- Tiktok only became available worldwide in 2018.
- There has not been exponential growth since 2018.
- GIDs referrals have FALLEN.
It really is time for the @ChtyCommission to decommission the LGB Alliance disinformation machine.
Also - and I cannot stress this enough - transgender people existed before 2018, before Tiktok, before the internet, in their millions, all around the world, in every culture.
Just like the internet didn't make your kids gay; it's not making your kids trans.
The referrals for GIDs - given the expected incidence of gender dysphoria in a pop. of 10s of millions - are, if anything, incredibly low. We are talking about an infintessimal percentage here, compared to the number of kids who might have TikTok on their phones, for example.
It might *feel* like more, because the UK media are taking about it all the time, and have bought into the propaganda of expressing the *growth* from a ridiculously low base in scary percentages. "4500% growth" is a lot scarier than the actual very low figures as a % of the pop.
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Once people get into conspiratorial modes of thinking like this, even the act of trying to explain that this is a very silly thing to think is seen as hostile, and ultimately a part of the conspiracy against them.
Still, I'm going to try. 1/
This particular conspiracy theory has been going since 2019, and started with this tweet. It was seen as @jk_rowling "coming out" as gender critical (even though most trans people already knew she was GC.)
As such, it is VERY important to the gender critical movement. 2/
How important? At the recent LGB Alliance conference, they were selling it printed on merchanise. *That* important. After a few months, some GC people noticed that when it appeared in their timeline again it looked like they hadn't liked and retweeted, when they knew they had. 3/
Here's a New Year's Resolution: next time trans people tell us that they're dealing with a transphobic hate cult of people who *obviously* don't want them to exist, we don't take five fucking years to believe them, okay? 1/
You can't take back explaining to trans people that your mate Graham Linehan isn't transphobic, actually.
You can't take back publishing articles by his allies arguing for watchful waiting, and talk therapy, which is *always* about stopping trans people existing as trans. 2/
You can't take back publishing letters by Linehan's mates in your paper calling trans women "porn-addled autogynophiles," effectively accusing them of sexual perversion for just existing. You see how that is an attempt to stop them existing at all, now, right? 3/
Hi @RosieDuffield1 and @BevJacksonAuth, Kurtis Tripp (LGL USA) has said "stop lying about your sex to trick men and get laid, you disgusting rapist" about a trans woman.
The dangerous gender critical campaign to associate trans people with rape has to stop. 1/
Please use your influence in the GC movement to stop this.
Or, at least, make a statement to the fact that you regret liking and promoting other tweets by Kurtis Tripp in light of his recent grossly transphobic statements, and encourage others not to associate with him. 2/
A movement that is rooted in love for Magdalen Berns, who called trans women "blackface actors", inexorably led to people openly calling trans people perverts, pedophiles and rapists. It's hugely dangerous for the safety and welfare of trans people in the UK. It has to stop. 3/
Two videos, one near the start of 2021, the other near the end, which neatly demonstrate how the UK anti-trans movement is going internally:
"All the people I've met in this, I consider my foxhole friends...you all just inspire the hell out of me." - Graham Linehan.
Yet... 1/
Just under a year later...
"...let's just win and then go our separate ways because there's absolutely no reason we need to be friends with each other or even associated with each other beyond this fight." - Graham Linehan
The "better friends" part of your life, eh? 2/
What's tragic is that this is the bit leading up to GL's first statement. They've duped people like this into thinking losing their actual friends is a *good* thing that should make them happy, and barely a year later Graham is saying that that "friendship" is temporary. 3/
In the following two clips, it's amazing to watch Graham Linehan and Arty Morty squirm as Helen deploys their own "weaponising suicide" argument against them, in relation to how annoyed she was to have to hear about Arty's trans friend who died.
CW: Discussion of suicide.
Arty responds saying he wasn't trying to weaponise suicide. His trans friend "literally died" and he was trying to stop it happening to someone else.
Helen responds by finding a way to switch the discussion to JK Rowling. Just incredible.
Also, in the first clip, note how Linehan tries to remonstrate with Helen by saying, "but, Helen, the difference is Arty did have a friend who (died by) suicide" and she has to point out to him, "And so do many of them!" Did he think trans people were actually lying about that?
I don't think the guy who was laughing it up with Graham Linehan - an incredibly angry man - in 2019, about inventing phrases like "the Woke Stasi" to describe people who support trans rights, is going to bring any introspection to the subject of online anger.
I would also add that the guy who has a history of blackface - albeit that he apologised of late - might not be the best guy to be given a TV show to discuss "angry" movements like BLM.
How many shows and articles by UK celebrity men past their peak are we going to get on this?
This is nothing but the establishment handing middle-aged men who could once do blackface on TV to slag off black footballers without consequence a platform to moan about the fact that they can't do that anymore without hearing from the people who are angry about that.