1./ Ruth Hunt is a Bit of a Cult.
You have to hand it to Stonewall's ex-CEO, Ruth Hunt. She really knows how to lie. In her interview she claims Stonewall merely "listened to the experts" and cites one in particular. Why is this a lie?
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2./ Hunt names Polly Carmichael from the Tavistock. But for all her faults, Carmichael actually said of prescribing puberty blockers, "it would be disingenuous to say it is fully reversible." Yet Stonewall even today maintains blockers are reversible. thetimes.co.uk/article/childr…
3./ Despite them being banned by NHS England and after a new study from the Mayo Clinic indicates they seriously damage the testicles of boys and may lead to cancer, Stonewall still says blockers are reversible Listened to experts? This is far from Hunt's only lie.
4./ As @Docstockk points out, Hunt's claim she expressed concern about the transing of gay girls is absurd. It was the supporters of @AllianceLGB who did that; the group she refused to debate with. It's not as if Hunt didn't have the chance to speak out.
5./ When she took her unearned place in the House of Lords her speech failed mysteriously to reference this insight. Instead like the rest of her career the person whom Pink News dubbed 'Baroness of our Hearts' (ugh) focused exclusively on trans isssues. thepinknews.com/2020/02/12/rut…
6./ Where did this messianic confidence that Hunt was doing the right thing come from? I hate to break it to my Christian friends, but Hunt is one of the few people in public life who claims to communicate directly with God. She told the story in the book she edited.
7./ In her essay, Hunt describes Jesus appearing to her in a nightclub. She felt Jesus "by my side, looking out, asking me to come back to him." Jesus said, "I have never left you". She wept. Elsewhere in her essay Hunt refers to the Prophet Moses as her inspiration.
8./ Moses makes an appearance three times and most explicitly in relation to her appointment, the year after her vision of Christ, as the CEO of Stonewall. "Like Moses, God helped me to find the words to say." Really? God told you to enable the sterilisation of kids? I think not.
9./ What if the whispers Ruth Hunt thought she heard were those from another voice? You know, one from the other side of town. Or what, perish the thought, if the voice was one she invented in her own fevered imagination? Either way she went on to display a terrifying arrogance.
10./ You can hear her arrogance when she describes the spectacularly successful tactics of early Stonewall, which she dismisses as being based on convincing the British public that "gay people were normal, normal, normal." And your point, caller? Should we say we're abnormal?🤦♂️
11./ And listen to the contempt she expresses for democracy; the system that delivered Gay Marriage in Ireland. We should never repeat that vote, she says. "Give people a vote on LGBT rights? No, no no!" No wonder this Baroness of a Hunt feels so at home in the unelected Lords.
12./ Her biggest lie in The Times is Hunt's attempt to distance Stonewall from other organisations that promote child abuse like Gendered Intelligence, GIRES and the single biggest source of child abuse in the UK: a charity called Mermaids. She says they have specific agendas.
13./ Yet their positions on all major policy issues are absolutely identical with Stonewall; and very specifically on blockers. Indeed Stonewall joined Mermaids in an attempt to intervene in the Keira Bell appeal in order to defend the use of puberty blockers.
14./ They were rejected. But if they only listen to experts why would Stonewall try to intervene as if they were medically qualified? Hunt's legacy to Stonewall was this blend of arrogance and sheer messiah complex. Of course, Hunt had every right to be a person of faith. But..👉
15./ British society has an aversion to overt expressions of faith by policy-makers. Above all in areas of policy that are contested. It's the antithesis of the evidence-based scrutiny of policy. Hunt was inspired by Moses and ended up behaving as if she thought she was God.
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1. Climate Change Hyperbole.
How should we respond to global warming? In my latest article I examine how last year's flood in Valencia was misrepresented and misused to argue we should decarbonise our economy more urgently than we are already doing.👉
2./ The climate change lobby ignored the fact Valencia had flooded 75 times before and the geology of the region could almost be designed to produce flash floods. Flooding in Valencia got so bad in 1957 the city decided to reroute the river that used to run through the centre.
