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Lottie Lewis

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Mar 6

Last night I chatted with a social science department leader at one of London's oldest unis. He is exasperated because he says a small group of students run things, they call everything racist or transphobic, they pick apart everything before it can be taught to them. He has had

students coming up to him to say they're not enjoying the classes because they're afraid to say anything in case the 'others' call them bigots. It has made some staff totally silent in fear for their jobs, several have had formal 'investigations' for saying something harmless

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about race or gender (in a subject about understanding people) that students reported them for. Some staff have joined in, wanting to show they 'get it' and have been heartedly agreeing with censoring, pronouns, cancelling, etc. He told me that someone put @JonHaidt's book

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Lottie Lewis

@LottieHistory

Mar 5

In honour of #WomensHistoryMonth here's some female sporting heroes who challenged the male domination of sport, making way for women to have their own competitive sports, and to make playing sport and publicly exercising socially acceptable for women. #twitterhistorians #IWD

Katherine Switzer (pic above) is the first woman to run the Boston Marathon. Since the marathon began in 1897 only men were allowed to enter. In 1967 Katherine was officially registered to run, but during the race, the manager ran after her and tried to grab her bib from her to

end her race. Several men came to her aid, and Katherine finished the marathon. Women were not officially allowed in any US marathons until 1972. The first women's Olympic marathon was in 1984 (men's was 1896), won by US runner Joan Benoit.

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Lottie Lewis

@LottieHistory

Mar 1

Happy #WomensHistoryMonth Throughout history women have cross-dressed for a number of reasons, none of them to be 'trans' or 'non-binary' despite what some nefarious 'LGBT historians' will tell you. Here's some of them. #twitterhistorians

Kit Cavanagh (1667-1739). Irishwoman Kit inherited a pub in her teens, and ran it with her husband (with whom she had two children). At the age of 26 she was pregnant with her third when her husband suddenly went missing. It was rumoured he'd been forced in to the British army

against his will, a common occurrence called press ganging. Instead of accepting it, Kit waited until she'd given birth, gave her children to her mother to look after, and just after turning 27 she cut her hair off and joined the British army as a man. She took part in several

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Lottie Lewis

@LottieHistory

Feb 28

The Future of Legal Gender project was given £579,717 of taxpayers money to 'prove' sex doesn't matter. The project draws to a close this year and there's a public online event this month to hear their 'findings'. If you can't wait, here's what they'll be using to advise govt

They found girls schools and services for women already 'frequently' include males, and this isn't a problem because, dur... these males have obviously become female. Wtf does non-binary inclusion mean... who knows.

@akuareindorf

They found that schools and DV services think the Equality Act is fine as some kind of guidance for say, 8 of the 9 protected characteristics, and it's so confusing it allows them to include males with minimal fuss from women. @akuareindorf @KishwerFalkner

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Lottie Lewis

@LottieHistory

Feb 28

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So, ever since @lborouniversity said f**k you to their disabled students/staff and put up a rainbow crossing, some PhD students there in our UK-uni equality group have been filling us in on talks they have coming up. Here's their amazing 'research'.

@LboroVC

👆 These students are so embarrassed to be part of this university, and only stay because they get funding. One of them is physically disabled and so hurt and humiliated by what happened. @LboroVC @CharlieWLboro

This is the four-year Future of Legal Gender project, paid for with PUBLIC MONEY. Women being forced to fund their own oppression, yet again. Future events include pondering what would happen if women just shut up and let men do what they want as usual. futureoflegalgender.kcl.ac.uk/aims-of-the-pr…

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Lottie Lewis

@LottieHistory

Feb 4

I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who had my back with Felton's sinister threatening, thank you to everyone who tweeted about his tweets to GMB Union. I had people offering legal advice, and even Index on Censorship offered help. There is a serious effort to

silence women who 'step out of line' by pointing out men's actions around 'trans rights'. Their aggressive push for this to the detriment of women has not gone unnoticed by many groups supporting human and equal rights. If Felton felt his multiple tweets to GMB in 2020 were being

misconstrued it would have been the ideal time following my tweet to explain his actions instead of claiming it was 'entirely untrue'. I deleted my original tweet and put up one saying he tweeted GMB in 2020 and agreed with a man calling me terf.

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