I am not a member of the “LGBTQ+” community. I’m just gay. Exclusively sexually and romantically attracted to members of my own sex… and not all of them. I have *nothing* in common with “TQ+”, and I oppose an ideology that: 1/
- sees women as “social constructs”. No. Women are adult human females.
- advocates that young people and even children need medical intervention to “correct” their bodies, sterilising them and causing life long harm
- calls homosexuality “bigoted” and a “genital preference” 2/
- relentlessly bullies, smears and threatens anyone saying “no, I do not agree”, especially women
- demands access to every, space and provision set for others
- fails to understand safeguarding and that actually just because you want to do a thing *doesn’t mean you should* 3/
- uses gay rights as a Trojan horse, treats actual gay people with contempt and then demands loyalty.
- and then centres every tragedy, every event, everything to do with GAY pride *on gender identity*, but ALSO has additional things and then complains when LGB try to leave 4/
This thread has had an unexpected level of engagement. Thanks for supportive words I appreciate it. I’m muting it now for the sake of my notifications but if you haven’t read my journey to where I am now it’s here.
This is what I mean by relentless forced teaming. If people were murdered in a gay bar in a homophobic attack - people wouldn’t be piping up to say “what about” when straight ppl get caught in the crossfire. 1/
That doesn’t mean we don’t care or are somehow gleeful. You Billy are the one (of many) deciding we are the “LGBTQ+ community” and I’m sick of it. We can have LGB only things. We have one shared trait - same sex attraction. 2/
We don’t know the motivation (tho it looks pretty obvious), but people are increasingly seeing people like me not as just gay, but part of the alphabet “other” community and you can’t go one day without using yet another tragedy to make yet more attacks on anything “GC” 3/
32. Not countless. And anyone murdered is one too many, but this thread of hand wringing is not only absurdly over the top, it actually creates fear in the people you’re claiming to stand with Nancy… and who is that this week?
@AnnelieseDodds please stop using people like me to score party political points. It’s unnecessary. Also this article is both misleading and will cause unnecessary fear. 1/
This is untrue. Please stop using the figures for reported incidents to claim actual crime is rising. Plenty of these reported incidents are not crimes. Please provide accurate information with citations 2/
How? How do you propose to do this @AnnelieseDodds by putting a metaphorical “sword of Damocles” over therapists heads in case someone decides the approach wasn’t “affirmative” enough? 3/
I am finally writing up why I was so invested in gender identity ideology over and above simple blind loyalty to 🏳️🌈 orgs who I thought were infallible. Exploring why I genuinely thought I was cisgender, and now I don’t, has left me with a perplexing sense of “loss” 1/
I forgot how comforting the idea of being cisgender was, and how much I *wanted* it to be true. How much it propped up or shielded me from uncomfortable truths and internal problems I didn’t only not see, I actively denied and pretended not to see 2/
It’s very strange, because part of me *still* really wants to believe in inherent gender identities, because part of me *wants* to be validated as a “real man”. It’s absurd, but that feeling is there even though I recognise it as unhelpful, wrong and meaningless 3/
🙄 I do. Look through my tweets. I often say it’s “heterophobic” but the reason that’s not an area of *focus* is because gender identity ideology is not a credible threat to heterosexuality as a concept. It’s the majority 🤯
The more I read of these threads the more I am sure that these people are trying to run from reality. I understand that desire. It is human nature to try to reshape our reality to what we want. That’s why we have science and technology. But some things cannot be avoided…
And we should reflect on *why* we want certain things. What is the driver behind trying to change what you are? Or force other peoples perception of what you are? When - there’s nothing *wrong* with what you ARE.
Dear professor. It may have escaped your attention but the activism of gender identity ideology has now gone so far as to enable some people to question and deny the reality of sex and the binary and immutable nature of sex 1/
No, not “all”, but ironically the one thing that is a spectrum is the range of beliefs and ideas about sex and “gender identity” from those who advocate for it. Inconsistent and contradictory, but the one thing in common is the attack on the *recognition* of sex 2/
The recognition of sex (binary, immutable, matters) is what is under attack, and LGBA and other groups are trying to point out womens (adult females) rights, and LGB rights - need that recognition of the *importance* of sex in society 3/