Susan “The Actual Susan” McDonnell 🎗️🇮🇱🇺🇦
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Radfem leftie. Worst person on X, married to the best person in the world. Crotchety old hag, terf harpy. Not even arguable.
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When people tell other people to Be Kind they mean women, and when they tell us to let people just live their lives, they mean men.
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Only six species have a menopause: humans, and various toothed whales. No other primates. Human females are truly extraordinary, because it appears that alone among land mammals, we are not only able to bear children but programmed to stop. 🧵.
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My first full foray into knitting! The handmade look is a feature, not a bug.
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My mum is 94 in three weeks, but her tastes are much as they were aged 5. There cannot be too many frills, too many rosebuds or too much pink. So I’ve crocheted her this cardigan. Mostly my own pattern, I’m afraid. Anyway, I’ve enjoyed it!
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It means my rights are protected. Next!
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Trans rights activists manhandling lone woman.
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My sister spent three hours last night renewing my 93yo mum’s Blue Badge. At this stage, my mum is not going to suddenly become able bodied. My sister is a former director of a major multinational and general parish worthy; a task like this should be simple.
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I hate falling out with people, but on assisted dying: your desire to have a death at the time and of the type of your choosing does not outweigh the evident risks of ill, elderly and disabled people being bullied & cajoled into agreeing to be killed. Get better palliative care.
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What does the fact that female menopause exists in humans imply? That matrilineality is natural. Men are, naturally, dispensable, throwaway adjuncts to the survival of the species. No wonder they invented patriarchy, eh? /end 🧵.
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Men rape babies, animals and 95 year old women. It has nothing to do with being attractive, that is just an insane, possibly porn fuelled fantasy. Rapists are not overcome with lust. Also anyone who has seen unfiltered pics of Wu knows he does not even remotely pass.
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It appears that males must have had a less significant, maybe evolutionarily insignificant, role in survival. Systematically, humans need a mother to live twenty years beyond her last birth. Men can, almost literally, f*ck off and die for all evolution cares.
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“Biddies” to describe women over 50 is a strange choice of word from a 58 year old wom— . Oh no, as you were.
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Men writing up their own warning labels
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I think trump is pretty awful but this is not by any stretch an extreme position.
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Another explanation for women’s menopause is that grandmothers help the offspring of their daughters survive, but can only do so if they are not encumbered by young children of their own. Far from being redundant, they’re vital to species success.
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@LeighKirkham @helenstaniland @KatherineJPoole Every woman I know knows a woman who’s been raped, often by people they knew. Not one man I know knows a rapist. If men don’t know which of their penis owner friends are rapists, how the hell should women and teenage girls spot them among strangers?.
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There are three explanations for women’s menopause. One is that humans need the input of a mother for longer to survive. The offspring of a mother who died before the child reached maturity would not survive, so a heritable trait of menopause is favoured.
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Afghan women have lost their faces, hands, voices, laughter, and even their window on the world. Is it too much to ask a few men to give up their cricket? #BanAfghanistan.
It’s not just cricket. It’s just not cricket. @ECB_cricket @englandcricket @ICC . Boycott Afghanistan in the ICC Championship Trophy. #BanAfghanistan.#ItsNotJustCricket.#ItsJustNotCricket . @twelve0fiveUK
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Thinking of campaigning for a National DO NOT BRING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO WORK Day. Who's with me?
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@stonewalluk You know what enforces binary expectations of gender? Peddling the idea that if you like pink, dolls & dancing you’re a girl & if you like blue, cars & footie you’re a boy. Let kids be kids. Gender non-conforming behaviour - especially in toddlers - is nothing to do with LGBTQA+.
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Every woman is a sex realist. When you’re alone, say at a bus stop at night, or in a train carriage, & someone comes in, you know the difference between men & women & how irrelevant it is how they present or internally identify.
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“Man” isn’t a slur whereas n****r and k*ke are, if your reasoning power is this bad you shouldn’t be a lawyer.
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The third explanation for women’s menopause is that if grandmothers & their daughters were competing for resources, the offspring of each would be less likely to survive. Better to focus on the grandchildren two generations down, as each generation is a filter of risk.
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The reason the far right are on the rise is because the left look batshit crazy. The solution to this is not to demonise those who are repulsed by the batshittery as being far right. The solution is for the left to be less batshit crazy.
