Rad Bluestocking

[🦋 Red Velvet 🦋 @Red_Velvet_ESR]

Here’s the uncomfortable question:

Why is a woman’s discomfort around an unknown male body in an intimate or vulnerable setting treated as something she needs to overcome?

Why isn’t her boundary enough?

You don’t have to believe every man is dangerous to understand why women have sex-based boundaries.

[wokeandwoofing @wokeandwoofing]

If a Canadian doctor says "Would you rather have a Trans child or a dead child?", it is not a threat. They are just making you aware that they now offers both of these services.

[MJ Murphy @hothingsgirlsay]

He says his surgically constructed anatomy is “better than women’s.”

That one sentence tells you everything: reduce women to sexual function, sneer at menstruation and pregnancy, then call it empowerment.

This is how language is used to make women doubt what is obvious and to pressure us into applauding our own degradation.

If you want to spot the word games and dismantle them in real time, get Breaking the Spell: Language, Social Pressure, and Psychological Framing in Modern Discourse.

Link in bio.

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures.

The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019.

A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.

Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out �� this is the complete national picture.

The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.

Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.

"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded.

Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.

The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.

The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.

How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?

[Normal Gay Psychiatrist @NormalGayPsych]

I'm gay. All my friends were girls growing up and still are today. I've always been more feminine and felt awkward around straight male peers. I played with Barbies with my sister. There is a picture of me in Kindergarten playing dress-up wearing a princess dress. AND... I grew up into a gay man. Thank goodness I wasn't a child today because I fear I would have been encouraged to "transition." I am a happy gay man and love my life. Leave the children alone.

[Rad Bluestocking @RadBluestocking]

Concerning to hear the “unbiased” BBC discussing significant age-gap relationships following the news that Brigitte Macron’s 42-year-old daughter is dating a 22-year-old — apparently inspired, in part, by her mother’s relationship with Emmanuel Macron.

But Brigitte met Emmanuel when he was 15 years old and she was his teacher, in her late thirties. Why is the BBC not willing to call that what many people would call that: paedophilic behaviour? At the very least, it was an adult in a position of authority pursuing a relationship with a minor, with an extraordinary imbalance of age, maturity and power.

And that is the wider issue missing from these conversations. We talk about “age-gap relationships” as though the only consideration is whether they're unconventional, while barely discussing the potential for exploitation of youth — regardless of whether the older person is a man or a woman.

I also find myself questioning whether there's a wider cultural shift happening here. At a time when Britain is becoming more religiously and culturally unbalanced by a growing Muslim population, we should be more willing to challenge practices such as relationships between adults and minors wherever they occur — not gradually sanitise or normalise them in the name of cultural sensitivity.
Will the next BBC segment be extolling the virtues of child brides?

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Let me introduce you to a brave hero from my country, Iran.

She was 16 years old. Just a girl. And on the streets of Iran, she did something braver than most people do in a lifetime: she took off her hijab and burned it in public. Right in front of the regime. Right in front of the world.

That was her crime: civil disobedience. A teenage girl refusing to obey men who claimed authority over her hair, her body, her life.

Her message spoke for millions of Iranian women:

To every man who rules over women in the name of religion, honor, or culture: We do not obey you. Your laws were never made for us.

This is what real power looks like: unarmed, unafraid, unbowed.

For that defiance, she was arrested. Her family says she was tortured and killed after falling into the hands of security forces. The Iranian authorities denied responsibility and gave a different account of her death.

Her name was Nika Shakarami. She was 16.

Now ask yourself: How many women in the West know her name? How many know what she risked for a freedom they have never had to fight for?

Say her name: Nika Shakarami.

[Elizabeth has no more fucks to give🇺🇸💛💚🤍💜 @ElizabethGiddi1]

I do strangulation exams as part of my job. I have taken extensive training in strangulation and am qualified to testify as an expert in strangulation cases. The general public has no idea how bad this epidemic has become, how many women and girls this is happening to, or how dangerous this is.

