🧵Daily I’m astonished by the solidarity of the sisterhood. Yes factions arise and YES these cut deep but decpite all of this we still manage to come together for a shared goal. Even if we are working separately in our corners finessing our style of activism when we
come together, like @FiLiA_charity AMAZING things happen.
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And drinks are liberally brought down the pub.
For all the infighting and talk of factions WE ARE UNITED. We all share in the same goal of limiting harm and seeming it’s reach.
Our reasons may differ but we are in this together. We must build on our shared goals because when we do
we are forced to recognise our common humanity.
We need to find a way to reconcile the anger we have with ADULT PREDATORS and their child victims.
This is easier said than done but in practice we must find a strategy to communicate with parents of trans identifying
young people that won’t scare them away. In the last few days I’ve heard well meaning parents fearful based on the lies they’ve been told. We are winning back institutions but we must win back the “be kind” mantra within society.
Operation SUNLIGHT must be a-go.
We’re all kind and decent people and somehow we must market this to the parents and children who are captured and trusting in the voices of Tatchel, P., Kelly, N. et al.
Public opinion is on our side, but only when they are aware
of the issues.
4 conversations this week with women who didn’t know about men in W prisons.
2 about most TIMs being intact
1 harrowing chat about the effects of puberty blockers on sexual development.
We need to be resolute in our conviction AND our kindness.
And yes. I have a personal vendetta against those who misuse the word “KIND”.
I am kind, so too are you. We are kind because we do not lie to children and we do not lie that men can become women and visa versa.
To conclude, go forth be kind and honest and with those two things
we will dissolve the apathy and reestablish sanity in those corners where it has faded.
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At the risk of pissing EVERYONE (and I mean EVERYONE) off
I do not think Kellie Jay Keen is a far right. I may disagree with her tactics and I may disagree with her not condemning groups but I do not think she is a far right.
GCs are working with a right bunch of folk at the
moment. Some of whom I despise.
But others are squaring the moral circle differently.
“A means to an end” etc.
I do not agree with much of it, (hard to guess for others what lines I do personally draw and why) but this is true for all of us.
We are making progress and we
must plough in forward.
We need to proceed with the most charitable interpretations of one another and meet in the flesh.
We need discussion and debate and not to imply people are bad when we don’t understand their reasoning.
I will never defend actions I don’t agree with
Jason Isaacs is a family favorite in my house, so this has gone down like a lead balloon.
Starting off with uncertainty, you may be uncertain but I am not. War and armageddon may frighten you but women have another concern closer to home.
We too are uncertain but unlike you we
are uncertain of the stability of our rights.
Our concern comes not from nudity, but from context.
A person sang about their superiority, the superiority of their prosthetic breasts that would never go saggy, and then proceeded to strip naked exposing "their" penis.
Women have a right to feel outraged by a FLASHER.
So what about the watershed? Just because we are old enough to view nudity does not mean that we must feel comfortable with it.
You may have seen this as celebratory but if your spaces are being given over to an innate sense of
Certain TIMs on the platform are whipping kids into hysteria. And they sound like a DEATH CULT.
Do all of this to your body, so what if it hurts?
Your joining a sacred class that has always suffered.
Cults tell followers the world is subversive and danger looms
at every corner.
Unreasonable requests made to sound normal SO LONG as you can convince that THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS.
And here we have exhibit A.
The tone of which is “if people are bad it’s justified to kill them”
Sadly these are the guys comparing us to Nazis.
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TIMs are stirring up a death cult panic that WE are coming for THEM, yet TIMs on twitter compare us to nazis then joke and applaud killing nazis.
We have rather more justification for fear especially when 2 women are murdered a week. @K_IngalaSmithkareningalasmith.com/counting-dead-…
I’m sorry but NOTHING has been done to anyone for this to be a reasonable conclusion. You are cosplaying the oppression of the Jews in 1930s Europe. You should be ashamed.
The PM made one speech. You have safety and protection in law. European Jews were slaughtered in
there millions. WOMEN are the oppressed class, but I would never dare to compare our oppression with that of the fecking HOLOCAUST.
I’m going to leave some links to all the restrictions placed on the lives of Jews now because I will not see compassions like this baselessly said.
🧵 Earlier this week I wrote an article about how I narrowly avoided the #transwagon (play on bandwagon)
I attempted to address the whys and it was entirely about my personal experience.
I skated around and I don’t think fully addressed the connection between my being autistic
and the reasons for latching on to the “inbetween” of non binary.
So here goes
Autistic people often have sensory issues, physical discomfort in one’s body. As a consequence comfort is key. To some this means compression clothing, to others loose and baggy.
An aversion to change.
Binding one’s breasts, wanting everything solid to give one a better centre of gravity. There is also a correlation between autism and poor muscle tone. Often co-morbid with autism is dyspraxia. For all these reasons autistic people feel PHYSICAL discomfort and disconnect