Jonny Kiehlmann [email protected]
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Universal Disclaimer: assume all statements I make have appropriate disclaimers attached.
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This group is quoted multiple times weekly by the Times as a respectable, good, upright organisation opposing GRR.
They are regularly abusive -- here referring to a prominent trans women as male genitalia. They are not respectable. They are not respectful.
They're just hateful.
Nicola Sturgeon doubles down on previous comments, saying it is “obviously the case” that some critics of her gender reforms are bigots, via
@alistairkgrant
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The SNP have got about as many votes in the
#EUelections2019
as the Brexit, Lib Dem and Labour Parties -- the second, third and fifth parties -- put together.
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@lizar_tistry
@joeyayoub
@lausanhk
"The Third World" absolutely did not refer to the USSR.
The term "The Second World" existed to refer to them.
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@PeteWishart
to PM "There's no mention of 'once in a generation' in the Edinburgh agreement or the Smith Commission. If we're talking rhetorical flourishes you said you'd be "dead in a ditch" before a Brexit extension. We had an extension, you're here & the ditch is unoccupied"
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Imagine being a genuinely beloved wealthy philanthropist and deciding that now, amidst a worldwide pandemic, and the intensity of Black Lives Matter and deciding that now is the time to go all in on transphobia.
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@christapeterso
Is ... is this her trying to shut down academic freedom and dictate what should and shouldn't be allowed to be studied and debated?
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"However Nicola Sturgeon has refused to withdraw the SNP from the regional lists to give the Alliance a clear run, opening the way to a possible split in the Nationalist vote."
I can't believe an actual paper's Political Editor wrote this sentence.
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I could've gone to Scotland to stay with my sister and her husband, help look after their kid. I had train tickets to go up, booked before lockdown was announced. But I didn't because I didn't want to spread. I've been in a flat alone in London for 80 days.
Fuck you Boris.
People have told me since the start of this the rules would really allow me to head home to Aberdeenshire for the good of my own health. But I've stayed in Glasgow, somewhere with a higher rate of infection than my parents rural home because it's the right thing to do.
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@fuddlemark
@jdportes
I had some people try to get me fired, inc in national newspapers, because I support trans rights.
Those who claim to be pro free speech, anti cancel-culture cheered this on
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@ramendik
@weehighlandlass
@RoddyQC
Some people say it's not true that men can give birth, despite, you know, plenty of folk knowing men (or non-binary people) who have: there's plenty of public record of such.
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@KatyMontgomerie
There's a lot of culture in the Western world built on the idea that "people like us can't be fascists".
Particularly middle class people. The Daily Mail has historical reasons to avoid attacking fascists, for instance.
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@ElspethSummers
Do ... do they remember that they claim that that's a gendered insult?
Do they not realise that a sign which is, by their terms, misogynistic abuse of people's mothers does not help their case that they're not fuelled by misogyny, agism and other bigotries?
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@christapeterso
I feel like announcing "I pre-emptively admit fault in every case we settle" is novel.
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The level of online abuse Paisley has suffered is horrendous.
Anyone aware of this who claims to condemn online abuse must surely support him and condemn his abusers.
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I see Wings Against Scotland's got a blog out today attacking the Equality Act. (Explicitly, the definition of disability in the EqA, to the point of "look, I'm linking to a doc saying it's the EqA definition.)
It's explicitly disability hatred and anti-human rights.
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@Michael16681811
@AlixWzl
No, trans women are female.
The concept that "male" and "female" are terms referring explicitly to some concept of sex is a contentious view some people wish to establish: it is not truth.
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Kate and Ash have defended JK Rowling's belief on trans rights. This included a lot of theories that have been identified as very close to antisemitism. She's supported very abusive people.
She's widely known as a major threat to free speech.
Goodness - KF and AR both unequivocally endorsing Rowling's views, which are pretty extreme even by GC standards
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Seriously, how anyone can argue that post, or by extension that group, is not straightforwardly transphobic has clearly got to a point where they won't recognise bigotry against trans people. (See also: Rowling.)
