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The Tavistock gender identity clinic “experimented” on vulnerable children
It should rightly be viewed as a catastrophic failure.
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What a week!!
Blowing Down the House of Cards: Bailey, Cass, Duffield
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🔺 BREAKING: The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children after a damning review found that it failed vulnerable under-18s
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And I couldn’t be prouder of my friend ❤️
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JK ROWLING’S FRIEND ALLISON BAILEY WINS HER CASE
(Great headline!) twitter.com/BluskyeAllison…
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The Gay Men's network congratulates Allison Bailey for this historic judgment and salutes her strength and fortitude in bringing this case. Organisations persuaded to join extremist schemes who are then found to victimise lesbians must take note.
Huge respect from us Allison
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1/The Employment Tribunal found that Garden Court Chambers discriminated against me because of my gender critical belief when it published a statement that I was under investigation & in upholding Stonewall’s complaint against me.
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So pleased for Allison Bailey who was discriminated against and treated abysmally by . This, alongside Forstater v CGD, is a profoundly important judgment.
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1/The Employment Tribunal found that Garden Court Chambers discriminated against me because of my gender critical belief when it published a statement that I was under investigation & in upholding Stonewall’s complaint against me.
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Let this be warning to all those employers, unincorporated associations or organisations who think they can get away with subduing, discriminating against or victimising honorable people for standing up for what's right & fair - or for expressing their gender critical belief! 
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Allison Bailey is a heroine to me and innumerable other feminists for refusing to abandon her beliefs and principles in the fact of intimidation and discrimination. Congratulations, ! 🎉
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1/The Employment Tribunal found that Garden Court Chambers discriminated against me because of my gender critical belief when it published a statement that I was under investigation & in upholding Stonewall’s complaint against me.
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Walsh believes feminism is 'rotten' and his default appears to be denigrating women with whom he disagrees. He's no more on my side than the 'shut up or we'll bomb you' charmers who cloak their misogyny in a pretty pink and blue flag. 4/4
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but a shared belief that women exist as a biological class (and water's wet and the moon's not made of cheese) does not an ally make. I believe women are susceptible to certain harms and have specific needs and that feminism is necessary to secure and protect our rights. 3/4
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Like many women on the left, I despair that so many self-proclaimed liberals turn a blind eye to the naked misogyny of the gender identity movement and the threat it poses to the rights of women and girls. Walsh's film undeniably exposed what many leftists are too scared to, 2/4
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Respectfully, I've been facing down the Punch-and-Kill-TERFs brigade for a while now and not once have I thought, 'what I really want is to hand this over to a man who thinks feminism is one of the worst things to happen to western civilisation.' 1/4
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Respectfully -- and I sincerely mean respectfully -- you need to fall back and support men like Matt Walsh. You're not built for this conflict. The failure and cowardice of men got us into this mess. Matt is standing up. You need to support him. Men have to fix this. twitter.com/jk_rowling/sta…
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And I have to say, while I’m normally a whisky/bourbon woman, this is very nice indeed.
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And for those too naive to realise that predators will ALWAYS swarm into movements trying to eradicate safeguarding boundaries, invariably trumpeting their virtue and screaming 'you're all just scaremongering!' as they come...
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I had an email from a male social worker last year who wrote 'they are dismantling safeguarding in front of our eyes'.
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Over the decades I've worked with young women/girls requiring intimate care no males have EVER been allowed this access. This is not progress, it's a safeguarding nightmare.
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I urge everyone who feels the same way I do on reading this article to contact their MP, as I will certainly be contacting mine and anyone else I know who can stand up to this horror show. . 5/X
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I'm so bloody angry my hands are shaking. I'm the daughter of a disabled mother and I've campaigned for the rights of vulnerable children for many years, but I'm still constantly shocked by the cruelty and indifference shown to those who cannot advocate for themselves. 4/5
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Predators go where there is access. Predators love victims who can't fight back or speak out. Successive studies show that 98-99% of sexual abusers are male. This validation of male feelings over disabled girls' protection is abhorrent. 3/5
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Nearly 20 years ago I founded to reform care systems for vulnerable children. I know from long experience how vulnerable children are in institutions. The statistics on predation are appalling. Disabled women and children are many times more likely to be abused. 2/5
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I cannot overstate my contempt for those supporting policies that endanger extremely vulnerable girls. This is a travesty. Have we learned nothing from successive abuse scandals? Do we value the disabled so little? 1/5
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If your sole contribution to the discussion on the erosion of women’s rights is to wade in and start haranguing and lecturing women on how to behave and think, you’ve got far more in common with what I’m standing against than you have with me. 2/3
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Men in my mentions telling me I should support the bullying of other women into the ‘correct’ position: you’re advocating that I become what I hate. Those are the tactics of the misogynist movement women are currently fighting. 1/2
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I'm not there for men calling women cowards when they never have to face this stuff themselves, nor am I ok with white guys publicly telling black women how to comport themselves. Men whose default is policing women's speech and actions are not allies.
