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[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

In a free country, you are entitled to believe you are a woman with a penis. But not to take it into a female changing room, nor to cheat your way into a female athletic competition, nor in any way to impose your private delusion on the rest of us.
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[Queen Natalie 👑 @TheNorfolkLion]

Now it all makes sense. She’s a far-left activist who supports Gaza 😂 she just doesn’t want them living on her doorstep

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Cambridge refuses to take responsibility for their plummeting standards and their culture of DEI.

I explain how white guilt is responsible for the Arday affair. 👇

Watch and subscribe!

https://t.co/1D7Fkwl0OK

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Far from condemning Britain, Zanzibar celebrates the British role in ending slavery with monuments to those who "set free the slave". It's something the C of E and the rest of the woke reparations brigade could learn from.https://t.co/E6RULpuZYd

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

An update — and an enormous thank you

I am incredibly grateful to everyone who has donated, shared this fundraiser or sent me a message of support. We are already close to the £10,000 first target, and I genuinely do not take a penny of your money for granted.
I want to explain exactly what that money is for and where things stand.
I did not seek this litigation and I remain extremely reluctant to enter into an expensive legal fight.
When I was first contacted about the livestream, I ensured that it was removed from public view and offered an apology and clarification concerning the disputed implication.
I believe disputes over speech should, wherever reasonably possible, be resolved proportionately and without exposing ordinary people to potentially ruinous legal costs.
I tried to resolve this without the need for it to be pursued through the High Court. Despite those efforts, proceedings have now been issued and served on me.
I am the defendant. I dispute the meaning attributed to my words, and I now need specialist advice to understand my position and decide how best to defend myself.
The immediate target is £10,000.
That money is to get the specialist defamation advice I need now: to assess the claim and evidence properly, advise me on my Defence and the proposed preliminary issue of meaning, and help me make an informed decision about what comes next.
I am now in touch with a lawyer who is looking at my case, I will keep everyone informed.
If the case then proceeds to a fully represented High Court hearing on meaning, the next stage could cost up to around £30,000 in total. I don't yet have a firm quote, so I am not asking people to fund that entire stage now.
I am taking this one step at a time.
If I can secure representation, I want the best specialist people I can afford putting my case before the court. If I cannot, I am prepared to attend the High Court and defend myself as a litigant in person.
What I cannot do is surrender simply because litigation is too expensive for an ordinary person to defend.
That matters to me far beyond this particular case.
I have always said that transitioning children is profound abuse. I will continue to speak about what I regard as the medical abuse of children. Robust criticism of medicine, institutions and those exercising professional power must not become something only wealthy people can afford to express.
Free speech isn't much of a freedom if the financial cost of defending what you said is enough, by itself, to silence you.
I don't want a legal fight. I didn't seek one. I tried to resolve this one.
But now that proceedings have been brought against me, I will defend myself.
Every donation towards this first £10,000 gives me a better chance of making the next decision with proper specialist advice rather than trying to navigate High Court defamation proceedings entirely alone. However I'm aware this may need to be stretched once I have good legal advice.
For years I have asked women to speak.
Thank you for helping me keep speaking.
Truly, thank you.

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[Jenn Pellegrino 🇺🇸 @JennPellegrino]

The Economist's editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes went to a private all-girls boarding school in Shropshire where fees run up to £45,000 per year (about $60,000).

She was born and raised in Shropshire, one of England's most affluent rural counties. She attacks @elonmusk saying he's wrong and the UK is thriving. Elon hits back that she lives a cloistered existence.

He's absolutely right. She's Oxford and Harvard educated. She doesn't live in the towns where migrant grooming gangs operate. She can't see the destruction from her ivory tower.

So many elites in this country and Europe are removed from the decay their leftist policies have brought. Good on @elonmusk for calling her out.

[Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale]

Made me laugh.

[Lynne Pinches @PinchesLynne]

I'll be 6 years sober soon & For 25 years, I wanted to play pool at the highest level. Alcohol played a huge part in me not achieving that. After giving up alcohol & beating some of the best players in the world. Here I am. BANNED. Please keep sharing my Crowdjustice story 🙏

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

I wrote about a former Girl Guiding leader who identifies as a trans woman. Who apparently didn't realise it wasn't appropriate to post highly sexualised content online as a volunteer working with children.

Dr Rachel Saunders is also a man who believes he is a woman. Here's his take on this.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Always a tweet

[Caroline Farrow @CF_Farrow]

Just came back from a successful trip to @Primark Camberley.

Which had a "this fitting room is for women, if you require any gender please speak to staff " sign.

Job done.

Thanks. 👌

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Ed Davey has written to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson demanding she WITHDRAW official EHRC guidance protecting female-only spaces in toilets and changing rooms.

Let that land.

The Equalities and Human Rights Commission — a statutory body — has produced legally grounded guidance telling employers and public bodies that biological men should not access women’s single-sex spaces.

This is not opinion.
This is not politics.
This is the settled legal position following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the meaning of “woman” under the Equality Act.

And Ed Davey wants it gone.

His stated reason?

The guidance is not “compatible with long-standing British values.”

British values.

He used those words to argue AGAINST protecting women’s single-sex spaces.

The same Liberal Democrats who lecture the country about tolerance, inclusion and human rights are now lobbying a Labour minister to tear up statutory guidance that protects every woman in Britain who walks into a changing room, a refuge or a hospital ward.

This is not a fringe position within the Lib Dems.

Their leader wrote the letter.

The party has chosen its side.

It is not the side of women.

Repost if you think women’s single-sex spaces should be protected.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

I really do not understand the position @marksandspencer have taken regarding their female customers. Women are telling them repeatedly they want single sex changing rooms, they want spaces where there are no men and yet M&S refuse to listen.

A strange form of marketing.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

Clue: It’s not one of the three who don’t have to bother with half an inch of slap, a wig and a satin frock

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Bingo

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

Polygamy has never been normal in Britain.

And yet the Government has just committed to giving even more taxpayer money to people in polygamous marriages.

If you come to this country, you should abide by our norms. You certainly shouldn't get paid extra for failing to do so.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A brilliant explanation of the sources of wokeism and the foundation behind most of the West’s challenges in recent years.

A very important read.

I would never have found this post except for @X’s auto-translation feature. The original post in French.

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

@zarahsultana Boycott you. Pass it on.

[Sara Ghorbani @d_white_rabbit]

I am a 44 year old woman who has a male guardian. My husband is my male guardian. My mother has a male guardian. My grandmother has a male guardian. If I had opted to have children and had a daughter, she would have a male guardian for her whole life, too. This is what Islam dictates. It doesn't matter that I am currently in Canada and my mom is in Iran. If I ever can go back to Iran, my male guardian decides whether I can leave the country, travel inside Iran, get a job, or have life-saving surgery. Which part of this is hard to understand for you guys? Or do you enjoy wasting our very limited energy?

[Amanda Craig @AmandaPCraig]

I hope all Britons who loathe racism will RT this in the light of the vile attacks on British Jews.