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The Speaker tells SNP MPs that although this bill is only about funding for English NHS -- and that this has direct consequentials for Scotland's budget thanks to Barnett -- votes of Scottish MPs will not be counted.
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@RachelRileyRR
@jk_rowling
I'm sorry Rachel, but
@jk_rowling
does not "support trans rights for people to live as they please".
While talking trans rights nonstop for years, saying she'd protest against any infringement thereof, she's ignoring topical major bans on trans support for kids in the US.
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I don't talk enough of how dedicated & hardworking
@KirstySNP
is.
How much effort she goes to avoid taking credit for some big stuff she does because she's a team player. How concerned she is about helping people. Kind, principled, generous
But folk who work with her know this.
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Reminder: Kenny MacAskill and Neale Hanvey are signatories to documents giving them a duty to resign as MPs.
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@MhairiBlack
Thank you for speaking out on this radicalisation that has been ignored by major news outlets preferring to platform those spitting misinformation claiming they are being silenced.
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"As legislators, talking about some of the most vulnerable people in society, we have a duty to educate ourselves -- and we've had five years to educate ourselves" --
@MhairiBlack
in the Westminster Hall debate on GRA reform.
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"If we just do what we've always done, we'll get the same results" -- Kate Forbes in the C4 debate.
The results we've got are 16 years in government, with rising support for independence. I think a lot of SNP supporters would like those results.
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This is the reason that Labour have a huge credibility gap. SLab grandees continue to work side-by-side with Tories (and now DUP) to push one of their central policies.
Better Together appears to be having a reunion tomorrow - with added DUP.
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@Sara_Rose_G
They apparently think his decision as a child to play a role she'd written should be utterly irreversible, apparently.
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I see Economist Editor and key face of acceptable anti-trans stuff is sharing what The BBC would describe as "criticism of anti-racism".
"Exposing kids to Anti-Racism (AR) is a Social Identity Threat (SIT) that makes certain kids more susceptible to Radical Gender Theory (RGT)."
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They want us to believe that it's more likely a female first minister decided to manufacture this, knowing all the trouble it would create for the party, that she, an avowed feminist would encourage staff to proceed with false accusations of sexual assault, than that ... 1/2
Patriarchy and misogyny out in full force this morning. Man who has admitted acting inappropriately and abusing his power with young female staff is now trying to blame his female successor for people learning what an awful human he’s been.
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@RoddyQC
Again: on Mridul you're spreading misinformation from a hate group who are twisting words to demonise aa woman of colour from a minority group working in the charity sector as part of a concerted attack on Scotlan'ds rape crisis services...
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@KirstySNP
asks why the Chief Minister of Gibraltar has had a chance to see the proposed Brexit Deal hours before anyone from the Scottish Government will
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@RoddyQC
Criticising people for referring to views or to people as hateful is not “taking hate out of the debate”.
It’s the precise opposite; it is protecting and legitimising hate by forcing others to pretend it is not hate.
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And
@Emma_Roddick
is sworn in as an MSP, swearing the oath under protest: her allegiance is to the people.
A working class 23-year-old disabled woman who's fought her way up w/ grassroots support as a dedicated campaigner & representative who'll do all she can to help everyone.
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It would harm the cause of independence for decades to come were the SNP to become seen as a party of transphobia.
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The Speaker just said "Can I just make it clear it's the 'Scottish National Party' not the 'Scottish Nationalist Party'"
Johnson (who consistently makes a point of getting it wrong) referred to it as a ruling.
Hoyle: "It's not a ruling, it's a matter of fact".
#PMQs
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Ah, I see Rowling has decided to publish novels explicitly mocking disability rights and telling disabled people they aren't disabled.
(I wonder how her arguing against the Equality Act 2010, which clarifies disability in UK law operates on self-ID, squares with her other views)
I'm pretty much certain this book was written less about why people online shouldn't criticize her, and more because Joanne here thinks disabled people should die.
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Lifelong feminist
@NicolaSturgeon
on the importance of trans rights, why they don’t clash with women’s rights, and we need to act on the transphobia across society.
📞’How can the SNP ensure the safety and wellbeing of trans and non-binary identities in an independent Scotland?’
Nicola Sturgeon answers Ben in London’s question on gender reform.
