Thread by @RobertBohan

Thread: There’s a UK account that claims to represent Gay, Bisexual & Lesbian people. It is, in fact, a Transphobic far right hate group. Many people follow it. I know some are monitoring the hate, but others prob think it’s just another Gay org. Let’s take a look.

Firstly a v short history. The roots of modern gay liberation (many use the term ‘Queer’, but others find it offensive) are in the Stonewall Riots. Although the police were violently attacking Lesbians & Gay men, it was the Trans women present who had had enough & fought back.

Without Trans women there would have been no riots & the fight for LGBTQI human rights probably would have taken significantly longer, more would have been imprisoned, tortured & murdered. (Marsha P Johnson & Sylvia Rivera) pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/28/wha…

The whole rationale of the LGBTQI community is solidarity in diversity That’s evident in Ireland where LGBTQI, abuse survivors, feminists, minorities & Travellers are all part of Pride. Standing together, stronger, when the law, the system & the general population hate(d) you.

So back to the English hate group. Who are they? Essentially they are part of the nexus of far right & ethno-nationalist groups funded by US far right foundations & Kremlin ‘chaos’ politics: pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/03/lgb…

They are viciously Transphobic & platform hate mongers who have been ejected from social media. They trumpet their supposed ‘Queerness’ yet are dominated by Cis-straight people, especially T3RFs. A feature of the latter is their online viciousness.

A quick review of comments under their Tweets show the worst kind of Fascism & Transphobia (indeed many commenters are also viciously homophobic, Xenophobic, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic & anti-Traveller).

They are a thirst-trap for bigots.

A sign of this group’s Fascist strategy is that they have been taken up by the Irish hate-blog Gr!pt as well as the notoriously bigoted English Sp3ctator Magazine.

The only reason this group & their social media presence exists is to be Transphobic. That Twitter allows such a group in their Dublin/Amsterdam server farms is contrary to EU & Irish human rights law. I have reported them & hope you will too as they are in breach of Twitter T&C

And for the bigots eagerly scanning Twitter to defend hate & be Transphobic: three FACTs:
1. Transphobia was a Nazi strategy
2. Sex & gender are a continuum
3. Science makes clear that Transphobia is bigotry: blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-us…

And as the T3RFs are not known for their intellectual wattage: Only Peer reviewed science with references from respected journals (such as given in the link above) count. There are a myriad of bad blogs, dodgy ‘institutions’, bad experiments & religious ‘studies’ that are trash.

Twitter is great for minorities as they are able to create communities, feel less isolated & talk. Unfortunately it’s also a place for bigots. Trans people get shocking abuse here every day. Be an ally, put your pronouns in your profile; she/her; he/him; Sí/í etc

Just as there is no debate about being gay (unless you’re a far right bigot); there is no debate about being Transexual - unless you’re a far right bigot. It has been scary watching media in the UK platforming Transphobia - however the majority of Brits reject this hate.

Older LGBTQI people have seen all the dog whistles, the religious bigotry, the hate, the tiny minority that identify with their oppressors, the far right attacks, the violence, the pseudo-science etc before. It was wrong then, it is wrong now. Report these bigots.

#BlackTransLivesMatter
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

The danger of online Transphobia is that it supports real life violent attacks. 331 Trans people were murdered in the US alone last year - most of whom were African-American. We all need to say #NotInMyName