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Liz Truss MP breaks cover: backs MN

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RedToothBrush · 22/04/2018 01:57

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5642853/Cabinet-minister-prompts-transgender-row-backing-Mumsnet-users.html
Cabinet minister prompts transgender row after backing Mumsnet users 'leading backlash against militant activists'

That's a total if THREE Trans stories in the Mail on Sunday online dated with the 21st/22nd April.

This is Truss's tweet from 4 days ago

Elizabeth Truss @ trussliz
I enjoy a heated debate with @MumsnetTowers on childcare and I hail her for her approach to free speech. #openminded #freemums
With link to Kirkup's spectactor article.

The original tweet only got about a dozen replies, 24 retweets and a 105 likes.

Cursed E was one of the few responders.

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DarthArts · 22/04/2018 02:39

Yay !!

But not yay - where are all the left wing women MP's?

Battleax · 22/04/2018 02:36

Good for her.

I wonder if she walks among us on FWR

HopScotchy · 22/04/2018 02:26

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OlennasWimple · 22/04/2018 02:23

She may be a terf in disguise

Burn the witch!

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Duddlepluck · 22/04/2018 02:20

Last night she was condemned by the transgender lobby as a ‘terf’, a derogatory term used for feminists they deem to be transphobic.

That's the first mainstream news report I've seen where 'terf' is actually named as derogatory, a slur in other words, rather than some kind of meaningful descriptor. Very interesting...

miri1985 · 22/04/2018 02:18

"Last night Delia Johnston, the former head of a charity campaigning for trans sportspeople to be allowed to compete in their chosen gender, condemned Ms Truss. Ms Johnston said: ‘She is giving kudos to Mumsnet who are particularly vicious on this particular front. Truss could be investigated for backing a group that is effectively advocating violence against the transgender community. She may be a terf in disguise.’"

Effectively advocating violence? How? Where? Given the focus that has been on MN this week, no one has been able to show this.

I've actually seen people advocating violence, real actual violence against trans people on twitter but somehow IW, LM etc are all allowed to use that platform without any irony that they're not boycotting it or stopping it being used by others.

UpstartCrow · 22/04/2018 02:14

It will only take a few brave souls to stick their head above the parapet to give others permission to do so.

Waddlelikeapenguin · 22/04/2018 02:11

Woo!

HopScotchy · 22/04/2018 02:08

It's where we are. It's temporary and they had better have their excuses lined up. Idiots.

CircleSquareCircleSquare · 22/04/2018 02:05

It comes to something when an MP backing free speech is seen as controversial and newsworthy.

But good for her, these days that really is sticking your neck out.

HopScotchy · 22/04/2018 02:03

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AornisHades · 22/04/2018 02:01

Liz Truss?

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