"Gender Critical" feminists attacking my bisexuality because I prefer the term Queer, because it is more trans-inclusive. But remember, I'm the bigot according to these guys, even as they mock my sexuality & deny the existence of trans women.
I don't really want to quote tweet this awful bigot any more than I want to quote tweet the next awful bigot, but there have been literally hundreds of racist, homophobic, biphobic and transphobic comments targeted at me because I said Trans Rights Matter. Again, I won't shut up.
I don't call myself Queer egg person. I am Queer. My mental or physical attraction to someone is not predicated on their gender or biological sex. Take that fucking Pride flag out of your bio before you @ some other LGBT person with one of your slurs.
Another pride flag, another "Gender Critical" feminist, here in response spewing monstrous scaremongering about pedophilia. Again, this is because I said Trans Rights Matter.
Let's do the other greatest hits from the last 24 hours shall we, here I am told I hate women because I have "a Muslim DNA"
I received hundreds of these tweets, first because I said Trans Rights Matter, then because I told an anti-Trans hate group whose founder had recently appeared alongside an anti-abortion anti-LGBT far right group in America to go and fuck themselves.
I stopped bothering to screenshot them because honestly it was making me really upset, but fuck bowing down to this campaign. This is what the "Gender Critical" movement mostly looks like to anyone who isn't on board with transphobia.
Some people accused me of being on a "rant" yesterday, which couldn't be further from the truth. I've had enough of seeing this stuff from mutual accounts on Twitter and I won't tolerate it anymore. I won't stand to watch trans & non-binary people dehumanised any longer like this
"We're not transphobic, we're just gender critical"
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I have a lot of Foreign Policy stuff I have to focus on for the next few days & I can't dedicate anymore time to responding to individual questions about trans rights and gender anymore. It's been 48 hours and I've only managed to eat one meal because of the relentlessness of it.
I have tried to kindly discuss things with people who respectfully want to debate the issue with me, and I have shown zero tolerance to those who want to spout hatred instead. But I have to move on to other things now else I will end up with no commissions completed for the month
I hope the experience of the last few days has shown people that you can't simply instigate a pile-on to someone with abuse in the hope that they change their opinions on sincerely held beliefs, and that you can't force people to apologise for things they don't feel sorry for.
I really am trying to be as respectful as possible, but I don't care if you've followed my career for 12 years, if you turn up in my mentions spouting anti-trans bigotry I'm going to block you forever without even feeling the slightest tinge of remorse. I hope this is clear.
If people want to follow me who disagree with me, the more the merrier. If people want to discuss my political views in an open and respectful manner, great! If people want to start slandering me as a misogynist, homophobe or attack trans people, I will block you immediately.
This is cleaning house time for me. This isn't the first time I've had to do it, I blocked all former friends or left wing allies that made excuses for antisemitism too.
Good morning folks. I just want to say that this individual @TheSinanKose was part of a sustained, aggressive & racist campaign to slander me as a terrorist and al-Qaeda supporter for 4 years. He cheered on the Islamophobic hatred I suffered at the hands of his Corbyn supporters.
Even here he can barely muster any condemnation of the virulent Islamophobic abuse I'm subjected to, and turn it around to blame me - the victim - for not being more supportive of Corbynite trolls like himself who were happy to paint me as a religious fundamentalist to smear me.
This is one of Sinan's friends, a middle class white man working in corporate law, using an anonymous account to libel me as a supporter of al-Qaeda, a group that has kidnapped and executed close friends of mine, friends I miss and mourn daily.
It seems the anti-trans group has used me to drum up money for their bigotry. Let's do something about this, I'd love my followers to dig deep and donate to @stonewalluk, where your money can actually go to helping LGBT people in need.
Here's the link: stonewall.org.uk/one-off-donati…
If you aren't in the UK and can't send to Stonewall, you can PayPal me the cash and I'll transfer it over to them myself. Come on folks, let's show these guys what solidarity looks like <3 paypal.me/ozkaterji
Thanks Andy, for every transphobic remark that is tweeted at me I am going to up my donation. The more hate, the more money @stonewalluk are going to receive. Because fuck you and fuck everything you stand for, love will win.
You know, if I hadn't joined this website 11 years ago, suffered death threats from Al-Qaeda & ISIS operatives, been slandered as a terrorist and received torrents of abuse from the far right and the far left, yesterday would have broken me. I would never have tweeted again.
There is an atmosphere on Twitter where it is quite literally an unbearable experience to exist as a trans person. The dehumanisation and targeted abuse is extreme. The toxicity is so intense that I spent nearly 16 (YES SIXTEEN) hours blocking the abuse I received.
Some of these abusive accounts go as far as accusing me of being a rapist, a pedophile, or someone that wants to commit genocide against Lesbians. The discourse is actually fully insane, deranged and disgusting. The people driving this campaign are totally radicalised.
Daily transphobia, whipped up by prominent opinion columnists at The Times and other mainstream British newspapers, are directly responsible for this hatred and discrimination currently playing out.
Too many of my followers see stuff like this and shrug. A fewer amount giggle and agree. It's dehumanisation. It intends to characterise all Trans people as dangerous sexual deviants. The opinion editors know EXACTLY what they are whipping up with this too.
This is on them. Directly. If it was directly on Corbyn for the antisemitism of his crankiest supporters, it is also directly on the leading "gender critical" pundits that routinely push the idea that Trans women are dangerous and predatory.