Fran Chats ♀💜🤍💚

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

Beautiful Irish-Israeli Kim Damti would have been 25 years old today. She was murdered by Hamas on October 7th.

May your memory be a blessing, Kim.

[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

Barnaby Philip John Webber
11/01/2004-13/06/2023 💔

If you can, share these images of the beautiful soul stolen from us by the worst of humanity.

Let his face today burn bright.
Barney, I promise you there will be accountability 💛💚

For You. For Grace. For Ian.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

12 June 1892 | German Jewish woman, Sophia Serphos, was born in Neuenhaus. She emigrated to the Netherlands.

In March 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://t.co/Tx6rSvPyZL

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

13 June 1937 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Naomi Plattner, was born.

In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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Children at Auschwitz
📖 Lesson: https://t.co/76Qn5Zseha
🎧 Podcast: https://t.co/XfLNMGnx4H

[Fran Chats ♀💜🤍💚 @FranChats]

@ZackPolanski One of them broke the spine of a police officer with a sledge hammer. They also caused a huge amount of criminal damage. These actions go way beyond the right to protest.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

Hello all. A quick update from me.

My sex screen assay is progressing well.

I promised rapid: I can detect SRY from a cheek swab in about 30 minutes. I am currently testing whether I can drop it to 10 minutes without compromising reliability.

I promised cheap: The current cost per assay is about £2. I am currently testing whether I can drop this to below the pound line, and it’s very promising.

I promised accessible: The assay could be run by any grassroots sports coach, school nurse, and my Mum.

I promised on-site: This is where my lab efforts are currently focussed. I’ve always held “from the UK to Uganda” as a principle, and ensuring easy deployment is crucial. I’m currently learning a lot of materials science…

The other main push is setting up various blinded, larger-scale tests. This will require lots of form filling.

If anyone wants to help me hit my final budget target, my crowdfunder is here.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt.

In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

MP Emily Thornberry joins 120 colleagues in support of men like this to have unfettered access to female-only spaces with your daughters, nieces, mothers, female friends.
And she turns off replies because she’s doesn’t want to hear dissent.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

I stand with the brave women of Afghanistan who face guns, bullets, beatings and arrest, simply for saying no to forced hijab.

I tried to cover my face. I couldn't breathe behind that piece of cloth for even a few seconds. A total humiliation. And the Taliban is demanding Afghan women wear it for a lifetime.

To every Western politician who calls the burqa Afghan "culture" you’re better listen to Women, Afghanistan, and Iran, who lived under Islamic regimes. You're sitting in a parliament in a free country, with a salary and a vote and a podium calling this culture. This is a total betrayal to us who are wounded but unbowed to our oppressors.

Stop legitimizing Taliban. Be the voice of women of Afghanistan. Who wants to end this Apartheid regime.

#LetUsTalk

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

9 June 1905 | A Dutch Jew, Eliazar Blok, was born in The Hague. A musician.

On 20 January 1944 he was transferred from #Westerbork to #Theresienstadt Ghetto, and on 28 September 1944 deported to #Auschwitz. He perished in Dachau in April 1945.

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

Sir, We have written to Professor Irene Tracey, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, to express our grave concern regarding the disruption of Dr Michael Foran’s lectures on “Sex, Gender Identity and the Law” (“Protests cancel Oxford gender lectures”, Jun 9). After disruption of the first two lectures in the planned series, which included intimidation of students in the audience by the demonstrators, Dr Foran felt obliged to cancel the remaining lectures.

It appears that the university proctors authorised and facilitated protests inside the lecture theatre and did nothing to remove miscreants. Members of the Proctors’ Office, including senior figures, can be seen in videos of the disruption. The proctors have enabled the exercise of a heckler’s veto.

