Thread by @SamBarber1910

1. Which woman first brought this issue to your attention? For me, it was Mrs. Barber, circa 2012, who asked me to read a piece by @boodleoops about the material reality and importance of sex, and a piece by @Whoiscis about the homophobia inherent in erasing sex.

https://twitter.com/dailywireplus/status/1644881721920290819

2. Who made campaigning for sex-based rights an actual movement? A decade ago and more, veteran campaigners like @bindelj, academics like @Docstockk and media newcomers like @MeghanEMurphy, and a host of others were already holding meetings to discuss women's sex-based rights.

3. For years, women have been writing books addressing the manifold issues caused by Gender Identity Theology, such as @HJoyceGender (Trans), @Docstockk (Material Girls), @AbigailShrier (Irreversible Damage), @RooneyRachel (My Body Is Me), @KDansky (The Abolition of Sex...

4. ...and @hannahsbee (Time to Think), And numerous older works by women like Sheila Jeffreys and Cordelia Fine.

5. For years, women in the academic world have been fighting a pitched battle for the right to discuss their own material reality: Kathleen Stock, Rosa Freeman, @janeclarejones, @aytchellesse, Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, @8RosarioSanchez and many more.

6. For years, women have been showing up in court, at immense personal cost, to defend women's sex-based rights: heroes like @MForstater, @BluskyeAllison and @KLBfax and many more.

7. Women have started entire organizations dedicated to the proposition that sex matters: @FiLiA_charity, @SexMattersOrg, @AllianceLGB, @ForWomenScot, @Womans_Place_UK, @WomensRightsNet, @DeclarationOn and MANY more.

8. For years, women have gathered in great numbers and gone into the public square across the world, again at immense personal cost, to demand sex-based rights, an end to lesbophobia, And the fundamental right to speak.

9. @ThePosieParker and the #LetWomenSpeak movement have drawn an immense amount of coverage, but it was many years ago that @MPMacLachlan was assaulted in broad daylight when women gathered at Speaker's Corner.

10. Recent years have seen so many women with a lot to lose put their names on the line for the right to address women's material reality. Does @dailywireplus think Matt Walsh generated more clicks than @jk_rowling?!? Is he more of an icon than @Martina? Laughable.

11. Sure, there have been many stalwart male allies along the way, but this movement, as @dailywireplus calls it, has been led by women from the start, and has been powerfully under way for many years, And those women have taken MANY wins.

12. So, what has Matt Walsh been up to while women created a movement and fought like hell for sex-based rights? This is some pretty strong standing for women, no?

13. @dailywireplus claims that Matt Walsh started the movement. So I think we should let Matt himself have the last word on that. Seems to me that Matt thinks that women started it, and he's pretty peeved that they didn't include him. Just another dude, angry at the MERFs 👇

14. (Extra thanks to the women who brought this movement into the legislature long before male "allies" were claiming to have started the move - women like @joannaccherry, @RosieDuffield1, @deves_katherine and many more).