I share facts about it sometimes like men who strangle women are twice as likely to be involved in a mass shooting or to kill a cop. Women who are strangled by their partners are 750% more likely to be killed by that partner.
I tell people that death by strangulation can occur in just minutes, under a minute if you hit the right nerve bundles that lead to certain arrhythmias. I also tell them that a woman can die from a strangulation event up to one year after the event and that a pregnant woman who has been strangled is at high risk of pregnancy loss for weeks after the strangulation event. Strangulation can lead to brain damage, physical disability, stroke, pregnancy loss, and death.
I tell people that there is no safe way to strangle and that nobody has the ability to consent to being murdered, and consent is not an excuse for murder, if someone were to consent to this it is incumbent on the would be murderer to use self discipline and restraint, because a person’s “consent” to being murdered is not going to be recognized by any court as a legitimate excuse. Nobody can consent to being killed.
When I tell people these things, a very few are appreciative, mostly women, some are interested, men and women, and some attack me for being stupid and not knowing what I am talking about, apparently days of professional training and hundreds of exams performed mean nothing to the “experts” of X. Those that attack are mostly men. Some argue with me about dumb things, like my insistence to call strangulation what it is. Strangulation is not choking, choking is not strangulation, these are two different types of ways to block an airway but they are not the same. That is what people argue with me about the most. They insist on using incorrect language and then provide me with a weak google link picture of a choke hold to try to prove it’s the same.
So then it becomes me explaining that a choke hold is called a chokehold but it is not choking it is strangulation and that blows their minds and I am met with silence or swears.
This is an incredibly important issue that needs to be discussed but it is very contentious and the defenders of strangulation can turn into rabid dogs very quickly.

Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that I really appreciate the effort you are taking here, that you are raising awareness and that you are using accurate language and data. It’s really important that we change the narrative around this subject.

I would like to share this resource with you, I’m not sure if you are aware of them or not, but this was the group that did my training on strangulation. They go all over the US teaching medical professionals and law enforcement about strangulation and they have a ton of information and resources on their website. You might find them useful.
Thank you for talking about this.
https://t.co/mOYpSn5IaX

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

My position is that gender dysphoria is a real, painful condition and that for some adults, the only way they may feel able to resolve that inner conflict is transition. If that’s the road they choose I wish them long life and happiness and I would vigorously oppose any discrimination against them when it comes to employment, housing or voting rights.

I do not believe children have the capacity to consent to treatments that may leave them infertile and, in some cases, anorgasmic. Multiple studies have shown that gender dysphoria in childhood and adolescence is not uncommon, for gay kids particularly, but it also occurs in, for example, straight girls who hate the idea of becoming women and sometimes, tragically, in children who’ve been abused. The available evidence shows that in the majority of cases, gender dysphoria resolves after the person has gone through adolescence. I am strongly opposed to the experimental treatment of blocking puberty in dysphoric children. I believe trans activists have behaved hugely unethically and irresponsibly in pretending that there is good evidence that these treatments are beneficial (there isn’t), that puberty blockers are completely reversible (there is a mounting body of evidence to suggest they aren’t) or that children are likely to kill themselves if denied blockers (there is no evidence to support this and suicide prevention charities warn against making such statements, due to the very real danger of suicide contagion.)

Of course, not all trans-identified people are dysphoric. Erotic transvestism, also known as autogynephilia, (getting a sexual thrill out of dressing as/pretending to be a woman) has been around for a very long time. I believe lesbians are entitled to exclude straight, cross-dressing men from their dating pools without being accused of bigotry and worse (same goes for gay men with trans-identified women). It’s profoundly homophobic to attack gay people for being same-sex attracted.

I don’t believe anyone, adult or child, is ‘born in the wrong body.’ That is an unfalsifiable, quasi-religious belief. A person may *feel* as if they’re in the wrong body, but humans cannot literally change sex. However they identify, men don’t belong in the single-sex spaces for which women fought so hard.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

In the dead of night at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, a garbage truck stopped behind a women’s barracks. Its cargo was not trash.

One by one, 54 children were dumped into the freezing mud before the truck drove away, leaving them crying in the darkness.