The failure of the proctors to uphold the essential functions of the university has created a hostile and degrading environment for Dr Foran and his students, and will inevitably contribute to a chilling effect, constraining the discussion of sex and gender at the university. The disruption of lectures violates the rights of students to listen, participate in discussion, and learn from their lecturers and from one another. The university must act to ensure that Dr Foran’s lectures can be rescheduled, and that no disruptive protest will be authorised. The proctors should receive training to ensure that they understand their duties.
https://t.co/ZtdjwsMuja

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

10 June 1940 | French Jewish girl Camille Himmelfarb was born in Paris.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 18 September 1942 in a transport of 1,003 Jews deported from Drancy. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

9 June 1897 | A Czech Jew, Leo Glück, was born in Uhersky Brod.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 1 February 1943. He did not survive.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

9 June 1937 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Gyuri Köppich, was born.

In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://t.co/6eiP6NhuGE

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

8 June 1875 | A Czech Jewish woman, Kamila Kapellnerová, was born in Roudnice nad Labem.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt on 18 December 1943. She did not survive.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

9 June 1877 | Dutch Jewish woman, Rebecca Roosnek (nee Dreese), was born in Amsterdam. She emigrated to Belgium.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 15 January 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

[Fran Chats ♀💜🤍💚 @FranChats]

@JackxJewell The little hijabi baby hehe 😂👶! How do they know it’s a girl before they can ask her? They just went with ‘what the doctor said’. Transphobic bigots! So genderrrrrrrrd! (And no, I don’t think it’s just meant to represent a tiny swaddled newborn.)

[Fran Chats ♀💜🤍💚 @FranChats]

@jk_rowling @9Discordia9 @roughedges___ Naturally 😂

[Cervixen of the Clitorians @cervixen]

The Gender-Critical or "TERF" Position is a materialist analysis of sex, gender, and women’s rights. It is not a theory of hatred toward trans-identified people. It is a claim about the importance of sex as a real, human, and materially significant category in law, language, medicine, safeguarding, sport, and feminism.

Trans activists often misrepresent the views of GC feminists, sex realists and TERFs becaue honesty would cause them to lose the argument.

The following is an attempt to represent my position as a gender critical, sex realist and radical feminist precisely so it is easier to see when that view is being intentionally misrepresented and/or understood by bad faith representatives of trans activism.

I know my own position better than anyone. Bad faith is presuming to tell me what my own position is in order to discredit me. That's worse than a strawman, and the main tactic of gender essentialist activism.

Here is my actual position: the only position I need to defend:

1. Sex is real and materially significant

Sex in human beings is not an identity, a feeling, a role, or a personality type. It is a reproductive and developmental category: male and female are the two human sex classes that are the means of human reproduction. Male is the sex class organized around the development of small, mobile gametes and female is the sex class organized around the development of large, immobile gametes.

This does not mean every person is fertile, typical, or currently capable of reproduction. Infertility, menopause, hysterectomy, castration, DSDs, injury, age, or illness do not erase sex. Sex is not a human performance and there is no standard for sex beyond teproductive role. Sex is a human condition and an innate, immutable attribute of the human body.

Gender-critical feminists reject the idea that sex is “assigned at birth” in the sense of being invented, guessed, or arbitrarily imposed by authority. In ordinary cases, sex is observed and recorded. Even in rare, extraordinary cases with ambiguous secondary sex characteristics, with modern instrumentation, the primary atrribute of sex is observable at the definitive level beyond the crude level of external genitalia at the cellular level.

2. Women are female human beings

In this framework, “woman” means an adult human female. “Girl” means a juvenile human female.

This definition does not depend on femininity, beauty, clothing, sexual behaviour, reproductive capacity, compliance, heterosexuality, or conformity to stereotypes. A woman can be masculine, feminine, lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, celibate, infertile, disabled, old, young, gender-nonconforming, or medically atypical. She remains a woman because she is female.

The position is therefore not that women must look, act, dress, think, or feel a certain way. It is the opposite: women should be free from the sex-based stereotypes traditionally imposed on female people.

3. Gender is not sex

Radical feminism distinguishes sex from gender.
Sex refers to the embodied, biological male/female distinction.
Gender refers to the social roles, stereotypes, expectations, behaviours, and hierarchies imposed on people because of sex.
Gender-critical feminism does not seek to preserve gender roles. It seeks to abolish their coercive power.

A feminine male does not become female. A masculine female does not become male. No one should have to change sex category, medically alter their body, or adopt a new identity to be allowed to reject sexist expectations.

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[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Woman of the Day Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, born OTD in 1836 in Whitechapel. First woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon, co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, first woman Dean of a medical school, first woman elected to a school board, first woman Mayor. How did this remarkable woman manage to achieve all of that in her 81 years?

