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By refusing to acknowledge how Keira Bell must have suffered at the hands of the Tavistock, and the militant activists who helped create the conditions that they operated under, Stonewall UK have firmly aligned themselves with the assertion that no mistakes were made, and that they did nothing wrong.

So do they believe Keira Bell is incorrect that she is a woman? Or do they believe that under-16s should take full responsibility for drastic medical interventions, *even* when they can not fully give informed consent?

I think they're well aware of how there are no firm foundations to gender identity, otherwise they would be directing their anger at the Tavistock for failing to identify someone who "wasn't trans".

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Vulpine averse QC hahaha!

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Dec 7, 2020Liked by JL

On reflection, the thing that strikes me as most incongruous about the Mermaids response is their outrage that "no other" group is treated this way in terms of medicine. Susie Green said the same thing on Newsnight the day of the court judgement.

This is bizarre because the whole justification of the treatment that they advocate relies upon the insistence that gender dysphoria should be viewed as unlike any other condition in history. Consider: at one time, gender dysphoria (the belief that one was somehow 'born in the wrong body') was regarded as a mental illness, a specific type of delusion. That view is absolutely forbidden now- gender dysphoria is not an illness, and it's a hate crime to so much as suggest that it is. But can you name me one other condition that is not considered an illness AND that requires treatment with drugs, surgery or both in order for those who have it to be healthy? Can you name even one? Bet you can't- because there isn't one. Gender dysphoria is Schroedinger's Medical Condition; people who have it are not ill in any way (and only a bigot would suggest otherwise) but at the same time, they need puberty blockers and other medical interventions so urgently that the slightest delay in administering them is putting their very lives in peril.

This unique property of gender dysphoria ought, in itself, to make anyone suspicious of the way that it is described and treated.

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Fantastic collation as usual JL. All the gaslighters and Seething fellas in one page. Ha !!!!!

You missed Chase tho. She had a long thread, attacking JK Rowling, then talking about fire alarm 🚨, inciting panic amongst trans people as usual and the worst bit was, we are appealing ofocurse. Imagine her appealing this. Lol. She is having period tantrums 😂

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Dec 5, 2020Liked by JL

Due to having lost their High Court case due to the total paucity of objective and verifiable evidence to support them, you would think that Mermaids, Stonewall et al. would have taken a leaf from the book of a much longer-established religion. The Roman Catholic church realized centuries ago that Trans Substantiation Matters.

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