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Posted by TERF as an object of horror. I think it is lovely and I hope they are all still enjoying life.

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Dear GCs, TERFs, transphobes, far right This is who *you* are. This is who you side with. And if you cannot see how wrong it is, then the UK is well and truly fucked. You do deserve any respect from us. Pollik

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Transphobia harms cis women, too. These were fired at a cis woman who they thought was trans. Link in first reply

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@notCursedE i) What is a woman? You came out of one. Translation of definition: a woman is someone who has given birth. (Tomorrow, the definition will be possession of a vagina. On Monday, it is XX chromosomes. On Tuesday, it's "everyone knows instinctively". On Wednesday, it's....)

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@AveryOfBirds "literally no professionals", except....

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@jk_rowling That reveals so much about you...that you might not be comfortable with, if you were aware.

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@TorFinney "trans community insisted I was a MAN" Name names. I don't know any trans people like that. And if I did, I would take them to one side and have a word. Unless Keira asked for the advice, of course. It is no one's business but hers.

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@AidanTheJester @LJMU This is from Linkedin. A hollow apology.

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@NickySimpson98 Hope you're going to complain. But it must be exhausting having to do that all the time

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@KatyMontgomerie If testes define sex...then sex is very mutable.

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@oldnorthroad @troubledskies It is almost like...it's not about the principal of the thing, but more about nationalistic exceptionality (and using whatever principal works in the moment)

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@MForstater "You should feel uncomfortable and on edge." And? You make hundreds of thousand of people feel on edge...likely the reason your contract wasn't renewed, after taking hate leaflets into work.

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@PoliticsScot KJK? Who invited armed men into ladies toilets? Who told women they would be annihilated? Who, in fact, won't let all women speak? And no, it is not always men. You want to feel morally superior, when you are clearly not.

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@mrjamesob "Woke: alert to injustice in society, especially racism" Presumably, people who use it as an insult are tacitly admitting to being racist?

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@KirstiMiller30 @jk_rowling I have seen many TERFs apply different rules for trans men.

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@GussieGrips @NicolaSturgeon Don't blame Sturgeon. Blame Tories Filibustering on the previous debate, to reduce time available. 150 amendments...the political version of sealioning. Tickets to the Gallery handed out by Tories to disruptive protestors.

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@ALLIANCELGB This is why you are seen as a hate group. Up there with Newspeak...distorting the facts

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@MForstater It isn't "pretending" anything. It is accurately describing "a person". You have to manufacture excuses, now, to be irrationally outraged? Salient? Alt text also doesn't mention glasses, beard, skin colour, facial expression, all of which (and more) *could* be salient.

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@guardian FFS...he was jailed for contempt of court for breach a court order banning him from the premises He wasn't jailed for refusing to use pronouns. He could have stayed out of jail by complying with the order Shame on @guardian for stooping as low as the DM with the headline

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@jk_rowling @ForWomenScot Again, self ID does not govern access to spaces. There is no academic evidence suggesting that self ID impact the rights of other people If not led by the evidence, then you are led by bigotry When you started, you presented as thoughtful (but wrong). Now, all you have is hate.

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@zoiedt I thought everyone could #/alwaystell 😆

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@ejrosetta @PinkNews That was a very predatory comment

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@BBCWomansHour What does that have to do with anything?

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@SurvivorsnetBtn Legal action is their strategy, now...stealing funds that could be usefully spent elsewhere

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@HJoyceGender Great news...thank you for letting us know. Btw...if the posts did not break Twitter rules, she would not be suspended. Do not blame people for reporting breeches of the rules...she made her own choices. If you or she don't like the rules, then leave.

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@_banquos_ghost_ Or there is a story like mine. Married for 22 yrs, without disclosing trans ness. Broke down. She told me I had to transition. We were married for 43 years, before she died. There are many stories to be read on this topic. (Yeah, and we did the publicity route a couple of times)

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@GBBranstetter @ZJemptv And a child who will never trust their parent again.

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Glad someone in on their game.

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@MForstater That is your hot take? Really Maya, really? Semenya is a woman. No one (except your dogwhistle) challenges that. You have set new records for how low can you get.

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@StaffNurseCook Larping as a nurse? And there's me thinking that there are years of training and qualifications to get. They never define biological woman in any accurate meaningful way.

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@TabitaSurge @parsifel43 "Let Women Speak!"

Thousands of nuns declare God loves and cherishes trans people

A group of Catholic nuns has joined the fight for trans rights, claiming that trans and non-binary people are “beloved and cherished by God".

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@LaraRixon Also her reasoning was unsound. She said it isn't black and white, immediately followed by a black and white assertion.

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@MsEvilBee I married in 1975. I transitioned in 1998, partly because my wife told me I need to. We hade been married 43 years when she died. Love is love. Transition of one partner is hard, but love is love.