She was inspired by her meeting in 1859 with Bristol-born Elizabeth Blackwell who became the first woman doctor in the US some ten years earlier. The following year, 23 year old Elizabeth confided in her 13 year old sister Millie her friend, Emily Davies, as they were brushing their hair by the fireside at home.

Emily pointed out, “Women can get nowhere unless they are as well educated as men. I shall open the universities.” “Yes,” said Elizabeth, “we need education but we need an income too and we can't earn that without training and a profession. I shall start women in medicine. But what shall we do with Millie?” Emily knew exactly what was needed: “After these things are done, we must see about getting the vote. You are younger than we are, Millie, so you must attend to that."

Elizabeth’s first hurdle was to overcome the opposition of her parents. Her father believed “the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment”. That wasn’t uncommon. Victorian beliefs about women’s physical, mental, and emotional natures led to men — well, you know how expert they are on all matters pertaining to women — arguing that menstruation and education were incompatible.

She applied to the medical school at Middlesex Hospital. No women allowed, so she enrolled as a nursing student instead and employed a tutor privately to study anatomy and physiology three evenings a week. When she sat in on some medical classes, male students complained. In fact they raised a petition against her, so she was obliged to leave but did so with an honours certificate in chemistry and materia medica.

Next, Elizabeth tried applying to other medical schools. They turned her down, all of them, so armed with her certificate in anatomy and physiology, she applied to the Society of Apothecaries. Its charter meant it could not legally exclude her on account of her sex and so on 28 September 1865, she sat the exam in the Apothecaries Hall with 51 men. She was one of just three who passed. Top marks too. This meant she could lawfully practise medicine, so how did the SA celebrate this success? It immediately changed its rules to prevent other women from using the same loophole.

Elizabeth couldn’t persuade any hospital to offer her a post despite her excellent academic record so she opened her own practice in London. It took off when cholera broke out and people panicked. Well, even a mere woman was better than nothing. By then, she had opened St Mary's Dispensary for Women and Children, and in the first year, treated 3,000 new patients in 9,300 outpatient visits.

Learning that the Sorbonne was considering admitting women as medical students, Elizabeth studied French until she was fluent and finally obtained her much prized medical degree in 1870, at the age of 40.

In the same year, a letter was published in The Lancet representative of the views of many male medical practitioners, particularly specialists in gynaecology and obstetrics: that women lacked “the coolness and strength of nerves” required of a doctor, and “the constitutional variations of the female system, at the best are uncertain and not to be relied upon”.

Those pesky periods again, sapping our brains.

The British Medical Register refused to recognise Elizabeth’s degree.

Still unable to find a hospital post, Elizabeth did the only sensible thing she could do. In 1871, she opened the New Hospital for Women. It staffed entirely by women and Elizabeth Blackwell came on staff as a professor of gynecology. It was hugely popular and enjoyed an excellent reputation for patient outcomes.

In 1873, she became the first woman to be admitted to the British Medical Association. It immediately voted to bar any other women members and held that position for nearly twenty years.

Ever heard of Patriarchy Chicken? Welcome to Patriarchy Snakes and Ladders.

When one of the Edinburgh Seven, Sophia Jex-Blake, opened the London School of Medicine for Women in 1874, Elizabeth taught there and in a 1877 meeting in support of the school, said that there was "nothing injurious to the health, the morals, or the manners of women in a medical education, and that the results were likely to prove beneficial to the female sex and to the nation". The two women didn’t always see eye to eye but in 1883, Elizabeth was elected as Dean of the LSMW. She continued to lobby strenuously for women to enter the medical profession.

The British Medical Register eventually capitulated in 1877 and agreed to register women as medical practitioners. The BMA capitulated in 1893 because its members “needed no convincing of the justness of her demands…she had already by her professional and public life done this very thoroughly", and overwhelmingly voted in favour.

Six years after she retired in 1902, she became the first woman mayor in Britain, Mayor of Aldeburgh.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson died in 1917 at 81, having kept her promise to Emily and to her sister, Millie. Millicent Garrett Fawcett.

"Women can less easily afford to be second-rate, their professional work will be more closely scrutinised; mistakes will ruin them more quickly than they will men.”