Holly Lawford-Smith

ICYMI -- all twelve lectures for THE PHILOSOPHY OF FEMINISM are now available @ my Y/T channel 👇🏼

@alexrubner @byrne_a @OxUniPress guilt by association only when it suits them 🙄

@byrne_a @OxUniPress Why would Cosker-Rowland be willing to publish with the same publisher who'd published the woman he smeared as a Nazi?

I was invited to review an @OxUniPress book on gender identity for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. You’ll never guess what happened next. 👇

@byrne_a the graphic 😂

Book reviews by philosophers, notoriously, can be scathing, but a sober review of a book on gender identity by the MIT philosopher (and Academic Freedom Council co-founder) Alex Byrne was deemed too dangerous to print. "The philosophy profession has shown itself to be an institution of fragile integrity when put to the test. One can only hope spines will eventually stiffen, and academic law and order is restored." philosophersmag.com/on-being-rejec…

@dioscuri what the hell!

Clue: he was just assassinated by Israel - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Larij…

There is no fucking way you’d ever guess whose Wikipedia page this is from.

@genspect wait, what is happening tomorrow? i hope there's not something i'm meant to be doing that i've forgotten 😂

Don’t miss out on tomorrow’s Gender Framework chapter preview, by philosopher Professor Holly Lawford-Smith (@aytchellesse)! In Chapter Ten, “Conflicts of Rights”, Holly analyses conflicts between biological sex and gender identity in relation to single sex spaces and services. Link below.⬇️

@michaelpforan @LabWomenDec did the cover guy think you meant sexual intercourse? 😂

The Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford is hosting a launch for 'Sex, Gender Identity, and the Law' Date: 14 May 2026 Time: 17.00-18.00 Venue: The Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Law, St Cross Building, Oxford Register here: law.ox.ac.uk/content/event/…

@j4ppleby @_ConnieShaw she's the OG in philosophy! ⭐

It's exactly 10 years since Rebecca Riley-Cooper's talk 'Critically Examining the doctrine of gender identity'. I was sure that if only everyone watched it the gender madness would be over in a week. Well. Enormous progress has been made, thanks especially to brave trailblazers like Rebecca. youtube.com/watch?v=QPVNxY…

Here's a link to the full video from the debate I had with Agustín Fuentes on March 6th about whether sex is binary: capture.udel.edu/media/+Debatin…

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@MichTin888 @salltweets @CarilynJohnson that's in the article.

@salltweets @CarilynJohnson @aytchellesse The Governor General of Australia, Sam Mostyn, is a patron of Equality Australia.

how is this not straight up corruption?

@allTheYud things are turning around though: ted lasso, shrinking, platonic...

But the greatest conflict is one between Good and other Good, that can divide even your readers; for the same reason that it's more exciting to watch a fight between Godzilla and Mothra than between two snails. Evil is weak as an argument; what conflict between Evil and Evil?

I wonder how much of Western civilization's collapse is downstream of writers and scriptwriters deciding they were too cool and sophisticated to write about good people doing good things.

@Kristiina_Vasa agreed. it's really worrying.

@aytchellesse That all over the West, governments are blithely ignoring and violating the law for trans, is the big worry. Our civilization is built on respect for the law. If law is ignored then there are no rights and whoever has power makes the rules. Chilling...

@ProfPParkinson @SenatorClaire if parliament authorised special treatment for the prime minister's favourite nephew would that not be corruption? at the very least, serious conflict of interest.

@aytchellesse I suppose the answer is that if Parliament authorises it, then by definition it cannot be corrupt. However, it is profoundly troubling. Will Labor next make donations to it tax-deductible while forbidding that status to other political parties? @SenatorClaire

@jdoyleDoyle1 @OakesMarianne i wonder what they mean by trans. it's probably true for some tiny proportion of today's trans cohort that feeling strongly that they are the other sex isn't a choice. but that feeling doesn't make them the other sex, and the no-choice narrative is irrelevant to all the rest.

@OakesMarianne Being skeptical that a man can literally be a woman is not a form of bigotry, & it blows my mind that people make this claim

Ain’t this the truth!!

@_davidlimbrick why is there never a conviction?! he should be convicted and then deported because of the conviction.

Libertarians were on the news again tonight. What do you think? Should the visa be cancelled?