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That was a nice start; up the ribbon-wielders! Then it descended into the most vile display of something I can't even describe. Is this getting worse, or it's just so much it's wearing me down? The hungry attention seeking behaviour is endless.

You used to have to put some effort into writing nasty letters. Obtaining your paper and your green ink, or cutting out your letters from newspapers and magazines, hand delivering or affixing a stamp, then walking to a post box or post office, and sending them off to eagerly wait for the response. Or following someone in the street, and risking getting caught. Or making dirty phone calls to landlines until women blew whistles, or put the phone down and walked away (which I learned to do as a girl). Staring. Sidling up and touching. Grabbing. Intimidating. Being creepy in manifest ways.

Now it's all just too easy and Twitter do nothing. Why have they all not been banned? There are deranged people openly harassing and sending threats. Actual hate speech and incitement to a whole range of criminal activity.

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Ribbon Weilder here... took over 20 ribbons for distribution in Airdrie somehow I evaded the Gender Recognition Unit on the way home...

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I think the views become more vitriolic as the cracks in the ideology become clearer. They are revealing their true nature.

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They're definitely getting madder and more unhinged.

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Good Lord, some of these items of news are just nauseating!

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Someone has thoughtfully archived the article by "Integrity Bites" - how long Medium will let it stand is anyone's guess:

"Bigots who should reframe our trauma: my reply as a survivor"

https://archive.ph/Eyrsz

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It should be illegal to call yourself Trans (man or woman, in the legal definition) if you keep your birth genitalia.

That way the narcs/cosplayers/creeps/fetishists can keep their community but not pretend it's dysphoria.

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I still want this to steer clear of religion as much as possible as that worries me dragging that in too (although I appreciate the thought experiment and the parallels with trans conversion and gay conversion are clear). Would the gender-apostasy offence declared by gender-apoplectics under the Gender Apostasy & Apoplexy Act 2021 be punishable by some unpleasant Twitter pile-on?

Instead of Godwin's law (ref to Nazis in internet discussions) is this Glinner's Law (feel empowered to start accusing dead lesbians of being like the Taliban and KKK in internet discussions on trans rights activism)?

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That's not science or scientific!! This is ideology, not science or religious faith, with corrupted elements of both used to justify whatever they want.

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Jesus Christ - the Joan Smith news has me in a fucking fury!!!

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Is there anyway I can access your old Twitter?

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Regarding the Feminist Legal Clinic - here's their paypal https://feministlegal.org/

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