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28 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
1/ Seems like a good time to RT this thread, less anyone forget the intellectual roots of queer theory.

Michel Foucault is in the news again. More specifically, reports about his serial sexual abuse of poor, minority children.
2/ When Foucault's philosophical beliefs jumped like a virus from gender studies departments and queer theory courses, to capture lesbian & gay politics and the modern LGBTQ movement, too many remained silent - and just look where we are now.

thetimes.co.uk/article/french…

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2.1/ Here’s a copy of my crumpled digital copy:
*Lest we forget ...

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25 Mar
1/ @MrJohnNicolson has plunged new depths in his campaign of harassment & defamation of @ALLIANCELGB.

Please don't let him get away with it.

Support @ALLIANCELGB, fiercely & proudly.
2/ The gender identity politics beloved of @MrJohnNicolson are deeply cynical & sinister.

His attempt to conflate racism, misogyny & homophobia to justify his rant about people like me, should fool no one. It is a barefaced manipulation.
3/ As a black lesbian, lawyer & survivor of male sexual violence, I can attest to the appalling levels of racist, sexist & homophobic abuse meted out to lesbians who object to gender identity politics. As black lesbians, we are told to be thankful that we are regarded as women.
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12 Mar
Hello, would people please add below the Gender Critical crowdfunds that have yet to reach their fundraising target?
1/ BREAKING: I have now formally closed my crowdfund to donations. My crowdfund page will remain open to view & I will continue to post updates and documents to it.

I raised £150,975.00 in 34 days, with an average donation of £27.00. People donated from around the world.
2/ The comments that were left are inspiring. If you haven't already, read through them. They will pep you up if you're ever feeling down & isolated about this struggle. Sadly there was no safe way to keep the comments open & donations closed.
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22 Feb
1/ The problem of introducing hatred of women (misogyny) as a hate crime: Sections 145 and 146 Criminal Justice Act 2003 (in England and Wales) allow criminal courts to increase sentences for aggravation related to disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity.
2/ What matters in the current criminal hate crime legislation (not to be confused with the Equality Act provisions) is the offender’s perception. It follows that if one is 'gay bashed' it doesn't matter whether one is actually gay; the motivation is the offender's perception.
3/ The danger is this framework is being superimposed on the proposed framework for creating woman-hatred as a hate crime. There are only two sexes & the woman-hatred that women face, at a criminal level: harassment, assault etc., is coming from men & males. Period.
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10 Feb
1/ We’ve allowed trans inclusive language to permeate society without being allowed to consider how & why it’s the language we use to describe women, our bodies & our biological reality, that is seen as problematic, that needs to be neutralised or erased.
2/ Why suddenly do so many females wish to identify out of womanhood, femaleness?

Breasts are being bound & this is no longer an act of self-harm but of liberation; a female is pregnant but rejects being either a woman or female; this is not self-hatred but self-affirmation.
3/ Instead, even considering that we are witnessing shocking levels of self-hatred among our young women, is what offends & causes alarm.

That increasing numbers of females regard their bodies as unacceptable unless rebranded & labelled male or at least non-female is just fine.
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6 Feb
1/ Last year, when my crowdfund was pulled down, I didn’t get a chance to read most of the comments. So I was determined to spend today reading them all — just in case! They are manna for the soul.
allisonbailey.co.uk/comments/
2/ Please take a moment to read the comments, including from my original crowdfund, which crowdjustice removed from their site when they pulled my page down. My lawyers asked for them & we’ve reproduced them in a link in the comments tab. They are equally inspiring.
3/ The money is very welcome and necessary but the comments are a contemporaneous record of how decent people: women & men; gay & straight; liberal & conservative, feel about what has been done to our sex-based rights & protections. It shows the depth of support that‘s out there.
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21 Jan
1/ @JoeBiden - People should be able to live without fear because of who they are and who they love, this includes WOMEN.

GIRLS should be able to to access toilet & changing facilities without the presence of MALES
2/ GIRLS should be able to pursue school sports & compete for college scholarships against other FEMALES & not lose out to inferior but stronger MALES.

In seeking to end discrimination on the basis of gender identity, you have instead heralded a new era of discrimination ...
3/ ...against WOMEN & GIRLS.

The prohibition on discrimination in employment, housing & healthcare is welcome. Opening up WOMEN & GIRLS sports, toilets & changing rooms to self-identifying males, pursing their ‘gender identity’ is not. It’s deeply regressive.
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