Ruth MacLeod 💚🤍💜

[Ruth MacLeod 💚🤍💜 @RuthCMacLeod]

My account was suspended nearly 10 months ago for this tweet. Now that I'm back I just want to be clear that:
1. "transwomen" are men.
2. trans ideology harms women and children.
3. there was nothing hateful about the tweet below.

[Zachary Elliott @zaelefty]

A child born with deformed or ambiguous-looking genitalia is absolutely a medical emergency, because atypical development of the genitals can be a marker for underlying genetic and hormonal disorders, some of which can be life-threatening.

For example, female babies born with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia will often have genitalia that looks masculinized (fused labia, enlarged clitoris), but this ambiguous-looking genitalia is a marker for a serious hormonal disorder of the adrenal glands.

Approximately 75% of individuals with CAH have the salt-wasting variety, which is the most severe form, resulting in a completely non-functioning enzyme. This results in a low amount of aldosterone (the salt retention hormone), which in turn causes critically low salt levels in the bloodstream. Without hormone and steroid treatment at infancy, this can lead to severe dehydration and weight loss, and ultimately, the death of the child.

As you can see, health of the genitals can be external markers for health in body systems that you cannot see. A similar principle applies to blood pressure, heart rate, and other biomarkers that can indicate underlying disorders.

Stop spreading misinformation about serious medical conditions. Yes, we should not alter the genitals of an infant to fit cosmetic ideas of what genitalia "should" look like. But there are many instances where medical treatment of an infant born with ambiguous genitalia is critical for their long term health and potentially their immediate survival.

[Ruth MacLeod 💚🤍💜 @RuthCMacLeod]

@HarryNicholas_ He's a man and pronouns are sex-based.

[Ruth MacLeod 💚🤍💜 @RuthCMacLeod]

@PaulCullenDub @Rylan He's a man.

[Ruth MacLeod 💚🤍💜 @RuthCMacLeod]

@oliver4offerton @Rylan He's confused and being exploited.

[Ruth MacLeod 💚🤍💜 @RuthCMacLeod]

@processangel1 @ThePosieParker @Rylan Human beings can't change sex. Born male, always male.

[Ruth MacLeod 💚🤍💜 @RuthCMacLeod]

@sappholives83 Men commit 100% of rapes. Rape, by definition, is a male crime.

[SurrogacyConcern @SurrogConcern]

Have YOU ever thought about exploiting the body of a poor woman and taking her baby away from her at birth? If yes, Happiness For You Surrogacy would be delighted to take your call!

[Ruth MacLeod 💚🤍💜 @RuthCMacLeod]

@dk_jacque @ripx4nutmeg This is just silly rhetoric. There's no "bile" in any of my comments.

[SurrogacyConcern @SurrogConcern]

Man who took babies off their mothers without a second thought finds parenthood hard. Who knew.

And @bbcnews - the children were born of mothers. Not the dehumanising "surrogates". A bit more balance on this topic would be welcome, please.

https://t.co/o1Z9AQ5anJ

[Ruth MacLeod 💚🤍💜 @RuthCMacLeod]

@sappholives83 @WhiskerWealth So you agree that we can't expect men to do the right thing and allow women privacy just because it is the right thing to do? That's exactly why we need an absolute line - no men in women's toilets. It's irrelevant whether they imagine they "pass" or not.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

How many of you are becoming increasingly “radicalized” when it comes to #GenderIdeology? I know I am. If you are finding yourself setting down a harder line than before, why?

When I peaked (the first time), I was still very concerned about not being transphobic. I made a point of distinguishing between males (“transwomen”) and men, and would they/them TIMs so as not to “misgender” anyone. I wanted to stick up for my sex without being prejudiced.

The more I started looking into things, though, the more untenable that became. I began to realize a few home truths, the first being that anything less than full-throated support would be considered “transphobia.” The second was the unfathomable depths of #misogyny, #homophobia (especially lesbophobia) and pathological jealousy that permeate the #trans community.

It’s incredibly difficult to try to maintain a level of empathy and respect for men who see you as nothing more than an NPC, a background character meant only to be mimicked in hyper-sexualized caricature, or to validate and flatter them as they do so.

It’s hard to care when the same people who scream about the rape of TIMs in male prisons flatly refuse to care about - or even acknowledge - that women are now being raped in their stead.

It’s hard to care about the welfare of a community that doesn’t care about the welfare of anyone else.

