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For the millionth time. Pronouns don't make men into women.

@ChantelleA33696 @maybe_ellen @jk_rowling @jayayf @KatHighsmith @KirstiMiller30 @thetimes Except everyone knows that JK Rowling believes in biological reality.

@maybe_ellen @jk_rowling @jayayf @KatHighsmith @KirstiMiller30 @thetimes Why would I accept a belief over biological reality?

I wrote this in @thetimes in 2022: “Rarely in politics is it easy to draw a direct line from a single policy decision to the harm it’s done, but in this case, it will be simple. If any woman or girl suffers voyeurism, sexual harassment, assault or rape in consequence of the Scottish government’s lax new rules, the blame will rest squarely with those at Holyrood who ignored safeguarding experts and women’s campaigners.” We knew women and girls were being placed in danger, we knew the Scottish government was planning to introduce measures that would make those dangers more acute, but women trying to make the government listen to their well-evidenced concerns were described by Sturgeon in her turgid memoir as ‘hysterical.’ thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

@kinsellawarren Do you think that minors are being given surgeries that put their sexual function at risk is a side issue?

This woman is a telegenic loon. People are worried about affordability, housing, crime. She wants to talk about bathrooms. #bcpoli

@DarrenJohnson66 @Layo_FH Polanski wrote for "Liberal Democrat Voice" which takes a hard line position in favor of gender identity ideology so don't be too sure. Not everyone who writes for them is so extreme but don't assume he was a a normie left-liberal when he was a LibDem

@Layo_FH The weird thing is, he didn't need to go down this route. For Corbyn it was a lifetime mission but with Polanski he came into Greens as a normie left-liberal and that was how he operated. Given how uninspiring his opponents in the leadership contest were, he'd have won anyway.

@smolcitizen Calling people a moron does not win people over. (It is also unlikely to be true - it is precisely people of high intelligence most able to convince themselves of an ideology that is so detached from reality.)

Imagine being this much of a moron. This woman is doing everything she can to raise awareness of the unfairness women are facing in sports, and absolute knobbers like this fool are doing mental gymnastics to try and convince people that she is somehow the problem?! Idiot.

Today we're celebrating a win for academic freedom in England. If you're wondering why universities lost sight of such a foundational value in the last ten years, I'd recommend watching this documentary. It features powerful interviews with @Docstockk and @hoovlet (And, for the eagle-eyed, footage of the UCL Women's Liberation WPUK 2020 conference protestors. #TheresNoCisInTeam!) bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

@katlianik Nothing about free speech, nothing about rejoining the EU, nothing about the reality of sex, nothing about climate change? Meaningless.

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Zach Polanski is closely linked to STW UK, which serves as a Russian propaganda mouthpiece, constantly trying to undermine British support for Ukraine. It talks about a proxy war, which is a Russian imperialist propaganda meme designed to make Ukrainians look like witless puppets of the West. Russian TV tells the real genocidal truth about the invasion to its Russian audience. It talks about wiping Ukrainian cities off the face of the Earth and drowning Ukrainian children. Russia's goal in Ukraine is the extermination of the Ukrainian people, nation, language, culture and history. When Putin talks about denazification he means the eradication of Ukrainian identity, because for Russia, Nazis are people in what it regards as Russian territory who refuse to be Russian.

They think a man in a miniskirt is wrong because it disgusts them. Yet they know that’s irrational & not condemnable in a society that defends personal liberties. So they flippantly include “his balls are hanging out” because that is condemnable (though not actually happening).

@RayAlexWilliams Religions are ideologies like any other. They need to stand on their own feet in the market place of ideas. If there is no free speech to criticize religions there is no free speech.

Sorry, no, but there is no such thing as an intrinsic human right to blaspheme against the God of the Universe. That would be a misuse of human freedom.

@HairyLeggdHarpy @ipa1869 The difference is that in that case it's being enforced and the enforcement is rooted in a belief that transwomen are actually women.

@dejvid3 @ipa1869 Does anyone see pronouns as the 'key' fight - and by that I mean the most important one ABOVE all others, rather than an important one AMONGST others? I think she does feel pronouns matter - a lot 👇🏼

Here's what I think. JKR would vehemently defend my right to call her mate 'he'. She'd understand why I make that choice. I also reckon that if anyone said I was a proper meanie for doing it, she'd eviscerate them. Am I wrong?

Europe needs military unity and the political unity required to wield and fund unified armed forces. Europe must be able to not just defend itself but project its force around the world to defend its strategic interests. It's a job we've handed to the USA, and look what a mess that has landed us in, and currently we have absolutely no means of influencing the situation. It's pathetic and self-defeating. Would Putin have invaded Ukraine if faced with unified European armed forces? I very much doubt it.

@HairyLeggdHarpy @ipa1869 It isn't inconsistency. She doesn't see pronouns as the key fight. People say lots of things that aren't actually true to be nice and this is no different. That she never loses sight of biological reality continues to be clear.

@ipa1869 I think she's admitting her own inconsistency as the price she pays for her friendship with this man.