🎧
@BBCSounds
📺
@BBCPolitics
📲
#BBCYourQuestions
|
#GE2019
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@AdiDee_Gee
I remember a few years back, transphobes were talking about how they used the term explicitly to deny the fact that trans people are really trans (i.e. 'just identifying as such') as well as the social reality of their gender/sex.
Martine should probably look at her history.
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"Since Metoo, this distinction has become so clouded that almost anything – hair stroking, touching, social kissing – can be construed as sexual harassment."
Yes, Iain, almost any form of sexual harassment can be construed as sexual harassment.
"Last year he won £512,000 in costs from the Scottish Government in the Court of Session over their botched sexual harassment inquiry, which was ruled “unlawful, unfair and tainted by apparent bias”. In other words, was a set up." | Iain Macwhirter
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@AidanCTweets
Sorry, to clarify, this is the person who's been shouting to the rooftops for years that trying to go to someone's work to get them fired is wrong doing exactly that?
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"The principle that if someone born male wishes to be seen and treated as if they had been born female, society at large should accept this, based only on their personal declaration and subjective definition of what that means.'
That's how the Equality act views it, certainly.
Comment: Reforming the Gender Recognition Act will send a message which will have stark consequences for women and girls, says
@mbmpolicy
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If you as one person are managing to be, by yourself, the single reason a lot of people -- and young politically active people at that-- are being driven away from your political party, you really need to take a long hard look at yourself
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For International Women’s Day, why not stop trying to tear down Scotland’s first female First Minister?
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@Chican3ry
Doesn't Maya campaigning for changes here explicitly mean she no longer has the protections she campaigns for?
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BBC 6 O'Clock News says that
#SP21
"could affect the future of the United Kingdom".
The idea that an election on the government of Scotland could have no effect on the future of the UK is a sign of how much London ignore us, how much we need independence.
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Really disappointed to see Tory and Scottish Labour MPs trying to turn the SNP debate on
#WASPI
women into cheap party-political point-scoring
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Fake social media profiles pretending to be pro-indy, pro-Salmond, anti-GRA, stirring up trouble within the SNP seem as though they are a tool that would be exceptionally helpful to any group trying to sabotage Scottish Independence.
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The BBC are about to give anti-trans extremist Graham Lineham a slot on their prime news programme Newsnight to talk about "gender Ideology".
Here's what Human Rights Watch told him yesterday about the far-right trope he's about to be telling the nationa about.
@Glinner
You should know that the term “gender ideology” is a far-right trope used by conspiracy theorists & authoritarian-minded political parties to undermine women’s rights & gay rights. In using that term, you’re giving haters a boost.
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Don't like to address trolls, but want to address this hate & underlying lies stirred up by GC people's 'discourse'
Never been employed by Kirsty, affiliated w/Aberdeen Uni, or funded by Israel. Or a Zionist
But I oppose anti-semitism and my name sounds a bit Jewish. And so...
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@MhairiBlack
"We all have the right to self-ID and we do it many times a day. When we go to pee, we self-ID which services are more appropriate"
"I'm a woman, & I'm not threatened by trans people. I am threatened by the anonymous, mostly male people who claim to speak for women"
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"It is a delight to be present in this incubation chamber where viruses from all around these countries can mix freely so that we can return this toxic cocktail to our constituencies and families" --
@KirstySNP
sharing her displeasure with the Commons and its lack of virus safety
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I've a lot of respect for Kevin Pringle but he's flat out wrong here, in a way which betrays the media capture by ideologues opposed to the minor reforms considered.
At least three major errors in understanding an issue too often misrepresented.
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We forced a bot to watch a decade of UK political news headlines, and this is the result.
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Hey, everyone,
@ForwomenScot
thinks that any women who supports trans rights is "not really a feminist".
I feel like given the name, actually going all No True Scotsman on feminism is too on the nose. What do you think?
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Hi
@JoanMcAlpine
, slightly concerned to see you, my party colleague, liking a tweet calling for a ‘purge’ of the SNP.
I know you’ve been clear about the importance of respectful debate so this must be a mistake— but could you clarify that it is?
