As
#trans
is trending, it seems as good a time as any to say that I am a trans man, I am comfortable in my own skin, I love the life I have with my amazing wife, and contrary to all the doomsayers out there, I have zero regrets, and only happiness, about my transition.
#TransJoy
Dear
@RishiSunak
,
I am a trans person. My human rights, dignity and safety are not "woke nonsense". Please stop treating people like me as political footballs, to be kicked around as you seek to appeal to the extremes of your party and the vile tabloid press.
Thank you.
Karl
Dear
@RishiSunak
,
I am a trans man, and whether you like it or not, I am not going anywhere and am far more of a man than you will ever be. All you amount to is a pathetic bully, desperate to appeal to the extreme right of your rabble of bigots.
Kindly feck off,
Karl (he/him)
As a rape survivor myself, I find JK Rowling's comment below utterly abhorrent. She should be deeply ashamed of herself, as should all of those who refuse to call out such overt transphobia.
This is utter rubbish. Before top surgery, I met the surgeon twice to talk about what was involved, had to sign multiple consent forms, and they also checked before being anaesthetised that I knew what was going to happen. Rowling is spreading harmful nonsense. She needs to stop.
This is disgusting. Celebrating someone taking their own life is utterly abhorrent, whoever they are.
If
@BBCSport
refuse to take action against Martina Navratilova this time, it is proof that their rhetoric about 'no place for hate' is all sound and fury, signifying nothing.
The notion that violence against women and girls can only be stopped if trans people can be misgendered at will is just utter bollocks. JK Rowling is nothing more than a rich bigot.
Fed up of seeing JK Rowling calling trans people 'crossdressers'.
I am not a 'woman dressing up as a man'.
I am a man, whether that horrible and hate-filled bully likes it or not!
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Describing trans men who, like me, have had top surgery as 'mutilated' is abhorrent, deeply transphobic and simply not true.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
The idea that top surgery for trans men amounts to mutilation is not just nonsense; it completely fails to understand how life-enhancing, and even life-saving, it can be for someone like me - not a confused lesbian or silly girl, but a man who is now comfortable in his own skin.
Thing is, Ms Rowling, what is being proposed about trans patients is absolutely an example of segregation. You object to this language because it shows exactly what you're about. There have been zero incidents of trans patients assaulting others; you're not 'safeguarding' anyone.
Today, my wife and I ducked into
#Wetherspoons
in Acton to get out of the rain and grab some lunch. One of the other customers called us "a pair of freaks", another thought we were "lesbians", while another man called me a "poof".
Least safe in a pub I have felt for some time :(
CW: Abuse
This reminds me of how my ex-partner used to behave after he'd hit me or raped me again. It was always my fault; I'd made him do it. I was asking for it.
JK Rowling is using the exact same 'justification' for setting her Twitter mob on someone who called out her hate.
It really annoys me how trans men are so often talked about in terms like 'vulnerable', 'impressionable', 'young' or 'mentally fragile', and usually as 'girls'.
Infantilising us and implying that we are incapable of exercising autonomy and agency is not feminism, but patriarchy.
I cannot help but think JK Rowling is being especially obnoxious today because she would love to get herself arrested as a GC martyr. My prediction is that she will keep getting even more extreme until the police feel they have to act, and the media will blame 'trans extremists'.
Given that 'toilet' is trending, and
@UKLabour
under
@Keir_Starmer
are backing the Tories' attempts to take trans people's rights away, I thought I would pose a question...
I suppose this at the bottom of the screenshot is what JK Rowling and her fellow GC bigots would call a death threat, so I await opinion pieces across every major mainstream media platform stating how very awful it is that I am being targeted for my trans-positive views...
This is nothing at all to do with women's rights, and everything to do with JK Rowling being a horrible transphobic bully. Why on earth do people still defend her when she is so blatantly nasty, and happy to set her mob on someone who has done nothing to her at all?
#Transphobia
Objecting to Rowling lumping innocent trans women together in a list with sex offenders is NOT the same as denying some trans people have committed sexual offences. The comparison with church abuse cover-ups is absurd and deeply insulting to survivors.
Big time gaslighting here.
This is an extract from the book JK Rowling is describing as 'brilliant'. It is dripping with contempt and hatred, and is unashamedly cast in overtly fascistic language.
Time and again, she proves herself to be a bigoted transphobe promoting vile hatred of a vulnerable minority.
