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Feb 6 7 tweets 3 min read
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In a piece in New Statesman, journalist Marie Le Conte argues that gender critical feminists have been ‘radicalised’ in a similar way to QAnon believers and other extremists.
Quite apart from the extremely offensive analogy, she - and other women who share her view - completely misunderstand, or deliberately ignore, what gender critical feminists are arguing. Perhaps it will help if we look - yet again - at the root cause of this culture war
Feminism is based on the inarguable fact that women and girls across the world are oppressed because of their biological sex; the form that oppression takes depends on the culture of the society a woman lives in, FGM in Sudan, abortion ban in Texas…
Gender is the set of cultural stereotypes that any given society assigns to male and female. Pink and pouting for girls 🤦🏼‍♀️ anyone? Here’s UNICEF’s helpful definition of sex and gender
If a person is allowed to change their sex by self ID (root of current debate) then women’s rights based on our sex and how any particular culture treats us will be at risk. If gender constructs have more legal/political power than natal sex there’s no other logical conclusion
Gender critical feminists are not arguing against trans rights we’re standing up for rights of women across the world to organise, advocate and campaign for our sex-based rights and that includes pointing out when they are under threat, eg USA abortion bans or self ID in Scotland
In her article Marie describes us obsessive. Perhaps we are. But history teaches us that you can’t protect your rights unless you stand up for them #WomenWontWheesht

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Jan 16
A major children’s charity in Scotland, who vision is that all children should have “an equal chance to flourish” says that children as young as 12 should be allowed to change their legal sex without a period of reflection. See @thetimesscot
Children in Scotland also argue that there is no need for parental consent for a 12-year-old child to change their legal sex
This is beyond reckless.
📌A young person is not deemed mature enough to consent to sexual relationship until they are 16; how can that same child be considered mature enough to change their legal sex at 12.

young.scot/get-informed/n…
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Dec 13, 2021
American man @SethAbramson goes on rant against @jk_rowling for daring to speak out against grotesque situation in Scotland where male-bodied person who has used their penis to rape a woman can demand to be considered female
For the record Mr Abramson, under The Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 rape is defined as nonconsensual penetration with a penis, so it cannot be committed by someone without male genitalia.
Quite apart from the psychological impact of a female victim being forced to refer to their male-bodied attacker as 'female' during any trial, this distortion of reality damages the accuracy of essential data on sexual assault.
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Dec 10, 2020
Thread: How six words can make a difference.
Later today MSPs will vote on the final wording of the Forensic Medical Services Bill - a good and important bill designed to make the aftermath of rape/sexual assault easier for victims
The current wording says women can choose the gender of their examiner, but as gender is NOT a protected characteristic under law, leading feminist and MSP @JohannLamont has tabled a #sixwords amendment changing sex to gender
So far, so straightforward...until Rape Crisis Scotland - set up to support women at their most vulnerable - sent a briefing to MSPs asking them to keep gender. Why?
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