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23 Dec, 7 tweets, 3 min read
1./ Great piece by @jameskirkup about the unbelievably shoddy BBC article on puberty blockers by @BenInLDN. I never saw the pressing need for an LGBT correspondent. But if we’re going to pay for one let them understand basic editorial standards.
2./ Why would you fail to interview a single medical or psychiatric expert on adolescence or puberty blockers while interviewing a controversial GP who in his own cringe-making recent YouTube video admits he is no expert. At least ..DOCTOR Harrop wasn’t lying about that. 👇👇
3./ How could any journalist watch this plonker and not spot he’s trying to sound knowledgeable about blockers while reading a script (badly). Do his darting eyes suggest to you he has any more grasp of the subject than the average pompous blowhard? 👇👇
4./ It’s a basic requirement of journalism you can assess the qualifications and competence of someone you interview. Wouldn’t you wonder at the credentials of someone who arranges their books by the colour of their cover? I would.
6./ That was bad enough. To mention suicide 7 times & imply it’s somehow inevitable among those not given blockers breaches all guidelines. The impact of media coverage of suicide is well-attested. 👇👇ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK20726…
7./ The only way you could quote the dodgy Webberley outfit @GenderGP and not mention she and her hubby were struck off for breaching the guidelines on puberty blockers is if you were intending to write a biased. misleading article, or didn’t bother to do basic research.
8./ Read the BBC article while you can. It can’t be long for this world. And once it’s gone ...it’s maybe time the BBC got itself a new LGBT correspondent too. And get a journalist next time. A real one. bbc.co.uk/news/amp/educa…

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21 Dec
1./ Why does the Latter Day Church of Gender Identity Activism seem to attract so many narcissists? Here's @DJFLevesley (some bloke from GQ) saying a BBC journalist's award for prose writing in honour of Bertrand Russell made him think of giving up journalism. Feel free mate.
2./ @amolrajan bent over acrobatically to distance himself from the 'sentiments' of third placed @jk_rowling's essay on Sex and Gender Issues. But his crime was unforgiveable. He had dared to read and he did not denounce. He also called it brave. Whoops. bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…
3./ David Levesley (some bloke from GQ) with remarkably little bravery says the essay was "misinformed and factually inaccurate" without giving an instance. He can't because it isn't. Instead he jumps on an opportunity to tell us his boo hoo about how offended he was. Who cares.
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1./ Is the UK somehow uniquely bad at tackling the pandemic? No and here's why not. I ask because various Boris haters have gone into overdrive. Here's an arch-Remainer claiming the new strain was used to disguise a U-turn. Get a grip mate.
2./ First the good news. Yesterday, just before the Boris bombshell I passed a GP surgery and under big awnings older ladies and gents (all socially distanced) were waiting to be vaccinated. It was, I have to say, very affecting. Can't wait to see more of these signs go up. 🙏👇
3./ There was a little group of passers by who'd stopped to cheer them on as each was led in by a nurse or a relative. Britain has purchased enough vaccines to jab us all 5 times over. The EU by contrast way may see a serious shortfall. 👇spiegel.de/international/…
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16 Dec
1./ Who regulates our broadcasters, @Ofcom or @stonewalluk? It's an obvious question after the car-crash yesterday at the @CommonsDCMS hearing when Ofcom's head said she agreed with this tendentious nonsense from @MrJohnNicolson 👇
2./ Pink News who are to free speech what Bennie Hill was to subtle humour celebrated, arguing @Ofcom had set out rules preventing anyone being interviewed whom Pink News decides is an "anti-trans activist"; ie anyone who's not a wide-eyed enthusiast for the latest trans demand.
3./ What is "extremely inappropriate" is a regulator deciding who should speak on issues such as women's sport, puberty blockers or single sex spaces and being guided by the opinion of a lobby group called @stonewalluk who take positions counter to the public on all these issues.
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15 Dec
1./ On Jolyon Maugham and his underhand tactics. Here's Jolyon complaining that an expert cited by the prosecution in the Tavistock trial is a.... veterinary scientist who did work on sheep. To self-styled genius Jolyon this appears to be an outrage. It isn't. And here's why.
2./ How would YOU test puberty blockers? Now that they're in widespread use Jolyon's side argue it would be unethical to run a trial where a control group of gender dysphoric kids are NOT given PBs. So why not run an animal trial? That's exactly what Professor Neil Evans did.
3./ His team at Glasgow University worked with researchers from Norway's leading Gender Identity clinic. Jolyon didn't mention them. But anyway how CAN animals help us work out the impact of puberty blockers? Simple: all mammals go through adolescence. Yep even sheep.
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15 Dec
1./ Who knew the BBC now needs defending from a regulator that admits to working hand in glove with a controversial lobby group which famously enforces its own narrow, biased agenda on some of the big issues of the day. Yes @stonewalluk
2./ Stonewall is wrong on single sex spaces, its advice on Self ID has been rejected by the UK govt, its policy on puberty blockers was rejected by the High Court. Sporting bodies reject its attitude to women’s sports. It conspires against the rights of gay people.
3./ And yet secretly it is working with @Ofcom day to day to help them decide who gets to debate these issues and many more. This is a disgrace. Forget defund the BBC. It’s Ofcom that needs wholesale reform. 👇👇
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14 Dec
1./ Just how dumb are some LGBTQ+ activists? I ask since there's yet another petition against @ALLIANCELGB. Surprise, surprise the usual sheeple gay glitteratti have signed it. Even Cashman has taken a break from promoting his tedious book to pontificate.
2./ This one demands the 'UK Media' should never interview anyone from LGB Alliance unless there's a warning (and maybe a skull and crossbones flag in the corner). At least we've given them a break from remedial classes in those skills they never mastered, like tying shoelaces.👇
3./ We shouldn't mock. These are people so dumb they really do believe Sam Smith is brave for growing moobs. And luminously boundary breaking for wearing some eyeshadow. Wow, "they're" so very totally non-binary.👇
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