Thread by @psa_says

In case you or someone you know missed out on details about the current kerfuffle surrounding @RationalityRule and the ACA, here's a summary thread:

Stephen Woodford made several transphobic remarks in his videos. One video is transphobic as a whole because it is an alarmist 1/

@RationalityRule demand for trans women to be excluded from women's sports lest they "destroy" it and it "becomes dominated by y chromosomes". Still, the ACA invited him to their shows, 4 times, without confronting him about it in any way.
Several people in the ACA including @Matt_Dillahunty 2/

@RationalityRule @Matt_Dillahunty confronted Woodford about his video privately, at Faithless Forum and when he was Austin. After the board was alerted about the controversy, Eric Murphy called each board member individually saying that this EOT person was overreacting, that it wasn’t a big deal, that they’ve 3/

@RationalityRule @Matt_Dillahunty already spoken to RR and convinced him that he made a lot of mistakes, that an apology was imminent, and that the board didn’t need to worry about it. .
After pressure from trans activists and the resignation of all the ACA's social media admins, they released their first 4/

@RationalityRule @Matt_Dillahunty statement, calling Woodford out and apologising for their own behaviour.
This caused quite a little storm. Woodford made a video explaining how mean the ACA was, comparing himself to Galileo and them to the inquisition in the thumbnail.
His fans started brigading ACA social 5/

@RationalityRule @Matt_Dillahunty media. The board first decided to not allow discussion on the topic, then to allow it, but only in one dedicated thread.
Then the board decided to order the remaining moderators to cease active moderation.
This lead to a lot of transphobic and otherwise rather vile comments 6/

@RationalityRule @Matt_Dillahunty appearing unmoderated in the group. Jamie appeared on Non Sequitur, apologising for the first statement and the "censorship", laughing about trans people's fears and pain with Shannon Q and Kyle.
The ACA issued a new statement, also apologising to Stephen and taking back the 7/

@RationalityRule @Matt_Dillahunty first one.
That was when I left as a social media volunteer for the ACA.
A new board was elected, which now consists almost exclusively of white cishet dudes (one cis woman), and all the old members who had opposed Stephen were voted out.
Matt publicly supports him and rants 8/

@RationalityRule @Matt_Dillahunty around in live chat and on Twitter about how mean everyone is. Actually, many prominent atheists have come out for Stephen, including Aron Ra, Holy Koolaid, Shannon Q, oh, sorry, I guess I shouldn't do this, because there has been a big uproar about how a small private group 9/

@RationalityRule @Matt_Dillahunty of people made a list of those who support Stephen, so that they know where Transphobia is accepted and defended, and where they can feel more or less safe from it.
A screenshot of this list was sent to the people on it by an unknown person, it was published, and caused a lot 10/

@RationalityRule @Matt_Dillahunty of anger. It was called a "hitlist" by some, and often compared to the work of the Nazis. 11

@RationalityRule @Matt_Dillahunty These videos explain:

Woodford's apology (EoT):
(Obj.Subj.):

Woodford' original sports video:
(EoT, focus on scientific facts)
(Kendall Hopkins, focus on transphobia)

@RationalityRule @Matt_Dillahunty Woodford's Transphobia and the ACA reaction (EoT)

Woodford's transphobia with much more emphasis on his other two videos (Chrisiousity)