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My husband and I run a small business on the wirral, creating lots of lovely wooden items.
From plaques, personalised gifts, wooden figures plus lots more.

[The Women of Wessex #XX @WomenOfWessex]

Good morning, everyone, it’s #XXDay and we have plans…

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Demand Change: Keir Starmer, Step Down Now! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/qxUUVbQa2D via @UKChange

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@YvetteCooperMP https://t.co/BFxaPTGNsT

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

BREAKING! Labour have responded to @GBNEWS about this. Big story https://t.co/qgy0vd1nSl

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@Keir_Starmer https://t.co/BFxaPTGNsT

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

BREAKING! Labour have responded to @GBNEWS about this. Big story https://t.co/qgy0vd1nSl

[D B @Brackens1]

I'm 76, wife for 53 years, mum of two, teacher for 41 yrs, taught 1,200 kids to read and write,never broken the law, yet according to @Keir_Starmer I’m a “ far right thug!”
Are you?
Please like, repost and follow❤️
#FarRight #FarRightThugsUnite #FarRightThugsUnite

[Silent no longer @SilentM85649515]

This is Lieutenant Colonel MARK TEETON.. Someone who serves and protects the people of this country.
It is him who should be trending and it is him we should be talking about, not a muslim thug who got a taste of his own medicine. #MarkTeeton

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@benonwine Yes

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Childrens name wall decor, the meaning of birth... - Folksy https://t.co/aZmNK8GjRU #newonfolksy

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Wedding day personalised gift, gift for the hap... - Folksy https://t.co/wfuNRXiu57 #newonfolksy

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Violet name wall decor, the meaning of Violet, ... - Folksy https://t.co/kMXhvTvMks #newonfolksy

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Elijah name wall decor, the meaning of Elijah, ... - Folksy https://t.co/vfQaSekTlY #newonfolksy

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@Evil_Katt Well done 🎉

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Absolute FIRE line of questioning from @SenTedCruz today 🔥🔥🔥 bravo!

"Do they have the right to not have a 6'2" man who is a repeat serial rapist put in as their cell mate?"

[Steve Jones @Jones787Sj]

Here we go again *hit the button* if you believe *Dr David Bellamy* 👏👏👏👏

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@_emergent_ @jk_rowling You have a penis not a uterus your a man not a woman and never will be.

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@BBCNews Maybe get a good singer with some talent instead of trying to win via gay porn

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@HumansNoContext Pity the lion didn't attack them all and go free instead of being used as a performing puppet 😡

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.

I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.

Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.

Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.

Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.

I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.

I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

[Cllr Pat Cleary @PatCleary2]

Now and then. Removing bollards has had a disastrous impact on pedestrian safety and security on St John Street Birkenhead @WirralCouncil @MerPolWirral