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"I had the easiest 3 months of NHS practice in my life from March to June 2020" - The Covid Physician, an "an unheroic NHS doctor", reveals their timeline of the coronavirus pandemic
@tcp_dr
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Instead of engaging in good faith, Stella Creasy resorts to ad hominem attacks.
@runthinkwrite
suggests she do some reading before diving into the debate over the definition of “female”
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“A teacher and mother-of-three has been questioned under caution by Merseyside Police for sending a letter to Girlguiding UK raising safeguarding concerns.” — Kim Thomas interviews a woman hounded by the police for “misgendering” a gun-toting Girl Guide
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The trans movement is full of men degrading women and pretending that’s not what they’re doing.
@glosswitch
calls out their bog-standard sexism with a modern coat of paint
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Failure to comply with my New Year’s resolutions will be considered a hate crime, says
@TitaniaMcGrath
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‘If you seek to persuade us that “being kind” is more important than “having rights”, then you will need to do better than this’ —
@SVPhillimore
criticises the Fawcett Society for not defending women’s sex-based rights
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“Starmer should have acted instantly, denouncing the abuse and assuring Duffield of his support. He didn’t, maintaining a silence that is profoundly disappointing to feminists who have watched the bullying of Duffield” —
@polblonde
on Starmer's silence
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Being quiet only helps the cancellers, argues
@HJoyceGender
. Playing nice has not worked
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The most important part of adulthood, writes
@HJoyceGender
, is understanding that not everything is about you
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Why is gender criticism more arrestable than being pro-jihad?
@SVPhillimore
questions police priorities
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“Social transition of one child is adultification not just of that child but of all children in the school,” argues
@cwknews
, “a complete failure of safeguarding”
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Western academics still deny that Putin has imperial goals, writes Dmitri Levitin. This betrays miserable ignorance of history
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The new Speak Out Champion of the CPS resorts to the derogatory term TERF in tweets.
@SVPhillimore
warns that politics and prosecution make for a dangerous combination, and women are most likely to lose out
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Several critical speakers admitted that they had not read Material Girls, which led
@OxFeministUnion
to wonder how many protestors had read it. “Perhaps if the local bookshops had been better prepared, it would have saved embarrassment for many of them”
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Governments should stop indulging the SNP, argues
@JonMarcStanley
. It doesn’t help Scotland or Britain.
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It is astounding that an organisation founded by women to support victims of male sexual violence have apparently prioritised the feelings of men who identify as women, says
@jo_bartosch
on Scotland's
#ForensicMedicalServicesBill
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Those who deny biological sex are dangerous and disingenuous; it’s time the rest of us stood up to them, writes Nathan Williams
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"For the UK, this is the appropriate time to raise its voice and stand up for the human rights of people who have chosen to make their own destiny", says Armenia's President in an exclusive interview with
@kapskom
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“‘Being transgender’ is not a clinical diagnosis” —
@cwknews
slams professional counselling bodies for siding with Stonewall against standard paediatric practice
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Almost 700 church leaders have told the government they must not be asked to close their churches again in a second lockdown -
@davidscullion
reports
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“You gambled all our rights on the denial of reality and surprise, surprise, you lost” —
@glosswitch
challenges TRAs on who is really responsible for the backlash against women’s and LGBT rights
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Feminism has a problem: women. It's an uncomfortable issue, but says,
@CleverclogsNina
, the majority of pushback faced by gender critical feminists isn't from men, but other women
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The police have traded impartiality for the praise of special interest groups, writes
@WeAreFairCop
founder
@HarryTheOwl101
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The victims of lockdowns are the poor, the badly housed and the precariously employed, says Lord Sumption
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20,000 people paying to watch a philosophy lecture is cause for celebration not scorn, argues
@theethangreen
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“The Irish ruling class,” writes
@john_mcguirk
, “Simply does not much like the electorate, or the population, that they govern”
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Penny Mordaunt has wrapped herself in the flag and presented herself as a traditional Tory leader. But a closer look at her record reveals an MP committed to radical trans ideology, suggests
@jo_bartosch
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"We can’t go on like this. This can’t be how a country like ours is governed" —
@SteveBakerHW
urges the government to
#CountTheCost
of pushing on with new Covid restrictions
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Why is ACE “willing to fund a sex show aimed at children but draw the line of decency at a film about adult gay men”? —
@jo_bartosch
wonders why the LGB Alliance film is being defunded, but not the “Family Sex Show”
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“His pronouns fluctuating between he/him and they/them, Nigel drops his washing off at his mums, gets his girlfriend to clean out the hamster cage, slips on his £150 trainers and joins the baying mob shouting ‘TERFS’’ —
@bindelj
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Why is it that Eddie Izzard strutting in heels is perceived as more progressive than us boring old vulva-owners in our flat shoes? asks
@jo_bartosch
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“There is no sexualised content that is appropriate for both 5-year-olds and adults; it is one or the other” —
@PankhurstEM
asks hard questions about what we are exposing our children to in the name of “inclusion”
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“Until men can accept that they are not more unique, more interesting and more quintessentially human than women, they will not be happy” —
@glosswitch
contends that the success of women and girls is always perceived as a threat to masculinity
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"January saw me suspended from Twitter, only for my account to be restored without explanation after I raised £20K in 48 hours to bring action in defamation" —
@SVPhillimore
looks back on a triumphant year of gender critical activism
#YearInReview2021
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It's trans day of remembrance - a day to mark the supposed epidemic of murderous violence against trans people. Small problem - no such epidemic exists.
