Twitter bans

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MRKHvoice has been suspended from Twitter. She has an intersex condition and has been relentlessly abused on Twitter by TRAs for not capitulating to their ridiculous appropriation of intersex as “proof” that there are more than two sexes.

Now Twitter have banned her.

I’m livid.

Women get banned for stating biological facts and SEXual orientation and TRA can post anything they like. Twitter will soon be history or even more of a cesspool of sexual deviants than it is already, MAPS NOMAPS no problem, women no way!

Glad you posted the Helen Lewis tweet Ewesurname. I was wondering whether there was a suitable thread. Helen Lewis is a prime example of the 'No compromise' TRA target. She is concerned transgender women in women's prisons and puberty blockers for children. Yet she gets as much abuse as if she misgendered, deadnamed and wore a badge saying 'I love being a terf' daily. I always think of her when I read posters pointing out being 'kind' is no guarantee of avoiding a pile on.

In an era where we aren’t supposed to identify a person’s sex, Twitter seems to be pretty good at identifying and banning people of one particular sex

Quite..

Twitter is an absolute cesspool and getting worse by the day as they seem to be banning all women who speak perfect fucking sense and actually have a brain.

Frances
@FrancesRoseScot
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/0364bfc3-5adc-4aef-99bd-48c68daacc38?in=15:27:30&out=15:50:30 ….

Watch @joannaccherry forensically interrogate @Twitter about allegations of their misogynist policies and the fact that they have omitted “sex” (which is a legally protected characteristic) from their list of hateful conduct. That’s all I want. Safety

Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻
@MarkDiStef
It’s getting &@%^ at the Human Rights Committee questioning of Twitter right now.

SNP’s Joanna Cherry: “Do you accept that the word TERF is a gendered term, forgive me, in the same way as bitch and cunt are gendered terms?"

Posted too soon!

Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻
@MarkDiStef
It’s getting &@%^ at the Human Rights Committee questioning of Twitter right now.

SNP’s Joanna Cherry: “Do you accept that the word TERF is a gendered term, forgive me, in the same way as bitch and cunt are gendered terms?"

Twitter’s Katy Minshall: “Yes”

Cherry: “And are bitch and cunt acceptable on Twitter?”

Minshall: “… we don’t have a prohibition on swearing… but it would be a violation if people were to target people with that stuff of language"

Cherry: “So if a tweet said, ‘shut the fuck up cunt’, would that be acceptable or taken down?”

Twitter’s head of UK government, public policy Katy Minshall says she can speak to safety team and follow up.

Oh my god EweSurname that is so good! I haven’t even finished watching yet

Excellent work from Joanna Cherry there. Well done!

Jennifer Cobbe
@jennifercobbe
It's not a slur, no matter how hard TERFs try to make it so. And not all rad fems are TERFs - there are plenty of trans inclusionary rad fems. The term 'TERF' exists to distinguish the two groups. Transphobia is a choice made by you and others.

Joanna Cherry QC MP
@joannaccherry
Replying to @jennifercobbe @Carregonnen
terf, despite being occasionally applied to men, is very much a term that refers to women, like bitch or cu@t both of which are also used to refer to men, but no one is pretending they are therefore not gendered! I’m grateful to @CCriadoPerez for this insight

blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/05/at-last-an-mp-brave-enough-to-say-twitter-hates-women/

That’s a great article!

Another ground breaking piece from James Kirkup. Great links in it. They've been keeping me busy for awhile and there's lots to go.

At last our needs are being taken seriously by some politicians, if Joanna was my MP I would definitely vote for her.