This explains the notable uptick in transphobia on my timeline, but it is nonetheless important to speak up. Trans people are being put in greater danger by Tory rhetoric playing to the far right gallery.
Thanks to
@MethodistGB
for their solidarity.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Church minister Dr Karl Rutlidge, who is a transgender man, has warned that Rishi Sunak’s remarks about transgender people risk inciting hatred and ‘put trans people in greater danger’.
'There’s so much more to me than the fact I happen to be trans'
Oh and here we go again, another man with his comments turn off!
fuck off you coward no amount of surgery or makeup will ever make you a woman you are a man!
The increasingly sickening JK Rowling is now branding those who oppose bigotry and abuse against trans people as "rapsists' rights activists".
Rowling's grotesque smear effectively equates all transgender people with rapists while showing utter contempt for actual rape victims.
Today, we visited Brighton and I did something I never thought I would have the confidence to do - swimming in the sea. It felt amazing not to need to worry about people's reactions to my chest scars and just being able to enjoy the water! 🏳️⚧️😀
#TransJoy
I'm a Christian minister and a trans person. I shall celebrate both Easter Sunday and Trans Day of Visibility tomorrow.
Both are about the fact that love wins, even in the face of the worst we can throw at it.
✝️ 🏳️⚧️❤️
#TransDayOfVisibility
#Easter
#LoveWins
Dear
@Keir_Starmer
,
Please educate yourself about the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010, and leave trans rights the hell alone. I should not have to be fearful of being forced into women's spaces under a
@UKLabour
government.
A disappointed ex-Labour member.
This is it in a nutshell. JKR has caused real harm and hurt.
"Plenty of people will struggle to find the fun in this debacle. Just because something isn’t a hate crime doesn’t mean it’s not harmful. Just because something’s legal doesn’t make it right".
@RishiSunak
To the GCs/TERFs/transphobes commenting on this, I don't give a shit what you think and will block you on sight, so save your fingers the effort of typing abuse and piss off.
Thank you to
@KateOsborneMP
for holding Kemi Badenoch to account for her inflammatory language. Badenoch is one of several Tories whose false claims about trans people are adding to a toxic culture and putting us at even greater risk.
@Commonswomequ
Badenoch visibly angry as Kate Osborne claims minister used ‘inflammatory language’ likening young people coming out as trans ‘to the spread of a disease’
Badenoch says its not true - 'That is a lie. You are lying,' she repeats
Chair reminds her about parliamentary laguage
And we are supposed to believe that gender-critical people are reasonable individuals with legitimate concerns, and not actually a hateful, obsessive cult that leads its members to behave this this? 👇
Earlier today we removed a
#TransAwarenessWeek
post due to a high volume of transphobic comments. We absolutely stand by what we said but acted to protect the wellbeing and safety of our colleague featured in the post. Discrimination of any form has no place in our society (1/2)
If
@RishiSunak
had any decency, he would
#resign
after his disgraceful conduct in the past week, including at today's PMQs. But he won't, because he doesn't. I don't use this language lightly, but he is Tory scum.
Dear
@TheNewsAgents
,
The only thing Rosie Duffield deserves is losing her seat at the next election. She is nothing more than a transphobic bigot.
Yours,
Every trans person who is sick of this hate being platformed, legitimised and pushed by journalists who ought to do better.
Mega gaslighting from Martina Navratilova here. Her original post was clearly gloating about someone taking their own life. In my view, that is *never* acceptable, whatever we think of the person. It is, sadly, something I have seen before from so-called gender critical accounts.
So,
#PrinceWilliam
is trending, with accusations of extramarital affairs which have allegedly long been common knowledge in tabloid circles.
If this is true, it makes their constant attacks on Meghan even more despicable than they already are.
#TabloidTrash
#AbolishTheMonarchy
I grew up under Section 28. The net result was that I was terrified to open up to anyone about who I truly am. It was so bad that I struggled with suicidal feelings for years. The government is determined to force trans kids to deny who they are. Well, feck that.
#NoNewSection28
Fed up of the way journalists treat
@RMTunion
, and Mick Lynch in particular. Both
@BBCNews
and
@c4news
have talked down to him, pushed false narratives, and cast him as a villain for standing up for workers. It is not good enough. I stand with unions and for the right to strike.
