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Am I alone in being stuck by the irony of (arguably) our greatest fantasy writer being (arguably) our most powerful defender of reality?
Regardless,
#IStandWithJKRowling
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Disappointing to see sectarianism still operating in Belfast. Sitting at the counter of
@ROBINSONSBAR
I was astonished to see a woman - sober, courteous, in her 40s I’d say - refused service purely on the basis of a badge she was wearing.
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Yesterday the Woman’s Council of Ireland and Amnesty International Ireland lent their signatures & authority to an extraordinary statement.
“organisations that seek to defend biology... we repudiate their beliefs”
Let that, as they say on social media, sink in.
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Why is an
@IrishTimes
book reviewer publicly laughing about this woman’s hospitalisation & hoping for her death?
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Lupron is a puberty-blocking drug made by AbbVie.
Paul Hickey is an executive with AbbVie.
Hickey is husband of Justice Minister Helen McEntee.
McEntee is introducing Hate Speech legislation.
This will be directed at those who oppose children being given puberty blockers.
Neat!
Question:
Is it a coincidence that Helen McEntee is bringing in legislation that criminalises disagreement with trans ideologies & sneaks in a new definition of ‘gender’ while her husband, Paul Hickey is Director of Market
Access & Stakeholder
Relations for pharma giant AbbVie?
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Over half a million pounds donated by people to enable Allison Bailey take an Employment Law case against Stonewall & her then barristers chambers, Garden Court. Extraordinary by any standards.
#crowdfunding
#justice
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This science-denial was an attempted slap-down of women who are concerned at the steady erosion of women’s sex-based, biology-based, rights.
Silencing of any critique has no place in a healthy democracy. For it to come from a women’s org & from a human rights org is chilling.
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It’s not just that “we repudiate biology” is a bizarre position to take. It’s that
@AmnestyIreland
&
@NWCI
call for those who defend biology to be excluded from civil society.
“We call on media, and politicians to no longer provide legitimate representation...”
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The suggestion, by
@Mickcliff
, that Gardaí erected barriers to keep “the two sides” apart is dishonest. The barriers were needed to enable women gather and speak without being assaulted by men, as happened in other jurisdictions.
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Irish academic implicates gender critical women in the horrific murder of two gay men while Garda question a male Irish citizen from the Middle East.
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Am I alone in being disappointed by the lack of fish-based puns around the
#LetWomenSpeakBelfast
event?
Gender ideology is such a cod yet so many have fallen for it hook, line & sinker and are then left floundering when asked what a woman is.
Will anyone will take the bait? 😉
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It's difficult to process the fact that, having been born in Ireland in 1953 to an unmarried woman, I'm lucky to be alive.
#tuambabies
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There’s much else in the letter which is wrong: baseless accusations, smears, the deliberate misrepresentation of legitimate concerns of Irish women. But to denigrate “those that seek to defend biology” is jaw-dropping. Biology is a subject on the Leaving Cert.
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Ireland 2020. Irish women, most unable to show their faces,
stating
#wewillbeheard
. Why this protest? A despotic government? A censorious Church? Astonishingly it’s in defiance of calls by
@NWCI
,
@AmnestyIreland
, & others to remove them from civil society. Ireland 2020
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I queried this with the Manager, pointing out that this was a Public House. His - mistaken I believe - position was that it was a “private bar” &, as such, he could refuse whoever he wished. Even for sectarian reasons. “The laws may be different down South” he said! 🤷♂️
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Trans woman signatory to letter protesting the harassment of Prof. Kathleen Stock has
@Twitter
account suspended hours after publication.
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While I’m opposed to the removal of the word “woman” from maternity protection legislation, it’s only fair that I declare an interest here.
The thing is, my mother was a woman. As were my aunts. My daughter is a woman. Her mother also actually.
So I’m standing up for my own!
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@bindelj
@janeclarejones
Perhaps
@Waterstones
(& other bookshops) could open a public ‘Backroom’ in each of their stores for the increasing number of books by female authors, deemed unfit for public display.
Or will I continue ordering from
@bookdepository
?
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It’s not insignificant that, after 14 hours, 1 million people have seen John Boyne’s statement about
@Glinner
Also, it’s not surprising how positively it’s been received. Homo Sapiens are hardwired to be moved by expressions of honesty & integrity.
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So, your child is in a
@ULHospitals
ward. awaiting treatment,
A member of the hospital staff, wearing a Rainbow Badge, pulls up a chair beside their bed & says “Hello I’m Seán, he/him, I want to talk to you about sexuality…”
How does it play out?
We mark the launch of the Rainbow Badge initiative in the Paediatrics department at UHL.🌈
This badge is all about showing inclusivity to our young patients and encouraging open conversations about sexuality with our staff members.
