@akuareindorf @EHRC Very impressive, and thank you.
I was particularly upset by his description of Falkner. As spiteful as he was wrong.
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AchyDiodes
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Responds well to marmalade.
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Responding to Ian Dunt's blog on the @EHRC Code of Practice turned out to be a big job. Here's Part 1 of my comments. More to follow when I've recovered my strength.
"THE EHRC CODE EXPLAINED": A RESPONSE TO IAN DUNT | Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/withinthel…
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@QcWynter I was trying to think of the right word. Scoundrel is fitting.
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When someone or a group of people is/are determined to avoid very simple truths, in this case "blokes are not women", the scoundrels amongst them resort to the wail, "it's so terribly complex".
It is not "complex".
It is simple.
It is just.
It is right.
It is fair.
It is law.
Colin Wynter KC@QcWynter
Nothing remotely "complex" about the ruling. For the slow, the dim-witted, the half-witted & the deeply stupid, they can head straight to the concluding passages of the judgment at paragraphs 277 et seq, which contain "the thrust" of the ruling. Lawyers can sort out the details.
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@Romy_Holland My kids are teens now, but my answer would’ve been the same as it would’ve been to a random stranger walking past who asked if they could hold either of my babies.
“No”
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some ppl walked by with their dog when i was sitting on the lawn with my baby today and they were like “oh she loves babies can she come say hi?”
i don’t actually know much about dogs and previously might have agreed so that my baby could have an animal encounter, but the first thing i did was identify pit bull features and then i was like “only from that distance!” and honestly i kinda just wanted to take my baby inside after that.
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AchyDiodes retweeté
We'd like to thank all those who have worked on prisons here and across the UK, raising awareness and being a voice for the vulnerable women in jail. If we try to name check you all, we will miss someone, but special thanks are due to Kate Coleman who spent many hours engaging with politicians and talking to the women in prison.
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AchyDiodes retweeté
📢📢 Judgement Day!📢📢
FWS wins in the Outer House of the Court of Session
For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers
Judicial Review of the Scottish Prison Service Policy for the Management of Transgender People in Custody Operational Guidance.
scotcourts.gov.uk/judgments/#/
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A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You Should Know…
It has not “peeked” your interest.
Nor has it “peaked” your interest.
…It has piqued your interest.
You are not “phased” by something.
You are fazed by it.
If you’ve had a long day, you are weary.
If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary.
It is “due course”, not “do course”.
“Per se”, not “per say”.
And while we’re here, it’s “could have”, not “could of”, but that particular battle may already be lost.
Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical housekeeping.
This has been a @LairdofthManor announcement.🎩💙
GIF
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@socfemoz @SVPhillimore You seem confused about the difference between oppression and equity.
Presumably you think we should also remove all provision for disabled people in the UK because in the past we used to lock them away?
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@SVPhillimore I'm just imagining TERFs going to Nepal and fighting for women's rights by demanding more menstrual huts.🤣
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This is ahistoric nonsense. Women did not have 'sex based rights'. They were oppressed and rights NOT GIVEN TO THEM because of their sex.
They could not vote. They could not own property. They could not divorce. They could not keep custody of their children if their husband left them. They could not work after marriage. They were paid much less for the work they did that was the same as mens.
I had an interesting talk with some devout Christian friends who reminded me that the greatest trick that the Devil ever played was persuading people he didn't exist.
This kind of nonsense is so audacious, I have to give it some grudging respect.
Kylie Maree@socfemoz
Dear TERF's Once upon a time, before sex discrimination was made unlawful, Women (& men) had 'sex based rights' & 'single sex spaces'. It didn't work out too well for the women.
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@FrankGaIton @ZacGoldsmith @Joyhenderson78 It’s bollocks. His evidence is a confession extracted under torture by the Iraqi policy, a statement from his mum’s mate who never kept his story straight, and the date of a bombing that Shlaim got wrong by an entire year (it actually happened *after* most Jews had left).
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@ZacGoldsmith @Joyhenderson78 MEE, 2023
Avi Shlaim says he has 'proof of Zionist involvement' in 1950s attack on Iraqi Jews
British-Israeli historian claims in new memoir that Mossad carried out bombings to drive Jews out of Iraq and hasten their transfer to Israel.
middleeasteye.net/news/avi-shlai…
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There are roughly 60–80 times more Muslims in Israel than there are Jews in the ENTIRE Muslim world outside Israel.
But yes, ‘apartheid’
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan
"Gwyneth Paltrow Deserves Every Bit of the Hate She's Getting Over Her Israel Ad" Even in the celebrity-filled universe of cowardice, Paltrow selling apartments in an apartheid state is beyond the pale. zeteo.com/p/gwyneth-palt…
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@russellhill20 @shawarmawarma @skedeschi Shlaim evidence is really weak even if you don’t consider that he got the date of the main bombing wrong by a year.
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@shawarmawarma @skedeschi I want to apologise because I was only addressing the Palestinian segment of the original post but I stand by that statement!
