A New York woman wrote to her state senator to express concern about the state housing men in women's prisons on the basis of their "female gender identity." 1/10
Quick 🧵 on why we're never going to give up and on why we're going to win. 1/10
I got this desperate email from a mom (mum, if you like) via my personal website just a few minutes ago. She used what I assume is her real name (which I am omitting for obvious privacy reasons). 2/10
"Yesterday my 20-year-old daughter informed me she started taking testosterone via a Planned Parenthood doctor and 'is a man'. She never presented with dysphoria as a child. I cannot find any support to help me help her get help. ... 3/10
I started talking about sex and gender on my personal FB page (using my full name) in 2015. I'm not sure if I ever said that changing your body parts doesn't make you a woman exactly, but that was definitely something I was saying generally, at that time. @MacyGraysLife 2/10
By 2017, it became too much. I stopped talking about it on FB, and I changed my FB name. It just became too hard dealing with the push-back from friends and family. I felt exhausted. So I simply stopped talking. @MacyGraysLife 3/10
A paragraph from the dissent (Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan) (citations omitted). 1/8
"Whatever the exact scope of the coming laws, one result of today’s decision is certain: the curtailment of women’s rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens. ... 2/8
Yesterday, the Constitution guaranteed that a woman confronted with an unplanned pregnancy could (within reason-able limits) make her own decision about whether to bear a child, with all the life-transforming consequences that act involves. ... 3/8
To my cousin Heather, who took to Twitter yesterday to call me a far-right fascist bigot for having the temerity to stand up for women and girls and then blocked me (screenshots downthread). 🧵 1/10
You and I share a common ancestry. Your father and my mother began life in the same womb (something that only women have). I respect our common ancestry. 2/10
Of course, our ancestry is not entirely shared. Your mother and my father are not related, biologically. Oh, sorry, I used the word "biologically." That must have confused you, as you seem not to understand that human beings are a sexually dimorphic species. 3/10
@EdwardGLuce: "Democrats seem to be going out of their way to lose elections by elevating activist causes, notably the transgender debate, which are relevant only to a small minority. What sense does it make to depict JK Rowling as a fascist?" @jk_rowling 2/5
@HillaryClinton: “We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy, and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window. ... 3/5
🧵 of an email to me and a couple of parents. The 4 of us met in the context of a meeting of ROGD parents and have remained close. This woman is a mom of a confused daughter and also a US federal employee. I'm redacting personal details but otherwise copying verbatim. 1/15
"I know we’re all super busy, especially Kara (my hero!), but I wanted to share a few things since we all stopped being involved in the ROGD parent group... 2/15
My federal agency continues to double down on gender ideology. The last 18 months have been horrifying in that respect. On Friday one of the last bastions of sanity fell ... 3/15