Freckle Face

♀Autistic, empathic, feminist, Bi, ESP, C-PTSD. Anti-Colonial. Gender Critical 'TERF' Transsexual-ally. Women need private safe spaces. dfwm. Beating cancer atm

[Freckle Face @TotoroTutu]

A horse painted with black & white stripes & mane cut very short *could* be called a 'trans zebra' - but wouldn't BE a zebra. & a zebra IS a zebra - (not a 'cis-zebra').
[All deserve Animal Rights.]
🦓🐴🦓🐴🦓🐴🦓

[Chris Dolan @ChrisDolan70053]

@LizaRosen0000 When the Allies won WWII, they didn't exterminate all the Germans.
Israel was attacked by a Terrorist group not by all the Palestinian people, not the women, not the children.
Yet Israel used the attack as an excuse to try to take Palestinian land and exterminate the people.

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

God knows how many people this man saved… I sincerely hope he makes a swift recovery & is given the highest bravery award Australia can offer.

💪🏻

[Notes by Dehran @DehranNotes]

@SamaramGill Hero’s have no religion.

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

Cambridge student was harassed, forced to move homes, and had the slur "TERF" etched into her front door because she was seen READING BOOKS.
Transgenderism is truly a medieval misogynist cult. It is anti-science and anti-woman, and its biggest beneficiaries are sexual predators.

[Netflix UK & Ireland @NetflixUK]

We're still missing Vislor Antilly, our four-legged friend who played Brandy in After Life. Ricky Gervais paid tribute to his beloved co-star, and unveiled a beautiful statue in her honour, right next to the bench in Hemel Hempstead.

This one's for you, Anti.

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Woman of the Day Helena Normanton born OTD 1882 in London, the first woman to practise as a barrister in England, the first woman to obtain a divorce for one of her clients, the first to appear at the High Court and the Old Bailey. She was a member of the Women’s Social and Political Union and argued for equal pay for equal work.

At the age of 67, Helena became one of the first two women to be appointed King’s Counsel, along with Rose Heilbron. Why did it take so long? I think you can guess.

Helena’s determination to become a barrister and make the law accessible to women was forged at the age of 12 when she accompanied her mother to a solicitor's office. Her mother was unable to understand the legal advice. Law was a profession only open to men. “I still do not like to see women getting the worst end of any deal for lack of a little elementary legal knowledge which is the most common form amongst men".

Awarded first class honours in law at the University of London, she was not awarded her degree until years later because she was a woman. Her application to be admitted to the Middle Temple in 1918 was refused because she was a woman. She petitioned the House of Lords but before it could be heard, the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act came into force on 24 December 1919 so she re-applied to the Middle Temple. This time, it had to accept her.

It did so with little grace. The Birmingham Gazette reported that Helena was nearly fined a bottle of wine for speaking to her neighbour at mess and for drinking her port before the ‘captain’ (etiquette, you know). She said, “I was horribly nervous at first, but everyone was so kind that I soon forgot my nervousness”, and no doubt thought the matter over.

Four days later, the Treasurer ruled that “all Lady Students lunching or dining in Hall must sit at a table reserved for their exclusive use at luncheon and dinner” which meant they were segregated from men. For some time, Helena had to dine alone. In 1923, the Inn’s Parliament graciously allowed that women members could bring a guest to dinner on Guest Night, but only if the guest was a woman.

She was called to the Bar on 17 November 1922, a few months after Ivy Williams, but she was the first woman to practise as a barrister and in 1924, she became the first married woman in Britain to be issued a passport in her birth name. Having established her own career, she wanted continuity for professional reasons but she also took a dim view of the way in which marriage disadvantaged women in legal terms.

Speaking to the Women’s Engineering Society’s Conference ten years after the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, she said:

"There are nearly a hundred women solicitors in this country and most of them have brilliant qualifications. I do not believe in any boycott of men in professions, but the women ought at least to be brought into the sphere of action. There is a general muddle as present in regard to the position of women….They might become engineers but not ministers of the Church; they might not enter the sacred portals of the Stock Exchange nor the House of Lords; they could become a Cabinet Minister but not an Ambassador. While any woman is held back from the position to which her talents drew her, the whole of womanhood is lowered".

Helena died in 1957 at the age of 75 and is buried in Sussex. I am pleased to tell you that she was honoured with a blue plaque in 2021 after she was nominated by women barristers at Doughty Street Chambers.

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

If you want to understand how transgenderism has spread so fast amongst children please take time to read this post on Vygotsky. It is quite technical so bear with it. It explains the mechanisms behind ROGD and how 'gender identity' is not innate but a culturally constructed tool...

Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural theory asserts that higher psychological functions such as self-concept, reasoning, and identity are not biologically innate, but develop through social interactions mediated by cultural tools (language, symbols, narratives) and guided by More Knowledgeable Others (MKOs) within the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD: the space between independent ability and potential with support). Scaffolding (structured assistance) helps children internalize these tools, turning external influences into personal cognition.

This framework elegantly explains 'gender identity' in youth not as a fixed, innate essence mismatched to the body (as transgender ideology posits) but as a socially constructed, frequently temporary schema adopted to manage life stressors. It complements Piaget (concrete thinking limits abstract identity concepts), Kohlberg (gender constancy anchors in biology), and others, revealing no developmental necessity for a separate "gender soul", only cultural mediation shaping how children interpret distress.

