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10 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
We will not forget. A thread on the remarkable courage and tenacity of the legal profession in upholding fundamental human rights for women would sadly be very short indeed. The capture of both mine and the solicitor’s profession has been remarkable and very sad.
Wracking my brains now. Who would I honour at the Bar, for standing true to its founding principles of fearless independence? @anyabike @BluskyeAllison @kamamelly @legalfeminist. Who else?
The list of those - predominantly male - Legal Twitter accounts which are silent or actively hostile would be very much longer.
On the fearless independence front I can add @Ed_Levey and @SCynic1. But I really am struggling now. This is so terribly sad. For the Bar of all the professions to be so craven is a matter of deep personal sorrow to me.

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10 Sep
Why would I want to read anything that starts from this ridiculous premise? I had a chemically induced menopause aged 43. My womb is of entirely no use. I am still a woman.
What makes me a woman is the fact that my body developed along the pathway of the female reproductive system - with all that entails for my physical strength and vulnerability to males etc. It doesn’t matter a jot if my womb works or ever worked.
My gender is probably ‘disagreeable masculine’ as I never wear high heels or lipstick and people tell me I am rude and aggressive. But still a woman. I don’t confuse my personality with my actual sex.
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10 Sep
I am not so sure about that.
Mainly because it’s not a ‘civil rights battle’ in the way you seem to think. I am fighting for my fundamental rights pursuant to Article 10. That gives me a certain amount of energy.
For the benefit of those not based in the UK or who have very short memories, let’s do a quick run down of how the ‘fascist terfs’ have prevailed in their civil rights struggle.
Harry Miller wins case against Humberside police and his appeal against Hate Crimes Guidance heard in March 2021.
My JR against Wiltshire on similar grounds about to be issued.
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9 Sep
Over a year on. What’s been done? Nothing that I can see.
While we waste time responding to increasingly polarised narratives about ‘pro contact culture’ etc in the family courts, this is what is happening on the ground
But this is always what happens when you cede control of the narrative to one single issue campaigning group. The problems with the family justice system are nothing to do with systemic misogyny or ‘pro contact culture’ - AKA the law.
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8 Sep
So let’s deal with the ‘opposing arguments’ to Butler, which far from being censored are all over the internet.

First. That section was removed because it was an embarrassment.
It built an entire edifice on sand - that ‘terfs’ are fascists because fascists protested outside Wi spa and the whole thing was a transphobic hoax.

Except it wasn’t.
What happens when you continually parrot ‘no debate’ and refuse to engage with your opponents? You give them little choice but to engage in the cruder forms of public and open resistance.
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8 Sep
A pity this ‘professor of journalism’ doesn’t spend more time chatting to his colleagues in the history department. They might be able to help him understand about the long and glorious history of propaganda in fascist regimes.
Because it’s very obvious why Butler’s assertions that women who believe in the immutable reality of sex are ‘fascists’ was cut - but he cropped out the question. She thought the indecent exposure at Wi Spa was a hoax.
But after five separate complainants came forward and charges have been laid against a man with a criminal history of predatory sex crime, far from being a hoax it is instead the simple and clearest example we so far have that we are RIGHT about the dangers of self ID.
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7 Sep
Of course Sonia Appleby had ‘an agenda’. It was child safeguarding. This is where ludicrous accusations of ‘transphobia’ will get you. The deliberate abandonment of children’s welfare to serve an adult ideology.
So how did the usual suspects comment on this story? They didn’t. Here’s Mermaids and one of their patrons. How is upholding Gillick competence an attack on it?
Here’a David and John, and the burning issues of the day
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