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[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

I’m sure you all remember Avery Jackson, the “trans girl” who, at 9, was on the cover of National Geographic in January of 2017. Avery was given the gold standard in gender affirming care: he was chemically castrated and sterilized with “blockers” to hold off male puberty.

Now Avery has come out as “nonbinary” and chosen not to pursue transition, meaning that his puberty was blocked for no reason — but that’s not the worst part. He also identifies as asexual, meaning that he doesn’t experience sexual attraction.

This is undoubtedly the result of the medication used to delay male puberty. The president of WPATH, Dr, “Marci” Bowers, has said on camera that so-called puberty blockers, which are used to chemically castrate sex offenders, chemically castrate the young boys who take them as well, leaving them incapable of arousal or orgasm.

For adult sex offenders, the process is reversible. For boys like Avery, the effects are permanent. He will never feel sexual attraction, or any of the experiences that accompany it. He is also completely sterile; he will never father a child, and his own childhood was spent in the national spotlight. The blockers he was given have also stunted his physical and mental development in irreversible ways. We know from the experiences of other “trans” children that he will never sexually mature - neither physically nor emotionally. All of these things were stolen from him, and he has said that transitioning “ruined my life.”

It’s high time that we stop pretending that children can make an informed decision to transition or take blockers, even if their doctors are honest about the risks and consequences — which most are not.

Blockers are not a pause button. They are not reversible. The intellectual deficits they cause will never repair themselves, and neither will the damage done to the child victim’s body, or to their emotional intelligence and maturity. This will, of course, make it easier to push them into transitioning; ie, to sell them hormones and provide surgical alterations.

Parents like Avery’s, who try to monetize their child’s struggles with gender identity, belong in prison, not on television, and so do the doctors and politicians who were complicit in his chemical castration and sterilization.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

A lot of people have struggled to believe me when I say that the Australian Human Rights Commission is giving pregnancy protections in law to men who claim to be woman, because it’s so stupid it’s hard to believe anyone would say it.

Enjoy:

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

This is just ludicrous. Words fail me.

[Trevor Phillips @TrevorPTweets]

My thoughts on the @EHRC guidance laid yesterday; this is not about non-existent "rights". It is about the safety of women - mothers, sisters, wives, daughters. We men need to hear their voices. Virginia Woolf : "Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes".

My intro on @TimesRadio yesterday:

Where I live there are two different routes to and from the tube station. One, let’s call it Acacia Avenue, is quiet and residential. The other, London Road, is a busy major route with lots of traffic. At all times of the day, I automatically head for Acacia Road. It’s just much nicer.

The women in my family, on the other hand, will never willingly make that walk after dark. They live with an anxiety that most men find it hard to imagine, and frankly, rarely think about unprompted.

Last year 739,000 women were sexually assaulted in Britain. Virtually all such assaults - nine out of ten - are perpetrated by men. One in four women have been attacked at some time in their lives. Acacia Avenue is exactly the sort of place in which most women fear that they become vulnerable, and they are right.

As the author Virginia Woolf once wrote " Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes".

I think this is the right context in which to understand the furore over the guidance being laid today by the government, over the meaning of the words man and woman when it comes to providing services and facilities in workplaces.

Many men think this is about a rather arcane dispute about who gets to use what loo. For their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters, it isn’t.

In a previous life, as Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, I had a hand in writing this country’s equality laws, in particular the 2010 Equality Act. It never occurred to any of us that there could be any confusion or dispute over the meaning of the words man and woman. But it has taken a decade of campaigning, a Supreme Court judgement and now hundreds of pages of guidance to settle the issue.

This is not about so called trans rights, which are completely unaffected by this guidance, since no-one has ever had the right to walk into a changing room reserved for teenage girls.

What it does mean is that women and girls are guaranteed the protection they deserve, and that their safety, which we spent half a decade drafting law to ensure, is protected.

But the whole business illuminates some serious issues in our politics.