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"If someone wants to start removing established rights from over a decade, at least be honest about it. Say it with your chest.
But do not dare to say you're doing it in the name of defending women. It does not stick" --
@MhairiBlack
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This group of online radicalised folk is threatening to tear apart the Scottish National Party, and they -- along with those seeking to weaponise their fears for political purposes -- are the biggest threat to Scottish independence.
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The SNP Women's Pledge is a group which is transphobic and has no formal links to the SNP.
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UK Equality watchdog is so far gone it's planning to force some men with beards to use women's toilets, just out of fear and hatred of trans people, in violation of international obligations
A Tory MP has described the EHRC’s work as a “direct assault” on human rights in the UK
“They just want to exclude trans people"
Exclusive: Leaked guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) shows it plans to exclude trans people in Britain from single-sex spaces unless they have a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).
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@KatyMontgomerie
not "just" -- you seem to be able to do it for other minorities too..
(Not that it makes it better. It's also the place where you need to add disclaimers like this to he above line because people will misinterpret.)
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@Colloportis
@FionaSnp
As someone with ADHD who has never got anything (except roles I had already been doing where I had been doing them) at interview, I feel attacked.
(Mind you, some "doctors" also say I have autistic traits.)
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I've seen people arguing that this should not take up a lot of legislative time.
This is right, it shouldn't. It should have been passed years back, but there's been a concerted effort to turn this into a wedge issue.
If you're annoyed by the time, be annoyed at the delayers.
The Scottish Government is to table legislation at Holyrood to make it easier for people to change their legally recognised gender.
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The IMF are warning the tories their fiscal polices are economically illiterate and going to destroy the economy.
This is what the SNP have been saying for months -- from the IMF of all people -- shows the austerity lie can't hold.
NEW:
IMF boss tells Rishi Sunak: "now is not yet the time to balance the books"
She warns of "massive bankruptcies and unemployment" if govts around the world withdraw economic support amid
#COVID19
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Exclusive interview with
@KGeorgieva
on
@skynews
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It's incredibly hard for politicians to talk openly about depression. There's a lot of reasons for this, none of them good
"That their political rivals/colleagues would then seek to bully them/encourage bullying" is probably one of the most vile.
This remains well worth reading
I have no idea how to post about this but I feel like I should.
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One of the messages most helping the tories in Scotland: “vote labour” (Beside “all parties are the same, can’t trust them”)
No seats in Scotland are con-lab fights. Labour have shed nearly 1/3 of their ‘17 votes, meaning some lab held seats are now SNP-con fights.
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@EuanYours
They seriously don't get that people refusing to recognise their self-identification as "not a hate group" doesn't work when their actions betray it.
None of those actually say much bad about them, certainly nothing false.
@Rummlie
A hate group who have liked jokes about me killing myself. They know I have mental health problems. (As well as a lot of other things, but I came across that one recently and ... how fucking low.)
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Dear
@ALLIANCELGB
I got your letter. Your work is discriminatory, your twitter feed is shocking, and increasingly biphobic in addition to your stated rejection of the existence of trans and non binary people. So no, I won’t be meeting with you. I don’t meet with hate groups.
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I'm so very tired but I'm not going to stop fighting to fight the transphobia in the SNP
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I see Stu Campbell (Wings) is now explicitly supporting material calling for the Gender Recognition Act (not reform, straight up GRA) a bad law.
And which repeats the utter lie that Ian Huntley has transitioned. (He hasn't. This is a lie.)
He's transphobic and spreads hate.
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@MrJohnNicolson
For a group of people who seem to want to disprove allegations of being an abusive hate-filled mob, they're really doing a terrible job.
I was surprised by just how vicious and abusive the replies I got yesterday were.
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“Serial liar who has previously been fired for lying, denies lying”
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has rejected accusations that he lied to the Queen over his controversial suspension of Parliament in the run-up to the Brexit deadline
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@DocPhoenix
@KatyMontgomerie
"You shouldn't be dishing it out if you can't take it" seems reminiscent of bullying.
