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[🦋 Red Velvet 🦋 @Red_Velvet_ESR]

Calling someone a bigot is not an argument.

Calling someone hateful doesn’t answer their question.

And accusing women of being dangerous simply because they believe sex matters doesn’t resolve the policy problem they’re raising.

If your position is sound, explain why. Don’t just try to make the person asking the question too frightened to speak.

[🎶 Truth Bombs 🎶 @Truth7point83]

@wokeandwoofing Ironically Martin Rothblatt the trannytranshumanist almost says exactly that. This is a crazy read. https://t.co/RBRycdzeAj

[Lin 🇫🇮 @Lfromthenorth]

"Terfs don't support butches"

Butches are gender non conforming lesbian women. Terfs are critical of gender stereotypes and norms.

Ofc we support them, and many terfs are butches themselves.

Actually, we CELEBRATE female masculinity, bc they are breaking free from the norms (femininity) that society is enforcing on women. That is a feat in of itself ❤️🙏

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@Tweeterandthemm @Lfromthenorth You think the bishop is a terf? What does this have to do with anything?

[🦋 Red Velvet 🦋 @Red_Velvet_ESR]

There is something deeply ironic about people claiming to care about equality while telling women that certain questions are no longer acceptable to ask.

Who gets to define a woman?
Why do female categories exist?
How do we protect privacy?
What happens when rights conflict?

These are legitimate questions. Telling women they’re wicked for asking them doesn’t make them disappear.

[Mean Lesbian @MeanLesbiandyke]

African women don't have the luxury to pretend woman is a costume. Our oppression is sex-based. FGM, breast ironing, child marriage, bride price, period exile, widow cleansing, forced pregnancy, corrective rape…all done to us because we are FEMALE.

[Nicky 🍀OFAB♀️KPSS @Drusilla451]

Any male who tries to crowbar himself into lesbian spaces or sexuality is a homophobic, rapey POS

[🦋 Red Velvet 🦋 @Red_Velvet_ESR]

Imagine telling a woman that she’s bigoted for wanting to undress around other females rather than males.

Imagine telling a rape survivor that her discomfort is an ideological problem she needs to overcome.

Women have different needs, experiences and boundaries. Acknowledging that isn’t hatred. It’s recognising that women are human beings with rights of their own.

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@MissVelvetDo @motszerlla „Nobody ever says that, but if they do its not relevant enough for me to care, so I keep insisting it doesn’t happen and if you point it out you are hysterical“… typical. And yes, I am angry about males trying to coerce women into sex, its very telling that you aren’t

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@MissVelvetDo @motszerlla This „mass delusion“ comes from trans women repeatedly threatening lesbians for not wanting their „girl dick“, calling them genital fetishists, etc. I know denying reality is part of your whole identity but its getting ridiculous

[ꜱᴄʜʀᴏᴅɪɴɢᴇʀ'ꜱ ᴄᴀᴛ @IsTheCatAlive]

1.Women in Afghanistan are only allowed to see female doctors.

2.Women are banned from education beyond the 5th grade.

3.Women cannot become doctors and are banned from medical institutes.

Now read 1 again.

[san @ndsnas]

I am once again asking, why is the rage and horror of women at men’s violence always scolded and policed, and why aren’t men not ashamed enough that their peers are committing such heinous acts of violence?

[Natalie Winters @nataliegwinters]

“Biological male.”
“Biological female.”
“Protect the children.”

Those are phrases flagged in hate-speech research funded by the Council of Europe.

The published code categorizes biological-sex terms as “structural denial” and protecting children as a “dog whistle.”

The project, conducted by trans advocacy group TGEU and the Institute for Journalism and Social Change, examined YouTube comments.

The accompanying report calls for stronger media regulation addressing publishers that leave comments classified as hate speech online.

[Sam Morgan @CrunchAlias]

Giving a man the lawful right to force women to call him a woman and treat him as if he were woman, under threat of legal action, is government endorsed psychological abuse.

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„No one claims that transwomen are biologically female“ … yeah right

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@Thalweg2802 @RightNUFC @piratejenny3 Gee I fucking wonder which would make cis women feel more uncomfortable.

Face it, if you weren't told these two individuals were trans you would put the trans man in the women's ward and the trans woman in the men's ward.
If you say you wouldn't, you are deluding yourself

[sunman2 @KkingSunMan2]

This recent twitter outrage about some women saying "abort male fetuses" is proof that under patriarchy imagined threats against men is considered greater than real threats agaisnt women. Sex selective abortion is not something that effects the male population

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@beckyk21k @dyking_around How dense are you? No one says men shouldn’t adopt feminine roles, we are saying adopting feminine roles don’t magically make men into women. Because we are not buying into the misogynistic lie that femininity defines womanhood.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

I didn’t really get the problem with gender ideology at first.

I’m liberal-minded about most things. 'Live and let' live has generally been my motto. I believed inclusion mattered. I believed in being kind. In not using language that might upset people unnecessarily.

I knew people who identified as transgender. I knew some adults chose medical treatments or surgery to resemble the opposite sex. That seemed to me a matter of personal autonomy. Adults can do what they wish with their own bodies.

What I hadn’t realised - and I feel slightly embarrassed admitting this - was that I’d misunderstood what was being claimed.

I thought “transgender” meant a form of self-expression. A man who liked wearing women’s clothes. Someone changing their name. Gender non-conformity.

What I hadn’t grasped was that some activists weren’t just asking for tolerance. They were asserting that declaring yourself the opposite sex made you the opposite sex. Not metaphorically. Literally.

And that this wasn’t just cultural. It had legal consequences.

- It meant men who said they were women were demanding access to women’s sports, prisons, domestic violence shelters and hospital wards

- It meant the rewriting of healthcare language - “pregnant people”, “bodies with cervixes” - to avoid saying “women”

- It meant children struggling with identity being affirmed onto medical pathways with lifelong implications

And also redefining same-sex attraction. Lesbians called 'bigoted' for not wanting relationships with men who identify as women. Gay men accused of prejudice for saying they're not attracted to female bodies. None of which made any sense.

But I'd also overlooked how far this had travelled - into HR policies, professional bodies, schools, political parties and public institutions.

And how easily disagreement was framed as cruelty. Speaking up felt risky - because others were being publicly humiliated for doing so.

None of this is abstract.

Because sex is the basis on which safeguarding works. On which data is collected. On which cancer screening programmes run. On which fair sport and single-sex spaces depend. It’s written into law - including the Equality Act - because material differences matter.

If sex becomes a 'feeling' rather than a biological category, those protections become unstable.

And once reality becomes negotiable, everything does.

Once I saw it, I couldn’t unsee it.
But I needed to be sure.

So I read. Books, research papers, policy documents. When I finally spoke publicly, there was backlash from all directions.

Many women thanked me - both quietly and publicly.
But some feminists criticised me for speaking too late.

Others were angry about a past interview I’d done with the parent of a transgender person, accusing me of promoting harm.

It takes courage to change your mind publicly.

It takes courage to speak when you know your reputation, friendships or livelihood may be on the line - when you know raising your voice could strain, or even end, relationships you value.

Once I understood what was at stake, staying silent was no longer an option. I lost my livelihood simply for saying I didn’t like the phrase “pregnant people”. That alone tells you something is deeply wrong. It shouldn’t be this way.

I will never judge any woman for when she finds her voice.

Because every voice adds value - whenever it is raised.

And I know how persuasive this ideology can be. I know how easily it bypassed me. And I know how much courage it takes to admit, publicly, that you got something wrong.