So a good friend, who has my best interests at heart messages me: "Uh oh people gonna think you're aligning with a baddie"... he tells me Graham Linehan "mocks and belittles trans people"
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This is a serious policy and legal issue, and we should be able to talk about it openly, carefully and compassionately. It shouldn't be being battled out in twitter spats and personal insults (although there is always a place for comedy and disrespect in keeping democracies open)
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The problem is that the organisations that should be holding open the space for polite, careful, patient debate & evidence: the established women's rights orgs, NSPCC, human rights orgs, @EHRC @WomenEqualities, think tanks, academia, the media, MPs etc are not doing their job.
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People are scared to talk because "people gonna think you're aligning with a baddie". But the erosion of women's spaces, child safeguarding & women's right to organise autonomously is too important not to. The only way to face it is for more people to stand up for open debate
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I am super grateful to
@Glinner@jackappleby@MichaelConroy68@SimonFanshawe@jonnnybest and@jameskirkup who have stood up for women. And i am super grateful for men and women who have stood up for me (including my friend, who i know has my best interests at heart)Show this thread
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It’s particularly this that makes me so exercised: part of the lefts brief should advocating for female ppl. The institutions and organisations have all completely parlously failed to do so.
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