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You’re right that it goes well beyond “mean.” But he’s backing women who have a backbone. He’s backing you.
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Endless death and rape threats, threats of loss of livelihood, employers targeted, physical harassment, family address posted online with picture of bomb-making manual aren't 'mean comments'. If you don't yet understand what happens to women who stand up on this issue, back off.
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Sorry but women who publicly renounce the definition of “woman” for fear of mean comments from trans activists deserve all the scorn they get. That kind of gutless cowardice is exactly what got us into this position in the first place. twitter.com/FiLiA_charity/…
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@jk_rowling I was just in a taxi and driver said you once saw him looking forlorn at a rank and told him to cheer up. A few years later you got into his cab and said ‘you look cheerier.’ That’s a helluva memory, missus.
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This is an attempt to destroy the only UK charity exclusively supporting same-sex attracted people. We didn't seek this fight but we won't hide from it. We ask everyone who agrees LGB people have the right to organise in our own interests to support us.
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If you’ve got a strong stomach, read Dr Em’s article (second tweet in her thread). Another male gender identity activist - one of the most notorious - calls disabled women wanting privacy and dignity ‘disgusting’.
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Intimate touching without consent is sexual assault. A self-proclaimed doctor says it’s ‘psychotic’ for disabled women to assert the right to female-only intimate care. I’m praying he’s not actually an MD, just a standard misogynist here to troll, but either way
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1. This man thinks women and girls who require single-sex intimate care, having their vulva and breasts washed, are psychotic for refusing unknown males to touch their bodies. That disabled women should be forced to be men's play toys. twitter.com/oriwa_/status/…
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Now got a lot of people reminding me King’s Cross is a real place. I promise I don’t think I made it up (or Charing Cross Road either)! I’m talking about wizarding world locations like Godric’s Hollow, the Leaky Cauldron, Diagon Alley, wh are often claimed to have ‘real’ models.
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My mouth painting - Stag III.
I can only paint using my mouth.
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Afraid not, but I know the graveyard you’re talking about because unbeknownst to me, one of my children was at a loose end one afternoon and went on one of those Potter walking tours with their best mate for a laugh. They came home with a ton of information that was news to me 😂
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Any truth to the story that a lot of the character names come from a particular graveyard? I’m certain the guide on our walking tour of Edinburgh made that claim.
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as the second house I lived in as a child (which did have a cupboard under the stairs). Dull but true: I haven’t even been to many of the cities containing the self-proclaimed ‘real’ Diagon Alleys! 3/X
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I feel bad for the tourist boards saying it, but all locations in Potter are entirely imaginary bar one, which is the most boring. It was only when I’d written the first three books that I realised I’d given 4 Privet Drive exactly the same layout 2/3
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No real street inspired Diagon Alley, I’m afraid. It came out of my head! I’ve never seen 99% of the places that claim to be the inspiration and I’d never seen Victoria St when I created DA (I have since, obviously, as it’s in Edinburgh, where I live). 1/3
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@jk_rowling @HarryPotterFilm I know that it’s Victoria St in Edinburgh that says it was your inspiration for Diagonally but this street in York is really giving off Potter vibes 
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Ministers aren’t expected to be perfect.
But is it really too much to ask that they don’t treat the public like this?
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We are shocked and saddened by the murder of Shinzo Abe. Our thoughts go out to his family, friends, colleagues, and to the people of Japan.
Attacks on political figures are an attack on democracy.
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Downing St aides currently cringing like parents of a small child about to have an onstage meltdown during the Nativity Play.
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Downing Street sources suggest Boris Johnson is currently tweaking his resignation statement. Some concern he may not actually read out what was prepared.
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