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'Edge has novelised the historical moment of “Terf Island” brilliantly. The End of the World is Flat and In the Beginning belong on the gender critical bookshelf. Stories that communicate the current insanity to the future will be essential' 🙏
@OsborneInk
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For those of us who were in London in July 2005, the events of that month are unforgettable. But that was 17 years ago, and younger people may be completely unaware of them. In light of this week's political events, that awful time is worth revisiting.
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If we can't consign this serially incompetent abuser of office to the dustbin of history, we can at least do something else: never forget Jean Charles de Menezes.
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If you’re horrified by the sickening attack on Salman Rushdie but you’ve spent the past couple of years pretending to ignore or otherwise excusing the constant death threats to JK Rowling, you’re not the decent person you believe yourself to be
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You said no debate. We debated, and you turned out to be terrible at it. So you upped the stakes and tried to criminalise the debate. When you have this kind of power, with governments in your pocket, you’re not the marginalised people in this story
Honestly, if your response to a new hate crime law is to scream hatred at a marginalised group of people and use that as your reason why the new law shouldn’t be there, you’re only proving that the new law is clearly necessary. Seriously, take a good look at yourselves.
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@stonewalluk
I will vote for whichever party pledges to root your improper influence out of every government department and state-funded body. Politicians and senior civil servants have allowed dangerous maniacs to wield extraordinary invisible power. It must stop. It will stop.
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@HalifaxBank
What if a Halifax employee doesn't want to put pronouns on their lapel, perhaps because they reject the cult of gender ideology? Will they be disadvantaged in any way? Barred from promotion? Fired?
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A children’s charity has a secret trustee who has written of his excitement that being sexually attracted to children is emerging as a sexual and political identity. The charity, Mermaids, is supported by the National Lottery.
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Kemi Badenoch: Materials in schools were teaching nonsense like “there’s no such thing as biological sex”
Kate Osborne: Who says it’s nonsense?
Truly terrifying from a member of the
Women and Equalities Select Committee
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A politician (and party leader) wants to ban the word ‘mother’ in the name of ‘LGBTQ+’ inclusion but thinks it’s fine to call himself a ‘dad’ in his bio. Is it any wonder women see this as targeted erasure?
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Once upon a time, a clever but unscrupulous lobby group had a brilliant idea: instead of trying to change a law it didn't like, which would be time-consuming and expensive, it would simply pretend the law had changed already. It knew that most people don't read laws...
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Screaming in the face of a baby that it’s a fascist and then apologising not to the baby or its parents but to the trans movement is so perfectly 2022. And she’s still employed by
@UKLabour
, courtesy of the taxpayer.
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'Two people have read a book that we haven't read and they said they liked it. They must therefore be destroyed. Also our movement is completely sane. Give us your children'
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BREAKING: A BBC panel has reprimanded Sir David Attenborough for breaking impartiality rules and referring to the earth as spherical, after a complaint from the Flat Earth Society
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This is me as a kid. I was studious, bad at any kind of sport and far from conventionally boyish. I’d have been transed before breakfast if Stonewall had been in charge. Anyone now backing Stonewall is pulling up the ladder to stop kids like me growing up as gay men. For shame.
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Hi
@RhonddaBryant
. This week you tweeted serious allegations about
@KemiBadenoch
for which there is no evidence, getting nearly 20k likes. You've now deleted but without making clear it wasn't true. As chair of the Commons Select Committee on Standards don't you think you should?
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@The_Globe
Clearly this is ideological. You’ve replaced your own logo with a political flag that many people, including gay people like me, find profoundly disturbing and offensive. It represents, among other things, the erasure of women. And you’re saying it very loudly.
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@guardian
You removed JK Rowling from your list of celebrity birthdays because her support for women’s rights upset the incels in your IT department 🤡😂🤣🤦♂️
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'This scandal happened because too many adults put their own desire for social approval above the safety of vulnerable for children,' says
@miriam_cates
. Are you listening, Billy Bragg, James O'Brien, Peter Tatchell, Tim Davie?
