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./ 🧵Why was media coverage of the Supreme Court's ruling on sex so biased? My latest article tells the emblematic story of one channel's capture by the trans lobby. Channel 4's subversion is partly down to the social circle its staff move in. Guess who's this guy's best mate.👇
2./ Last week Krishnan Guru-Murthy gave two idiot trans activists the chance to malign the Court's ruling with all the critical challenge we might expect from some blowhard champion of the trans agenda like the SNP's John Nicolson. Funny you should mention that poltroon. 👉
3./ Guru-Murthy and Nicolson regularly describe each other as their closest friends. Nicolson says GM is "one of the people in the world who likes me most." A low bar. They met when Guru-Murthy was a 15 year old schoolboy during filming for a TV show Nicolson was presenting.
1./ Apologies. It’s welcome that
Mark Smith has said, “men like me need to say sorry”. Everyone makes mistakes. A democratic culture only works if we accept people’s views evolve. There are tho some lessons to be learned from Mark’s original stance. 👉 heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…
2./ In his column in early 2020 after the launch of @AllianceLGB, Mark opined on our “horrible website”. He complained images of women had been deliberately chosen to look as feminine as possible to emphasise trans male exclusion. Uh? 👀 They really weren’t. Worse was to come. 👉
3./ Smith went on to compare @AllianceLGB’s concern over child safeguarding to Section 28. “Dangerous to children is a phrase that appears on the LGB Alliance website along with multiple uses of the word ‘threat’. We have been here before.” Indeed we have. Heard of PIE anyone?
1./ 🧵On a female hero. It’s typical of @HotchkissRhona to hand out well-deserved plaudits to women who helped prepare the ground for the Supreme Court triumph. But no one who went to early public meetings of @ForWomenScot can be in any doubt Rhona herself deserves thanks. 👉
2./ I first met this pocket rocket at a @ForWomenScot meeting in early 2020. In those days all gender critical events were by word of mouth or carefully vetted such was the level of fear. I’d come to talk about @AllianceLGB and was amazed to find a secret, feisty army of women.
3./The first speaker was @HotchkissRhona who talked, as an ex prison governor, about how trans identified men often acted out in sickening ways in women’s jails. Her jaw dropping speech was spiced with Rhona’s biting wit. She then introduced a young woman sitting beside me.
1./ How deep does homophobia run in the trans psychosis? There's a clue in the story of Sofia Taloni, one of the Arab world's most famous trans activists who's now detransitioning back to the bloke he always was. If Sofia looks a bit of a lunatic there's a reason for that. 👉
2./ Taloni was born in Morocco where homosexuality is illegal. Though as many a tourist can attest it's not exactly unknown dans la casbah. Shame and the threat of a jail sentence has led many gay Moroccans to embrace trans, which is not illegal. So here's Taloni not being gay.👇
3./ Taloni's internalised self-hate erupted in 2020 when he told his 700K Insta followers to download Grindr, create fake profiles and expose closet gay men. Taloni urged his followers to post the men's images online and then publicly berated them. attitude.co.uk/news/world/as-…
1./ 🧵Why is the debate about Trans so overdue? It's great to see the landmark book by @HJoyceGender discussed at a Festival at long last and by the legend that is @bindelj. There was though a tragic irony about the location that reminds us why this debate is urgently necessary
2./ In the early hours of the 25th July 2021 a slightly-built 30 year old Spanish engineer Jorge Martin Carreno was separated from his friends and sat down, tipsy, beside the architectural wonder that is the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford where today's debate was held.
3./ What Jorge did not know was a 23 year old trans identified male, who called himself Scarlet Blake, was at that very moment scouring the streets of Oxford looking for someone to kill. He was wearing a hooded jacket that hid his face. And then he spied...Jorge.
1./ 🧵Adolescence
If someone says a TV drama should shape policy remind them of Butterfly about a boy who wants puberty blockers. Its advisor Susie Green had castrated her own son. 6 years ago the show was applauded by many now applauding Adolescence.
2./ We now know puberty blockers do not alleviate gender dysphoria, yet Butterfly claimed they did. The Tavistock only released that information after relentless pressure. In the show the clinic is portrayed as a centre of excellence. It's now been closed.
3./ The boy at the centre of Butterfly was 11. We now know from the Cass Review that the depiction of boys like him was a shockingly biased and often blatantly untruthful account. Yet Lucy Mangan described it as "an important, truthful drama". theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…