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Occasional gardener. Once upon a time a health & social care policy bod. Now likely to experience a rapid unscheduled disassembly. Feminist. All my own views.

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Seeing people on here spouting utter nonsense about social constructs is bringing back memories of when the Matrix came out in 1999 and suddenly every idiot teenager thought they were Gilbert Harman

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@greeborunner I did a 4 year BA at Oxford and later a Masters at Imperial (different subject). My undergraduate degree was unquestionably much more demanding in multiple ways. However I have never bought my MA Oxon as I think it is misleading people to believe you’ve done a separate degree

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@Channel4News The recording light should be required to be a visible (min size) RED light (like old video recorders). People comparing with CCTV do know that CCTV required by law to display clear visible signs in public and commercial spaces and that it’s for specific legitimate purposes only?

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@CronxBabe She’s on a mission to make the NHS follow the law. If NHS managers choose not to do so & thereby discriminate against female staff or patients they’re the ones damaging the NHS not staff bringing legal claims re their rights any more than patients with clinical
negligence claims

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@datadriven_tdoc What are these objective tests? Wears a skirt? Many women don’t. Long hair/make-up? Ditto. On hormones - does this change height, skeletal structure, reverse androgenisation? Are transmen banned from PED T? There’s just one way meaningfully to live “as a woman” & that’s to be one

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@sbliss89 She uses the wealth she has for a range of good causes focussed on supporting women & children including the amazing charity Lumos & sexual assault centre Beira’s Place. She also offers to support women affected by discrimination on basis of their sex or beliefs about their sex

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@QueenMab87 Not true and anyway men taking hormones are not female any more than the female eastern block athletes doped up on testosterone in the 1980s were thereby male (and even their cheating records were still short of male performance btw which demonstrates why there are separate cats)

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@Steve_Lawson93 That’s fine as long as they’re not doping on T which is a PED? Sometimes the categories are “women” and “open” so they could compete in that category if they wanted to although they’d be at a performance disadvantage…

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@grannies4equal Why do you think she’s happy to bankrupt the NHS rather than seeing this as NHS managers wilfully refusing to comply with the law being happy to bankrupt the NHS? As with claims re clinical negligence or H&S fails, victims supported to seek redress through law aren’t the villains

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@hughlaurie Hmm. As replies suggest, there are two ways one could read this tweet. As one is phenomenally stupid & misogynistic, implying women are just shorter men & confusing variation within with that between classes & I know you’re not stupid, I’m choosing to believe you didn’t mean that

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@Missmbl2812 Part of a parent’s job is to be the adult & honest with yr children - sometimes firmly, sometimes v sensitively. It’s untrue you can change sex or be born in the wrong body. This differs from rejecting gender stereotypes (good) or feeling discomfort w/who you are (many teens do)

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@residentadviser @AudreySuffolk I think than 12% of A level grades in 1990 were at grade A compared with c.28% in 2025 at grade A or A*

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@BasilTheGreat Incorrect. All male players regardless of gender identification are ineligible to compete in women’s competitions. Female transgender players who identify as men (or NB) are eligible to compete (as long as not doping on T) in women’s category as all bio male players can in men’s

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@Anthonysmdoyle A woman lives her life just like a man does except that she is a woman, everything she does, thinks, feels is just being a woman. It is impossible to live your life “as a woman” unless you are a woman. What people usu mean is someone has made some attempt to look like a woman

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@SportingNest QED the deep regressiveness, homophobia and sexism of the trans movement. Embracing a stereotypically feminine appearance is not what makes a woman. Women (and men) shd be entirely free to reject gender stereotypes. Really thought we’d moved on from this about 40 or 50 years ago

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@RealDanGliebitz “Communism”?! What did cafes do 15+ years ago? Law hasn’t changed. No one employed bouncers to check genitals. Usually if someone was in the wrong loo others politely asked them to leave or, if they felt afraid to, might have asked the manager to - largely never needed “policing”

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@ColinTheLefty Google variations within class or category and variations between classes or categories. Women’s only sport allows exceptional & outstanding (including exceptionally tall) women to excel & be recognised. Tall, strong, fast women still aren’t men. Mediocre men aren’t sporty women

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@lambeth_council @bphillipsonMP Used to live in Lambeth happily for many years but, seeing this, am so glad I don’t any more. The disrespect to your female constituents, disregard for women’s rights and wilful misreading of the the EA2010 - which has not changed and which protects us all - is unconscionable

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@BBCPanorama This is very one-sided. I’d expect more from BBC journalism. Where are the voices of pupils suffering & underachieving in unsafe, chaotic low expectations schools? The stories of teachers on LT sick leave due to stress from those environments? There are many of these. Investigate

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@datadriven_tdoc It is all or nothing. Imagine advocating a structure where men in the bottom decile by height/weight cd access women’s services & spaces or men who’d passed a kindness test or only men with a particular religious belief or only gay men - neither practical nor right in principle

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@Samfr 14 far too young. If they’re making pathway choices in eg May Yr 9, a no. will be only 13. Many yr 9 pupils find school hard for social/emotional reasons - cd influence v significant life choices. Many already disengage with subjects they think they wont do for GCSE & will worsen