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Dr Jane Harris Twitter account is suspended

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ripx4nutmeg · 17/10/2020 08:10

Seemingly permanently - essentially for saying that it's not hatred to say that biological sex is real and that focussing on 'gender assigned at birth' notions is not all that helpful during a pandemic.

Jane's account is one of the most polite and thoughtful I've seen, and she has been instrumental in generating support from people who care about free speech for JK Rowling (she was one of the original signatories of the recent letter defending her, which was opened up to the public and now has more than 20,000 signatures).

Social media censorship of gender critical accounts has reached new levels of extremism in the last few days.

twitter.com/tibby17/status/1317344458158080000?s=19

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ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 17/10/2020 08:50

I wonder if Twitter are straying into indirect sex discrimination in the provision of their services. Women are getting banned for stating facts but men are not getting banned for abuse.

KatVonlabonk · 17/10/2020 08:44

I love both you and Jane on Twitter, Nutmeg, but it is a cesspit.

Toxic dump of humanity

OhHolyJesus · 17/10/2020 08:44

You explain exactly why I won't return to Twitter Nutmeg.

It's a catch 22 as it's the platform for work and global connection and well as news and trends etc but I can't get past the MAPs and the misogyny.

There are more niché platforms beginning but Twitter is the mainstream and I feel my hand is being forced to get involved and I don't like it.

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ripx4nutmeg · 17/10/2020 08:38

It's a paradox for me FloralBunting.

On the one hand having a Twitter account has proven to be incredibly useful in what I view as the most important achievement I can do: Raising awareness re what's going on; I've had people tell me my tweets played a role in alerting them to what's going on re trans activism. I don't have the vlogging skills to be on YouTube and don't want the risk to losing anonymity by being on Facebook, probably the other two giant platforms.

On the other hand Twitter is a cesspit. There are now paedophiles operating openly on it, abuse of women is encouraged and the only thing liberal about the platform is its application of censorship to anyone who doesnt have a woke view. I hope to see it crash one day

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FindTheTruth · 17/10/2020 08:38

Saw this interesting take on it twitter.com/JamesUnfettered/status/1317116429641129985

I treat gender as I do religion, homeopathy, or astrology. I recognise that they exist. I respect other people's right to believe in them if they want to, on condition they don't harm others. I don't believe in them though and I'll certainly never be bullied into pretending I do

EdgeOfACoin · 17/10/2020 08:32

It's the main tactic and always has been and the pushback against has been gaining ground.

It shows they're scared of the arguments.

Strange, though, as I keep hearing TRAs claim: "no one is saying that biological sex doesn't exist".

FloralBunting · 17/10/2020 08:21

You know why, though, nutmeg. It's the main tactic and always has been and the pushback against has been gaining ground.

It makes me angry when women are traduced like this, and I have always appreciated your presence on Twitter, and respect what you do, but I'm firmly of the opinion that the quicker it descends into a pointless echo chamber of the perverts, creeps, dullards and influencer celebs that is only ever clicked on by accident, the better.

On the whole, women are much better off well shot of it.