Thread by @fairplaywomen

A high court judge recently said 'terf' "is a derogatory term used by those who seek to de-platform those who hold different views".

@Fairplaywomen has searched the twitter accounts of all parliamentary candidates to find out who uses it.

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2/ Twenty one candidates use the word 'terf' with a further 6 calling women transphobes or transphobic.

7 are Labour
7 Liberal democrats
7 Greens.

No use of 'terf' by Conservatives, SNP or Plaid Cymru.

Liberal Democrats:
@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson

@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson Labour:
@JoshuaGarfield @CllrJessBarnard @samuelsweek @LewisIWhyte @thom_kirkwood @jolainscough @Soph_Wilson @UKLabour @labourpress @jeremycorbyn

@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson @JoshuaGarfield @CllrJessBarnard @samuelsweek @LewisIWhyte @thom_kirkwood @jolainscough @Soph_Wilson @UKLabour @labourpress @jeremycorbyn Green candidates:
@ZackPolanski @MagsSGP @FayGreenParty @CllrSabrina @cassmacg @danhutchison_ @loydgreens @Dannny_K @JuliaRaeBrown @TheGreenParty @scotgp @jon_bartley @sianberry

@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson @JoshuaGarfield @CllrJessBarnard @samuelsweek @LewisIWhyte @thom_kirkwood @jolainscough @Soph_Wilson @UKLabour @labourpress @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski @MagsSGP @FayGreenParty @CllrSabrina @cassmacg @danhutchison_ @loydgreens @Dannny_K @JuliaRaeBrown @TheGreenParty @scotgp @jon_bartley @sianberry 6/

10% of constituencies in Scotland have an election candidate using the term 'terf'

Over half of candidates who use 'terf' are men.

Most started to use the 'terf' within the past 2 years. Little used before 2018.

@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson @JoshuaGarfield @CllrJessBarnard @samuelsweek @LewisIWhyte @thom_kirkwood @jolainscough @Soph_Wilson @UKLabour @labourpress @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski @MagsSGP @FayGreenParty @CllrSabrina @cassmacg @danhutchison_ @loydgreens @Dannny_K @JuliaRaeBrown @TheGreenParty @scotgp @jon_bartley @sianberry 7/ Use with violent and angry rhetoric

@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson @JoshuaGarfield @CllrJessBarnard @samuelsweek @LewisIWhyte @thom_kirkwood @jolainscough @Soph_Wilson @UKLabour @labourpress @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski @MagsSGP @FayGreenParty @CllrSabrina @cassmacg @danhutchison_ @loydgreens @Dannny_K @JuliaRaeBrown @TheGreenParty @scotgp @jon_bartley @sianberry 8/ Labelling women as hateful

@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson @JoshuaGarfield @CllrJessBarnard @samuelsweek @LewisIWhyte @thom_kirkwood @jolainscough @Soph_Wilson @UKLabour @labourpress @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski @MagsSGP @FayGreenParty @CllrSabrina @cassmacg @danhutchison_ @loydgreens @Dannny_K @JuliaRaeBrown @TheGreenParty @scotgp @jon_bartley @sianberry 9/ Denial that the word ‘terf’ is offensive.

@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson @JoshuaGarfield @CllrJessBarnard @samuelsweek @LewisIWhyte @thom_kirkwood @jolainscough @Soph_Wilson @UKLabour @labourpress @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski @MagsSGP @FayGreenParty @CllrSabrina @cassmacg @danhutchison_ @loydgreens @Dannny_K @JuliaRaeBrown @TheGreenParty @scotgp @jon_bartley @sianberry 10/ Election candidates attempting to denigrate political opponents by labelling them ‘terfs’ or transphobes.

@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson @JoshuaGarfield @CllrJessBarnard @samuelsweek @LewisIWhyte @thom_kirkwood @jolainscough @Soph_Wilson @UKLabour @labourpress @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski @MagsSGP @FayGreenParty @CllrSabrina @cassmacg @danhutchison_ @loydgreens @Dannny_K @JuliaRaeBrown @TheGreenParty @scotgp @jon_bartley @sianberry 11/ And some more examples of attempts to silence opposition @joannaccherry @JoanMcAlpine

@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson @JoshuaGarfield @CllrJessBarnard @samuelsweek @LewisIWhyte @thom_kirkwood @jolainscough @Soph_Wilson @UKLabour @labourpress @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski @MagsSGP @FayGreenParty @CllrSabrina @cassmacg @danhutchison_ @loydgreens @Dannny_K @JuliaRaeBrown @TheGreenParty @scotgp @jon_bartley @sianberry @joannaccherry @JoanMcAlpine 12/ Motives and views unfairly denounced as transphobic and inspired by hate. Induces a climate of fear and shame to prevent others speaking or learning more about the issues

@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson @JoshuaGarfield @CllrJessBarnard @samuelsweek @LewisIWhyte @thom_kirkwood @jolainscough @Soph_Wilson @UKLabour @labourpress @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski @MagsSGP @FayGreenParty @CllrSabrina @cassmacg @danhutchison_ @loydgreens @Dannny_K @JuliaRaeBrown @TheGreenParty @scotgp @jon_bartley @sianberry @joannaccherry @JoanMcAlpine 13/ Equating women’s sex-based rights with being ‘anti-trans’

@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson @JoshuaGarfield @CllrJessBarnard @samuelsweek @LewisIWhyte @thom_kirkwood @jolainscough @Soph_Wilson @UKLabour @labourpress @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski @MagsSGP @FayGreenParty @CllrSabrina @cassmacg @danhutchison_ @loydgreens @Dannny_K @JuliaRaeBrown @TheGreenParty @scotgp @jon_bartley @sianberry @joannaccherry @JoanMcAlpine 14/ 5 Lib Dem candidates retweeted the Young Liberals tweet describing the Labour manifesto pledges to uphold existing sex based rights as “kowtowing to TERFs and transphobes”

@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson @JoshuaGarfield @CllrJessBarnard @samuelsweek @LewisIWhyte @thom_kirkwood @jolainscough @Soph_Wilson @UKLabour @labourpress @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski @MagsSGP @FayGreenParty @CllrSabrina @cassmacg @danhutchison_ @loydgreens @Dannny_K @JuliaRaeBrown @TheGreenParty @scotgp @jon_bartley @sianberry @joannaccherry @JoanMcAlpine 15/ Shutting down legitimate debate about how we balance the rights of women and trans people in the future is not something we should tolerate from our political representatives

Name calling is one of the lowest levels of political engagement and a cynical propaganda technique

@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson @JoshuaGarfield @CllrJessBarnard @samuelsweek @LewisIWhyte @thom_kirkwood @jolainscough @Soph_Wilson @UKLabour @labourpress @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski @MagsSGP @FayGreenParty @CllrSabrina @cassmacg @danhutchison_ @loydgreens @Dannny_K @JuliaRaeBrown @TheGreenParty @scotgp @jon_bartley @sianberry @joannaccherry @JoanMcAlpine 16/ The Labour, Liberal Democrat and the Green party press offices have been asked whether they condemn the use of the word ‘terf’ by candidates representing the party. No comment has been received from any party.

@leedargue @CharleyHasted @jamesdbaker @JCHannah77 @katharinemacyLD @JamesWHarrison @chris_nelson @JohnRWaddell @LibDems @joswinson @JoshuaGarfield @CllrJessBarnard @samuelsweek @LewisIWhyte @thom_kirkwood @jolainscough @Soph_Wilson @UKLabour @labourpress @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski @MagsSGP @FayGreenParty @CllrSabrina @cassmacg @danhutchison_ @loydgreens @Dannny_K @JuliaRaeBrown @TheGreenParty @scotgp @jon_bartley @sianberry @joannaccherry @JoanMcAlpine 17/ Political parties claiming to be progressive and interested in social justice should not be turning a blind eye to sexist and abusive name-calling designed to shut women up

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