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Ky Schevers @reclaimingtrans.bsky.social · 3d

There’s no point in trying to argue away anti-trans feminism anyways. We need intelligence gathering, not arguments. Find their weak points & take them down. This is a fight for survival, not a debate club. You’re not going to win over the hardcore TERFs, you need to remove their capacity for harm.

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 2d

When you see that that excuse and intimidation tactic never worked for Dems - so you still do it to everyone in the UK anyway. lol.

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 2d

They say “No Kings” but protests didn’t stop the King and his imperialist troops. Guns did.

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 2d

“Cuz I am just as fckd as you.”

Democrats aren’t gonna save you. They’re gonna sell everyone out like they always do, like they did the last time, just like the chuds always do too. Same shit.

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 2d

Yep.

“Empirical evidence consistently refutes claims that a child’s or adolescent’s gender can be ‘directed’ by peer group pressure or media influence, as a form of ‘social contagion’” -- APS Fellow Prof Damien Riggs (psychology.org.au/about-us/new...)

A screenshot of the linked statement from the APS: 12 Sep 2019

APS Refutes ‘Social Contagion’ Arguments

The Australian Psychological Society (APS) today released the following statement in support of transgender people in Australia, and challenging the unfounded claim that social media influences the gender of young people specifically:

“Empirical evidence consistently refutes claims that a child’s or adolescent’s gender can be ‘directed’ by peer group pressure or media influence, as a form of ‘social contagion’,” APS Fellow Professor Damien Riggs said.

“To say that there is a trans-identity crisis among young Australians because of social media pressure is not only alarmist, scientifically incorrect and confusing, but is potentially harmful to a young person’s mental health and wellbeing.

“Claims that young people are transgender due to ‘social contagion’ serve to belittle young people by asking them to believe that their sense of self and their gender is nothing more than a by-product of what other people might think or say through the media.

“Further, describing awareness of being transgender as a form of social contagion implies that such awareness can be ‘corrected’ through psychological, medical or spiritual ‘conversion therapies’.

“There is no evidence to suggest that such approaches work in terms of changing a person’s gender. What such debunked ‘therapies’ do produce, however, are high levels of shame, disrespect and distress. So debunked are these ‘therapies’ that they are increasingly being rejected by policy makers and legislators across Australia in favour of affirming responses to transgender people,” Professor Riggs said

As a professional organisation committed to evidence-based practice, the APS opposes any forms of mental health practice that are not affirming of transgender people. The APS supports evidence-based strategies for responding to transgender clients (alt text truncated)

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Marti Abernathey @martiabernathey.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not just maga though. It’s happening around the world peertube.martiabernathey.com/w/w55tUSBYa8... They will willingly self harm to “own the libs”.

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It’s like you guys are totally into it. #UKReform. #Brexit. #UnitedKingdom. #UKPolitics. #Humour.

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Marti Abernathey @martiabernathey.bsky.social · 2d

They tend to quote Marx/Lenin on the “lumpenproletariat” (sounding more like an evangelical, than a philosopher/economist), rather than listen to Mao or the BPP/YLO. I find this way of thinking flawed to the point of not being useful.

Marti Abernathey @martiabernathey.bsky.social · 2d

This is where I struggle finding solid analysis when it comes to Marxism. So much of the anti-capitalist left is some variation of West/white/cis and it shown in their analysis (which often boils down to class reductionism) that has no framing of oppression/privilege outside of class.

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Ky Schevers @reclaimingtrans.bsky.social · 2d

If you take away the anti-sex work, anti-trans etc bullshit, what separates classic radical feminism from other forms of feminism is sex class theory & the idea that patriarchy is the primary oppression from which other oppressions stem from, which is historically inaccurate & plain bad theory.

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Ky Schevers @reclaimingtrans.bsky.social · 2d

I would say if your feminism isn’t connected & working alongside left-wing political struggles, like anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism/colonialism, Black liberation, Indigenous liberation, etc, if it isn’t internationalist, then it ain’t shit.

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Marti Abernathey @martiabernathey.bsky.social · 5d

Is there anyone still supporting this absolute train wreck?

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 18d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6d

Will people get a grip and realise just how close to fascism we are in this country?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d

Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp repeatedly refusing to say that he thinks Reform MP Sarah Pochin saying she doesn't like seeing black people on TV was racist.

Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration

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Marti Abernathey @martiabernathey.bsky.social · 6d

The #greenparty looks ready to lead a country while #yourparty doesn’t seem to be able to lead a social media account.

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Marti Abernathey @martiabernathey.bsky.social · 6d

A tale in two posts

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Nhaama @notyournhaama.posts.art · 6d

Then why the fuck are you even here if you can't comment on the moat basic bitch of policies?

This acct should have been kept disabled until you actually had something to fucking stand for, and be able to answer some actual fucking questions instead of this "uh dunno" approach.

YP run by idiots.

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Marti Abernathey @martiabernathey.bsky.social · 6d

LOL honestly yall are pathetic. “In the meantime” the Green Party has went from 65k to 150k members in the time it took you to put your trainers on. You’re waiting on a conference, meanwhile Zack is going on Piers Morgan’s show supporting trans rights in a way that is understandable and digestible.

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Marti Abernathey @martiabernathey.bsky.social · 6d

Tbf they’re still stuck on 2016. It’s like they don’t learn on purpose

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 6d

The "theory" is "I've got big guns and the Supreme Court said I'm immune from any criminal prosecution, and Congress lets me get away with everything, so I'm gonna murder brown people with big explosions and tell the public I'm saving them from drugs."

Saved you a click.

Politico Magazine: "The Theory Behind Trump's Gunboat Diplomacy"

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Marti Abernathey @martiabernathey.bsky.social · 7d

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It seems like the #unitedkingdom has a degradation kink. It seems to want to commit self harm repeatedly #Brexit #ReformParty #NigelFarage #UKPolitics

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 17d

a lot of the rich white queers out here who prop up Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P Johnson, etc. constantly treat trans POC activists the exact same way white gay treated the STAR women.

don't trust people's words, watch their actions! now is the most important time to have solidarity and be anti-racist.

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Scott @smadin.net · 17d

it's so fun how "originalism" means the text of the Constitution can only ever mean what its authors would have understood it to mean in the context of their time, except if that text was written between 1864 and 1870.

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Marti Abernathey @martiabernathey.bsky.social · 27d

And who are you? A faceless bot, with an account full of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and lies.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Sep 30

Owen Jones has been banned from 'Labour' Party conference - but Maya Forstater is welcome.

And they wonder why progressive voters are deserting them in droves.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · Sep 26

Transphobes will sacrifice there own freedom just to harm trans people.

That's who they are.

- Nicola - 🌸🎀💕 @paneraiwearer.bsky.social · Sep 26

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Forstater saying Digital ID should be used to stop trans people "falsely proving they are someone else."

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