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Honesty & integrity have a cost. Lib Dem Home Affairs lead in House of Lords. Ran for Mayor of London 2008 & 2012. Met Police 1976 - 2007. m. Mr Petter Belsvik

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    Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick May 2

    The essence of personal identity is the mind. Shouldn’t we talk about people’s identity rather than their sex or gender? Not what people “identify as” but what their true identity is. People’s true identity is not their outward appearance but what the mind involuntarily dictates.

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      1. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick May 2

        Isn’t “self-identification” unhelpful in that it implies it’s an entirely voluntary choice? People aren’t deciding who they are - they are acknowledging what their identity is, accepting what their mind is dictating to them, wanting recognition of their true identity.

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      2. Unknown Homo‏ @1984alerts May 2
        Replying to @brianpaddick

        Female fetuses aren't aborted on the basis of their personalities, "true identities" or what their minds involuntarily dictate.... --acid attacks, FGM, corrective rape of lesbians, gay bashing. These are all sex based phenomena and shouldn't be sanitized.

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      4. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick May 2
        Replying to @JackyHolyoake @1984alerts

        I’m not suggesting eradicating sex, for the reasons you indicate, & for political reasons I’m nervous about using gender (seen by many as conformity to norms devised by a misogynistic patriarchal society) as an alternative. It’s complicated & I’m feeling my way.

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      6. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick May 3
        Replying to @Gertie2017 @JackyHolyoake @1984alerts

        I see you block idiocy. Let me return the compliment.

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      7. Unknown Homo‏ @1984alerts May 3
        Replying to @brianpaddick @Gertie2017 @JackyHolyoake

        Please remember you are in a place of comfort and privilege as a man weighing in on this. You could not fathom the amount of abuse and gaslighting these women get. I've been watching this for a little over a year and a half it gets worse every day.

        1 reply 2 retweets 59 likes
      8. Unknown Homo‏ @1984alerts May 3
        Replying to @1984alerts @brianpaddick and

        Gay magazine shows solidarity with heterosexual "male lesbians" today over lesbians outraged at this assault on reality and contribution to their erasure. If this were men, you wouldn't waste time on fun little anecdotes and hypotheticals.https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/05/03/trans-lib-dem-sarah-brown-twitter-trans-abuse/ …

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      9. Shauna Devlin‏ @JerikoGenie May 3
        Replying to @1984alerts @brianpaddick @Gertie2017

        This is the Sarah Brown who invited a man to "suck my formaldehyde-pickled balls"? Here is the victim's measured response to the horrific trolling crybully Aunt Sarah subjected him to ~ http://www.rtaylor.co.uk/formaldehyde-pickled-balls.html … @nevelcot @alicekellartist @threewingedbird @PurpleBarnaclepic.twitter.com/ztOhXgU4cP

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      2. grace issagaro‏ @issagaro May 2
        Replying to @NoToMisogyny @brianpaddick

        Sorry Brian but people can identify as they wish. but legal protections are not about identity, they are about material realities that are measurable in some way. Can I get a blue badge for parking because I identify as disabled.? No, rightly I cannot.

        2 replies 3 retweets 19 likes
      3. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick May 12
        Replying to @issagaro @NoToMisogyny

        No but you can get a birth certificate that shows a different sex than the one you were born with and you are then entitled to the legal protections that go with that.

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      4. grace issagaro‏ @issagaro May 12
        Replying to @brianpaddick @NoToMisogyny

        1. Yes but my point is, that to get a blue badge I would have to be disabled and there are measurable criteria for what would constiute a disability. Self id means that a person can change their birth certificate with no measurable criteria.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. grace issagaro‏ @issagaro May 12
        Replying to @issagaro @brianpaddick @NoToMisogyny

        2. And the bigger problem is that ANYONE could then use a sex protected space, whether or not they have changed their birth certificate. It would be hardly be reasonable to genuine transexuals or to women, to expect them to ask ppl using these spaces for a birth certificate.

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      6. Brian Paddick  👨‍❤️‍👨‏Verified account @brianpaddick May 12
        Replying to @issagaro @NoToMisogyny

        How could anyone do that then and not now?

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      7. grace issagaro‏ @issagaro May 12
        Replying to @brianpaddick @NoToMisogyny

        If legislation changes to allow self id the existing criteria will not be needed. I have worked with predatory men (Probation/Social Services) and can assure you that some of them will use any ooporunity to predate on women. That is why women want sex protected spaces.

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      2. Samantha Connor‏ @mpfilms26 May 2
        Replying to @brianpaddick

        1/n I believe it is arguable that identity is in the mind. We have absolutely no idea to what extent our biology and our life experience influences our identity. It is pretty much a philosophical argument and as such is highly subjective. How can someone who is biologically male

        3 replies 23 retweets 51 likes
      3. Samantha Connor‏ @mpfilms26 May 2
        Replying to @mpfilms26 @brianpaddick

        2/n ...know that he is actually a woman? I do not doubt that trans women believe that they are actual women but, at the end of the day, that's what it is, a belief and to legislate for that belief, to me, is dangerous. You may as well legislate for the existence of God...

        2 replies 4 retweets 52 likes
      4. Samantha Connor‏ @mpfilms26 May 2
        Replying to @mpfilms26 @brianpaddick

        3/n ...You cannot rely on people just saying they are the opposite sex and then expect everyone to believe it. What if they're not sure? What if they're not serious? I will give you two examples. The first is @grrlalex have a look at this interview of Alex..

        1 reply 4 retweets 30 likes
      5. Samantha Connor‏ @mpfilms26 May 2
        Replying to @mpfilms26 @brianpaddick @grrlalex

        https://youtu.be/Lj4V-Nme86U 

        1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
      6. Samantha Connor‏ @mpfilms26 May 2
        Replying to @mpfilms26 @brianpaddick @grrlalex

        Tell me, are they serious? Are they joking? Who knows? Only Alex does. It is entirely possible they are not serious. But I would have to treat them as a woman even if I thought they weren't serious. I will now give you another example from personal experience.

        3 replies 2 retweets 21 likes
      7. Samantha Connor‏ @mpfilms26 May 2
        Replying to @mpfilms26 @brianpaddick @grrlalex

        6/n ...I was teaching a course in filmmaking to young people, along with 2 other male filmmakers. One of the students, a girl I will call Jill, had come up with a story about an actress who experienced sexism and misogyny at the hands of casting directors...

        1 reply 3 retweets 19 likes
      8. Samantha Connor‏ @mpfilms26 May 2
        Replying to @mpfilms26 @brianpaddick @grrlalex

        7/n ...(it was around the time of #metoo and the Weinstein thing). It was an absolutely fantastic idea which focussed on a character who had decided to take a stand against misogyny and call it out and I, as a woman, was very moved by the story...

        1 reply 2 retweets 20 likes
      9. Samantha Connor‏ @mpfilms26 May 2
        Replying to @mpfilms26 @brianpaddick @grrlalex

        8/n ..So the students began developing it. Now, one of the other students on the course was a young person who I will call Trish. Trish was a young man who, I was told, identified as a woman. Trish made no attempt to look like a woman. The only concession Trish had made to...

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