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6 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
It's really striking how anti-trans activists claim women are being silenced, yet women - like Alison Phipps - are so often in their sights?

Stonewall's Ruth Hunt and Nancy Kelley, journalists like Ash Sarkar, politicians like Mhairi Black, Dawn Butler and Angela Rayner...
Solidarity and love with the brilliant Prof. Alison Phipps, who has been driven off Twitter because the anti-trans cult has allied with that well-known champion of women's rights, The Telegraph, to hound her. Image
You might think anti-trans activists who call themselves feminists might have a moment of self-reflection, and ask themselves why right-wing newspapers who for so long so passionately opposed LGBTQ rights and feminism are their most committed champions.

Apparently not!
As many pro-trans cis women have pointed out, anti-trans activists flood their mentions to demand why they're refusing to listen to women, as though they are not themselves women. Truly weird behaviour.

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Owen Jones 🌹 Profile picture
4 Nov
If you want to make the case for Kathleen Stock, fine, make an honest case.

If you ignore students' actual objections - not least that she signed a Declaration which supports abolishing almost all trans legal rights - that isn't journalism, it's propaganda and lies by omission.
Imagine if a university academic signed a declaration calling for the abolition of almost all legal rights for gay people, and that angered their students.

Would media outlets portray the academic as a mere victim, or would they at least try to understand the anger of students?
What this comes down to, as always, is trans people are not regarded as a legitimate minority according to Britain's media outlets, and therefore the real victims in all of this can never be trans people, but only the privileged people opposed to their fundamental rights.
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2 Nov
This is a BBC journalist comparing trans people to Jimmy Saville. Beyond belief, frankly.
Since this BBC journalist is invoking Jimmy Saville to justify the demonisation of trans people, let’s have a look at his past utterances on the BBC cover up shall we.

Oh dear oh dear, @johnmcm1
What an interesting list of tweets from this BBC journalist.
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Owen Jones 🌹 Profile picture
2 Nov
Imagine the BBC had published an article entitled 'We straight people are being pressured into sex by some gay people.'

Imagine it used as evidence a Twitter poll of 80 people posted by a homophobic group.

Would we regard that as a) impartial journalism or b) bigotry?
I would expect most people would respond to such an article by saying 'While there's undoubtedly examples of gay people trying to pressure straight people into sex, they are not representative, and such an article will only fuel hatred towards a group which suffers bigotry'
The key difference, of course, is that in modern Britain, cis gay and bi people do not face the level of Establishment sanctioned bigotry which trans people suffer.
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26 Oct
It's beyond belief that the BBC published such unbelievably appalling journalism, based on no reliable data and the testimonies of anti-trans activists.

You'd expect to find this sort of conspiratorial hate on the darkest recesses of the internet, not on the BBC.
It's difficult not to conclude that BBC management have made a decision to promote anti-trans talking points as a matter of editorial policy.
A leading pollster explains why it is so disreputable for the BBC to use a *social media poll* distributed by an anti-trans rights group on their own network as evidence.

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Owen Jones 🌹 Profile picture
21 Oct
This article doesn't even mention the anti-trans rights LGB Alliance, for which Kathleen Stock is a Trustee, and which is the *main focus of the Sussex students' objections*, which shows how utterly bereft of basic journalistic standards this is.
If this piece was a proper piece of journalism, it would note that Kathleen Stock signed the "WHRC Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights, which Sussex University students contend seeks to abolish trans rights".

But there's no reference to it at all.

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If you are going to write a piece about why Sussex University students are objecting to a certain academic, and you don't even mention the reasons why those students are objecting, then you are clearly not telling your readers the truth.

This is an insult to basic journalism.
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17 Oct
This from a man who has spent years vilifying and demonising the left in the most over the top way possible, in a newspaper which whips up bigotry against entire communities, knowing the left and minorities face violence from right-wing partisans.

Nauseating.
We have to be honest about what's happening here: some are trying to use the sickening murder of an MP to suggest passionate critiques of our ruling party - and their gruesome policies, including tens of thousands of avoidable COVID deaths - are tantamount to inciting violence.
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