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24 Nov, 11 tweets, 2 min read
In the UK, the original Gender Recognition Act (GRA) set aside a legal class for people who were diagnosed as transsexual and wanted to generally be seen as the opposite sex. MPs foresaw many potential problems with this ...
... but the answer in every case was that there were so few of these people that problems would be rare if they happened at all. Getting a gender recognition certificate also did not prevent necessary exemptions for single-sex spaces ...
... so the idea was that it wouldn’t be a problem anywhere that mattered. That was fine for so long, that when the Women and Equalities Committee looked to revise the law in 2015, they didn’t bother consulting with any feminists or women’s groups. ...
... In the US, the story was similar, but with a patchwork of laws regarding which states let you change your documents. The assumption continued that there were so few people doing this that no one needed to think about it too much. ...
... The current gender identity movement has upended every premise on which these original, and rather extraordinary, privileges were granted. It’s upended every social condition under which these privileges were not worried about, when anyone thought about them at all. ...
... [The gender identity movement] has even upended support for LGB rights, where no one meant to sign up for a world where it was going to be suggested that people were “disgusting” for having a sexual orientation based on sex. ...
... The latest in gender identity policies make no references to any medical conditions, nor any objective physical criteria, not even to gender dysphoria, and have no treatment requirements. The standard is self-identification, which means there is no standard at all ...
... As soon as the legal status change was uncoupled from any medical diagnosis, which gender identity activists themselves have demanded in courts around the world, this was always going to wind up as an all-or-nothing proposition. ...
... So it does not matter if your carefully considered position is that classic transsexuals, or individuals with gender dysphoria, deserve a special carveout in the law to recognize that they may be unfairly targeted for homophobic violence or discrimination. ...
... Gender identity activists’ self-identification policies and legal advocacy erase transsexualism as a legal category as surely as they erase being female as a legal category. ...
... The result follows from the premises. If you think that the result is ludicrous, you have to re-examine the premises.

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22 Nov
Some feminists have refused to accept, and therefore fully address the implications of, the systematic ostracism of anyone who shares our ideas from the power structures of left leaning political parties. Such a thorough un-personning and deplatforming wasn’t an accident.
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What matters is that the people who hold physical possession of the movements we care about, and may have helped build, have put us in their “Nazi” box.
No one will be heard whom the people in possession of the material assets, and social capital, of these movements, have marked as untouchable in this way. The woke staffers (they will all be woke) will likely never let your criticism reach the Great Man, or, now, the Great Woman.
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Arguments were heard in this case Thursday: Why might a case involving a Christian conservative male professor matter to women & girls generally? Everyone has the right to discuss these issues, but women and girls have the most personal & immediate need.

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21 Nov
This is what the Human Rights Campaign has in mind for women’s rights for the next 4 years; a total elimination of legal sex recognition in every place in the law where it still matters and helps women.
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It’s a constantly reproduced pattern of relationships, where women are made to shrink ourselves in fear of real harm, as men perpetrate or excuse it.
Coercion and violence against women becomes a joke men tell each other, and excuse in each other, while teasing us about it.

We’re asked why we didn’t prevent harms, why we didn’t predict them, because doesn’t everyone *know*? Didn’t you expect it?
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7 Nov
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Even if there are some broad tendencies based on sex, such as the greater male propensity to commit violence that’s borne out in the crime stats of the entire world, this doesn’t dictate an inevitable palate of talent and personality at the individual level.
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