Unfortunately Hegseth is right. Europe needs the Strait of Hormuz much more than the USA does. Europe is incapable of protecting its vital strategic interests. That situation will continue until Europe bites the bullet and forms a European military with a President or PM with the powers to lead it and with the Parliament having the power to fund it. A European military would be one of the world's three most powerful military forces. If it had existed in 2014 or 2022, Putin wouldn't have dared invade Ukraine. That is why Russia's little helpers like Farage virulently oppose a European army.

@murphystanacc No one is offended by trans-identifying people taking part in any sporting event. Sport is healthy and they should be encouraged to take part - in the correct sex category. Subjective “gender identity” should have no bearing on sports classification.

@crazypuce @RayAlexWilliams Alcohol destroys your liver. Dressing in clothes that are not usual for your sex does not damage your health. Not remotely the same.

@RayAlexWilliams You sound like an alcoholic trying to justify why he is going back to drinking after attempting to sober up for a minute.

As some have predicted, trying to repress my AGP has not worked, even with the Catholicism. It has been a constant struggle. I'm tired of battling my own desires. I want to go back to integration and crossdressing. I don't know how to square this with my faith. But I don't care anymore. Repression doesn't work. It just led to endless binge/purge cycles. I gave repression my absolute best shot. But I cannot do it anymore. AGP is a core part of me. There's obviously the sexual kinky side, which I enjoy, but there's also the side of me that just genuinely enjoys more "feminine" interests like women's fashion, makeup, beauty, skincare, etc., and wants to openly incorporate these interests into my life and how I present myself, whereas as a "conservative Catholic detrans man" those forms of expression were not available to me. I have no interest in re-transitioning via a gender identity or adopting new pronouns again or anything like that. I am firm in my knowledge of being a man. Been there done that. Neverthless, I see a future where I am free to crossdress to my heart's content and embrace my sexuality. I simply love women's clothing and fashion too much. My whole life I've loved women's clothes. I don't know why. Can't explain it. But a future deprived of that seems bleak to me. I know some of my more GC oriented followers are going to bristle at the thought of me once again bringing my fetish "out of the bedroom." But I don't really care what GCs think anymore. My once hardline GC position has somewhat softened, especially insofar as it concerns AGPs expressing themselves publicly. I don't really care if it's considered "shameful" or "perverted" by some. Moreover, I still believe in common sense. Haven't changed my mind on sports, child transition, basic reality, etc. But I feel like I am reverting back to a more "liberal" position of letting people express themselves so long as other people's rights are being protected, even if there is a degree of "ick" from male sexuality. And I've come to realize 99% of the philosophical debate around "are trans women women" is verbal dispute, like almost all philosophical debate over the meaning of words. It obviously has real-world implications that are important, but the philosophical debate itself doesn't interest me anymore. Nor do I feel myself aligned with GCs against trans as this all-encompassing civilization-ending boogeyman that sucks up all my time and energy. I've grown tired of the whole GC debate. Some will say this is now just obviously self-serving. But, again, I have stopped caring about what GCs think. Last, I want to address the accusation that I am a flip-flopping, flighty, unstable zealot who goes from one extreme thing to the next looking for an emotional crutch. Yeah, pretty much, lol. I got called out accurately. Everyone who predicted Catholicism was a temporary crutch to cope with my gender feelings can now feel vindicated. However, I do want to say that my faith beliefs were genuine. It was all genuine. It really was a struggle. It really was a beautiful journey. And I still consider myself Catholic. I still believe in God. Obviously, I don't know how to square my newfound liberal convictions with conservative Catholicism. But I will square that circle later (somehow, maybe).

@Women___Exist @RayAlexWilliams Being a man or a woman is a biological reality not an identity and the clothes people wear is not a threat to that.

@RayAlexWilliams Women are fully-embodied FEMALE human beings, not objects to get you off, not a costume you can wear. You dehumanize women. Go get therapy to stop the porn and deal with your obsession, your compulsion. You are not your thoughts; you are capable of controlling them.

@RayAlexWilliams For what it's worth, I think people like you can say you're AGP and are going to dress as you wish but don't think that gives you the right to women only spaces are of immense value in the fight against gender identity ideology notwithstanding how the Ultras can't see it.

@Warlock_Mildon @bundle4 @Valentine40kCV @SaraHigdon Why should JK Rowling be polite about India Willoughby when India Willoughby is so hostile to her?

@bundle4 @Valentine40kCV @SaraHigdon Calling Imane Khelif a man without any evidence... and framing her as a 'woman beater' Calling India Willoughby a 'a man revelling in his misogynistic performance of what he thinks 'woman' means: narcissistic, shallow and exhibitionist.' Thats just lies and insults

The fact that J.K. Rowling has been deemed hateful is insanity to me. She holds perfectly reasonable views on gender issues, which we may disagree on some solutions, but that doesn’t make her hateful. And I adore her for always speaking her mind regardless of who it upsets, because the post below, is going to anger a lot in the rad fem movement, but it’s a position she has held from the beginning of all this…