Lesbian & gay conservatives UK

UK lesbian & gay conservatives defending the rights of gay people against anti-gay gender ideology. Not connected to the Conservative Party.

[Jo Bartosch @jo_bartosch]

I'm not surprised by Lady Hale. My friend @GaryJPowell noted her tendency to overreach. In 2020, Hale awarded £560,000 of taxpayer money for a woman to buy four children through commercial surrogacy in the US. https://t.co/fDFTXu60OM

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee.

-- Luke 19:22, King James Version

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

In light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticising the UK's Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights, it's possibly worth remembering that nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn't a material fact. These letters do nothing but remind us of what we know only too well: that pretending to believe these things has become an elitist badge of virtue.

I often wonder whether the signatories of such letters have to quieten their consciences before publicly boosting a movement intent on removing women's and girls' rights, which bullies gay people who admit openly they don't want opposite sex partners, and campaigns for the continued sterilisation of vulnerable and troubled kids. Do they feel any qualms at all while chanting the foundational lie of their religion: Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men?

I have no idea. All I know for sure is that it's a complete waste of time telling a gender activist that their favourite slogan is self-contradictory nonsense, because the lie is the whole point. They're not repeating it because it's true - they know full well it's not true - but because they believe they can make it true, sort of, if they force everyone else to agree. The foundational lie functions as both catechism and crucifix: the set form of words that obviates the tedious necessity of coming up with your own explanation of why you're one of the Godly, and an exorcist's weapon which will defeat demonic facts and reason, and promote the advance of righteous pseudoscience and sophistry.

Some argue that signatories of these sorts of letters are motivated by fear: fear for their careers, of course, but also fear of their co-religionists, who include angry, narcissistic men who threaten and sometimes enact violence on non-believers; back-stabbing colleagues ever ready to report wrongthink; the online shamers and doxxers and rape threateners, and, of course, the influential zealots in the upper echelons of liberal professions (though we can quibble whether they're actually liberal at all, given the draconian authoritarianism that seems to have engulfed so many). Gender ideology could give medieval Catholicism a run for its money when it comes to punishing heretics, so isn't it common sense to keep your head down and recite your Hail Mulvaneys?

But before we start feeling too sorry for any cowed and fearful TWAWites who're TERFy on the sly, let's not forget what a high proportion of them have willingly snatched up pitchforks and torches to join the inquisitional purges. Call me lacking in proper womanly sympathy, but I find the harm they've enabled and in some cases directly championed or funded - the hounding and shaming of vulnerable women, the forced loss of livelihoods, the unregulated medical experiment on minors - tends to dry up my tears at source.

History is littered with the debris of irrational and harmful belief systems that once seemed unassailable. As Orwell said, 'Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.' Gender ideology may have embedded itself deeply into our institutions, where it's been imposed, top-down, on the supposedly unenlightened, but it is not invulnerable.

Court losses are starting to stack up. The condescension, overreach, entitlement and aggression of gender activists is eroding public support daily. Women are fighting back and winning significant victories. Sporting bodies have miraculously awoken from their slumber and remembered that males tend to be larger, stronger and faster than females. Parts of the medical establishment are questioning cutting healthy breasts off teenaged girls is really the best way to fix their mental health problems.

One seemingly harmless little white lie - Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men - uttered in most cases without any real thought at all, and a few short years later, people who think of themselves as supremely virtuous are typing 'yes, rapists' pronouns are absolutely the hill I'll die on,' rubbing shoulders with those who call for women to be hanged and decapitated for wanting all-female rape crisis centres, and furiously denying clear and mounting evidence of the greatest medical scandal in a century.

I wonder if they ever ask themselves how they got here, and I wonder whether any of them will ever feel shame.

[Gary Powell @GaryJPowell]

Excellent piece by Jonny Best (@JonnyWorst) exposing the Conservative Party's active promotion of gender ideology. May, Kearns, Nokes, Mordaunt & others: all involved.

What the Conservatives did was unforgivable.

"Labour didn’t start the gender madness"
https://t.co/XeYrQtIuOj

[HumanGayMale @HumanGayMale]

Our landmark report from the Gay Men's Conference 2025 is out today. It captures the voices, experiences, and priorities of gay men who are pushing back against the rise of gender identity ideology and its erasure of same-sex attraction.

https://t.co/S54vMHT25L

1/8

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🚨 BREAKING: Transgender women should not be legally defined as women, the Supreme Court has ruled.

Read the latest here ⬇️
https://t.co/eRSbvcHtxS

[Gary Powell @GaryJPowell]

A reminder that, while we are trying to deal with the new, gender-ideology-fuelled hatred of gay people, the old, fundamentalist religious hatred of gay people has not gone away.

