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More than happy to confirm that I am a 'Pronoun Purist'.

I will not call a man 'she' or a woman 'he', let alone use 'xe / ze / ey' or any of those other nonsense pronouns.

I am very lucky to be in position where I don't have to.

#sexnotgender
2 / I realise though that for others this can be very different. They may be able to lose their jobs if they publicly only use pronouns based on sex. It's a crazy situation, but I'm not here to tell them how to navigate that. There is also the fact that we're all 'peaking' at
3 / different times and different rates and so may change our position on how we use pronouns. There is so much to get your head round. As a Pronoun Purist I think we can help others on their peaking journey by pointing out how simply using sex-based pronouns puts everything
4 / into perspective so much quicker. It's an interesting conversation to have, not just around pronouns but around gender woo language in general. In the case of men who claim to be women, I often think about something Julia Long said in an interview with @_JVigo
5 / I'm paraphrasing so this is not a direct quote, but it was something like "If you don't see them as men, you'll never understand any of the rest of it."

And that also applies to women who see themselves as men.

savageminds.substack.com/p/julia-long#d…
6 / So for people still finding their feet I wouldn't come down on them like a ton of bricks if they use pronouns based on 'gender'. I'd just have a chat. But I'd absolutely call out a newspaper who refers to a man as 'woman' or 'she'.

gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-…
7 / And with any of the Tra-la-las on here I'll absolutely go "He!" or "She!" just so they can see that not everyone is buying into their gender lies or happy to indulge them for the sake of 'being kind'
8 / Which brings me to those on 'our side'. The ones committed to turning the tide. The ones putting out excellent work and making a difference. Some still use gender woo language, and I can see why they might from a tactical point of view. But I don't. Do I 'police' them? To be
9 / honest, I only think I've ever done that in private with people I know well and who are fully clued up with what's going on, even more so than myself. Even then, I get it! You talk about a bloke and use a women's name for him, your brain naturally goes 'she'. But just as it
10 / might be annoying for someone to hear me or other 'Pronoun Purists' go "he" when they do so, it's also fucking annoying for us to them use she for a man. Especially when that man is an absolute fucking arsehole. And I'm definitely not having it in my own home #NotUnderMyRoof
11 / Oops mangled that up a bit. Try again!

It's also fucking annoying for us to hear them use 'she' for a man. Like, REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING.

OK, hope that makes more sense now 😉

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12 / The ‘Sugar Money’ on his knickers refers to money / gifts in exchange for sex / companionship.

He happily showed his bum to the audience, with a little giggle of course (so womanly!), which got a cheer.

You can see in the vid how his legs were shaking. Not sure if that was
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I wonder if he walked into the Ladies like that yesterday.
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A ‘transwoman’ with scrotum on display and a focus on ‘queer / trans’ children. They even used kids as props in this bizarre parade with adult women chanting “We’re so queer!” The kids were totally bewildered
2 / This happened while a panel were discussing the following… Image
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1 / The difference between actual civil rights movements and the ‘trans’ movement is that none of them fought for rights on the basis of something they were not, or passing themselves of as another demographic of people. Black people didn’t say “Hey, we’re white!” Women didn’t
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But ‘trans’ is about claiming the identities and rights of others. Men claiming to be women. Women claiming to be men. Straight men claiming to
3 / be lesbians.

It is the only movement that wants the right to identify into demographics of people that already exist within their own right.

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@yanisvaroufakis 3 / ‘transitioning’ young people who may well grow up to be LGB - in some cases we’re dealing with medical gay conversion, driven by external homophobia, internalised homophobia or a combination of both. I hope you can see that this is quite a serious issue as it’s a social and
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1 / “What is a woman?” is the WRONG question.

We all know what a woman is. It’s just a diversion tactic.

The real question is “What is trans?”

#whatisawoman #whatistrans
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At the same time we’re told that any attempts at clarifying #whatistrans are ‘transphobic’
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1 / I find this line really chilling…

“Prof. Stock, who previously faced criticism for questioning the prominence of gender identity over biological sex…”

As if 1️⃣ it’s somehow established fact that ‘gender identity’ is a thing, and

lbc.co.uk/news/oxford-co…
2 / 2️⃣ that this should naturally override the reality of sex (no need to say ‘biological’ sex @EJWardNews as there is only one type of sex…) and 3️⃣ that even daring to question this is somehow valid reason for criticism. Like… how very dare she!

The way @EJWardNews so
3 / casually inserts that line in an article where he calls the new policy “a bold stance against transphobia”, the college a “trailblazer” and says its leader is taking “a decisive step” shows not just how much the college has been captured by genderwoo, but also parts of the
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