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Imagine living in a world where for millennia your kind is discriminated against, denied equal rights and representation, your bodies appropriated to produce your oppressor's descendance or reduced to an

"Trans kids"? What does the research say?1- When not given puberty blockers 88% of boys who identify as trans in childhood desist by the age of 20. Letting kids go

15 years ago, some men, many of them fetishists &crossdressers, demanded to be considered women, lesbians even, on their say so alone, and campaigned without our knowledge or consent to

"I am a ciswoman and I am happy to centre ppl born and raised as male in my sex class, advocacy and single-sex places because I have internalised the idea

Hey @LibDems @TheGreenParty @UKLabour! Some tips."Woman" means what it has always meant. When women couldn't vote or own property, when their husbands could legally rape them, there was no mystery.

I am sick of this gender war. Sick of putting time & energy into defending the idea that women are a sex, not a set of stereotypes or a feeling

Yesterday was bad. Waves of panic came crashing over me. The absurdity of it all was just too much to bear. Women in this debate tend not to talk about

Women have rights. Considering that since childhood, the freedom & participation in public life of female ppl are curtailed by the sexually predatory behaviour of males, which society refuses to

It demands much more effort, persuasion, sleight of hand, false equivalence, intellectual dishonesty... to pretend transwomen are unproblematically women than to accept that transwomen are males who need/desire to live

What happens when queer theory transforms facts (this man is not a woman and therefore can't be a lesbian) into value judgements (you are excluding this 'woman' for not fitting

Dear transwomen, you believe that women asserting their boundaries and the relevance of being born and raised a girl in a sexist word is simply motivated by hate and fear