I never RT myself but I note with sadness that none of my 'old' followers gave this a like or a RT or a comment, even a critical one. Academics, progressive people, feminists. None of them thought any of this was relevant or important. It makes me sad.https://twitter.com/AlessandraAster/status/1111709720258203648 …
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Maya Forstater Retweeted Maya Forstater
Yes this was my experience too. https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1105972073288138752?s=19 … I thought by writing carefully about this I might give people who know me in my field a way in to thinking about this debate. But <crickets>
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Maya Forstater @MForstaterI wrote this article for colleagues in international development https://medium.com/@MForstater/international-development-lets-talk-about-sex-eb9de927c787 … It has had tonnes of tweets by women who feel they have to remain anonymous on twitter, quite a few from#taxtwitter & then@damekellyholmes &@Martina!
And almost no one in development
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The debate has become so hysterical that I think a lot of people have been put off participating
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Replying to @AlessandraAster @CharlieMTweets
Charlie there are lots of people writing and speaking
@Docstockk https://theconversation.com/why-self-identification-should-not-legally-make-you-a-woman-103372 … @HJJoyceEcon http://quillette.com/2018/12/04/the-new-patriarchy-how-trans-radicalism-hurts-women-children-and-trans-people-themselves/ …@janeclarejones https://janeclarejones.com/2018/09/09/gay-rights-and-trans-rights-a-compare-and-contrast/ …@LilyLilyMaynard https://4thwavenow.com/2016/12/17/a-mums-voyage-through-transtopia-helps-her-daughter-desist/ … I don't think any of this is hysterical2 replies 3 retweets 9 likes -
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Meanwhile women wanting to meet & write about how changes in the law around 'gender id' will effect women and children have had meetings shut down, their jobs threatened and faced violent attackshttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/14/women-claim-intimidation-silencing-gender-recognition-act-debate …
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And orgs like think tanks, universities, established women's orgs, human rights orgs, NGOs which could create calm spaces for debate, analysis & deliberation have abdicated their role on this and declared "no debate: transwomen are women": they've allowed people to be scared off
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