.
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Pretty much everyone bar a few of the most extreme ideologues can see that the Lia Thomas situation is gratuitously unfair, and frankly, completely absurd. And yet, here we all are. Don't ever tell me there isn't power behind this movement.
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You mean these masked people carrying coshes trying to force entry to the venue???
Trans Safety Network are disturbed to hear about extremely violent policing of today's protest against the CAN-SG conference at the RCGP conference centre.
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The President of the United States just erased female people and their sex based rights from US law. Possibly without even fully grasping the magnitude of what he has done. I think twitter should make some noise and let him know. #BidenErasedWomen.
We are appalled by @potus’s executive order erasing the sex-based rights of women and girls. It deals a severe blow to women and girls in sport, prisons, rape shelters, hospitals etc and bans lesbians and gays from having our own spaces. We will help our US friends to oppose it.
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This is not a pretext. It is not spite. It is not a ‘publicity stunt’. It is not a ‘monument to hate.’ It is not like setting up an orphanage for white children only. FFS.
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Very notable that men keep trooping out to say they don't understand why JKR would do this to her legacy or whathaveyou. Because they cannot conceive that she REALLY cares about women, or that caring about women would actually matter to anyone enough to risk reputational damage.
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I am a member of the Labour Party. I believe mammals are sexed male and female. I believe that female people are subject to sex-based oppression and that sex is politically important. #ExpelMe .#TwoPlusTwoEqualsFour.
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Whenever I hear TRAs complaining about JKR having too much money what I hear is 'we banked on women not having enough power to resist us and are furious that it turned out you did.'.
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@ACLU Would you like to explain why 'alternative facts' are a threat to democracy when Trump does it but totally fine and in no way terrifying when they come from CIVIL LIBERTIES organisations?.
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Women, they asked me on Times Radio again this evening to talk about this mammogram business. Do any of you have things you think should be said beyond 'no we don't want strange men putting our breasts into that machine haven't we just been through this will you get the message.
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“Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way, it is impossible.”. Emmeline Pankhurst.
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"Feminism is the radical notion that [persons] are people.".
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This is not the kind of thing I say lightly. Men like this should not by in *any* position of authority over women. They should especially not be in any position of medical authority over vulnerable women.
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The fact that women cannot meet together to discuss the preservation of their *current rights in law* tells us everything about what this 'civil rights' movement is about, and who is its target.
Protestors are now outside the Mechanics Institute where the Woman’s Place UK group are holding a conference on ‘single-sex provision in policy and law’. @MENnewsdesk
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Let's just be clear in the face of all the massive gotchas. We want male people to stay out of female only space. I don't care whether trans men go into the men's or not. The situations are not symmetrical. 1. Trans men generally pass better because of the effects of.
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One of the things I hate so much about the phrase 'pro-life' is that these people have nothing but contempt for the life of the mother or for the life of a child brought into the world against its mother's desire, intention and love.
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The problem is not motherhood. The problem is the alienating, isolating, dehumanising and exploitative situation in which women carry out the most important social and economic function in this society. The denigration of mothers is a massive PART of what holds that in place.
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@ASPBristol You allowed women to be surrounded and violently intimidated by males wearing masks, and then allowed the TRAs to follow the women and barricade the entrance to the pub they were in. This is one of your officers smirking while women are being intimidated by men. Shame on you.
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If you cannot grasp that women setting up services for themselves are doing so *because they need those services* then you are telling on yourself. You are telling us that you cannot remotely comprehend that women are people in their own right, with their own needs, and that.
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To all the people endlessly recycling the claim that good comedy should only be aimed at people in power, not vulnerable minorities. People without power would never have been able to force everyone else to pretend that humans aren't sexed.
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Just say a) I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about and b) I don’t GAF about women, and fuck off.
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God it is a fucking joy to see what happens when finally a grown up tells these people 'no.'.