But Baghdad is a whole different issue why Jews did a runner!⬇️⬇️⬇️
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No Arab state has ever existed in history, nor exists now, where Jews have equal rights. Jews are explicitly denied equal rights in the Arab Human Rights Charter. Palestinian territories do not now, nor have they ever, even allowed Jews to live there- or even safely visit.
Ted Rall, America's BS Detector@TedRall
There is zero evidence that a Palestinian state would not allow Jews to live there.
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@Mycroft_Smart1 @LegacyMediaFail You could write it in 10m letters of fire and you’d still be wrong.
You’re talking about people so distressed by their own bodies that they want to cut bits off them.
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@LegacyMediaFail Nope, being trans isn't a mental illness. I really can't use any simpler words than that. Would writing it in crayon help, perhaps?
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Go ahead. Prove it. Show me a legitimate medical textbook that says that being trans is a mental illness.
I’ll wait….
Vanessa Angel@av261202
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@JoshFG You appear to be using the same playbook that failed so spectacularly for the Democrats
It needs to sink in that you are *also* letting women down and in *more ways* than those you’re pointing the finger at
And of course you’re so oblivious you’ll be surprised when it backfires
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Among the flags that the Reform mayor of Calderdale has decided to stop flying is the flag for white ribbon day on to commemorate victims of male violence against women.
White Ribbon UK are a charity founded in Calderdale who encourage men to stand against male violence against women. Around 2 women a week are killed by their partners. So I would ask councillor Andrew Tagg to consider the decision not to support Calderdale’s women again. halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/politics/…
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@AberrantThe @DollyGreyCloud …she’s become so muddled that she’d accuse others of seeing Arabs as “interchangeable widgets” while simultaneously excusing the persecution of Jews because of what other Jews did.
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@AberrantThe @DollyGreyCloud I don’t know about that, but I followed her for years and actually thought she was nothing short of brilliant for her “Terf Wars” stuff.
It’s upsetting to see someone who gave me some incredibly valuable insights disappear into racism like this. And I’m genuinely astonished…
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Exactly this. I can't now respond to JCJ as she has blocked me. She doesn't like her left-wing mantras being questioned...
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@janeclarejones @DollyGreyCloud @MattMcCann1976 Given your main point appears to be that Palestinians should have some sort of restitution for the Nakba, it’s surprising that when considering the persecution and expulsion of Jews from across the Arab/Muslim world (who weren’t involved in the 1948 war but would be…
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@colwight I don’t know if it’s worse than other countries, but I wouldn’t be surprised because it really seems utterly entrenched here in the UK.
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Another apology. But what strikes me about all this is just how much the middle classes in the UK look down on the working class. And that goes equally from those born working class and who become middle class.
Iain Macwhirter@iainmacwhirter
This hasn't aged well. I swallowed Police Scotland spin about "misinformation" being spread about an incident where "a Bulgarian couple were approached by youths". In fact, was the one assaulted and verbally abused by the Bulgarian couple. Sorry Sophie from Dundee But all credit to Dundee Sheriff Court for getting to the truth.
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@DannyBeales The EHRC Code of Practice says that gay men and lesbian women have the right form organisations.
Is that not a good thing?
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LGBT+ people deserve to be able to live freely and safely.
I don't believe the EHRC's guidance is helping to make that possible.
My statement on why I've signed EDM 240 to stand up for trans people in my constituency and across the UK.
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@DollyGreyCloud I stopped replying when she said
“I've stopped listening now to your justificatons for why it was actually okay to displace quarter a million people and they should just get over it fyi”
But for obvious reasons her dismissive comment about the expulsion of Jews kept bothering me
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@61harpy @GyllKing Your argument is that cos one right based on a certain characteristic is bad then all rights based on that characteristic are bad.
I’m saying you’re wrong, cos such rights might exist to increase equality, not entrench inequality. This is in fact the basis of the Equality Act.
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They talk about ‘sex based rights’ because they don’t actually support women’s equality rights at all: An awful lot of anti trans women are simply hard right Tories who struggle with change & young people & just can’t bear the idea of other people having nice things.
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@janeclarejones @DollyGreyCloud @MattMcCann1976 …providing that restitution) your response is to wave it away with what amounts to ‘But that was because of what those other Jews did’.
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@janeclarejones @DollyGreyCloud @MattMcCann1976 Given your main point appears to be that Palestinians should have some sort of restitution for the Nakba, it’s surprising that when considering the persecution and expulsion of Jews from across the Arab/Muslim world (who weren’t involved in the 1948 war but would be…
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You showed me a map of territory conquered by Muslims mostly a thousand odd years ago.
I have no idea what you think it proves.
Shall I show you a map of the territory of the British Empire at its height?
Is that the game we’re playing?
Dolly Grey Cloud TERF🎗💚🤍💜@DollyGreyCloud
@marcwalby @janeclarejones How these socialist/liberals refuse to recognise what is in front of their noses, even if we show them on a map, is really bizarre. Or cities have been turned to low trust immigrant hell holes, yet they stick their fingers in their ears and go la-la-la
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