Thread by @MatthewGreenf11

uncommongroundmedia.com/im-with-the-ba… "10 years ago,if you’d told me or anyone else on the Progressive Left that simple phrases like “same-sex attraction” “expectant mothers” and “safeguarding children” were“problematic” you would have been considered sexist..homophobic..or possibly quite mad"

"many cultures recognise gender non-conformity. Some recognise three or more “genders”. None have ever believed that a man who says he’s a woman is an actual woman. Why would they believe something so preposterous?"

"Expanding the definition of “women” to include men makes the word meaningless. Ironically, trans activists claiming that sex reduces womanhood to a matter of “biology” instead want to make being a woman nothing more than a personal belief."

"To argue that society must deny biological sex for political or sociological reasons is to make science subject to ideology. That is ridiculous. It’s what the Soviet Union did with its disastrous adoption of Lysenkoism in from the 1920s until the 1960s...

...Even worse, this denial has led to the insane situation where children are being allowed to believe that they can change their sex and that anyone with an even slightly different opinion hates them and deserves to be ostracised from society and is deserving of violence."

"I became interested in all this a few years back when I was describing in a Facebook thread my own experiences growing up as gender non-conforming . A trans teenager told me to go and kill myself and said they could not wait until all the “TERFs” were dead...

...This level of deranged hatred from purported progressives, together with episodes like ambivalence on the Left to the murder of staff at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo (who, apparently, had it coming) led me to start the satirical account Satiria as a creative outlet...

...Variously described as “mediocre”, “edgy”, “badly photoshopped”, and “very funny”, Satiria grew slowly without incident, offending the right and left with equal gusto..All this changed when Satiria started to mock the absurd intolerance endemic to gender ideology...

...Suddenly I was being mass-reported over and over. Soon, I was on rolling 30-day bans from Facebook, sometimes for posts which were months old."

"It’s notable that the protected characteristic of “sex” is not listed in Twitter’s Terms Of Service. Abusing women over their biology is..okay. Twitter has taken the ideological stance that “trans women are women”, and is apparently out to enforce regardless of the implications"

"Over the past decade..[ideological]indoctrination has become brutal. Even to question anything promoted by the Progressive Left results in vilification, bullying social shunning. By the time Trans hit the spotlight these people had been well trained to accept literally anything”

"Twitter knows what it is doing. It’s seeking to control the language of discussion, and therefore control what its users are allowed to think. As the also-banned activist Posie Parker puts it, “Only women who practice self-censorship are still on Twitter”."

"Every major political party on the left, along with organisations like Stonewall, Amnesty International, the ACLU and many other leading organizations have been taken over in an apparent ideological coup..Twitter is just one example of this sexist, homophobic horrorshow."

"What’s being enforced is one narrow view of what anyone, trans people included, is allowed to believe about being trans, and any insistence on dissenting views is being labelled as “hateful conduct”."

"We remain, in 2019, facing the absurd reality that one of the greatest platforms for communication and knowledge in human history has chosen to be beholden to a fundamentalist ideology which seeks to ban trans people from acknowledging their own biological sex."

"Quite what Twitter’s shareholders and insurers make of this, I do not know.

Does Twitter really want acknowledging biological reality to be against its terms of service?

As the famous documentary Jurassic Park, taught us, “Life finds a way”."