@DrThaneSagar Prof. Grace Lavery Katy Montgomerie 🦗 Dr Debbie Hayton Emma Hilton Kathleen Stock based proposition or a matter of personal belief. Trans people have every right to express their identity however they like, they should be protected from discrimination at work/housing etc, and they should have full and free (or covered) medical care. They cannot demand that we

@DrThaneSagar Prof. Grace Lavery Katy Montgomerie 🦗 Dr Debbie Hayton Emma Hilton Kathleen Stock believe their faith, or that we change our entire understanding of reality on that basis. With all the consequences of that, especially for the articulation of a feminist analysis and on female people's political rights and rights to political organisation.

3. Further to which,

@DrThaneSagar Prof. Grace Lavery Katy Montgomerie 🦗 Dr Debbie Hayton Emma Hilton Kathleen Stock they need to stop slurring, threatening, witch-hunting, cancelling, trying to get fired, sending violence and sexualised threats and generally using any manner of coercive, abusive, and emotionally blackmailing methods to try and impose and enforce their beliefs.

@ThaneSagarQs Prof. Grace Lavery Katy Montgomerie 🦗 Dr Debbie Hayton Emma Hilton Kathleen Stock 4. Accept that female people have a legitimate interest in the existence of female people as a political class and the rights that follow from that, that we have a right to express these interests and organise around them, that it was wrong to try and enforce civic and political

@DrThaneSagar Prof. Grace Lavery Katy Montgomerie 🦗 Dr Debbie Hayton Emma Hilton Kathleen Stock changes that impact the existence of female people as a political class while seeking to exclude us from the political process and demonising and threatening us.

We recognise that trans people have needs. That recognition needs to be returned and political negotiation on the

@ThaneSagarQs Prof. Grace Lavery Katy Montgomerie 🦗 Dr Debbie Hayton Emma Hilton Kathleen Stock basis of that mutual recognition and respect needs to happen.

That'll do for starters.

@ThaneSagarQs Dr. Jane Clare Jones Katy Montgomerie 🦗 Dr Debbie Hayton Emma Hilton Kathleen Stock okay lez try.

1. Sex exists, but it is usually not the basis on which “oppression” happens, nor is it consistently defined across history. “Woman” is a cultural category.

2. I don’t care what people “believe” about trans women. I care that we have health care and social care.

Prof. Grace Lavery @ThaneSagarQs Dr. Jane Clare Jones Katy Montgomerie 🦗 Dr Debbie Hayton Emma Hilton Kathleen Stock Sex is the basis on which my grandmother couldn’t vote. On which my mother needed a letter from her husband to open a store account. On which I was paid less than men. We couldn’t identify out of it. Pretending otherwise is men’s rights activism.

Neither Libertarian Nor Communist🇪🇺💚🤍💜 Dr EM Prof. Grace Lavery @ThaneSagarQs Dr. Jane Clare Jones Katy Montgomerie 🦗 Dr Debbie Hayton Emma Hilton Kathleen Stock Sex is the basis on which my grandmother worked for years without pay to gain experience as a doctor post WW2. A condition of her employment in the hospital was that she didn’t marry. Not the clearest pic but will try and get a better one - fascinating article if you can read it.

Rebecca Dr EM Prof. Grace Lavery @ThaneSagarQs Dr. Jane Clare Jones Katy Montgomerie 🦗 Dr Debbie Hayton Emma Hilton Kathleen Stock Thank you for sharing this! In my early twenties (in the 70s), one of the key feminist campaigns was to lift the quota in medical schools limiting the intake of female students to 20%. It’s so important to realise how short-lived this golden age of our human rights has been.