This 👇
It is quite reasonable to be scared of 'Adult Human Female' t-shirt wearers in a context of rapidly rising transphobic hate crime or, indeed, men in the equivalent t-shirt. The GCs are at the forefront of a hate movement with well-documented links to far right groups.
Because “Adult Human Female” is the dogwhistle phrase of the movement that persecutes and ridicules trans people. A teenager has just been murdered. Do you realise who you are? What you represent?
Badenoch is a horrible person, a liar and a bully. She is a dangerous ideologue and an example of how attractive the GC movement is to Far Right/Fundamentalist Christian leaning public figures.
At the women and equalities committee, Kemi Badenoch seems to say that a recent rise in hate crimes against transgender people is "very strongly linked to a lot of predators exploiting rules", rather than ministers' languages on the issue.
I have never felt such deep despair and powerlessness, like I am no longer welcome in the land of my birth. Worse thing is knowing
@UKLabour
under
@Keir_Starmer
will do nothing to counter this degrading and terrifying discrimination against trans people. Why bother keeping going?
I have grown to love Dr Who, not least because of the beautiful way in which Russell T. Davies is normalising the inclusion of queer characters, especially trans people. Today's Christmas special is already no exception. Fabulous stuff!
#DrWho
John and Johannes are such a positive model of masculinity. Wonderful to see them dance and their relationship off the dance floor.
There is something very healing about seeing two openly LGBT+ people being embraced by the fans and doing so well in
#StrictlyComeDancing
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Trans men making horrible and false claims about trans women basically being fetishists do not speak for me.
Campaigning for equal rights never means throwing others under the bus. Never.
"Nazi ruled relied on quiet complicity" - there's a quote which should send shivers down our collective spine in today's climate, in which media and political targeting of minorities is relentless, and democratic institutions are being shafted by this government.
#RiseOfTheNazis
Behind these outrage articles is disgust at trans bodies. Well, Forstater and the Daily Mail can feck off. I am proud of who I am, mastectomy scars and all, and no amount of GC pearl clutching or attempting to deny us trans men bodily autonomy will change that!
#TransIsBeautiful
Dear
@BBCNews
, Scotland's Gender Recognition bill was passed by a two-thirds majority and with cross-party support. It will likely impact a few hundred trans people a year. If it is controversial, it is because the media class obsess over less than 1% of the population.
Grow up.
Sorry, but this is utter bollocks. Treating the symptoms and not the root cause. I think Cass is either clueless or darn right determined to cause harm. Trans people know who we are; why not try listening to us for a change, Dr Cass? You might learn something!
#ListenToTransKids
Dr Hilary Cass says the issue of puberty blockers has become "almost totemic".
"It has stopped us looking at other ways of managing young people's distress..."
Just a prominent GC saying that trans people should be readily discriminated against in employment and housing, calling us all "lazy" and "entitled". This is the woman that Rowling called a genius.
Reasonable concerns, my arse.
#Transphobia
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Gender critical cult leader Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker), who also leads the political party 'Party Of Women', calls for employers and landlords to be able to "discriminate against trans people" so they do not have a job, or place to live.
Whatever bullshit the
@UKLabour
Party front bench come out with, my having once had a cervix does not mean I am a woman! I am no more defined by that body part than a woman who has had to have her cervix removed has suddenly become a man! Just transphobia writ large, yet again!
The 'study' was based on 68 self-selecting people, and the physio interviewed is a known anti-trans campaigner.
I think I know more about my body and its perfectly normal functions than an author with no medical qualifications who only mentions trans men to weaponise our lives.
@joshparry
@BBCNews
It would be good to see positive stories about trans people, showing us as real human beings getting on with our lives and our work and making our contributions to our communities.
The othering of trans people by the media is doing huge damage; it's time to shift the narrative.
It will be ten years in December since I had top surgery. It is one of the best decisions I ever made. It helped me finally feel at home in my own skin. No regrets here, just lots of
#TransJoy
. Oh, and for the GCs who assume trans people will die lonely, I am happily married too!
Beyond angry at the blatant transphobia of
@UKLabour
and
@wesstreeting
.
Oh, and
@AngelaRayner
, JK Rowling is to trans rights what an 'I'm not racist, but...' figure like Nigel Farage is to racial equality. Look at her timeline, for goodness' sake!
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Things have not got worse because of the awesome Drag Queen Story Hour, or because trans people are accessing spaces we have for decades without issue.
