"The society has for years..buried its head in the sand seemingly hoping that the debate would go away,and you would not have to jump on one side or the other..a cowardly position which ignores the long history of your organisation in campaigning for women"grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/dave-fawcett…
"I do not believe that it is bigoted or transphobic to say ..that transitioning children, performing mastectomies on healthy young girls is wrong. That erasing the same-sex attraction of lesbians, labelling them bigots if they will not date men who define as lesbians, is wrong"
"That women must have the right to accommodation in single sex spaces in hospitals, prisons and refuges, and that requesting this, or complaining when men are housed with them, is not bigotry or transphobia. Victimising women for demanding their sex-based rights, is wrong."
"As a supposedly feminist organisation, you seem to be getting everything wrong."
"I am sure that there are many other members of the Fawcett Society who also recognise the wrong in your stance and will also give up on the hope that you will come round in the end. It now seems clear that you will not...
...I urge them all to rescind their memberships, cancel their direct debits and find a better way to use their time, energy and money."
"Conflicting results contributed to the difficulty of identifying specific brain features which consistently differ between cisgender and transgender or between heterosexual and homosexual groups"
"before hormonal treatment, in transgenders the most important brain parameters..tend to be congruent with the gender assigned at birth—after hormone treatment they partly adjust to the characteristics of the desired gender"
"Complex human behaviors..cannot be entirely explained by phenomena occurring only in a single brain region. Therefore, the idea that brain sexual differences cause behavioral sexual differences, rather than being an assumption, still constitutes a hypothesis to verify."
"The intended readership was ‘amongst the classes to whom, more especially, advertisements are generally addressed’. Such people would value ‘the commercial connections and knowledge of the conductors of the Guardian’." Hasn't changed much in 200 years. #YeOldeChatteringClasses
"Thanks to its anti-democratic campaigning, the working-class Manchester and Salford Advertiser dubbed the Manchester Guardian ‘the foul prostitute and dirty parasite of the worst portion of the mill-owners’."
"What the Manchester Guardian found most abhorrent was the emancipation of the slaves. So outrageous was the paper’s promotion of Jefferson Davis’s slaveholders’ revolt that it was denounced in a mass rally of Union supporters in the nearby Free Trade Hall"
"Watching male students on campus scream and attack my supporters, made it visceral how much the harassment of women academics has become socially acceptable under the guise of gender identity activism."
"If I complain that this sort of defamation impedes me from doing my teaching job and threatens my own safety on campus,’ says Stock, ‘they reply that since I am a free speech warrior, shouldn’t I just put up with it? They are utterly toxic and my mental health has..suffered."
"Faculty colleagues are still publishing letters to the editor in the student newspaper denouncing me,’ says Hughes. ‘All of the letters, petitions and statements that have been released are full of misinformation and outright lies about me."
"the demographic make-up of these marchers reveals something that is routinely swept under the carpet by Clinton feminism: social class. According to one survey, 43% of marchers earned above $75,000 per year–despite only 16% of Americans of either sex earning that amount or more"
"It’s one thing to demand an equal right to earn hundreds of thousands a year as a lawyer, but there’s no feminist campaign for an equal right to become bin men. And everyone knows why."
"even for lawyers, Clinton feminism can only ignore sex so far: what we call the “gender pay gap” is mostly an effect of the brutal fact that smashing the glass ceiling is difficult to combine with having babies...
"the Big Tech oligarchy, which clearly has no respect whatsoever for borders, territory or democratically made national laws and feels that it can reach into any nation state it chooses and switch off the oxygen of publicity to any party, group or individual it disapproves of"
"surely our friends in the SWP have read some Trotsky..he ridiculed leftists in Mexico who were seeking to ‘curb’ reactionary right-wing voices..'Any leftist who ‘arms the bourgeois state with special means to control public opinion’ is a fool'"
"Once you accept the logic of censorship – the logic that says some ideas are too dangerous for public expression – you immediately open yourself up to censorship. It is astonishing that some people still don’t realise this."
"You know you are in the Upside Down when a famous human-rights organisation petitions your government to disenfranchise you and members of your group, to stop you from engaging in peaceful actions and voicing your concerns and opinions."
"If any man can fill out a form, as is the case in Ireland, and legally become a woman ‘for all purposes’, that is not a legal fiction. That is an access-all-areas pass for predators...
...This is not to say that trans-identified people are predators. But it is to say, if predators went through the seminary to gain access to victims, are we to believe they would not fill out an A4 form?"