Sonya Douglas Profile picture
maintaining my boundaries 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 1 Jhn 1
Jan 27 8 tweets 2 min read
I found this article illuminating on @DebbieHayton’s journey to self awareness, but this jarring quote signals imo just how much work on himself he has yet to do.

This need for *others to perceive him as a woman* is a boundary-breaching imposition that treats the non-consensual participation of others in his paraphilia as a harmless, cost-free exercise of his own self-expression

But tricking someone into engaging with you as if you were female

when not only are you male

you’re also sexually aroused by thinking of yourself as a woman

is #RapeCulture
Sep 23, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
When @LouiseDistras said #TerfIsTheNewPunk I knew exactly what she meant

When the Establishment drapes our streets in trans flags, demanding our pronouns, imposing yet another diversity program that dissolves difference

We Resist

When thugs gather to scream us down, threaten us with violence, join forces with the same law enforcement that lets them off their crimes

We Resist

When politicians take $$$ from Big Pharma to push social misery
while their own children are identifying out of their sex in despair

We Resist

We sing the songs of Resistance
Mar 28, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
What comes after #ThisIsNotADrill?

Because that’s where we are now.

You’ve seen the footage: Women corralled like livestock while TRAs surround them with noise and violence. The police forming an outer ring - facing outwards to ward off observers. They don’t see any violence from the men in masks.

How did we get to the point where a police force riddled with misogynist abusers is acting as lookout for a mob of enraged anti-women activists intent on stopping women speaking?

How did we get to the point where one woman is vilified for the political
Mar 26, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
It’s not just historically white countries that fall prey to the lure of exceptionalism. It’s a very human condition, the feeling that you and your people are special.

I read this thread in the knowledge that New Zealand has the highest rate of domestic violence in the developed world.
1 in 3 women experience intimate partner harm. 1 in 2 for psychological abuse. 1 in 8 men report being victims of family violence. Physical or sexual abuse affects 58% of Māori women over their lifetime - that’s 1 in 2. Add in other forms of violence and that rises to 80%.
Dec 23, 2022 8 tweets 5 min read
Consider this: in every country where #SelfID is now law, TRAs conspire with the authorities and tame journalists to obscure the truth of just how harmful it really is.
Everything from overwriting sex with gender when reporting crimes, to failing to record sex in the first place. The aim has been a certain plausible deniability: records are uncertain, data misinterpreted, no evidence has been presented, etc.
Who can say how helpful or harmful it has been really?
Better to just celebrate our sparkly progressive ‘newtopia.’

But it won’t be like that here.
Dec 13, 2022 8 tweets 8 min read
Instructive to see the bile and misinformation directed @beirasplace.

So many times women have been reprimanded, excluded, cancelled and worse for not going along with gender ideology.
“If you don’t like it, tough.
Stay home.”

The last thing they expected was for us to rebuild. But that’s exactly what we’ve been doing all along:

@MerchedCymru
@ForWomenScot
@TheCountessIE
@Womans_Place_UK
replacing women’s orgs that no longer speak up for women.

@ALLIANCELGB
@LGBAllies_Cymru
@GetTheLOutUK etc.
replace LGB orgs that no longer fight for same sex rights.
Dec 1, 2022 11 tweets 3 min read
There really is no way forward but to #RepealTheGRA.

This is a definitive clash between Gender Reassignment otoh, and Sex, Sexuality & Belief oto.

GR, without the practical enforcement of its legal certificate, is little more than personality expressed via gender stereotypes. But because in reality it’s a psychological condition, it’s inescapably locked into escalation.

I feel like a man (euphoria)
I look like a man (validation)
I’m treated as a man (confirmation)
Treat me like a man (inclusion)
See me as a man (imposition)
Say I’m a man (control)
Nov 29, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
For real?
Why are some people not mentally ill?
Why so into reality?
Why won’t they say they like porn-style sex? Why don’t they the perform gender stereotypes of the opposite sex?
Why don’t they hate their bodies?

Sure, let’s study that.

Write this down 🧵 Lesson one: There’s no such thing as cis, only those with a mind/body disconnect, and those without.
However your body looks/whatever your mind feels, it’s still the same mind/body. That’s what makes you YOU.

Lesson two: You are what you are. No surgery in the world changes that
Aug 23, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
I could only read half, but these points jump out:

Your views on trans rights don’t make you ineligible for a public role; they inform and, for some, excuse your unbecoming and partisan behaviour.

You replied to the “satirical” account with more than a smiley, it was full blown participation in the further monstering of a woman YOU KNOW has received threats and abuse.

The claim is you’ve abused your position to bully and traduce writers who believe sex matters,
not “who don’t agree with [your] support of the trans community.”

Support who you like.
Aug 21, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
If there’s no such thing as a trans child (and there isn’t), what is being described here?

Asking a girl if she likes a boy might assume het values, but boys OR girls can like trucks, so why the conflation?

