Thread by @Nat_freespeech

There is some information still been spread by transactivists and their allies that needs to be countered and corrected publicly.
I was selected as candidate for Wakefield local party then two days later attended a English Council meeting in Birmingham.

The meeting involved a talk by Helen Belcher and Baroness Barker around 'Trans Rights'. No woman offering alternative viewpoints was on the panel.
Baroness Barker, Helen Belcher and other Stonewall transactivists have completely captured the internal structures of the party.

I arrived at the meeting in Birmingham. I put my coat in the cloakroom and got tea before the meeting.
The t-shirt was always on show,I didn't hide it and it certainly wasn't hostile or aggressive.
Helen was watching my every move and frantically texting people during this time.

I took my place at the meeting and listened quietly and respectfully to all points made.
I believed that a woman should have also have been on the panel providing alternative viewpoints particularly around the 'we just want to pee in peace' .

When it came to lunchtime I joined the sandwich queue with everyone else and got my sandwiches and coffee.
I spoke to a lovely gentleman whilst eating my lunch and we discussed #FreedomOfSpeech and that it was concerning that a supposedly 'liberal party' was only allowing 1 view.

The climate both internally and externally on this topic in late 2017/ early 2018 shouldn't be underestimated particularly in a party where half of the @stonewalluk transactivists are in charge on the LGBTQ faction and settling policies.

Anyway I quietly ate my lunch Nd had a lovely calm discussion until I was accosted by Prue Bray who barked at me 'why are you wearing that t-shirt?'
My response was that the party needs to have a discussion on this topic.

She then asked if I was an Approved candidate,I said I was. Her response 'we'll see about that then won't we'.

It further transpired in investigation reports against me after the meeting that numerous people had been taking covert photos of me in the t-shirt.
Not one of these people approached me for a civilised, adult discussion around the t-shirt.

The @LibDems have always supported protests, mine was a silent protest.i was disrespectful or hateful to any trans person.
I was concerned at the amount of English Council members at the meeting pledging allegiance to their 'trans sisters' to me it seemed sinister and cult like.

The problem with associations such as the @LibDems is that the party is like a family, in this case a dysfunctional one, it is filled with activists who frequently attend dinners with each other, and bold the same party roles.
In such climate it's easy for 'groupthink' to develop

The @LibDems has an unusually high no of transactivists within the party who are everyone's friends.
A culture has developed where people are scared of upsetting their friends.
The function of political party is to develop good policies for the country, not to stop discussion

because our friend may be upset.
After the first complaints were dismissed I was told very clearly to shut up on the topic.
I did not, I refused to do so.
Why could the transactivists pursue things they were passionate about but I couldn't?

The climate in early 2018 can't be underestimated.
I reached out to Paddy Ashdown, he refused to help and removed me as judge on his prize for 'radical' thinking.

The transactivists were his friends as well. He didn't want to upset them either.

The suspension letter came through on Monday, it hadn't come through though by the time I'd driven down to Wakefield to start campaigning.
Peter Williams told me he had the letter and that I couldn't be part of the meeting.

When I did discuss my points of concern with Peter Williams a few days later, he agreed with every point, particularly the violent man being in women's prisons.
He was worried I was being targeted, he wrote to @LibDems HQ setting out his concerns.
The letter along with my complaint disappeared into a black hole in HQ. Neither it not the complaints appeared in the evidence bundle.
The party had already decided that an excessive punishment was needed to get this northern woman to just shut up on this topic.

The excessive punishment and suspensions were to silence me, and not just silence me but to silence anyone else in the party who may wish to raise this.
I don't understand why they suspended me indefinitely but didn't outright expel me.

In late 2017/ early 2018 no other prospective parliamentary candidate in any political party or any MP had dared to speak up on this topic. It was an unspeakable topic. We couldn't say the unsayable and the narrative being promoted was the @stonewalluk party line.