Big win for speech in US schools. 🧵 1/20 A case has settled, resulting in a major win for students and parents who don’t wish to “affirm” people’s “gender identities.” 2/20defendinged.org/press-releases…

🧵 on whether the use of opposite-sex pronouns is ever strategic. As always, all thoughts my own. Sorry for the length. I don't have the blue thing. 1/28 This thread is limited to the narrow question of whether the use of opposite-sex pronouns is ever strategic. 2/28

Not an exaggeration. There is literally a case currently pending in the US where a man refused to be screened for possible prostate cancer. He insisted that he didn't have a prostate because of his woman identity, therefore no possibility of prostate cancer. 1/5

https://twitter.com/Cavakaggy/status/1746263046228488264

His doctor receives federal funding under the Affordable Care Act, which the Department of Health and Human Services interprets as prohibiting discrimination on the basis of "gender identity." 2/5

Happy New Year to everyone fighting the global abolition of sex. Here's a fun thread about an email message that just landed in my in-box, with some background for context. 1/16 I don't want to say too much about the sender of the email, to protect her anonymity. I'll just say that for various reasons related to her employment, she had reason to come across @MForstater 's case against CGD. 2/16

This screenshot is India Willoughby outrageously blaming JK Rowling, among others, for the tragic murder of Brianna Ghey, a teenager who struggled to accept himself as male. It reminded me ... 1/5 Several years ago, an old friend of mine posted something on FB about a horrific murder of a man (by a man) named Sara Blackwood in Indianapolis, Indiana. My friend said the murder was the fault of "JK Rowling and other feminists." 2/5

Quick 🧵 about a fun ride in the elevator (lift, since I'm on TERF Island) in London just now. 1/ Me, on trying to enter: Hey is there room in there for one more, or no? I'm happy to wait.

Her: Sure, squeeze in! (I can tell she's American.) 2/

Hello. I almost never use profanity. I think it's unprofessional and unhelpful in efforts to advance important causes. So I hope that the Twitterverse (Xverse?) will accept my apologies for calling Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson) an absolute fucking knob here. 1/6 First how do you know what anyone does when "we" get up in the morning? When I get up in the morning, I brush my teeth and drink tea. I don't exaggerate anything about myself, you complete loon. You're saying a bit much about yourself here. It's weird. @neiltyson 2/6

Dear British terven and male allies, I have been working all day on a legal matter and have mostly been off the bird app. Just now checking. I'm wondering if you can help me out. If I've got this right ... 1/ A man who was convicted of torture and attempted murder spent several decades in prison, during which time he sliced off his testicles and ate them ... 2/

I got a very interesting (and ultimately quite lovely) email yesterday. I'm sharing a slightly shortened version of it here, anonymously and with permission. 1/18 "I live in one of those American college towns historically known for its progressive vibe. Think Yellow Springs, Ann Arbor, Boulder, Madison, Austin, Athens, Minneapolis. ... 2/18

This 🧵 is, word for word, an email that I received through my website. Her experience is not even a little bit unusual. Subject line: Needed to reach out. 1/17 "Over the weekend I was banned from 3 feminist subreddits and twoxchromosomes. I was also banned from r/autismforwomen and sent a formal warning for reddit that I was breaking their 'anti hate policy.' ... 2/17

🧵 for @MaggieAstor and the @nytimes regarding this piece out today. 1/25
nytimes.com/2023/05/16/us/… How dare you? How absolutely dare you go after a young woman like Chloe and other young women who have been lied to and manipulated? Their parents have been told that they will kill themselves if the parents do not consent to damaging and life-altering hormones/surgeries. 2/25

This showed up in my feed in a thread about the problem of men being housed in women's prisons. He thinks the "controversy" is "made up to frighten people." I have no idea who he is, but from his feed he appears to be American. I thought I'd make a thread for him. 1/20 In 2020, the CA legislature passed and Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 132, “The Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act.” It went into effect in January 2021. It requires CDCR to house inmates according to their self-declared "gender identity." 2/20 @womaniiwomaninc

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The world has woken up and there is no going back. No one can miss Kellie-Jay's fire and determination. For many of us who have been in the trenches for some time now, this is a beautiful thing to behold. 1/10

@WDI_USA @DeclarationOn Many of us talk about women's right to single-sex spaces, and that's very important. I talk about this a lot in my work. The erosion of single-sex spaces like bathrooms, locker rooms, rape shelters, and domestic violence services, is vile. 2/10

Been writing about a case called Neese v. Becerra, decided in Nov. 2022, now on appeal. Wrote about it on Substack last November, working on it for upcoming book now. 1/10 The Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) prohibits recipients of federal dollars from discriminating on the basis of sex. In doing so, incorporates Title IX language about sex discrimination. 2/10

Things appear to be shifting in the US. 🧵 1/10 Our Equality Act (EA) would redefine sex to include "gender identity" for all purposes under US civil rights law (I understand this is different from the UK's EA). This would be inconsistent with the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights and bad for women and girls. 2/10

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I would like to know why the US media is consistently referring to US Congresswoman Katherine Clark's (@RepKClark) 23-year-old son as Clark's "daughter" and also describing him as "nonbinary." 1/10 Rep. Clark is the Democratic Minority Whip of the US House of Representatives. That makes her the second most powerful Democratic Representative in the House. 2/10

Artifacts Gallery is a store in my hometown of Athens, Ohio (a small town that is home to Ohio University). It sells lots of pottery, t-shirts, and funky earrings (among other things). I spent a massive amount of time there as a teenager. 1/13 Its current owner is @atheistathenian (Amy). At some point last year, she started to get loud about the sex-based rights of women and girls and the material reality of sex. The reaction in town was mixed. 2/13

On Friday, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled that sex means sex (not "gender identity") under Title IX and that schools may constitutionally maintain single-sex bathrooms. Great news for women and girls! Even better ... 1/3 I have just read the majority and concurring opinions and am happy to report that @FondOfBeetles is quoted extensively and approvingly in the concurring opinion on the topic of women's sports. 2/3

To anyone having the gall to invoke the memory of Mandela in order to justify housing male prisoners in women's prisons: 1/5 It's a bit inconvenient for you that Rule 11(a) of the Mandela Rules (also known as the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, adopted in 2015), expressly calls for sex-separation in jails and prisons globally. 2/

I was today years old the first time I found myself picking egg shells out of my hair and clothing after a MRA threw a raw egg directly at my head. 1/5 A local media outlet reported that we were "crying" afterwards. 2/5

🧵 🧵 from a recent piece at @11thBlog (link to full article at the end).

"How did we end up in this Ponzi scheme that discards common sense like some moldy, old shoe? ... 1/5 A country in which our President ... 'celebrates' a tiny minority of men in dresses and women with beards? If we know where to look, the answer is simple. ... 2/5