It’s quite scary & frightening to think that the pushback we are seeing against gay people worldwide is ALL because we are squished under one damned “umbrella”. Sure, some are able to make the distinction. But many others, including those who’ve only JUST tolerated us for years 1
…DO & WILL NOT. The fact that TRA’s, Q+++ & the pushers of gender ideology have involved everyone’s children AND are hellbent on destroying women’s & girl’s rights in the process, is giving these people ALL the ammunition they’ve been waiting for.

The Q++ brigade has loaded..2
..the weapons for them. Given them license to say, “You’re indoctrinating our children!”, because you are. You’ve even had a well known choir sing “We’re coming for your kids”. It may well have been meant ironically, but that’s NOT the point! Our detractors are WAITING for you..3
..to f**k up like this, irony or no irony. If you chant “we’re coming for your kids!” on a march, YOU might think it’s ‘just a joke’, but our detractors are NOW using this against ALL OF US.

You’ve got behind a business that tells children they “are born in the wrong body”..4
..& have been complicit in keeping this a secret from the parents. You’ve ensured the school’s & universities are crammed with activists, not teachers. You’re putting sexually explicit books in their libraries. You’re demanding women shove over, & surrender their spaces,..5.
…sports, even the word “woman”. You’ve spent years screaming “Kill T**fs! Decapitate them!”, sent death/rape/constant abuse. You attempted to silence every single thing LGB people have tried to establish. You’ve smeared them as “hateful bigots”, “sinister” & “right wing”..6
You’ve organised boycotts of gay-owned businesses. You’ve threatened, intimidated & doxxed all who stand up to you. You call for women & men to be ostracised, sacked, publicly vilified, hated & smeared. You constantly lie & lie & lie about other’s intentions. You claim you are 7
.. “victims & marginalised”, when almost every single institution, charity, public body, financially supports you. You are represented in an overwhelming capacity in the media, on television, in adverts. Your reach is huge. Your feted by pop stars, film stars, slebs etc. 8.
Your flags are flown everywhere from June onwards. So much so, that if someone is NOT flying it, they are deemed “bigots”. You denigrate lesbians as “sexual racists”. You insult gay & bi people because they know who they are attracted to. You call same-sex attracted ..9
..people “transphobic by default”. You refuse to allow anyone but yourselves the right to self-assembly, yet you organise exclusive events for yourselves. If you can’t have access, you’ll destroy it, rather than let anyone else find pleasure in meeting like-minded people. 10.
You make every single tragedy about YOU. There is nothing you won’t co-opt to present yourselves as the most “vulnerable & hated”. You’ve hijacked a movement. You call transsexuals “truscum”, if they have the gall to contradict you. You have ZERO moral compass..etc etc 11
I could go on.

But now that’ Q++ folx’ are experiencing a homophobic pushback, you are attempting to blame it on gender critical people, instead of stepping back, taking a good, long, hard look at yourselves & your deliberately provocative destruction of boundaries 12
..& anything resembling safeguarding. You surely have to realise that when you go on the constant offensive, when you attempt to undo years of good work by women & gay people, we WILL extricate ourselves from this destructive ‘umbrella’ of forced teaming.
Because YOU..13.
YOU ALONE have created this mess. In less than 8 f***ing years.

You have forgotten our history. How we went from invisibility to tolerance to acceptance. People don’t simply respect you because you demand it. You’ve got to show good faith. Like everyone else.

You’ve done..14.
..the exact opposite. We warned you. We tried to tell you. We’ve begged you to leave kids out of it, to stop with your narcissism & misogyny.

Now, because of you, we’re ALL about to suffer.

And we are NOT going to let you shovel the blame onto us.

That will NOT happen. /

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