This is interesting. So far in the UK much of the fight for open, evidence-based deliberation on how public policy should address sex & gender identity has been led by women coming from the left (@Womans_Place_UK @WNTTgra etc..)
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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.1 reply 15 retweets 53 likesShow this thread -
Maya Forstater Retweeted Maya Forstater
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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Maya Forstater @MForstaterAll the parties now have a women's pledge Labour http://ipetitions.com/petition/labour-womens-declaration … Conservative https://ipetitions.com/petition/conservative-womens-pledge … Green https://ipetitions.com/petition/green-feminists-women-and-girls-declaration?fbclid=IwAR0_EVxp2QQy6YjGiB6jWWmnj6QydET06F9s06S9kZhd-pOYEf67B6rXXWI … Lib Dems https://ipetitions.com/petition/lib-dem-sex-based-rights-declaration … SNP https://secure.avaaz.org/en/community_petitions/SNP_members_and_supporters_SNP_Womens_Pledge/ … WEP https://ipetitions.com/petition/wep?fbclid=IwAR0X7oTfPI58pbuMxkB-j75XtrLtk2qwfmSDPf_SKXXr_YAfeUXz3-WkwM0 … Chose your flavour(s) pic.twitter.com/fzkXWYgIkb1 reply 37 retweets 97 likesShow this thread -
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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Good luck to
@RMLLowe and@MissVHewson on their project. I hope it does good things.4 replies 8 retweets 65 likesShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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