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Anyone who uses ‘cis’ is just broadcasting the fact that they’re one of history’s punchlines. Imagine falling for this shit.

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OMG you don’t even know ‘cis’ is meant to be pronounced ‘f*ck you bigot’. You are SO ciscentric. It’s just so unfair. And cruel. Stop mocking my enunciation disability.

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Jul 2, 2022·edited Jul 2, 2022

As far as I understand, "cis" is a way of re-defining - dare I say it? - normality by making it secondary to some arbitrary new "normality".

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Norm McDonald called it “a way of marginalising normal people”

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It’s basically as if Goths or New Romantics came up with a lexicon and demanded we all started using it. It’s why I laugh every single time I read the word ‘cis’.

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I will not give up my sexed language to appease people that deny their sex.

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Don't forget it's been a thing in Science since forever....

.... in Chemistry 🙃

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How will Jon Ronson ever live it down?

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I'm getting so fed up with it now. It's tiring even skim reading absolute nonsense such as this!

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Jun 30, 2022·edited Jun 30, 2022

100% I feel like those definitions aged me they were so tiring to read. So. Fed. Up. Of. This. Shit.

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Boy do I hear that

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Deranged and dangerous, hate-filled claptrap. It is truly astonishing that any government apart from the most depraved and irresponsible could peddle this rubbish. It is very disturbing to read this, not least because our 23 year old daughter has been totally indoctrinated and is a fully paid up member of the trans cult. I can't bear to think of her once astute mind being full of this awful stuff. I mean, where do you start to even discuss this?

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Du courage. I believe the cracks will show for everyone eventually. The ideology isn't logical or consistent, and eventually even those who really, really want to believe will be forced to acknowledge that it is incoherent.

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I wonder how many in government have actually read the rubbish they are peddling. A lot of people have a copy of War and Peace on their bookshelves, and will tell you it's a great work of literature This is not necessarily an opinion they formed in their own minds.

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That's made me want to get off here and read it :-). I can't get to my bookshelves at the moment. It's got cracking bits though, give it that. I was always taught not to crack the spines of books so have shelves (admittedly piles) of what look like pristine, unread, paperback tomes.

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So sorry to hear that. Hope you have support x

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Must be soooo upsetting for you, I'd hate to be in your position xx

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Dear Lord, what fresh hell is this?

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It's probably stale by now. There will be some new fresh hell along in a moment.

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As distraught as I am about what's happening in the world with the widespread cult takeover of otherwise (mostly) sane people and institutions, I thought this was hysterically funny and a good break from the distress over medicalizaiton of children and young adults and the loss of rights for women and girls. I mean, WTAF??!! Good reminder of how absolutely batshit this stuff is. Reality as satire. Trans vocab is comedy gold.

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With trans ideology it isn't easy to tell satire apart from reality.

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There is. Being a very modern thing, it doesn't have clear cut centers and leaders anymore - the internet has changed things radically - but it clearly is a worldview that is very closed to any outside argument and any outside reality, and it separates the world into followers and enemies.

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Those poor people who have to attend training events without laughing. That can't be easy.

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I'm sure I'd laugh. At the end of the film Reuben, Ruben something tragic happens, but it was very funny in the context of the film. But I was the only one in the cinema who laughed out loud. So that made me laugh even harder.

I'm still laughing at 'christ-habit' in the article even though I have no idea what it is. Sounds like where a Hobbit might live.

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That's the thing, you have to laugh or you'll cry.

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It's made me weirdly want to go to some training. If only that didn't mean some real work wasn't being done I would.

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I disagree with Stuart Campbell’s quest for Scottish independence, but he’s spot on when it comes to the whole gender woo thing. Sturgeon is a disgrace and no feminist.

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Considering the frontline of the independent movement are in the vanguard of the gender cult, you'd think he might reconsider his stance.

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Not true. Only some of them want both. Most are decent human beings but are just blinded by their desire for indy.

I'm desperate for indy and campaigned last time but I won't stand on a doorstep and defend Sturgeon. I want Alex as FM again.

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Ah yes, the sex pest.

