Thread by @TwisterFilm

1./ On Tatchell and his TOTALLY unambiguous condemnation of paedophilia. People asked me to retweet today's thread without the break. So here goes. Read the first tweet here👇then I've reposted the others in order.

https://twitter.com/TwisterFilm/status/1420342338552057858

2./ Here's his letter from 1997. Peter's conducted a none too subtle edit of his own. Today, he claims he wrote it is "impossible to condone paedophilia". In fact the letter says it MAY be "impossible to condone". Rather a telling difference you MAY think; and it gets worse.👇

3./ The letter describes a book which "challenges the assumption that all sex between adults and children is abusive" as courageous and cites "distinguished anthropologists" who document societies where "inter-generational sex is considered normal, beneficial and enjoyable". 👀

4./ He mentions Gilbert Herdt, an expert on Papua New Guinea but in 1997 there was another expert on that country who was on the front pages whom Tatchell failed to mention. Maybe because he'd just been charged with child sex offences.👇 nytimes.com/1997/02/19/us/…

5./ Daniel Gajdusek won a Nobel Prize for his work on the mysterious molecules, prions, which he showed could spread disease, despite having no RNA or DNA. Prions lurked hidden in the brains of locals in Papua New Guinea until they were eaten in rituals. npr.org/sections/thesa…

6./ A bit like disingenuous defences of paedophilia, prions seemed at first just a fascinating artefact. Gajdusek revealed tho prions were not just an academic novelty. When PNG locals ingested their dead relatives' brains their own brains began to rot. Then came BSE.👇

7./ The same hidden mechanism was at work in British agriculture in the 1980s when cattle were fed with protein derived from animal brains. By the time anyone realised what was happening vast pyres lit up the sky as thousands of cattle had to be burned. 👇news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/125362…

8./ Gajdusek had a secret of his own. In coded diaries he described the sexual abuse of boys by older warriors in Papua New Guinea. Like Tatchell he concluded the boys were "far from being harmed". @bindelj describes the harm which was really happening.👇thearticle.com/peter-tatchell…

9./ Gajdusek was allowed to adopt over 50 pre-teen boys over 3 decades and flew them from PNG to the US. Everything seemed pukka until two of the boys complained about being sexually molested. He was jailed. It turned out he'd been lurking in full sight.👇wired.com/2006/10/dr-ped…

10./ What does this prove? Only that it's unlikely Tatchell was ignorant of the front-page news of alleged abuses of boys from Papua New Guinea by a "distinguished" scientist. If so his letter wasn't naive. It was deliberately misleading. But that's not the worst thing.

11./ Tatchell goes on to relate the experiences of friends who had sex as boys "from the age of 9" with much older adults. "None feel they were abused. All feel it was their conscious choice and brought them great joy". Was this inserted by the hidden hand of an editor? Nope.

12./ These comments have never been recanted by Tatchell and you might think they disqualify him from being taken seriously in discussions about child safeguarding. 9 year olds cannot consciously choose sex with an adult. Period. Yet he's still invited in by schools as an expert.

13./ Tatchell and the whole LGBTQ+ queer theory driven movement seem determined to erode boundaries. If they're not claiming lesbians should consider dating women with dicks they're playing with issues of consent. Here's Aimee Challoner telling us she went into schools.👇

14./ This was at the time Aimee was advising @stonewalluk on trans issues as well as failing to tell the Green Party that 'her' dad was charged with raping a girl in the house they shared, and for which he was finally jailed. He was Aimee's party agent. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

15./ Has Stonewall ever apologised? Of course not. No account of the Queer Theory brigade's failures on child safeguarding is ever complete without the story of how toddlers were raped by a group co-organised by the CEO of an LGBT charity in Edinburgh.👇scotsman.com/news/horror-up…

16./ In all those cases dangers were lurking in full sight. The failure to take child safeguarding seriously seeps through too much of the LGBTQ+ movement. Like malign proteins this can't stay hidden forever. When it does reveal itself we'll realise it too hollowed out brains.