1./ The #WiSpa debate matters because it shows Gender Self-ID is unworkable. It opens women's single sex spaces to any male who says they're a woman, no questions asked, and women who complain about males wandering around naked get labelled transphobic.👇
2./ Supporters of Self-ID point out entry now to bathrooms doesn't require proof of being a woman and some transwomen who really LOOK like women can pass unnoticed. All this ignores the huge social taboo there is now that stops men who look like men entering women's spaces.
3./ A guy who wanders into a woman's changing room now will testify to the horror experienced and the quick retreat. Self-ID erodes that because it says it doesn't matter what you look like or what you're packing. There's no gatekeeping to become a woman. Nor to being trans.
4./ The trans movement widened the definition from transsexual to include cross-dressers, non binary and queer. So that now means trans includes this Canadian activist who identifies as a 6 year old and campaigns for access to girls bathrooms. 'She' also loves showing off.👇
5./ Self-ID means brave Stefoknee Wolscht gets to stroll into a girls changing room because...well she says she's a girl. And if you don't believe Stefoknee is for real...here's that great journalistic sponsor of car crash interviews, Pink News, covering 'her' uplifting tale.👇
6./ Self ID means anyone who says they're a woman (or a girl) gets to enter women's single sex spaces and so that means one of my favourite trans fashion icons, Alex Drummond, who claims to be a lesbian can join Stefoknee in a stroll round my niece's changing room.
7./ Alex embodies the problem with saying a woman can look like anything. Alex says 'she' has male tackle and is proud of the beard. But if another person, just an actual bloke with a beard, wanders into your daughter's changing room how are you to know who's trans and who's not?
8./ There's no answer to this paradox. Here's a notable transman ridiculing the idea of someone who looks like 'him' going into women's spaces. "Can you imagine ME walking into a women's bathroom? I don't think they would be happy". So why would they be happy with Alex doing it?
9./ When critics of Self-ID pointed out some of these logical contradictions we were told to stop worrying. No one with a penis would or should be dangling it around in a girl's changing room. Here's Jolyon Maugham suggesting a good tut tut should stop that bad behaviour. 👇
10./ That was 2019. In the wake of the row over Wi Spa the mood has altered. Twitter is veritably throbbing with trans activists declaring that if you have a daughter that might be shocked by seeing a penis in her changing room you should teach her...not to look. 👇
11./ I hope that's now clear. Under Self-ID it will be legal for any male no matter what he looks like (maybe Stefoknee or Alex, beard, or no beard?) and if that male wishes to stroll around tackle-out it is your daughter's fault for noticing. What could possibly go wrong?
12./ The gender identity lobby should hope we manage to get such idiocy stopped. We know its proponents are largely daft. The public may not be so tolerant. They may conclude a certain ad last year from @ALLIANCELGB and @ForwomenScot wasn't only accurate. It was prophetic.👇
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1./ What's the truth about Neil Gaiman and Scientology? Was his allegedly abusive behaviour influenced by his immersion in a pathological cult? Gaiman claims he was a member only as a child but in my latest article I argue this can't be true.
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2./ Gaiman's parents were leading Scientologists when he was a boy. Most of his family still are. Here's his mother Shiela and sister Lizzy joining him in 2013 for the naming of a street after a semi-autobiographical novel. Both are nothing short of Scientology royalty.
3./ In the book a 7 year old's life is upended by a suicide. When Gaiman was 7 Scientology was plunged into crisis when a South African Scientology student committed suicide at the Gaimans' home. Just as Neil Gaiman now denies allegations of abuse his dad concocted a mad story.
1./ 🧵Was everyone who supported the "trans child" charity Mermaids a predatory scumbag, like Neil Gaiman? I suppose most were like Amanda Palmer. They knew what was happening and were more than happy to be accomplices.
2./ This surreal image is of Gaiman and Palmer as King and Queen of the annual Mermaid Parade in New York. In a creepy Sandman type twist the Parade has a special place in the trans mythology the couple supported so publicly, including financially. vulture.com/2018/06/neil-g…
3./ One of the key texts used to promote trans ideas to kids is 'Julian is a Mermaid'. In thousands of schools it's presented as an uplifting tale of a young boy who finds "his true self." Let me tell you why it's actually a profoundly disturbing book.👉
1./ 🧵Stephen Fry and Britain's Failure to Take Child Abuse Seriously. Our headlines are dominated by the scandal of institutions that refused to protect girls for fear of seeming "racist". My latest article suggests Stephen Fry's knighthood is from the same copybook.
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2./ In a society that took child abuse seriously Stephen Fry's long track record of minimising child sexual exploitation would have disbarred him from the nation's top honour. In Fry's first play 'Latin' an adult teacher sexually abuses a 13 year old boy and takes him to Morocco.
3./ The boy writes back to his schoolmates praising the country which he claims takes a relaxed attitude to sex between men and underage boys. They petition to visit. Fry's interest in adolescent boys continues in 'Hippopotamus' in which a 15 year old has sex with adults.
1./ The Elon problem. Now @Nigel_Farage has been dumped by @elonmusk and Jess Phillips traduced by him it's time people remembered he has a track record of baseless attacks on innocent people. Like the time he called a brave rescue diver... "pedo guy". theguardian.com/technology/201…
2./ British diver Vern Unsworth was leading the attempt to rescue schoolboys trapped in a Thai cave. That attempt -against all the odds- ended in spectacular success. Musk tho had publicly dismissed the team's chances. Worse still he insisted the team use his experimental tech.
3./ Unsworth rejected Musk's offer of a mini submarine which had never been used for rescue and which he knew would not work. After much online tit for tat he described the sub idea as a PR Stunt. For that offence Musk labelled him "pedo guy", a disgusting, unwarranted slur.
1./ A Puberty Blockers Triumph. The UK permanently bans blockers for under 18s. Many brave people fought for this but ONLY ONE lesbian and gay group did. This was the little film I directed for @alliancelgb about the scandal. It moved some to tears.👇
2./ LGB Alliance was relentlessly defamed by @owenjonesjourno, the creeps at Pink News and the rest of the immoral LGBTQ+ lobby who used government money to campaign FOR the effective sterilisation of kids. With small donations @AllianceLGB fought back with posters like this.
3./ It is worth remembering that only 2 years ago NOT ONE newspaper would take the ad and @TfL refused to put it on buses or the tube. @KateBMwriting was forced to hire vans to take the message round Westminster as she sought to alert politicians to the tragedy.
1./ My latest article dissects the career of a woman who may be one of the most dishonest people in public life: Ruth Hunt. She turned Stonewall into a wing of the toxic trans lobby despite saying she wouldn't. That was only the start of her disregard for ethics.
2./ How ethical was Hunt's behaviour at Stonewall? In the 2016 accounts there's an intriguing note referring to payments of £68,400 made to Caroline Ellis. She was and still is Ruth Hunt's partner. The payments were "conducted at arms length" the note assures us. If you say so.
3./ Ellis and Hunt are still in business together. Tho it's more obviously above board now. They run a consultancy together that teaches managers in NHS Trusts how to use pronouns. And presumably how to tie their shoelaces. If you have money to burn...these are your gals.