Bob Hamstead
@berk_hamstead
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A gender critical, straight man. Sex not gender. Pro women, pro LGB. @unitetheunion member. #IStandWithJKRowling
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How long have the
@bbcnews
@BBCNewsbeat
@cbbc
been promoting the concept of a trans child, and both social & medical transition for very young children?
What role did the
@cbbc
documentary ”I Am Leo" play in all this?
A 🧵 spanning 2014-2017
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The myth of the "trans community".
The trans community is not a coherent community at all. It is an inexplicably broad demographic containing both vulnerable and dangerous people. Here's my attempt to classify the various groups. A 🧵
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6 months ago, Laura Snapes wrote that Róisín Murphy's album had an "ugly stain" as she'd spoken out against the experimental use of puberty blockers on kids.
6 months later, the treatment was banned by the NHS, citing a lack of evidence. Róisín was right.
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Trans children. An entirely coerced, mythical group of under 18s. These children cannot possibly understand nor consent to this, and shouldn't be affirmed. Tales of two year old trans children are absurd and dangerous. This is profound child abuse and must end immediately.
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Will this kind of behaviour qualify as extreme misogyny?
Extreme misogyny to be treated as terrorism under UK government plans
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This is my favourite bit of the Kathleen Stock Vs Deirdre McCloskey discussion: McCloskey's concept of womanhood calmly dismantled in seconds, the silence that follows is pure gold.
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Straight trans ID'd girls. A demographic of teenage girls terrified by modern culture's toxic projection of womanhood.
@HadleyFreeman
has written compassionately about this cohort many times.
3/18
I’ve written about the demographic at the heart of the Cass review: teenage girls. How could the NHS have betrayed so many unhappy, vulnerable girls by medicalising them to be boys?
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Never let it be forgotten that during
#paris2024
@iocmedia
greenlit male-on-female boxing, only to subsequently censor anyone sharing footage of these events in a doomed-to-fail cover-up operation. This is unprecedented.
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The cross dresser. Typically a straight male, often married with children, doing it purely for sexual gratification. Those seeking to act it out in public, in stealth, like "Jennifer" here, are a danger to women and girls. These men relish invading women's spaces.
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Here's the moment
@BBCNews
journalists falsely portrayed the male murderer Scarlet Blake (also known as Fangze Wang and later Alice Wang) as a woman, to millions of UK viewers.
Remarkably, their previous story reached out to fact checkers BBC Verify..but were somehow not deemed
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Young lesbians identifying as trans - teenage girls dealing with relentless homophobia and misogyny, mistaken in their belief that they can transition into heterosexuality. This is a very sad logic.
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Gay rights was about accepting people for who they really are.
Trans rights is all about refusing to accept who you are, and coercing everyone around you to accommodate that falsehood and deny reality.
It's not the same fight in any way whatsoever.
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Name one other pediatrician who has been vilified after publishing the results of an extensive five-year study.
Trans activism is a form of terrorism, and women are almost always the target.
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The non-binary. The most middle-class, meaningless gender identity. Typically this means a woman with short hair. To imply that these people are oppressed is absurd and offensive. This is the epitome of luxury beliefs. Predictably,
@guardian
made a video about them.
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The male "lesbian".
A straight homophobic predatory male who believes his trans status makes it acceptable to hound lesbians for sex.
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I struggle to comprehend how LGBTQ+ charities can possibly claim to represent the interests of such an utterly incoherent group. "Trans rights are human rights" is a vacuous slogan that shields some truly toxic groups.
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The child catcher. The straight cross dresser who seeks to encourage other people's children to transition via treatment now outlawed by
@thecassreview
. These people are a clear danger to children. What motivates these men to do this?
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In the last three days, this is the only
@itvnews
tweet that has comments switched off.
No other group of people in society gets this level of protection from news outlets. Why is that?