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The man who was was found innocent by a jury of mainly women from one of the least indy cities after hearing the actual 'evidence', not just the Wark version. The man who was accused of atempted rape by a woman who wasn't even at Bute House that night, we know exactly who she is so we know she lied. She should be sued for slander.

The man who triggered over 700 police interviews without any hint of misconduct from him apart from the original few friends of 'feminist to my fingertips' Sturgeon who is selling women down the river despite her own sexual orientation. The woman who lied to the investigating committee. The woman who knows where the stolen £600k went.

Those women crying wold did a HUGE disservice to every rape victim who may not be believed now. Shame on them.

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He was found not guilty of criminality but no one has ever denied he was a sex pest. His own brief even called him that. I have no time for Sturgeon either and her gender woo nonsense. A plague on them both.

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Alex Salmond was investigated more thoroughly about his behaviour than any other man in Scotland and not a bit of the nonsense they came up with stuck in court. He could have spent years behind bars if that trial had gone wrong and for a lot less than many men have gotten up to at office parties etc.

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Well he clearly denies it himself, and lack of third party denial will hopefully never become either in law or in formal social intercourse any kind of ground for assuming guilt by default. That's the way social media mob rule works. Scotland is under some pretty powerful spell, and I have now for some time thought that this poisonous feud at the top of the SNP might be the key to understanding how it came about that TG Ideology managed to gain such a tenacious stranglehold on policy in a nation not otherwise generally famed for being lacking in a healthy cultural stratum of scepticism for all things woo and aaah.

This seems especially pertinent (whatever your opinion on Scottish Independence may be) when you consider that until NS a few days ago announced a date for an intended new referendum, the campaign seemed to have become all but abandoned. Someone seems to have succeeded in forcing Sturgeon's hand and reminded her of what she was elected to do, and I doubt it was the gender fairies. When Westminster (as no doubt planned and accounted for) denies the request then we have a genuine historical political drama unfolding where the pressure will be on NS to live up to the implied threat to fight the next general election exclusively on an Independence ticket. I suspect she's comfortable where she is and doesn't really relish that prospect. Perhaps she doesn't deepest down seek independence at all, but enjoys being SNP leader and FM and therefore has to go through the motions? Wild speculation I'm sure but is she in truth just a stooge? Serving the interests of Westminster in keeping Salmond from the steering wheel? Serving interests even further beyond . . . . ? No surely my conspiratorial imagination is just running riot, yet it just seems so strangely 'coincidental' that so many so far apparently empty charges have been stacked up against this man, and the wait for the release of classified evidence is interminable, effectively keeping him in check without ever claiming checkmate. Almost as though it were a cleverly., elaborately and expensively planned strategy with big backers behind it . . . ?

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He wasn't a 'sex pest'. Pinging someone's ringlet is unwelcome and inappropriate but not a crime. He's always been a hugging person, that's not a crime either. Many men of that generation behave inappropriately to a degree, which is wrong, but 700 interviews with those close to him says that most disagree with your assertion.

The Lord Advocate should be independent, not a servant of the FM. The court case should never have happened and there's a lot still to come out. This is all because Sturgeon is afraid of Alex coming back.

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But also worked for Russia Today. I just think he is liable to make poor decisions. But NS is worse, ferries fiasco, planning decisions based on celebrity with no economic assessment….

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Sturgeon is much worse. At least Salmond had a vision, no matter how deluded, but all Sturgeon has is grievance and division.

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No. He doesn't work for Russia Today. He works for a company that produces his shows totally independently from RT. They merely broadcast it. They have no oversight, no involvement in production and cannot edit out anything they don't like.

Alex is his own man. He wouldn't even be broadcasting on RT if a UK channel hasn't chickened out of showing it.

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Still blaming colonialism for the gender binary 🤪

One cannot help but wonder how indigenous peoples managed to procreate 😏

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The mystery of all mysteries. Alongside roughly ALL the art depicting humans since the first cavemen drawings.

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I'm sure that any day now someone will discover evidence of Pride marches in stone age times.

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No convinced about 'gender talented', but they're definitely BS talented.

