Thread by @poetsoup

This is a terrible & sad decision. Homophobia isn't gone, this we know. Two gay men have been brutally killed this year alone. Yet Dublin Pride have terminated their contract with the biggest provider of exposure they have, compromising the social benefits of the whole group.

https://twitter.com/DublinPride/status/1536780916525355013

A perfect indicator of the moral or ethical veracity of an idea or movement is in how it deals with those who disagree. If your movement castigates instead of speaking to a better judgement, if fire & brimstone is the innate reaction to disagreement, if the doling out of physical

or mental pain is the only appropriate response to ideological challenge, if censorship is preferable to exposure; then your idea or movement is not good. How you react to things that make you uncomfortable is an indicator of stability & maturity, two things that are very much

needed to build a common world in which we can live together amidst our real & important differences. Especially in this moment, in this partisan world. & in this, everyone should be critical of any ideology that sees the rights or safety of Women & Children as optional, arguable

optional, arguable, unnecessary or hateful. Women have the fundamental right to discuss or question their own agency regarding issues that affect them, even if these issues intersect with trans issues.

Stop telling Women they're hateful for speaking up for themselves. Women's/Children's safeguarding should ALWAYS begin at a 0 tolerance default starting point. Stop bullying people into participating in others sense of self importance-when it might be to their possible detriment.

Stop using shame as a cudgel. Stop participating in the active disenfranchisement of existing rights. Stop using children as a shield for what you can't do or couldn't have. Stop preaching that severe medical intervention is the only appropriate way to deal with extreme but

understandable reactions to difficult puberty; especially in this world we've given them. Stop telling young gay men & women that the only way to truth is to lie to themselves or others. Stop coercing while hiding behind a veil of kindness.

#wewillbeheard