1./ I see @MrJohnNicolson is the comedy gift that never stops giving. As the wee hours approached last night he scrolled through my timeline, as he often does, to pick on anyone who agreed with one of my threads including a psychiatrist; whom he proceeded to troll. 👇
2./ Do "you currently work for the NHS or are licensed to practise?", old pompous chops enquires, with the hint of a threat that comes from him being an MP. Turns out Mr Curtis just happens to be Honorary Professor at the Centre for Psychiatry at Queen Mary University. Whoops.😂
3./ I suppose it's the fact checking we've come to expect from ol' Johnioh. Remember when he spread a big fat conspiracy theory about a certain gay group somehow organising a global attempt to err...swing the SNP's Executive elections?🙄👇
4./ Maybe if he gets elected as Rector of Glasgow University it will give him something useful to do with his time. He'll struggle to be a worthy successor to previous Rectors like Johnny Ball, Winnie 'necklace' Mandela, Ross Kemp, comedian Greg Hemphill and... Reggie Bosanquet.
5./ There's a serious point. Some elected representatives like @RosieDuffield1 are constantly trolled online by angry activists. John tho represents a new and sinister low: an MP misusing his public platform to troll, bully, and malign, before hiding pathetically behind a Block.
1./ Your daily reminder the gender identity movement is full of fantasists and doesn't give a fig about the truth. @naomirwolf has been talking cobblers for years. Every time you think she can't get more bonkers she promptly does. Her latest fruitcakery tho takes some beating.👇
2./ In between other anti-vaxx baloney she now claims vaccination may trigger unusual bleeding in women nearby. It's lunacy. Yet when she slammed @ALLIANCELGB and UK feminists she was lauded by Pink News, Nicolson, Blunt and the rest of the gender Adams Family as an authority. 👇
3./ Here's Tatchell, celebrating Naomi's intervention. Hilariously, he cites the claims of Professor Wolf of the University of Totally Made-Up BS that the defence of single sex spaces is FACTUALLY baseless. As if Naomi has more than a passing acquaintance with...the FACTUAL.👇
1./ A thread about conversion therapy, gender identity and the elephant in the room : mental health. It's remarkable how in the debate on 'gender identity' there's such a stubborn refusal to consider the power and fragility of the human mind. Here's why that's dangerous.
2./ If you haven't read 'Sleeping Beauties' I can reccomend this extraordinary new book that explores how stress and cultural influence can trigger medical conditions which, on the surface, seem baffling; like 169 girls in Sweden falling into 'comas'.👇theguardian.com/books/2021/apr…
3./ Except coma isn't the right word. The girls were all from refugee families, and almost all from the ex-USSR or Iraq. Many were Yazidi. Some of the families had been through hell. For 2 decades girls fell asleep and didn't wake for months or years.👇bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-…
1./ If you want a brilliant introduction to the whole 'gender identity' debate or just wonder how trans rights became such a battlefield, do yourself a favour and listen to @holyroodmandy's interview with ex leader of Scottish Labour, @JohannLamont 👇 anchor.fm/holyrood/episo…
2./ Like so many on the Left Johann started by wanting to help a vulnerable group of people, transsexuals, but slowly realised activists who claimed to speak for them had a more ambitious and stranger agenda: to redefine words that have important meanings: like sex and woman.
3./ The original category of transsexual was expanded to become a vast, ill-defined umbrella and then the denial of basic science began. Every one alive today is the result of sexual reproduction by a male and a female but somehow this binary sex reality was to be foresworn.
1./ Jameela's puberty blocker meltdown. Today's Naomi Wolf award for BS goes to @jameelajamil for this legend where she claims blockers were given to lots of girls at her school in the 90s. It's hard to know where to begin with this level of inaccuracy. But here's a start.👇
2./ The first science paper on the subject of a trial giving GnRH agonists (or puberty blockers) to adolescents was published in 1998 and was the subject of a 1996 C4 documentary. This highly experimental trial happened in Holland and NOT Jameela's school. Strangely enough.👇
3./ It was only in 2011 that the leading Gender Identity Clinic in the UK began its own experimental trials. They were criticised by the usual suspects ( hello Mermaids) for being too "cautious". They wanted to find out how "reversible" were the effects. 👇tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/about-us/news/…
1./ I see my my good friend Margaret Lynch is being accused of all sorts. She's even been labelled -by the usual keyboard warriors- of homophobia. Get real. Here's a little story about Ma-Grit, as I like to call her, that shows why that's so ridiculous.👇thetimes.co.uk/article/alba-c…
2./ Many moons ago I was President of the Glasgow University Gay Society (there were only 10 members so god knows why we needed a President). I was 19. To advance the cause we decided we'd hold a meeting in the University Union which was so reactionary @LiamFox was on the Board!
3./ I marched into their reception, asked to book a room, and all hell broke loose. No way would we be allowed to hold a meeting, I was told. The Board publicly issued a statement saying we'd be a moral danger to students. This was a Union that regularly showed porn films!
1./ Paedophilia and the Scottish LGBTQ+ movement. Is it any surprise that Stonewall and other groups are members of ILGA an international LGBTQ+ lobby group that's alleged to be campaigning against an age of consent? Here's why it's no surprise at all. wingsoverscotland.com/the-paedophile…
2./ ILGA began in Edinburgh in 1974 when two guys brought together gay organisations from across Europe to form the International Gay Congress. One of them, Ian Dunn, was an unrepentant paedophile and founder member of PIE. Here's his obituary. 👇independent.co.uk/news/obituarie…
3./ IGC would become ILGA, the pre-eminent international gay rights organisation; despite its status as a UN NGO being interrupted in 1994 when its links to pro-paedophile organisations were revealed. ILGA says it was all a big mistake. If you say so.👇 ilga.org/ilga-ecosoc-st…