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This is frightening and nasty. There is no LGB without the T. Trans people are an integral part of our community and movement. And the attempt to divide LGBTQ+ people - aided and abetted by right-wing media outlets - will not succeed.
The "LGB Alliance" meeting declared that the main LGBTQ organisation "must be pulled down", and vilified its former Chief Executive, a cis butch lesbian who anti-trans activists have systematically hounded, while simultaneously claiming pro-trans activists are silencing women.
Oh look, the anti-trans LGB Alliance has the support of this far right extremist. That’s because if you oppose trans rights, there are your natural allies.
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Here's what's going on behind the scenes. I'm told the @peoplesvote_uk Chair, @RolandRudd, a millionaire City of London lobbyist, saw it as a vehicle to destroy Labour and create a new pro-market party - unlike the hundreds of thousands who marched because they want to Remain.
Multiple PV people tell me Rudd wants a political realignment in favour of a pro-big business "liberal" party and Brexit was never his priority. This is, they say, a coup against genuine believers in Remain in favour of those who want to replace Labour as the main non-Tory party.
Here’s what I wrote about Roland Rudd in The Establishment five years ago.
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Owen Jones🌹
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Hi @bbcpress. I'm a Guardian journalist and columnist. Describing me as a "Labour activist" - when most of the British press can accurately be described as Tory activists (which you don't call them) - after I'm attacked shows a grotesque level of bias. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-500047…
Oh, and I do all sorts of activism - anti-austerity, anti-Trump, anti-war, Remain and Reform, and so on (eg they could have called me “anti-fascist activist” if they were going down that route).

My job is columnist and author. Anything else is secondary to that fact.
Most of the British press has a partisan pro-Tory position, and a bitter, militant opposition to Labour. But it’s striking that only the marginalised dissenters within the media are singled out for their politics - including when they’re attacked in the streets.
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Owen Jones🌹
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This is a bit dramatic, so firstly I’m fine, but last night - when I was celebrating my birthday - I was attacked, along with my friends, in a blatant premeditated assault.
Six of us left the pub at 3am and were saying our goodbyes 30 metres away, then a group of 3-4 men left the pub, made a beeline for me, kicked me in the back, threw me on the ground, slamming my head, and kicked me in the skull. My friends were punched trying to defend me.
The group then scarpered: I don’t know if they said anything in the melee. I’m fine other than a big bump on my head and a cut back.

Given the far right attacks I’ve had in the streets, and generally escalating far right threats I’ve had, I’m in no doubt as to what this is.
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Quince Mountain
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People wonder why I'd want to appear--especially appear naked--on an unscripted documentary series (aka "Reality TV"), when #trans people have had so many negative experiences in the media, our stories given shallow treatments and exploited for dramatic effect. 1/?
But if I'm honest, I wasn't drawn to appearing on @NakedAndAfraid despite the nudity requirement--it was an alluring feature.

I felt, as a trans guy, that stripping down would be a relief, a way to get it over with & just finally say the unsayable, widely and publicly.
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MONSTER THREAD: US President Donald Trump’s transgender military ban went into force at the start of this month. It is predicated on a number of false premises, but chiefly: that trans servicepeople are a burden to the US military; and that trans identities are illegitimate. 1/
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First, to the idea of a burden. I’m not going to deal too much with the actual costs, though Trump has made much of the fact that trans people are ‘too expensive’ for the Pentagon. This he even claimed in his first tweets proposing the ban. 3/
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Right, so buckle up: this is going to be a long thread about #trans representation in the media, trans responses to said media, and some thoughts on what we're doing wrong and what we could do right.

Ready? Okay.
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1. The mainstream media is still in a transphobic backlash, and it's been getting nastier and more dangerous every month.
2. In our online communities - twitter and facebook in particular - we are spending WAY more time and attention responding to and magnifying these instances of backash than we are in promoting not only our successes, but even mildly positive or neutral works.
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People don't seem to understand how crippling and absolutely murderous the Venezuela sanctions are. Here is a little thread about what they are, and how they work. And here is a link to the primary source: state.gov/e/eb/tfs/spi/v…
As an initial matter, there was a United Nations report on the Venezuela sanctions, which bluntly stated that the "economic sanctions kill" Venezuelans. The full report itself is very readable. web.archive.org/web/2019013020…
So let's look at some of the sanctions that were imposed in August 2017. Section 1 over here makes it illegal for the government of Venezuela to raise any kind of money, through the sale of bonds or securities. It also makes it illegal for Venezuelan companies to remit profits.
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So, I've waded through the Evangelical Alliance's new pastoral "guidelines" for interacting with trans people (ughh, the things I do to expose #transphobic #ciswits to the world), and let's just say it's time to tear this particular sh*t-bag a new hole.

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"It is important to remember that transgender is not simply an issue to be debated;" - p5, #Transformed

*sigh*

When such language gets reinforced by insisting...

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