Ahoy ⛵️ Joint honours Geography & IR student Laura Hampton has been selected for @ClipperRace round the world sailing team!
Her dissertation, supervised by @DiplomaticIfe explores challenges for leisure skippers encountering migrants at sea, bridging her passion for geography &🌊
I take no pleasure in sharing this. The fact is, like all young people, you simply can't imagine 5,10,20 years from now. When you get your boobs done, you're told it's 10-15 years if you're lucky. When you get botox, you're told it's only 3 months, when yout get veneers you're warned, you'll need to replace them in 10 years, if you're lucky. None of these young people seem to he being told, they'll have to forcibly stretch their neovagina, daily, because its a wound their body is trying heal, they're not told about the sideeffects of the drugs, or the long term health complications of cross sex hormones.
If people want to hate me, call me a TERF, call me a bigot and a transphobe, they can, I am prepared to continue talking the abuse I get, if just one teenager thinks twice, and doesn't go ahead.
Do what you want. I will forever oppose mutilating young men and boys.
"For voicing my concerns about gender-affirming care for minors, I have been called a transphobic bigot. If that’s what speaking out against the medicalisation of homosexuality makes me, then so be it." @benappel, on the new homophobia. https://t.co/AsM4qMPoZK
Suella Braverman keeps repeating that the Rwanda scheme etc is the “will of the British people”
If, like me, you’re British, & this is not your “will” let her know by retweeting this please.
We deserve to be heard
#RwandaNotInMyName@SuellaBraverman
Yesterday BBC4 had a presenter make a statement which is 100% inaccurate & potentially in sites hate in a week where innocent 9yr olds were murdered! I’m fed up of presenters being ill informed or worse ignoring facts & science. I’ve had death threats & my kids have been threatened just for asking for fair safe sport for females. I have always (& always will) advocate for sport for absolutely everyone but it must offer equality of opportunity to both sexes. This is not acceptable BBC
I watched RNLI rescue people in a boat seeking asylum.
Some of them didn’t even have shoes .
When they were rescued some needed an ambulance.
There were small children.
The RNLI guy was in tears because of what he saw .
You @SuellaBraverman won’t win ! We ARE better than this !
Once it becomes acceptable in the UK to imprison people without any court process, knowing that some of them are not only innocent of any crime but are fleeing persecution, where will it end?
There are so many people who are just starting to realize what is going on.
So, for clarity:
Yes, men are saying they are *actually* women and, yes, powerful institutions are validating that claim.
No, it’s not a bad dream. It is real life. This is really happening.
Thank you to the Selection Council of Suffolk Coastal Conservative Association for re-adopting me aa their candidate for the next General Election #VoteConservative
I hear that @DominicRaab is on TV repeating the provable untruth that the record backlog in the Crown Courts was caused by “Covid” and by “the barristers’ strike”.
It was not.
The backlog was caused by Mr Raab’s - and his colleagues’ - defunding of the criminal justice system.
I really can't ridicule the incompetence of the UK government over post-Brexit trade enough
Remember the phantom Seabourne Ferries debacle?
Well, the latest example is a tale of utter incompetence, phantom shipping companies and the Great UK Tomato Shortage of 2023 🧵
If I asked an obviously female patient if she was a male, 99 times out of 100 that would cause serious offence.
Why are the feelings of biological women not important in this debate?
Reading & listening to U.K media it’s easy to assume DUP are N Ireland’s biggest party. They aren’t. For balance, DUP have the support of 28% of voters at best. While their views are important & they can block the NI Assembly, the majority of N Irish people support the Protocol.
Wait a minute, the “people of NI” elected 25 DUP MLAs plus an aligned Independent and one TUV in May, totalling 27 out of 90 seats - not even a *third*.
Since when do fewer than a third of elected reps speak for the “people”?
By “the people of Northern Ireland”, @PennyMordaunt means the DUP, the TUV & loyalist paramilitaries, less than 30% of the NI constituency. The absolute contempt of the U.K. government for the people here is nothing new.
@salltweets And is anyone worried about how insulting it is for women that some people think those donning dresses and makeup and having cosmetic surgery is all it takes to be, and to understand being, a woman.