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Maya Forstater
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The Fawcett Society: shutting women up in the name of feminism

Organisations adopt the idea that men can be women out of kindness or pragmatism. But the illogic breaks them. They end up contorting themselves around the contradictions and the double-speak, until their core principle snaps, and with it their integrity. Scientists pretend they don’t understand evolution, left wing organisations say…

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The Fawcett Society: shutting women up in the name of feminism
The Fawcett Society: shutting women up in the name of feminism

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On Gender-critical disputes

Helen Joyce comes up with really good allegories and mental models at the rate of about one a week. But the one that I keep coming back to is one she told me the first time I met her, when I was still scrambling to keep my job at CGD…

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On Gender-critical disputes
On Gender-critical disputes

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Dec 26, 2022

Dear David

You “wrote to me” on December 19th by publishing a blog post about me, without alerting me, accusing me of spreading a lie. I submitted a reply your blog post but you have declined to publish it. Therefore I am publishing it here. In your blog post you accuse me…

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Dear David
Dear David

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Dec 8, 2022

Essex University Human Rights Centre says don’t contaminate our safe space with your thinking

10/12/22: UPDATED — with additional comments from James Murray and Bryn Harris, added to the comments of Akua Reindorf, Audrey Ludwig, Professor Jo Phoenix and Sarah Vine KC. ______________________________________________________________ There is a new report out published by Essex University Human Rights Centre. It is a Not-The-Reindorf-Report setting out why Universities…

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Essex University Human Rights Centre says don’t contaminate our safe space with your thinking
Essex University Human Rights Centre says don’t contaminate our safe space with your thinking

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Oct 28, 2022

Dear Elon Musk

“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.” Dear Elon Musk, Congratulations on acquiring Twitter. …

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Dear Elon Musk
Dear Elon Musk

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Oct 22, 2022

“Anti-fascist” activists picket two middle-aged women having a drink in a pub

Last night, after the LGB Alliance Conference, Helen Joyce and I went to the Westminster Arms pub around the corner from the conference centre for a quiet drink. Helen had a glass of wine and I had a gin and tonic. Before long around 20 protesters turned up, having broken…

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“Anti-fascist” activists picket two middle-aged women having a drink in a pub
“Anti-fascist” activists picket two middle-aged women having a drink in a pub

2 min read

“Anti-fascist” activists picket two middle-aged women having a drink in a pub

Last night, after the LGB Alliance Conference, Helen Joyce and I went to the Westminster Arms pub around the corner from the conference centre for a quiet drink. Helen had a glass of wine and I had a gin and tonic.

Before long around 20 protesters turned up, having broken…

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Oct 12, 2022

This is not a culture war. It is a war on safeguarding

Why my Twitter account has been suspended Twitter has locked me out of my account unless I delete a tweet which was part of a thread about child safeguarding, the pressures against speaking up, and how the Pedophile Information Exchange infiltrated and silenced civil society in the 1970s. The thread was about Mermaids, but not just about…

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Its not a culture war. It is a war on safeguarding
Its not a culture war. It is a war on safeguarding

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Oct 7, 2022

What being worthy of respect in a democratic society means

The most important thing I have ever done was to lose my job: because it led to a legal victory which protects everyone’s human rights, and which protects democracy. When I won the appeal establishing that my belief was protected under the Equality Act, and articles 9 and 10 of…

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What being worthy of respect in a democratic society means
What being worthy of respect in a democratic society means

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Jul 24, 2022

Trans Safety Network talks about the Forstater case

On July 8th there was a panel hosted by Mallory Moore (@Chican3ry), hosted on Twitter Spaces. It featured law graduate Jess O’Thompson (@disabledJess), Twitter “solicitor” Mia (@truesolicitor), Old Square Chambers Barrister Robin Moira White (@Robin_Moira) and a brief appearance by Good Law Project legal assistant, Jocelyn Price. …

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Trans Safety Network talks about the Forstater case
Trans Safety Network talks about the Forstater case

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Jul 21, 2022

Calibrating the scale of moderation

In my recent Employment Tribunal case the term part-time crossdresser applied to Phillip “Pips” Bunce was judged to be “dismissive and uncomplimentary” (though not a justification for me to lose my job). It arose in this exchange about whether a conference panel involving Bunce and two other men should be…

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Calibrating the scale of moderation
Calibrating the scale of moderation

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