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So
@BBCWorldatOne
reads a statement from 'Emily' Bridges voiced up by a woman producer. This is an act of deliberate distortion,
@JonnyDymond
, implying to your listeners that 'Emily' is a woman and therefore right to be aggrieved. You know actual 'Emily' doesn't sound like that
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The country is in chaos. Ministers are having punch-ups in the Commons. The electorate is crying out for grown-ups to take charge. So what did Keir Starmer do last night? He announced he’ll make it a crime to refer to these two as ‘he’. What time’s the first flight to Mars, Elon?
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Do you get most of your news from the Guardian? Are you puzzled when people refer to scandals at Stonewall, Mermaids and the Tavistock Centre that you know nothing about? Read this piece from
@PrivateEyeNews
to understand why you’ve been kept in the dark
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She is the symbol of all that's rotten in our country. To anyone who remembers the events of July 2005, it's sickening but no great surprise.
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🧵 No one in their right mind claims all gender activists or all trans-identifying people are paedophiles. That's a vile notion and it's not remotely true.
However we DO claim that the gender movement's sacred status makes it great cover for all kinds of seriously dodgy stuff.
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I will never forget that some of the most senior figures in the Labour Party, including its deputy leader Angela Rayner, denounced the
@AllianceLGB
as a hate group for saying all the things that Hilary Cass has said in her report
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If only poor Nicola Sturgeon, Leo Varadkar, Patrick Harvie and Humza Yousaf had had some way of knowing that embracing a science-denying ideology that puts rapists in women's prison, criminalises thought and sterilises confused children mightn't be a recipe for political survival
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Hey
@guardiannews
. Just a heads-up there’s a pretty big story going on at Mermaids. Google ‘Jacob Breslow’ and you’ll find it. Lots of other papers have run it and I’d hate you to miss out because no one told you about it xxx
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@HalifaxBank
And while you say pronouns matter, I say pronouns are the membership card of a dangerous movement and lead to things like this:
“How are you so certain that removing your genitals ... will solve your issues, those issues are going to wait for you when you wake up from surgery."
Ritchie Herron is suing the NHS after transitioning, he claims was fast-tracked into making ‘the biggest mistake of his life’.
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An able-bodied woman off the telly attacks a quadriplegic woman who spends most of her time in hospital as ‘entitled’ and ‘privileged’ because she has the temerity to refuse intimate care from male staff. If ever you needed evidence that gender ideology rots the brain…
My mother near the end of her life in hospital, we were begging for her life. NEVER mind pick and choose what sex Dr! Entitled and privileged.
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She was also awarded the Queen's Police Medal for Distinguished Service, was made a Commander of the British Empire, and then ultimately given the DBE – so she is now Dame Cressida Dick. Only in the UK can you fail upwards in quite such spectacular style.
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They then claimed he had been acting suspiciously: he vaulted the barrier, he wore a bulky coat in hot weather (potentially covering a suicide vest), and he failed to respond when challenged.
None of those things were true. All flat-out lies.
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Dear
@BBCNews
. If there were a massive breaking news story about Scientology, you wouldn’t wait till your Scientologist staff members got into the office to let them write the story. Gender is a cult scandal and you’re in it up to your necks
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There is no human right to have exactly what you want, when you want it, with no regard to anyone else. It’s extraordinary that this even needs to be said.
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It's odd that none of the Guardian's extensive coverage of the Russell Brand affair – 'how could the people he worked with not have known...?' – has mentioned that he was their regular writer for nine years from 2006-2015, publishing 137 blogs and columns
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For me, the most dreadful thing about the Tavistock scandal is the fact that they’re giving young gay kids the same drugs they used to castrate Alan Turing and, far from opposing it, gay men in the rainbow establishment are cheering them on
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Wrong. Gold Commander Cressida Dick – for it was she – was promoted, first to Deputy Assistant Commissioner, then to Assistant Commissioner. Then she went to a director-general role at the Foreign Office before returning to the Met as Commissioner, Britain's top police officer.
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You need strong nerves to publish a book that the entire industry says will be commercial suicide. It causes unimaginable stress. Thank you so much for the vindication you've given us today. You honestly won't be disappointed when you read it. (Yes, that's
#7
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BREAKING: Benjamin Cohen thinks criticising individuals is mean
Editor’s note: Benjamin’s website once published 42 hit pieces about
@jk_rowling
in a week
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@shereebekker
You may think a 20-tweet thread looks academic and authoritative but actually it’s just stupidity magnified 20-fold
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This is the woman who said the Met didn't investigate crimes committed in the past, that there was no evidence of law-breaking in 10 Downing Street and, when confronted with unmissable suitcase-loads of that evidence, is now manoeuvring to make sure that evidence never emerges.
