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Feb 18 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Since I was given my account back on 9 January, after a 2 year suspension, I have written the following pieces, all thanks to connections I made on this site. On 17 January
thecritic.co.uk/the-case-for-r…
On 31 January thecritic.co.uk/Journalism-is-….
On 31 January crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/cana…
On 6 February murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2023/02/06/gue…
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Feb 20
Writing this thread because I am sick of the narrative that the excesses of gender theory are a very recent phenomenon. These are the proceedings of the 1993 International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy. IT IS ALL THERE. digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/5d86p030t
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to the insane biological claims such as the penis being a big clitoris or testicles being ovaries 'in the wrong place' .... Image
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Feb 18
Digging in Transgender Archive to uncover the beginning of 'gender identity'. We know it was John Money to popularise the term. Here he is, the white cis man without whom gender identity would not have existed. Image
In 1963, a New York transvestite, Fred Shaw/Siobhan Fredericks, started publishing a magazine titled 'Turnabout'. From this blog we learn that the magazine was 'more open to transsexuality and of activities that Victoria Prince regarded as fetishistic' zagria.blogspot.com/2012/10/siobha….
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Feb 8
Musings on being a woman on the left.
I have been left wing all my life. Reading the Diary of Anne Frank when I was nine affected me. If the Nazi were on the extreme right, surely I needed to be on the other side. It was the side of the Italian partisans. I sang Bella Ciao.
That made me a feminist too. In 1981 there was a referendum in Italy to repeal the 1978 abortion law. I was 14. My friend Raffaella and I went around Rome interviewing women about their opinion. I'd pay good money to have those tapes back.
In 1989 I was at university. When the Tienamnen Square events happened, we demonstrated in support of the people in the square. Our friends in the Chinese Studies department made us ribbons saying Tienamnen Square in chinese, to wear on our hair.
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Jan 30
Since the charming @victor_madrigal is showing to be a bit unfamiliar with the concepts of transparency and accountability (so much less sexy than diversity and inclusion and you cannot stick drag queens anywhere) I will bring up two facts about him, one personal and one public.
On the personal, I emailed him to complain about one of his reports and to ask about the language adopted. I emailed him on 10 July 2020, 23 July 2020, 20 August 2020, 28 August 2020, 10 January 2021. I emailed the OHCHR on 10 January 2021 and 16 December 2021. No reply to any.
On the public side, in his report The Law of Inclusion he writes the following in the introduction. Read it carefully, especially paras. 4 and 5 (paragraph 3 is the usual unevidenced gender theory stuff you find everywhere).
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Jan 29
Three years I submitted a FoI request to the Scottish Prison Service on their transgender policy. Many of us were aware of the disaster brewing. If only we had been listened to. Including by @NicolaSturgeon.
These were the questions. (I meant GRCs sorry for typo)
These are the answers. Notice they do not say where the transman is held. I imagine the female estate. Answer 6 is incomplete. Answer 7 is not answered without providing a legal basis (in the FoIA).
This is the template used for the risk assessment. There are six sections. Notice that the actual sex of the person is never recorded. The only element is the 'social gender' irrelevant in the assessment of sex offences risk.
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Jan 29
Transgender males in female prisons. One dangerous trend in the human rights community that I spotted but my Twitter suspension prevented me to flag up.
The usual argument in the HR community is that transwomen would be too vulnerable in male prisons and their right to be safe from the threat of rape could not be guaranteed.
This is what I was told when I wanted to publish an article on the right of female prisoners when males with a trans identity are housed with them, especially sex offenders.
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