A thread 🧵
It began with a tweet, to “watch and learn” with a link to 5 year old BBC documentary that was no longer available to watch.
Many replied, most were ignored, it became clear he wasn’t seeking a reasoned debate but was instead looking to host a sensationalised discussion on his TalkRadio show.
Loads of suggestions he should instead talk to women
And lots of offers
He didn’t engage though and began blocking instead.
Referring to those who replied as “angry ranters”, which was insulting to those who had tried to engage with his initial tweet. Then, bizarrely, *he* claimed to have been on the “receiving end of a Twitter pile on by the sinister transphobic @AllianceLGB”
Quote tweeting his earlier tweet about the documentary, and addressing the embarrassing fact pointed out to him by many that it wasn’t actually available on the BBC link he had given, and now saying it was on a different channel, yet didn’t link to that one either.
Spent the next few hours tweeting abuse
More abuse
Still tweeting after 1am about “transphobic pile ons from the sinister @AllianceLGB”
The next morning LGB Alliance comments for the first time about the remarks made by the MP.
The concerted campaign against LGB Alliance began months earlier.
Stonewall Scotland
Equality Network
LGBT Youth Scotland, Out For Indy,
Friends and colleagues
And others
Good Charity Bad Charity
Efforts to denigrate LGB Alliance increase
Not just one but *two* deeply dodgy’s, serious enough to @ police and inform them.
Eventually succeeding in closing down the fundraisers.
Staff from other LGBT charities are happy at the news
But the thanks deservedly go to John Nicolson MP and his staff
Really well done. More great work.
The bullies don’t win …. inevitable
Amazing
So called ‘LGB Alliance’
They exist to oppress one group …. Much love and thanks to Pink News and John Nicolson
Pass your thanks to John Nicolson
Stonewall Scotland and LGBT Youth Scotland staff don’t appreciate the BS and spin. “What a hateful bunch of bigots”
Keep fighting the good fight
They brought it on themselves
“angry and obsessive”
“Sinister” “transphobic”
“transphobes exploit sport as an issue to advance their abusive agenda” - John Nicolson MP
“Sinister” “Straight out of the bigots' handbook” “transphobic LGB Alliance is now actively courting racists” - John Nicolson
“clique of angry keyboard warriors” “they don't have (and I doubt ever will have) charitable status”
“he’s been tweeting day and night about me since January”
“creepy far right group” “If you give them cash you're funding hate” “sinister”
“This is the USA group. We are neither far right nor hateful. Please stop your lies about us”
“obsessive transphobes” “out in the real world they enjoy little support”
“Tedious, transphobic, far right, entryist, Independence hating bores”
“They're obsessive”
SNP colleagues join in
“ghastly 'Alliance'” “Don't support this awful sinister hate group”
“sinister Alliance” “pumping out on line poison” “Don't fund hate”
“if you'd like a balanced discussion we would be more than
happy to come onto your show” @ALLIANCELGB
Random account in DM’s is somehow LGBAlliance.
Ofcom boss speaks at committee meeting, asked about “transphobic groups like the LGB Alliance”
“Everything about the sinister Alliance is regressive” “abusive tweets the Alliance bombards me with”
Stonewall supports John’s comments
Not reciprocated though, Stonewall “were hopeless”
“They're far too corporate & their ex boss is in the Lords”.
“most women parliamentarians are revolted by the 'Alliance'”
“the transphobes are a tiny, angry, unrepresentative (if noisy)
fringe” “groups like the Alliance have hundreds of followers who use their anonymity to be abusive”
Single out Allison who has “the audacity to talk about harassment?”
“grows ever more deranged”
“It's a sinister pressure group”
“Abuse is always wrong”
“sinister LGB Alliance's legion of pseudonyms”
Stonewall Scotland getting in on it
“Most women I know won't feel more vulnerable if trans
women are treated with kindness and respect”
“It's a fringe hate group”
“enjoys the attention and aggro”
“Not only nasty but cowardly & mendacious”
“Then of course there's the literally hundreds of separate abuse tweets from Alliance directors….”
“The poison is at the core of their sinister, hate filled movement”
“transphobic LGB Alliance rabbit hole” “Alliance transphobe Land” “They're a sinister hate group”
“They seem to live on line, in a fact free echo chamber, driven
to fuming rage by the sinister Alliance and its transphobic
hate campaign”
“Charity Commission: Stop Anti-Trans Group the LGB Alliance
Gaining Charity Status”
“the transphobes whole narrative about abuse is appalling”
“sinister allies”
“sinister Alliance whining that the SP won't meet them. We don't
appease hate groups”
“Anonymous troll with fake account. The Alliance playbook”
“The Alliance are a fringe group of mostly on line extremists”
“the work JN has done skewering the BBC for bias / LGB Alliance has been outstanding”
“you don't speak for "women". And especially not young women. Polls show you do speak for right wing men aged 55+”
“If you feel so strongly about anti-transphobia, I respect that but that is NOT why we elected you”
“It’s a hate group”
“deluged by abuse” “all the trans kids reading their poison and despairing”
“Delighted to see him telling the sinister LGB Alliance where to go. They're a hate group. END OF”
“The Alliance is a tiny if noisy group committed mostly to begging for money and abusing trans people. It will soon disappear and be forgotten”
“The Alliance is grubby and sinister. It's run by a tiny clique of lost souls obsessed with other people's genitalia.”
“The Alliance is sinister”
“I'm certainly disturbed that any health professional should be tweeting supportively a hate group”
Employees of Equality Network and Stonewall Scotland are not happy with the decision of the Charity Commission
“we don't want transphobic charities” “I've written to the Charity
Commission to ask why”
“legitimise a hate group that terrorizes the trans & non-binary community & allies”
“the false claim by the transphobes that they're are standing up for 'women’”
“The Alliance has given the @CharityComms assurances that
it and its trustees will no longer be abusive and won't post
hate”
“They are a transphobic hate group”
“Bit like verifying the BNP” “A group for white people etc.....”
“My favourite thing about LGB Alliance is how they don't understand the Equality Act 2010” “sex is actually irrelevant” - Retweeted by John Nicolson MP
Final tweet for the blocked 🙂
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