First that many of our institutions, in spite of the fact that they always knew what the right thing to do was, decided to ignore the fears of their women customers and employees, under pressure from noisy pressure groups. Instead, the people who were supposed to be the grown ups behaved as though the law said what campaigners wanted it to say, rather than what it actually said. They settled for what they hoped would be a quiet life.

In a democracy, there’s little point in Parliament deciding anything if the law is then made an ass by activists intimidating bosses in companies, schools, universities and the media into doing something different.

Second, at the heart of the campaign to undermine the Equality Act is an idea that we specifically rejected in 2010, so called self-identification. That is to say, that it should be up to the individual to decide whether they have what’s called a protected characteristic - are you male or female, are you black or white. The problem is that self-ID would destroy the operation of any law against discrimination.

Look, it would almost certainly have been to my advantage as a young man to self-identify as a handsome, white public schoolboy. None of those things is true of me. And at various points I am pretty sure it’s been to my disadvantage. It is certainly statistically likely to have been to my disadvantage.

But according to the logic of those who say that self-ID should be the rule and that anyone should be able to decide for themselves whether they are male or female, black or white or Asian, were I to complain about racial discrimination, it would be difficult for anyone prove that I’d been discriminated against because of my race since anybody to whom I’d lost out could just tell the courts that they too were black.

I know that sounds like Alice in Wonderland but you can google the case where a chap, both of whose parents are white, insisted he should get money from the Arts Council because he so identified with the black struggle that he considered himself black, and everyone should accept his point of view. In the United States and Brazil exactly such outlandish claims have been made and people rewarded to the disadvantage of people actually born into minority families.

I have even been told about firms who, when reporting their gender pay gaps have put men who just happen to like wearing dresses at weekends - nothing wrong with that, let me be clear - into the female column and told their women employees that they really haven’t got anything to moan about because statistically they are paid equally, and they should get back in their box.

So today’s guidance isn’t just another tiresome chapter in culture wars. It is , I hope, a halt to the efforts to undermine one of the most important pieces of legislation on the statute book, by people who, for their own reasons, would prefer us to be living in the 1950s world of Mad Men.

[Maeve Halligan @MaeveHalligan]

"No, I don't subscribe to this 'kindness' - I'll tell the truth instead."

I spoke at the Cambridge Union last night about LGBs, children's safety and women's rights. Full video here:

[MirzaRezaKermani @MirzaRezaKhaan]

85 children. Eighty-five. That is how many kids are currently sitting in Islamic Republic jails facing a death sentence. Where are the "human rights" groups? Busy counting their funding? If you stay silent now, don't bother speaking ever again. #stopExectionsIran

[גלילאו @gilileoB]

אם כבר בן כהן...
במשך שנים, בן כהן הבעלים של בן אנד ג׳ריס טוען שהוא לא מוכן למכור את הגלידה שלו ״בשטחים הכבושים״ כי זה לא מוסרי.

ואז המראיינת אמרה לו שהגלידה נמכרת במדינות רבות ששם המוסר שונה ממה שהוא מאמין ועדיין מוכרים שם גלידה.

התגובה שלו נפלאה בעיניי

[Edie Wyatt @msediewyatt]

Because Mr Upton can’t watch nurses undress in his own country he’s traveled to the country where women have less human rights and decided to watch nurses undress here.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

NARRATOR: JK Rowling had never met Jolyon Maugham. They were never friends. Her close friends remained her close friends. Jolyon Maugham remained a fixated loon.

[Oren Barsky @orenbarsky]

Now that’s a fucking genius

[Moni 💕 @MoniFunGirl]

As a transsexual myself I admire @Caitlyn_Jenner for saying this.

There are so many of us against the Left’s lunacy.

I’ll add that the ‘euphoric’ feeling when having gender dysphoria felt good for Caitlyn when that award was given.

I understand. 🫂

[Farhad 🇮🇷🇮🇷 @Farhadgol60]

Mohammadreza Abdollahpour, a 28 year-old anesthesia specialist, has had his death sentence confirmed after being arrested in Tehran while helping an injured person.