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@ShepherdWales This is nothing to do with a supposed sex divide. If girls do better boys need to work harder. It’s everything to do with an artificial cap on medical training in the uk.
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Tiny bit proud. 6 months ago I began couch to 5k - I could run for 30 seconds. Today I swam 400m, rode my bike 11 miles & ran 3 miles.
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Surprisingly, @BBCNews couldn’t find a single woman to interview who felt this might be off putting, nor did it include statistics on the already low takeup. Just one woman who said it wouldn’t bother her. Men should help carry out mammograms - experts
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I, too, often think of this. If only we hadn’t had to spend all that time and money and energy proving what literally everyone knew, eh?
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Fellow left wingers: stop pretending things aren’t true *just because of who says them*. By all means challenge their veracity but ‘ew you heard that on GB News’ isn’t an argument. Be better.
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What is odd - to a modern eye - is that men do not have menopause. True, male fertility declines, with a greater risk to mothers from pregnancy with an older man, too, but men can and do father children well into their seventh decade. Why is this?.
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I can't even joke about this. Jolyon needs help. This is not a sane thing to say.
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Anyone of either sex & any gendered expression can run & time themselves. What @jonathanliew doesn’t understand is that if times are published & categorised for comparison, those categories must be fair. Fairness isn’t a right wing culture war; it used to be a left wing priority.
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A rather doughy looking white guy pushes four young women of colour down, depriving them of their rightful podium place, and this is progressive
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The @BBC repeatedly press this courageous woman to express remorse for excluding men from women’s sport. When will they start pressing men to apologise to us for unlawfully occupying our sports, awards, spaces and rights?
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Proper sex education for boys would teach them that if they watch p0rn they’re encouraging trafficking and rape, that the women in it are being forced to pretend to enjoy it, and that those who use it are blunting their own ability to form a loving, fulfilling relationship. 1/3.
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@SimonBelfield @GSpellchecker It’s the statue of a suffragette. Men are on it to stop women gathering round it. They think they’re on the right side of history.
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Women. Do not feel bad for asserting your rights. Men barely feel a scintilla of regret at keeping them from you.
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Let it sink in. This RAPIST worked on the Met’s RAPE UNIT. Any man seeking work of that type should be subject to not just scrutiny, but suspicion.
This guy worked as a detective inspector on the Metropolitan Police's rape unit, while drugging his wife so men could rape her. Before she died, her family had reported him to the police for coercive control. 💔
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I’d like to remind the TRAs & handmaidens criticising GC women for raising gender ideology now, that the day after #RoeVWade was leaked, you picketed and disrupted a @Womans_Place_UK meeting to discuss reproductive rights with your chants about trans rights.
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This guy is a whacko nut job and his family should stage an intervention.* She’s been dead 5 years, her alleged transphobia has been non existent for 5 years. *tbh he should be on a list
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Why do all transphobes have exactly the same definition of gravity, the length of a kilometre and the order of the planets in the solar system?.
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And this is being brought in under a Labour Government. I warn you not to be ill. I warn you not to be old. I warn you not to be disabled. Kinnock’s words sound so hollow. His son is pushing this. What happened to Labour?
Why does ‘paid for by the NHS but delivered by private providers’ feel like the worst of all worlds?.
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@BeardyEddy Just for a moment imagine how awful it must be to be a woman at the moment. Watching the lazy misogynists queue up one after the other to deny your right to have spaces or sports without men, to call yourself woman, to exist. Solidarity, 👩❤️💋👩🧕🕵️♀️👩💼👩🏭👩🦰👩🌾👩🔧🏄♀️🧘♀️👸👩🧍♀️🚺👩🎨👩✈️👩🎓🤵♀️.
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@DisRightsUK Disabled women now have the right to actual same-sex care. That is a huge victory.
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Amid all this male anger over single sex spaces, can we please remember that women are entitled to a better standard than ‘well you probably won’t get raped’, or ‘women get raped anyway’.
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@J_Bloodworth They’ve got two rental companies, plus a couple of clothing businesses. I haven’t bothered looking hard but here’s one of them. Net assets of over £4m.
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@The_Globe Thank you for reminding me to reread the wonderful feminist text The Second Coming of Joan of Arc by Carolyn Gage, and to remind everyone it’s being read on WDI at 3pm on 20th August. Joan was a GNC woman. How dare you suggest an iconic hero wasn’t a woman?