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'I'm sorry but there is a certain amount of disbelief in the chamber... Setting a good example starts at home and I hope he won't ever behave as he did in the chamber that day'
@VictoriaAtkins
says what we've all long wanted to say to the preposterous
@lloyd_rm
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‘Why didn’t they fight her corner? I don’t know. But I do know that, if “the right side of history” turns out to have been JK Rowling’s, their treatment of her will be the only thing that anyone remembers about them’
@MichaelPDeacon
on typically good form
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Exclusive: Trans journalists who don’t work for the Guardian pretend to resign from the Guardian after a newspaper other than the Guardian published an article saying lesbians have the right not to have sex with men
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The real scandal about Kate Osborne, the Labour MP who condemned the Home Secretary for daring to recommend a bestselling book by
@HJoyceGender
, is that Osborne isn't just any backbencher. She is a member of the Women and Equalities Select Committee
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'It was just one person who does not represent the trans community,' insisted
@PeterTatchell
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Here's something I've been working on for the past three years. It seems to be creating a bit of a stir. Tough Crowd is out on 12 October and if you order direct from the publisher, your copy will come signed by Graham. Details are in the next tweet
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I hope the video is very widely shared. No filters, no hiding behind anime avatars…perhaps more people will now realise how many of this ‘most marginalised minority’ are just fat blokes in wigs who think they’re more likely to get a pity shag if they call themselves lesbians
“Without a shadow of a doubt it is a transphobic comment.”
Bromsgrove’s
@TheGreenParty
candidate
@melissampgp
condemns Tory Deputy Chairman
@redditchrachel
for social media remarks about her transgender identity.
#PoliticsMidlands
begins at 10am on BBC1…
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Many Stonewall supporters rely for their news on Benjamin Cohen and Owen Jones, who deliberately misled them about the Allison Bailey verdict. These people are now furious as the media reports the opposite of what they believe to be true. This is how Trump manipulates his base.
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The counsel for ‘Isla Bryson’ argued that rape is a crime of male aggression, ‘Isla’ isn’t male, therefore ‘Isla’ should go free. The court saw through that obvious casuistical bollocks but the terrifying thing is how many idiots in public life would have completely bought it
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In truth, the operation was a shitshow from start to finish: sloppy surveillance by the police, appalling communications along the way and then lie upon lie from the Met as the institution scrambled to cover its arse and defame the innocent man its officers had assassinated.
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You have to admire the New Statesman for their courage in still publishing their piece on the sad decline in
@rickygervais
' comedy career on the day he won a Golden Globe for best televised comedy stand-up
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@redlianak
He published a book last year with a chapter headed Desiring the Child. Is that recent enough for you? How bad do things have to be before you drop the tribal allegiance?
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We're immensely grateful to Jonathan Ross, Richard Ayoade,
@andrewdoyle_com
,
@HJoyceGender
,
@TheSimonEvans
and
@LissaKEvans
for lending their names to the cover. When you read the book, I hope you'll see why they wanted to.
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If you’ve suddenly realised that the wanking-to-child-porn PhD wasn’t such a great hill to die on after all, maybe you’ll consider the possibility that critics of queer theory are right about a lot of other stuff too
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Since you played no part in it and didn’t induce it, you’ll no doubt want to condemn Garden Court Chambers’ discrimination against Allison, and to send her your best wishes?
We are pleased that Stonewall has NOT been found to have instructed, caused or induced Garden Court Chambers to discriminate against Allison Bailey.
Our statement:
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I haven’t been near a Pride march for a long time but when I used to go, there was always some counter-protest, someone wearing a billboard saying we were all going to hell. Did we beat the shit out of them? NO WE DIDN’T. That never occurred to anyone. We mainly just laughed.