@ripx4nutmeg
explored this issue for the Critic back in 2021, but the myth persists
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Amnesty International has apparently adopted the view that even acknowledging the existence of a clash between women’s and trans rights is transphobia, writes
@bindelj
&
@Melanie_Newman
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“The dark implication being that ‘wrongthink’ about gender identity will make you less attractive to men” —
@JeanHatchet
finds in the discourse about “TERFs”, vicious misogyny is never far from the surface
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“The fact that schools — which have a legal duty to protect children from harm — are endorsing the social transitioning of children in their care should be seen as a major failure of safeguarding that requires Government action,” writes
@miriam_cates
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Lush normalising the use of chest binders shows how extreme gender ideology has penetrated celebrity culture, companies and public bodies, writes
@polblonde
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We must challenge the Left’s view of prostitution as “progressive” and “sex work” as liberating, says
@bindelj
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@RoisinMichaux
has investigated communities of “trans moms” and found delusion and pain
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Whatever Mary Beard might say,
@glosswitch
argues, gender critical feminists are neither bigoted nor confused
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Kemi Badenoch offered the hope of a fresh start, writes
@Tim_R_Dawson
, but the Tories embraced the comforts of inexorable decline
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"Self-ID overwrites women’s sex-based rights" —
@DalgetySusan
predicts that Sturgeon's Gender Recognition Reform Bill promises a difficult year ahead
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Titania’s fame quickly grew, and by May last year she had more than half a million followers and a second book deal. As her popularity increased, the venom of those who disapproved of the character became more toxic, writes
@andrewdoyle_com
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"This is not about dysphoric people and their struggles; it's about how 'but I’m a transwoman' has become a complete defence for a whole range of sexually predatory behaviours" —
@femmeloves
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Some jokes are just not funny, no matter how deep they supposedly are.
@glosswitch
lances a Boyle
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“Increasing numbers of women are turning away from politicians who lack the courage to acknowledge that females even exist as a sex” —
@jo_bartosch
argues for action, not empty gestures
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“If you thought scenes of a 70-year-old woman being repeatedly punched in the head would elicit unequivocal condemnation, think again” —
@zenithyas
is astonished by the journalists and politicians who minimise or justify this targeted violent intimidation
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"Even the women that did it as 'a favour' for a friend or relative found it incredibly painful to hand the baby over, and every single one I spoke to told me that it either fractured or destroyed the relationship with the recipient" —
@bindelj
#surrogacy
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@jo_bartosch
reports on the plight of the “transwidows” scorned for telling the unfashionable truth about their abusive autogynephile husbands:
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“The creation of a non-binary category goes against the most basic rules of fair competition,”
@jo_bartosch
objects, “effectively offering males two categories in which they can enjoy fair competition — whilst females have only one”
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“Advocacy groups and campaigning organisations have attempted to use this legal ambiguity to convince duty-bearers they are under legal obligations that they are not,”
@michaelpforan
objects, “and that they are free from obligations that they do have”
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“Sooner or later, Canadians are going to have to face up to the fact that this devastating social contagion is happening” — Mia Ashton on Canada's push to medicalise dysphoric children, and the silencing of educators who speak out against it
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In response to this review, Laurie Penny’s publishers said the following: “I wanted to highlight that Laurie Penny’s pronouns are they/them (as indicated in the book and press release). Could the review be updated to reflect this, please?” —
@bindelj
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Sisters Uncut have more in common with the thuggish police officers from the Clapham Common vigil than they would care to admit, writes
@jo_bartosch
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Harry Miller, who wrote this piece yesterday about the police arresting people for Facebook posts, has now been arrested for questioning the police as they arrested someone for a Facebook post.
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“Criminalising proper therapeutic exploration may well be conversion therapy by default” —
@Docstockk
explains why banning “conversion therapy” is not as simple as it seems
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Susan Smith, co-director of
@ForwomenScot
, says that reinforcing messages about what makes a “real” boy or girl has no place in schools
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Legal threats being made against Brexiteers was news, them going away wasn’t, writes
@darrengrimes_
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Single-sex spaces and services are essential to the dignity and safety of female victims of male violence, argues
@matildagosling
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"What’s the word I want here? Those people who make up half the population but can’t be mentioned any more" —
@polblonde
challenges the misogyny behind gender identity language
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Former NHS clinical psychologist
@GarySidley
explains why persisting with a face covering will prolong, rather than lessen, people’s anxieties:
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Relationship and Sex Education organisations have no business teaching children about BDSM and butt plugs.
