1/ The gender borg have every right to be furious with @stonewalluk for sneakily ditching their belief in gender identity in their new definition of transphobia. Political transvestitism holds that men in dresses have soul-like female gender identities - Stonewall now denies this
2/ Stonewall used to believe gender identity existed and that enforcing the reassessment of Allison Bailey, the cancellation of any number of women, the harassment of James Dreyfus was justified in the name of the new religion of gender identity. Yet now they abandon it.
3/ You might think this is quite incredible from an organisation that lied to frightened parents and told them 50% of children denied puberty blockers commit suicide on the basis of their "gender identities" being denied, the concept they have abandoned.
4/ Stonewall once believed that "gender identities" were so real that men in dresses should hold workshops about breaching the "cotton ceiling", that phrase means the sexual boundaries of lesbians. Here's Magdalen Berns discussing that matter:
5/ "Gender identity" has serious political ramifications. It is the reason lesbians in Australia are forbidden by law from meeting on their own because it offends against male political transvestism. To see Stonewall abandon transvestites in this way...
7/ You are being betrayed. You are being utterly forsaken. The organisation that you thought would always fight your corner is turning on you. It is being sneaky. It is working in the shadows. But make no mistake, it is abandoning you completely. Dropping you like a hit brick.
8/ And I say this to the gender borg, the blue hair, the political transvestites
When you lament how an organisation that supported you so ferociously turned on you so completely and so traitorously
I know exactly how you feel
Signed
A homosexual male with no gender identity
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1/ I welcome extreme trans activist charity @stonewalluk backing away from the absurd position they used to hold until a month ago when they deprecated the use of the word "homosexual" as a "medical term". They have now U-Turned on this in a blow to political transvestitism.
2/ "Homosexual" was always offensive to political transvestitism because it implied there was such a thing as sex and that two people of the same sex might be involved. Now, it's not perfect because it says "or gender" in the new version. But it's progress of a kind.
3/ By calling homosexuality a "medical term" in an era when the Tavistock was medicalising homosexuality, Stonewall offered their full support to the reconceptualisation of homosexuality as a medical concern.
1/ "The unserious grappling with the serious" is a fair summary of the kid's table antics of the assisted suicide committee this week. Where there should have been discourse and information, there was instead wordplay and sophistry worthy of Lewis Caroll.
2/ Where there should have been courtesy and open minds to critical voices, there were specious points of order, MPs playing on their phones, yawning, or witnesses writing off concerns around easting disorders as a "red herring" and just one or two cases
3/ At times, it has not been obvious that MPs understand their own bill. 3 examples: Here is Professor House explaining the Mental Capacity Tests in this bill is far weaker than than the normal tests a psychiatrist would conduct with suicidal ideation.
1/ This is breath taking. One of the responsibilities of the assisted suicide committee is to consider safeguards against domestic abuse and exploitation of the elderly. Diane Abbot's reasonable amendment asking for this has just been voted down. This is outrageous.
2/ Earlier today the committee heard worrying evidence from the President of the Association for Palliative Medicine, Dr Sarah Cox, she said ""You can't always identify coercion", Dr Rachel Clarke said similar and said realities should not be ignored.
3/ You might have thought expert evidence on questions of domestic abuse, controlling and coercive relationship and the protection of the elderly were absolutely critical to the work of the committee and that these voices should be heard.
1/ There's a link in the next tweet to my long read piece on why the Private Member's Bill on Assisted Suicide is a manifestly dangerous piece of legislation. In this article I consider clauses 1-18 which regulate the process and purported "safeguards" the bill proposes.
2/ My conclusion is that this bill is fit for utopia but dangerous in the reality we fallible inhabit where undue influence, controlling coercive behaviour and fraud by abuse of position of trust actually happen.
3/ I am in principle against this legislation, but I would invite those who disagree to nonetheless consider carefully whether or not this bill passes muster, because frankly it must. It has to. If it doesn't our next national inquiry is not going to be pretty.
1/ Gender ideology was indeed a "shameful catastrophe", but it was Sajid Javid who ordered the Cass review, it was Badenoch who defended gay/autistic youth long before you took to twitter with your cowardly, opportunistic attack on the leadership of this decent and brave woman.
3/ But unlike you, (and this is the key point), Kemi did not wait for something to become popular before she spoke. She never waited for the mood to change. She acted with integrity and urgency and stood up and spoke her mind. She never waited for a headline.
1/ The Australian Human Rights Commission has ruled that a public meeting which is lesbian only amounts to "gender identity discrimination" against transvestites and assorted men who claim to be women. I want to explain, beyond the glaringly obvious, just how bad the situation is
2/ In the first place, the LAG were forced by law to apply for an "exemption" to the AHRC. In the past a lesbian only event would be an unremarkable feature of gay rights freedom of association. Now, lesbians must plead with a state body to meet in a public building.
3/ I hardly need say that, in and of itself, is profound regress. Gay rights in Australia (and particularly lesbian rights) are in a state of deep recession. The idea that homosexuals must get the permission of the state to avoid transvestites is, you may think, remarkable.