Things have got worse because of the rise of populism and the targetting of LGBT+ people by far right extremists.
Dr Cass,
I am indeed in work, I have friends, I lead a fulfilling life, and my sex life is none of your business. However, given the levels of discrimination trans people face, judging the 'success' of cross-sex hormones by e.g. employment levels is, well, kinda crazy.
Go away.
Exactly. All Rowling has done, and which I am sure was her intention, is to make what happened to Brianna more likely to happen to others. She is abhorrent, and anyone still siding with her is complicit in facilitating the demonisation and dehumanisation of trans people, like me.
And as someone else said, where does that lead? If a minority is described as sub or non-human, and nasty behaviour "accepted" and even encouraged, then how much violence against said minority will be accepted or blindly ignored?
Dear
@Keir_Starmer
,
Trans people are human beings. Not an ideology, but people. Why do you persist in using such dehumanising, inflammatory language?
I'd ask you to meet with trans communities to listen to us, but I doubt you have the moral courage. Please prove me wrong,
Karl
Trans people are no more an 'ideology' than gay people are an 'agenda.'
This is akin to a Labour leader saying he wouldn't do anything about Section 28 because he isn't in favour of teaching 'the gay agenda' in schools.
That's how either bigoted, ignorant or craven this is.
So it turns out that not only did Posie Parker fail to get more than 200 votes, but she also lost her deposit.
Transphobia does not win elections.
What a loser! 🤣
Call the Midwife is the best thing on TV at the moment, in my humble opinion. Incredibly moving once again, and beautifully acted. Felt so sorry for the young parents; can't imagine how painful it must have been for people who were forced to give up their babies.
#CallTheMidwife
The more I think about it, the more I do not buy that JKR's tweet was just a parody of what an abuser might say. I think she revelled in being able to get away with addressing another human being like that and using her power to 'put someone in their place' with abusive phrasing.
CW: Abuse
This reminds me of how my ex-partner used to behave after he'd hit me or raped me again. It was always my fault; I'd made him do it. I was asking for it.
JK Rowling is using the exact same 'justification' for setting her Twitter mob on someone who called out her hate.
The Gender Critical movement in a nutshell:
Someone has been arrested for attempted murder, but instead of expressing concern for the victim, they pile in to make comments about the genitals of the perpetrator, whom they assume must be a trans girl. Sickening and obsessive bile.
@PennyMordaunt
@GEOgovuk
It isn't rocket science! There was no positive representation of trans people in public life in the Section 28 era, and no visible trans men at all. More trans guys are coming forward because there is greater awareness now, which I hope means fewer suffering the isolation I did.
It has been a curious few days. Having been quietly anti-monarchy before, I have become an ardent and vocal republican. The performative patriotism, sycophantic nonsense of the state broadcaster, police supression and the rehabilitation of Andrew are too much.
#AbolishTheMonachy
Oi,
@wesstreeting
!
You appear to be ignorant of both feminist history and UK law. There are no sex-based rights; feminism fought to abolish them, because they restricted women and privileged men. Expanding the franchise to include all adults and not just men is but one example.
🚨 NEW: Wes Streeting has called for women's "sex-based rights" to be "protected", saying "gender-critical" women have been "written off as bigots".
The Shadow Health Secretary claims there are "tensions" between women's "sex-based rights" and trans rights.
(Via The Times)
So not pathetically low conviction rates for rape and sexual assault, attacks on abortion rights, poverty and the gender pay gap, the misogyny of Tate and company infecting schools, failings in maternity care, or domestic violence? Trans people having rights is really worse? Mad.
Watching
#Ambulance
and seething with anger at what the Tories have done to our NHS. It is not theirs to starve of resources and privatise to make profits for the rich. Dark days indeed, as the narrator says.
Call the Midwife nails it again. Conversion therapy, whether aimed at changing sexual orientation or gender identity, is evil. Just love people as they are.
#BanConversionTherapy
Dear
@wesstreeting
,
If you believe trans people should be segregated because of the irrational fears of others, as it appears you do, you might want to read up on the Jim Crow laws and how that went.
Yours,
A pissed off trans man sick of being treated as less than fully human.
Imagine being that bigoted that you would post something like this. I cannot stand people who project their transphobia onto rape survivors. As a survivor myself, who was raped before transitioning, Jill and Maya do not speak for me one little bit. In fact, they can get stuffed.
