If @JessDeWahls wants to sue the @royalacademy for discrimination, I'll contribute to the crowdfunder.

Gender critical beliefs are worthy of respect in a democratic society and cannot be grounds for blacklisting an artist.
Seriously.
Did not know there was so much anti-woman nastiness in embroidery circles...

I hope the @royalacademy takes swift action to reverse its decision to discriminate against an artist and deprive her of her livelihood on the basis of her gender-critical beliefs. ImageImageImageImage
Good action here.

Maybe the @royalacademy will go and have a little think before they get sued for discrimination.

It's fantastic to see @SexMattersOrg take on an advocacy role for women experiencing discrimination on the grounds of their belief that there are two sexes, male and female.

@SexMattersOrg "We are writing to you to point out that the @royalacademy is undertaking egregious and blatant belief discrimination against textile artist @JessDeWahls."

sex-matters.org/wp-content/upl… Image
Uh oh, the @royalacademy doubles down on its discrimination.

"We have made the decision not to stock works by this specific artist given the perceived transphobic nature of sentiment and comments made by them in the recent past."

@royalacademy Apart from their blatant misgendering of @JessDeWahls, the @royalacademy appears to believe they really can discriminate against artists with impunity on the basis of their beliefs.

Good thing so many people are keen to contribute to Jess's crowdfunder if she decides to sue.
You think this is the end of @JessDeWahls's career?

Haha. As Dave says:

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19 Jun
The view from Ireland on the recent manipulative action by the alcohol industry to fight against alcohol awareness by creating the preposterous claim that the WHO wants to ban drinking for women.

FASD = fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
We feminists have our blind spots too; and this is one: we can apparently easily be manipulated into promoting the interests of an industrial lobby when its PR men spin them as concern for women's rights.

We should recognize this and guard against it.

How believable is it that the UK alcohol industry has developed a sudden feminist awareness & is fighting against paternalism & sexism for women's freedom?
How believable is it that they truly believe the WHO wants to ban drinking for women?

ALL LIES

Read 14 tweets
17 Jun
PLEASE stop sharing the gutter press clickbait that the WHO is planning a ban on women drinking alcohol.

Just please.

We're the ones on the side of facts, right?
OK just a few more words on this even though it's a monumental waste of time, but it just goes to show that none of us are immune to viral fake news created specifically to whip up outrage.
Here you can see how the Daily Mail creates its own storm:

1. Totally false outrage-inducing headline generates thousands of comments
2. Followed by shocked comments from experts, AND ALCOHOL INDUSTRY LOBBYISTS (in article) Image
Read 30 tweets
10 Jun
One of Maya Forstater's lawyers, @peter_daly, on @amnesty , the @fawcettsociety, the organised Trade Union movement, the political parties: "All have ignored these women, or been positively hostile"

linkedin.com/pulse/forstate…
Maya Forstater's lawyer:

"Amnesty Ireland went furthest of all by putting its name to a statement calling for people with Gender Critical beliefs to be “denied legitimate political representation”. Even typing that sentence feels implausible."
Maya Forstater's lawyer says in the light of today's judgment, @theSNP need to review their proposed hate crime legislation, and national police forces need to stand down from thought policing.

linkedin.com/pulse/forstate…
Read 10 tweets
10 Jun
Unbelievable.

Maya Forstater's former employer rejects the judgment protecting the belief that sex is immutable.

Their CEO, Amanda Glassman, refers to the expression of such belief as "offensive speech" that causes harm.

They're consulting with lawyers.
What's the plan here?
What an appalling organization.
What an appalling CEO.

The best course of action would have been to recognize the court's judgment, acknowledge failings, and settle compensation for discrimination and wrongful dismissal.

Instead, they're doubling down.

What did I think would happen?
I thought reason and self-interest would prevail, as opposed to naked ideology.

Read 4 tweets
18 Apr
Total garbage story:

1. Says it's a huge injustice that AI can correctly identify the sex of humans, even of those who claim to be the opposite sex.

2. Has 5 paragraphs slandering @salltweets and her company Giggle, for being a women-only platform.
Written by this person, who seems surprised that facial recognition technology can correctly identify sex, but not the effects of magical thinking:

Previous thread on the wondrous and surprising fact that artificial intelligence cannot detect esoteric beliefs which contradict physical reality on the faces of people who hold them:

Read 5 tweets
6 Apr
Lavery pops up in ghoulish delight at his fantasy that a male could have a uterus implanted from a dead or living woman, only to abort the fetus that was presumably was the point of the operation.

A vanity womb, with a vanity abortion, top points in the Great Validation Game <3 Image
Lavery clearly derives pleasure from offending women, as many such misogynists do. Here Lavery takes an event that is often traumatizing for women and sets it as a goal for trans validation.

So yes, it's a fetish for these people, like menstruation, pregnancy, breastfeeding. Image
Notice the slur & the deliberate "misgendering".

Lavery knows it's women objecting to his fetishistic fantasy of trophy abortions when he says "Real feminist activists, these GUYS".

Weird to claim to be a woman when you hate them so much, isn't it?

Or is that the whole point. Image
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