Let's have a look at Tom Harlow's claim that Susan 'damaged' his umbrella, shall we? A pictorial!

#BrollyGate

1. A minute before Susan came over I asked Tom if he wanted to have a chat. That's when he first reached for his umbrella. Even closed, you can clearly see two of the spokes were already bent. It's not a cheap, flimsy brolly - what did he do to it??? What about "Protect the brolls!"??? 2. The open umbrella. Clearly some issues with the blue and green sections. Thank you Tom for bringing a rainbow umbrella, it makes all of this even more bleeding obvious...🥴😆

🧵 1 / When two worlds collide… 😬😆

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 😆🐈‍⬛

1 / One of my main gripes with ‘gender identity’ is how it relies on reinforcing regressive sexist stereotypes

Hair down + low cut top = ‘presenting as a woman’ according to the SDA commissioner Dr Anna Cody🤦‍♂️

OMG I’m even wearing an earring!!! 😱

https://twitter.com/salltweets/status/1952651647403933981

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??? 🥴

https://twitter.com/mrmennotweets/status/1662195319193456641

🧵One thing that jumped out at me at Trans Pride London were all the anti-woman signs

If you replaced TERF with 'trans' all hell would break loose, but they get applauded for it 😡

Here are some of the ones I caught on camera

1 / Not just calling for violence but tying it to a reward scheme 2 / Misogyny, it's a lifestyle! 🥴

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?

1 / It didn’t take much for things to kick off at the ‘trans’ protest against the Supreme Court ruling in Manchester today

@judge148 showed up with his ‘There’s no such thing as a transgender child’ sign and was quickly surrounded by an angry crowd

Check the maniacal clapping man 😬 2 / Aggro building up as two lesbians who were filming (one in the white hoodie, one with the white head band) get pushed and shoved around

1 / Hi @Theleftorwright

I can’t overestimate how important it is to listen to ‘trans’ people

As a parting gift, here is a short thread with a couple examples of what I learned when I did just that 2 / This was a talk about “The Future Of Trans Healthcare”

It was mostly people spreading lies, fear mongering and a tip on how to use mental health issues / suicidality to get a ‘bridging prescription’

youtube.com/live/-gEf_BRG2…

1 / Thought I’d pop along 😄

A woman is gonna do a 20-min talk, she was introduced by her name and pronouns and already used ‘assigned at birth’ and she sounds angry and hyped up

“The ruling was pretty bad” she said, and stuff about The Right 2 / She does quotation marks when mentioning “single-sex spaces,” says For Women Scotland are funded by the right wing and that evil billionaire woman, and that all interveners on FWS’s side are ‘transphobic’

The ruling is entirely biased, they’re should’ve been a democratic decision instead to decide that “transwomen are women”

Calls a GRC a ‘gender recognition leaflet’

1 / So @BritishVogue published 60 pics from this weekend’s ‘trans’ protest against the Supreme Court ruling that blokes aren’t women

They left out most violent / threatening ones… but still included some

Here are my ‘faves’ 🥴

We start with the Three Aged AGPs promoting their single “It’s Not A Fetish (I Love My Boobs)” 2 / They’re OBSESSED with invoking concentration camps

🧵Big fat thread on the countries* changing course on 'puberty blockers' (i.e. drugging kids out of puberty) or raising the alarm:

🇧🇪 Belgium
🇨🇦 Canada
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇫🇮 Finland
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇮🇹 Italy
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇳🇴 Norway
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇺🇸 United States

Hope it's useful! Please bookmark for future reference and add any info you have on other countries 🙏😀

Ok, let's gooooo!

*This can refer to national government, local government, national health authorities, independent health bodies and / or medical practitioners 2 / 🇧🇪 BELGIUM

2024

A report by paediatricians and psychiatrists calls for the reform of ‘gender care’ for children and adolescents following a 60% rise in Belgian teenagers being prescribed PBs.

archive.ph/h0PEt

1 / The Madness of Trans Exhibit #1957679: Traniela

"Trans women are just as much women as c-sgender women"

"Respect my pronouns"

"Learn to comply with gender identity laws" 2 / Like so many middle-aged crossdressing straight men, 'Traniela' could no longer contain his compulsion and now centres his entire life and 'identity' around it

He is married and has fathered 3 children

He appears not to have undergone any surgery or to be taken hormones, but has scolded other men with magical lady feelz for 'discriminating against him' for not acknowledging him as a 'transexual'

x.com/ReduxxMag/stat…

1 / "Just treat me like a guy when you f**k me"

No.

You are a woman.

Gay men don't owe you sex for your 'validation'.

#BoxerCeiling 2 / Gay men are constantly being gaslighted that women can be gay men too and called bigots if we don't go along with it.

They are trying to rewrite male homosexuality to include females.

It is homophobic as f**k.

I made a video about this 2 years ago, about how gay men are being taught to go 'eat 🐈‍⬛' 🤯

1 / Mammoth thread 🧵🦣 Had a challenging chat yesterday with a dad (an old friend) whose son started 'puberty blockers' a few months ago. Had to navigate a very complex conversation on the spot:

▶️ what to say
▶️ what not to say
▶️ how to communicate certain things to make sure they landed
▶️ giving him enough space to process what I was saying
▶️ noticing his body language and facial expressions
▶️ giving him enough space to ask questions and share whatever he wanted to share
▶️ ensuring he felt comfortable enough to share deeply personal stuff in the first place, and to be able to do so without feeling like he was being judged as a parent
▶️ how to not let my own emotions get in the way or become a distraction - this situation was first and foremost about a worried dad and his distressed son

We talked for hours and were both so happy to have been able to have this kind of conversation, but it was also upsetting as it put certain dark realities into very sharp focus.

