😂 The Pink News comedy show keeps getting funnier. Here’s @benjamincohen responding to the govt’s announcement it has rejected gender Self-ID, which he championed for 5 years. He starts with a trademark bizarre accusation, this time about genital inspections. Click here to see👇
2./ Then he tries to suck up to @trussliz claiming her rejection of Self-ID is....”sensible”. It is indeed which is why that’s been the central demand of @ALLIANCELGB since we were founded; despite furious accusations of “hatefulness” from Pink News and yep Benjamin himself.
3./ Here’s a reminder of just a few of the stories his demented rag has run demanding Self-ID in the last few months. The most recent was yesterday. 👇 In the world of Pink News no one just asks ....they plead. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🤦♂️
4/ Here’s Pink News preparing its pleady needy readers for the worst news possible ever - Literally- complete with its usual mad exaggeration. Apparently there’s an “overwhelming number” in favour of Self-ID. Yeah in the Pink News gender neutral loos maybe. 👇
5./ Here’s Pink News bewailing the PM’s lack of interest in Self ID despite more “overwhelming support”. They must be referring to a legion of copycat responses to the govt’s consultation PN urged readers to send in. The public were on a different page as they soon discovered.
6./ When Pink News asked @YouGov to poll the actual public it had to treat the results like a Japanese cook handling a deadly fugu fish: with great care. There was a small majority in favour of Self-ID among women. But what happened to overwhelming?
7./ If you wonder why misogynist PN suddenly took such an interest in women’s views it’s because there wasn’t a majority of blokes who supported Self ID and so only 50% of the entire British public were in support. Overwhelming majority? I don’t think so.👇pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/tra…
8./ This didn’t stop @benjamincohen giving quotes to other news outlets that were in danger of misrepresenting the results. Here he is saying the majority of the public supported Self ID👇 independent.co.uk/life-style/tra…
9./ I know denying the reality of biology may make your grasp of facts unstable but this is just weird. Maybe it was why @YouGov felt the need a week later to publish its own polling in more detail. This revealed a much more nuanced picture. 👇yougov.co.uk/topics/politic…
10./ One crucial finding was that while a majority supported transwomen being able to enter women’s single sex spaces a much larger majority was against pre-op transwomen being able to do so. It’s thought most transwomen choose to retain their male genitals.
11./ Another revealing finding was that despite an eagerness to be as kind as possible and go along with some trans demands the public were pretty evenly split as to whether they really believed trans people were the gender they said they were. 36% of the public didn’t. 👇
12./ This led to a raging article in Pink News which denounced the same company -You Gov- for daring to ask the public questions about trans people that Pink News had just paid to ask the public questions about trans people. 👇
13./ This was all of a piece with Pink News’s bias, its insane vitriol, its refusal to report factually, its pile-ons, the personal attacks,misrepresentations and witch hunts that have been such a feature of its campaign for Self ID
14/. The killer finding in You Gov’s poll was the VAST majority of the public actually support the CURRENT gender recognition process. By 63 to 16% they favoured medical diagnosis for example as well as proof of a 2 year process of transition. That’s what I call overwhelming.👇
15./ This is what makes the refusal of the govt to be bullied into compliance so uplifting for our side. They and we are in line with the public view not the ragged cadre at Pink News that increasingly resembles the strange, wide-eyed cult of the Sparrows from ‘Game of Thrones’.
16./ It’ll be fun to see whether the little Sparrows back at Pink News will now back Benjamin’s description of the govt’s approach as “sensible”. Maybe the little ones don’t appreciate how dependent their rag now is on govt adverti$ing. Kerching.👇
17./ Maybe Benjamin will soon sing the same song as @stonewalluk that calls the govt’s decision “a shocking failure of leadership”. Nancy Kelley will know all about that. We hear reports her staff are in open rebellion.👇
18./ Since Stonewall became obsessed with trans rights to the detriment of LGB people its gone from a healthy financial surplus to last year a loss of £1M. It’s said to be living off reserves. Acceptance without exceptions ....🤦♂️
19./ However they spin it the govt’s decision is a huge blow to both Pink News and Stonewall, and a solid win for our side. But it’s just a start. There’s so much work to do to roll back the capture of our institutions by the nonsense of ‘gender identity’ theory. Up and at them.
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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.👉