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[Prof. Gary Francione @garylfrancione]

Past manifestations of sexism/misogyny have focused on according less weight to women's interests. Trans ideology goes further in that it requires that we abolish women as a sex class and make them a subset of the class of "women," which can include males.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

The only one coping here is you. If you want to say that you’re a woman, I can’t stop you. No one can. However, you are not entitled to force the rest of us to agree with what is very obviously your opinion.

I am a woman because I am female. You “are a woman” because you say you are. It is not the same thing. Nothing I or anyone else can do will make me cease being a woman. Your “womanhood” only exists when it is acknowledged, and if someday you choose to detransition, it will cease to exist at all in the twinkling of an eye.

My womanhood doesn’t have to be insisted upon or disclosed. I don’t need a pronoun pin. Every person who sees me knows exactly what I am — and dude, they know what you are too.

My womanhood is an objective, physical reality that is evident whether I announce its existence or not. It will outlive me, and can be scientifically tested for. It is not dependent on clothing, the length of my hair, or the state of my makeup. I will still very obviously be a woman if dead, unconscious, and/or naked. My claim to womanhood is an biological, quantifiable, observable reality. Your “womanhood” exists solely within the confines of your head, and the rest of us are supposed to just believe you.

Well, that’s not how it works. You can’t force people to believe things that can’t be objectively verified, or to agree with your opinions. That’s like forcing people to follow your religion, and we don’t do that in a free society.

I am a woman - an adult female human being. You are a man who wishes he wasn’t male. We are not the same, and we never will be. Womanhood is not a commodity you can buy

[Mirror Politics @MirrorPolitics]

Keir Starmer 'humbled' after meeting Henry Nowak family as he calls for calm
https://t.co/Qbt5WgjNWF

[teresa smith @treesey]

Listen to the @cityoflondon committee deliberations.

This is how they propose to decide who can and cannot access into the Hampstead women’s pond: staff will ‘use common sense’ if someone is ‘very apparently a man trying to use the Ladies Pond’

[Al🌱 @oldladygarden]

@jk_rowling @Bird_OnA_Wire Said it before, I’ll say it again:

If you place 99 women in a room and 1 man, regardless of how they all present, the women will pick out the man in a nanosecond.

[Nora @NoraTheBora]

Sharron Davies could put on a terrible wig, do some over-the-top make-up, wear ill-fitting overly revealing Women’s clothes, constantly flick her hair out her eyes, sit on the floor, mansplain things, screech ‘trans women are women,’ and guess what? Every single person she encountered would still know, with 100% certainty that she is a woman. Every man who does the same is clocked before his ass hits the floor.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

@jk_rowling The only reason they do this pathetic attempt at an insult is because they know she is a woman.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

1. Women’s spaces are for women. It’s irrelevant how the women look.

2. Men don’t belong in women’s spaces. It’s irrelevant how the men look.

3. Most trans-identified men would give at least one ball to look like Sharron Davies.

[Kathryn Walker 🌹 💙 🌻 @KathrynDW59]

You couldn’t make it up…! The new Reform leader of Gateshead Council has just announced that his administration will be banning all gifts to councillors. Someone ought to remind of the £5m ‘gift’ to his party leader ….🙄

[Cathy Newman @cathynewman]

In the last 48 hours I’ve been deluged with 100s of vile, misogynistic tweets and death threats. Why? For doing my job: asking @ZiaYusufUK questions about claims by @Nigel_Farage of 2-tier policing. I spoke about this on tonight’s show. Enough is enough. https://t.co/SSHiAI3Umc

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

This is yet another reason why Andy Burnham should withdraw any challenge to the leadership of the Labour Party.

The warning from the head of the Armed Forces should not be treated lightly.

When the most senior military figures in the country are publicly warning that the United Kingdom faces one of the most dangerous periods in recent memory, the priority should be stability, focus and effective government.

Britain is already dealing with a range of geopolitical threats and economic pressures, many of which are beyond our direct control. This is hardly the moment for Labour to become consumed by internal manoeuvring, leadership speculation and factional disputes.

Burnham's case for leadership continues to rest largely upon a series of aspirational policies that, in my view, cannot realistically be delivered within the time remaining under the mandate won by Sir Keir Starmer and Labour at the last general election. Whatever the merits of those ideas, they do not address the immediate challenges facing the country today.

There also needs to be a degree of realism within the Parliamentary Labour Party. National security, defence and international stability are not secondary concerns that can simply be pushed aside while politicians engage in internal contests. They are fundamental responsibilities of government.

Nor should anyone forget how we arrived at this point. The state of Britain's armed forces, public finances and wider national resilience did not emerge overnight. The responsibility for much of that decline rests with fourteen years of Conservative government.

That is why this is not a moment for political games. It is a moment for serious government. Labour possesses a substantial parliamentary majority and a clear democratic mandate. In uncertain times, stability matters. A government focused on delivery is far better placed to deal with these challenges than a party distracted by an unnecessary leadership contest.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Gent in pink slams Reform UK's Robert Kenyon,

"As a community we want a normal person, a real person stepping in and taking charge to make sure that people of our constituency can get ahead in life the best they can"

"I would rather have a community made up of diversity, of women, of LGBT people, of young people, of people with disabilities"

"Than someone like yourself who is sexist"

"And has shown on more than one occassion an opposition to diversity"

"Just as your party Reform UK does"

[𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙡 𝙈𝙮𝙚𝙧𝙨 @PhilMyers53]

Challenging a sitting Prime Minister who delivered a huge majority is a high-risk move that could easily come across as self-serving ego rather than serious politics

STICK WITH STARMER

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Fiona Bruce is actually a terrible journalist. Big up the audience member who brought up the £5M donation that Nigel Farage received from the crypto billionaire.

And he did say "up the ra" for £87.

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

I’ve been mass-reported after posting about Sunday’s trans protest against women’s right to single sex space. My account is throttled and views severely restricted.

Fragile egos on those boys. 🤣

[Viviane: 🌹Labour led by Keir for me @LaindonFEMINIST]

Given Wes Streeting has royally messed up all eyes are on Burnham to be the ‘saviour’ He doesn’t look or sound like a saviour to me. He’s no relevant experience and his sales pitch to Makerfield doesn’t land for being PM. He’s bitten off way more than he can chew. Failures both

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"'No signs of life' in stream after sewage spill."

And the @EnvAgency does what exactly?

https://t.co/4ZyaFy96BX

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

There's confusion, so here's that EHRC guidance in plain Sunday Sport language:
'Lads, if you want to play dress up and have a wank, crack on. Just not in the ladies' shithouse, eh?'

[Viviane: 🌹Labour led by Keir for me @LaindonFEMINIST]

@Imogenlemon02 @lawks1 And doing an excellent job of it.

[Imogen @Imogenlemon02]

Wes Streeting says he’ll join a leadership race if someone else triggers one. And Andy Burnham says he’ll join in if Streeting triggers one.

Whilst these ballerinas pirouette around the stage, Keir Starmer ignores the noise of these usurpers and gets on being Prime Minister.