Our institutions have basically decided to treat every person who claims to be the opposite sex as completely innocent and authentic individual. As if there are no predators among us, as if predators wouldn't exploit the numerous loopholes de facto gender self-ID has provided. This almost religious belief - which mirrors religion in frightening ways, such as belief in transubstantiation, saintliness of men in dresses and importance of exposing children to their ideology - is so strong, that institutions have actually allowed tampering with DBS checks

It is not women's duty to give up their rights, their safety and their name just because some men were lied to that "they are women" and now they are "extremely hurt" because others won't play along with this nonsense. Women are put upon all the time, asked by society to sacrifice themselves - and their children - in order to spare men's feelings. There is a reason why feminists say that NO IS A COMPLETE SENTENCE. Women can tell men NO.

If you are wondering why anyone who doesn't believe in magical gender identity feels is labelled "cis" or "cisgender", why "cis" is used as an insult and why so many novel identities are being invented so people can deny they are "cis"...
"Cis" means "heretic". Just look around and see the monsterised rainbow beckoning the young and old to "identify" as anything other than what they actually are, or at least to slap a Newspeak label on their ordinariness. You get called "cis" only if you haven't named yourself "trans" or "queer".

32 week old foetus is viable outside the womb - yes - but only if there’s an incubator available (plus all associated medical care) and even then the survival or survival without damage is not guaranteed. Did this woman have access to this service on demand? 1.

https://twitter.com/bpas1968/status/1668261982208684032

Could she have gone to her GP and requested that the state take over gestation of an unwanted foetus? If not, isn’t the state effectively saying that above 21 week gestation, pregnant women in the UK have a legal status of an involuntary incubator? 2.

I engaged with learned opinions of @AlessandraAster who has written extensively about laws surrounding gender self-ID and sex falsification, and importantly, dispelled the myth that Goodwin makes repealing the GRA "impossible". There were so many excellent women, like @leakylike @wwwritingclub @isla macy who were pointing out - from a safeguarding perspective - the urgency to repeal the GRA. All their timelines, articles and videos are well worth a read.

This is a thread about my journey to oppose the initiative to "clarify" the Equality Act 2010 by adding "biological" in front of "sex": When I first heard about this, circa October last year, my first thought was that it seemed like a good idea. I welcomed the initiative, signed the petition, promoted it, both on twitter and during interviews about my book 'Born in the Right Body'.

To propose sacrificing MORE children to a medical scandal of arresting pubertal development is the exact opposite of safeguarding. Who are going to be the sacrificial lambs? Children in care? Children with parents pushing them into this early? Most vulnerable children. With the known harms of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones given to mentally distressed yet physically perfectly healthy children, no ethics committee should be able to give approval for RCTs of this abhorrent practice, going forward.

Gender is just a current filter laid over adolescent distress. Like eating disorders in the 90s and cutting in early 2000s. There's no need to invent "novel gender-focused psychotherapies"/ It is not true that we "don't know how to treat this unique and novel phenomenon". We're dealing with the same old adolescent distress - difficulty adjusting to highly gendered world, sexualisation of women and girls, bullying, peer pressure and violence, family dysfunction, trauma and early onset mental illnesses such as OCD, depression, anxiety, autism etc.

The price of my book 'Born in the Right Body' has increased by 25 pence - paperback went from £11.99 to £12.24 and hardback went from £15.99 to £16.24; Kindle edition remains £4.99.
I wanted to briefly explain why this happened. 🧵 A week ago Amazon KDP (who publishes my book) contacted me that their prices on paperbacks and hardcovers have increased. I had an option to have my royalties reduced or to change the price in line with an increase. Normally, I would have just taken smaller royalties. 2.

Because medical misinformation and myths about biological sex in humans are at the core of so many disputes, here's an article I've written hoping to clarify this situation.
lascapigliata.com/2023/02/24/let… Essentially, both TRAs and some GC people are arguing the same thing - that sex in humans is a spectrum and changeable. Both use DSDs and other species to justify their argument, which ultimately focuses on a person's appearance and feelings or "identity". It's just that some GCs… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

The social contract about men not entering women-only spaces, was extremely effective. Just look at how long - and how much egregious media and institutional support - it took for some men to become fully emboldened in breaking this contract. Institutions even removed women's facilities, they wrote and aggressively enforced policies encouraging men to transgress women's boundaries, they even used the police and courts to intimidate and convict women who resisted. And still only a tiny % of men transgress.

