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Andrea Dworkin pointed out the irony of being told men are women's natural protectors, when they are the biggest danger. Whether women are put on a pedestal or a pyre, it's the same old patriarchy. Men & women are not different species, men are not naturally superior to women.

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Have been slow on the uptake on this one due to being in a different timezone but this is great news and well overdue. We must also end the dated, patronising and misogynist 'two doctor' rule though! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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The EHRC's lawyers admitted its position re. toilets adopted in its interim update (specifically mandating employers to have single-sex toilets instead of individual gender neutral cubicles) was wrong. We think they're even more wrong still, though.

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So I'm trans and on a female ward in Wes Streeting's NHS and I'm being disallowed from going to the toilet any way other than via bed pan which means that I have the option of direct nursing assistance with my lower body and risk being shifted to a...

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

CDMX

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Some "Gender Critical" activists tried to sue people protesting against them screening an anti trans hate film. They LOST The judgement is crazy to read as they talk about me a lot in it! The GCs tried to argue that me giving a talk about all the hate I received from GCs made them feel...

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Good news! UCU have won an employment tribunal against the directors of the film 'Adult Human Female,' who claimed UCU's protest against the screening of the film represented discrimination and harassment due to their GC beliefs. UCU press release here for details: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404...

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By the end of this, there will be more trans toilet signs than trans people in the UK and cis women will still be raped regularly by cis men, who will never face justice.

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

“Clarity, dignity and respect”

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If you're one of those trans inclusive small businesses which is getting attacked by transphobes, we've drafted this text for your website, or as a standard reply.

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

Trans people's rights cannot depend on possession of a GRC because many of them were established in case law by eg industrial tribunals and in legislation prior to the passing of the GRA in 2004.

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Shameful stuff from Durham University - a former member of staff's account of institutional transphobia in the Institute for Medical Humanities medium.com/@n2iy2mc/on-...

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Having recently pored over many Hansard debates on the Equality Act, this is hogwash. MPs explicitly, consciously discussed broadening protection beyond yer classic binary medically transitioned GRC-haver. If the MPs who passed it were “lying” too, you’re stretching that word beyond all coherence

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By this logic, women in the US didn’t lose any rights when Roe v. Wade was overturned. Those state-wide abortion bans were actually there all along, you just didn’t notice them because of all the “lies”

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

They're oddly quiet about the fact that one of the bodies once doing the 'lying' was.... the EHRC itself, in the current statutory code of practice to the Equality Act

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Shameful stuff from Durham University - a former member of staff's account of institutional transphobia in the Institute for Medical Humanities medium.com/@n2iy2mc/on-...

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Starting to get some touchy responses to this. Look, I agree that it's a feminist imperative to criticise the porn industry. But it's a FACT that there is a huge overlap between anti-porn and anti-trans activism in the UK. It's also a fact that historically, anti-porn ordinances have been used to 1/

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Also, when I say 'influential transphobes', I mean people who are constantly being given massive media platforms and invited to comment on any trans story in the news. That's the extent to which this stuff has been mainstreamed.

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I can't emphasise enough that for a large number of influential transphobes, trans identity literally is pornography. This animates their hatred and fear of adult trans women but also underpins their attacks on trans children. Trans=porn therefore children being trans can only mean violation.

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

The GC monstering of Judith Butler means that they've convinced themselves all trans people are Judith Butler Acolytes, with a complete unawareness of the sheer degree of mangling this community does to Butler's work on the regular

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

Anyone saying ‘DEI’ here in the UK is telling you very directly where their hate is imported from.

submitted 24 days ago • 71 comments

Actually went to look at some of Forstater's old threads and she was pretty clear that she sees period activism as a front for advancing the trans agenda. 🤷🏻‍♀️

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Getting rid of stigmatising 'feminine hygiene' language around periods benefits cis women. But there's a chance it could benefit some trans people too, so now it's Bad and must ve opposed.

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🔴NEW:The dark money behind UK's anti-abortion backlash - Key US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union - Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars Warnings of “obvious danger” of “importing America's toxic far right politics” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

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If I want apples and you want oranges a compromise is "let's pool our resources and buy both so our needs are met" If I want apples and you want to shoot me in the head, the compromise can't be "I get an apple but you get one free shot at me"

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments