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Unity of Opposites

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Communist, anti-imperialist and for the liberation of women and the working class.

Great Britain Katılım Nisan 2017
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Unity of Opposites
Unity of Opposites@unityofopposit·
I stand with the popular masses of Ukraine.
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Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧
Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧@JChimirie66677·
Ambition Before Duty. The Minister Who Put Her Career Ahead of the Law. Next Wednesday marks one year since the Supreme Court ruled, unanimously and without ambiguity, that sex under the Equality Act means biological sex. One year since the law was settled. One year since the Equality and Human Rights Commission drafted its code of practice setting out what that ruling requires of hospitals, schools, gyms and public bodies. One year since Bridget Phillipson received that code and chose to sit on it. What has changed in twelve months is not the law. The judgment stands. The code is ready. What has changed is the credibility of the minister charged with implementing it. Baroness Falkner, who led the EHRC until November and oversaw the drafting of that code, has now said plainly what many had suspected: Phillipson is withholding guidance not because it requires further work, but because publishing it would cost her politically. The activist MPs whose votes she needs for promotion would not forgive her. So women wait, and the minister keeps her powder dry (Martin, 2026). That is a specific accusation, made by a specific person with direct knowledge of the process. It is not a political opponent guessing at motive. Falkner submitted the code. She watched it stall. She knows what ready looks like, and she knows the guidance is ready. Her conclusion, that personal ambition is the operative factor, carries weight that no government spokesman can easily dismiss. The Labour response, that Falkner had demeaned the office she once held, did not address the substance. It attacked the witness. Which leaves the charge unanswered. Consider what the title Secretary of State for Women and Equalities actually represents. Not a departmental portfolio in the ordinary sense, but a stated commitment, a promise woven into the office itself. To hold that title while deliberately withholding the legal protections owed to the women you nominally represent is a contradiction so stark it requires no elaboration. The office makes the accusation. Falkner supplies the motive. The anniversary provides the measure. Falkner went further still, and her wider observation deserves to be heard. She drew a parallel with the grooming gangs scandal, noting that this government has a pattern of institutional inaction driven by fear of upsetting particular constituencies. The comparison is uncomfortable precisely because it is not new. The structure is familiar: a known problem, a clear remedy, a minister unwilling to act because the political cost of action outweighs, in their private calculation, the human cost of delay. Those doing the waiting are never the ministers. Starmer's position is untenable on its own terms. He told Parliament the ruling must be implemented in full. His minister is arguing for a case-by-case approach that restores the incoherence the court rejected. He is a lawyer. He knows what a unanimous Supreme Court judgment means. He also knows what his backbenchers want. The gap between those two things is where women's rights currently reside. The government's rebuttal speaks of sober leadership and treating everyone with dignity. Fine words. But dignity is not delivered by a code of practice that lives in a ministerial drawer. Protection is not real if it exists only in statute while the guidance that would make it operational is suppressed for career reasons. The court has done its work. The EHRC has done its work. One minister has not done hers. "Phillipson is withholding guidance not because it requires further work, but because publishing it would cost her politically."
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nyara@nyaraVT·
The more time passes the more DMs I get from people who fell for anti-trans propaganda, rejected their own trans identity.. and are much happier now after finally breaking free from these lies and transitioning
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Klutzy Dom (cisgayqueer) 🏴‍☠️
@babybeginner New York City has had trans inclusive bathrooms for more than two decades, and it has produced zero problems for anybody. This would be considered a violation of human rights laws where I'm from, which is civilized. Unlike idaho, where I've been.
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Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖
This is HUGE!! No longer do women have to be security guards of their own spaces. Idaho just passed a bill that has a misdemeanor up to a year on the first offense and up to five years for a second offense!! Women will be protected! Finally!! The text reads as follows: A person who "knowingly and willfully" enters a multi-occupancy restroom, locker room, or changing area designated for the opposite biological sex commits a misdemeanor on the first offense, punishable by up to one year in jail. - A second offense within five years escalates to a felony, with up to five years in prison.
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Toren 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
About Me Hi 👋 I’m Toren. Celtic born, Protestant Irish raised, with a dash of viking 🩸 Spiritual at my core, but shaped by a lineage of grit, and endurance. A bit about who I am: I live with C‑PTSD amongst other things and carry the weight of Child abuse /sexual assault survival, and I don’t hide it. I speak from trauma, not around it. My voice is shaped by lived experience, not theory. I’m a mental health advocate, an ex‑martial artist, a biochemist, a psych mind, and a child psych learner who blends science with spirit, logic with myth, and evidence with intuition. I’m extremely outspoken, not for shock, but for truth. I am also very blunt. Silence protects abusers. Voice protects survivors. I choose a voice every time. What I stand for: I’m a trans ally. loudly, unapologetically, and without negotiation. If that bothers you, unfollow me. No, Really! I’m not here to shrink for anyone’s comfort. Boring bit: Biochem 🧬|Psychology| Child Psych| CBT, DBT, REBT, EFT, TFT, NLP Fun Stuff: Lover of tattoos, books 📚, Audiobooks, films. #ChildAbuseSurvivor #RapeSurvivor #SurvivorVoice
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Torrin Wayne(He/Him)@HilllbillyHugs·
@mars11783 @helenstaniland Female and male are polysemous words. Chromosomes are not 100% sex determinative, and we dont use genotypic sex to assign sex at birth, we use phenotypic sex.
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Sall Grover
Sall Grover@salltweets·
Men are 50% of the population and multiple men have melded in the women’s Olympics category. That’s the issue. It’s not about “trans”. It’s about MEN. You & the media are equating the ban on men in the womens category to “transwomen” simply because you know they’re MEN.
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Unity of Opposites
Unity of Opposites@unityofopposit·
@HilllbillyHugs @dragnet1979 @salltweets “All Trans women are Adult human females, by gender identity” A subjective feeling or idea in one’s head ie ‘gender identity’ does not determine whether one is female (or male) “a biological female can be Trans”, yes a transman but not a transwoman
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Torrin Wayne(He/Him)
Torrin Wayne(He/Him)@HilllbillyHugs·
@dragnet1979 @salltweets Trans Women, 2 world there kiddo. All Trans women are Adult human females, by gender identity. a biological female can be Trans by meeting the only qualification to be Trans. And not align with the Sex/gender assigned at birth.
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Klutzy Dom (cisgayqueer) 🏴‍☠️
@DreyfusJames @Arthera_William If you need emojis it's bc you can't express yourself through writing, obviously not your medium. I'm not sure what your sauna obsession is about but most gay men don't hate themselves into anti sauna resentment the way you do. We all know why (incel).
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James Dreyfus
James Dreyfus@DreyfusJames·
Please leave the LGB out of this. We didn’t ask for this. We’re not vulnerable, or fragile. Nor do we need coddling. Most of us are highly resilient, & just want equality. We’ve been through much rougher times. If you mean the TQ+, just say so. Treat us EQUALLY. Thx.
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Sassafrass84@Sassafrass_84·
They'll get treated like the lady they pretend to be. Lol
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Good Law Project
Good Law Project@GoodLawProject·
BREAKING: WIN 🏳️‍⚧️ 💥 The High Court just refused Sex Matters' permission to ban trans women from the Hampstead ponds. We're relieved that the ponds can remain a place where trans people have always belonged. Thank you to the all the people that pushed back against division.
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