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[Barbara Vice @BarbVice13]

This take from the @PirateWires Daily 👇

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I’ve just seen a post from yet another man who thinks my position has shifted since I wrote my 2020 essay about gender identity ideology and the consequent clash of rights https://t.co/pasxBD1Hzl

For the avoidance of doubt, I stand by every word I wrote then. For instance: ‘woman isn’t a costume.’ If it surprises you that I say men don’t become women by wearing make up and dresses, you didn’t understand the essay. I’ve been crystal clear all along that I believe people are free to live and present themselves as the opposite sex if that’s what feels comfortable and authentic TO THEM. This appears to have been interpreted (most often, tellingly, by men) as ‘and it naturally follows that I, as a woman, will validate a man’s belief that he is now, to all intents and purposes, the same sex as me, and I will use only the speech he deems appropriate and will be very careful to protect his sensitive ego, no matter the cost to myself in pretending to believe a falsehood, or the loss of my own rights due to this pretence.’

Dress as you like within normal bounds of situational decency, wear lipstick, sequins and a beard if you want, call yourself whatever you like, have sex with any consenting adult you please: I wish you health, happiness and safety. What you don’t get is the power to compel my speech and belief.

When I call a man a man, I am speaking verifiable truth. It is essential to be able to accurately name sex when discussing fair sport, facilities and services for women and girls and the right of gay people not to be demonised for their same-sex attraction. In years to come, a lot of useful idiots are going to awake to the fact that they’ve been complicit in enormous harm done to women, girls, gay people who stood against the insanity, and some extremely vulnerable young people. I don’t doubt we’ll hear a lot of, ‘I thought I was just being kind.’ Such individuals, especially those in positions of power, should be asked why they never had anything to say about the loud, public, widespread unkindness directed against those who refused to adopt their fashionable, elitist beliefs, eg, the detransitioners being bullied and vilified by former ‘allies’, the whistleblowers who tried to stop an unregulated experiment on troubled children, the women who lost their careers and livelihoods by standing up for all women’s rights.

Some people appear to believe it a worse crime for a woman to call a man a man than for trans activists to call loudly and publicly for the assault and assassination of all women who refuse to bend the knee. I have never wished violence or any other kind of harm on a trans-identified person, but, like many other people who’ve defended women’s and girls’ rights over the past few years, I have received thousands of threats of death, rape and torture. The wilful blindness of those who bleat ‘both sides’ will rightly be judged harshly in times to come.

TL;DR Trans women aren’t women, and if that hurts your feelings, be grateful you live in a society where you are just as free to espouse gender ideology as I am to speak the truth. As Orwell said: ‘Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.’

[@amuse @amuse]

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This take from the @PirateWires Daily 👇

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@t19121195 @ainissetai @pensandpoison Shakespeare was male, so yes, “his” is correct.

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This take from the @PirateWires Daily 👇

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This take from the @PirateWires Daily 👇

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This take from the @PirateWires Daily 👇

[Peter Boghossian @peterboghossian]

How one interprets this is a litmus test for one's view of society.

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This take from the @PirateWires Daily 👇

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@Detroitboss_RRP @ZeekArkham But passports are not required, so there is no $165 cost. Why are you making this false claim?

[Van Jones @VanJones68]

Something strange is happening in the information war.

Young Americans defending regimes like the Islamic Republic of Iran that jail protesters, strip women of rights and execute people for being gay.

Self-described patriots on the right suddenly echoing narratives that benefit a country like Russia — which is openly hostile to the United States.

How does that happen?

Not through tanks or missiles.

Post by post, people get pulled into camps that don’t actually serve their own country or their own values. They become pieces on a chessboard in a GRAY WAR — a conflict fought with information instead of bullets.

And most people don’t even realize they’re part of it.

The battlefield isn’t overseas anymore — it’s in your feed.

[Heather Mac Donald @HMDatMI]

The Ferguson effect is real.

When police officers are demonized and criminals are emboldened, more black lives are lost. The media does not care, and we will never hear the victims' names, because it doesn't fit the narrative.

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@JPrazen @boriquagato Yes

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@ahadli23 @thatsKAIZEN Maybe watch the video before commenting next time?

[KeriA @KeriA1776again]

Honor thy mother and father

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@FtWorthTxGal @RealLTCRicBosi She was spokesperson for the State Department from 2013-2015.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

You’ve been lied to about Africa.

@MagatteW: “Africa is not poor because of colonialism. Africa is poor because we have made it impossible for our people to create wealth.”

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This take from the @PirateWires Daily 👇

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@LFauexProd Are you ... serious??