Thread by @22teapots

It’s time once again for-

🤡This Week in Clown World🧵🤡

It’s been an extra special one,since it’s #TransWeekofAwareness…and boy, did they make sure we were aware. Brace yourselves, there’s a lot 😬

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I’m going to try to organise it in a sensible way, but forgive me if it’s a bit chaotic!

Let’s start with schools…

-Ontario Trans Awareness Week (TAW) lessons include teaching that “some girls have penises”

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-Pictures from a “family friendly” ‘LGBTQ+’ event in Florida emerged, and what says more “family friendly” than…a dildo ring toss?

According to @libsoftiktok, a school principal sits on the board of the organisation that hosted this booth.
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-In a TAW video released by West Midlands Police Force aimed at kids, PC Skye Morden, who identifies as woman, has encouraged children struggling with their own gender identity 'to follow in her footsteps'.

Serious police work at its finest!
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-A leaflet designed to teach girls about periods (backed by the Scottish Gov) refers to “those of us who have both ovaries & a womb” in order to be “inclusive”
-Similarly, Enfield Council refers to women as “menstruators” & to “female colleagues & those who menstruate”
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It’s really important that we’re inclusive when talking about periods, because periods are for everyone! Even men, and it seems (videos courtesy of @troonytoons)
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Let’s move on to Sports!

-At Seattle Academy High School, Aspen Hoffman, a trans identifying male broke the record in the ‘Girls 5000 meter’ & took top rank in the league.

His time would rank him 48th in the boys division. #SaveWomensSports

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-Olympian Ian Thorpe further proved that many don’t care to #SaveWomensSports when he came out this week against the ban on transwomen competing against women “I am for fairness in sport, but I’m also for equality in sport & in this instance, they’ve actually got it wrong”

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In Disability and Health-

-A blind woman was branded transphobic for raising concerns around Dundee trans-positive street art that obstructs access for guide dogs. Never forget that everything is transphobic & no disability is more important than trans feelings 🙄
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-NHS Scotland has promised to fast-track surgery for trans patients. The other 140,000 people on waiting lists in Scotland have not been given a similar promise.
-Stonewall rewards firms that pay for gender surgery. Banks HSBC & NatWest announce their plans to do just that
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-Endometriosis UK tweets in support of TAW, saying they are “dedicated to raising the voices of everyone affected by endometriosis, regardless of gender”
-The New York Times finally writes something not glowingly positive about puberty blockers! nytimes.com/2022/11/14/hea…
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-Under proposals for NHS treatment guidelines in Scotland, the word “woman” could be erased from specialist clinics that deal with female health issues. They suggest “a general move away from gendered healthcare” & warn that trans people could be put off otherwise.

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This is a wild one-
A wonderful (🥴) new surgery for “Salmacians”- people who want both male and female genitals! Here’s @_CryMiaRiver’s article about it for @TPostMillennial, because there’s no way I can explain it all in a tweet 😬 thepostmillennial.com/new-surgery-pr…

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These ones are rough, but let’s look at some crime.

-In Argentina, well known “trans sex worker” Daniel Segura is in custody after police learned he forced 30 people, including minors, into prostitution. @ReduxxMag reduxx.info/argentina-tran… 🪡14/32

-In NZ, Matthew Nelson, a man who identifies as a woman, has been placed in a women’s prison. Matthew stabbed 3 people in a restaurant in a “violent & frenzied” attack. Yet again, the safety of vulnerable women is secondary to pandering to a man’s “identity” #KPSS 🪡15/32

-In Scotland (again!) it emerges that notorious paedophile Katie Dolawtawski had violently attacked another male inmate. 6’5 Dolatowski is now being held in a women’s prison, despite the clear risks he poses to the safety of the women. Here he is, looking repulsive. #KPSS 🪡16/32

-Another week, another incident of a pervert in @Primark changing rooms #BoycottPrimark tiktok.com/@choflo671/vid…

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-In observance of today being #TransgenderDayofAwareness, a top criminal justice reform org has profiled “transwoman” Patricia Trimble. Trimble raped two 9 year olds, & tortured, raped & killed a disabled man. @ReduxxMag covers it here-

reduxx.info/convicted-chil…

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Let’s move on to freedom of speech, a regular causality in the gender wars.

-Eventbrite cancels it’s ticket service for yet more events aimed at women. This time it was the launch of @K_IngalaSmith’s new book “Defending Women’s Spaces” hosted by @bindelj

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and the film screening for @AHFdoco Adult Human Female, a documentary critiquing gender ideology & covering women’s rights issues.

The events are still going ahead as planned, and I urge you all to support these amazing women & their projects 💜

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In politics & policy, San Francisco has launched the taxpayer funded “Guaranteed Income for Trans People (GIFT)” which provides trans people with $1200 p/m. There are 97 “gender options” on the application form 🙃

I’ll add a picture of some other people in SF.

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-In Scottish Parliament, women attending a vote about GRC amendments were told they weren’t allowed in whilst wearing the colours of the Suffragette flag. Meanwhile MSPs wearing rainbow lanyards were allowed to remain.

The Presiding Officer was later forced to apologise. 22/32

-Unfortunately, SNP & Green MSPs voted against Russel Findlay’s amendments to restrict access to Gender Recognition Certificates to sex offenders. I guess it’s a-okay for sex offenders to access women’s rights and single sex spaces. 🪡23/32

How could I summarise this week & not mention the absolute insanity of trans activists? At the @StandingforXX event in NYC, things took a worrying turn. Women coming together to speak about their rights were set upon by rabid TRAs who shouted abuse, spat, stripped off, 🪡24/32

fought with police, threatened women, and even masturbated in public. Here’s a thread of videos from the event 🪡25/32

In a horrific reminder that trans ideology is homophobic, not just misogynistic, Jim Fouratt, veteran of the gay rights movement, was also targeted. #LGBWithoutTheT
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7 people were arrested, all of whom were protesting the event, rather than speaking at it. It’s almost like the aggression & violence is one sided!

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I just want to end this thread with some reminders.

0 trans people have been murdered in the UK since 2019. On avg 3 women a week are murdered.

32 transgender people have been murdered in the US in 2022. This works out lower than that of the general population. 28/32

#TransWeekofAwareness ends today, which they have called #TransDayOfRemembrance. Today, the 20th of Nov, has been World Children's Day since 1989. Here’s a great thread about it- 29/32

As always, if I’ve missed anything please let me know in the comments & I’ll add it to the thread 📌

Also as always, everything in this thread either happened or emerged since last Sunday’s thread. 31/32

Don’t worry- there is a good news thread to follow, but I need a break first because that was a lot 😬 I’ll add it to the thread once it’s up.

See you next week for another (hopefully quieter!) This Week in Clown World.

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(Please forgive me for any typos- I didn’t have the energy to proof read 😂)

(Ugh I’ve just spotted 2- an errant “and” and “causality” instead of “casualty” I hate this 😭)

I forgot one!

For TAW, Ministry of Justice staff are told phrases such as "protecting women and girls" and "sex is binary/immutable" are "transphobic coded language."

archive.ph/2022.11.19-211…

And a much shorter, but much needed, thread of some positive news

Adding this, because 🥴

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