One Small Voice

Female. Independent thinker. Deliberately defiant & thoroughly indecent woman. "No" is a full sentence.

[One Small Voice @OneSmallVoice9]

Gender ideology has nothing to do with dysphoria and everything to do with control. It's a means of removing women's social, political & legal standing as a sex class, and eroding our rights to thought, belief, conscience, association, privacy, dignity and safety.
#sexnotgender

[One Small Voice @OneSmallVoice9]

@sappholives83 Things haven't changed much. A woman I know suffering from possible depression over a 6 month period was institutionalized & subjected to rounds of shock therapy intended to "fix" her. When I saw her last year, she was fearful & ashamed. She's in her early 80's.

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

This fantastic video was made by @andysayshi1, and he would love to see it shared as widely as possible.

(he doesn’t even care about the credit, but i think he deserves a massive thank you)

[Cynthia Breheny @PTElephant]

I thought I'd have gender dysphoria forever, but I don't anymore

I used to hate my sex, my hair, my nose, well, my everything, really

I wanted to tear my body apart and emerge as a different person

I wasn't a secure person. Not for a long time

Now? I love it! Nothing anyone says can make me feel differently

I'm so grateful for my body

Insecurity doesn't have to last forever. Your body is always changing - aging, getting new scars, fat, muscle, etc

It's also doing amazing things every day to keep you alive to the best of its ability

I never thought I'd appreciate my sex and all the things I'm able to do because of it, but I do now.

I used to blame my abuse on my body. But my abusers are the only ones to blame for that. All my body did was exist. They were the ones who made the choice to abuse me

I used to feel so "validated" bonding over what I hated about my body with others who had gender dysphoria

But all it did was make me feel good about rejecting my body, which only made the self-loathing worse

I don't know who this will reach, but just know that the bad feelings don't have to be permanent

Being praised for self loathing is easier in the short term, I guess?

But in the long term, it eats at you and the depression gets worse, and the insecurity is like acid. The dopamine from the bonding over things you're dysphoric about get weaker over time

The best way forward is to learn to love yourself and just find contentment and gratefulness for things you have instead of chasing things you think you want your body to be in a fantasy

You'll never achieve that fantasy, and fantasies change over time quicker than bodies do

So, to every teenager who thinks like I did back then, you can get better and you don't need flags, pins, survey, and Rx to do it

[One Small Voice @OneSmallVoice9]

@EunoiaVA Men are not women, no matter what they call themselves. They need to respect women and stay out of spaces needed to preserve women's privacy, dignity and safety.

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@Darth_Pingu My only issue is men calling themselves women and demanding access to spaces where women are vulnerable.
My question is why you would support that.

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@melboure @MrEmilyGDawn You just placed your daughters at risk by teaching them to disregard what they know to be true, to second-guess their instincts, and to place the feelings of a man before their own safety. Great parenting.

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@patrickdextervc Beautiful!

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

When my husband died in late summer last year, my daughter and I didn't just lose him.

We lost more than half our household income overnight.
Suddenly, every dollar had a job. Every bill became a math problem.

Because my income dropped so dramatically, I became eligible for a GST rebate of about $435.

To some people, that might sound like a nice little bonus.
To people like me, trying to live on less than $27,000 a year, it's not spending money. It's survival money.

Where I live, water, garbage, and recycling cost me $520 every three months. Coincidentally, those bills arrive around the same time as the GST rebate.

So the GST cheque doesn't buy treats. It doesn't fund vacations. It doesn't even make life easier.

It mostly disappears into a utility bill before I can blink.

Today I'm sharing screenshots from my CRA account to demonstrate the federal government's latest affordability miracle with their renamed GST benefit masquerading as the Groceries and Essentials Benefit.

My GST rebate went up.
By six dollars.
Not sixty.
Not six hundred.
Six.

Apparently somewhere in Ottawa, somebody looked at the affordability crisis facing Canadians and thought:

"Hmm, needs more half sandwich."🤔

What makes this worse is knowing there are millions of Canadians out there who need help just as badly as I do, but don't qualify for a penny of it.

People working two jobs.
People trying to raise families.
Seniors watching every grocery bill climb higher.
People doing everything right and still falling behind.

So to @MarkJCarney, I have a simple question.

Why are you celebrating the existence of a Grocery and Essentials Benefit instead of asking why Canadians need one in the first place? How much did it cost taxpayers for the photo-op? Do you not see the hypocrisy in it?

Because that is the part I can't understand. A government should not be standing in a grocery store congratulating itself for handing back a few dollars of taxpayers' own money.

A government should be creating the conditions where people can afford groceries without government assistance.

The goal should be fewer Canadians needing benefits, not more!

I'm not proud to qualify for this.
👉🏻 I don't want to qualify for a government cheque.
👉🏻 I don't want to qualify for a renamed GST rebate.
👉🏻 I don't want my kid to qualify for a school lunch program because parents can no longer afford lunches.

I want an economy where ordinary Canadians can stand on their own feet and keep more of what they earn and be proud about it.

The fact that Ottawa felt the need to rename the GST rebate to include the words "Groceries and Essentials" should have set off alarm bells in every cabinet office in the country.

Because groceries and essentials are not luxuries. If Canadians need government assistance to afford the basics of life, that is not evidence of success.

It's evidence that something has gone very badly wrong.

What makes it even harder to stomach is watching a government talk about borrowing billions for new projects and sovereign wealth funds while ordinary Canadians are being told to celebrate an extra six dollars.

Six dollars!
That's not economic leadership.
That's a receipt. Perhaps the question Canadians should be asking is this:

If #MarkCarney's resume is as impressive as advertised, why do the results look like this?

At some point, Canadians stop listening to credentials and start looking at outcomes. And the outcomes are speaking for themselves!

[One Small Voice @OneSmallVoice9]

@Rikalii Here's the "test". It's very simple. You're born female. That's it. That's all that's required.
It has nothing to do with boob size. 🙄

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@swklibdems @VMMChamberlain Why are you so adamant to see men in spaces where women and girls are vulnerable?

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@cityoflondon So men can use all three pools and women have no space to themselves.

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@TheBuckYouWill We had the turtle.

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@CarlBovisNature Beautiful!

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@pnwkate Fabulous! What a great capture!

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@SamanthaNiblet4 It's not polite to lie to people or to entertain delusion.

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@guyfelicella The open drug use in downtown has gotten worse year after year, even with safe consumption sites. What we need is recovery beds, pre-emptive mental health supports in schools, early intervention with struggling families, mentorship for youth at risk.

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@WomenReadWomen @latimes What a headline! The only "love" I see is his love for himself. Hell, he's even hugging himself.

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@doomscrolling41 @BriannaWu Puberty is not a disease and discomfort with your body does not mean your body is wrong. It means your perception is skewed - possibly due to assault, trauma or paraphilia.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

We have eyes. We all see it.

[One Small Voice @OneSmallVoice9]

@EllieChowns Why are you so adamant to place men in spaces where women and girls are vulnerable and in a state of undress?