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28 Dec, 14 tweets, 4 min read
My nominations for 2021 Terf Awards incoming below:
1.Court case: Successful appeal against Re:C so care workers cannot be required to purchase sexual access to women in prostitution for disabled men
2.Best decision by a politician/political party: Diane Abbott affirming stance against prostitution
3.Worst decision by a politician/political party: not a decision but Keir Starmer: cervixgate
4.Journalist of the year: Yvonne Roberts for Observer’s End Femicide campaign
5.Best new book: Tie: Selina Todd: Snakes and Ladders; Kathleen Stock: Material Girls.
(Experiencing Twitter glitch. Ignore this one)
6.Best Article/Editorial: Sonia Sodha: Stonewall Risks All it Fought For, 6 June, Observer
7.Worst Article/Editorial: Guardian, Loretta Hunt, parents fighting to save trans sports (lots of contenders from the guardian for this one)
8.Peak of the year: India Willoughby’s cervix treat for Andrew Marr
9.Best media appearance: Joan Smith on Woman’s Hour against Misogyny as a hate crime
10.Worst media appearance: Ellie Mae O’Hagan “I actually don’t know why some people are women and some people are men... and anyone who claims to know the answer to that question is a liar.”
11.Most disappointing celeb: Billy Bragg
12.Most Egregious Misinformation Kier Starmer: Cervixgate aka saying “it’s wrong to say ‘only women have a cervix’ “ of Rosie Duffield
13.Most insulting way to not say women: David Lanny: Dinosaurs
14.Worst Blue Tick Take: @HollyWStars DARVO attempt at victim hood after harassment of JK Rowling
15.Meme of the year: terf cat
16.Terf tweet of the year: Julie Bindel’s daily Penis News settlement tweet
17.TRA tweet of the year: @flyinglawyer73 “Selfish are those who demand society changes its way of life to accommodate their need to feel *safe. Demand what you want, it will not be happening. Many people are waking up to this nonsense.”
18: Terf of the year: Sonia Appleby
19 (Bonus category, yes, totally biased) Women’s charity of the year: @nia_endingVAWG
Oh no! Forgot this work of art
Some of these nominations are not purely related to the threat of transgender ideology to women’s sex based rights and protections, but feminism is not a single issue struggle.

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2 Dec
Seeing the awful news about the death of 16-year-old Amber Gibson in Hamilton. I can't help but be reminded of the comments of Angela Crawley, Scottish National Party MP for Lanark & Hamilton East in the Women & Equalities Select Committee on reform of the GRA in April this year
She, Angela Crawley MP, said "perhaps a trans female has transitioned*, they are also at equally and perhaps greater risk of the same violence."
Greater risk? Of the same violence?
*Not sure what she meant there.
At least 13 women/young women have been killed and a male suspect identified/charged *in Scotland* this year.
In the UK, 9 people with a possible trans identity have been killed since 2009, ie the last 13 years.
How anyone gets that to be the same or greater risk is beyond me.
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26 Nov
On any day, but especially the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, centring women - centring women who have been killed by men - is not transphobic. #IDEVAW
A minimum of 348 UK women have been killed by a man or where there is a male suspect since that last known person with a transgender identity was murdered on 11 January 2019.
This, apparently, is @Amelia_Womack’s offending tweet.

A woman weeping for murdered women.
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25 Nov
For people saying 126 women killed this year with a male suspect.... thank you for highlighting men's fatal violence against women.
It's already 127.
#IDEVAW #CountDeadWomen
I only add women after a man has been charged, or in cases where the suspect has killed himself, where the police (or similar) suggest that he is thought to be responsible.
I don't want to make mistakes, be accused of inflating what is already an atrocity or contempt of court.
This morning, I awoke to the news that a man has been charged in relation to the death of Jennifer Chapple (and her husband) and there are at least two other women dead where men are in custody and may be charged today.
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17 Nov
Obviously one of the main motivations for both @CountDeadWomen and @FemicideCensus is to raise awareness of men's fatal violence against women in the UK.
Consequently, I am pleased when either my work @CountDeadWomen or the team's work from @FemicideCensus is used in protests/art (or media or cited in academia).
Although it pisses me of when the source isn't cited, I also recognise that data becomes its own thing when it is released into the world.
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16 Nov
Her name was Stella Frew and her life was worth so much more than the 4 and a half years that James Martin was sentenced for killing her.
This is misogyny in action.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
From her daughter “It pains us to think how frightened she must have been.”
“Learning the fact my mum’s bag was taken and later discarded on the road with all her belongings has hurt us all.Knowing it could have been returned or handed in and not dumped like it was worthless.”
She went on: “She was somebody, she had a family who love her dearly.

She went on: “She was somebody, she had a family who love her dearly.
“Mr Martin may have thought my mum was worthless but to us she was everything.”
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19 Oct
So, I’ve seen this floating about for a day or so and I wasn’t going to bother to respond, because it is so ludicrous that it doesn’t even begin to get under my skin.
(And thank you to women who have responded citing some of what some of those named actually do.)
Firstly, none of us who spoke were paid to contribute to the #FiLiA2021 conference.
Most of us there at our own expense, except I hope, women on low income, whose expenses will be covered.
FiLiA itself is created by volunteers.
Then, speaking for myself:
Since January 2012 I have collected the names of all women killed by men in the UK and shared these on social media, mainly on my blog here wordpress.com/view/kareninga… and also at @CountDeadWomen
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