Thread by @ALLIANCELGB

A call to action for US citizens in the UK. Many critics say they can't understand why we're so concerned about the US Equality Act #HR5. What's not to like about a law that protects people from being discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation? Let us explain…/1

There are indeed wonderful things in the Equality Act which we welcome. Of course there are. But sometimes as that fabulously camp film from 2004 'Troy' reminds us, big glitzy gifts can come with hidden dangers lurking inside./2

So while there's plenty about the Act that advances our LGB rights, too much of the gay movement is so relieved after waiting so long it's reacted completely uncritically. So what IS it we fear that's lurking inside? To be clear the problem is NOT trans people.👇/3

We fully support their protection from discrimination. The problem isn't people ... it's ideology. The Act equates sex and gender identity and that is disastrous both for women and LGB peeps. Stop us if we sound like Emilia Fox as Cassandra. 👇/4

A clue to the dangers came in President Biden's Executive Order. On the one hand it says "All persons should receive equal treatment under the law, no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation.“ Bravo. We agree. But then came the kicker..../5

The EO instructs federal agencies on how to interpret the Supreme Court's Bostock ruling but itself totally misinterprets it. While the Bostock majority ruling mentioned gender identity only once and sex at least 200 times the EO equates one with the other./6

That might not SOUND like a big deal. But it is. We’re same-SEX attracted. If SEX = gender identity then we become attracted to people who SAY they are the sex we are attracted to. That’s NOT who we believe we are. It's also not why we’ve been discriminated against./7

For centuries we were told we should sleep and marry people of the opposite sex. Now the Equality Act ends up doing much the same; defining gays as those who can sleep and date people of the opposite sex. The EA is a Trojan Horse smuggling homophobia back into our lives./8

It's not compulsory. Not yet. But there IS pressure on lesbians to consider transwomen as our partners. Males who were straight men now expect to become attractive to lesbians by declaring themselves female. This article explores this absurdity 👇/9
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The proposed Equality Act will encourage this gaslighting of lesbians. But the confusion of gender identity with sex will have another impact that will detonate loudly among voters of all orientations and political persuasions: SPORT. 👇/10

School sports are a crucial route to success and college. It's unfair girls are now facing competitors who have the biological advantage of having been born male. Here's research from biologist @FondOfBeetles that shows the advantage is overwhelming./11 👇savewomenssports.com/science¬

As if that wasn't bad enough @AbigailShrier has described the impact of the Equality Act's confusion of sex with gender identity as a present danger to women's safety. She's right. We applaud her clarion call to defend women's single sex spaces.👇wsj.com/articles/the-t… /12

As she says, "The Equality Act sacrifices female safety in restrooms, locker rooms and even domestic-violence shelters". Wherever self ID of gender has been introduced and males given access to female spaces problems have emerged; as in Ireland. 👇womenarehuman.com/transgender-te… /13

So what can YOU do? Please call on Congress to amend the Equality Act to recognize and protect biological sex as distinct from gender identity. It's not necessary to redefine sex as the Act proposes in order to protect transgender people from discrimination./14

If you care about our rights as LGB people, girls' sport and women and girls' safety then please write to your representative. Some people may tell you not to look a gift horse in the mouth. When it come to both horses and laws we prefer to do just that./15