Thread by @BevJacksonAuth

Ruth Hunt became Stonewall CEO in 2014, after promising a key group of lesbian members including Kate Harris that SW would remain LGB. SW then met with 700+ trans people and added the T, reneging on her pledge. Hunt refused to respond to lesbians’ concerns./1

In April 2019 Kate and I met. We shared concerns that SW’s shift from gay rights to gender identity & self-ID, and its dogmatic, aggressive rhetoric, were harming the community it had once served so well. We decided to found a new organisation for LGB people - LGB Alliance./2

We were particularly horrified to discover how many LGB teens were being taught a strange dogma of body denialism - online, but also by Stonewall - which led them to seek drugs and later surgery to align their bodies with their supposed “gender identity”./3

We met growing numbers of young women, mostly lesbians in their 20s, who’d had multiple problems & been misled. They’d thought altering their bodies would be the solution and now deeply regretted it. They felt fragile; few were willing to air their anger and shame in public./4

We campaigned endlessly to publicize the fact that gender identity dogma was leading some distressed LGB teens to seek harmful medication in a bid to “change their gender”. We pointed out the dogma was essentially homophobic. We opposed self-ID for the same reason./5

The Newsnight report on GIDS told the same story: homophobia was an issue in all the families the journalists had spoken to. Yet when the extent of the medical scandal started to emerge, SW continued to promote “gender affirming care” - because children “know who they are”./6

Only someone who has never been around children for more than 5 minutes can say they “know who they are”. They need love, support and guidance. They need safeguarding. That is what the adults in their lives are supposed to provide./7

The growing ranks of detransitioners - the detrans subreddit now has 53,000 members - make it abundantly clear that children - including teens - can make mistakes. If they are given hormones with life-changing effects, those mistakes can be devastating./8

So we were pleased to see the report from the Cass Review identify the failings of pediatric gender care in England and point a better way forward. Dr Cass rightly wants children with gender dysphoria to receive the same high standard of evidence-based care as everyone else./9

Stonewall cautiously welcomed the report and its recommendations, with some reservations. It sent love and solidarity to trans people, but none to the LGB people who had been badly mistreated by the NHS./10

And see the furious responses of gender identity zealots to Stonewall’s low-key statement. From obscenities to cries of “traitor!” Those are the armies that Stonewall itself has nourished for 9 years. By abandoning LGB people and promoting the lies of gender identity dogma./11

We founded LGB Alliance to stand with LGB people everywhere. Including those who mistook their gay, lesbian or bisexual sexual orientation for a “gender identity”issue, egged on by Stonewall and its many satellite groups. We’re so sorry this happened to you. We are with you./END