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Polly Mackenzie

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Chief exec of @demos, the cross party think tank. Founding director @mmhpi. Married to @nicholastyrone. Former spad to the DPM.

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    1. Emma Harriet Nicholson‏ @Baroness_Nichol 24 Oct 2020

      Emma Harriet Nicholson Retweeted Lionessque

      The deliberate degradation of motherhood,without which none of us would be here continues unabated.https://twitter.com/Lionessque/status/1319922013788643328 …

      Emma Harriet Nicholson added,

      Lionessque @Lionessque
      Replying to @SandsUK
      The 'birthing parent' is the mother. I was that mother, twice. I'm a bereaved mother, twice, I'm the mother who carried the babies, the mother who was incapacitated by both pregnancies, who gave birth to them over days. THE MOTHER, not a fucking birthing parent. How dare you.
      32 replies 142 retweets 897 likes
      Polly Mackenzie‏ @pollymackenzie 24 Oct 2020
      Replying to @Baroness_Nichol

      But the language choice - in this case - is surely to reflect the existence of same-sex couples rather than just trans people. In a lesbian couple one is the birth mother and the other a non birth mother. There’s a real danger in assuming malignancy in everything you read.

      5:23 AM - 24 Oct 2020
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      60 replies 2 retweets 96 likes
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        2. The Sulky Jedi  ❤️  🕸‏ @EdmontonRoller 24 Oct 2020
          Replying to @pollymackenzie @Baroness_Nichol

          That was my initial thought but SANDS could have used ‘birth mother’ to allow same-sex couple inclusion in this instance.

          0 replies 0 retweets 38 likes
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        1. Lauren‏ @coffeeatsunrise 24 Oct 2020
          Replying to @pollymackenzie @Baroness_Nichol

          Sands in amazing charity. I get your point but surely with all their experience they should have known the hurt it would invariably cause. If someone has lost their baby, they are a “mother” and that word means so much when someone is going through that loss

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        2. Pipped Apple‏ @ApplePipped 24 Oct 2020
          Replying to @GraceDarney @RosalynRoses and

          It never goes away You learn to bear the pain, but it is always part of you

          0 replies 1 retweet 17 likes
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        2. Solange  ⭐️ 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 🇬🇧‏ @solange_lebourg 24 Oct 2020
          Replying to @pollymackenzie @Baroness_Nichol

          They didn't say "birth mother" but "birthing parent". Reducing the woman to an unnamed someone, an instrument, a tool, who engages in birthing, not a woman who has the relationship of "mother" to her child.

          4 replies 3 retweets 121 likes
        3. Jefrir‏ @jefrirca 24 Oct 2020
          Replying to @solange_lebourg @pollymackenzie @Baroness_Nichol

          "Parent" is a word for a person, just as much as "mother". Both reflect the relationship to the child.

          0 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
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        2. scarimor  🏳️‍🌈 🕷 ♀️‏ @scarimor 24 Oct 2020
          Replying to @pollymackenzie @Baroness_Nichol

          You just wrote "mother" twice and they couldn't write "mother" at all.

          1 reply 0 retweets 50 likes
        3. Mallory Moore‏ @Chican3ry 24 Oct 2020
          Replying to @scarimor @pollymackenzie @Baroness_Nichol

          It's a tweet you melt

          0 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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        2. Homunculus  💜 🤍 💚‏ @tryingattimes 24 Oct 2020
          Replying to @pollymackenzie @Baroness_Nichol

          This is not an isolated phenomenon. There is a broad initiative to disassociate the words for women from their lived, physical reality. The reason for this is that these words are wanted by people who do not share the lived, physical reality of women.

          1 reply 7 retweets 92 likes
        3. Homunculus  💜 🤍 💚‏ @tryingattimes 24 Oct 2020
          Replying to @tryingattimes @pollymackenzie @Baroness_Nichol

          Were this simply a matter of “inclusivity”, we would not also see women deprived of the right to use these words for themselves and their experience without consequences. But we do.

          3 replies 4 retweets 70 likes
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