Love this - Matt Hancock says men!

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twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1257566344767299586?s=09

Obfuscation of the word "men" certainly concentrates minds 😂

heartening responses to it too

There's no time for wooly language when dealing with a deadly virus.

Well done Matt!

That's brilliant!

"Leave that to me"

Hilarious!

Wonderful, that has made my day x

Brilliant!

Wow.

I cannot believe the preference would he to cause harm over acknowledging reality

Love it! Fantastic

The exasperation in his voice....

Separate it out mate.

Biological sex - fixed fact, unchanged, not assigned, get over it

Gender - anything you feel like, go nuts, enjoy yourself. But it doesn't affect your biological sex or which sex group you fall into.

So ruddy simple.

I’d have been more impressed if it had been something that disproportionately affected women and he had correctly identified ‘women’.

It is quite helpful to have examples like this though because 'men' as a word and concept gets clearly defined and clearly boundary defended.

Hancock is on record with this. Which means there's more clear evidence to face muppets with that if this is the case for men, then either you have to extend the same to women or you are demonstrating that this is nothing more than sexist, male supremacist wankery. Which is, after all, precisely what this is.

QED.

Reality has come knocking at the door

Hahaha loved it!!! I wonder if DHSC has tweeted a correction.

Brilliant! There's definitely a bit of momentum building up, isn't there?

Brilliant

Well done Julia, if she hadn't pushed the point Matt wouldn't have known and made it clear

Andrew Neil too with his 1m followers...
twitter.com/afneil/status/1257607472652652544?s=20
More sunlight!

Haha excellent!

I know it's probably entirely down to my female socialisation and his puppy eyes, but I quite like Matt Hancock. He's so polite.

The DH tweet has well over 2k replies - many times more than normal. Maybe the message is starting to sink in...

Lord Lucas too.

Here are two tweets from Lord Lucas:

"I have put down a question for written answer to ask what evidence you have that gender affects the impact of coronavirus; how many genders you believe there to be, which the affected genders are, or whether instead of “certain genders” you should have used the word “males” " 8:56 pm · 4 May 2020

"It seems to me important that we should be exact in this, as such emerging evidence should affect the precautions that people take. In particular, people should be made aware of the possibility of increased, or decreased, risks arising from changing gender." 9:00 pm · 4 May 2020·

He also pointed out later that no one should be blaming one person for that tweet, when that person could lose their job for not following the 'mantra' the government has allowed to spread.

Sorry CheriLittlebottom. cross posted.