‘Elite sport is over for me': Trans cyclist Emily Bridges on legal fight against competition ban, as
@stevescott_itv
reports
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Here's Dr Elizabeth Van Horn,Consultant Psychiatrist at the now closed GIDS admitting she's no idea where this huge demographic of young girls came from. A total dereliction of duty.
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Gay men who are now trans. Activists insist that they're now straight women. These men are at risk of medical interventions that profoundly harm their fertility and sexual function, not to mention their chances of finding a partner.
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The opportunistic, predatory criminal. These people will exploit self ID loopholes promoted by
@stonewalluk
and
@ScottishTrans
in order to terrorise women. Those orgs will insist that even male rapists are women because self ID is sacrosanct in their ideology.
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Lesbians who identify as trans men. Women who have somehow concluded that they're simply too butch to be women. These women are equally at risk of medical interventions that would harm their fertility & sexual function, and can cause early menopause.
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The cohorts in posts 2-7 contain men, women and children who have clearly been harmed by an ideology's malign influence on our institutions.
It's imperative that these people receive compassionate support from groups outside of the reckless trans movement.
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A variant of this is the absurd transwoman, who solely blames puberty for his bizarre appearance. This is then used to justify stunting the growth of children using puberty blockers. What exactly is he imagining here?
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A quick thread of newspapers who are still falsely portraying murderer Scarlet Blake as a woman, or not mentioning his sex at all. It's not only the Guardian. Each one of these outlets needs to issue clarifications/corrections.
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#NotOurCrimes
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Last night,
@BBCNews
Newswatch covered complaints about the Scarlet Blake case. As they switched to a clip of the coverage, they clipped the report, hiding the fact that it started with the words "a woman".
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The female "gay man".
A straight homophobic woman who fantasises about sleeping with gay men. Activists can often be seen celebrating these women.
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@JohnJamesNI
They still say puberty blockers are safe and reversible on their website, see heading
"What is Mermaids’ stance on puberty blockers?"
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Thankfully those groups do exist:
@AllianceLGB
@Transgendertrd
@SafeSchools_UK
@SexMattersOrg
@MensNetwork1
@WRNScotland
@ThoughtfulTs
@genspect
@FamEdTrust
@BayswaterSG
are just a few....
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Hallie Clarke tells the
@BBCNews
that psychological assessments aren't important in pediatric gender clinics. He knew he was trans because he had "a Hannah Montana cake and blonde wig".
These people just aren't serious; they make the BBC look ridiculous.
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This profoundly homophobic notion of sex-by-deception in gay saunas is endorsed and promoted by groups like
@Clini_Q
and people like
@stephenwhittle
12/19
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It makes no sense to expect LGB people to support men who want to compete in women's sports. Trans athletes aren't the most vulnerable minority in the world, they're the most entitled.
#LGBWithoutTheTQ
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Going viral for humiliating yourself is not the big win you think it is,
@vanbadham
.
The state of journalism at the
@guardian
is at an all time low. If you're cheering on a bloke punching women, you're no feminist.
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The BBC have been pushing the false sex change or suicide myth for more than seven years, without any editorial concern. This is from 2017. Aren't news editors meant to check that news is accurate and factual?
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We now move on to the far more dangerous players in the "community".
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Peter Tatchell insists that we all have a gender identity, dictated by our clothes. The audience member shouting out "rubbish" at the end is just glorious.
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The UCU are now trying to bury this video of
@OwenJones84
claiming he cares about academic freedom. Don't let them. 1/2
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This is no different to displaying a girl with an eating disorder vomiting. What were you thinking,
@CostaCoffee
?
#BoycottCostaCoffee
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What is the impact of trans activism on society? Let's take a look at a set of affected groups & institutions and determine whether it's been favourable or unfavorable. A 🧵
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In light of the release of the
#WPATHFiles
, here's
@OwenJones84
denying that children have ever been harmed by gender identity clinics. We know this is false, and the evidence is mounting.
Now is the time to admit that you were wrong, Owen.