#TeamULHG
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On Nov 20th, Trans Day of Remembrance, an Open Letter was published which provoked quite the reaction.
Amnesty Ireland, a signatory, later posted that criticism of the Letter used “decontextualising phrases”.
So, let’s contextualise! 1/12
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@Docstockk
A contact who attended an industry development presentation of The Family Sex Show described total ‘group think’, with it clearly being social, & probably professional, death to express doubt as to its suitability
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@carolinmcmillan
@ROBINSONSBAR
@belfastcc
The Manager acknowledged as much to me, on the basis that he had the right to refuse whoever he wished as it was “a private bar”. He was confusing private ownership with the conditions of the drink license.
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A tale of two Murphys
Murphy Róisín: “Kids are vulnerable & need to be protected”
Murphy Paul: Publicly exposes a kid to potential harassment.
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Democracy was served yesterday. The right of Irish citizens to chant “Nazi scum” at women was vindicated in a ‘colourful’ (literal & euphemistic use of that term) protest. As should be the case in a well-ordered society.
#LetWomenSpeakDublin
#LetMisogynisticEejitsSpeakToo
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The thought is chilling & will diminish us all.
Words matter, debate matters, science matters, law matters, civil liberties matter. Freedom of expression matters.
The price of liberty? As always, it’s eternal vigilance. Even towards laudable-sounding Open Letters. 12/12
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Ritchie Herron (
@TullipR
) deserves our support. Not just as a young man treated appallingly by those he looked to for help, but also in his forthcoming court case seeking redress. The first step in such support is to read & share his story.
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My late mother had the courage to go England to have me in 1953. We stayed 3 years. The alternative could have been horror.
#tuambabies
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Irish Times writer Roisin Ingle & Irish Times Political Editor Pat Leahy both comment favourably on a Suzanne Moore article. One gets a right mauling, the other walks away with nary a scratch. I wish I could put my finger on the difference. ‘Twould never be misogyny would it?
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The suggestion that biology is indefensible is gas-lighting on a grand scale. If biology is dismissed as unreliable, then one can confidently claim, as the letter does, that “Sex and gender are both spectrums...” & get otherwise sensible people to accept that fiction. 7/12
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If what The Ditch is reporting is correct - & it’s open to the Minister to deny it - Roderic O’Gorman is a complete charlatan, lying to the Irish people about the Attorney General’s advice on the legal implications of amending the Constitution.
‘In the absence of clear guidance within the constitutional text or by way of legislation, it is difficult to predict with certainty how the Irish courts would interpret the concept of “other durable relationships.”’
- Attorney general to government
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The clear, immediate aim was to delegitimise Irish women’s groups, set up recently to, variously, defend the interests of LGB people & to protect women’s sex-based rights; including maintaining women-only spaces (e.g. refuges, prisons, changing rooms), women’s sports, etc. 3/12
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Those appalled by US-based Irish plastic surgeon Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher’s ethically reprehensible “yeet the teets” targeting of vulnerable teenage girls on TikTok will welcome her coming under scrutiny. What’s required is her being, at a minimum, debarred from her ghastly business
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@paddyjogorman
@ColetteColfer
Thank you for giving a voice to one of the most vulnerable groups in society: women in prison.
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An indelible stain on the reputation of the
@OpenUniversity
, judged to have allowed discrimination against and harassment of one of its professors.
have received the Tribunal’s judgment in my case against the OU today: I won! The Tribunal found that I was discriminated against and harassed because of my gender critical beliefs, and that I was constructively dismissed.
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These are legitimate concerns & the demonising of those expressing them is, in a democracy, reprehensible. The clumsy overreach of the letter back-fired on
@AmnestyIreland
in particular. People saw it to be illiberal & indeed in conflict with Amnesty’s founding principles. 5/12
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Another, insidious, aim, I’d argue, was to lay an intellectual (sic) groundwork for future policy formulation, by delegitimising appeals to evidence, to science.
According to the letter, “organisations that seek to defend biology” are to be decried.
6/12
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@HJoyceGender
Asked for your book in what used to be my favourite bookshop
@vibesandscribes
. The assistant went into the back room to get it explaining that they weren’t putting it on display because of “problems with the content”. I declined & got it instead from
@bookdepository
, €7 cheaper!
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That the Women’s Council of Ireland now believe that sex is a spectrum, an abandonment of their name & purpose, is a troubling case-in-point.
The more serious context &, in my view, the real agenda of the letter is the Hate Crimes Bill currently before the Oireachtais. 8/12
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Imagine outcry if Corbyn had changed voting eligibility, had decreed no meetings permitted, if Momentum had promoted
#hackinglabour
methods
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Twitter is toxic for women says an
@amnesty
report, yet
@AmnestyIreland
used Twitter to demonise Irish women for views they expressed on Twitter. How does that work?
