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๐Ÿงต21 facts on how women's rights are being curtailed across the Globe.
1. #Train services in UK plan to remove guards and ticket officers - endangering women, especially disabled women.
2. A women is killed every 3 days in the UK, every 5 hours globally for women and girls.
3. In #familycourt women are silenced, their abuse is ignored via the weapon of control allegations of 'parental alienation' - resulting in stolen children. See our pinned tweet.
4. The 2022 mean GPG (the difference between men and women's average hourly pay) is 5.45% &the median is 9.71%. An hourly difference of ยฃ1.44. (Gov.UK)
5. Nurses - 89% are women, salaries have fallen by 20%, there is a mass exodus from the profession NHS Digital
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Keep thinking about the cis mums of trans teens I met at the #BriannaGhey vigil. Absolute tigresses for their children. Powerful, beautiful women doing what's right. That's what we need in our allies.
I get so angry when GCs try to fabricate a divide between cis women & trans people. Cis women have always been our most staunch allies & protectors. Most of my non-trans friends are cis women who have sheltered me throughout my life.
Cis women & trans folks are natural allies & face many of the same struggles. The 'divide' is stretched wide open by fearmongers, who seek to oppress all marginalised genders.
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๐Ÿงต Antisemitism and Transphobia

Exploring similarities and through-lines between antismetic tropes and modern transphobia that I think need to be recognized with the resurgence of Neo-Nazi/fascism, and the acceleration of violence/legislation against trans people.
This thread was instigated by the recent murder of Brianna Ghey, a 16 year old trans child, and how she was represented in a transphobic cartoon that reminded me of antisemtic representation
Right wing conspiracies basically always come back to antisemitism and the "Jewish Question" usually coded behind dogwhistles and proxies; from interracial relationships (miscegenation) represented in media, to globalists pushing immigration to "replace" white people
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