Thread by @MatthewGreenf11

spectator.co.uk/article/the-di… "it isn’t old-style homophobes with blue rinses and crucifixes who are waging war on this gay-rights group. It’s the PC left. It’s supposedly correct-thinking commentators, trans activists and others who pride themselves on being progressive and decent."

"Its crime? It is sceptical of some of the claims of transgender activists. Hence there is no ‘T’ in its name. Its aim is to protect and promote the interests of people who are attracted to the same sex..therefore it believes that the reality of sex is quite an important thing."

"if people with male body parts can identify as lesbians – which they can, and often do – then this shrinks the space for actual lesbians (women attracted to women) to express their concerns and interests. "

"For raising these concerns about the new gender ideologies – politely, intellectually – LGB Alliance has been rounded on in a deranged way...

..... There was another explosion of hatred against the group this week. The gay magazine Boyz became the target of visceral contempt for daring to retweet the sinners of LGB Alliance on its Twitter feed..Soon, mobs of people were targeting companies that advertise in Boyz"

"Eventually, the magazine was defeated by the mob..apologised to ‘all our readers, venues and advertisers for the publicity we have given to the LGB Alliance’. There is a whiff of neo-Stalinism to all this..blacklisted for expressing a view that runs counter to the new orthodoxy"

"All for promoting a group that has the temerity to exercise its freedom of association to promote the interests of lesbians, gay people and bisexuals rather than anyone else...

...In the past it would have been nutty homophobes who tried to revoke the freedom of association of gays and lesbians; now it’s the hyper-woke."

"People often misuse the word bigotry. A bigot, in the words of the Oxford English Dictionary, is ‘intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself’. So, tell me – who are the real bigots in the mad crusade against LGB Alliance?...

...The alliance itself, for merely talking about the reality of sex and same-sex attraction? Or the furious, insult-spewing mobs who are doing everything they can to shame and shut it down? I think we know the answer. "

The above thread is the words of Brendan O'Neill
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