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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 15m

I post this without comment.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 1d

I would suggest this is perfect for a question at PMQ’s

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 1d

About 2016?

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 1d

‘It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen…’

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 1d

… Examples from the book include the slogans "War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery," and "Ignorance is Strength," which require accepting falsehoods as truths to maintain Party ideology.’

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 1d

*’Doublethink’ is a term coined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, describing the mental capacity to hold two contradictory beliefs simultaneously and accept both as true, a core mechanism of the totalitarian Party's control over reality…

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 1d

Presumably the U.K. Government will be urgently introducing domestic legislation to overturn the erroneous interpretation of the Equality Act reached by the U.K. Supreme Court in ‘For Women Scotland’?

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 1d

‘Everyone, everywhere, should have dignity and respect. No one should face violence, persecution, or exclusion because of who they are, or who they love, or how they express themselves.’

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 1d

… contains the following:

‘The UK is unwavering in its commitment to the protection and promotion of human rights for all, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other LGBT+ individuals.’

… and …

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 1d

‘Doublethink*’ alive and well in the U.K. Government.

Given the U.K. Government’s statement to the United Nations on 10 October 2025:

www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 4d

She pledged to be PM for Britain, and look how that turned out…

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 4d

The SC judgment is embarrassingly poor.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 4d

I always find it encouraging when the antis attack me for something I have written rather than the substance of what I have written.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a pretty silly name.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 5d

They’re not ‘my party’.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 5d

Just imagine a similar session focussed on being black or Jewish.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 5d

Permitting the Conservative Party conference to be used for the demonisation of trans people shows the Conservatives will be unfit for government for a generation.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Gender critical activists accused of ‘hateful’ remarks about trans women

Labour MP Richard Quigley said he was ‘appalled by the comments, but not surprised’

www.independent.co.uk

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 5d

If you are going to pop up on social media and make such allegations, you really need to identify yourself and know your subject.

Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 5d

Illegal? Really? Under which statutory provision?

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 5d

Or even the Briains!

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 5d

Kemi Badenoch

The Conservative Leader who puts the ‘I’ in ‘Britiain’

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 6d

Cass Review slammed AGAIN. This time by Australian academics.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/c...

Cass Review full of 'stigma' and should not guide trans youth care, say experts

A newly published study has argued the Cass Review into trans youth care, published in April 2024, is full of 'stigma' and 'misinformation'.

www.thepinknews.com

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 6d

They are WRONG

A more useful set of guidelines dealing with the needs of ALL vulnerable groups is set out below.

Don’t let hate groups into policy making.

translucent.org.uk/some-guideli...

Some Guidelines On the Inclusion of transgender persons in Services and Workplaces - TransLucent

Some Guidelines On the Inclusion of transgender persons in Services and Workplaces: Exclusion of trans persons post-FWS is likely harassment.

translucent.org.uk

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 6d

Inclusion of Trans people in Workplaces and Service Delivery

Anti-trans hate group 'Sex Matters' have been crowing about a Judicial Review they have brought against the Scots Govt to suggest that allowing trans people (trans women p’ly) to use gender-appropriate facilities is harassment of women.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 12d

Name one.

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