@ShonaghDillon
points out the dangers of poorly vetted RSE curricula
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"A trans person is less likely to be murdered than the average person" —
@ripx4nutmeg
debunks a persistent talking point in the trans rights campaign
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@ColetteColfer
questions why the ideology of gender identity is being presented as fact in Irish schools, and why critics of the policy are being silenced
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The new Harry and Meghan book is so full of sycophantic and intimate anecdotes it reads more like a ghosted autobiography -
@angelalevin1
reviews 'Finding Freedom' by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand
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Times change. Charities change. Stonewall’s agenda is no longer the brave, and just, one it was founded to pursue, writes
@MForstater
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The claim that London was “built by immigrants” is a complete distortion of history, argues
@sam_bidwell
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The Labour Party is shutting out women who care about women’s rights.
@polblonde
asks what Keir Starmer has to be proud of
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No-one should face the loss of their livelihood or any stain on their reputation for telling the truth about sex, writes
@jo_bartosch
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“What will it take to bring bigoted employers to heel?” —
@HJoyceGender
reflects on the way out of gender insanity
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"Since it is impossible for black people to be racist, any white person who is not being racist is committing behavioural blackface. Therefore, all non-racist white people are racist" -
@TitaniaMcGrath
in this month's Critic magazine
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.
@NickBuckleyMBE
, the charity boss sacked after he criticised Black Lives Matter has been restored, reports
@DavidScullion
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Ireland’s referendum debacle was born of consultation process that was flawed and ideological, writes
@ColetteColfer
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“This failure to put a single year’s growth forecast into context is not what you would expect from a detailed, balanced analysis” —
@Derrickberthel1
exposes the Financial Times crusade against Brexit
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“Trans activists seek to transform our understanding of human relationships, by winning support for the abolition of language which we have used to delineate our biological sex for millennia”
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.
@roisinmichaux
recounts yet another failed attempt to silence women, this time in Switzerland
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Jolyon Maugham is here to tell women what they get to care about —
@glosswitch
says thanks but no thanks
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"Imperial College’s Covid-19 code is quite possibly the worst production code I have ever seen. I don’t say this lightly, I have used fluid dynamics codes with a heritage from the 1980s" says Ben Lewis
@tc1415
of
@neil_ferguson
's team effort
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“Nike sponsors track athlete Allyson Felix, but reduced her sponsorship by 70 per cent when she got pregnant,”
@BareReality
reports. “It seems that some protected characteristics matter more than others
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.
@jk_rowling
has voiced uncomfortable truths in her fiction and in real life. Unsurprisingly some men don't like this —
@glosswitch
on why reality is nasty, not the authors who portray it truthfully
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“Stonewall took a pivot for the worse in 2014 when Ruth Hunt (now Baroness) turned it into a trans-obsessed organisation that redefines gay people not as ‘same-sex’ but as ‘same-gender’ attracted” —
@TwisterFilm
on the ironic twist in LGB victories
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"For a long time, I felt the need to apologise, to explain that 'I was still a decent person' despite sharing articles from right-wing outlets" —
@jo_bartosch
exposes the neurotic with-us-or-against-us mindset suffocating the huddled masses of today’s Left
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.
@SirGrahamBrady
and
@SteveBakerHW
appear to have the numbers to defeat the government's "rule by decree" on Covid, reports
@Critic_GStewart
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"This was not a “protest”, as was claimed. It is an unjustified attack on a woman. It is woman-hating and should not be excused by any other term." -
@JeanHatchet
on how trans activists tried, and failed, to get Kathleen Stock fired
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The police are promising to root out people who don’t hold LGBTQ+ values, writes
@SVPhillimore
. Do they even know what that means?
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“If sex meant biological sex, then all biological females (trans or not) who become pregnant would be protected from pregnancy discrimination” —
@michaelpforan
points out that this would ensure protection for trans men that is currently uncertain
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“The “what is a woman?” question was never about actual beliefs,” argues
@glosswitch
, “It was an integrity test”
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“This case affirms the law protecting employees,”
@michaelpforan
reports, “and should be seen as a stark warning to employers not to embrace a culture war narrative that gender critical views are by definition transphobic”
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Emotion need not entail irrationality, argues
@glosswitch
, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
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"Lush might be the greatest example of big business adopting a woke ideology in which it supplies girls with the tools for self-harm” —
@ripx4nutmeg
on how is Lush is encouraging young women to bind their breasts
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