1/ So, so many emotions this morning. Relief & anger amongst them: just imagine if that crowd storming the Capitol was Black.

Never thought I’d be grateful for @VP Mike Pence - but I am. He gave one of the finest speeches of any politician last night.

2/ But most of all, despite everything that happened overnight in the US, I never thought I’d feel fear about a Democratic president, with control of both Houses of Congress - but I do.
3/ I’m a Democrat. I’m also a Black British feminist & a lesbian. I believe that sex is real & immutable. I believe passionately that gender-diverse & transgender persons must be protected from discrimination, but not at the cost of erasing ’woman’ as a sex based legal category.
4/ @biden has said that he will pass The Equality Act / HR5. If he does, women’s sex-based rights in the US will disappear & this will reverberate around the world: males able to elect to be locked up with women in prison; the end of women’s sports & scholarships...
5/ ... any mediocre male will show no shame in declaring themselves women & playing women’s sports; the end of safe spaces for women in hospitals, psychiatric units... it will mean that it will become impossible & illegal for women to organise & meet in the absence of males.
6/ ... it will mean the rapid medicalisation & sterilisation of gender non-conforming youth, who overwhelmingly would grow up to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or straight. It will mean demanding that children grow up & go through puberty will be ‘hateful’ discriminatory & illegal.
7/ Everyone in the US who has shied away from scrutinising what HR5 means for women’s sex-based rights & safety must now speak up.

It’s not hateful to demand that women are protected as a sex-based category, distinct from males, however those males identify.
8/ It’s not hateful to demand that children grow into adulthood before making *adult* decisions about the sex they would wish to present as in adulthood.

Kids have no idea what it means to be an adult male or female. See #KeiraBell’s case for the dangers of believing they do.
9/ America, I have long loved your country. When my parents divorced when I was 6 years old & my beloved (imperfect) father made the USA his home in the 1970s, it became a magical place in my imagination & it still is.

Please don’t let me & women around the world down.
10/ You can protect the rights of trans people without erasing women; without replacing sex with gender.

Don’t believe the spin & the BS. The UK has some of the most robust protections for trans people in the world, including against discrimination & hate crime.
11/ You’ve been told that it’s progressive to replace sex with gender — you’ve been misled, you’ve been lied to.

The world is watching.

Please #AmendTheEqualityAct

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12/ * @JoeBiden
* @KamalaHarris

Congratulations, now listen to women & more diverse voices #AmendTheEqualityAct

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The Swastik is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon. Swastik has been Sanatan Dharma’s symbol of auspiciousness – mangalya since time immemorial.


The name swastika comes from Sanskrit (Devanagari: स्वस्तिक, pronounced: swastik) &denotes “conducive to wellbeing or auspicious”.
The word Swastik has a definite etymological origin in Sanskrit. It is derived from the roots su – meaning “well or auspicious” & as meaning “being”.


"सु अस्ति येन तत स्वस्तिकं"
Swastik is de symbol through which everything auspicios occurs

Scholars believe word’s origin in Vedas,known as Swasti mantra;

"🕉स्वस्ति ना इन्द्रो वृधश्रवाहा
स्वस्ति ना पूषा विश्ववेदाहा
स्वस्तिनास्तरक्ष्यो अरिश्तनेमिही
स्वस्तिनो बृहस्पतिर्दधातु"


It translates to," O famed Indra, redeem us. O Pusha, the beholder of all knowledge, redeem us. Redeem us O Garudji, of limitless speed and O Bruhaspati, redeem us".

SWASTIK’s COSMIC ORIGIN

The Swastika represents the living creation in the whole Cosmos.


Hindu astronomers divide the ecliptic circle of cosmos in 27 divisions called
https://t.co/sLeuV1R2eQ this manner a cross forms in 4 directions in the celestial sky. At centre of this cross is Dhruva(Polestar). In a line from Dhruva, the stars known as Saptarishi can be observed.