2./ Whether they're straight or gay doesn't matter. The fact they question strange, newly fashionable and rigidly enforced notions erasing the reality of being a woman gets them labelled bigots when they're only doing what every woman politician should do...speak up for women.
3./ In the two years since @ALLIANCELGB was founded more and more gay people have made it clear the extremists, the grifters, and the self-serving blowhards who claim to speak in our name are in fact tarnishing our reputations, turning a once-bullied minority into the bullies.
4./ Women are 51% of the population. And even if they weren't the status of their rights (so recently won in a blink of an eye in historical terms) would mean they deserve better than being TOLD how their rights must now bend and shift to fit others who openly threaten them.
5./ Many gay peeps -like the public- struggle to make sense of the trans rights debate. But the least any LGB or trans person should do is make clear they believe profoundly Rosie, Joanna, Kemi, and Helen have a right to speak and a right to be heard. #IstandwithRosieDuffield
6./ It's bonkers to take on half the population who'll be horrified when Gender Self-ID's problems become obvious. But it's for our own good too we need to put clear water between us and the liars, the thugs and bullies who took over our movement and misuse our name.
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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…
1./ 🧵Incest and White Lotus. The creator of Netflix's hit series wrote his thesis about Judith Butler. In my latest article I explore whether the show's incest theme was inspired by the incest-obsessed Queen of Queer Theory.
Click on the link in my bio or end of 🧵to read more.
2./ Mike White wrote his thesis about Butler two years after Gender Trouble was published. The book even got an airing in Season 1, when the deeply annoying Paula was seen packing it into her bag. How big a role does incest play in Butler's book? It has a starring role. 👉
3./ Here are some of the references to incest in Gender Trouble. Butler became obsessed with incest after studying the work of fellow lesbian, Gayle Rubin. This sadomasochist aficionado of S&M porn and defender of paedophilia had come up a crazy Foucault influenced notion. 👉
1./ 🧵The LGBTQ+ lobby, Epstein and hating mothers.
My latest article is about Jes Staley, ex-CEO of Barclays & champion of the LGBTQ+ lobby. 2 weeks ago he went to court to appeal fines for lying about his links to Jeffrey Epstein.
Click on the link in my bio to read more.☝️
2./ In 2023, the UK's finance regulator @TheFCA fined Staley £1.8m and banned him from senior positions after he signed off a letter from Barclays claiming he had a strictly business relationship with the notorious sex trafficker who conveniently committed suicide in 2019.
3./ In fact, their business relationship began in 1999 when Epstein became a client of Staley's at JP Morgan. It blossomed in 2002 when Epstein brought $1Bn into Staley's division. Money he'd mysteriously been given power of attorney over by the reclusive billionaire Les Wexner.