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Sep 28, 2021Liked by Graham Linehan

I've just got back from LWDBrighton and the standing ovation for Rosie brought a lump to my throat. Fantastic evening full of fantastic women.

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Sep 28, 2021Liked by Graham Linehan

If “trans people have always existed” why are they only now so fucking pissed off that women exist?

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I'm a former Labour Party member but I want to see them annihilated at the next general election. These fools who are ready to give away my rights should be kicked off the gravy train and out of the party.

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It's been a bad week for this stuff, but some of these things had me laughing out loud. 'Purple Haired Beard of Concern', the conference timetable, Princess Steve Pemberton in Drag and that collage of crazy trans people near the end. Hahahahaha

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I wasted hours of my life responding to Peter Jukes - the only heartening response was from David Merritt - the remainder were mostly self-congratulory men, mansplaining that no-one would bother to go to all the trouble of pretending to be a woman and asking for evidence. I gave them evidence, apparently they were just bad people and it would have happened anyway. In reality I think a few of them didn't really know the extent of it e.g prisons but then pretended they did because heaven forfend a man might have been wrong. Anyway the thread is still lighting up the twittersphere and the wonderful Terven armies came to support me including @FondofBeetles. Not quite enough for them to have an actual developmental biologist (with her own cervix) explaining that sex is binary and immutable but obviously totally convinced by some quackery from Scientific American cited by LisaTMullin (no cervix, does have prostate).

Anyway the good news is I've cancelled my Byline Times subs and will happily increase my subs to Glinner to reflect that. Every cloud!

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Great substack post today Graham. Don't let the a***oles get you down. You're doing great work collating these points so people can get a more holistic view of gender issues. Honestly believe you're making headway in helping to save lives. 🙂

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Kelly-Jay is an amazing and courageous woman, anyone who uses the word "evil" to describe her is a feckin eejit! I'd like to see these people go down to Speakers Corner and preach what the believe opposite the rather large congregations of Muslim men and see if they make it out of there alive!

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" ...confusion is caused by the interchangeable use of the word 'gender' (biology) but also to refer to a kind of "sexed soul" (the night nurse)"

No kidding. As if this whole gender ideology debacle wasn't baffling enough, how are all those secular institutions (Guardian, BBC, Labour party etc) going along with the idea that we should all bow down before the notion of a fluffy, spectral, gender "soul" which has all the scientific validity of an episode of "Rentaghost?"

Why is the idea of 'Gender-as-a-vague-soul-type-thing' deemed to be any more worthy of respect (and enshrinement in law) than Xenu and his magic volcanoes or Flat Earth theory or any other twaddle that people get conned into believing? "Confusion" is an understatement.

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JFC those quotes of David Lammy and Nadia Whittome are repulsive. Who is HE to give away women's rights? And Whittome's "...if they don't respond to education" what she means is "if they don't respond to indoctrination..." What is the matter with them??

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These are actual quotes from our serving politicians? They get paid handsome sums to say this? The Tories must be wetting themselves.

What will David Lammy do when we start hoarding votes? And then giving them to anyone but Labour? Or does an 80 seat majority suggest that's already happened. Votes, rights, rapes, murders, we hoard them all don't we David? Us silly women dinosaurs with our big tails and unusual armour plated exteriors. Do we breathe fire too, or is that dragons? Oh he is a card.

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Fuck Labour.

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I read the 'Winning Women's Votes' speech bubbles and all I could think was 'these people are certifiable.' My God imagine them in government!

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I often talk to my dad about this stuff as we both think it's nutty.

I sent him the above picture of Labour MPs - his response was "Only men have bollocks, but both male AND female Labour MPs can certainly speak it!"

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I had high hopes for Starmer getting a grip on gender ideology but I was naive - even a former DPP has to stick to the script on that nonsense. Labour are done. The Government can preside over petrol queues and food shortages for the next three years but as long as Labour refuse to take women's safety seriously, and talk about whether or not men have a cervix, they'll stay in opposition.

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I read last year that Queens Belfast were second only to Oxford for students seeking to change/lie about their sex on official university documents. We tend to hit trends a little later here, traditionally because we've had our own green and blue shite to occupy us, but transgenerdism in NI is now quite rife. You will find people like PC Plop and other trans activists over here, are predominately males under 30ish who are desperately looking for a bogie man to fight, having grown up in the aftermath of the troubles. Sadly, having no actual cause or struggle to latch onto, they have chosen to die on the glitter Hill and are desperate to make an equivalence with our civil rights movement.

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Lammy on BBCR4 just refused to be drawn on the question - ‘who were you talking about when you used the term dinosaurs yesterday?’

…‘I refuse to be drawn into identity politics!!!’ He screamed. Too late mate.

It was quite an eye opener about the character of the man. Was quite horrible / upsetting to listen to.

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