Milli Hill

@millihill

Bestselling Author | Feminist | Positive Birth Book | Give Birth Like a Feminist (HarperCollins) | My Period (Hachette) Aug '21 | Agent: | 💪❤

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    Jul 10

    Last Nov I expressed the view that obstetric violence is violence against women. It happens to women 'because they are female'. The resulting pile on was horrific. I've finally decided to tell my story and shine a light on this misogynistic bullying.

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  2. 17 hours ago

    My statement in response to the statement from Birthrights.

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  3. 17 hours ago

    Thanks everyone for all the support you are giving me. It means a great deal. I am fine 😀. Very important to call out threats and bullying but also to keep perspective that for every horrible message I've had thousands of lovely appreciative ones. ♥️

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  4. Jul 18

    This is getting tiring. An organisation called is telling people not to buy my books and has also, it seems, bullied another organisation who put up a post supporting me, into taking it down.

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  5. Jul 18

    Is this your employee ?

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  6. Retweeted
    Jul 18
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    If anyone can be a woman just by saying that they are, then the word woman becomes completely meaningless. And then spaces previously reserved for women become spaces for anyone who wishes to access them. Does that not strike you as at all problematic?

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    Jul 18
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    Saying women are male or female people who feel feminine is much less progressive than saying women are female and can have any type of personality, hobbies or interests.

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    Jul 18
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    Where do I define woman as baby making machine? I fight for women's rights in childbirth. Are women who fight against domestic violence defining women as wives?

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    Jul 18
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    That isn't what feminism is. Feminism is not a catch-all equality movement; it's specifically the liberation of women from the patriarchy.

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    Jul 18
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    Woman is a biological reality. Gender is the social construct and it is regressive and harmful. Stereotypes don’t make a women. Feelings don’t make a woman. Biology and adulthood makes a woman.

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  11. Jul 18

    I've written a short piece on my substack about this rollercoaster week, with a few thoughts to ponder on what the implications of the phrase 'women and birthing people' might be.

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  12. Jul 18

    Hello dark ages my old friend 🙄

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    A clitoris is not at all different from a penis. This is a clitoris.
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  13. Jul 17

    Also, as I've said elsewhere, the bullying and attempts to silence women in the birth world is RIFE. I was made an example of. Others similarly. So many just keep their heads down because they don't want to lose their livelihood. 😞

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  14. Jul 17

    I think the comparison is made with gay rights and many therefore feel it's 'just the same as the 80s'. They haven't thought through the ways this is different and impacts women's rights, indeed many have told me they 'don't have time' and we should just 'be kind' etc.

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    Milli, have you any idea WHY women - MIDWIVES! - have become committed to erasing women like this? Women who work exclusively with female bodies and have seen the life and death of the WOMEN in their care? What is behind this? It keeps me up at night!
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    Jul 17
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    "Why all this matters, over and above the academic and philosophic arguments about what is to be a woman or a man, is that sex difference is key to formulating health and social policy." “The bond between mother and infant is crucial. You can’t protect it if you can’t name it.”

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    Jul 17
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    I think what is clear from this debate is that it is not OK to describe a trans person in any way other than the way they wish to be referred to, but if is totally fine to do that to women, who make up about half the population.

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    Jul 17
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    No- at most we need a definition in any relevant document/policy which clarifies that ‘women’ means female people and includes those who prefer gendered use of language for their personal descriptors.

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    Jul 17
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    “not everyone who menstruates is a woman,” you say? The issue is that language must reflect reality. 🤔 But you aren’t actually attempting to change language, you are attempting to change reality - or more precisely, the PERCEPTION of reality. That’s a problem, my friend.

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  19. Jul 17

    I should add that the journalist suggests I belong to a group of 'witches' and I can neither confirm nor deny that allegation 🧙😂

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  20. Jul 17

    From today's Telegraph. I'm so glad they included my key point that if you change language at population level and say not all people who give birth are women, you demote women from a sex to an identity. And the ramifications of that are huge.

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  21. Jul 16

    Women have fought for decades to remove the shame around the language to describe their biology. It's because of their efforts that you can even call yourselves Vagina Museum. And now you're trying to frame the erasure of women and their words as progressive? Idiocy.

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