Thread by @MrMennoTweets

1 / Gender woo in full swing yesterday at @Tate’s #QueerAndNow2023

A ‘transwoman’ with scrotum on display and a focus on ‘queer / trans’ children. They even used kids as props in this bizarre parade with adult women chanting “We’re so queer!” The kids were totally bewildered

2 / This happened while a panel were discussing the following…

3 / The parade suddenly barged in, making noise and two women chanting “We’re so queeeeer!” The one leading it, like a Pied Piper, had a ‘they / them’ pronoun badge on. The parade made its way through the room, disrupting the panel discussion and leaving people wondering “What

4 / the hell?” but I guess that’s the whole point of ‘queer’. The kids were certainly confused, parents tried to egg them on.

Why on Earth do you need children to be part of adults going round chanting that they are ‘queer’? Like… whyyyyy???

#LeaveTheKidsAlone

5 / Apparently it’s ‘punk’ 🙄 I wonder what went on in the parents’ heads and why they wanted their kids (some pre-school) to be props for a statement about ‘queerness’

6 / Elsewhere there was an area where you could read children’s books.

All peddling #genderwoo

Like this one…

7 / “Gender freedom for kids” is all about selling the myth that we don’t have a sex. To tiny little children. Catch them young, ‘ey?

8 / All that matters is ‘be kind’ and ‘your own truth’.

And your ‘truth’ will open doors. Toilet doors!

9 / Had a look to see if they had @RooneyRachel’s wonderful book “My Body Is Me” but alas.

Hey @Tate can you add this to your collection? Or is loving yourself as you are not ‘queer’ enough?

amazon.co.uk/My-Body-Me-Rac…

10 / In another space there was a pop up called ‘Oestro Generation’ to highlight the voices of men who think that being a woman can be reduced to a hormone level. They recited their own writing