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Gender blasphemy laws 👎🏻. Magical gender souls don’t exist. Liking pink ≠ girl. Mantras ≠ facts.

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@Tachardiella @SwipeWright Britain still holding the line, as is her wont. Hold fast Terf Island.

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@owenjonesjourno Happily, this dishonest rhetoric no longer flies Owen. You lost the argument, years ago in fact, you just haven’t noticed yet.

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@oncloud_e

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@teaganXross @babybeginner You can say trans women are women until your voice is horse, but it just doesn’t make it so. You might not know this, but words don’t have some magical power to re-write millions of years of evolutionary history, actually.

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'He has a point, but he's too blunt.'

From the start, a key tactic of the gender identitarians has been linguistic prescription, and it's proved shockingly successful. Trans activists' shibboleths and euphemisms have been allowed to penetrate the upper echelons of our culture with devastating consequences to freedom of speech and belief. Huge swathes of liberal media, the arts, academia and publishing have thrown themselves with gusto into the defence of a quasi-religious belief causing provable real world harm, and in their arrogance they've been outraged when people they assumed were part of their In Group have refused to march meekly along in lock step.

Time and again, I've seen and heard well-educated people who consider themselves critical thinkers and bold truth-tellers squirm when put on the spot. 'Well, yes, maybe there's something in what you're saying, but it's hateful/provocative/rude not to use the approved language/pretend people can literally change sex/keep drawing attention to medical malpractice or opportunistic sexual predators. Why can't you be nice? Why won't you pretend? We thought you were one of us! Don't you realise we have sophisticated new words and phrases these days that obviate the necessity of thinking any of this through?'

As the vibe shifts, and a lot of people in the elite professions start trying to reposition themselves, the obvious place to start is, 'it's not that I couldn't see your point, but did you have to say it that way?' We dissenters were supposed to find a way of questioning the chemical castration of children while calling it 'gender affirming care.' We were meant to defend the rights of vulnerable women while also using female pronouns for male rapists. We should have found a way to discuss fairness for women and girls in sport, while pretending that the ineradicable physical advantage men have over women doesn't exist.

Either a man can be a woman, or he can't. Either women deserve rights, or they don't. Either there's a provable medical benefit to transitioning children, or there isn't. Either you're on the side of a totalitarian ideology that seeks to impose falsehoods on society through the threat of ostracisation, shaming and violence, or you're not. The alternative to being 'blunt' - using accurate, factual language to describe what was going on - was to surrender freedom of speech and espouse ideological jargon that obfuscated the issues and the harms caused. We've always needed blunt people, but we need them most of all when being asked to bow down to a naked emperor.

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@robbystarbuck @HelenWebberley Employing all the emotional regulation I can muster to get through this.

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@esjesjesj Nice dodge there. How about answering the question though?

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@Rule093 Performative apathy dressed up as wisdom. You’ve almost convinced yourself you don’t care. Almost.

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The wokes’ relentless overplaying of accusations of ‘biological reductionism’, transphobia, bigotry etc, once imbued with moral gravity, now lie inert & debased by overuse. They’ve drained their language of all potency & once serious indictments have devolved into self-parody.

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@NIWoman71 @JamesEsses @ChapelHigh No human being particularly likes being forced to affirm a lie either. So what to do?

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@libbyemmons Off the charts entitlement.

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@jk_rowling @johnboyne Apologies to the gender taliban, my index finger accidentally slipped on to the Kindle Edition Buy Now button for his ‘Water’ Novella.

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@sugarGSP You are brain dead.

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@FondOfBeetles @PinchesLynne @sharrond62 @Martina @JeanHatchet @ThePosieParker @WomensRightsNet @SexMattersOrg @gina_auria @roseveniceallan Is common sense finally back or something??

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@FondOfBeetles @PinchesLynne @sharrond62 @Martina @JeanHatchet @ThePosieParker @WomensRightsNet @SexMattersOrg @gina_auria @roseveniceallan Is the expectation that UPG & WEBF will now align with EBPF’s policy as a result of this decision?