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I can’t count the number of people who told me that it was just a “phase” that I was gay as a teenager in the 1990s Section 28 Britain. History doesn’t always repeat but it most certainly rhymes👇 
To the transphobes commenting, I don’t have the time to reply, so please watch @OwenJones84’s speech to #pinknewsawards instead
Only reply I’m actually going to make is to those making antisemitic comments and quote tweets- all you are doing is further proving the point that transphobia, antisemitism, homophobia and racism all seem to share the same proponents those who hate people for who they are
Incredibly, it's 15 years, to the day, since I first started work on @PinkNews. It's been a labour of love! We will celebrate later in the year, but I wanted to share a few memories about the journey from zero to tens of millions of users plus some of our achievements (1/22)
I founded @PinkNews because I was unhappy with the way that gay media was run (the term LGBT+ didn't really exist). Back then all of the media was effectively subsidised by porn and escort ads and news wasn't well covered at all (2/22)
There had been some proper newspapers: the Gay News, Capital Gay and the Pink Paper. But in 2005, just Pink Paper survived but was published monthly as a magazine and didn't cover enough news and didn't have a proper website (3/22)
According to the Sunday Times, the government is going to ignore the responses to @theresa_may’s consultation on the Gender Recognition Act. If you are to read the article literally, there will be some method of policing anatomy inside public toilets. Madness
A reminder of what @theresa_may said at the #PinkNewsAwards in 2017- “being trans isn’t an illness and shouldn’t be treated as one”.
Is the government proposing that someone who has a GRC but has not had bottom surgery will not be able to use the toilet matching their legally recognised gender?