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The groups also have concerns re. the serious matter of the safeguarding of children in the face of the puberty-blocker experiment, a pharmaceutical approach which flows from the ‘affirmative model’ for treating gender-dysphoric children. (See the Keira Bell case) 4/12
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Will a forceful defence of women’s sex-based rights result in a woman being charged with a Hate Crime? With Amnesty as witnesses for the prosecution? In the Bill there’s no requirement for proof.
The use of ‘law-fare’ as a means of silencing dissent is a grim prospect. 11/12
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@mangereman
@ROBINSONSBAR
Catholics or *insert group of your choice*. That’s what shocked me. The naked sectarianism.
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@IrishTimes
The journalist knows this is false, as does the editor & staff of the Irish Times. The entire readership of the
@IrishTimes
knows what’s being reported is false. Yet we’re all expected to accept the falsehood, to be complicit in the collective lie. Strange, strange, behaviour!
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@neasa_neasa
Coming from a public representative this is shameful. The well-being of vulnerable children should be central to your concerns.
Have you any idea of the impact of Lupron on the cognitive and physical development of children?
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Solidarity with the sisters attending the Women’s Mass Meeting in Dublin tomorrow.
✊ Fight the Power ✊
#LetWomenSpeakDublin
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Hey
@FineGael
, you know all those
#LeavingCert2020
students who you’re doing a bang-up job of pissing off?
They’ll be voters at the next election.
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One must have a heart of stone to read the Twitter trouncing of little Frankie Boyle without laughing.
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The Open Letter is full of such sentiment, citing: bigoted beliefs, toxic voices, voices of hate, hateful words, bigotry, promote hate, turning away hate, etc.
The case for the targets of the letter being “hateful” & therefore potential law-breakers is cynically laid out 10/12
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This bill seeks to criminalise any offence perceived to be motivated by prejudice towards, among other categories, ‘gender identity’.
To those who believe ‘sex is a spectrum’ a statement to the contrary could be perceived/presented as “hateful”. 9/12
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@iwontwheesht
@wildwood62
@ROBINSONSBAR
It was clear discrimination, as the Manager himself acknowledged to me.
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@mskatierussel
From the statement, it would appear that defending biology is among those “bigoted beliefs, that are aligned with far right ideologies”.
This is crazed stuff, which now represents the position of
@NWCI
&
@AmnestyIreland
. Baffling & shameful.
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This is beyond reckless by
@sinnfeinireland
: the party ignoring the established findings of the effects of Lupron on the human body & on the cognitive development of children; laying the groundwork for another Irish child-abuse scandal.
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#LetWomenSpeakDublin
V Don’t let women speak in Dublin
Our duty as democrats is clear: we must defend the Constitutional right of Irish citizens to peacefully assemble & to speak publicly on matters which concern them.
Eternal vigilance being the price of liberty
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@louise_b_nurse
@MenAtWork_MC
@BBCBristol
@ThisEgg_
Them using the “Why don’t you draw the animas you’re found?” to give a veneer of child-friendly ‘cuteness’ to a deeply creepy suggestion.
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Oh dear! It appears the Irish electorate have rejected the removal of archaic terms such as ‘woman’ and ‘mother’ from the Constitution!
#Referendum2024
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Day 3 of letters in
@IrishTimes
on the strange erasure of the word “woman” from Irish legislation:
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In less than two days Sara Morrison has raised £10,000 for legal representation in the Employment Law case being taken against her former employer, Belfast Film Festival.
Solidarity with
@SeeRedWoman1
✊
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This is shameful.
@MickBarryTD
has traduced, in the Dáil, an Irish therapeutic professional, falsely attributing to her views on the trans gender community which the evidence shows she does not hold. 1/7
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The ostensible reason for the letter, published by Gay Community News, was a laudable one, that “trans people should be included fully in society”.
However, the admirable call for “solidarity for our trans siblings” was in the service of wider & quite worrying aims. 2/12
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It may have taken 4 years & 5 months, but to have 50,000 people sign a petition calling for the resignation of an Irish Circuit Court Judge must be unprecedented!
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@soundmigration
A good place to start, if you wish to to engage in good faith with Sonia’s article, is with Ross Tucker who she references. His Twitter account is
@Scienceofsport
& that’s his area of expertise.
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Me at 20. It’s important to look after yerself.
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Teachers, here’s a short documentary, rich in content & suitable for school use, on masculinity & its effects. Full Teaching Notes available from any female student.