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In the latest
@stephenwhittle
interview with
@guardian
, she claims she's been excluded from conversations with the government since 2010, yet here she is speaking to the women and equalities committee in 2020.
Everything she says is a lie.
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My employer is a Stonewall diversity champion. Went into the office today and saw a box full of these pronoun badges.
What kind of sociopath would wear an "Ask me" pronoun badge? It's probably best to give those people a wide berth... Such self-indulgence!
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This is how to do "inclusive language" in health articles, NHS should take note.
Well done Health Partners Group. Good to see men and women back in the wording.
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Two trans propaganda accounts
@MetroUK
&
@prideukorg
have deleted their entire Twitter profiles this weekend after provocative tweets simply pushed people too far.
These are not the actions of a progressive political movement.
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Here's Ruth Hunt insisting that "we're a very bright bunch", whilst claiming on one hand that women shouldn't be transferred to men's prisons, but some male criminals should definitely be in women's prisons.
This is abject nonsense.
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People want clarity on single sex spaces, and this is not it,
@UKLabour
.
The lack of clarity is why Stonewall thinks it can set the laws of the land.
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@stonewalluk
: the descent of a once world-leading lesbian & gay rights charity into the depths of insanity and reckless stupidity. A thread 1/21
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Since when have the BBC countered complaints with criticism of complainants? This just denigrates those women. The BBC have admitted that the piece didn't follow editorial guidance - the views of anonymous contributors should be discarded.
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How long have the
@guardian
been glorifying the irreversible medicalisation of gender non conforming children? A 🧵
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You don't have to be gay to recognise that Phil's argument that "if homosexuality can become socially acceptable then my fetish can be" is incredibly cynical AND homophobic. I sense many in the TQ+ gang think the same way.
@theneonrequiem
doing a great job here pushing back.
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Remember when they said trans roles should only be played by trans people? Well now, it's supposedly perfectly okay for women's roles to be played by blokes.
The hypocrisy is astounding.
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The fact that Guardian placed a film about trans prostitutes at number two in it's best Christmas films list, just goes to show how trans activists get editorial oversight on practically every article. Is there a more captured newspaper?
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In this clip,
@jamie_windust
explains how the thing he dislikes most about pride in London are the happy gay people, that gay men are white, and that being around gay men is inherently unsafe for others.
#wokehomophobia
#LGBWithoutTheT
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If you had told me, even a year ago, that
@guardian
would ever print this quote in an article relating to trans issues, I would not have believed you.
Things really have changed. It's great to see
@AllianceLGB
finally recognised in relation to this issue.
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@stephenwhittle
Affirming a "born in the wrong body" narrative is a form of child abuse. Children are suggestible; this is a deeply contested theory, and is anti-scientific.
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Gender identity ideology destroyed the SNP.
Labour should take note.
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Green Councillor
@cllrhollybruce
, who joined in the protests against women meeting at
@FiLiA_charity
today, has told
@SkyNews
that women in Iran & Afghanistan deserve protection, but British women should submit to the demands of men who claim to be women. This isn't progressive.
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@BobbityP
It's not "policing" to assert that you cannot possibly be a lesbian. It is extremely homophobic to suggest that you are in any way a lesbian.
If you have coerced a lesbian into a relationship then they are clearly not a lesbian.
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In a slightly odd exchange, the presenter asks the second guest whether it would have been acceptable to refer to the man as 'they' rather than 'she'. Clare Davis explains why that isn't appropriate.
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Jacob Breslowe's
@LSEnews
page has changed from "on sabbatical until January 2023" to "on medical leave". He was the
@Mermaids_Gender
trustee with links to a conference hosted by an organisation that promotes services to paedophiles'
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@Serena_Partrick
I noticed how the paper insists on calling him "she", even though the children correctly referred to him as he.
It makes the article almost impossible to understand.