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I never thought I’d favour obscenity laws. Pornography has shifted in my lifetime from nudity (now so ubiquitous as to be boring) to fetish. You see milder versions in Ann Summers’ window display. Women should not be publicly portrayed like this & children should not see it.
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This week, the Supreme Court is deciding whether £5, a gas bill & a few assertions make a man literally a woman, an MP from the governing party asks for a blasphemy law & isn’t told no, and elderly people might begin to be asked “shouldn’t you maybe, you know, die? #BeKind”.
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The biggest shock for me isn’t the conduct, but the fact that the BBC reported it.
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@dstlmod @RoyalNavy @RoyalMarines @hms_albion @DefenceHQ @womenindefence @WomenScienceDay @womenintech @EngWomen Transwomen are men. They’re not a role model for girls because, newsflash, no girl will ever be a transwoman. Boy becomes scientist and gets featured on a day for women in science? Now, THAT is patriarchy.
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Can’t even point out spelling mistakes any more because of woke. Litterally. PS it’s institutional.
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💡It’s only a cheek swab, anyway, but here’s a novel idea. How about men & boys stop trying to cheat their way into women’s & girls’ sport? Then none of it would be necessary. 💡.
A new low: The House just voted on a bill to subject young girls to invasive questions about their bodies and physical inspections by adult strangers. The House GOP's Child Predator Empowerment Act will endanger children across the country. Voted NO.
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Well, I have bodycam footage of the whole event, and if this happened it happened very very quietly.
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I am not an identity. My sex class has been beaten, raped, ignored & underpaid round the world for millennia. This is not because I have a weaker identity than men or a lady brain that’s incapable of doing more. It’s because I have female biology.
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Maybe too soon to say this. But the sorts of things done to those girls are the sorts of things regularly done to trafficked women forced into prostitution. Stop kidding yourself that “sex work is work”. Sex work all too often isn’t even sex. Men pay to dehumanise women.
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@Sorelle_Arduino If a woman behaved this way she’d be laughed out of her career. That’s male privilege.
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@BrianGr16285359 @jockmcleod53 Riddle me this: if women don’t need female only spaces to keep them safe from men, how come transwomen need to access female only spaces to keep them safe from men?.
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I’m here at #WomansPlaceWithWoman having run the gamut of a gaggle of chanting misogynists at the door. On this day where women’s bodily autonomy hangs in the balance as never in my adulthood, I’m so proud & pleased to be #WithWoman, & sad for those of my sex who deny that power.
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.@HalifaxBank we are almost at the end of #DisabilityPrideMonth and you still haven’t tweeted once in support of it. What, exactly, is your commitment to true inclusion and diversity? Why won’t you talk about it?.
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What’s the most egregious sex discrimination you’ve ever experienced in the workplace, and when? Hard to choose but I think the time I was told to lighten up after objecting to a male colleague running his hand up my thigh is up there. 1991. I was a solicitor.
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I’m begging my fellow lefties to stop thinking “the electorate is stupid & wrong” and start thinking why they prefer even a Trump to you. People do not want what you’re offering. Change your offer. (NB: I don’t know where this data is from).
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My rights are not “dressing room stuff”.
If you want to know why the Left is in such a mess here’s Alastair Campbell admitting he didn’t take seriously “the dressing room stuff”. Imagine thinking that women’s safety and children being medically experimented on …didn’t actually matter. 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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My rights as a woman aren’t a culture war.
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Ironically, this tweet has not aged well.
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More to the point, why aren’t more men? Where’s Lineker, he’s always got an opinion?.
It’s so outrageous. Why aren’t more women standing up against this assault on their rights?.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this (ok it’s you, @Nancy_M_K) but it’s not an international human right for blokes to wander through changing rooms where teenage girls are getting into their swimsuits. That’s not a culture war. The culture war is you trying to make it happen.
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@HalifaxBank Evidently pronouns matter more than your social media reputation. Want to impress me? Tell me how you’re helping disabled colleagues, what you’re doing for mental health, how you’re helping disadvantaged children get a great career going. Don’t tell me about the pixie dust.
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So, for ten years, we have suffered unjust and unlawful discrimination, and we are now expected to feel sad because men are upset that it’s not allowed. Marvellous.
