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Mar 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Stonewall got 140 likes out of 17.8k views of their video saying "lesbian" is an umbrella term that includes men who identify as women or non-binary
It's not like there aren't women on Twitter wanting to amplify #IWD messages if they are authentic and important. @UNSRVAW got 828 likes
And @jk_rowling got 15.5k likes for her message standing up for women's rights
I really wonder how these organisations evaluate the turn they have taken, and whether it was worth it.

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Mar 9
How was your #InternationalWomensDay ?

@WOWisGlobal got 24 likes on their pinned tweet@
@GIWLkings got 6
@fawcettsociety got no likes at all on this tweet (In which they announce they are launching a Stonewall Champions-type scheme for employers)
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Mar 6
Four years ago today I left CGD and sent this email to colleagues.

I said that that the world depends on institutions that follow the evidence and enable open debate and that good organisations need heart, strength, strategy, integrity and resources. Image
I also published my article on sex and gender in development and asked development and gender people to be brave enough to have an open discussion on the topic (it turned out they weren't)

My Medium account has been banned but this is what the article said. Image
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Mar 4
Last year Hope Not Hate went after:

-LGB Alliance
-Harry Miller
- Women who want single sex services

This year it is
- Kellie-Jay Keen
- Mumsnet
- People who think that drag queens are adult entertainment

They cite such "fascist" adjacent activities as email & letter writing
Meanwhile women and gay people wanting to speak about how their rights are compromised by gender ideology face violent and threatening protests
@lowles_nick
This is what Hope Not Hate say it does. But it has lost its way.

When you see the far right campaigning against something the thing to do is *not* to knee-jerk support whatever the far right is against but to understand the underlying concerns of ordinary people
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Feb 26
Case report: local authority tries (and fails) to stop a family taking their 15 year old daughter who thinks she is a boy abroad to have her breasts surgically removed

bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/…
It's notable how much the Equal Treatment Bench Book language of calling this child "he", and assigned female gender at birth, and referring to "top surgery" distances it from the reality of what is being done to this girl.
The local authority start with "harm" and "welfare" but then retreat to whether the operation is legal in the country where is it is being undertaken and whether the child consents. Eventually the council drops it's objections.
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Feb 22
A thread in praise of people who do their thing....

@zeno001 @Sexnotgender_ shows up all the weird and wonderful questions that organisations dream up to ask place of sex Image
@helenstaniland was so dogged in asking this question it was named after her. Image
@LilyLilyMaynard writes the first draft of history, documenting protests and events lilymaynard.com

She also sews a mean banner Image
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Jan 31
This professor seems to have taken leave of reality.

He asserts that @ProfAliceS is making misleading statements because there may be homicide victims who are trans but who are never recorded in England & Wales, or reported as trans the media?

How could this be.... 🤨
Here is what happens when someone dies in England and Wales. There is no way the doctors or forensic medical team don't note the sex of the person.

And if the police are investigating the death they are going to note the facts of the person's life.
Its not going to go unnoticed that someone has been living as the opposite sex to what the postmortem of their body shows.
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