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Budge up Kirkup! Nick Cohen chimes in.

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Freespeecher · 03/11/2018 20:31

Sure, it's only a passing sideswipe in his column about the Comment awards, but still worth a mention:

'A Lib Dem activist with the unimprovable name of Helen Belcher denounced Janice Turner of the Times for having the audacity to write about the opportunities for rapists and child abusers that the policy of allowing men to identify as women brought. Turner was, Belcher libellously implied, somehow responsible for trans suicides. Belcher resigned when her fellow judges did not take the cue and disqualify Turner as a ‘Terf’, the modern equivalent of a witch.

www.spectator.co.uk/2018/11/how-do-you-snare-a-journalist-offer-an-award/'

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arranfan · 03/11/2018 20:50

One of the things that's rocked me back on my heels about that infamous letter signed by 1600+ scientists is that one of the authors and co-signatories is Karen James who has since commented:

Just spent 45 minutes blocking TERFs and trolls on sight. I normally don’t block on sight – I like to engage for the benefit of onlookers – but I need to regain control of my notifications. Fun times.

In this thread, she even announces her intention to sign-up to TERFBlocker.

twitter.com/kejames/status/1058373394184527873

She's repeated use of the word 'terf' and refers to them being mostly from the UK.

Normally I wouldn’t block so readily but the avalanche of hateful replies I got from mostly trans-exclusionary feminists, mostly in the UK, was making Twitter totally unusable for me.

twitter.com/kejames/status/1058737418734592000

She's a good researcher. I've admired some of her work with the NHM and her work to promote women in science.

I can't believe that I'm seeing her refer to other women as Terfs and Nazis.