Two women from the right hand side of the political spectrum just launched @WeAreRadical_ They are associates of the free market think tank @iealondon, but this is a side project, unfunded, non-partisan and non party political.
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The battle for a reasoned debate on public policy on sex & gender ID is not a right-left issue. Women in all of the main UK political parties have organised their own declarations on women's sex based rightshttps://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1199010252756279296 …
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It is an issue of acknowledging basic scientific truth (human beings cannot change sex) and of choosing the principle of freedom (everyone should be free to live as they chose) over authoritarianism (you must act like you believe in the ideology).
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The vast majority of people on the left and the right, and both religious and non-religious agree on the basic fact that sex is real, binary and immutable. Just as they agree on the existence of gravity and the need to eat food.
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There is even more agreement between people who are on the liberal side of the political compass about what this means for society. Its not so much a case of 'strange bedfellows' as agreement on the basic foundations of a liberal, secular, democratic society.
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@RMLLowe and@MissVHewson on their project. I hope it does good things.Show this thread
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Thank you Maya - life is generally much more complex than a tribal left and right and never more so than now. Some big issues are beyond party politics Feminism is not for one group of like minded women. It is for all women including many we may not agree with on other issues.
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