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Interesting that all the voices telling the truth and standing up for women like you, Kellie, Meghan, Stu and many others (including me) get banned from twitter after any TRA pile-on despite the fact that our tweets are factual.

It's almost like TRAs want to hide the truth. 🤔

But we still find ways to get the truth out there, as Stu does here. The national media is starting to report the truth. We must keep sharing stuff like this. The tide may turn.

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For feck’s sake. What did I just skim read? Utterly bizarre that anyone could come up with this crap, let alone get so many others to believe (claim to believe?) a word of it.

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Well, throw in enough Latin and Greek, however absurd, and make it hard enough to understand and to most people any BS will sound scientific. Just look at alternative "medicine". Same s..t, and that took decades to get under control.

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Or even proper actual medicine as it is now. Often not so good with helping actual patients understand risk profiles, their own health or to follow treatment plans.

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Oh, there is a lot to be said about medicine. It primarily lacks in soft skills, though, not so much in the actual science. There are some gaps there, too. There is a reason why there is gender medicine (what a misnomer) and why it's so very recent, and all. And of course, mistakes are made, just like everyhwere else, and, yes, doctors often hide behind their scientific vocabulary to sound smarter or to cover up for their mistakes.

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This split between 'hard' and 'soft' skills is pernicious. We discount 'soft' at our peril. There is no point having a great new pill or treatment if someone is unsure when or how to take, use it or do it. What the balance of risk and effects are or could be. Understanding needs and effective communication with and for the people who are the whole point of a service is not 'soft' at all. It's the same in a few areas like engineering and tech - many don't give a stuff about those that use the things they build, sell or create. It's back to front and many pay lip service to it - patients/tenants/residents/users rebranded as customers rebranded as consumers. That means our infrastructure and societies aren't delivering how we need as we're often an afterthought. Not sure if that's paternalistic, corporatist, lazy, convenient, greedy or just plain old money and power.

It's partly how 'proper gender health' they are screaming at being 'denied' means the 'hard' intervention of surgery hacking off and filling your (young) body with meds and the 'soft' side of finding out why you would want to is such a contested area.

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I agree. They pretend to believe it!

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What an enjoyable read, so thank you for that. All good, obviously, especially the example given of how the word 'Enbian' might be used. Someone clearly doesn't know their own bullshit, they need to go on another indoctrination course. And 'Birth Steath', an option for the more audacious or very lazy trans identified male - looks like a man, sounds like a man, behaves like a man, is a man, but can still gain access to women's spaces and services should he want to.

I hope the taxpayers of Scotland will feel they've got a good deal for their money, when or if they find out what some of it's being spent on.

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My favourite part is how all the context examples are utterly useless. "The woman who came to speak was a TERF", "Billy considers himself bisexual". Really drives home how lacking in substance the whole thing is.

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Yes! I mean, this is what you expect from a 3rd grader, and then the teacher explains how that's not a definition, and next time the 3rd grader does marginally better, but not here. Here every entry is like, "Use the vocabulary word 'museum' in a sentence." "I saw a museum." This stuff is laugh-out-loud funny.

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Actually now you mention it, it occurs to me that the sentences are not intended to help you understand the term, but instruct you in how to feel about it. "Taryn knew to avoid the person who mentioned 'gender ideology'". "Harper left because of the truscum".

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I used to know a few people who set exam questions. I have laughed out loud at the wonderful knowing wit of the examiners and it's always nice to be able to laugh while sitting, invigilating or marking exams and it might keep you from dozing off.

I like the equally thinly veiled examples used in some technical guidance or texts, written by actual humans for other humans.

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"Good morning. That's a nice tnetennba."

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Wow. And not good wow.

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"mistakenly assigned male at birth"

No need for any medical intervention whatsoever in any circumstances then. It was all just midwife error.

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I'm glad they got blaming women in there at least. Phew. They forgot to added colonialised though. I'm unsure where to add that in the sentence - can someone advise? It must be there surely? Mistakenly colonialised at birth - will that neatly cover all the bollix and to avoid the unpossiblilty of causing unnonoffence? Offence or offense - I better check the latest College of Policing guidance.

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Most of all, they forgot "literally".

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