Paul Milnes 🇺🇦

No-one - absolutely no-one - is ever "assigned a gender at birth". It's just nonsense.

@datadriven_tdoc @AraucariaArauc1 @RayAlexWilliams What do you mean ‘treated as women’?

My issue is those who consider themselves the first category will never, ever call out the other two. Those you know are simply perverts. Which puts you all in the same category is every other male. Not all men are predators, not all men are dangerous, but we keep all of them out of female only spaces, because we don't know which is which simply by looking. When you figure that out, get back to us.

@datadriven_tdoc @RayAlexWilliams And as a practical matter, the concept of "anyone who identifies as a woman" is just too distant from "biological woman" to replace it. IMO it's counterproductive, because people will inevitably adopt a new term for the latter, in a similar process to the euphemism treadmill.

@datadriven_tdoc @RayAlexWilliams But I object to language changes that attempt to hide or deny reality, that aim to make certain concepts unthinkable or unspeakable. The trans movement clearly has/is trying to do this by stigmatising or coopting any term that might be used for biological/birth sex.

@RayAlexWilliams ... and to present opposing arguments. These things are anathema to transactivists; "No debate!" is their rallying cry and it serves to show clearly how weak and unsupportable they know their position to be. There is still much to do, so don't expect #JustBeKind any time soon.

@RayAlexWilliams ... in which this kind of tribalism was bound to happen to some extent. No-one I know on the GC side is ideologically bound to the point of refusing to debate anyone; even if they're solid in their convictions and won't change them, they're still willing to listen, to explain...

The heterodox gender critical movement I once considered myself to be a part of has become rigid and ideological rather than curious and open minded. It’s become tribal and political . Reduced to talking points. It’s become mean. Disconnected from the lived experience of actual transsexuals. It’s become overly focused on verbal semantics. Its philosophical assumptions as a worldview often remain unexamined. It’s become tied to chuddism and right wing ideology and MAGA influencing. It’s become overly prescriptive. It seems to be advocating more and more for big government to insert itself into the lives of normal people. It too often plays off disgust of troons. It unfairly demonizes autosexuality and is reductionistic about why people transition. It’s become overly confident in its own pet theories concerning the psychology of trans people. Which is not to say the super woke progressive radical self-ID intersectional feminist “trans women are women” trans activism side of things doesn’t have its own problems. But having been deeply involved in both sides of the debate for over a decade, my position now is that the gender critical movement was a necessary corrective to the excesses of the 2010s trans movement but now it’s gone way too far and we need to return to more centrist, common sense views that starts with the premise that being trans is not intrinsically terrible and transition is not always a bad thing and we ought to try to accommodate trans people into society and medical autonomy is a good thing and that 100% strict sex-based binary restrictions will never be practical or enforceable given the reality that transsexuals exist and always will exist regardless of any attempt to legislate them out of public existence.

@KaskaJessica No he didn't, you numoty. It was you lot who did that, with your bizarre anti-science fantasies and your viciously misogynist, homophobic reaction to anything that goes against your creed.

Linehan destroyed his own career.

As much as I love watching Webberley being roasted, I will be much happier when she is behind bars.

When women see a man in a public women's toilet, we see a man where no man should be. Not a gender identity. When women see a man with an infant sucking on his nipples, we see a man doing something no man should do. Not a gender identity. When women see a man running in a women's event, we see a man competing where no man compete. Not a gender identity. When women are punished by the state for speaking out against it, we suffer tyranny and institutionalised misogyny.

For decades ped°philic men have been looking for a way to normalise their depravity to children... They've found it at Pride parades...naked men parading in front of children... Evil is real...and it wears the colours of transgenderism...

Apparently we need to remind the world of the Nuremberg Code. These 10 principles were developed after the Doctors’ Trial to ensure ethical research involving human participants. 1. Voluntary informed consent is essential. Participants must freely choose to take part, have legal capacity to consent, and understand the nature, purpose, risks, and benefits of the research. 2. The research must have genuine social value. It should aim to produce important knowledge that cannot be obtained by other means. 3. The study should be based on prior evidence. Animal experiments and existing scientific knowledge should justify proceeding to human research. 4. Unnecessary suffering must be avoided. Researchers should minimise physical and mental harm. 5. No experiment should be conducted if death or disabling injury is expected, except perhaps where the researchers themselves also serve as participants. 6. Risks must be proportionate to the humanitarian importance of the problem. The greater the risk, the stronger the justification required. 7. Adequate preparations and safeguards must be in place to protect participants against injury, disability, or death. 8. Only scientifically qualified researchers should conduct the study, exercising the highest level of skill and care. 9. Participants may withdraw at any time if they no longer wish to continue. 10. Researchers must stop the experiment if continuing is likely to result in injury, disability, or death. The first principle - voluntary, informed consent- is generally regarded as the cornerstone of the Code.

