It is not setting Twitter (or anywhere) alight. Scroll through the tweets on the hashtag. These professional orgs are lucky if they get 30 likes and 10 RTs on a post.
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The one mention of the Act in the manifesto, it gets its name wrong
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Still it is significant what the manifesto does not say. It does not say "transwomen are women". It does not call for self ID. It does not talk about gender identities at all. (it does talk about pregnancy and maternity).
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This is a manifesto by organisations that know that women are a sex, not an identity on a spectrum. They know that the ability to analyse the material reality of women's lives is important. But they are too timid and cowed to say it out loud.
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Women's organisations: please stop whispering this. Find your courage to say it loudly. Find your courage to make the space for the women who *are* brave enough to say it. Find your courage to say it to your funders Women's rights didn't get here by women being quiet.pic.twitter.com/vKJ5en1bbi
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