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31 posts today🧵 https://t.co/ts01Tv...
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31 posts todayAn example: The Bell Curve was a flawed work and full of false & subsequently discredited assumptions. It stands as an example, as do the counter arguments. If Holly is likewise wrong, she can be demolished as was Murray. If you seek to censor ...
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31 posts todayKyla's "friend and colleague" is complicit in the targeted harassment of Holly Lawford Smith. But, apparently, objecting to such bullying is the real problem. Seriously, children, this is on you. https://t.co/LEP3iy...
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31 posts todayRT @FeministRoar: The response to Holly Lawford Smith's book from academics *who have not read it* really is a depressing indication of how bigotry and closed mindedness has taken over, and how easily patriarchal guff can become widely accepted in ...
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31 posts todayRT @Scott_Wortley: The Zoe Williams tweet about people who write the law illustrates one of the truisms of political discourse - that people who say they wrote the law (former spads, politicians, activists, fans with typewriters &c - you know the ...
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31 posts today#nicolasturgeon https://t.co/HXAz6f...
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31 posts todayRT @GussieGrips: If you’re old enough to have owned this book you’re old enough to be needing information about #menopause. Have a look @drlouisenewson’s site, loads of free, evidence based and up to date info there, and an app! And, while we’re ...
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31 posts todayRT @JNHanvey: The Scottish Parliament’s Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee is running a call for views on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill until 16 May. https://t.co/027qqZ...
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31 posts todayRT @UnionFeminine: As of April 7 many more female cyclists & sports people (total=652) have supported this letter to @UCI_cycling including: @Martina @Hogshead3Au @Maggy_PR @Daley_thompson @mara_yamauchi @sharrond62. We will update the UCI with ...
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31 posts todayRT @SexMattersOrg: Sex Matters welcomed almost 300 people to Bush Hall for an evening of conversation with seven of the claimants who are bringing the debate on sex and gender to the courts. For those who could not be there in person, the video is ...
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31 posts todayMisinformation from @BBCSport These athletes are able to compete, they just have to qualify and compete in the appropriate category. #SaveOurSports https://t.co/NujneZ...
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31 posts todayAbsolutely! It is so telling that @Ed_Miliband put the feelings of males who want into women's sport ahead of the women they displace. Thank goodness for men like @Daley_thompson https://t.co/gfQGLC...
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31 posts todayWhen people say that they don't deny the reality of sex, but argue they are not a man/woman, what is about them that makes this true? They must have definitions beyond sex of what these words mean and we have yet to see any that are not regressive. ...
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31 posts todayRT @NicoleCooke2012: Delighted to learn @BritishCycling have suspended and are reviewing their transgender policy. Trans athletes must be able to compete in and enjoy fair sport. Biological female athletes must also be able to compete in and enjoy ...
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31 posts todayRT @ladyduckpojok: @jthomastremblay @OxUniPress This is you: https://t.co/X0ubnD...
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31 posts todayAh, someone on the thread advocating boycotts of OUP has already got to the "transwomen are just like black women" tweet. No, Karen White, Katie Dolotowski, Tiffany Scott, Barbie Kardshian etc are not a "subset" of women. They do not "face ...
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31 posts todayRT @DerekHealey_: We won't be carrying a single word of the SNP's press release on their manifesto launch. Our job is to ask questions of the government and political parties on behalf of our readers. Whether you like newspapers or not, that is an ...
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31 posts todayRT @bencooper: The amazing thing about books is they can be self-cancelling - if you don’t like it, you don’t need to hassle the publisher or abuse the author. You just don’t buy it. If enough people agree with you, and also don’t buy it, then bingo ...
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31 posts todayThe state of the Tweet and the intellectual rigour of the replies should trouble anyone in academia. They appear to have been tutored by Violet Elizabeth Bott and Eric Cartman. https://t.co/nYzu6f... https://t.co/9URrAj...
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31 posts todayRT @soniasodha: She wrote it, but https://t.co/EhWdFO...
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31 posts todayUm, wasn't it cancelled because you all said that you wouldn't go? What was the government supposed to do? Have a conference panel made up of several tubs of lard? https://t.co/iHCbft...
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31 posts todayRT @seaningle: BREAKING: British Cycling Board of Directors has voted in favour of an immediate suspension of its transgender policy. "We understand there are concerns regarding the extent to which our current policy appropriately reflects the Sports ...
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31 posts todayRT @JohnMcM1: This raises more questions. Who is the 'professor of equalities law' who doesn't understand the very legislation that they helped to draft? And if they really think the original article was correct, why was it amended? ...
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31 posts todayWe would read Ms Williams excuses, but she blocked us after we drew attention to the thread pointing out the inaccuracies in her article. It doesn't really suggest she had the courage of her convictions! https://t.co/I9R89l...
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31 posts todayRT @oliverburkeman: @sarahditum If a given property does badly it's because Rowling's a bigot; if it continues to do well, it's because fans have taken "ownership" of it from Rowling because she's a bigot! All very convenient, requiring nobody to ...
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31 posts todayA man in @guardian arguing that women's opinions are worse than men's violence. @KathViner, did no one pick up on the arrogant sexism and violence apology that litters this piece? https://t.co/CkeABx...
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31 posts todayRT @LucyHunterB: It’s fascinating to hear someone who did not grow up as a girl and a woman denying sex is or should be relevant to women’s rights./
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31 posts todayRT @LabWomenDec: This is confused from @AnasSarwar. @ScottishLabour's 2019 manifesto commits to ensuring the single-sex exceptions are properly understood and enforced, so Anas needs to be clear about that, and about how it will be done. ...
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31 posts todayAwful story. Or thoughts are with this family and their friends. So much more needs to be done to in the police acrossthe UK. We hope they consider priorities when reviewing training. https://t.co/stDqJl...
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31 posts todayRT @JAHeale: Currently most read on @spectator: Sturgeon's secret state. How the SNP have maintained their iron grip on power for 15 years and the case for reform of Holyrood. https://t.co/1yE9rd...
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31 posts todayWhy JK Rowling became the face of the culture war