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Harvey Jeni @GappyTales
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The ultimate aim - as with everything - is for trans women to compete in women's sports on a self ID basis. With no gatekeeping whatsoever. Because biological males are female if they say so.

I mean that escalated quick, didn't it, from 'We just want to pee in peace.'
In 2019 fight with all your might. Before your daughters have nothing: no safe, sex segregated spaces, no sports, no workable laws to protect them from sex discrimination.

When I first started talking about this issue, my friends scoffed and dismissed me as alarmist when I said
we would have biologically male rapists in women's prisons. The sheer rapidity with which the next frontiers and boundaries are being torn through is frightening.

And it won't stop. What seems alarmist today will be tomorrow's new reality. At what point will you say: enough.
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This is my parents cat. He has just sicked on the carpet. Earlier he pissed in the hall. His name is 'Mighty' but he's terrified of tin foil.

He is the world's crappest cat. Bless.
In the style of Attenborough's Dynasties:

This is Mighty, fighting to survive in the wild. Unfortunately, Mighty has seen a small mouse and become startled. He is hiding now.
Mighty is hungry. But can a cat find a single morsel of roast beef flung from a humans dinner plate in this bloody forest? A cat cannot. Mighty decides to lay down and die.
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When an ideology lacks coherence and nothing its proponents claim makes any sense, remember ladies to just shut up.

When male people say they are female, but also that there is no such thing as a distinct female sex class, then good girls like Fiona stay quiet and listen.
Fiona doesn't ask inconvenient questions or expect anything to make sense. No. Fiona accepts that her role is to accommodate; to absorb; to defer.

Which is lovely.
And apparently if you do this for long enough, you find none of it's confusing anymore!

Even lovelier. So perhaps then, Fiona, you could explain to me just *how* male people are female if they say so, while at the same time a distinct female sex class does not exist?
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It is a sensible piece yes, and the debate is toxic, but this Trumpian 'both sides, both sides' rhetoric is terribly frustrating for those of us only too aware that the rape and death threats come from one side only.
I have never sent a picture of my vagina to somebody because I disagreed with their political views.

Never. Not once.
I have threatened nobody. I have assaulted nobody. I have called nobody a fucking ugly cunt.

I have been put in fear of my own physical safety more than once.

Please. Feminism is not violent.
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Let's talk about the phrase, "I have concerns". I'm seeing this pop up a lot as a means of leading into anti-transgender rhetoric. It's a Trojan horse, trying to sneak bigotry into a conversation under the guise of genuine worry.
There's usually an olive branch that precedes it; something like "I want to support trans people" or "I don't have a problem with trans people". But then comes the "I have concerns". "I have concerns" about women's safety in bathrooms. "I have concerns" about the fairness...
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Two days ago I wrote an article for @gaystarnews about the meteoric rise in anti-transgender hate in the UK ➡️ gaystarnews.com/article/is-the…

Today, The Sunday Times published its most dehumanising transphobic article yet! 😕
Today’s article in The Sunday Times is just the tip of the iceberg in what has become a relentless barrage of unending transphobic, trans-hostile and insidiously undermining articles published over the last 18 months!😕
The Times has systematically and repeatedly painted a picture of trans people as a “lobby” group of dogmatic and threatening “activists” who have some sort of unlimited power to “demand” rights of politicians and policy makers.

The truth is far from this.
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For me, the real issue in the #trans #GRA reform is #maleviolence against #female & trans. I note #transmen seem to be absent from discussion. They obvs don't present as #women so don't use women's spaces. But they can't draw attention to themselves as trans because... (1/2)
(2/2) in a male space they would run the risk of attack by men who would see their bodies as still female. I can't find stats on transmen being violent, or female violence on transmen. I guess there will be some, but very small no's. The problem is male violence. #patriarchy...
So we need to be looking at #male #violence and how/why our society raises #boys to think violence is a way of dealing with the world. NB I know this is a generalisation and not all males are violent & not all females are peaceful!
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poll for #women #writers: You routinely write about serious issues in your field (e.g., science/health). Another writer, in the middle of his critique of your position, encourages readers to check out an unrelated article you wrote about your dating experiences. You assume he is:
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THREAD: earlier I tweeted about Jesse Singal's long history of writing fearmongering anti-#trans/GNC #children articles (+ also treating me & other trans women shittily): #transgender #LGBTQ #health #psychology
...Here I will "live tweet" Singal's latest Atlantic article, which is in the same vein as the others. If I was teaching a journalism class, I'd use this latest article as an example of how to write a highly biased piece that comes across as "fair & balanced" as possible...
...and since people unfamiliar with this subject will no doubt be unaware of all the misinformation & biases at work here, I'm gonna do math to it! I'm dividing it into 14 sections, each of which begins with its own header (aka, giant capital letter)...
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The Atlantic has just published the umpteenth article Jesse Singal has written raising fears about #trans/GNC #children. He is not some unbiased journalist regarding this subject - he has an axe to grind, as I describe in great depth here:
juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-jes… #LGBTQ #health
...Singal has purposefully slut-shamed & lied about me, + sicced social media mobs on me - he has a history of adding GG-hastags to his critiques of trans women (receipts in comments section). I know several other trans women who've had similarly bad experiences with him...
...regarding his journalistic biases on this matter, Singal outright ignored the following important historical points & trans perspectives in his 2016 "gender reparative therapy isn't so bad" article: juliaserano.blogspot.com/2016/02/placin… #LGBTQ #transgender #children #health #psychology
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