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???
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.
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
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1 / Quite chuffed that me 'misgendering' (😱) someone has made it into an Australian tribunal's decision 💁♂️
'Mr' Cook is of course a woman
So here's a little thread on The Power Of Language To Reflect Reality which will be a very, very different take from @benryanwriter's sanctimonious and tedious "JuSt Be KiNd" drivel
2 / I got involved in calling out the gender madness nearly 5 years ago. Early on I refused to refer to men as 'she / her' and women as 'he / him' because it struck me how language played such a key role in obfuscating what was happening
When @benryanwriter once referred to a 4-year-old boy as a 'trans girl' I pointed out (rather politely I think) why I thought that was unhelpful. He instantly blocked me and rather disingenuously cropped my response then quote tweeted it. Is that what they call journalistic integrity, Ryan?
3 / For my pronouns use I was called a 'purist' by a panel member at a conference once - whatevs. I also explained my reasoning for my pronoun use in a rather mild, short vid where I reacted to a @BuckAngel post where she said she'd see it as a "sign of respect" if we call he 'he / him' because "she's made such an effort to appear male" 🙄
In response she's called me a "cross-dresser / big grifter / detransitioner / bitter / a hater / piece of shit asshole / mad at the world because my 'transition' didn't work out" bla bla bla and joked about me getting kicked in my 'lady nuts' by TERFs
All because I won't call her 'he / him' while at the same time she's trying to argue "I acknowledge I'm female! I'm a woman! An ugly one!" 🫠
3 / I spent a weekend with two blokes who claim to be women. One had gone down a medical pathway some 30 years ago, the other only 3 years ago so they had very different perspectives
A woman is gonna do a 20-min talk, she was introduced by her name and pronouns and already used ‘assigned at birth’ and she sounds angry and hyped up
“The ruling was pretty bad” she said, and stuff about The Right
2 / She does quotation marks when mentioning “single-sex spaces,” says For Women Scotland are funded by the right wing and that evil billionaire woman, and that all interveners on FWS’s side are ‘transphobic’
The ruling is entirely biased, they’re should’ve been a democratic decision instead to decide that “transwomen are women”
Calls a GRC a ‘gender recognition leaflet’
3 / “JK Rowling poses with a cigar! So does Andrew Tate!”
Lots of people nodding and umming and ah-ing in agreement
She says the SC decision won’t help women’s rights at all. She’s going to unpack the ‘senselessness’ of it all… can’t wait! 😆
🧵Big fat thread on the countries* changing course on 'puberty blockers' (i.e. drugging kids out of puberty) or raising the alarm:
🇧🇪 Belgium
🇨🇦 Canada
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇫🇮 Finland
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇮🇹 Italy
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇳🇴 Norway
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇺🇸 United States
Hope it's useful! Please bookmark for future reference and add any info you have on other countries 🙏😀
Ok, let's gooooo!
*This can refer to national government, local government, national health authorities, independent health bodies and / or medical practitioners
2 / 🇧🇪 BELGIUM
2024
A report by paediatricians and psychiatrists calls for the reform of ‘gender care’ for children and adolescents following a 60% rise in Belgian teenagers being prescribed PBs.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith introduced Bill 26 that will ban the prescribing of PBs to those under 16 (unless they're already on them). The bill has passed its third and final reading and will take effect once its been signed into law (probably in the next few months). Two 'LGBTQ+' orgs are challenging the law in court.