It can only be a form of gender conversion therapy targeting gnc boys. ImageImageImageImage Transing children IS conversion therapy.
It takes gender non conforming boys who don’t like trucks and assumes they are really girls.
It takes gender non conforming girls who DO like trucks, and assumes they are boys.
And it proceeds to then medicalise them, as young as possible,
May 17, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
“I disagree with gender critical people” is being used as justification to do increasingly bad things.
To surround a fellow schoolgirl and swear and spit on her. To don black balaclavas and shove and manhandle women. To intimidate libraries with threats of arson. To target Black lesbians, their health, income and careers.

To disrupt conferences talking about the lives of women and girls around the world. To deny single sex services to rape survivors. To ensure female prisoners have no protection from male-bodied inmates. To derail abortion campaigns.
Mar 3, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Can I ask you to read this report?
I know it’s hard to care about prisoners in the main, but I think we should all care about a prison system used to effectively torture individual prisoners, and disproportionately Black, Asian or working-class prisoners. What’s that about? We know IPP sentences have been phased out and condemned as inhumane and unjust, but the prison service continues to justify those that remain active, using spurious claims - including some entirely invented charges. What’s that about?
Mar 3, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
If you untether society from material reality, you set it spinning off in directions you can’t control.
What’ll be the result of a law that says anyone can be a man or a woman if they say so?
You either discount your own senses or you discount the law, yes?
Can’t both be right. If you discount your senses, trust suffers. Relationships suffer. Cohesion suffers. People become embittered against others or themselves.

Truth matters. Personally.

If you discount the law, civics suffers. Cohesion suffers. Society suffers. And there’s a personal cost
Nov 3, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
My sister sent me this and I just have to share. 1/7

At the end, he asks one question: what happened to you to make you not want to be who you are? 2/7
Oct 25, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read
The entire structure of the Left had been co-opted into gender ideology, so much so that UK Left-wing feminists in opposition were silenced at every level.
Political parties, publications, academia. Even sewing circles.
Left-wing feminists had to organise and crowdfund their own research and platforms, but still were faced with a well-funded, many-tiered gender machine
bringing together such varied voices as Google, Amazon, the British Army, MI6, Twitter, UK Labour, the SNP, Malta, Lt. Sulu, the DNC, MIT, American Scientific, Gilead Sciences, Experian,
Oct 9, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Interesting. But no.
Systematic patriarchal abuse =/= violence.
Violence is a tool used against transgressive men, but get this,
women were never going to keep to the rules anyway, because BIOLOGY.
It’s why sex-selective abortions are out of control in certain societies. If you’re going to be born female, you’re going to be born WRONG.
Please understand.
The system of patriarchy doesn’t need you to be born male, it needs you to become compliant. That is why it punishes gay men. Not because it doesn’t like gay sex, but because it doesn’t like the
Oct 9, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
“The Ministry of Justice … are committed to advancing equality, eliminating discrimination, harassment and victimisation …”

Women prisoners are victimised by a system that validates the feelings of male sex offenders over their safety.
Legislated discrimination.
State torture of women who may already have suffered at the hands of abusive males.
How is this fair?
Whose equality is advanced?
Not society at large, who now have to reconcile the extended suffering of incarcerated women with a just punishment for, say, shoplifting.
Not female prisoners, who
Oct 7, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
Today is #NationalPoetryDay, but misogyny doesn’t take a day off so neither do we.

This poem is dedicated to .@SussexUni. May you be called to account for your failure to take a stand against misogyny.

#ShameOnSussexUniversity
#MenWhoWearWomen Image Beware of men who wear women
wear women as skins
invented personas to hide themselves in
men who affirm the law of possession
who colonise language of form and oppression
men dressed in womanskin

Beware of men who wear women
who wear women’s faces
dilettantes, smitten by
Sep 11, 2021 8 tweets 3 min read
The male psychology affected by certain decisions and their attendant consequences: expanded.

Consider a transwoman who passes.

Hair, face, figure, all highly reminiscent of, not just any woman, but the most beautiful, most desirable of women by our society’s standards. It’s not a woman’s body, but how would you know?
“You don’t see gametes!”we’re repeatedly told.

She looks like a woman, she feels like a woman, she lives as a woman, uses pronouns and everything.

But.

She thinks like a man.

How do we know?

Because she has a man’s physiology;
Sep 11, 2021 16 tweets 4 min read
If you elevate a collection of stereotypes about what women are and what women do over the universal experiences of female people, you will come up with nonsense like this⬇️about the ways race, gender and class interact.
I’d like to show you why #SexMatters here.
A thread: Black women, Brown women, White women, disabled women, any kind of woman, and transwomen.

What is it they all have in common?

1.Humanity, ofc.

2.Human physiology, informing and affecting our human psychology.

3.A broad approximation of appearance - recognisably same species.
Sep 9, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
The truth doesn’t require you to go into battle for it. The truth doesn’t require a war.
The truth just requires - actually, it demands - that when you discover it, when you stumble across it, when you uncover it
you state it.

That’s all. You state it.

You don’t have to shout; the truth doesn’t need your fanfares or parades; doesn’t need enforcement or initiation.
That’s culture.
That’s not truth.

The truth is simple, supported by reality, and, while it might be painful for you, it will absolutely bear you up.

You might be required to state it more