Thread by @ALLIANCELGB

If you do nothing else today, please read this by Peter Daly, who represented @MForstater in her successful appeal:
“A significant portion of lesbian, gay or bisexual people are very clear that they are same-sex (and not same-gender) attracted."/1of11
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"For many, their sexual orientation is therefore incompatible with a belief in Gender Theory. Being Gender Critical is therefore a fundamental aspect of their sexual orientation, and therefore their identity."/2of11

"An insistence on the primacy of same gender-attraction can lead, for example, to lesbians being accused of transphobia by stating that they are not sexually attracted to males."/3of11

"Proponents of the Cotton Ceiling (for an explanation of this term, google it) might now be less vocal.”/4of11

“For Gender Critical gays and lesbians, the insistence of homosexuality as same-gender attraction can be seen as unvarnished, base homophobia of the type that even five years ago was thought defeated, except within the most reactionary and bigoted corners of society.”/5of11

“It is compounded when done in the name of LGBTQ rights: interpreted as being sold a version of your own sexuality which simultaneously erases your sexuality."/6of11

“A rejection of such an interpretation of Gender Theory is an aspect of Gender Critical belief, and it is established as a protected belief by this judgment.”/7of11

“There is an urgent need now to question the wisdom of grouping all LGBT people together as a homogenous single group, classified and defined solely by reference to Gender Theory.”/8of11

“For Gender Critical gays and lesbians, transgender status is a wholly different category of characteristic from sexual orientation. The legal right (indeed necessity) of same-sex attracted people to organise together is underlined by this judgment.”/9of11

“This is not to say that a Gender Critical LGB identity is anti-trans: outside of Gender Theory, sexual orientation and trans status are separate categories of identity."/10of11

"It is only by homogenising a single and exclusive LGBTQ identity through Gender Theory that an LGB identity can be interpreted as being anti-trans.”/11of11

This is the view of LGB Alliance, expressed eloquently and succinctly.