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Labour MP Jess Phillips being attacked on Twitter for her reasonable approach to gender bill

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BrightonBeachLady · 18/11/2017 16:34

I quite admire her tone of weary impatience, but if anyone is on Twitter and wants to thank/support her, here is the link: twitter.com/jessphillips/status/931093574011191296

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nauticant · 18/11/2017 18:23

So long as she's going knowingly into the "game" and is taking steps to keep herself safe. If it were me heading into the role of the "transphobe-in-chief" MP I would be worried.

hackmum · 18/11/2017 18:19

I think Jess Phillips has been a bit on the fence up till now - she is on the women's equality committee, after all, which has put forward the proposals for the new bill. Presumably the vicious onslaught she's experiencing from the TRAs will alert her to how worrying all this is.

Completely counterproductive on the part of the TRAs.

BetsyM00 · 18/11/2017 18:19

The very one! Almost unbelievable, isn't it.

Datun · 18/11/2017 18:18

but if people like Jess Phillips pick up enough flak, this will help in getting the message through to the mainstream that there is something very worrying here.

Exactly. They think they are Teflon coated. Immune. And they utterly expose themselves.

Bring it on. Let the world see.

QueenLaBeefah · 18/11/2017 18:18

Really didn't take long for the violence and misogynistic langauage to appear (again something men seem to love directing towards women).

Datun · 18/11/2017 18:17

BetsyM00

This Ada Wells? What a fucking plank.

nauticant · 18/11/2017 18:11

When you see TRAs en masse they really do look like a cult. They give off a strong vibe of threat/violence.

It's a scary "game" to play but if people like Jess Phillips pick up enough flak, this will help in getting the message through to the mainstream that there is something very worrying here.

BetsyM00 · 18/11/2017 17:58

Remember Ada Wells - from Edinburgh Uni and a member of Action for Trans Health Edinburgh who gave evidence at Maria Miller's committee? His Twitter name is DykePRK and here's his contribution:

Labour MP Jess Phillips being attacked on Twitter for her reasonable approach to gender bill
Labour MP Jess Phillips being attacked on Twitter for her reasonable approach to gender bill
Labour MP Jess Phillips being attacked on Twitter for her reasonable approach to gender bill
FloraFox · 18/11/2017 17:49

It’s a shame this happened to Jess. I hope she and other women trying to be reasonable can see that there is no quarter given by TAs unless there is complete and unquestioning capitulation to “transwomen are women”. WEP take note.

birdsdestiny · 18/11/2017 17:36

There are some brave women talking about this subject. I think people forget that we have seen it all before, same old same old. We recognise it for what it is.

EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans · 18/11/2017 17:33

I've thanked her. This attack is going to be doing nothing for the image of transwomen.

catgirl1976 · 18/11/2017 17:30

I've read all the comments on that Twitter thread (though 99% of them are just people repeating a ridiculous dogma over and over again because that obviously makes a thing true)

It's appalling. Men telling us what to think and shutting us down when we don't agree. Although there are loads of women saying it too who are coming across to me a bit like the "cool wives" if that makes sense.

And the #nodebate - don't get me started.

Elendon · 18/11/2017 17:30

Jess Phillips has my support all the way. I want to thank her for her stance on this.

QueenLaBeefah · 18/11/2017 17:27

Men just love telling women what they should think and feel.

motmot · 18/11/2017 17:25

I'm not on Twitter and every time I follow a link and read a bit of it I feel... Quite alarmed.

Datun · 18/11/2017 16:59

I see this sort of thing all the time, but this has really given me the creeps.

And that’s just a small section of it.

Labour MP Jess Phillips being attacked on Twitter for her reasonable approach to gender bill
Labour MP Jess Phillips being attacked on Twitter for her reasonable approach to gender bill
Labour MP Jess Phillips being attacked on Twitter for her reasonable approach to gender bill
Datun · 18/11/2017 16:57

It’s unbelievable.

The amount of men refusing to engage and just posting ‘transwomen are women’ makes it look like nothing more than a huge cult.

Don’t these people realise that they come across as deranged and entitled?

It really does nothing for their argument that they should have access to women and girls.