Roll up! Roll up! Let's see @benjamincohen try to defend Pink News' appalling coverage of @JKRowling's new book. But what headline is he describing here to @NickCohen4.👇It turns out PN changed their headline after they came a cropper; yet again.
2./ At first this was their headline and it slammed the book for suggesting a "cis man who dresses as a woman" might murder women. Did you spot the rather elementary error in their ringing denunciation? Don't over think it.👇
3./ Even they soon realised if you're going to accuse someone of transphobia the fact you've just described their 'evil' character as 'cis' is in danger of undermining your accusation. Cue a quick reshuffle to this headline in which the culprit is now a man who cross dresses.👇
4./ Mmm. It's true in the new trans gospel according to @stonewalluk cross dressers ARE trans but @EHRCScotland advice is you have to be a "serious" crossdresser; living the life. No trans points for men who cross dress for stag parties. Or presumably for the odd bit of murder?
5./ Forget that many transsexuals hate that cross dressers are now put on an equal footing with them. Is Pink News now arguing that by definition guys who throw on a bit of women's clothing when they murder are channeling an inner gender identity?
6./ If this confusion is beginning to sound eerily familar that's because Pink News are so ignorant about their own favourite subject of trans rights they recently accused @jk_rowling of factual inaccuracy about this very issue of who can be trans. And lost.
7./ When she pointed out a bloke who says he's a woman can get a gender recognition certificate without any surgery or hormones they railed against her. They said she was making things up. She wasn't. They were.👇
8./ @FactCheck concluded the writer was right and these champions of gender identity didn't have a clue what they were talking about. It IS possible for a bloke to get a certificate without the slightest physical change from his previously 'cis' body. channel4.com/news/factcheck…
9./ So what's their beef now? If the character in JK's book merely puts on a dress, or according to @NickCohen4 a coat, to commit murder, how is he trans? Doesn't he have to self-identify first? Truth is Pink News are so blinded by hate they can't think straight, pardon the pun.
10./ Even idiots can be useful tho. Their shrill accusations have helped shine a light on the absurdity of the new 'trans umbrella'. Pink News, it seems, has now decided this category is so porous a fictional murderer gets lumped in there just by dint of donning a woman's coat.
11./ They've spent 5 years campaigning for GR Reform but don't get the basics and now it's not JK who's conflating transwomen with a kinky bloke who's a deadly offender. They are. Yes, Pink News has revealed a dark streak of transphobia: their own.
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1./ 🧵Labour's War on @elonmusk
What is hate speech? For Imran Ahmed from the Center for Countering Digital Hate it includes accounts on @X that warn of the dangers of so-called "gender affirming healthcare" for children. This matters due to his close links to the UK government
2./ Last year his group @CCDHate published a report accusing 5 accounts including brilliant gay rights activists @againstgrmrs of.... "LGBTQ+ hate". In fact they and the other accounts were merely calling out horrors like Drag Queens in schools and sterilising kids with blockers.
3./ Believe it or not @CCDHate complained an ad had been placed beside a post from @againstgrmrs in which the group said they stood with parents against predatory child abuse by groomers. How is gays standing against predatory child abuse hate speech? It gets worse.
1./ 🧵Two Spirit is a dodgy invention of the Trans Lobby. When I wrote about the trans lobby's origins in child abuse and women-hate a typically angry activist threw the notion of two spirit at me. Here's why two spirit is also steeped in misogyny & abuse.
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2./ The official story of 'two spirit' is that the term came in a dream an attendee had at the Third Native American Gay Conference in Winnipeg in 1990. The truth is Native Americans were desperate for a newly made up term. The reason was child abuse.
3./ These conferences were originally the brainchild of a group of white gay men who were disciples of Harry Hay, a founder of the gay movement who was then cast out (thank god) for his support for paedophilia. Hay had been lurking around Indian events since the late '60s.
1./ What motivates the Trans Lobby?
Two images sum it all up. The first is of Robert Stoller the man who coined the term 'gender identity' and popularised the idea in the 1960s and 70s. Here he is in Papua New Guinea in 1979. Guess who took the photograph.👉
2./ The photographer was Gilbert Herdt who spent the 1970s studying the Sambia tribe who ritually abused young boys. Herdt went on to publicly defend child abuse in the 1990s. His work was then quoted approvingly by @petertatchell in his own defence of paedophilia in 1997.
3./ The other image that explains the trans lobby is this one. "Virginia" Prince set up FPE, the first trans organisation, in the 60s and has been credited with effectively founding the trans movement. He was a psychiatric patient of Robert Stoller's for 27 years.
1./The link between trans identification and sexual offences just keeps growing and now Northumbria Police officer Blake Payne-Humphries has made it blatantly clear. He's just been fired for sending a series of disgusting text message from this police station in 2022.
2./ In between rape fantasies and sending an image of his penis from the toilet at Southwick police station Payne-Humphries also discussed abusing under age girls. Then he said he wanted to raise a child to be transgender so he could abuse the child. Why does this matter?
3./ One of the prime motivations of many adults who encourage trans identification in children as well as those who medicate them with drugs to prevent them maturing is often no more than a variation on this evil man's fantasy as @WomenReadWomen revealed.
1./ Gay Tory Cowardice.
Under Theresa May, Tories championed the insanity of Gender Self-ID that allows any man to say he's a laydee. At a meeting of the @LGBTCons I discovered gay Tories still refuse to acknowlege the risks, contradictions and idiocy of this sort of approach.
2./ At their #CPC2024 meeting on London's nightlife the panel waxed lyrical about diversity and inclusion. So I asked if they cared so much about inclusion whether they would publicly defend the right of women to organise their own single sex social events. Guess what they said.
3./ Only one panellist deigned to back lesbians or gay men properly. @Madz_Grant from @Telegraph supported our right to have single sex events. @EmsFielder from freemarket @ASI had tho no opinion at all on the freedom to choose of lesbians or gay men. Even worse was to come. 👉
1./ 🧵Sheer Homophobia
The leader of Hezbollah is dead and every lesbian and gay man on the planet should cheer his death to the rafters (if there are any remaining at Hezbollah HQ). Last year Nasrallah called for violence against gay people. "And with no limits". 1. of/14
2./ If there is anything left of this rancid bigot it is probably only a lump of his throbbing, ineradicable hate. In fact Hassan Nasrallah loathed gays so much he even wanted to exterminate the word homosexual.
3./ Instead he urged his brethren to "keep using words like abnormality" and offered a helpful selection of derogatory slurs as alternatives. There is an irony it's worth pointing out though about previous coverage of Nasrallah's homophobia.👉