Female-only spaces are for all females - including trans-identifying ones (otherwise known as transmen, women and girls who identify as the opposite sex) - and refusing them entry would be discrimination the basis of gender reassignment. Due to strength advantage of males over females, which isn't acquired by females even if they masculinise with testosterone, trans-identifying females do not compromise safety of males in male-only spaces, which is why our focus should be on keeping female spaces single-sex.

In the spirit of oversharing, I wanted to briefly write about a ptsd relapse I got from just observing unbridled male aggression in Australia toward #LetWomenSpeak attendees, as well as seeing so many women assaulted or manhandled, both by TRAs and by security/police. 🧵 I'm a naturalised Australian citizen and have spent my formative years in Melbourne. I love that city, and more broadly, I love Australia. However, I was also seriously traumatised by several things/people during the time I lived there.

Excluding "males who have gone through male puberty" from female events is a step in the right direction, but female sport won't be fair until everyone with a Y chromosome is excluded. That's what needs to happen. Karyotyping for all athletes is needed.
news.sky.com/story/world-at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Not to mention boys who were puberty blocked and "gender reassigned". It might sound far-fetched, but even if the practice of gender reassignment was to stop tomorrow, enough children have already been affected that we must anticipate this becoming an issue in the future.

Something odd is happening. I can't sign up as a Community Notes contributor because apparently my phone number, which I had since 2002 and which is provided by Vodafone (one of the oldest UK mobile carriers) is "provided by an untrusted carrier". Also Twitter are uncontactable🤔 Also, a censorship label is still afflicting my account, whereby my tweets are hidden from anyuone who doesn't complete age verification, despite the fact I never tweet gore, porn or any other content such filters are designed for. Likewise, Twitter are uncontactable.

Here we go again, highly respected, compassionate and ethical psychiatrist @lennycornwall and a candidate for a Trustee of @rcpsych is being attacked by TRA colleagues because he listened to many women and LGB people who have been urging RCPsych to leave Stonewall.
@ALLIANCELGB Stonewall's schemes have become very controversial in recent years, especially because Stonewall campaigns for medical interventions on gender non-conforming youth and against women's sex-based rights such as single-sex spaces.

For speaking up for a woman who had lies about her told for years, and recently these lies dangerously escalated, I’m now being lied about. So for avoidance of doubt, let me denounce these lies (that’s what we’re meant to do, right?) 🧵 1. I do not support gay conversion therapy nor have friends who run GCT centres.
2. Having spoken to several gay Christian men in the past I was told they appreciated being able to speak to therapists of their own faith about the distress they felt about their sexual orientation

Monstering of Kellie-Jay Keen didn't appear out of thin air. Certain socialist feminists - alongside with toxic TRAs - have been promoting and fabricating "alt right" lies about her since 2018. Actions have consequences. What's happening now is their doing. They're the baddies 1 The lies are fabricated via poison pen blogs (which are then shared and repeated ad infinitum by socfems, TRAs and their socks), and by doctoring information on unacountable online sources such as Wikipedia.

Watch this to see how propaganda works. TRAs relentlessly repeat lies about KJK, put them on her Wiki page then lock it. Then these lies are used to subvert democracy. This isn’t tomfoolery. This is what real rise of authoritarianism looks like 👇
Media helps to bolster this lie. MSM dorsn’t show the actual women protesting. None of them interview the women. Anyone who dares support women is monstered as a “Nazi”. When they are interviewed by a R wing journalist, this is used as “evidence” of their “association with Nazis”

Seeing the horrific propaganda in Melbourne, against women who fight the just fight for single-sex spaces and child safeguarding, brings back bad memories. As a Serb from Croatia, I have witnessed this kind of propaganda first-hand as a student in Melbourne in 1990s. 1. This is something I very rarely talk about, mainly because the effects of that propaganda are still effective, and I risk being abused every time I speak about it. Regardless, I found it in me to speak about it briefly in my as yet unpublished memoir 'Sexism in Medicine' 2.

Women asking orgs and individuals whether they support #RepealTheGRA isn't a purity test (like some people engaged in purity spirals for years now claim). It's a good faith question so that we can:
1. Start the conversation
2. Decide who to support with our money and resources There are many myths around repealling the GRA that are generated by people who don't want it repealed, including that "repealling would mean leaving EHCR". This is untrue. There are 46 countries in EHCR and not all of them have GRA-type laws.