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Before women phoned Joe Duffy on
#liveline
to object to the erasure of the terms ‘woman’ & ‘mother’ from Irish legislation, before
@DublinPride
,
@NWCI
, public reps, etc. said the airing of such views was unacceptable, one woman wrote to the
@IrishTimes
about it. In April 2021.
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Hundreds marched in Cork today in solidarity with the people of Palestine. What was particularly heartening was shoppers spontaneously applauding from the pavement. 🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸
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Knocked off my bike by a driver (I’m grand), had a tooth pulled, interviewed by
@PascalSheehy
for a
#GE2020
vox pop. That’s me done for the day. 😳
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Apparently I’ve reached an age where the surname is sufficient! 😊
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Is is bad of me to occasionally amuse myself on Twitter? 😂😂
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@Celtic_Ray
@Waterstones
@Glinner
My hitherto favourite bookshop in Cork told me that
@HJoyceGender
’s Trans was not on display due to “problematic content”. Consequently I discovered the joy of on-line book buying
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Imagine if there was an attempt to erase the word ‘Man’ from public discourse! The idea is absurd of course. That’s never going to happen. ‘Man’ is safe. As are men. It’s women who’re being targeted. As always. Men should support them. Save ‘Woman’ And ‘Mother’ S.W.A.M.
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She cheered us up in Cork & I like to think we cheered her up. RIP Queen Elizabeth II
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Irish children, those referred to UK clinics, are also effected by this. Another Irish childcare scandal in the making.
‘NHS identity clinics have been functioning as if acting outside the ordinary requirement of good medical and psychiatric practice.’
Some may dismiss this paper by experienced psychoanalyst
@marcusevanspsych
, but they do so at their own peril.
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@HJoyceGender
@vibesandscribes
@bookdepository
I’m of an age when the Catholic Church & Irish State combined to restrict what I could read. I’m not about to let the local bookshop do so. I was a staunch “support your local bookshop” guy, but have had to rethink that position, alas!
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Women threatened with pipe bombs & with cutters: the enduring strain of misogyny in Irish society.
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Discrimination case against Belfast Film Festival
I’m distressed to read this. I admire
@BelfastFilmFes1
& its staff greatly. I’ve attended on a few occasions. The last time I met with the claimant, Sara Morrison, at a BFF social event.
Now I read of her need for crowdfunding.
My case is the 1st of its kind in Northern Ireland. I've submitted a discrimination claim to the employment tribunal.
I believe in freedom in the arts & support a womans right to hold & express opinions without persecution.
Please help support my case:
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Thank you
@genspect
for an extraordinary conference in Killarney. That it took place at all is cause for celebration but the quality of the presentations - at once educational & inspiring - was exceptional. Thank you
@stellaomalley3
& team
#GenspectBiggerPicture
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Róisín Murphy denounces chemical interference with the physical & mental development of children.
This amadán reads her call to protect vulnerable kids as “anti-trans”. He’d be better advised to investigate the scandal of puberty blockers.
Lets hear his “disappointment” then!
Róisín Murphy’s statement about her trans comments is disappointing
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@TheVikingDane
Might seem crass and trite considering what’s going on in Gaza, but what a day I’ve had! 😕
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There are clearly serious & ongoing governance issues at Teni, the trans advocacy org.
Teni wrongly stated their Chair of 10 years was a chartered accountant.
The Teni Chair falsely claimed to be a “qualified chartered accountant” when lobbying NWCI members to join their board.
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Open Letters are all the go these days, so here’s mo dhá phingin! It’s addressed to those women, currently under attack, who’re standing for women’s sex-based rights, standing for lesbians, standing for children not having to suffer experimental treatments. Respect to you! 1/6
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@sueveneer
Seth had a fairly easy ride of it during the Trump era, Tweeting extensively on the Russian connection - in his regular multi-tweet extravaganzas. He was able to freewheel, with no push back from his anti-Trump audience. Today he met women. It didn’t go well! Poor Seth.
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Though not an academic, I’ve signed the Open Letter in support of
@Docstockk
, who I admire, to defend academic freedom, but also to defend the honour of my alma mater, given that a member of
@UCC
’s Philosophy Dept, where I studied, signed the scurrilous attack against her.
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@iseult
A British academic
@James_Treadwell
wrote about this very matter; sex-offenders gaming the system by ‘identifying’ as female. As a result his employer
@StaffsUni
investigated him for transphobia & he chose to abandon Twitter. His interesting tweets are still there to be read.
Yesterday I tweeted something to
@Jgicriminolg
about Gender Self ID. Been amazed at the engagement so thought I would say a bit more. For a short while I was Probation Officer in a Multi Agency Public Protection team. I met a lot of sex offenders.
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