1 / This is the guy who stalks #LetWomenSpeak in London and posed as a detransitioned woman to get friendly with some of the regulars and get info / contact details.
He tries to get people arrested for any and every reason so if you ever see him *do not engage*
He even wore Kellie-Jay merchandise and had an adult human female flag to pretend he was ‘on our side’.
2 / First time I saw him was Spring or Summer 2022. He was hovering around Reformers Tree, some women were talking to him and I walked up to them. “Oh my god, MrMenno, I looooooove your videos!” he said. “Oh great - which one is your fave?” He looked at me blank, didn’t have an answer. Thought he was a TRA.
Then a month or two later he joined us at a summer picnic. That’s when he wore a Kellie-Jay scarf and said he was a detransitioned woman. I asked him some questions about his so-called ‘transition’ and he waffled a bit. I didn’t believe him.
3 / March 2023 he showed up, again with his scarf and this time an adult human female flag. There was a group of TRAs trying to intimidate the women. I filmed as I walked up to the gathering, and you can see him chatting with his TRA mates (note the one with the pink and blue hair). As soon as he saw me filming he quickly walked away.
4 / After the event had finished and most of the LWS crowd had left it was just @AlfUpATree, myself and a couple of others… and this dude. As we walked away the TRA mob followed us. The police were following from a distance to keep an eye on us. The TRAs were playing loud music and shouting “There’s more of us than you!!!” Our little friend then pretended to ‘stand up to them’ and shouted at them, gave them the finger, and held his adult human female flag up.
So stunning and brave! 🙄
5 / We walked away, leaving the mob behind us. Here he is holding up his flag, then turning around and showing it to his TRA mates who came after us.
We were soon surrounded by them and so the police, who’d moved away, came back.
He’s in the middle with us, pretending to be all terfy.
@AlfUpATree 6 / The police made sure we could leave safely. As we walked off again he held up his flag to them and he waved at them as if to taunt them. This is that pink / blue-haired friend of his btw
@AlfUpATree 7 / PS just after #LetWomenSpeak finished he came up and said “Menno I’ve been assaulted!”
You can tell I didn’t much like that blue / pink haired dude who was hovering around (who said “I’m not with them, I’m not with them” after the vid cut off)
@AlfUpATree 8 / The next month he showed up at #LetWomenSpeak again - this time in 'disguise' as The Troon From The Moon, and brought his AGP-flag-coloured friend
@AlfUpATree 9 / Then in April he showed up at another event wearing the same gear, being a d**k with his umbrella (click link for vid). Someone managed to get a pic of him with the mask-thing off.
10 / The next time I saw him was at the LGB Alliance conference in October. He was out in rain 'protesting' against LGB people having their own event. The faces of the two next to him sum up how miserable their movement is.
Fred Wallace was also there, 'dancing in the rain' with his umbrella like a demented AGP Mary Poppins
@AlfUpATree 11 / Groomer and The Groomed?
@AlfUpATree 12 / And then he rocked up at #LetWomenSpeak today. Some people think he's the one who called the cops on @thames_pilgrim.
He's vile.
Feel free to add more pics / info to this thread.
@AlfUpATree @thames_pilgrim 13 / And here he is calling @roseveniceallan a 'fascist'. Claims to be 16.
@AlfUpATree @thames_pilgrim @roseveniceallan 14 / So you know how earlier I posted a vid of imposter-dude flipping the bird at his TRA buddies and holding up the Adult Human Female flag?
Here it is from the TRAs point of view, taken by his blue / pink-haired friend who posted it on TikTok
“Chasing off them damn TERFs”
@AlfUpATree @thames_pilgrim @roseveniceallan 15 / Here he is on TikTok saying you should “just punch people in the face.” Where have we heard that before? Oh yeah… ‘trans pride’.
@AlfUpATree @thames_pilgrim @roseveniceallan 16 / And so of course he did just that… and hopes he left a mark.
@AlfUpATree @thames_pilgrim @roseveniceallan 17 / Here they are together in another vid
Filter doing a lot of heavy lifting here 😬
@AlfUpATree @thames_pilgrim @roseveniceallan 18 / And here he is being an absolute d*ckhead at The Battle Of Ideas, Oct ‘24
I just landed at Edinburgh Airport, fancied a hot chocolate so popped into Costa Coffee near the exit. They charge £5.50 for a hot chocolate!!! 😮 But I really fancied one so thought “What the hell!” ☕️😋
Find myself a seat in a corner somewhere. Next to me a young woman with lots of luggage is working on her laptop. A thud. A splash. A scream. She’s just kicked the table, knocked over her iced vanilla latte and it’s all over the table, the floor and her light beige skirt. The cup is completely empty. She bursts into tears. “That’s the last thing I need right now!” she sobs
A woman gets up to help. I go to the counter to get tissues, and they give me one of those big rolls of blue paper. I go back and start mopping the table while the other woman hugs her and tries to calm her down, which seems to work a little. A staff member comes to mop the floor and gets her a new iced latte. The other woman leaves and says “I hope the rest of your day will be smooth!” in a thick Scottish accent. I love how the Scots say “smuth”
She’s still very tearful and on edge. Her phone rings. “Who’s phoning me now???” It’s a friend so she gets to let off some steam. She laughs, she cries. Turns out she got to Edinburgh AirPort only to realise she was meant to fly from Glasgow, so had to rebook, spend lots of extra money and wait around for 3 hrs
She finishes the call, then thanks me for helping her out. Asks me where I’m from. “The Netherlands” I say. “That’s where I’m going!”
There’s a human right conference she’s meant to be attending in an old university town (my dad’s old stomping ground) as she’s doing a PhD in socio-economic rights (eg right to healthcare and education). “That’s different from civil rights” she says. So we get to talking about that and how certain European-wide legal frameworks have been adopted into domestic law in the U.K. for civil rights but not for socio-economic rights and how Scotland also has its own legal system
So I mention the Scottish government pushing through ‘self-ID’ and Westminster saying “No thank you!” and blocking it, and also the Supreme Court ruling
“That ruling contradicts itself so much” she says
2 / Sorry next part might take a bit of time. Being distracted 😆🐈⬛
3 / She also says it goes against the GRA. “I’m a massive trans rights supporter,” she says, “I mean, look at my laptop!” and she shows me all the stickers
“I know so many transwomen and they’re all great. They’ve never caused me any trouble. Never had trouble in queer spaces. But men?! They’re the ones who give me grief. They’re the problem - not transwomen. Anyways, what brings you to Edinburgh?”
2 / Like… this man was surprised someone called him “Sir” -
he was wearing a BLUSH PINK COAT after all (00:36), how could anyone have guessed he was a man??? 🥴
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