2021 Census suggests there are 96,000 trans people in England and Wales, and the Scottish Government reckon around 300 people a year would get a GRC under their new law. All this prejudice against such a small group of people. Shows how ridiculous the transphobic culture war is!
In 2008, I broke my leg, and had an operation to put a metal rod in on the NHS.
In 2014, I had top surgery as a key part of my transition, on the NHS.
Can Dr Cass please explain why employability should be a measure of the success of the latter but not the former?
#Transphobia
Dear
@lloyd_rm
,
Thank you for putting your conversion therapy ban bill forward, but there is a real issue with language suggesting people are being coerced into being trans. This is no more possible than turning a straight person gay, and echoes harmful GC tropes.
Thanks.
Karl
Dear
@BBCLondonNews
,
Andrew Boff was talking about transphobia from Suella Braverman. Bringing up his attempts to become mayoral candidate is simply trying to discredit him, and he did not heckle. Moreover, he was escorted out by POLICE, not security.
Accuracy matters. Thanks
Oh, please! Stop with the conspiracy theory nonsense.
Obsessive transphobes demanding to know the genitals of *children* accused of crimes need help to deradicalise them, not being pandered to even more.
Do you ever stop and think about what you sound like, you utter creeps?
The loss of trust in media accuracy is seen in the number of accounts doubting the sex of the alleged attacker.
This is *entirely* because the media has repeatedly ‘mis-sexed’ accused and convicted people.
‘Girl, 13, charged after school stabbings’
@lesbianresist
I guess this is a tricky concept for you to understand, but infantilising adults and assuming you know them better than clearly joyful men know themselves is not the 'win' you think it is. Like it or not, trans men like me are happily ourselves and joyful people.
There is a huge difference between what was actually said by the CEO of Edinburgh Rape Crisis, and how it has been maliciously and deliberately misrepresented to fuel a hate campaign against her and Rape Crisis Scotland more generally. All for being trans-inclusive. Words fail me
Those people attacking Rape Crisis for being trans-inclusive need to take a long, hard look in the mirror. There is nothing feminist, or even what could be called basic human decency, about such disgusting hate. As a rape survivor myself, you do not speak for me. Please go away!
1) I am not silly. I have three degrees to prove it.
2) I am not pretending to be anything; I am a man.
3) Intersex and non-binary people both exist.
4) I am from a council estate, and neither posh nor privileged.
5) Transphobia is a luxury belief of the bored middle-classes.
@immortelle_leda
What are "trans folks" other than silly self - absorbed brats pretending to be the opposite sex or claiming that they're somehow so special that they have defied mammalian biology and are neither sex? Luxury beliefs of the posh and privileged.
#DareToBeHonest
Trans people have been able to change passports for years without a GRC. We told them that. Repeatedly. Yet here we are, day 1 of 2024 and the Tories are 'scared' of something they've only just discovered.
It also doesn't cause any issues or we would have heard about them by now
What a shame. One wonders if Pope Francis has ever knowingly spoken to any trans people...
For me, transitioning was and is about fullness of life and human dignity. I am able to live and love as the man God made me to be. Thanks be to God for
@MethodistGB
!
#TransJoy
#LoveWins
You mean 'moderate arguments' like those in the WHRC submission seeking to strip trans people of legal recognition, and remove trans-specific healthcare?
One's book not being prominently displayed in Waterstone's is not oppression.
The martyrdom complex is strong with this one!
So, a paedophilie convicted of raping a twelve year-old is apparently fine to compete in the
#Olympics
without so much as a squeak from the 'protect women's sports' and 'safeguarding children' GC lot. Yet, if one single trans woman had qualified, no doubt there would be uproar 🤔
I do wish transphobes who reply to my posts with abuse would feck off. Seriously, what do you think you achieve by calling me mentally ill or accusing me of mutilating my body? Also, what is it with this 'define x' fetish that transfixes the GC cultists? Get a dictionary already!
I don't hate Ms Rowling; if anything, I pity her, as she seems to have no idea how ludicrous she comes across as to people outside the GC cult and her far right fan club. Yet, this is precisely why I think she is profoundly disingenuous and dangerous.
@jk_rowling
Sex offenders exist in every demographic. The fact you want every trans woman to be treated like a sex offender "just in case" is why people hate you.