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Baroness Barker just slandered me as a member of the alt-right in the House of Lords. There is a research report Lady Barker. I suggest you read it and refute its actual contents with evidence rather than using the classic trans rights tactic of slandering me as bigot.
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This constant talk of women 'playing the victim' and 'weaponising trauma' is beginning to create a hard, dense shard of rage that I'm worried might get stuck in my heart forever.
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We do not accept that woman and man are gender categories. Our entire position is that they are sex categories. None of you have once, ever, produced an argument about *why* we should accept that they are gender categorites and not sex categories. You have never even produced a.
@shularises @sally_hines @Gender_Journal Gender isn't just gendered norms/stereotypes though is it? This is simply intellectual sleight of hand. Woman and man are gender categories. What your movement attempts to do is recast gender as "sex" even though social gender categories do not map directly to reproductive sex.
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Just say when Katy. Let's do it. Bring Alison and Sally too.
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Please stand on a stage in front of the British public and call Julie Bindel and Helen Joyce 'profiteering outriders of a fascist sect.' PLEASE.
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All of you people with secure jobs in universities sitting on your hands because you don't want to deal with the blowback. Good people doing nothing. IS HOW TOTALITARIANISM HAPPENS. ENOUGH.
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I'm busy composing an enraged email thanking them for informing us that they intent to discriminate against us for legally protected beliefs, and for contributing to the accumulating evidence of women's suppression under the auspices of the ideology of the trans rights movement.
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*Notes on how to keep fuelling a culture war for the fool who will likely next occupy number 10*. I have nothing much to say about Starmer’s massive gaffe other than what I have said a million times in the last 10 years. The reason this debate got so toxic was that people in.
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Female people exist. Female people are oppressed b/c they are female. Female people have a right to name their own oppression. Erasing female people, and trying to coerce female people into complying with that erasure, is patriarchy in its purest form. #IStandWithJKRowling.
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I hate wearing dresses. I am not remotely submissive. I am quite caring. But no more so than many decent men I know. I am female because I am biologically female. That is literally it.
@jk_rowling @sally_hines @CantProgAll If you like wearing dresses and being caring and submissive, there’s a good chance your gender identity is female. Is there not?.
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@PhilipPullman The transphobes are people worried about gnc and gay and traumatised kids sterilising themselves on the basis of a faith-based non-empirical belief in inner gender souls. 'Cold eyed evil.' You foolish virtue-signalling prat.
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Women are also human beings. And nobody gave a toss about the level of vitriol and hatred and us being sacked from our jobs and having to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds to stop you all giving away our protected characteristic in law because you decided that half the.
I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community. We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect? . Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity.
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@stellacreasy @bindelj @justice4women @RosieDuffield1 circumstances that's not possible, because women's concern to be polite has been so massively leveraged against them to try and destroy our existence as a sex based political class, and the rights afforded to us on that basis. You couldn't have done more to prove them right.
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The doggedness of your ignorance is staggering. If men like you had not been so complacent and sneering about the actual issues and harms here and listened to left wing women with years of union organising behind them and their incredibly well researched and argued case, you.
One day we’ll wake up from this online nightmare and wonder why radical feminists ended up cosying up to the far right because of the supposed threat from (checks notes) 0.25% of the UK population.
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Remember, when people insist that any group of males should not be conflated with abusive males, they are asserting that that group of males is exempt from being suspected of being abusive. And that that is a totally reasonable way to safeguard women and children.
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If they considered the female body an inferior version of the male they were still able to distinguish males from females you absolute bunch of spanners.
Before the late 18th century, Western science recognized only one sex—the male—and considered the female body an inferior version of it. The shift historians call the “two-sex model” served mainly to reinforce gender and racial divisions by tying social status to the body. (6/7)
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@VICE They were protesting female people having their own spaces. They were protesting the Equality Act as it stands. They were protesting not just getting their own way. By throwing piss around. Persuasive.