Temporary Schema as Coping Mechanism:
Faced with challenges like trauma (sexual abuse, family breakdown), neurodiversity (autism making social cues overwhelming), bullying for nonconformity, same sex attraction confusion, or normal puberty unease, a child encounters "trans," "non-binary," or "genderqueer" as accessible cultural tools. These include diagnostic language ("dysphoria," "cisnormativity"), explanatory narratives ("born in the wrong body," "gender euphoria"), and symbolic markers (flags, pronouns, wardrobe shifts). The schema reframes personal pain as an external mismatch rather than internal conflict, offering quick meaning and relief. Desistance rates (80–95% without affirmation) confirm its transience: as stressors resolve or better tools emerge (e.g., trauma-focused therapy), the schema often dissolves.

Scaffolding by More Knowledgeable Others (MKOs):
Adults and authority figures - teachers implementing "gender affirmation" policies, therapists using affirmative models, parents seeking to be "supportive," or clinicians offering rapid medical pathways - serve as MKOs. They provide targeted scaffolding in the child's ZPD: prompting questions ("How do you feel in your body?"), validating tentative declarations, supplying scripts ("It's okay to explore your true self"), and delivering rewards (praise, reduced family tension, special status). This guidance embeds the schema deeply, making it feel autonomously discovered. Vygotsky stressed that scaffolding should promote independence; here, it often narrows exploration, channelling distress exclusively toward trans outcomes and bypassing root causes.

Social Media Amplification and Digital Mediation:
Modern platforms (TikTok, Reddit, Tumblr, Discord) function as hyper-efficient cultural toolkits and virtual MKO networks. Short-form videos, memes, testimonials ("How I knew I was trans at 10"), and community forums deliver constant, personalised mediation, far beyond traditional social circles. Algorithms reinforce exposure, pushing similar content and creating echo chambers. Youth in vulnerable ZPD phases internalise rapidly through repeated observation and interaction, often within weeks or months. Littman's ROGD research (2018) documents this pattern: prior immersion in trans-related online content precedes sudden identifications, with no childhood history of dysphoria.

Peer-to-Peer Spread and Reciprocal Transmission: Once internalized, the child becomes an MKO, actively exporting the schema - sharing resources, coaching friends on pronouns/names, or modelling "coming out" stories. This creates contagion clusters (multiple friends in one school), driven by reciprocal scaffolding and group reinforcement. The dynamic gains momentum: validation feels communal and empowering, resembling a self-sustaining cultural loop or "Ponzi" structure where early adopters recruit others for mutual affirmation.

In short, the explosive rise of youth transgender identification in the West exemplifies Vygotskian "Ponzi" dynamics on a societal scale: novel cultural tools ('gender identity' as explanatory framework) spread virally, intensively scaffolded by institutions and digital ecosystems, and internalised en-masse among vulnerable cohorts. This transforms fleeting coping strategies into apparently immutable truths, overriding natural desistance pathways.

True developmental alignment would offer diverse, evidence-based tools, therapy addressing comorbidities, body neutral education, patient exploration, allowing schemas to evolve flexibly rather than solidify prematurely into medicalised identities. Vygotsky reminds us that development is profoundly social; the current trend reflects not biological destiny but cultural over mediation.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

AUSTRALIAN HERO TOOK GUN OFF SHOOTER

TERROR ATTACK SYDNEY AT LEAST TEN DEAD

AUSTRALIAN HERO TOOK DOWN GUNMAN

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Bondi Beach, appears that a bystander rushed one of the shooters and disarmed them.

[⚜️Sovereign⚜️ @sauvamemte]

Diddy is still a trafficker and abuser regardless of the verdict sent down

[ℭhanelle @chanellemooon]

the diddy verdict just proves that women are not safe in this world. you cannot deny the patriarchy at this point.

[𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚍𝙰𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎 🇨🇦 @LeaveHeardAlone]

Evan Rachel Wood on the Diddy Verdict:

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Has anyone asked Stephen Fry his opinion on this? Like, which one is radicalized in his opinion?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The psychological damage done to the young women he punched, while the entire world watched and the sporting establishment jeered, shamed and gaslit them, is naturally of no importance whatsoever.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater, to glorify” — more than the act of noticing its details, and nothing sanctifies it more: Kneeling to look at a lichen is a devotional act. We bless our own lives by recognizing and reverencing the details, the miniature marvels that make this improbable world what it is. https://t.co/glsftfClSk

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

There is no 'living as a woman.'
There is only living while being a woman, or performing a male idea of what a woman is, while being a man.

[MaryCate Delvey @marycatedelvey]

I am BEGGING 😭💔💔💔

[KPSSREALITY/retired teacher @kpssreality]

Note
"Puberty is not a pathology. It is a human right. Let that land. Let it cut through the fog. Because we are now living in an era where interrupting puberty is not only normalized, it is institutionalized.
Where the body's
sacred transition from child to adult is pathologized under the language of 'affirmation.'
Where adult discomfort with gender non-conformity leads to the chemical freezing of youth in leads to the chemical freezing of youth in developmental stasis. This is not science. It is social engineering. Let me say it plainly: this is not compassion. It is eugenics in a progressive mask."
Jason
@JuliaMasonMD1

[So Dramatic! @sodramaticpod]

I’m so sick of women having to carry the burden of the emotional labour of ensuring their partners behave appropriately because they lack the skills to self regulate their own emotions.

#MAFS #MAFSAU