3./ Coverage of the flood ignored all this and the fact rivers flowing into Valencia emerge 5500ft up a mountain range. This steep gradient means when extreme rainfall occurs water rushes to the city in a torrent. Nor can it escape because of almost vertical ravine river banks.
1./ 🧵The Lies of Sarah McBride: The Sequel.
This leading trans activist claims the trans lobby now faces hostility cos it failed to take the time to convince the public. Yet it was McBride himself who ruthlessly championed the most extreme positions. 👉 nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opi…
2./ After @HRC failed to stop a law in North Carolina protecting women's spaces McBride led its revenge campaign to ensure its Republican Governor was not re-elected. "It would send a really important message: if you come for us we're going to come for you", warned McBride.
3./ Invading women's restrooms was such a complusion for McBride that in a 2018 Google seminar he admitted HRC killed a non-discrimination bill in Philadelphia protecting gay and trans people from employment discrimination just because it had an exemption for women's restrooms.
1./ Iran's Tran$ Plan. If you want to understand what drives trans ideology look at what's happening in Iran where a new national plan aims to increase revenue from medical tourism six fold; including from the country's booming gender clinics. Why does this matter?
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2./ In the West, trans activists and gender clinicians often try to disguise their homophobia. In Iran where homosexuality is punishable by death and trans ideology is officially sanctioned there's no such need. Gender clinics effectively offer to save gays. By mutilating them.
3./ My article reveals this gruesome money-machine is being boosted as Iran aims to make $6Bn a year from medical tourism. A key role will be played by its competing private gender clinics which are among the busiest in the world. Only Thailand does more 'sex change surgery'.
1./ Hezbollah Hypocrisy. It's a scandal a Jewish man was arrested for joking about the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. We should ALL applaud the elimination of this disgusting misogynist and anti-semite. And if you're gay you should especially thank @IDF. Here's why👉
2./ Two years ago Nasrallah called for violence against gays "with no limits". He hated gays so much he urged followers to use slurs rather than the word 'homosexual'. He and Hezbollah's inspiration had long been the rancid bigotry of Ayatollah Khomeini.👇
3./ Hezbollah posters in Beirut often cite the incoherent "thoughts" of this thankfully well dead fruitcake. A major feature of Khomeini's theology was his violent hatred of gays. One of the first laws he passed after he returned to Iran in 1979 was the death sentence for gays.
1./ 🧵The BBC's Transman Shame. In 2004 Sky's reality show There's Something About Miriam encouraged straight men to seduce a trans identified male. 21 years later the BBC has learned nothing as it encourages gay men to seduce a trans identified female. Will it end the same way?👉
2./ Sky was forced to apologise to the men it duped. It also had to pay them £500K for trying to engineer them into having sex with Miriam Rivera a troubled man who believed he was female. The same exploitative arrogance is in evidence today at @bbcthree and @twofourtweets.
3./@bbcthree may have told gay competitors about the trans status of 'Lars' a deluded woman who had her breasts sawn off and took testosterone in a desperate attempt to escape her female reality. But its alleged "honesty" is insufficient because this ignores how reality TV works.
1./ 🧵What does 'Queer' mean? In its new show the Tate claims Leigh Bowery is a queer icon. In my latest article I argue the designer's life and work suggest his kind of pathological narcissism defines Queer. I first met Bowery when I was filmed in a sex scene in his flat. Really.
2./ It was 1984 and I was having a fling with dancer Michael Clark who was being celebrated in a Channel 4 film following his life. He asked me to play a bit of rough trade. Typecast again. We would be filmed in Bowery's flat where he lived with his boyfriend Trojan.
3./ We are told now Bowery's provocative behaviour and wild designs represent an explosion of 'queer' creativity. Yet it's interesting, to say the least, the Tate ignores his casual racism. He called one of his favourite clubbing costumes 'Queer Pakis in Space'. How creative.