No gay person should underestimate the danger he or she is in from homophobic Islamic extremism. Culturally Muslim gay and lesbian people are some of the most viciously oppressed gay people on the planet. The West's robotic useful-idiot Left betrays its barely-disguised contempt towards gay people by promoting gay-hating Islamists as people who should be in government. Rest assured: for all its fine, mealy-mouthed words about gay rights, the Left won't hesitate to throw gay people under the bus as soon as it becomes convenient to them to do so. Exactly as they have done with their promotion of gender ideology.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

This is totalitarian insanity. If you think small children should be punished for being able to recognise sex, you are a dangerous zealot who should be nowhere near kids or in any position of authority over them. https://t.co/IZI0sP58ss

[Heloise @HeloisePatricia]

How can it possibly make sense for a country that needs to borrow to pay its way, to also be giving away huge sums in foreign aid?
Our govt suffers from delusions of grandeur and is not willing to face economic reality and live within its means. We all suffer because of it.

[Bow Group @bowgroup]

"We didn't have austerity with the Tories-& don't now-because we're still borrowing FAR beyond our means

Labour have gone for a toxic package of spending cuts & tax hikes-which means living standards will fall

We need a radically different approach for growth"
#SpringStatement

[Lesbian & gay conservatives UK @GayConservsUK]

The woke Left like to claim that the UK sex-realism movement is funded by the US Religious Right. A lie whose level of desperation points to how the whole woke edifice is a house of cards with no truth or credible evidence to glue it together. As this parody clip demonstrates.

[Gary Powell @GaryJPowell]

I think people may have lost interest in Downfall parodies. But here's my new tweaked & updated "Hitler Rants" clip that now correctly shows my authorship.

All about those phantom brown envelopes from the US Religious Right. And other LGBTQIA+ matters.

https://t.co/h5Sk6mk50E

[Frank Furedi @Furedibyte]

Totally surreal-this what happens when morally illiterate institutions see children through the prism of gender ideology. This is not a nursery but a place of social engineering.

Toddler kicked out of nursery for being transphobic https://t.co/pEk4rqA5CB

[Frank Furedi @Furedibyte]

Nostalgia is continually affixed to ideological attacks on populism and conservatism. Typically, the coupling of nostalgia with conservatism and populism serves to signify the fear of facing up to the present and an irrational escape into a mythical past. Time and again the accusation of nostalgia is coupled with a denunciation of everything that its practitioners value about the past. Critics of nostalgia contend that the ‘good old days’ never existed. They insist that those who idealise the world of intact families, stable communities and solid intergenerational bonds are living a lie.

In Defence Of Nostalgia, by @Furedibyte https://t.co/gTUR12GVf7

[Gary Powell @GaryJPowell]

Jo Bartosch: "It is worth remembering that, during the heyday of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), it wasn’t the liberal elite who stood against paedophiles. It was ordinary people, including many radical feminists, who saw them for the abusers they were. But because the National Front also campaigned against PIE in the Seventies, opponents were sometimes derided as bigots and Nazis. Sections of the academic left dismissed them as being motivated by hatred of what they did not understand. This all sounds eerily familiar."

[Gary Powell @GaryJPowell]

Given that @KemiBadenoch clearly understands the issues, what we need next is for the Conservative Party to end the status of LGBT+ Conservatives as an officially affiliated group within the Conservative Party. LGBT+ Conservatives are also a gender ideology activist organisation.

[Gary Powell @GaryJPowell]

James at @HumanGayMale is MAGNIFICENT & the contribution he is making to the well-being of gay men in the UK & to the male gay rights movement, is exemplary. The needs of a long-neglected contingency have started to be met, & by someone with outstanding ability & integrity.

[OdradekGroup @odradekgroup]

Odradek is a new discussion group for gender-critical lesbian and gay people. Information and contact details on the website at https://t.co/1S9t2GyNH2.

[Gary Powell @GaryJPowell]

An MBE for the Chair of LGBT+ Conservatives? Why hasn't Kemi Badenoch disaffiliated that group yet, & did she play any role in this nomination?

(NB. Re the opinion below: The "assault" referred to is on the civil rights of women & young gay people by LGBTQ+ gender ideology.)

[Gary Powell @GaryJPowell]

Dear @KemiBadenoch. I've just discovered that the Chairman of LGBT+ Conservatives is to be awarded an MBE. Do you not think it is time for LGBT+ Conservatives to be disaffiliated from the Party for promoting gender ideology? And do you endorse the Chair's nomination for an MBE?

[Gary Powell @GaryJPowell]

Please bear in mind that the violent Islamists in European cities who hate Jewish people also hate gay & lesbian people, including gay Muslims. So if our cities & countries become places that are too unsafe for Jewish people, then they will also become too unsafe for gay people.