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CPN. Should have been an historian. Mainly talk politics & post uncomfortable truths. Repellent to ideologues. Tick all your little boxes. Mo Salah ticks mine.

Feb 2, 2023, 5 tweets

It is a cheap rhetorical trick to constantly pretend, as Trans Radical Activists do, that this debate is the same as the Civil Rights Movement or the Gay Rights Movement. It isn’t, because in those debates, there was no conflict of rights between peoples. #BBCQT

A black person being able to vote did not affect a white person being able to vote. A gay person not going to jail for being gay did not mean straight people would now be imprisoned, and lesbians being able to marry had no impact on straight people being able to marry. #bbcqt

However, a trans woman wanting access to female-only spaces, directly contradicts the right of women to areas where males won’t be. These areas are based on scientific reality, decades m of data, & millennia of common sense, regarding the physical advantages men have over women.

TRAs not only want to pretend that everyone who disagrees with them is a bigot, but they want to play make-belief regarding biological fact and crime statistics. Trans women (men) are more likely to sexually assault women than men are. It is not hateful to state the truth. #bbcqt

Adding this thread here as it shows another fundamental difference between what TRAs are claiming they are doing, and what black/gay people actually did:

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