The myth that trans-identified kids will kill themselves if not given drugs and surgeries is pernicious disinformation.
Here are 10 things you need to know to combat it: 🧵
Today’s victory for fairness, equality & free speech in Scotland wouldn’t have been possible but for the courage & tenacity of this woman & her legal team. Thank you @MForstater . “Worthy of respect in a democratic society.”
'You've actually thrown her to the wolves.'
@ShelaghFogarty shares her views on former politician Kezia Dugdale's claim that MP Joanna Cherry cannot be 'cancelled.'
Here's a little explainer of why the Stand comedy club banned Joanna Cherry.
Joanna Cherry is an SNP politician. The SNP are split into two factions. Progressive gender ideologists like Sturgeon and Yousaf who want anyone to be able to identify as whatever they want (even male rapists who want to go to women's prison) and children to transition younger.
And feminists like Cherry who want women's rights and spaces protected, and are called transphobes as a result. Cherry used to be on the front bench of the SNP and was a rival of Sturgeon's. Sturgeon used accusations of transphobia to depose Cherry to the back benches.
Cherry is a lawyer and represented a political dissident, Marion Millar, who was arrested for hate crimes including posting a picture of a suffragette ribbon (this was deemed "transphobic").
The Stand clubs are owned by an SNP politician Tommy Sheppard. Comedians like me who criticise the SNP's gender ideology are banned. It's a Putinesque way of stifling criticism of the SNP.
I've no doubt staff at the Stand did complain about Cherry. Blue haired angry youths complain about everything. The correct response is to tell them to fuck off. Minimum wage teenage peons shouldn't be the arbiters of culture.
This goes deeper than that. This is about the factional war in the SNP, who are disintegrating in front of us. The Scottish parliament should be taken into special measures. And politicians should not own comedy clubs.
This is a great piece, and I agree with it (and no, I don't have a death wish or love being battered from all sides, but do your best): https://t.co/R9kQVPdvaE
This letter from @The_TUC is really disappointing. They should know better than any organisation that clear discrimination legislation benefits everyone. The Equality Act is unclear on meaning of sex and needs clarifying to protect single-sex spaces. https://t.co/V2NQcDsgi5
'We both know'? How on earth would I know who you write to? Or do you imagine your missives are handed round like holy relics by the awestruck and intimidated womenfolk? If you want to cosy up to feminists, go lose another court case. We like a laugh.
Dreadful news, which I feel duty bound to share. Activists in my mentions are trying to organise yet another boycott of my work, this time of the Harry Potter TV show. As forewarned is forearmed, I've taken the precaution of laying in a large stock of champagne.
Considering there is a whole page devoted to combating misinformation at the end of this it’s just a wee bit frustrating how much is contained within this document.
Quite a lot to get through here so let’s go. 🧵
What Atwood & Blume are saying is true: all people deserve respect & acceptance. But they are missing a key point: women can offer respect and acceptance whilst maintaining boundaries. Sport is a clear example. Women don't have to accept or respect male people in their sports.
Every teacher in Scotland is required to join a union. Approx 80% are members of EIS. They've returned from spring break today to find paper copies of this document on each of their desks. With no citations or references provided, it's presented uncritically as fact. 1/2
Child with anorexia.
Child with body dysmorphia.
Child with depression.
Child with bipolar.
Trans child.
For all other mental health conditions, we explicitly recognise that the child is separate from their dis-ease.
For gender dysphoria, we make the dis-ease their identity.
@HumzaYousaf If it was a free vote you could at least make your argument but it was a 3 line whip. Also the people of Scotland don’t want you to destroy women’s rights.