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Mermaids is under formal investigation, with Lottery funding paused, after it named a paedophile advocate as trustee. Pink News is joined at the hip to Mermaids: its co-owner is an ex-trustee. What was Keir Starmer doing as the country fell apart? Presenting the Pink News awards!
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@marjodasays
@IndiaWilloughby
As a society we'll look back at moments like this and ask why it takes a member of a studio audience to speak the obvious truths that a captured political class has been too cowardly to express
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Have you heard of 'deadnaming'? It's cultspeak for using a trans person's original name rather than their new one. It's regarded by trans activists as an even greater offence than misgendering. (Remember that the next time you read about anti-trans hate crimes soaring.)
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@stellacreasy
@morrisgallery
You’re throwing rainbows and ‘pride’ around like this is some great pro-gay thing but there’s nothing progressive about equating gayness with dressing up as caricatures of women
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So JK Rowling’s crimes now include not having a good word to say about the ex-husband who admits to beating her up. I may be wrong, Jess, but I don’t think any actual woman, of whatever stripe, would attack another woman for lack of gratitude to her abuser
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It's okay to say Rock Hudson was born Roy Scherer or that Judy Garland was really Frances Gumm. But if you say Monroe Bergdorf was originally Ian Beaumont, it's apparently a hate crime. The forced secrecy around this name may be why Tom Harwood and his ilk are so confused.
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An official speaker on the stage of an event promoted by
@MayorofLondon
(‘I will always be on your side’) with police watching. Organisers proudly posted this afterwards. The speaker is a violent ex-con, friend of several Labour MPs. This is the UK’s shame
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With its scandalously dishonest reporting day after day, the Guardian is beginning to make Pink News look like a beacon of journalistic integrity
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Yesterday 'He's a MAN' was trending for hours, as more and more people realised that most of the media was lying to them about Scarlet Blake. Please sign my petition to tell broadcasters and print editors that we're sick and tired of their distortions
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There is no better real-world example of the emperor having no clothes than an entire political class lining up to mourn the ‘fallen’ whom none of them can name because THEY DON’T EXIST 🤡 🌎 🏴
Today, we remember the trans individuals who have lived, loved, fought and fallen.
We remember their spirit and their message that everyone deserves the right to be exactly who they are.
#TransDayOfRemembrance
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It’s very nice to have edited a Sunday Times bestseller, particularly when a) we’re a tiny publisher with no offices or full time staff and b) we’ve been told for the past fortnight by the stupidest people on the internet that no one has bought the book
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@EssexPoliceUK
More women have been murdered by policemen in the UK in the past year than transwomen have been murdered by anyone in the past three years.
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Yes
#GlinnerWasRight
. Also I'm sorry to disappoint the wishful thinkers among his detractors, but his bestselling book Tough Crowd is very far from being a flop. Big thanks to Jonathan Ross and Richard Ayoade for having the guts to put their names to it
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Hands up who's been mean to Oxfam. All they were trying to do was demonise women and be nasty about JK Rowling and promote child abuse in the name of trans joy, but horrid T*rfs ending up hounding them... And in the Holy Month of Pride!
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Many people have problems with Suella Braverman. Me too. But when a real-life Hannibal Lecter prowled the stage at Trans Pride inciting political violence, it was Braverman who told the Met to pull their fingers out. Labour’s shadow Home Secretary - no, me neither - said nothing
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Ruth Hunt played a key role in the gender scandal now unfolding. It is deeply insulting to the vulnerable people she has harmed that she sits in the House of Lords as a lawmaker-for-life. Please sign and share my petition to expel her from the upper house
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@professor_dave
One is a woman using a male pseudonym in a tradition that includes the Brontës, George Eliot and George Sand; the other is a man believing that his inner feelings entitle him to enter spaces reserved, for safety reasons, for women only.
The distinction is not hard to grasp.
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@billybragg
But that’s not what Frances is doing. She’s saying Steve Bannon is an obvious ogre but at least he tells you loudly who he is, whereas you and your pal OJ masquerade as saviours of the oppressed while in reality you stand on the side of thuggishness and deep bigotry.
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A: It's unfair if men race in women's Parkrun
B: It's not a race, bigot. It's for fun. What part of that don't you get?
A: So you won't mind if Parkrun removes all the timing records?