Museum of Edinburgh has an exhibition Past Shelves: Histories of Queer Reading. It comprehensively erases lesbians by referring throughout to "LGBTQ+" (which hadn't even been invented yet.) We've written to complain and told them why their use of activist language erases lesbians and denies the existence of lesbian community and culture. Language matters.

It has been confirmed that @RoisinMichaux's account has been hacked. Probably best to completely ignore the account until we know it has been fully recovered by Roisin. Do not open any DMs and definitely don't click on any links. Stay safe!

A male member of @TheGreenParty has proposed motion A7 to give " workers who menstruate" 3 days menstrual leave per month. His language erases women as the female sex class and turns our biology and life force into a pathology. Its also unworkable. glosswitch.substack.com/p/how-would-yo…

Our support goes to Professor Riittakerttu Kaltiala and her Finnish colleagues after they were publicly targeted at Helsinki Pride last weekend. A banner saying "Down with Kaltiala" and "To Hell with Tuisku, Kettula, Ruuska and Heino" was displayed because these researchers have produced evidence that challenges activist claims about "gender-affirming care". We stand with them in their courageous defence of evidence-based medicine, scientific integrity and the wellbeing of children and young people.

I can't believe what I just read. This is what the pædophile said when asked how young he liked them: "The younger the better." This is Jamie Smith, 21, from Christchurch, who was supported in court by his parents, aunt and uncle, who all pleaded for clemency! Despite hoarding hundreds of indecent images, including babies and material in the worst categories, the judge described him as having been "extremely stressed" and said he had behaved "stupidly." Excuse me? What about the children whose abuse he was happily consuming? The judge even admitted he would ordinarily have received an immediate prison sentence. Instead, this cretin who pleaded guilty is walking free. This is shocking leniency. I'll be submitting a request for an Unduly Lenient Sentence review. Details and link in the comments. ⬇️ I'm sick of seeing this pattern. It feels like perpetrators of the most depraved crimes are treated with kindness while minor offences such as sending spicy tweets or throwing stones at a protest see people locked up. This is normalising child sexual abuse material offending and undermines justice for victims. It's disgraceful.

This was the scene in a Bangladeshi medical school as Islamic militants stormed classrooms, weapons in hand, screaming that “Educating women is haram!” It’s not an Arab thing. It’s not a cultural issue. The problem is Islam, wherever it goes.

Just realised today is the 11 year anniversary of my Dad dying. Normally I would talk about his life, which was filled at the seams but I’m suddenly remembering that he was resuscitated a few weeks before his death, and what he said about that. He said he was sorry for it because the garden he’d found himself in had been SO beautiful. He said he wanted to stay there. So I hope he’s there now. The day before he died he was talking about finally seeing his own Dad again, who he’d lost when he was in his early twenties. And my Dad wasn’t a man who believed in life after death. But somehow he believed his Dad would be with him again soon. The idea that those we love might come for us at the end is comforting to me. And the idea of his own Dad reaching out his hand to mine, at the last, puts a bittersweet break in my heart to think about. I was 27 when he died and in keeping with his wishes his hearse was pulled by horses. They held up traffic for miles and nearly an hour. My Dad would have found that highly entertaining. The man steering them was ancient and impressive, and he had eyes so remarkably like the ocean they were mesmerising. I think I was barely a sane person for a year afterwards but then life creeps back, like the tide, and brings its hopes with it. I’ve lived a lot in those eleven years. I think he’d be proud which is what seems to matter most on days like today. Grief is heavy but always a sign that what was lost had irreplaceable value, so I know I’m very lucky. Some people don’t have such treasures to begin with. Anyway, here is, still, my favourite photograph of us ever taken

@PokerNews @WSOP He is a cheating man, literally stealing the prize money from the women. Shame on you.