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@EmerTheScreamer
Do you not realise by now that the word transphobic has been so overplayed that it's now meaningless? Throwing it at anyone for pointing out the homophobia & mysogyny at the heart of trans rights activism doesn't work anymore. "No debate" is over.
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My employer's HR system has added preferred pronouns, and has switched sex for gender.
I've asked HR to remove my gender marker as they're not permitted to hold it.
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What this thread highlights is that the UK media is complicit in concealing the identity of male criminals and falsely portraying male crimes as female crimes.
It's extremely worrying that we can no longer trust news outlets to accurately report on male criminality.
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.
@stephenwhittle
's egotistical take on sex by deception is that tricking someone into bed by pretending you're male is no different to pretending you're a millionaire.
This indifference to sexual assault is incredibly cynical, and shows a severe lack of empathy for others.
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@theserfstv
The great thing about your theory is all those cisgender men can identify as trans as soon as they get caught with their fingers in the choir, and you will automatically defend them.
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The BBC has, I reckon, clocked up at least four apologies to
@jk_rowling
at this point.
At some point they will have to grasp the nettle, and deal with a toxic political movement that is destroying the BBC's reputation from the inside.
The BBC issued an apology to
@jk_rowling
after the broadcaster suggested the Harry Potter author's "derogatory comments" about transgender-identifying men could constitute a criminal offense under Scotland's new hate-speech law. |
@dezward01
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How on earth does
@OwenJones84
have the gall to talk about academics being intimated, when we've seen what's happened to the likes of Kathleen Stock, Jo Phoenix, Raquel Sanchez, and more? He's shown no sympathy for those academics. 2/2
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ITV ran a news feature on the trans community last night, which featured Trans Pride Brighton
@TPrideBrighton
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@EddieIzzardLab
If you can't recognise and respect women as a distinct political class then your "ideals of fairness and equality" are slanted towards men to the detriment of women. No thank you.
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Making a public register of teachers who acknowledge the existence of sex? This is not the behaviour of a liberal, progressive movement.
This is a call for targeted harassment towards any teacher holding entirely mainstream beliefs about sex.
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I'm saddened to see that the I,Joan clip from my YT channel has been removed by the Globe theatre. They really don't want people to see it...so here it is again.
Remember, Joan Of Arc couldn't possibly have been a woman; she was far too feisty! 🤡
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@LilySimpson1312
Given the amount of rape & death threats she's received from you and your friends, the idea that she's going to pretend you've changed sex is really quite extraordinary. The trans movement is now utterly toxic, no amount of capitulation is ever enough.
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Are puberty blockers reversible? 19 year old Em, from last night's
@BBCNewsnight
report, stopped taking puberty blockers at 15, but 4 years later, says they're "asexual... There's no drive, there's nothing there".
Aren't they meant to be simply a "pause button"?
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Tom Harlow aka "Caberet Against The Hate Speech" has explained that he has to protest at women's events like
@FiLiA_charity
because the women won't include men, and that means it is "useless". This is pure mysogyny.
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A couple of months ago, I went to a record shop, where the man at the counter, who very kindly offered me a discount, was wearing a pronoun badge with with "she/her" pronouns on it.
That man was a man, in a dress. Why can't men wear dresses?
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Women: No single sex associations, prisons, rape crisis centres, sports, sex based awards. Crime statistics falsified to portray men's crimes as women's crimes. Language erased, switched to dehumanising terms. No guaranteed access to female doctors.
Verdict: Unfavourable
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To conclude, all of these groups & institutions have been demonstrably harmed by trans activists, many of whom demonstrably aren't trans but claim to represent them.
There MUST be trans people who don't support these divisive campaigns - where are they?
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Children: Conditioned to believe in fantasy identity over sex. No single-sex spaces or sports. Potential psychological conditioning if non-conforming. Could be sterilised & robbed of puberty + sexual function if convinced that they are trans.
Verdict: Unfavourable
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With a focus on trans history, let's look at the moment in which a surgeon admits his attempt to perform a sex change on a teenager (whose puberty was blocked) went horribly wrong, because it had never been attempted before. This has nothing to do with LGB rights.
