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[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Painted Lady Butterfly face to face with an approaching Cabbage White Butterfly! 😁😍
Taken from my bedroom window. 😊🦋

[Nordic Model Now! @nordicmodelnow]

“I was an altruistic surrogate for some friends, carrying and giving birth to twins. It was an incredibly traumatic experience, and afterwards I had to receive treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I never talk to anyone about my experience as I still find it utterly devastating.

[…]

I am left with birth injuries, incontinence, and with diastasic recti (separation of the abdominal muscles) which all cause me daily problems. I do not know what the long term health impacts will be of taking large amounts of synthetic hormones, nor the potential increased risk of breast cancer as I did not breastfeed the babies.

I am now completely against ALL surrogacy, both commercial (which is completely immoral in my view) and altruistic unpaid surrogacy. The potential for abuse is too great. Women should not be encouraged to endanger their emotional and physical health and safety for other people’s ‘need’ to have babies. Women matter. Women should not be encouraged to put ourselves second, and to risk our lives for other people.

I recommend that ALL surrogacy should be made unlawful as other countries have done. The law should not be changed to make it easier to exploit women, both women who are vulnerable through poverty and those who are simply well-meaning and ill-informed like me.

I also often think of the poor, young female student in Eastern Europe who had to endure egg harvesting and the life-long consequences of that, to pay for her studies. There is very little that is ‘ethical’ about surrogacy.”

Link to the full article in the next tweet.

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

Promoting gender identity to children is a conversion practice
Promoting gender identity to children is a conversion practice
Promoting gender identity to children is a conversion practice
Promoting gender identity to children is a conversion practice
Promoting gender identity to children is a conversion practice
Promoting gender identity to children is a conversion practice

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I do not subscribe to your ideology, which means I do not believe in ‘cis’ and ‘trans’ in the essentialist way you apply the terms. I don’t believe anyone is ‘born in the wrong body’ because I don’t believe in gendered essences or souls. Gender dysphoria exists, as does fetishism. As far as human rights go, a man’s motivation for presenting as a woman is irrelevant. Society either agrees they’re all women if they want to be, or that they’re men with diverse motivations, none of which entitle them to women’s spaces.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

If you want to push back against tech’s encroachment into every corner of our lives, you need to be reading books. They’re keen to create a world in which most people are illiterate & addicted to slop, a world without poetry, imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

No, you aren’t “unfortunately joined to the intersex movement”.

You have systematically - and without any consideration for people with possibly traumatic medical conditions - parasitised those individuals for your own purposes.

You have weaponised them in the most shocking and ugly fashion.

You have made these individuals the lynchpin upon which your entire ideology rests, and you care not one jot beyond that which you can exploit and demean them.

You wield DSDs carelessly but deliberately.

None of you care about DSDs. You care only about using people to mangle biology.

Fuck off.

[History_of_Geology @Geology_History]

May 18, 1920, during a meeting of the German Geographical Society in Leipzig, meteorologist and geophysicist Alfred Wegener presents his theory that continents move over time, providing also a map showing the former position of the continents
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[screen name @ktmx]

#IStandWithSallGrover

[Evidence Based Treatment @DoNoHarm79]

#IStandWithSallGrover 💜🤍💚

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Baby orangutans don't know how to climb right away; their mother teaches them.

This is why the mother's role is so important in all species, including orangutans.

[📹 hoglezoo]

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

It is evening, as a woman with young children shops in the brightly-lit vegetable market at Koyasuchō in Kanagawa Prefecture, in this woodblock print by Ishiwata Kōitsu (1931)

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

Every word

[Duncan @DuncanHenry78]

Firstly - I see plenty of women forced to cover their faces. The specific burqa/niqab distinction is pedantry.

However what I really want you to note here is again - the disregard for women.

Daniel - do you think people object to this misogynistic visible enslavement of women because they don’t like how it looks?? Maybe that is what they think - probably because they only listen to men saying that and not the many many women pointing out it’s a visible signal of female slavery!

If *zero* women in the U.K. covered their faces in submission to the *worst patriarchal ideology in the world* then I’d still want our free society to say “this is wrong”

Because of course it’s wrong. Millions of women worldwide are living in slavery. That’s not hyperbole either. They are enslaved by any definition.

“It doesn’t matter because there aren’t many people I can see enslaved” is pretty appalling as a sentiment.

I’m not even particularly “pro ban” because I think it would have an “out of sight out of mind” effect but I’m again staggered by this attitude of it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t affect me.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Breuer. He's here to let you know it's National Puppy Day. Doesn't know what that means but hopes it involves snacks. 12/10

[Winslow Homer @artisthomer]

Under the Falls, the Grand Discharge #artbots #homer

[Nick Osmond-Jones 🇨🇦 @Nick_Decap]

Below is a passage from the decision. People really need to understand what this means: if you say you don't believe in gender identity, that's hate speech, and the BC Human Rights Tribunal will financially destroy you. This is groundbreaking, and not in a good way.

Here is the quote:

Throughout this process, Mr. Neufeld and his counsel were incredulous at the suggestion that, by attacking “gender ideology”, he was denying the existence of trans people. This is reflected in his closing submissions:

"Gender ideology may be summarized as the belief system that everybody has a gender identity; that this gender identity is not determined by the biological sex of a person; that this gender identity therefore may be one of any number of gender identities such as masculine, feminine, “queer”, non-binary, or even more than one gender identity at a time; that anyone may assume any gender identity simply by self-identifying; and that a person actually is whatever gender identity that person thinks, regardless of biological sex. A believer of gender ideology therefore believes that if a person identifies as a man, that person actually is a man, regardless of whether the person is biologically male or female. As is to be expected, believers of this ideology do not regard it as a belief
system at all, but rather as an accurate and true account of the world. The teacher witnesses in this case repeatedly testified to this. However, the inescapable fact is that beliefs such as the belief that people have gender identities independent of biological sex, can change gender, or can hold more than one gender identity at a time are just that: beliefs. They are not hard, concrete, observable facts such as water is wet and fire is hot. In this way, genderideology is no different than other belief systems, such as the belief system that people were created by a spirit-being (i.e. “God”), have a spirit themselves, and that spirit will live on in a spiritual place after the physical death of the body."

We can think of no better example for how transpeople are denied than this passage.
Transpeople are, by definition, people “whose gender identity does not align with the sex assigned to them at birth”: Hansman at para. 12. If a person elects not to “believe” that gender identity is separate from sex assigned at birth, then they do not “believe” in transpeople. This is a form of existential denial: Oger (No. 7) at para. 61. It is not, as Mr. Neufeld argues, akin to religious beliefs. A person does not need to believe in Christianity to accept that another person is Christian. However, to accept that a person is transgender, one must accept that their gender identity is different than their sex assigned at birth.

[Elly Arrow @EllyArrow]

Saying mutual desire has to be the foundation of every consenual sexual encounter is considered the #sexnegative take, as opposed to people who want joyless, dissociative, and abusive "sex" (usually experienced as such by the woman) to go unquestioned and labeled #sexpositive...

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

In news that will surprise only the wilfully blind, Imane Khelif has admitted having the SRY “make male” gene.

In pursuit of their ideology, the International Olympic Committee not only allowed a male boxer into a ring with women, but also demanded we all STFU about it.

No.

[Hazel Appleyard @HazelAppleyard]

I’m not crying you’re crying

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

New Year in Japan