Thread by @AidanCTweets

Since trying to call out overt transphobia, @jackappleby - a "gender critical" man - has discovered what the movement he has been supporting for 4 years is like:

- Denial of transphobia
- Fake news
- Hounding of those who call out bigotry.
- a bunch of fucking lunatics.

Jack has lost over 300 followers since calling out "transphobic bigotry" in a pub after the LGB Alliance conference this week, which, concincidentally, is almost as many people as were at the conference.

It isn't a "section" of the movement, @jackappleby

It *is* the movement.

Julia has never been secretive about her views and Jack seems shocked (!) that Julia, IRL, would upset a trans person, when she's been at it for years. Jack is is an utter fool for thinking that Julia would act any differently around a GC trans woman.

This article is over a year old.

Did Jack not read it?

Did he think she didn't mean what she said about not having trans ppl in the GC movement?

At what point does he start to look at himself if he is part of a movement that comfortably includes Julia?

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Julia is not only very welcome, she is included in lists of gender critical heroes this year by other prominent gender critical heroes.

Some of these people may have "tactical" differences, but their core beliefs about trans people are all the same.

How can it have shocked @jackappleby, that a movement that canonises a person like this, would support people being cruel to his "trans friend who agrees with me" in a pub? It's ironic that he is "calling it out" now, when he is responsible for promoting this movement for years.

Jack is not appalled by transphobic bigotry. Of course he isn't. He is, in many people's opinion, a transphobic bigot himself. What he's actually appalled at is that a gender critical person was mean to one of the "good" trans people...

After all, she's a trans woman who let's @jackappleby call her a "him," and Jack is only just grasping that it doesn't matter how small trans people make themselves in order to accommodate his transphobia, the gender critical movement are still disgusted by them.

"The truth will out."

Come on @jackappleby, you've lost 300 gender critical followers and counting, isn't the truth that you belonged in their movement because you were no different the them?

You understand all of these criticisms could equally be applied to you.

To most trans people, @jackappleby, you're no different than Julia Long. You're just as mean and cruel and hateful, and the second you stop doing that, make up with your former friends, and leave trans people alone, your life will be a lot better.

Trust me, the amount of ex-GC people I've DM'ed with is in double figures, and it was not being able to square the abuse and cruelty of other GC people with their sense of themselves as "anti-bullying" which was the beginning of the end for a lot of former GC ppl.

Remember how Linehan regularly cited Kritisina Harrison as a "trans woman who agrees with me" for years.

Remember Kristina said that Stella Perrett cartoon was transphobic?

Remember Linehan platforming Perrett after that.

When did Linehan last cite Harrison?Can you remember?

Did you see the transphobic comment about Harrison by one of Linehan's subscribers calling her "Mr. Harrison" and an "AGP."

He took money for that.

A *section* @jackappleby?

It's so frustrating to see you so close to getting it about your movement, and, yet, not getting it.