Thread by @EmmaOBaillie

In all the Twitter Drama about neo-nazis at the #LetWomenSpeak event, who invited them (or didn't), who got a photo with them (or didn't), who was responsible for getting rid of them (or couldn't), there's some undeniable facts that I think we should all be able to agree on.
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It is an undeniable, verifiable fact that the Victorian government has put a male sex-offender in a women's jail in Victoria. womensforumaustralia.org/petition_2208_…

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It is an undeniable, verifiable fact that this contravenes the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the treatment of prisoners, which states:

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"Men and women shall so far as possible be detained in separate institutions; in an institution which receives both men and women the whole of the premises allocated to women shall be entirely separate" unodc.org/documents/just…

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It is an undeniable, verifiable fact that Victorian law now allows a male person to receive a birth certificate saying female, with nothing more than $131 and a note from a friend saying he really means it. justiceconnect.org.au/resources/how-…

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It is an undeniable, verifiable fact that men have used similar "Self-ID" principles, even in countries that don't have official sex self-id, to enter women's intimate spaces and indecently expose themselves. nypost.com/2021/09/02/cha…

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It is an undeniable, verifiable fact that elsewhere in Australia, laws replacing "sex" with "gender identity" have been used to stop gay women holding female-only events, depriving them of the ability to associate on the basis of sexual orientation. feministlegal.org/wp-content/upl…

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It is an undeniable, verifiable fact that the "Gender Affirming" gender treatment model, enshrined in Victorian legislation, is the same one used in the UK Tavistock clinic - labeled by an independent enquiry as "not safe for children" - web.archive.org/web/2022072811…

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It doesn't matter who was standing next to who on Saturday. The question people should be asking themselves is - are the concerns that we have reasonable, given the undeniable verifiable facts above?

Of course they are.

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People who want males in female prisons, no barriers to a male person coming into a female change room, and laws requiring lesbians to accept male people into their dating pool, are free to speak in favor of those things.

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I'm proud to stand on the other side of the debate.

#LetWomenSpeak
#IStandWithMoiraDeeming #IStandWithKatherineDeves
#ListenToDetrans
#KPSS

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