My mum was a victim of serious DV as I was growing up. He almost killed her on multiple occasions. Choked her, beat her, busted her up. Really bad, serious stuff. She cowered for years. One day she shouted back in anger while being beaten. And then it became the norm for (1/)
The week in Tory MPs so far: one convicted of molesting a minor, another having to apologise for defending said paedophile, PM and chancellor convicted of breaking the COVID laws they wrote. And it’s only Fucking Tuesday.
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At this stage I'm finding/having people send me too many quotes from German sex buyers jubilant at the arrival of Ukranian refugees whom they might be able to sexually exploit inside legal #prostitution for me to keep up with. I also don't know what else to say about it...
@prize_novel I am loving it *and* it's driving me crazy 😂 it's beautiful to see so much positivity. But trying to guess if the vague ones could possibly be mine is a bit stressful!
Its now emerged that #Channel4 tried to ward off privatisation with proposals to train up 100,000 young people in neglected areas around the UK, a further £2bn in programmes from the Nations & Regions and ramped up recruitment in Glasgow, Bristol and Leeds. 1/2
Actually quite angry at men who talk about the hell of conversion therapy while insisting leaving gender non-conforming females to their binders and lupron constitutes "acceptance".
Interesting this was sent at the same time as the tweet about "spousal veto" being controlling bigotry.
Women should have the right to leave any relationship, at any time for any reason.
No is a complete sentence.
The EHRC recommended a pause on proposals to ban gender identity conversion therapy because of concerns about a chilling impact on exploratory therapy for u18s with gender dysphoria. Disagree by all means, but injecting this level of hyperbole into a toxic debate is irresponsible
For anyone wondering about the so-called "ban on conversion therapy" for gender identity - this article lays out why the "affirmative care model" that the LGBTQIA++ bunch want imposed everywhere IS CONVERSION THERAPY. Well-meaning people are being misled https://t.co/F3E3G8YEDL
Yesterday, a HR person in my local hospital trust posted a declaration that he would not be recommending EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces (that permit female-only spaces and services) to his trust staff.
I went quite hard on him.
Here's why.
Thread: When is a mother a mother?
Many People have heard of Baby Gammy, the Thai boy born to a surrogate mother and rejected by his Australian commissioning parents due to his having Down’s syndrome whilst they kept his twin sister. Gammy’s mother opted to raise him herself.