Nothing - and I do mean nothing - has done more to harden my position against gender ideology than the actions of trans people and their allies.

The gendered slurs, the utter lack of concern for anyone but themselves, the constant talk in #mtf spaces about wanting to be sluts and bitches, whores and nymphos; the way they fetishize the sexual objectification that women must endure for a lifetime - objectification that kills many of us.

There’s the way they want to invade every single thing meant for women - dating apps, lesbian gatherings, hospital wards, all the way down to my little women’s subreddit that has less than 1k subscribers.

Then there was the fury when JKR secretly funded a women-only rape crisis center in a city that already has one - one that is run by a trans person btw - and the threats men made to sneak in as pretend victims and use it anyway, as well as the way rape victims were told that they needed to “reframe [their] trauma” so as not to be afraid around men.

One mustn’t forget the threats of doxxing, rape, torture, and enslavement, the posts about stealing used tampons from women’s bathrooms to masturbate with, the euphoria boner, and the lie that women get aroused simply by putting on a dress or doing our makeup.

There’s also the way that they refuse to even consider fighting for a third space, or a trans unit in every penal system, a refusal that clearly indicates that this isn’t about safety at all, but about shoving their way into every single thing marked “women’s,” the better to live out their autogynephilic fantasies.

These things - and so, so many more - have changed my perspective from wanting to negotiate and figure out how to help both #women and trans-identifying males, to a flat “no men in women’s ANYTHING, and men can solve their own damn problems.��

Thanks to trans activists, I’m no longer willing to compromise. I don’t care if you look like “Blaire” White, I don’t care if you’ve had your penis inverted, and I don’t care if you don’t feel comfortable in men’s spaces because of something you have done to yourself. Take it up with the men who are making you uncomfortable, instead of passing that discomfort onto women.

#TransWomenAreConMen
#WomensRightsMatter
#womensrights
#TransRightsAreMensPrivileges
#transrights

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

This is really quite pathetic @labour - hanging up curtains to hide the urinals to make "toilets for everyone" rather than recognizing that separate sex toilets are most practical for busy venues.

Women do not want to have to sit on toilet seats that men have pissed on.

[Gerard Casey @Casey5122dark]

In the controversy over pronouns, could we get clarify something once and for all, and that is the difference between addressing someone and referring to someone.

In English, we address someone using a second person pronoun. In modern English, that pronoun is you or some local variant thereof. This pronoun is not linked to sex. There are languages where polite forms of address use third-person pronouns but English is not one of them. So, in English, when it comes to being addressed, there are not, and cannot be, preferred forms of second-person pronouns, apart from the local variants of you already mentioned.

However, when we refer to someone, we do so using third-person pronouns, and these, in standard English, when singular, are he/ him/his and she/her/her (they/them/their in the plural). In English, personal pronouns in the singular are linked to sex. (There are certain idiomatic exceptions to this rule such as speaking of ships as she, but this doesn’t alter the norm.)

Names are not essentially problematic. People may call themselves whatever they choose and it is a matter of basic courtesy to use those names appropriately, unless there is some overarching reason not to do so (e.g. extreme length or vulgarity). However, while persons have preferred names, no one can have a personal pronoun, preferred or otherwise, any more than a person can have a preferred adjective or a preferred adverb.

If you insist that other people must refer to you using a pronoun that does not correspond to your sex, or must use a plural form, or must use some neologism such as ze, people may, of course, choose to acquiesce to your demands, but there are those who, without necessarily wishing to be discourteous, have no desire to give expression to a lie and to be compelled to subscribe to a controversial and controverted ideology under the mask of politeness.

[KPSS Woman who said NO @MegaSausageHead]

@UN_Women @free_equal Woah...what?

Absilutely, zero men are lesbians. Why on earth would you assume that the 'identity' someone else has has any impact on my sexuality?

You'd have to truly despise lesbians to push an agenda that erases their same sex rights.

Unbelievable.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Again- what’s with the balaclavas and masks?

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

“The “what is a woman?” question was never about actual beliefs,” argues @glosswitch, “It was an integrity test”
https://t.co/wCNDOxpcTN

[Emily Wilding Davison🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Wommando]

Miriam Cates MP:
"It's extraordinary that in 2023, in a time of unprecedented knowledge, we are arguing about the definition of something that has been known since the dawn of time. The most contentious question of our day has most famously become 'what is a woman?'"