Thread by @TwisterFilm

1./ Why has Stonewall become one of the biggest threats to free speech in the UK? One reason is its insidious misuse of workplace LGBTQ+ groups to enforce its own woke groupthink. Here's how this undermines free speech and why gay people pay the price. 👇 dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…

2./ If the BBC covers a story about a charity it must be free to ask tough questions. @JustinOnWeb tried to do that last month despite Stonewall refusing to come on and Pink News's @benjamincohen distracting attention with his impression of a car crash. 👇 thecritic.co.uk/trans-activist…

3./ It's disturbing @BBCPride seeks to impede questioning of Stonewall and its policies; not least because it didn't end well the last time there was a suggestion staff within the BBC were siding with a controversial charity. But who are @BBCPride anyway? thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-ex…

4./ The alarming fact is that across the country LGBT staff groups like @BBCPride have effectively been spawned by Stonewall itself. Creating one has long been one of the charity's top recommendations if you want to earn some of its brownie points.👇stonewall.org.uk/setting-up-an-…

5./ Stonewall started its Workplace Equality Index in 2001 but there was a rather significant difference between the scheme for its first 14 years and now. In those days the Index was used specifically to help advance the rights of L G & B people. 👇

6./ The Equality Act (2010) created a responsibility for public institutions to "advance equality of opportunity between persons who share a protected characteristic and those who don't". In 2012 the BBC's Equality Strategy set Top 100 Stonewall Index status as a key objective.👇

5./ That objective would come and go over the decade. Perhaps BBC management sensed how Stonewall might undermine its most important responsibiity of all, impartiality? Meanwhile, trans groups quite rightly also had influence of their own. This from the BBC's 2013's Strategy. 👇

6./ It makes sense for an organisation that wants to eradicate discrimination against trans peeps to talk to trans peeps. But in 2015 Stonewall prioritised trans rights and points on its Equality Index now required a new pro gender identity approach. theguardian.com/world/2014/jul…

7./ If the BBC was ever to enter the top 100 employers it would have to adopt the language and outlook of a charity that denied the importance of sex-based rights and now actively undermined the protected characteristic of sexual orientation (as well as the rights of women).

8./ Luckily for Stonewall it had a parrot deep within the BBC, the @BBCPride group. Every suggestion it made the group repeated. When the BBC published its 2018 Culture and Progression LGBT Report it even contained 7 references to Stonewall in its 10 recommendations.👇

9./ By definition BBC management were now in a bind. If their own LGBT group argues against something will they dare to do it? It's been suggested the BBC's Director General feels he must consult the group on anything to do with, for example, @ALLIANCELGB. I hope that's not true.

10./ It wouldn't seem like impartiality to me but you can understand Tim Davie's dilemma. @JessDeWahls didn't have a BBC pension to guard against controversy. She just had the courage of her convictions. As the...BBC reported. 👇bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

11./ The attempts by @bbcpride to behave like some silly fifth column undermining BBC journalists are embarrassing and deplorable. But for gay people this group is actually dangerous. Here's how this so-called "LGBTQ+" group define themselves. 👇

12./ Yes, LGBTQ+ is now defined by the BBC's own staff support group as "genderqueer, bisexual, gay, lesbian, trangender, non-binary, pansexual, intersex, asexual, queer, questioning or an ally." Don't half of these names basically mean "straight but I'd like to seem more funky"?

13./ The point is a group full of people whose identities are not protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act are attempting to silence debate about the best way to protect the rights of others who ARE protected in law...women and LGB people.

14./ No one wants to take any rights away from transsexuals or transgender people. But where organisations like Stonewall actively conspire against my rights and those of women like my mother or sisters or mates surely I have the right to demand the BBC asks some tough questions?

15./ And by the way if the BBC thinks its LGB staff all go along with this parody of a staff group they are sorely mistaken. The fact they're even more scared to speak up than the Director General tells you the true state of discrimination at our national broadcaster.

16./ Here's the LGBT Progression Report co-authored by @BBCPride. It includes this legend, "you told us LGBT is much more fluid where the boundaries of sexual orientation and gender identity blur beyond the L, G, B and T." It would be funny; if it wasn't.👇downloads.bbc.co.uk/diversity/pdf/…