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The fact that America now faces a choice between a pro-choice black woman who is willing to pretend she doesn’t know ‘what a woman is’ and a white male sexual abuser and white male anti-abortionist who know ‘what a woman is’ is the perfect crystallisation of the absolute fuckery.
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You're not receiving abuse for being trans or queer. You are receiving criticism for talking shite.
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So let's just take stock of what's happened. The government undertakes a consultation on changing the GRA, which if passed, would effectively change the meaning of sex in law to gender identity and impact the rights given to women as a sex class. Women are not consulted,.
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TRAs banging on the window of the #WPUK meeting in Brighton right now. Women meet. Trans activists aggressively try and hammer down the boundary. How fucking apt.
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The whole of trans activism is one massive exercise in projection and reversals. But the claim women are being radicalised online into believing sex exists - as opposed to the fact that a generation was brainwashed online into believing it doesn't - takes the cake.
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I would like to say it amazes me that men seriously think that women have no legitimate interest in their own political and legal definition. But is is the very essence of patriarchy.
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There is a realy important part of the ERCC judgement that is worth underlining. Trans activists have routinely tried to claim that it is somehow illegal to have the biological sex of trans people disclosed under any circumstances. As GC women have repeatedly pointed out, that.
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Nothin made me decide to be GC. I was a feminist, I was concerned with the political interests of female people. And the analysis of female oppression. Then you tried to make it a thought crime. All that had to happen for me was to stick to my beliefs and not comply.
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It's what it looks like when you put compassion for Lia Thomas before compassion for the female swimmers who worked their whole lives fro something to then be gaslit, silenced and psychologically abused by their coaches and managers yes.
This, from Megan Rapinoe, reads as a very decent summation of the correct answer to any “trans person in sports” debate, and also, a pristine example of what personal politics look like when you operate with the value of compassion first.
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I am EXTREMELY bored of people looking at the 'toxicity' of this debate and implying that toxicity is because women have not been nuanced and compassionate enough. This debate is toxic because TRAs have tried to redefine women in law without our knowledge or consent, and.
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There is a legal right not to see the dick of a stranger in this country. It's called indecent exposure. Showing your penis to a woman who hasn't explicitly consented to seeing it is a sex crime. What the fuck is wrong with you?.
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Dear TRAs. We have condemned Lily Cade. We would like you to unequivocally condemn anyone claiming that lesbians do not have a right to reject male sexual partners because they are male. Until you do so we will take your moral righteousness with the salt pile it deserves.
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I have nothing but absolute contempt for anyone who so much as thinks about describing women's concerns about male violence as a moral panic.
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@stellacreasy @bindelj @justice4women @RosieDuffield1 You know Stella, there are many of us who wanted to be able to resolve this situation while retaining polite social conventions with respect to addressing trans women. As this conflict has progressed, more and more women have become convinced that under the current political.
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Women aren’t countries India. We’re people.
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No, you don't understand what you are arguing against. Women keep telling you that the issue is men. They are telling you this because female people as a class are oppressed by male people as a class. Female people are subject to male violence. They are subject to male sexual.
@iburs17 @grace_hawthorn @janeclarejones I understand perfectly well what I am arguing against. You want to control trans people’s lives. You want to dictate where they can go, and in particular where they are allowed to pee, based on other people’s offense at their mere presence. And I don’t think that’s ok.
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EHRC new guidance on when we can lawfully have single sex services. Summary of conceptualisation of 'Legitimate Aims': PRIVACY, DECENCY, HEALTH AND SAFETY, PREVENTING TRAUMA. BOOM.
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It's very notable that apparently the only female person whose feelings matter in this whole conversation is the hypothetical butch woman who is apparently really offended by being challenged in the ladies despite the fact that this almost never happens because femaleness isn't.
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American liberals who can see what's in front of your eyes, I'd suggest you start opening your mouths, or I very strongly suspect you might as well just hand the next election to the orange cheeto dude.
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@TinaBhartwas @LGBTLabour We're women, we're offended, therefore it is offensive to women.
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