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@Finn_Mackay It’s not the sex you were categorised as, at birth; it’s the sex you were inevitably going to be, at conception. By all means adopt any gendered stereotypes you like, or none, but maleness is material to many things, and is important and immutable.
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I’m not a fan of reparations for past wrongs, but can you imagine if men had to make reparations to women? . Millennia of being denied the right to own land, inherit, own intellectual property, have a bank account, be educated, not to mention the forced marriage, rape & femicide.
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After 8 complaints were made about @JessDeWahls the @royalacademy removed her work from their shop, stating she was “transphobic”. I’ve emailed them; here’s what I wrote & their contact details. Feel free to use if it helps. Also buy from Jess’s shop:
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The plight of the women of Afghanistan is staggering, beyond the bounds of imagination. These are our sisters, imprisoned by a murderous male supremacy cult.
This is a report from the @RedCross on the treatment of women in Afghanistan, it's bone chilling. "Women Barred from Kabul Hospitals . "Taliban prohibiting treatment for sick women and turning them out of the hospitals . "First, the women of Kabul were forbidden to work. Next
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Just Jolyon seeing the word “British” and understanding it to mean “white”.
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@michaelwhite I’m genuinely struggling - maybe I’m too generous - to find a way of interpreting this that doesn’t make you seem nonce-adjacent.
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@J_Bloodworth Reading the article, they’ve had to manage the properties themselves now because agency fees are too high for them. I don’t think that’s labours fault.
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Well, when I first started tentatively on GC Twitter there were about 3000 of us, at the outsides. Now, after 6 years of transactivist effort, there are 39, 954 of us. I am number 36918.
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.@nickheathsport ‘cares deeply about women’, he says. #ByTheirWordsShallYeKnowThem . This, of @sharrond62
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This happened to me yesterday. Nice men have no idea how frightening they are. Bad ones know, but nice ones don’t and too often do it anyway. Please think before you interact with women.
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I’ve been down memory lane and found my favourite ever bit of Sally H lunacy
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@Patofminch @janeclarejones Straw man. There’s a big gap between “rape isn’t necessarily the worst thing that can happen to you” and “rape is no big deal”.
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Can anyone who believes sex is a spectrum kindly point out to me who is the most womanly of women on the womanhood spectrum? Also, who are the least womanly ones? I’m trying to #educatemyself.
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I can never decide if these people actually think they’re being clever, or if they’re just deliberately annoying. We are female humans. Men are humans defined by their reproductive biology, too. This doesn’t mean that’s *all* they are, even if some are, in fact, total wankers.
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Man tells woman to pipe down and get out of the way, so progressive.
David Tennant breaks silence after JK Rowling mocking as he tells author 'just get out of people's way' -
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That deleted metro post, for those who missed it
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I’m out: #IStandWithMayaForstater. For those who know @mcdonnelljp’s timeline, I’m Susan. #NewProfilePic
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So @BBCSounds #AntiSocial. @millihill spoke 10 times, for 8 mins 49, was interrupted 9x, asked a q at 20:15 which was ignored. Steph (trans) spoke 13 times, for 13 mins 34, was interrupted twice, had a point at 20:55 picked up. You know who’s a woman.
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Currently in Bristol #StandingForWomen where the #BlackPampers have surrounded the pub, screaming through megaphones that they’ll leave bad reviews for the pub.
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Allison Bailey is a WoC and a veteran lesbian campaigner. When she got involved with the LGB Alliance, Stonewall & its reps - whose purpose is to protect Women like her - bullied her. The judgment in her claim is out at noon BST tomorrow. Whatever it says, #ThankyouAllisonBailey.
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@MikeDonaldson77 @helenstaniland That’s nothing compared to how scared the parents of girls are that aggressive men like you insist their sons can be around while the girls undress.
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Hi @lynda_thomas. Describing men as "men" in connection with prostate cancer while not using the word "women" in connection with cervical cancer is NOT inclusive, but excludes eg women with low health literacy from cervical cancer info, & transmen who are not prostate owners. 1/2.
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Well, hands up who is surprised that the MP who worked the hardest to undermine the boundaries of consent and paint himself as the saviour of the LGBTQIAA+?* alliance turns out to be a bit dodgy?.
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You can tell we are the winning side because only losers would ban Aja. With her permission, I made this. #BringBackAja
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