What’s Current: In a Terfmas miracle, Kellie-Jay Keen and Graham Linehan return to Twitter

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  • This week saw the return of reknowned Terfs, Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker) and Graham Linehan, to Twitter, as their permanent suspensions are lifted. Keen was banned in 2018, and Linehan in 2020, for repeating my words, “Men aren’t women, tho.”
  • Dystopia is coming in the form of artificial wombs, according to a Berlin filmmaker named Hashem Al Ghaili, who has imagined a facility called “Ectolife,” able to “grow 30,000 babies a year.” A statement explains:

“And if you want your baby to stand out and have a brighter future, our Elite Package offers you the opportunity to genetically engineer the embryo before implanting it into the artificial womb.

Thanks to CRISPR-Cas 9 gene editing tool, you can edit any trait of your baby through a wide range of over 300 genes.”

  • Nicola Sturgeon’s bill allowing Scottish individuals as young as 16 to change sex on their birth certificates simply by signing a declaration faces being vetoed after ministers said they were willing to use never-used-before powers to block it from receiving Royal Assent. Moments after the legislation was passed at Holyrood on Thursday, Alister Jack, the Scottish Secretary, warned that the Government was considering invoking Section 35 of the 1998 Scotland Act.
Meghan Murphy

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Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist from Vancouver, BC. She has been podcasting and writing about feminism since 2010 and has published work in numerous national and international publications, including The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, the CBC, New Statesman, Vice, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, and more. Meghan completed a Masters degree in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in 2012 and is now exiled in Mexico with her very photogenic dog.