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Oct 7, 2021Liked by ripx4nutmeg

I was at Carrie’s speech. There was a fourth speaker - Elena Bunbury, chair of LGBT Conservatives, ostensibly to introduce them. “Trans is beautiful.” “Trans rights are not a debate.” I heckled the word “shame” - once and during the applause. Elena framed the rest of the speech around “the heckler” as I listened quietly. In the interval I was approached with the predictable, farfetched spiel. Claims members’ safety was at risk, that people were too scared to attend with the LGB Alliance stall recognised. Same from other party members, had a lot of threatening language my way later in the night. Zero reports of any abuse coming from LGBA and zero danger yet the myth continues. The vast majority of the many conservatives I met this week held a steadfast conviction for free speech and debate. A tiny few ignore party decision and use their identities to cancel speakers like the snowflakes of left-wing notoriety. Fortunately Liz Truss is fighting strong with Boris and Sajid resisting getting dragged into woke nonsense. Perhaps time for an LGBT chairman more aligned with the cabinet, “getting on with it”.

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Woman who married Boris Johnson in "poor judgement" shocker...

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Why was she even speaking anyway? Who voted for her? She was sacked from her job as Conservative Comms Director for fiddling her expenses, then the following week she got with Boris and wormed her way back in. I do not want to hear from this woman. Nor do I want to hear from Stanley.

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The Tory Conference seemed to pass without them massively beclowning themselves like Labour did and then in steps Carrie...... What an idiot. She should have stuck to animal welfare. I wonder how she would feel if Social Workers came for her kids because she refused to hand them over to the Gender ghouls; won't happen to her though... like being stuck in prison with some madman because she couldn't pay her debts.

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The most likely explanation for CJ's provocative, insulting intervention is that there is some payoff in it for herself and BJ somewhere along the line. Either personally or in the shape of a party donation. This needs to be looked at. She can only know that this is not a popular position among traditional conservative voters. Of course that's of no consequence to either of them since they will sail off into a lucrative sunset of speaking engagements and directorships after the next election.

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I think the press have mistakenly landed on the wrong question about 'do only women have a cervix'. They are using it as their gotcha question and it's all wrong. Women who have become transmen, who want to be called men, have a cervix. They tend to be less aggressive in this debate, and it sounds mean to answer the question correctly. I'd rather the question was, do women have penises? Is that not better? Am I wrong.

OK. Start my rambling again. What is the perfect answer to the cervix question?

"Yes, only biological women have a cervix? "?

Also. Carrie - almost comical seeing someone throwing themselves onto sinking ship, she thinks she's giving Boris kudos points. Funny but incredibly annoying. Did anyone buy Carrie the books (Joyce/Shrier?). I will, in think I know the address. Do you think Amazon will deliver?!

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Wonderfully professional and democratic way to lead a government eh? Getting your wife to make major policy announcements. Jeez what has become of this country?

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So it's as I suspected. The right are anti women's sex based human rights as well.

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This has caused me much distress, that “conversion therapy” is used to pretend every therapy should be banned “affirm affirm” like daleks.. There should be articles Published by a known fantastic therapists who fully explains the different types of therapy and which therapy is awful and how speaking therapy is essential and nit a conversion. The deliberate misinterpretations and lies about conversion therapy by the propaganda lobby that is trans must be stopped.

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I think the term "identifies as a woman" should no longer be used. If you replace it with "calls himself a woman", it shows it up for the lie it is.

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Omg she's beginning to look like Boris.

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That Susie Green Tweet makes me feel rather ill - We truly are in an age of worshipping the "Experts" as Gods! It's a shame the Monty Python crew are getting on or popping their clogs as would have loved to have seen their taken on all of this! Rather than "The Life Of Brian" they could make a movie called "The Life Of Brianna!!

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There ars 2 types of sex conversion therapy:

1. Attempted brainwashing of same sex attracted people.

2. Cosmetic surgery to produce a physical facsimile of the opposite sex.

The former no longer practiced. The latter being promoted across the sociopolitical spectrum

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I always find it interesting when there is a, push for increased rights for a specific group. Gender reassignment is covered by the Equality Act as is sexual orientation. Everyone is covered by the Human Rights Act 1998. All legislation, in Scotland, at least is human rights impact assessed. In England, it is equality impact assessed. Which means that all legislation applies equally to LGBT.

What people actually mean is not more rights but how the legislation is actually applied. And they should say what they mean because it might stop hackles rising. But as is said in the article, if you stop shouting about your rights (or as the predictive text keeps telling me, your tights) people might forget you are special and your validation by others becomes nonexistent. Then how do you find your place in the world if the only people who think you important are the ones you actually know.

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Gender identity is only of any significance to a tiny, tiny minority, whereas biological reality matters to everyone. Basing policy on such a niche issue is irresponsible and shows politicians aren't listening to the populace.

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Am truly shocked that CJ doesn’t get the sinister side to all this. She testified against the rapist Warboys who took advantage of women NOT trusting their instincts and feeling sorry for men:

"He seemed to be this sad man who had no one to celebrate with him. I pitied him, I didn't feel frightened - I just thought he was weird."

How would CJ feel if Warboys’ rapes had been recorded as if done by WOMEN, and if Warboys had self ID himself to get into women’s prison?

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