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[Sam Barber @SamBarber1910]

8 years ago I returned to Twitter after a 6 month pause, which occurred after @jack Dorsey banned me because I had spent 3 years tracking his silencing of women, beginning with his ban of @MeghanEMurphy because she accurately pointed out that men are not women.
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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Great news. The Labour Party has finally found a woman they fancy as leader. It's a man who'll be 'a female PM in all but sex.'

A senior figure in the party actually thought that was a good thing to say out loud.

✍️ @ShippersUnbound

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The snooty outrage of a disgruntled 18th-century duchess forced to interact with the peasantry.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Pro tip: when arguing, try not to put words into your opponent's mouth that the opponent has never spoken. Try especially hard not to do this when you're arguing in a public forum where everyone can see exactly what has, and hasn't, been said.

You're angered that I use accurate language to describe the sexes, because the whole edifice of your ideology collapses if you acknowledge that sex is binary, that it is impossible to change sex, that sex has material, important consequences and that legal rights should be based on observable facts rather than unfalsifiable concepts.

You're working backwards from your preferred conclusion and you're prepared to advance nonsensical arguments to do it. Your attempts to change the meaning of the words 'man' and 'woman', to shift them into philosophical concepts, do not change material reality. I'm with Friedrich Engels: "These gentlemen think that when they have changed the names of things they have changed the things themselves. This is how these profound thinkers mock at the whole world."

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You might find it difficult to do two things at once, Paul, but I find it remarkably easy to enjoy the millions I've made while continuing to care about women's rights.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

135 British MPs are fighting guidance that would deny ‘Paula’ the right to enter women’s and girls’ changing rooms.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

What does a man have to do to not be called “she”?