I'm posting about it here in the hope it will help some of you navigate these conversations when you're faced with them, and would love to hear your thoughts on what you've found to be helpful from your experiences.

We cannot underestimate the importance of these conversations and the impact they may have. There is no magic formula but together we can work out some key pointers for 'best practice'.

I'll add annotations in italics.

M = Menno
F = Friend

OK, let's go...

#KeepSpeakingKeepPeaking 2 / An old friend messaged to say he was visiting the UK with his teenage son and wanted to meet up. We met at uni back in 1994 (!) and had last seen each other 7 years ago. We don’t really keep in touch regularly but always have a good time when we meet and simply pick up where we left off.

He sent me a pic of him and his son and I went “Uh oh…” His son looks young for his age, has very long hair and quite an androgynous look in a soft / sweet / angelic sort of way. My first thoughts were “That’s the kind of kid that gets bullied” (I remember those days well myself) and “I hope he knows it’s perfectly fine to not be a ‘typical boy’ and that he doesn’t get sucked into thinking of himself as some kind of magical gender person.”

I was about to find out...

1 / DOUBLE MASTECTOMIES promoted at local Brighton supermarket 🚨😲

Yesterday I went to get some I thought ice cream at @coopuk on St James Street in Brighton. The first thing you see as you walk in is a notice board with posters and leaflets for anything from local music events, maths tutoring, yoga… and getting your breasts surgically removed. All dressed up in the usual baby pink, baby blue and white and disguised by the word ‘top surgery’ so Joe Bloggs won’t take notice.

The leaflet is for an ‘advisory care service’ that puts women (who believe themselves to be male, or neither male of female, or whatever ‘identity’ they feel necessitates breast removal) in touch with surgeons in ‘medical tourism’ hotspots like Poland, Mexico, Thailand, the Czech Republic, and India.

I decided to speak to someone in the shop to see if they were aware of this leaflet. 2 / So I get my ice cream and pay at the self-checkout, then go up to the check outs where there were two staff members. One a young bloke on oestrogen, and a middle aged bloke. I ask the latter what the rules are for putting something on the notice board. “At long as it doesn’t have any swear words it should be fine.”

“There a leaflet on there that promotes double mastectomies”, I say.

“What?! Show me.” He comes out from behind the checkout and we walk to the notice board. “Well it’s gone now because I took it down. Got it in my bag. Here it is.”

And I showed him.

Pic 1: the leaflet
Pic 2: notice board after I took the leaflet down

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.

1 / 🚨𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 '𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗦' 𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗡𝗦🚨

- Marcus claims to be 'non-binary transgender' and wants to be referred to as 'she / her'

- Lucia said he is biologically and scientifically male

- Marcus is now suing Lucia for €11,000.

This is Marcus.



2 / Marcus is an activist and takes part in talks about feminism where he discusses 'transfeminism'. Here's an interview. He says that at home he 'pretends' to be a 'cis man'.

He recommends we read a book by Susan Stryker, a man who claims to be a lesbian (and was a keynote speaker at Lesbian Lives in Ireland in 2022).

#LetWomenSpeakUtrecht is about to start in half an hour. We’re just setting up 😉 2 / Link for the live stream (it’ll be in Dutch)

youtube.com/live/mpYgi89_T…

1/ The NHS is still in thrall of 'the trans child' and planning accordingly, claiming 7-year-olds can 'understand' being referred to a gender clinic.

How would my 6-year-old younger self have fared in today's climate of captured schools and clinicians?

Let's go back to 1982...

https://twitter.com/SVPhillimore/status/1687436407634030592

2 / I remember the moment still. I'm skipping down the garden path on my way to go to school (I'm in my first year of primary school), and my mum is at the front door saying "Remember to write neatly on the lines in your exercise book!" because my handwriting, like my walking

1 / I once went to visit a man in hospital the day after he got castrated and had his penis surgically inverted. I was unaware than of all the craziness and just wanted to ‘be kind’. I got him a pink card (“It’s a girl!”) and a little cake with a candle. I accidentally caught a

https://twitter.com/lgbwiththet/status/1680942394684866562

2 / glimpse of the bloodied bandages between his legs. “You’re having your first period!” I quipped, awkwardly. We laughed.

There were two other men there who believed they were women. One told me he still had his penis. I was quite surprised, I thought they all got rid of it

12 / The ‘Sugar Money’ on his knickers refers to money / gifts in exchange for sex / companionship.

He happily showed his bum to the audience, with a little giggle of course (so womanly!), which got a cheer.

You can see in the vid how his legs were shaking. Not sure if that was 13 / because of the nerves or the heels being so uncomfortable (the heels was super thin). It made the whole thing even more bizarre and ‘forced’.

I wonder if he walked into the Ladies like that yesterday.

1 / Gender woo in full swing yesterday at @Tate’s #QueerAndNow2023

A ‘transwoman’ with scrotum on display and a focus on ‘queer / trans’ children. They even used kids as props in this bizarre parade with adult women chanting “We’re so queer!” The kids were totally bewildered 2 / This happened while a panel were discussing the following…