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@WomenofSurrey A bunch of women forming a collective to charge men for their company online. Perfectly legal, though they’d probably make more money doing it on OnlyFans

So Surrey WI have launched their sisterhood sub group to circumnavigate the NFWI rules. They are marketing the group as part of the WI but without the membership fee. It is mind boggling how these women are bending over backwards to include men in a women only space. @WomensIns_Dec Can we challenge this?

@JeremiahDJohns Haha! Which ones have you started with?

I've started doing cryptic crosswords, and whenever I successfully solve a clue I kind of feel like I'm either Sherlock or I have crippling schizophrenia.

@sheebadigeebies ❤️💪

I should finally cut my parents off (my dad screamed abuse at me, to the point my 3 year old actually scolded him for it, and my dad’s response was lying to a literal baby’s face about what he’d just seen) but I have 0 emergency childcare for The Baby apart from them so idk

@letsjustfckngo @Lachlan_Edi @SalemThe5th Indeed:)

@fcqv @Lachlan_Edi @SalemThe5th That’s good. It’s honestly not that I think sports is the biggest issue surrounding this whole debate, but I do want my information to be accurate and preferably unbiased. It’s already hard enough as it is to find information without an agenda.

Neither Imane Khelif nor Caster Semenya are trans. They are male. It is not about hating or excluding trans people. It never has been. It is about respecting the female category. Always has been.

@letsjustfckngo @Lachlan_Edi @SalemThe5th Obviously the recent IOC policy was motivated by different drivers (specifically having to address 46,XY 5-ARD) and all sports are different, but the Rugby policy is still very useful because they were explicit about their scientific references

@letsjustfckngo @Lachlan_Edi @SalemThe5th NP. I am no expert, but the WR workshop included people with a wide range of views, and several of them are active on Twitter if you have any concrete questions

@ciphergoth @ClueCultComm @SarahTheHaider Thank you for the data point, and I’ll store it away for future reference, but it’s not particularly relevant to this thread

@fcqv @ClueCultComm @SarahTheHaider I have and she is.

Men, please don’t let yourself be blackpilled by the most abnormal women alive. You don’t actually want to be the kind of guy who really turns them on.

@brookelynn74 @Monika47384 What are you trying to do here? You keep repeating a claim (TWAW) but make no attempt to defend it rationally, and throw puerile insults at anyone who challenges it. Do you simply believe this as a faith-based religious belief?

@Monika47384 Fuck off, dick cheese.

I will never apologize for being mean to bigots. They need to be called out. It's the same theory as always punch the Nazi. This shit is not ok and I will not play nice and smile sweetly and pretend it is! #TransRightsAreHumanRights

@TimandraHarknes Surely you could have given more than 1 day notice? Oh…hang on😂

Starts with me going into prison - ends with an argument about butter.

How To Disagree One day left to listen to my series on having better arguments: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b…

@burritodog_ never worked out how to take a selfie

humans of twitter post the last selfie you took

@letsjustfckngo @Lachlan_Edi @SalemThe5th Some of the papers would probably now be superseded by more recent work (often by the same authors) but if the workshop were rerun, the overall conclusions would not change

@letsjustfckngo @Lachlan_Edi @SalemThe5th The top level summary is here: world.rugby/the-game/playe… And you can follow the links through to more detailed explanations such as this: world.rugby/the-game/playe…

@letsjustfckngo @Lachlan_Edi @SalemThe5th This is a common misunderstanding of fairness in sport. Jon Pike’s work in this area is a good place to start if you want to understand the actual meaning of fairness in sport

@Lachlan_Edi @fcqv @SalemThe5th I don’t claim to know more. I’m saying that if they would truly care about fairness, they would put in place measurable standards to ensure that fairness. If they don’t, it’s excluding trans people that they care about, not fairness.

@letsjustfckngo @Lachlan_Edi @SalemThe5th The World Rugby policy documents are worth reading as they explain the policy with full scientific references. The workshop was over 5 years ago and there’s been stronger evidence published since, but it’s a good place to start if you want to understand what you’re talking about

@fcqv @Lachlan_Edi @SalemThe5th Any aspect that you claim gives sex an unfair advantage over people of a different sex.

