Thread by @SexNotGenderNI

@StephenNolan Big relief! This account was set up to amplify concerns about replacing 'sex' (a material fact) with 'gender identity' (an untestable claim in law). We were slurred as a 'hate group' by @SeamasBelfast, who went on to block women who said we aren't a hate group & they support us.

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast We shared photos of pro-women stickers people have been putting up around NI, and @TRPNI put out baseless claims there were razor blades underneath them. Very distressing to young people they're meant to support. @antoflynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP RTed

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast @TRPNI @AntoFlynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP We contacted the PSNI and got confirmation not only had none been found, but none had even be reported, leading us to suspect it was the decades-old smear tactic used to distract from the message of the stickers. We shared this, but they left the baseless claims up. #razorgate

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast @TRPNI @AntoFlynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP This was the PSNI response:

https://twitter.com/SexNotGenderNI/status/1434957577524293636

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast @TRPNI @AntoFlynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP And whilst @BelTel shared the @TRPNI views, @jo_bartosch thankfully covered the full story:

https://twitter.com/jo_bartosch/status/1435622539494051846

So we are very glad to see you cover this, and would love you to challenge our elected representatives on calling women defending sex-based rights as 'hateful'.

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast @TRPNI @AntoFlynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP @BelTel @jo_bartosch PS We're 1 Twitter account out of a growing network of currently around 100 'gender critical' (ie don't believe people can swap/opt out of their sex, or that gender stereotypes define whether someone is a woman or a man, or that men can demand access to women's spaces) people.

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast @TRPNI @AntoFlynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP @BelTel @jo_bartosch Our network includes lecturers and teachers scared to speak up, watching the terrorising of @Docstockk and the failure of captured unions to support women in academia, mothers & fathers scared to speak up in case their kids are targeted, people scared of job loss. This is major.

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast @TRPNI @AntoFlynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP @BelTel @jo_bartosch @Docstockk We've spoken to people in political parties who were unaware of the issues and some who are but are scared to speak up themselves in case they're targeted, which echoes what @ALLIANCELGB recently reported:

https://twitter.com/ALLIANCELGB/status/1445542452702580741?s=20

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast @TRPNI @AntoFlynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP @BelTel @jo_bartosch @Docstockk @ALLIANCELGB We've LGB people in our network who've been kicked out of NI LGB spaces for saying their same-sex attraction isn't 'transphobic' (the idealogues disagree), women who've been kicked out of 'feminist' groups for wanting to defend women's rights & child safeguarding.

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast @TRPNI @AntoFlynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP @BelTel @jo_bartosch @Docstockk @ALLIANCELGB One of our members is a patient at the Belfast Cancer Centre and told us of her distress at returning to it after Covid closure to find the women's toilets have been made mixed-sex. We've NHS staff who are trying to resist changes but scared of going public because of threats.

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast @TRPNI @AntoFlynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP @BelTel @jo_bartosch @Docstockk @ALLIANCELGB We've heard from a woman with gender dysphoria whose therapist could be criminalised if the #banconversiontherapy bill lumps 'gender identity' in with sexual orientation. Her therapist says she'll continue to support our friend. Will she be jailed for providing critical support?

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast @TRPNI @AntoFlynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP @BelTel @jo_bartosch @Docstockk @ALLIANCELGB We've been sent videos of Cara Friend training telling people to report 'transphobia' (saying that men can't be women, etc) as a 'hate crime' to the PSNI. We know English police told Graham Linehan the PSNI wanted to interview him recently. We can't find a GC solicitor to advise.

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast @TRPNI @AntoFlynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP @BelTel @jo_bartosch @Docstockk @ALLIANCELGB If any of the women in our group go to prison, we don't know if we'll be locked up with men, as is ALREADY HAPPENING in Ireland, were 3 violent criminals are in the women's prison thanks to #selfID. We're waiting to hear back from @NIPrisons on that one: whatdotheyknow.com/request/popula…

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast @TRPNI @AntoFlynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP @BelTel @jo_bartosch @Docstockk @ALLIANCELGB @NIPrisons So thank-you and please keep covering this - it is not a niche issue, it affects everyone in society. It is a re-ordering of society around an ideology of gender identity that is not based in science but is being embedded in our laws. It is harming women, children & LGB already.

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast @TRPNI @AntoFlynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP @BelTel @jo_bartosch @Docstockk @ALLIANCELGB @NIPrisons (We've just been sent photos of the trans activists' response to seeing #WomenWontWheesht written in chalk in Belfast. Violently sexual language - this is a men's rights movement and it enables MVAWG, and our women's sector and female politicians are selling us out.)

@StephenNolan @SeamasBelfast @TRPNI @AntoFlynnser @AllianceLGBT @KateNicholl @GerryCarrollPBP @BelTel @jo_bartosch @Docstockk @ALLIANCELGB @NIPrisons @threadreaderapp unroll