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LGB Alliance still needs support on Crowd Justice. Please help if you can. Looking forward to his tweet about losing that too.

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#JolyonFoxUp

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Now if we're talking Matt Groening characters, I'd pick Zapp Brannigan.

- Completely incompetent but claims his failures are a clever strategy.

- Huge ego

- Somehow, still has a job.

- Has almost no idea what a woman is, but can't stop talking about them.

- Zapp doesn't believe in pants, he'd love a kimono

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A cartoon woman is more of a real woman than a transwoman.

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Mermaids recommend Dr. Nick.

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Maybe time for another name. (“Good” does seem to overstate things somewhat.)

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Slightly Mediocre Law Project?

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Good Laugh Project.

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Joanna Cherry should launch a Best Law Project.

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Or maybe the Better Law Project, so as to invite comparison

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The Campaign for Real Law

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Meanwhile, in the southern hemisphere, a female carer for the elderly in Australia contacted me about having to endure sexual harassment and completely unacceptable comments, unnecessary nudity while assigned to older men who think they are women. Her union, the conservative MPs, the regulating bodies that would jump in if this guy was correctly identified, are doing nothing. We'll hear more and more of this. As usual, she's afraid of losing her job.

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Poor woman.

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Agreed. I will try to give her support, strength and fortitude. We must be resilient, have faith in our own bodies, be humans on our Earth, the best we can.

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Jolyolyolyon Mauugham -- haha -- I get it. A name that takes too much concentration to spell correctly!

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Great Tweet fro Juno Dawson Yesterday

https://twitter.com/junodawson/status/1578327053413163008

"This was the intention the whole time. Transphobic groups and individuals cannot stop people transitioning, but they can systematically attack the organisations, providers and charities that support us as we transition.

Mermaids, Stonewall, the Tavistock. Pls see the pattern."

Please see the pattern, these failing organisations don't keep failing because of their failings, they keep failing because of the people that won't stay quiet about the failings.

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So Emma Watson promoted Mermaids on Twitter more than once?

https://twitter.com/emmawatson/status/1052846691575980033

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It appears she hasn't been tweeting throughout 2022 as there's nothing on her page since 2021.

Maybe she's been seeing the light but is too scared to say so. The t-mob would crucify her

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Did you know Susie Green's son has an old Twitter that's still visible? jackiegofficial

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Not much of interest there, its all "this is me doing...:

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The most interesting is probably the one where he says that he lives with his father.

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Really? After all that?

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Have you heard the latest? Darren Mew, Mermaids Digital Engagement Officer has been in 'adult art'.

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And she would be crucified on a giant t. ✝️

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60 people lost their jobs because of this, and the country substantially lost its UK-based testing-kit manufacturing capability, which was taken up by China. So not entirely sure who this benefitted beyond the Chinese.

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He'd make a great gunfighter, wouldn't he?

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Hello Graham,

Not sure if you’ve heard but Simon Evans mentioned you in a podcast he was guest on:

Geoff Norcott’s What Most people think - it’s the latest episode 166

It’s about 15 mins in and he basically talks about Mermaids and how badly you’ve been treated by the comedy community.

He acknowledges he wished he’d spoken up about Mermaids sooner.

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Well, it doesn't really matter to him if he loses, unless it should impact on future donations to his company - all which are tax exempt. He's made a load off the back of Mermaids' crazy action against the LGBA. Notice it was his limited company that raised the funds direct? Not Mermaids, to pay his fees. It doesn't take much to guess who put Mermaids up to this highly lucrative action.

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The Telegraph have made a huge difference and the NHS now have instructions https://archive.ph/2jZ9R - if I hadn't picked The Times, I would have gone with The Telegraph. They have really done the work here.

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Anyone seen this?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/08/i-thought-my-boyfriend-of-10-years-was-going-to-propose-then-he-told-me-he-was-transgender

It made me angry at first, with the blatant sexism inherent in this ideology and because the article seems to legitimise the whole concept. As I read on, I just felt plain sad. A gender non-conforming gay guy feeling so terrible? What is gender ideology doing to people? All it's doing - in my view - is making people feel unacceptable as they are. Better to be trans than gay and better to be trans than to feel at ill-ease with one's body without a trendy, ready-made, one-size-fits-all explanation?

This story is a testament to the damage this movement has done and how a self-diagnosis is replacing holistic therapy. Talk it through, what's bothering you. But you don't have a girl gender identity. You're not "wrong" and you don't need fixed with drugs or surgery.

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I did see it and moved on without reading as I did my graun front page propaganda push daily tally. Thank you for reading it so we don't have to ;-) but :-(

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Ah fair enough. It's one of the first times sadness took over from anger. So many people are still so captured :(

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Graham, I've only been following this fight for about 6 months but it's taken as long to understand this complex war, the various players and their motivations not to mention all the acronyms!

If we're going to get more people on board I think a pdf with a glossary of terms, charities, acronyms, activists on both sides etc. could be very helpful. I feel that this should be an impartial document that facilitates a way in for the uninitiated. Once people can understand what they're reading, the facts will bring the majority of the middle ground to the GC side. Does anyone agree that this would be worthwhile?

The biggest barrier to getting people on board is how MUCH there is to understand. Everyone's busy with their lives, and if you try and get into it over a coffee you can start to sound like a conspiracy theorist as you try and explain all the various strands to it.

I feel very strongly that this should be impartial and with brief descriptions... if it's rambling and preachy people won't read it.

Anyone agree?

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Good idea! I’ll think about how to do it

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Thanks for response G. If it's impartial I'd forsee all our supporters posting it on their family/friends WhatsApp groups without fear of being labelled. This could have a huge multiplier effect on awareness.

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