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@realDonaldTrump "The U.S. has secured the Oil" I bet it has. :(

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@UglaStefania Sigh...sorry I read it wrong. I read it as voting against a ban on conversion therapy. Ignore me. I am old. ☹️

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@joshparry @BBCNews I appreciate that it is your first day and you can't do everything first, but...you've replied to a few responses, but, as far as I can see, not to responses addressing BBC's transphobic position. Don't know if that is your choice or BBC instruction, but is *is* disappointing

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@RohanTheMajesty Next week's question: has there ever been a conjoined twin who transitioned, but their twin sibling didn't? We *need* to know the anwers to these important question, so we can find the slightest chink in the trans argument. Smh

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@IsobelSGray @ktwritesscifi Prostate. Uterus. Cervix. I suspect that there may other minor differences, too. But they don't ask question like do you have adenoids, tonsils, appendix, dextrocardia, pacemaker, atypical chromosomes or any of a load of other assumptions they should not make.

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@jk_rowling @grahnort Quote tweeting your reply, instead of, you know, simply reply. You are grandstanding. Classy. "You’ve compared feminists to Nazi eugenicists, Billy" I am guessing you mean he compared transphobes to... Given the number of them seemingly determined to elimate us, it's fair.

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@jk_rowling @NicolaSturgeon Nobody's rights are affected by the proposed legislation, except trans people. Many countries already have it, including Ireland since 2015. Show me your evidence of any systemic issues arising in those countries. Without evidence, your post is bigotry and nothing more.

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@SydneyLWatson Yes. Luckily that is still true today. And trans men (a separate issue) still need hormones (for a variety of reasons). What you are doing here is dogwhistling and demonstrating a lack of knowledge of trans issues both at the same time. Bravo. <slow hand clap>

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"“Yeah, sure. We have biological women and we have trans women. And they’re both women: one is a biological woman through sex, and one is a trans woman who has transitioned. Most of the public can get that.”"

Angela Rayner on roots, rough edges and being ready for power: ‘You can’t go through the childhood...

She’s blunt, bolshie and terrifies the Tories. But if Labour gets into government, the deputy leader will be one of the most powerful women in Britain. Bring it on, she says

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To restate...the LGB Alliance is not pro LGB. It is mainly anti-T, but it is no friend of LGB either. They are a complete dog's dinner. Apart from hate, I don't really know what they do stand for.

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@speakoutsister "Puberty blockers and hormones were given to children as young as 12" Well, there isn't much point to PBs after age 18...

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@JolyonMaugham This is how far the Times has slipped into the mire in recent years. A sad demise for a once august news organ.

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@JolyonMaugham Also, irrespective of someone's transphobia, the NHS is under a duty to treat within 18 weeks. Trans people are waiting much longer than that just for the first referral.

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@ThatOldCoyote Less than 1% of trans people are regrettors. Several studies show this.

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I think I struck a nerve.

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@10DowningStreet What a ridiculous pitch. If you want the public to do something, you need to be very specific and very clear. I have no fucking idea what you expect people to do in response to this. So I predict by the end of the week, you won't be able to tell we are in lockdown

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@hannahsbee We are back to how it was before PBs, which was to be prescribed hormones without blockers. If you think this is worse, well, then it is collectively your fault. If you do not understand the problem, leave it to people who do understand it.

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@EmmaBatemanGPW @karamantha @TransLibertyUK @PeterGBarnett @FondOfBeetles Yay, reducing women to their ability to have children...how very patriarchal!!

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@Saeko_Cut Also...he has no time for people who use the death of children for gain, as he uses the death of his own child for gain.

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@transscribe @christineburns Yes, this absolutely what the Stonewall riot was about...building bridges.

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@doublehelix Vandalism which could possibly interfere with treating patients.

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@WWWheesht I can see why they don't think you align with their values. Because you don't. Unanimous decision, too. Got to be honest, you do more harm than good wherever you go.

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@legalfeminist PS You display your ideological position every time you use an honorific, talk about your family or church, or politics or Point is, you do all the time, but you just don't realise you are doing it.

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@RohanTheMajesty Has Joyce told JKR that she is too old for sex?

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@NorthumbriaIWW @MAAmaea The big lie is trans women are men?? Or did I mishear?

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@AnnMSinnott You would have thought that the owners of the toilet would have the tools to remove the existing door sign. "Is this fair?" is probably less important than "Did this actually happen?" But then, you are more about stirring it up than fact checking, I think.

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As a trans woman NB, I want to apologise to the queer community (LGBT+) and trans allies for them being dragged into the trans war. At the same time, I want to express my deep gratitude and love for all the support you have shown. Solidarity!

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@DrRosena I stand corrected...thank you for your response.

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This is awesome and unequivocal.

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@KagaNews I didn't use any. Report away.

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@mimmymum As an aside, look how easily the writer slid into using they/them

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@AllyFogg Ch4 should invite both, but not tell Javid. Then "You thought this interview was just for you, but here, all the way from Hayes, is John McDonnell. Sajid Javid, This is Your Life!"

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@BadWritingTakes I notice that both her thumbs are hidden. This is a very clear indication of her vile hatred of hitchhikers. How dare she!!!!

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@Grosdoriane Yeah, using "IQ" is clickbait. It is poor defined and questionable even when applied to adults. However, I can easily believe that cognitive development has been slowed down...babies will have been less time outside the house and will have had fewer interactions with people.