B: YOU RUINED PARKRUN YOU FUCKING EVIL BIGOT
[I wish I was exaggerating. It's almost verbatim]
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@nwlc
The sane world: We’re angry and upset to see women elbowed out of their own sport by a man
You: That means you must all be misogynists
😫😫😫😫🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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They mounted a character assassination of the man they'd killed, falsely suggesting he was high on drugs at the time and had behaved in an aggressive and threatening way. More lies.
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@billmaher
@brettg1974
This gay man says thank you for getting it, and expressing it so perfectly. I could quote-tweet every line
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If you fancy a laugh, check out the quote tweets responding to Stonewall’s reverse ferret. This ghoulish organisation is being eaten by its own children
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🧵One reason GIDS is being shut is because of its reliance on the ‘affirmation only’ approach: if a kid says they are trans, believe them; don’t explore the issue. Now, at last, the system agrees that exploring the issue is the right thing to do. What sane person would disagree?
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Nothing says 'right side of history' like masked men vowing to throw feminists into Bristol Harbour
Little lads crayoning - ‘Colston - Terfs are next’.
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When Beth Rigby asks Iain Anderson if it's OK for male swimmer Lia Williams to take gold medals away from women, he goes off on a wild tangent about a campaign to help gay men come out in professional football. Unfortunately for him, the shocking podium picture stays on screen
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@billybragg
@OwenJones84
The woman denied a life-saving operation wasn’t ‘tarring an entire minority’. She asked (quite legally) for single-sex care because of her history of trauma. The only bigots I can see are the people who say she should die because she doesn’t accept the mantras of the gender cult
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Amazing that
@campbellclaret
, the one-time doyen of political communications, can say that women resisting a huge assault on their sex-based rights are ‘getting their knickers in a twist’. It’s inconceivable he doesn’t know how sexist this phrase is. I assume he just doesn’t care
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The bad smell eventually cost Ian Blair his job, although of course it didn't prevent his elevation to the House of Lords – Lord Blair of Boughton is now a legislator for life – nor stop him walking away with a massive payoff.
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Today might be a good day for principled people of all opinions to say: ‘I don’t think you should be banned from football matches because you don’t have a complete set of approved political views.’ If we can’t agree on that, we are lost.
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@KateOsborneMP
do you really think there's no such thing as biological sex?
@Keir_Starmer
are you OK with this?
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@adamdavidson
Hi Adam. I’m just scrolling through the looooong list of evidenced replies from people who’ve been cancelled who replied in the spirit you requested and I’m just wondering what you’re going to do with them all. You haven’t replied yet. It would be polite to acknowledge them, no?
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Some Christchurch students are so distressed at the prospect of Kathleen Stock speaking at the Oxford Union that the college authorities have been forced to hand out support teddies
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🧵Documenting all the times in the gay rights struggle when lesbian or gay performers stripped naked in front of straight audiences then smeared their genitals on their musical instruments to make a political point. 1/…
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Guidelines for reporting crime involving trans people:
1. If the victim is trans, it’s a hate crime, end of. Call a vigil. Demand new laws. Stop all the clocks
2. If the perp is trans, do not mention this. OK, in para 22 if you must. But make sure your first words are ‘a woman’
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At 9.30 the next morning, this man came out of his flat in Tulse Hill, south London. He was a 27-year-old Brazilian called Jean Charles de Menezes, on his way to fix a broken fire alarm in Kilburn, on the other side of London. As you can see, he looks nothing like the bombers.
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@HallerMichael
@cmclymer
@ZJemptv
@MavenOfMayhem
@AriDrennen
The moon is made of cheese.
Discussion over
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If you're wondering why a trans activist and senior staffer at the TUC was pretending to be an ordinary hard-pressed 'mother' on ITV News, bear in mind that the UK editor of ITV News is himself an outspoken trans activist who thinks being gay trumps professional obligation
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@DawnButlerBrent
@metpoliceuk
People criticised you for making wholly inappropriate remarks at the conclusion of a horrible murder case. You do know that criticising politicians for their public utterances is not actually illegal?
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@SarahChampionMP
Did you hear the one about the young autistic lesbian who got sterilised by a cult because politicians were too busy pissing themselves laughing about ferrets?
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