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@leonafeens
And explicitly due to sending
"....'harassing' emails to various colleagues. [He] asked what was meant by 'harassing' and was told that the problem was not the content of [his] emails, but only the number of them that [he] had sent."
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@tfirstelizabeth
@clarisselou
@ryanjohnbutcher
Nah, Gaiman was speaking out about it in the first place in part because they started claiming Pratchett
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@MhairiBlack
Take care of yourself. You have been incredible and will be missed, so much, by so many.
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If I was surviving on pro-Indy donations and claiming I care about Scottish Independence & the SNP don't, I would simply not publish a blog about how I wasted money on a pointless poll tangentially related to my hate-obsession the day after ignoring the biggest pro-Yes poll ever.
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Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of a lot of things, but not often malice, as can be seen with the grace and patience with which she treats those doing all they can to undermine her, whether purely out of ambition or to please the powerful, if fading, older man. 4/4
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@KatyMontgomerie
Are we really sure it's not a parody? Because it reads like it has to be a parody.
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Great answer.
Just because one feels bullied doesn't make it real.
If you're a bully, if you punch down, if you spread misinformation, fear, prejudice & hatred, while pretending you don't know you do that, while making the world worse, while a bully, acting out is acting out.
.
@Peston
: Rosie Duffield…do you have sympathy with her?
@MhairiBlack
: No, I don’t particularly
SNP’s Mhairi Black responds to bullying claims from a Labour opponent of Scotland’s Gender Recognition Bill.
Watch in full tonight
💻LIVE 9PM
@itvpeston
📺 1045PM
@ITV
#Peston
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Friendly neighborhood biologist here. I see a lot of people are talking about biological sexes and gender right now. Lots of folks make biological sex sex seem really simple. Well, since it’s so simple, let’s find the biological roots, shall we? Let’s talk about sex...[a thread]
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@PaulaCoyscot
@EuanYours
Reminds me of an anti trans guy I used to know (who fell into far-right stuff and posts to Rowling about how incels have a lot in common with GC people, in a positive sense) saying he was banned from Tinder….
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Because you're trying to fight a culture war, and you've been trying to push it for a long time.
Those GC people stirring up fusses around trans rights and then asking why we're talking about trans rights are absurdly disingenuous.
At a time of national crisis why is Labour getting embroiled in trans row?
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@diapause78
@Independent
That's not true. More than half a dozen dates. She just decided to tweet on at *least* two occasions unprompted, once because she was angry about a charity providing period products using accurate and inclusive language, and once because she wanted to support a court case.
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This Kirsty Wark documentary is excellently done.
The attempts at balance are remarkable.
(And the scathing, depressing picture painted by his own defence of Salmond is damning.)
#BelieveVictims
#BeKind
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@adelekilleennnn
@RussellFindlay1
@GussieGrips
Because protests are not necessarily obscene. And parliament is something that should and could be witnessed by young people.
There were kids there.
Is your position that people shouldn't take kids to public events because it's their fault if others act inappropriately?
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It is worth pointing out that Colette was promoted extensively by a number of very high-profile parliamentarians, journalists and a Bath-based blogger & avatar of toxic masculinity who it's apparently fair comment to call homophobic
Rhiannon is a well known, experienced figure in the party, a councillor with extensive connections through her work in the youth wing and the TIE campaign, so perhaps not so surprising that she won
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It is so good to see
@kirstenoswald
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@RoddyQC
But you aren’t actually encouraging that. You’re just criticising a woman of colour for saying that bigotry exists.
For hate to leave debate you need to criticise the hateful, not those who call it out.
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She's a key figure in the gender-critical hate movement, who's previously been criticised for plagiarising anti-semitic conspiracy theories.
Joyce now promotes as "amazing" "must-read" an anti-sex-ed call to "Blunt the absolutism of anti-racism." and "Immunize kids against" it.
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@BernieTranders
@sineadactually
... Where they praise her for using largely monosyllables and cutting syllables while highlighting "natal" as a rare example of not reducing to a monosyllable. (Like, say "cis".)
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@DavidPaisley
I've had some asking about men giving birth on tweets talking about a humanitarian disaster.
Their twisted misplaced priorities and scary obsession are, well, alarming.
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