Inside the barracks, 26-year-old Luba Tryszynska heard the commotion through the thin walls. A former nurse from Kamenets-Litovsk, she had arrived at Bergen-Belsen only weeks earlier. When she stepped outside, she found terrified children between the ages of four and twelve.

Earlier that day, their mothers had been separated from them and transported to another camp near Hamburg. The children had been loaded onto a different vehicle, driven around for hours while officials decided their fate, and ultimately abandoned like unwanted cargo.

For Luba, the sight was unbearable.

Two years earlier, at Auschwitz, she had been forced to watch her own family disappear. During the selection process, an SS guard noticed her young son, Isaac. Knowing mothers with small children were often sent directly to the gas chambers, Luba’s mother-in-law pulled the boy from her arms in a desperate attempt to save her life.

Isaac, her husband Hersch, and her mother-in-law were all taken away. None returned.

Luba survived, but the loss haunted her every day. She often wondered why she had been spared when the people she loved most had not.

That night at Bergen-Belsen, standing before dozens of abandoned children, she finally found a purpose for her survival.

Without hesitation, she gathered the children and brought them inside. The other prisoners were terrified. Sheltering children could have resulted in severe punishment or death for everyone in the barracks.

Luba did it anyway.

She arranged bunks for them, tucked the youngest children into the safest corners, and reassured them with quiet words:

“You’re safe now. Stay quiet, and I’ll take care of you.”

Then she took an even greater risk.

Luba approached Fritz Klein, an SS doctor at the camp, and told him directly that she intended to keep the children hidden and under her care. Against all expectations, Klein agreed and allowed her to use a separate wooden hut.

Why he consented remains unclear.

With that small concession, Luba created something almost unimaginable inside one of the most horrific places on earth: a refuge for children.

Over the next four months, she and a handful of other women worked tirelessly to keep them alive. Hermina Krantz, a Slovak prisoner, helped clean and prepare whatever scraps of food could be found. Dr. Ada Bimko, another prisoner, cared for the sick and injured.

Luba became the heart of the operation.

Every day she searched for food, traded possessions, begged for supplies, and sometimes stole whatever was necessary to feed the children. Bread, water, bits of soup, and occasionally milk became precious treasures.

Remarkably, some German guards even began assisting her. They quietly provided firewood, extra bread, and on one occasion, an entire bucket of fresh milk.

As the months passed, more orphaned children arrived.

By April 1945, Luba was caring for 94 children, including an infant less than a year old.

Then, on April 15, British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen.

The soldiers entered a camp filled with death, disease, and starvation. Everywhere they looked were bodies and prisoners barely clinging to life.

But when they opened the door to Luba’s hut, they encountered something extraordinary.

Inside were dozens of children who had survived.

A British officer reportedly asked who was responsible for them.

Luba stepped forward and answered simply:

“I am.”

Thanks to her determination, nearly all of those children lived through the war.

After liberation, she personally helped return many of the children to their home countries. Some were escorted back to the Netherlands, while others were taken to safety in Sweden.

Eventually, Luba married fellow survivor Sol Frederick and settled in Washington, D.C., where she built a new life far from the horrors she had endured.

Yet the children never forgot her.

In 1995, fifty years after the war, many of those she had saved gathered in Amsterdam for a reunion. They arrived as adults—doctors, teachers, engineers, parents, and grandparents.

One after another, they embraced the woman who had protected them when no one else would.

The child Luba lost at Auschwitz could never be replaced. The pain of that loss stayed with her forever.

But through her courage, compassion, and refusal to look away, nearly one hundred other children were given the chance to grow up, build families, and live full lives.

Luba Tryszynska passed away in 2009 at the age of 91.

Her story remains one of the most powerful reminders that even in humanity’s darkest moments, a single act of love can become a lifeline for countless others.

[Ladie⚢Labrys @ladielabrys2]

I have never in my life heard a man say something so accurate about how misogyny is baked into our language. Wow. Must watch.