He worked at Atiyeh Hospital and Saadat Abad Clinic.

Having lost both parents, he has no one to follow up on his case.

Be his voice

Graphic 🖼️ : @Farhadgol60

#StopExecutionsInIran #MohammadrezaAbdollahpour #محمدرضا_عبدالله‌پور

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Today's ruling by the IOC means a welcome return to fair sport for women and girls, but I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024, when people who consider themselves supremely virtuous and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women.

[Dr. Kenon @drkenon2]

“You are insulting the Iranian people's right to self-determination by claiming that this is some sort of Israeli project. Where were you 2 months ago when the Iranian regime slaughtered over 40,000 innocent & unarmed protesters because they wanted to live in a free & democratic society?”

~Ghamari tells a man who claims the w@r in Iran is an Israeli project

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

My heart broke when I just watched the forced confession of this young boy on Iran’s state TV.
They tell him: “You are Mohareb.”

He asks: “What does that mean?”

He was so young, he didn’t understand that it means one thing in Islamic Republic:
execution

A 17-year-old boy, Shervin Bagherian, was arrested in Iran’s recent protest. Now in the middle of a war they are preparing to execute him.

His only crime was wanting a normal life. There is still time to speak up. Will you stand with me and be his voice before it’s too late?

#StopExecutionsInIran

[APADRA 🇮🇷 @DGascoign3]

There is an empty chair at a dinner table tonight. A school desk is vacant. A bedroom is cold. Mahsa Saril, just 14 years old, has been stolen from her family by the IRGC. For the "crime" of asking for a future, she now faces execution. She is a child. SHE IS A CHILD. Say her name until she is home #IranMassacre‌

[dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ @DahliaKurtz]

A child has been sentenced to execution by hanging in Occupied Iran.

Diana Taherabadi is only 16.

The Islamic Regime dragged her out bed, confiscated her family's phones, and kidnapped her.

It takes a second for you to speak up. DO IT.

[🇮🇷👑Mozhooo👑🇮🇷 @Mozho_M]

🚨 SHE IS ONLY 16. #DianaTaherabadi is about to be EXECUTED in Iran.
A CHILD.
Sixteen years old.
The regime wants to kill her in silence.
We cannot let this happen.
If you see this DON’T SCROLL.
Retweet. Quote. Tag everyone. Make this viral NOW.
Every second matters. Her life depends on our voice.

@POTUS @WhiteHouse @StateDept @UN @UNHumanRights @UNICEF
@amnesty @hrw @BBCWorld @CNN @FoxNews @Reuters @AP
@elonmusk @netblocks
#ديانا_طاهرآبادى #StopExecution #DigitalBlackoutIran
#KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran

[Apranik 🇮🇷🇮🇱 @patriot_apranik]

This is Navid Soltanpour’s sister. Her brother was murdered by the regime just 3 DAYS ago. 💔

The Islamic Republic has turned Iran into a dark slaughterhouse by shutting down the internet!
Why? Because they are committing mass atrocities, and they don't want the world to see. We have absolutely no idea what the hell they are doing to hundred of innocent people in the absolute dark right now!

Do not let them kill our people in silence!

[Mooné Rahimi @hiitsmemooneh]

The left picture is me at 7 yo when I was living in Iran under the Islamic regime. They forced me to wear a full hijab to attend school, if I didn’t, they wouldn’t let me enter. They made me wear it from a young age to avoid “provoking” men in society, claiming it was all because of Allah. They also forced me to be Muslim, read the Quran, and learn every rule and detail about it.

The truth is, I never wanted any of it, even as a child. The real me is the picture on the right. They took my rights and my freedom and called it Islam.

Now I’m in the USA. I wear whatever I want, do whatever I want, and I’m very grateful for this freedom. I now feel it’s my duty to raise awareness, share my story and experiences with the world, so people know what true Islam is and aren’t fooled by the image the media tries to show them.