@thesundaysport You’re always ahead of the game on the sex arse front, so I assume it’s not that…

Mates messaging me to ask what Scott Mills did - 'you'll know, you work for a newspaper...' Lads, we've not had the inside track on any news story since Mark Oaten

@BerthonJeanMarc @Marina_Ferrari @ILGAWORLD @francediplo @fs_lgbt @stop_homophobie It’s sex testing, not femininity testing. Until you understand the difference between sex and gender, all of your opinions on this question are pretty much worthless

Following the attempt to rehabilitate Russia, the @IOC has now decided to exclude from the Olympic Games those with variations in sexual characteristics and to impose femininity tests on female athletes that contravene both the law and ethical principles. France, through its minister Marina Ferrari, has expressed its deep concern.

@letsjustfckngo @Lachlan_Edi @SalemThe5th Apart from sex, which of the other current agreed categories (age, weight, disability etc) do you want to replace with a different system?

@Lachlan_Edi @fcqv @SalemThe5th That’s all fine, but then don’t try to claim that it is about the unfair advantage, cause it isn’t about that. It’s clearly just because you can’t cope with people you don’t understand. Just say that.

@BradfemlyWalsh @grace_hawthorn My Dad has the same name problem, compounded by a) the fact that he does have dementia b) for bureaucratic reasons it’s not on his NHS notes, so they always think he must have had a stroke and c) the fact that I have the same first name. Like bloody Feydeau last time he was in😂

@grace_hawthorn She wrote his name on that the first day they did it and they don't bother. She said the way they're treating him has made her terrified to get older (she's 78, he's 85)

My elderly dad is in hospital fighting a nasty UTI. Every day, a nurse has spoken to my mum about his 'senility'. My dad is not senile. What's happening is that he's always been known by his middle name and they keep calling him by his first so he doesn't respond . FOR FUCKSAKE.

@anon_gencrit @ukvillafan @PeterTatchell Campaigning for gay rights in many countries around the world; fairly principled on free speech and opposed to no-platforming; consistent critic of Sharia. He’s certainly horrendously wrong on several other topics, especially women’s rights, but he’s no common or garden TRA fool

@fcqv @ukvillafan @PeterTatchell TBF I’ve never heard him be right about anything 🤷🏼‍♂️

Olympic ban on all trans women competing in women’s events is unjustified They’ve no unfair advantage if they’ve had hormone treatment It reduces muscle mass, bone density & physical strength & endurance. Their performance declines to that of ‘biological’ women Individual assessment. No blanket ban @TransLucent_Org @TransITCUK @Mams4Trans @Transgendertrd @TransgenderNews @TransActionBloc @TransPride @LDNtranspride @TransNewsDesk @Mermaids_Gender @BobbityP @TransYouth @transgreens @RuthDavidsonPC @hillarytaylorvi @ZackPolanski @TheGreenParty @rachelmillward @MothinAli @LgbtqIndia @BuzzFeedLGBTQ @lgbtiqa_greens @LGBTIQAGreenLon @LGBTIQRights @LindaRiley8 @DIVAmagazine @glaad @HRC @hilarypepper @CliffJoannou @benjaminbutter

@PeregrineT49351 @brookelynn74 @WitchyMcWitch @GirlScout27 @thefempire50 @mar2vickers @ForWomenScot @jk_rowling @sharrond62 Indeed:) Logically you can construct any number of non-circular definitions (e.g. “woman” means “a human being”; “woman” means “table” and “trans” means “wooden”) but they are not particularly useful for rational people🤣

@fcqv @brookelynn74 @WitchyMcWitch @GirlScout27 @thefempire50 @mar2vickers @ForWomenScot @jk_rowling @sharrond62 It doesn't have to be circular. They can be honest and admit that 'woman gender' is just 'femininity'. This does involve admitting they think butch lesbians aren't really women, so they tend to go with the circular approach. But we know what they actually THINK a woman is.

To all media… we are watching you closely. Misinformation, deliberate gaslighting, and ambiguous language is not excusable, you have been told relentlessly and very clearly by the IOC; the policy applies to males not being allowed in the female category, for integrity, safety, fairness and equality of opportunity of females in their category. It’s that’s simple. Feelings and personal identities have no place in sport, just biological reality.