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Dec 5, 2022Liked by JL

What amazes me is that parents of trans people can be (not always, just the ones who like to shout about it) so selfish about the issue of intimate spaces. I know parents love their child but I was brought up to consider the feelings of others in my decision-making. I guess I'm old-fashioned. I have parents who would tell me not to encroach on the rights of others, not even if I really felt it necessary. These parents - again, not all - reek of entitlement.

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I think it’s the old adage ‘ Misery loves company’. My child is troubled, so I’m going to make sure all you people are troubled too.

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Yes, it sure feels that way. You will be negatively affected by the fact that my child is troubled...

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The CAB relies on volunteers, as far as I’m aware, many of whom will be retired people (who have time to do much of the volunteer work that goes on in communities). My generation often have less tolerance for woke nonsense. This could present problems for the organisation if those people vote with their feet. I think the National Trust has faced a backlash from their volunteers for their wokeness so it could happen again at the CAB.

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Yes. There is a sub-membership group called "Restore Trust" (www.restoretrust.org.uk) within the National Trust. They are campaigning to bring the policies and actions of the Directors of the NT back into line with its original aims: to conserve beautiful and historic houses and countryside for the nation, forever. Instead the "woke" Directors have used a corrupt voting system to keep "dissenters" off the Board, have refused to use £60M of insurance money to restore Clancy House which had burned down, have forced volunteers to display banners and badges for Stonewall and "Pride" (causes which have nothing to do with NT), and have sacked specialist conservators who objected to the politicisation and "dumbing down" of the material on display and the accompanying information. All this is so, so familiar!!!

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This fits in a tweet along with that link, BTW:

"Acceptance without exception"

230 - trans-ID'd prisoners in England and Wales

97 - serving time for sexual offences

44 - imprisoned for rape

14 - for raping children

11 - for sexual assault

7 - for making/possessing CSA material

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Those are some dire stats!!

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I hope employees and volunteers at the CAB feel able to assert themselves and refuse add pronouns in their email signatures or to wear pronoun badges if they object. This isn't a neutral issue, there is more than one stance and it should be acknowledged and respected. But people's views aren't respected or even accepted if they don't concur with the authoritarian bullies.

Moriarty is delighted by lavatories for use by both sexes, not genders, because si gle sex lavatories make things difficult for trans people. Who gives a shit if women are made uncomfortable or feel threatened as long as men are happy. Say no to these fucking bullies, shout it loudly if that's what is needed.

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I was told by Labour HQ in letter that I was going against the policy because I dont believe men can be women - this was 2018. Nothing seems to have changed whatsoever and its obvious that nothing has changed whether Dame Stammer makes some very disingenuous remarks about womens safety.

Also why has Kemi allowed the pervert Jamie Wallis to be elected to the Womens Equalities committee? is it 'cos the TWAW idiot Caroline Noakes is still Chair? umm..or is she gonna make him look as stupid as he obviously is?

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The linked Spectator piece on it says,

'The appointment happened last night in a little-noticed move, with Sir Bill Wiggin moving a motion on behalf of the Committee of Selection to add Wallis and Mark Jenkinson to the panel, in place of Theo Clark and Philip Davies.'

Who the hell is Sir Bill Wiggin? Is he taking the mick? Does he hate women? Why the move to replace the other two? Who is Mark Jenkinson? So many questions. Not clear Kemi had anything to do with this, or am I being naive?

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why that MP who should not be allowed to stand is voted in is probs cos he's 'trans'..luckily Jackie Doyle Price is on the committee so he wont get far.

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When will Sturgeon understand that how someone ‘identifies’ is completely f-ing irrelevant. Identify based on fluctuating ‘feelings’ is meaningless.

Biology is real Nicola. We can legislate on things that are real, not things that are in constant flux.

And why do people feel the need to ‘identify’ as anything anyway?

The whole concept is a product of super charged hedonistic consumerism. I want therefore i am.

Grow up men that play at being women.

They are ruining it for people genuinely suffering from body dysphoria who need our love, care and compassion.

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Yes, men cosplaying women...

Like Dylan M, how can people look at him and think:

1. people like him should have special rights

2. people like him should receive medical treatment of a physical, irreversible kind

3. people like him should be shamelessly influencing children on the internet

I wish the government would just ignore these people.

Let them scream into darkness.

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Yes and also with pronouns, you have to stop and think, I saw one the other day, they were non binary, trans cis lesbian, what the hell is that.

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I've no idea. I suppose it's meant to confuse. The chaos is the point. How can we argue against something so nonsensical? I heard simply "non binary male". They're so transgressive, they're both non-binary and binary!?

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Given that Labour are most likely to win the next election we do not have much time to change their position on gender ideology. If they are not clearly rid of traces of ideology, then a Labour government will be dangerous for women, gay people and children. If this is a war then we must wage it on the Labour party. Right now. If their position is unchanged by the next election I will be out campaigning against them.

