Amelie Kohn

Let’s re-up The Enlightenment #ThisIsNotADrill 🟥 #SelfIDHurtsWomen

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@KemtrupTweets Preach

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@JonathanShedler @rhodeschord He’s not on a crusade against anyone.
The trans community includes a whole range of completely different people with very different needs and difficulties.
Psychologists have let this so-called community down in the most extraordinary way.
Do read ‘Time to Think’ by H Barnes

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@KemtrupTweets Frankly, I despair. What drives these anti-psychiatry extremists? They’re really not helping.

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@JonathanShedler I imagine this is a difficult time for you, I appreciate you letting me know.

[Hadley Freeman @HadleyFreeman]

“Many people imagine antisemitism only in its crudest forms: swastikas daubed on walls, abuse, threats and violence. But the prejudice we face today as Jews often presents itself in more subtle ways. It arrives wrapped in the language of human rights and social justice.”

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@NewStatesman @hannahsbee Totally agree!
Manners.

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@cwestonclark @RosieDuffield1 @Rebecca_SPaul Who in NHSE now has responsibility for this? @NHSEngland

https://t.co/foabfJHRvE

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@akuareindorf @EmilyThornberry @EHRC ‘Trans people deserve love’ - is she hoping Parliament will legislate for this too?

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@JonathanShedler Can you explain how you’ve introduced this concept with patients who wish to be perceived as the opposite sex

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@BriannaWu @HSternfan01 That’s horrible. Your mum hated the child you were so you destroyed him.

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@BriannaWu I’m not right wing but suggest a thought experiment. You have described the behaviours and preferences of lots of feminine boys who grow up to be gay. What could have happened to your developmental trajectory if your parents had been kind, liberal and loved you the way you were?

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@soppystern @KingsCollegeLon Wizard of Oz

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@pit__roig @KemtrupTweets The body and the mind are not connected - the body and the mind are one thing.

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

1. Kim Leadbeater claims—without giving details—that criticism of the bill has not been “well-informed or accurate”.

Who are these ill-informed critics throwing around inaccuracies? An incomplete list:

[Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee]

British Jews are not a monolith. But I know there are others who feel what my father and I feel, too. Who are ashamed of what the current Israeli government is doing. And who want to say: “Not in my name.” https://t.co/9v7AaMe3PW

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@JonathanShedler #bekind (while jabbing their finger at your head)

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@Aella_Girl Memes

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Woman of the Day Magdalen Berns, born OTD in 1986 in London. Prize-winning boxer, vlogger and co-founder of For Women Scotland, she was a lifelong activist and a fierce defender of women’s rights.

Fascination with coding drew her away from boxing (she was a universities boxing champion and won the Haringey Box Cup in 2010), away from her work as a sound engineer and from her physics studies in Edinburgh - but it was her commitment to women’s sex-based rights that became her driving force.

Magdalen began making videos at the University of Edinburgh in 2015 spelling out in the clearest possible terms the threat to women - and especially to lesbians - posed by the deliberate attempts by trans activists to blur sex and gender and to redefine ‘woman’ as anyone who says he is. She didn’t pull her punches.

“There’s no such thing as a lesbian with a penis.”

“Trying to shame lesbians for being lesbians is intrinsically homophobic and misogynistic.”

“It is not hate to speak the truth.”

“I’d rather be rude than a f—- liar.”

Investigated by a Student Union desperate to find her guilty of some sort of offence and thrown out of several students groups, a defiant Magdalen used her videos to reach the widest possible audience and alert everyone to the enormity of what was going on: no less than the barefaced theft of womanhood itself. Her YouTube videos became compulsive viewing and achieved a following of nearly 45k subscribers.

“I am a lesbian (not the political kind); a physics graduate (University of Edinburgh); a FLOSS accessibility hacker (the legal kind); an XX feminist (not the fun kind); ex-amateur boxer (the competitive kind); a blogger; an activist; a cultural libertarian; a Londoner; a critic of religion, capitalism, identity politics, conservatism, neoliberalism and socially imposed gender norms.”

In 2017, Magdalen was invited by her friend Marion Calder to meet with two other women in her living room. Marion, Trina Budge and Susan Smith found each other on Mumsnet, that hotbed of radicalism and motherhood, and realised that a new feminist group was needed. They launched For Women Scotland in June 2018.

Magdalen already knew by then that she’d been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer but she was determined to use the time remaining to her in the cause closest to her heart.

“It’s a difficult thing to be told that you’ve got something that can’t be cured, but I’m not going to let it define me.”

She gained a new follower while she was in a hospice in Edinburgh: Joanne, a writer sometimes known as Robert Galbraith, who got in touch and began her own journey in the defence of women’s hard-won rights. The rest, as they say, is history.

I’ve spoken before of the quite lovely invisible threads of sisterhood connecting women in history to each other.

Olympe de Gouges’ 1791 Declaration of The Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen influenced Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792. Mary inspired Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Elizabeth, a vocal supporter, reflected Mary’s views in her verse-novel, Aurora Leigh, which in turn influenced Susan B. Anthony’s thinking about the traditional roles of women. Susan’s fight led in time to the Nineteenth Amendment which finally granted American women the vote in 1920.

One of the invisible threads connecting us today leads directly back to Magdalen. In her sharply intelligent, uncompromisingly honest and wickedly funny manner, she said what so many women were thinking. She made us feel less alone. Her clarity of thought, her determination and spirit, were so integral to the gender critical movement that she is still an inspiration to women everywhere.

When her many friends gathered at Holborn’s Conway Hall on Burns night in 2020 to celebrate Magdalen’s life, which was tragically cut short on 13 September 2019, Marion said, “She wanted everyone to all be together, to chat, to have a glass of wine, to be able to disagree.  She was totally against any form of purity politics…What Magdalen wanted was for everyone to have a good time: talk to each other; get to know each other. She, as we all know, was a big fan of a party.”

How proud Magdalen would be today to know of For Women Scotland’s stunning victory on 16 April 2025, when her three friends secured a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court that women means biological women.

The ramifications of that are only just becoming apparent. Forget the WEF; this is *our* Great Reset. It torpedoes fifteen years of deliberate obfuscation and downright lies. We know we are back to square one. We know that we will have to retake the whole field inch by inch. But we also know that we have the law behind us now and we will win.

Magdalen left us too soon but her spirit lives on.

“I love you guys and I love the community that I’ve created here, and I hope it continues…For other people to do the same and stand up for what you believe in. Because, as I’ve always said, there’s a lot more to worry about than being called silly names.”

[Kamran Abbasi @KamranAbbasi]

Why it is wrong to conflate sex and gender when collecting and analysing medical data ⁦@mgtmccartney⁩ ⁦@susan_bewley⁩ ⁦@bmj_latest⁩ https://t.co/hEg0ipAF6S

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@jk_rowling @stingerdelux We have a women’s, a men’s and a mixed pond. But transwomen (men) still demand access to the women’s. It says it all.

Trans women's access to Ladies' Pond 'considered'

https://t.co/UH8b03G0Ei