The responses to John McManus's tweets about the parallels between the way the BBC was reluctant to look into Jimmy Saville and the way it has been reluctant to look into abuse done in the name of gender ideology tell their own story
This pile on is a concerted effort to use shame to shut someone down from talking about abusive behaviour and institutional failure to face up to it.
After John McManus tweeted an article about abusive behaviour and institutional failure to face up up to it.
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The CEO of @AdvanceHE has written to university vice chancellors acknowledging that "certain policy statements" cited in the @officestudents decision on @SussexUni "originated in part from" their template.
The parts in yellow came word-for-word from the Equality Challenge Unit/ Advance HE template....
i.e. almost all of it.
... this policy was influential and contributed to the culture of declaring everything "transphobia" and of hounding and not protecting those accused of it.
The ONS have new guidance out on their gender identity data from the census....
They say that you can take it from them with "high confidence" that around 1 in 200 people have a "gender identity different from their sex at birth" 🤨
So who is "Mr X" the trans identifying man held in high security male prison after multiple convictions for luring boys into sex acts while pretending to be a teenage girl on social media?
Could it be former children’s holiday camp manager Cameron Osman who engaged more than 70 teenage boys in sexualised chat pretending to be a 16-year-old girl “Lizzie lemon”.
The core of the Melanie Hill v Metropolitan Police case is a Trans Day of Visibility event which took place on 31st March 2023, a week after British women's rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen was violently attacked in New Zealand while trying to speak. spiked-online.com/2023/03/28/i-t…
In the run-up to the event, she was demonised in the Australian and New Zealand media, who portrayed her as a neo-Nazi. Attempts were made to have her visa revoked and to shut down her Let Women Speak tour.
In Melbourne, a group of far-Right men crashed the Let Women Speak event, clashing with socialist protestors and performing Nazi salutes.
Moira Deeming who attended tweeted her disappointment at the policing of the event