#LGBTplusHM
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@bindelj
Guardian is now a total joke, I feel sorry for the observer team whose pretty decent articles have to sit alongside this utter nonsense.
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Here's
@OwenJones84
hopelessly denying the link between the soon-to-be-closed GIDS
@TaviAndPort
gender clinic for children, and homophobia, contrary to all the evidence...
#OwenJonesIsAMisogynist
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Back in 2017,
@Channel4News
ran a short story that portrayed self ID as a done deal and good news story. They describe the only resistance to GRA reform as being from "christian groups and other critics". At no point are those groups given time to articulate their concerns.
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A reminder that
@stonewalluk
actively campaign to put sex offenders in female prisons
I would say this beggars belief, but it is exactly what feminists have been warning about:
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Interestingly, Stonewall went public with their recommended responses to the government's "Gender Questioning Children" guidance, and it's as extreme as you would expect. A 🧵 1/19
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@stephenwhittle
As a former president of WPATH 2007-2009, you're right to be worried about this report.
It's the biggest medical scandal of our time. Children have been irreversibly harmed by doctors following WPATH guidance.
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Check out the scathing comment from under this
@Nancy_M_K
blog post.
This must have really stung.
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3. Gay people: Sexual orientation redefined as "same gender attraction", or as sexual racist
@Nancy_M_K
describes it here, a dating preference, undermining same sex attraction. The right to associate is undermined, both online and offline.
Verdict: Unfavorable
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In an attempt to show balance, the BBC then gives a platform to two anonymous respondents, neither of whom give their real names or appear in person. Typical claims of transphobia are used to ignore the genuine complaints of impartiality & misleading the public.
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@stephenwhittle
It's the same at Let Women Speak.
Why don't your friends, who shout "You're gonna die out" at women, want to be identified as allies of the trans community, I wonder?
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@Primark
I think this issue regarding your bizarre changing rooms policy is far more pressing than your lattes. What is wrong with you?
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Teachers: Encouraged to accept a child's trans identity on face value, putting them on a potentially life-changing path. Told to conceal this from parents. Must force entire school to participate in a fictional identity.
Verdict: Unfavorable
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Police: Encouraged to let male criminals self-declare their sex when recording crime. This requires a suspension of reality in order to accommodate an incoherent fantasy. Must defend the consequences of falsifying crime data because "trans rights".
Verdict: Unfavourable
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@Jamiejhagen
Trans people have no common goal with LGB people. The LGB fight was one for acceptance of same-sex-attraction. Trans has been inflated into a group that is huge and has no link to sexuality. Why would LGB want children to block their puberty, for instance? It's a forced teaming.
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Dr Ronx Ikharia is now saying:
- everyone at the conference was straight & white, and none were medical professionals
- "evidence base" is a dog whistle rather than a research term
Doctors who won't accept the findings regarding puberty blockers shouldn't be working in the NHS.
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@rotster
@NHSEngland
What is it about medically locking children in a prepubescent state that appeals to you, Rob?
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Prison Service: Encouraged to believe any man who claims to be a woman, and waive them into women's prisons, regardless of risk. Must defend the absurdity of this situation because "trans rights".
Verdict: Unfavourable
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'There should be a presumption that somebody convicted of rape should not be in a women's prison'.
But, in a robust discussion with
@lewis_goodall
,
@NicolaSturgeon
refuses to guarantee a blanket ban on rapists being housed in female prisons.
Full ep👇
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I've just watched a talk from
@ctranstalks
that makes the extraordinary claim that trans people have no influence on politics & public bodies. Let's examine that and see if it's true. A thread 1/12
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This is why
@AllianceLGB
had to be established - LGB people desperately need a sensible, level-headed charity to represent them.
@stonewalluk
are now a diabolical liability to themselves, and everyone they claim to represent.
@threadreaderapp
unroll
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