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I'll be campaigning for Kellie-Jay Keen against Keir Starmer in Islington - I'm sure you all know this anyway. I can offer B&B and will be out canvassing morning, noon and night for "Standing For Women" (at least that is what I imagine she calls her party!)

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I do know and I will be offering my assistance. I can't wait.

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Dec 5, 2022·edited Dec 5, 2022Liked by JL

Regarding Zero Tolerance: did they really think the way to make women feel safe was to tell them they must not ever speak about what it means to be women?! And they would've got away with it too - if it hadn't been for that meddling shero!

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They made it entirely clear who they have Zero Tolerance for. The horrible inaptness of their name, jfc. How can they not see?!

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Yet more utterly infuriating stories ,which leave me incandescent with rage. I swear to God ,if I was still working ( I'm retired) or had any kind of public profile ,I would be arrested ,because I wouldn't be able to stay silent while these outrageous injustices are allowed to go unchecked. I dearly wish that ALL women would now stand up openly for TRUTH and REALITY and say so loudly and persistently. They can't arrest us all ,nor can they ignore us if we speak with ONE VOICE. The traitors among us should receive their just desserts also. We have surely reached the point where we say ENOUGH !! Thanks ,JL. Looking forward to reading the GOOD NEWS supplement ❤️👍👏

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It's another bumper edition this week! Enjoy!

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I am raging too and also retired. I can join this fight because I am not afraid to be cancelled. I have been ejected from one social group but it is no loss to me. I want the world to wake up to the lies that make up trans ideology. Once people understand that TRA demands are based on lies I hope their cult will crumble. I hope the number of mutilations and the taking of cross-sex hormones will diminish too when people considering them realise that they are damaging to their health and not a solution to their mental health problems.

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I think you are right, I am just retired so I have started to look into this. Comments are you are just old, but honestly I could never have done it while working and risk my job. I may be old but I have time on my hands and I subtly try and educate if someone I know brings it up. Sadly I think the money being made by doctors means it will continue, damage hidden, the kids they destroy will silently go into the darkness, lifelong mental and physical patients.

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Dec 5, 2022Liked by JL

So much bad news but Jamie Wallis? Hope he gets as much publicity as possible tbh.

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re. 'trans identified' David Orton, paedophilic rapist. Was there ever a more satisfying, or a more accurate judicial opinion?

“You are a self-pitying and self-obsessed individual who shows no detectable empathy and not a shred of remorse for your actions”.

This statement could be accurately applied to many 'trans identified' men pretending-to-be-women.

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Trans women aren't a threat.

Apart from this bloke

And Katie Whatshisnameowski.

And Karen Shite.

And countless others.

The poor, poor trans women!! 🤬🤬🤬

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It can be applied to all Autogynaephiles. They are utterly vile manipulators.

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Dec 5, 2022·edited Dec 5, 2022

Hadley Freeman was just on Women's Hour talking about how (women especially) were censored and not allowed to investigate / publish anything about gender ideology. She was really, really good. It was spoken about more explicitly than I'd have expected. Worth a listen!!!!!

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Specifically at the Guardian, yes?

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I believe so, yes.

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Dec 5, 2022Liked by Graham Linehan, JL

Just so you're aware the opening of this reads 'Monday 28th December' (not November). Thanks for the hard work with this article!

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Thanks so much, DLS. I'm gonna blame my editor! ;-)

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Oh my god, that 're-educated' apology (you can see the 'trans' gun at her head) is to weep for. The ideologues would love to have a world filled with such grovelling apologies. IT ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN.

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Could someone explain to us how the threat of imprisonment triggers the ‘gendered’ soul into previously unacknowledged existence? Are there deeply embedded neural pathways, hitherto unknown, triggered by legal sentencing? Since ‘trans’ ideologues claim to be so ‘scientific’ (heck -- they even have NHS and medical journals saying so), please enlighten all of us on the quirky ‘science’ behind these opportunistic decisions.

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Trans is sacred ✝️

Gets them out of a lot of specificity, doesn't it? But as you say, some VERY specific medical procedures!

A Woolworth's pick 'n' mix of irreversible damage...

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Christ I hate Sturgeon. Despite evidence to the contrary she insists that trans-identified men are not a risk to women. Yet at the same time if they are found to be she then says they’re really men!

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Dec 5, 2022·edited Dec 5, 2022

She is one slithery serpent, nimble forked tongue in constant use.

One woman for whom I CANNOT feel a shred of sisterly solidarity, she wilfully poisons the well of womanhood for all of us.

That she cynically, knowingly harms children and autistic young adults, robs them of healthy bodies and chances of fulfilling lives in search of political gain ?? No words for such vileness. (Well, vile is an anagram for one word for her.)

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Dec 5, 2022·edited Dec 5, 2022

Throwing women under the bus is despicable but the sterilising of kids when she KNOWS the harms? I won't forgive her for any of it but I'll never, ever forgive her for her part in child abuse. And the SNP by extension. She's an anagram of vile, indeed...

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You're so right!!!

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