Thread by @RoisinMichaux

Panel: what if they're gay and not trans? at @genspect conference in Killarney

Featuring @iseult @TullipR Alasdair Gunn Jet London @TwisterFilm and @BenjaminABoyce 1/
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There is a lot of aggressiveness and discrimination towards butch lesbians, says @iseult. @TwisterFilm says as was a camp little boy, he would have been "fast-tracked" to gender transition if he grew up now.2/

There is bullying going on now, but it's bonkers organisations that go into schools, and they "trap" gender non-conforming kids into gender ideology, says @TwisterFilm. @AllianceLGB counters this. 3/
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Jet London talks about the Amsterdam clinic that diagnosed her and prescribed hormones and mastectomy: "after three years I realised I'm not any happier." She was 20. She didn't transition because she felt she couldn't live up to female stereotypes. 4/
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"Somebody should have told me at 14 that I didn't have to live up to expectations" like having long hair and other superficial female stereotypes. 5/
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@TullipR hates how there's a lack of compassion for people who identify as trans. Gets a bit wobbly-voiced at the end. He's right: we tend to call boys going through this perverts. That's horrible. 6/
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"A lot of people look to detransitioners like we will have the answers but I'm the one who walked into a burning building and got burnt - and people are now asking me how to put out fires," says @TullipR 7/
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Alasdair Gunn: "You get to a point where you don't care about sex, you care about love. And we know that if you do this to someone, you are reducing their dating pool by over 90%. You are depriving these people of love." 8/
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"When you're 20 you don't care. We, the adults, have to tell them to think about the future. This is depriving people of love - and that is criminal and cruel," - Alasdiar Gunn. 9/
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"How is it that a movement that was set up 50 years ago to liberate our sexuality, now we are stealing people's ability to have a sex life." @TwisterFilm 10/
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I'm convinced that homosexuality gives people the "ick" says @iseult. They would much rather talk about gender identity. 11/
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Jet London met a lesbian she liked. But the hormone suppression meant she had no sexual feelings - except the libido given to her by testosterone. But it felt like it wasn't her own. "It's a human rights violation to take that from someone."
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It wasn't my own sexuality, she says. That's so tragic. 13/
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People don't realise how strong testosterone is, says @TwisterFilm. But @TullipR says the cocktail of hormones trans-identifying men take, too, can make you f*cking mental. "I'll never have a sex life." 14/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

Alasdair addresses @wpath: you're really crap allies. Take the rainbow flag out of your bio. These are real people's lives - not just numbers." @TullipR says "Fuck WPATH". 15/
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"What if they're straight, and not trans? It's still a barbaric thing to do to anyone." 16/
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