[Rad Bluestocking @RadBluestocking]

@Sal_Robins2 Agreed - and any woman who says she chooses to wear it is being coerced. When you are taught the choice is between a Burka or beginning by your hair in hell for eternity, thats not a choice.

[Dr Helen Webberley (she/her) @HelenWebberley]

She’s so so so wrong.
Being female means having the brain of a woman.

[Rad Bluestocking @RadBluestocking]

@NoLongerTheFuzz I thought, whisky very funny, this must be an exaggeration. Then I've looked on the home office website 😳 like @TheCarbolic has said, the fact that this is such an issue in the UK that the Home Office is producing this guidance is massively concerning

[Rad Bluestocking @RadBluestocking]

@HelenWebberley And what does it mean to have the "brain of a woman"? Sounds to me like you're saying that the sex of two organs naturally grown within one body can be different. Biology refutes that, as Sal Robins has expertly outlined, so what is the basis of your claim?

[Max Klinger @MaxE2review]

I studied in the academic department at Cambridge that later employed Jason Arday. Here's just some of the crap I learnt: For one module, I wrote a lengthy essay about how cultural products like kids’ cartoons and jazz songs serve as instruments of capitalist oppression. I got a top mark on that paper (despite knowing at the time that I was essentially regurgitating complete crap).

While studying for another paper I had a debate with the professor, an eminent anthropologist, because she insisted that native tribes could fly through the trees - not metaphorically, but that they could literally fly because they believed they could fly. After all, who are we to question ‘indigenous ways of knowing’...

For a different course, I read long ‘research papers’ which argued that the fact that black kids are excluded from schools more than white kids proves systemic racism exists in education. Crucially, they ignored the fact that white kids are excluded more than, e.g., Japanese kids, a statistic which, applying the exact same logic, would suggest that the education system is systemically biased in favour of, erm, Japanese kids (which obviously it isn’t).

Something that was held up as proof of the existence of this largely imaginary racism was that teachers tell kids not to use booming voices in the classroom, and not to put up their hoods or wear their trousers down below their pants.

On another occasion, my supervisor casually praised some students agitators who were trying to shut down a talk by someone they disagreed with. I said that I didn’t think this was something to celebrate, because I believed in freedom of speech. He got visibly angry, and proceeded to tell me that free speech was not worth protecting in a capitalist system (or something along those lines).

In my all-important final year, a lecturer let me know that I shouldn’t worry too much about my exam results, because as someone who was not from an upper class background I should be more focussed on using my grasp of leftist revolutionary theory to further the interests of the proletariat. Writing this down, it strikes me that it’s so hilariously mental that some of you will presumably assume I’m lying. But there’s no way I’m leaving it out, because it happened.

Unlike the academics who make a living from this stuff, I couldn’t bring myself to build a career pumping out whiney, divisive, intellectually incoherent rubbish. But others, as we’ve seen exposed in recent days, do so with gusto. And are lauded for it.

Please read the full piece this is taken from, and give it a share. I've linked it in the tweet below.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Female means possessing the reproductive system that produces eggs instead of sperm. It is irrelevant whether said system is defective, immature or surgically altered.

I just described every female on earth.

[Mary Cuthbertson @MaryCuthbe41916]

Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky once said, "Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles."

[Rad Bluestocking @RadBluestocking]

@rickygervais You did something there in 2013 to knock their confidence

[Tim McNally @PiddingtonRoars]

PARISH COUNCILS: LISTEN, LEAD—OR STEP ASIDE

I’m Tim McNally, Chair of Piddington Parish Council.

A parish council exists to represent its community—not silence it, control it or hide from difficult debate.

When residents ask to be heard, councillors should bring people together, present the evidence and provide a fair democratic forum. “We don’t want conflict��� is not an excuse for refusing engagement.

Listen. Facilitate. Debate. Record. Publish. Represent.

Change must rise from the grassroots—from parish councils to county councils, MPs and Parliament.

If you stand between residents and their democratic voice, you are not serving your community. Step aside for someone who will.

Parish councillors: stand up, find your purpose and give your people their voice.

I am Spartacus.
You are Spartacus.
We are Spartacus.

Let’s get going.

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