@maliharez @KatieCurtis@kira_millana ♀️ oppression is based on our bodies, not our personalities. We must have clear language to address our specific issues. So TW are TW bc they are male. Difference can and should be celebrated in a egalitarian society. Arguing to ignore reality is unhelpful and unnecessary.
@ImWatson91 The Fifth Sacred Thing, by Starhawk. I enjoy world building novels describing utopian and dystopian societies. I've read TLW twice, 1st years before hunger games, etc. it was such a simple disturbing idea, it really stuck with me.
@darryn_briggs@TheWWEReject Gutless congress could legislate & not leave all decisions to the courts. If u buy this existential threat trap, ur stuck btw these corporate owned parties. Stop watching cable news for your own sake, its the same game & the working class are the losers every time on both sides.
Ontario...if you haven't had to have bloodwork done lately, or screening tests, you're in for quite a shock. 86$ dropped at LifeLabs today thanks to @fordnation taking cancer screening blood work off the list of OHIP covered test. Just the beginning of privatization by stealth.
If you think physical intimidation, assault, targeting opponents' employers and sending women death and rape threats are acceptable as long as it's your side doing it, you support those things, full stop.
If you think history will be kind to you, think again.
#LetWomenSpeak
If only we already had generations of serious political writing and thinking devoted to this very subject, written by the very people who face sex-based oppression (a feature of which might include "having all your work ignored because of gender (social)")
A wee thread on the kids protesting the @Womans_Place_UK meeting in Bristol. This picture really struck me. This young woman is protesting against feminists who are working together to make women's rights stronger and to support each other. Her banner suggests that this is equal
Sex Matters and @fairplaywomen have made a formal offer to sponsor the prestigious sixth Women’s CiCLE Classic, part of the British Cycling Women’s National Road Series.
#SaveWomensSports#SexMatters
https://t.co/drrWh4SLYi
Children and young people being given puberty blockers, negatively impacting sexual functioning and sterilizing them, is “a huge anti-pleasure, anti-sex backlash.” By 18, having taken puberty blockers, Jazz Jennings did not know the difference between an orgasm and a sneeze.
Another example of the terrifying tendency to "investigate" disagreement (i.e., Orwell's "thoughtcrime"): I’m Being Investigated by the BC College of Nurses Because I Believe Biological Sex Is Real https://t.co/mEDnH2XtGg
History will judge whether Dr David Bell was a hateful transphobe or trying to alert people to a medical scandal, but he's far from the only health professional raising these concerns (and I have the letters and emails to prove it.)
@RAdamHalls @Jazzdeep85 @SabrinaJGray @CamiyKrab@jk_rowling I tried using female, still do, to be clear and inclusive, but that also makes TW angry and now they claim they are female too. This entitled behaviour is out of control, I've had enough. I say No!
@RAdamHalls @Jazzdeep85 @SabrinaJGray @CamiyKrab@jk_rowling Also, I don't think this is about TM, it's about our right to use a word to describe ourselves alone W & TM for that matter. It's important for healthcare, science, statistics, we are a distinct group with specific biology, challenges, issues to address no matter how we ID,
@RAdamHalls@CamiyKrab @SabrinaJGray @jk_rowling That's not how categorization works. 100% of those who mensturate are women, or female if you prefer. Those who don't, like myself, are women for other criteria that fit the category.
@HugatreeMe@Rept87 @SabrinaJGray @jk_rowling This is silly, do you actually not understand how categorization works? Those who menstruate are women, or female if you prefer, 100% of the time. It doesn't mean women who don't, like myself, don't fit the category for other reasons.