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Liberal, left-wing, not a Nazi. I have concerns about the medicalisation of gender distress.
Parallels with the LASIK industry. Both create lifelong patients.

[Syd ♀️ @SydAwayAHF]

Womanhood is not a sparkly identity. We're not possessions either. We're fully-fledged human beings who just happen to be female.

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@HighFarndale You breed cows with barcodes on them?

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@craigcox400 @SteAssent @TrailsAndAlesUK @DiBrander Simple question. If you and a female person - an athlete of your own age perhaps - had an arm-wrestle, who do you think would win?

[Syd ♀️ @SydAwayAHF]

@pup_shay_ @metrospectre @detransaqua Whatever you like - you do you. But the next time you offer your sanctimonious opinions we can just laugh.

[Syd ♀️ @SydAwayAHF]

@metrospectre @pup_shay_ @detransaqua OMG - "D S"'s profile 🤢

"Just a pup with a deck of cards and a willingness to read to filth".

With images.

@detransaqua I don't rate this person's moral character very highly.

[Sonya Douglas @SonyaDouglas]

Looking forward to @BBC screening What It Feels Like For A Black, based on Rachel Dolezal’s joyous retelling of her life, in which we get to see her apply ever darker foundation and frizz her hair to better express her authentic inner self
Butt filler, too
Stunning and brave 🙌🏿

[Syd ♀️ @SydAwayAHF]

@Lou_Na_Hearadh @SilverMalibu88 @HadleyFreeman Yep. At 73 years old she would not have enough energy or probably even natural lifespan left to care for a child up to adulthood. Seriously irresponsible. Not to mention the strain on her body giving birth at that age.

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@SilverMalibu88 @HadleyFreeman A woman can't "mother" a child (ie give birth) in her 80s though. For good reason.

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@DarlingtonUnion The Trust are talking waffle. It's easy - get that creepy male to change in that cupboard instead! Or the gents. His choice.

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@QcWynter @BevJacksonAuth "Transphilliac" is a good word to describe these groups!

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@rejserin @BobbyAFC79 @TelegraphSport @Telegraph Yeah, male ones, with bigger bones, hearts and lungs, powerful muscles, and massive shoulders, hands and feet. No competitive advantage at all 🤨

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@WACartoons @reduxx But why do you want to know their sex? That's just a nebulous dog whistle, says nothing about their lived experience.

[Syd ♀️ @SydAwayAHF]

@WACartoons @reduxx This is not 100% reliable because we know all the Vikings had long hair, even the ones buried with drinking vessels. So they must have all been women. Or non-binary or something.

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@reduxx It's like the persecution of Galileo - for speaking the truth, if the truth is not in keeping with doctrine.

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@LorrieAnn25 @reduxx What she said wasn't transphobic

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@Psychgirl211 Not sure if I can bear to watch the clip so I'll just comment on the quote. Of course it's not "ageism" to treat children differently to adults! So many differences between children and adults I don't know where to begin. That Webberley woman is a menace.

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@lucyinbetween @WomenOfWessex I get your point that women should expect privacy regardless. The story is shocking because not even *this* swayed the bosses' feelings. I guess it hadn't happened to them either.

[Syd ♀️ @SydAwayAHF]

@lucyinbetween @WomenOfWessex I'm guessing you've never suffered abuse as a child. It's not just a "bad experience". Having your boundaries demolished at such a young age leaves you scarred. Can happen to boys too. Maybe you have to experience it to understand the feelings of shame and powerlessness.

[Prof Jane Monckton Smith OBE @JMoncktonSmith]

Here is the link. Please consider signing so the government don’t just let this slide with no comment.

https://t.co/YqJvP2Mb9j

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

An imaginary conversation between two transactivists. (Inspired by Jane Clare Jones’s “Terf Wars”)

TA1: That Supreme Court ruling..
TA2: I know. Awful. But we knew this would happen, didn’t we… That thing about the law having to be “coherent”.
TA1: Yeah. Trans men losing maternity rights…
TA2: Bummer. And those lesbians!
TA1: Yeah! The Court is obsessed with transphobic lesbians!
TA2: The ruling mentioned lesbians 25 times!
TA1: It was a travesty. And nothing about gender being a protected characteristic!
TA2: Isn’t it sex?
TA1: Whatever…
TA2: What do we now?
TA1: Well. Tell everyone who does interviews to bang on about toilets.
TA2: Good idea! Keep them away from sport, prisons, rape shelters, all that sort of stuff just muddies the waters.
TA1: And for God’s sake don’t ever mention the lesbians!
TA2: Absolutely not!
TA1: Now for the next thing. Sow confusion! Pretend we’re going to the European Court! If people think there’s a challenge coming, they will delay making new guidance.
TA2: Brilliant! But … how?
TA1: We’ll say no trans voices were heard.
TA2: But … no trans organizations applied to intervene?
TA1: Two trans people did though-
TA2: But the Supreme Court doesn’t allow individuals to intervene -
TA1: No one knows that. Anyway, if that doesn’t work, one of us could argue a breach of the Convention
TA2: But that would mean going all the way up the court system. Don’t they call it “exhausting domestic
remedies”? That might take years!
TA1: Exactly! And all that time, employers would be unsure as to whether they have to amend their rules in line with the Supreme Court ruling. More chaos!
TA2: Brilliant! But you know it would be ruled inadmissible -
TA1: It doesn’t matter -
TA2: And wouldn’t it be tricky, if the person doesn’t actually live in the UK?
TA1: Everyone visits from time to time!
TA2: But … hear me out now… are you suggesting the European Court of Human Rights might overrule the Supreme Court and say all countries have to have self-ID?
TA1: Wouldn’t that be fabulous!
TA2: But you know they won’t do that. And they can hardly have special rules for visitors! The UK Govt would never do any of that!
TA1: Of course they wouldn’t! But there you go, nitpicking again. You’re missing the point.
TA2: Sorry.. what was the point again?
TA1: Smoke and mirrors - Confusion, uncertainty, chaos!
TA:2 Oh yes, I forgot. You’re so clever. Do you think the media will swallow it?
TA1: Of course. They always do!

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@RachelEdwards9 @TwisterFilm @DreyfusJames Ah - I forgot it's not quite summer yet.