It's gruesome on multiple levels that anti-trans obsessives are jumping on the Plymouth atrocity, even though it doesn't take a genius to work out what 'incels' think about trans people.
But just look at the state of this.
Anyone reading this tweet would conclude that I've described women as "'sadistic' bitches who should be punished".
What's this based on?
Showing solidarity with a non binary person being piled on by anti-trans activists.
Here's what I actually said.
Why, other than the constant and obsessive monstering of trans people, might I describe anti-trans activists as "emotionally sadistic" from my own personal experience?
Oh I don't know, for example, sending emails pretending to be my dead father?
Here's a case in point about how increasingly extreme anti-trans activists seek to radicalise and whip up their followers based on horrendously defamatory lies.
Look at what I actually said, and look at how this individual has twisted it. It's just nauseating behaviour.
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I proudly backed Steve Turner, and felt by winning the most nominations, he'd be best placed to defeat the right-wing Gerard Coyne.
But Graham managed it which is a huge testament to her campaigning, skill and commitment.
For those of us who feared, above all else, Gerard Coyne winning - which would have been an extinction level event for the left - it is impossible to say how much of a relief his victory is.
In the end, our worst fears didn't transpire: Coyne came third - but a solid third.
How did Graham win? As a very skilful organiser, she won a base that bypassed Unite's powerful officers and won often very dedicated support among Unite's representatives.
While I don't support the action against Ken Loach, Jewish friends and comrades were rightly upset by my tweet, and the tone it took, so it's important I say this.
In 1987, Loach directed a play called 'Perdition' which he defended on free speech grounds, but which was incredibly distressing to Jewish people on entirely well-founded grounds.
Here is how Jim Allen, the author of Perdition, described the play:
"the most lethal attack on Zionism ever written because it touches at the heart of the most abiding myth of modern history, the Holocaust. Because it says quite plainly that privileged Jewish leaders
I presume we would all agree with the provision of medical assistance to the people of Afghanistan - after such a protracted conflict in which our government has been involved for so long - for starters.
That doesn't mean supporting the abhorrent Taliban regime, obviously.
We do owe the people of Afghanistan a huge amount, given, say, our government backed the Islamist fundamentalist mujahideen in the 1980s - whoops-a-daisy! - and our subsequent extensive military intervention.
Taking more refugees is one form of reparations for all of this.
Our rights and freedoms were won at huge cost and sacrifice by our ancestors - and now they're being incinerated by a Conservative party for whom 'freedom' means 'freedom for their class'.
We have to fight back - or a very dark place beckons.
Bizarre to note that no-one is more gutted about trans athlete Laurel Hubbard crashing out the Olympics than anti-trans activists.
All their hot takes have to be rewritten. Devastating!
That won't stop them because as far as they're concerned, heads they win, tails they win.
The focus of anti-trans activists on the Olympics underlines their similarity with anti-abortion activists: zoning in on the issues they think force their opponents on the defensive most.
Anti-abortion activists focus on e.g. late stage abortions for the same reason.
When anti-abortion activists focus on late stage abortions, they do so because they believe it underlines everything objectionable about abortion in general in primary colours, forcing pro-choice activists on the defensive.
This is why anti-trans activists focus on the Olympics.