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21 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
It was a great honour to appear on a panel at #LGBAlliance2021 today, alongside @jo_bartosch, @DreyfusJames and @JNHanvey. The QE2 Centre was a far cry from those modest beginnings in Conway Hall two years ago. What a stunning achievement by @BevJacksonAuth and Kate Harris.
As ever, it was great to meet familiar people IRL for the first time. With some, you feel you know them so well on here, you forget you’ve never met IRL before. Twitter may be a hellsite, but this networking - and these genuine friendships - couldn’t have happened without it.
And what an extraordinary boost to get a gushing message of support from the prime minister. He was never my choice of prime minister, to put it mildly, but his support puts Keir Starmer, Ed Davey and Nicola Sturgeon to shame.
They, presumably, would rather stand with the smattering of homophobes with their terrible, Westboro Baptist Church-style placards who picketed the event. That’s their choice, but don’t expect us to forget it.

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24 Oct
So SNP researcher Jonathan Kiehlmann – who aptly calls himself @kiehlmanniac on here – has been suspended of his Commons pass after retweeting an extremist advocating armed violence against women who defend their rights under the Equality Act. Image
As the Mail on Sunday article makes clear, Kiehlmann's behaviour was particularly sickening because he retweeted this repellent tweet just one day after the murder of MP David Amess.
This comes in the week when @KirstySNP, the ex deputy leader of the SNP at Westminster, branded an LGB gathering across the road from Parliament a 'hate conference' – knowing that her colleague @joannaccherry & several other MPs & peers (including gay MP @JNHanvey) would attend. Image
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10 Sep
Debate rages on both sides of the Atlantic about the editorial values of the Guardian. It's that kind of publication nowadays, setting the agenda internationally. What a departure this is from most of its history, when it was the poor relation of British broadsheets.
I started reading the 'Grauniad' in the 80s, when it was still famous for its misprints. Guardian readers were a tribe, although we didn't use that word then. Like all the media, the Guardian was vile on lesbian and gay issues, but otherwise it was my spiritual home.
In the mid-80s the Independent came along, but as a reader I never defected. Back then, the Indy was much more suity and centrist – it took its name seriously – whereas the Guardian was unashamedly of the left.
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28 Aug
This is why ‘misgendering’ is a ridiculous concept. It implies there’s an objective truth, yet the genderists also demand the right to change their gender identity at will. If I gender you ‘correctly’ today, what happens when you change your identity tomorrow? Was I wrong today?
A leading candidate to become co-leader of the Green Party was once hailed as ‘the new lesbian face of Britain’. Calling this aristocratic eco-warrior ‘she’ wasn’t a problem. They now call themselves trans (so ‘he’, surely?) *and* non-binary (no it’s ‘they’, you ignorant bigot).
Elements of the media are already saying TO is thought to be the first non-binary leadership candidate in the whole world evaaaah…but what if they aren’t next week? Who’s the misgenderer then?
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14 Aug
When we were campaigning to reform discriminatory and cruel anti-gay laws – gross indecency, age of consent, no marriage or partnership rights, the ban on gays in the military and yes, Section 28 – our spokespeople went on radio and television to put the case...
2/ It was often people from Stonewall making that case: Angela Mason, @BenSummerskill, @SimonFanshawe, Ian McKellen. Many other lesbians and gay men joined in too: patiently explaining that we just wanted equal treatment and no one else would suffer if we were treated fairly.
3/ It took about 10 years to get full equality in law, but we did it, largely because we had good, reasonable arguments, presented by brave and talented people. There was a debate, in which our side were willing to take part, and the public could see we had the best arguments.
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1 Aug
There's a Q&A in today's Observer with Eddie Izzard. The standfirst reads: 'The comedian, 59, talks about her love of running, gender fluidity and her plans to go into politics'. 1/16
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That's not what it originally said, as you can see from the thumbnail. 2/16
The piece now comes with an apology at the end: 'This article was amended on 31 July 2021. The original incorrectly used the possessive determiner “his”. Izzard uses the pronouns “she” and “her”.' 3/16
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People often say that the biology-denying extremes of gender ideology are as crazy as flat-earthery. In my new novel, out on Kindle today, I explore how you might foist flat-earth beliefs on the world in the way that gender ideologues have performed their own spectacular capture.
In my imaginary world, a benign map-making charity called the Orange Peel Foundation, which has been campaigning to wean the world away from inaccurate Mercator projection maps, has completed all its work and is about to wind itself up.
But then it's offered a vast sum of money by a Californian tech billionaire called Joey Talavera to convince the world that the earth is flat. When founder Mel Winterbourne objects, she is sacked and replaced by her ambitious young deputy, Shane Foxley.
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