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@kittypurrzog You can, of course, evidence this implausible claim? I mean...you can, can't you? Because, I am pretty up to date and I haven't seen or heard anything this ridiculous. So...time for you to be the adult in room and produce something to back it up.

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@GdnPolitics Trans people have been calling for that for months. Keir "Sit on the fence" Starmer. Let it be evidence led talks. If trans people are threat, then produce robust academic evidence to support the claim. (News outlets sell conflict/drama...they not safe evidence)

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@ChaelaT182 @KatyMontgomerie My day was 50s & 60s...no one was coming out in my schools. Post school, I had a couple for friends come out as gay. Trans people were still not coming out, back then, but I can think of a couple of candidates...and me, of course.

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@Alyss_Turner @synthwashere Tall women, short women, fat women, thin women, cis women, trans women. Adjective qualifying a noun. Rather than a noun in its own right, and therefore separate from women.

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@helenstaniland Sounds implausible.

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@sharrond62 I think you mean loathe. Loath means reluctant. Me, I hate people who are not evidence led before deciding to embark on a campaign of hatred. But that is just me. Not you, obvs.

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@Keir_Starmer It has never been my "identity". I am 71. Over the years I have become less proud of being either English or British. It got to the stage when I apologised for being English when travelling in Europe. You are too much of a tory to turn that around.

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@Emmy_Zje "“I hate the idea we are fighting between ourselves,” the gender-fluid comic says." Then stop doing it. You are part of the problem, not solution.

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@southoxheymoron @Nadjdaniela @AdamBienkov @billybragg Before the GE, I had two tory voters tell me, "I know he is a complete liar, but he is still better than <insert Corbyn smear here>"

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Priya is being attacked by Sarah Vine, David Vance and others tweeting fake photos. This encourages more of the same. Twitter really *really* needs to suspend these accounts...they are an incitement to violence

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I understand that there are laminated photos of me throughout Cambridge city now attacking me. This is responsibility of Sarah Vine, David Vance and others. If something happens to me, please hold them to account.

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@iamandrewthomas Happy people make you sad? Ok

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@shonfaye "Quality journalism" and "Sunday Times" are not expressions that I am used to seeing in the same sentence

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@jk_rowling To keep this in proportion, a twitter thread dismantling the untruth and errors of your essay had nearly 140k likes and 53k retweets.

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@chrizzlefur @Rob0hlson @KingsleyCortes "Christian...Anti-Woke" If you are "anti woke", you cannot be Christian. Jesus was famously woke. So...your judgement is badly flawed and can be ignored. It's a really terrible post all round, really...I can't see anything in it that is right.

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@MKellyWrites @IronbearJones @TysStuff @bindelj Google wet nurse.

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@MGallacherMSP 7 years. Several consultations. Manifesto commitment. But "rushed". Sure it is. Smh

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@KDansky JK and the rest of GCs,TERFs and transphobes created an environment in which this kind of tragedy happens. There is no getting away from that trans hate crime has soared in the last 8 years, coinciding exactly with the launch of TERFism. Media play a large part too

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@AidanCTweets @jk_rowling Is that the same psychiatrist who had no clinical contact with trans patients?

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@legalfeminist So...it is between supporting people who cannot help being who they are and being generally polite and pleasant and people who make a choice to be haters. 'Tis a hard choice and no mistake. lol

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@KatyMontgomerie @GCAbleism158 Quite apart from the hate, it's terrifying to see just how many are incapable of anything remotely resembling logical thought.

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@ejrosetta @PinkNews Thank you for the compliment. You made a predatory comment trying police both the identity and sexual orientation of someone else, rather than let them make their own decisions. I called it out...not all predators are men, it seems. You reply with a bizarre swipe at me. /shrug

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@BevJacksonAuth "Richards, a male who identifies as a woman" This was the point that removed any credibility as an informed, objective, rational piece. Come back when you can debate like an adult.

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@LetruneInedil How fragile does one have to be to talk in terms of "takeover" by 5% of the popn?

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@epistemophagy @doublehelix The recommendation system is already messed up. Melon said he wanted Twitter to be like the town square. The town square doesn't interrupt your day to give you recommendations. Twitter has a list of more than 500 topics that I am "interested in". I am not.

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@davidkurten The only man I can see is the bald guy bottom right...and I don't think baldness is a crime yet, luckily for you.

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@krishgm Avoiding the question, attacking the person, tory playbook

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@LaurenGNC_Butch Your entire story could equally have written by a trans person. Do you have a point?

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@drmeenalviz @Agitate4Change The media, the tories, they control the narrative. They win because, for us, truth matters, integrity matters, principles matter. And they don't have that burden

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@Docstockk Why *should* they involve their offspring? Are you aware that trans offspring often have transphobic parents? And having trans offspring does not automatically make one trans supportive. Your powers of reason often seem somewhat lacking, as here.

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@AidanCTweets Asking people how they want to be addressed is nothing new...I have been asked for Mrs/Miss/Ms/Mr/Dr/other for as long as I have been filling in forms. (Mind you, "Ms" was a bit controversial for a while - remember the sky falling in?)

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@LGBwiththeT The regret rate for having children is around 8%. GRS is hugely successful

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