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[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

For years, anyone on the centre left was expected to say absurd stuff like “trans women are women” and “some women have penises.” No one actually believed it - but if you didn’t chant the mantra you would be ostracized as a far right hateful Nazi transphobic genocidal bigot.

So most people - being cowardly - simply pretended to go along with it. And to prove their allegiance to the cult, they joined in the vilification of all those who refused to lie.

Of course we’re glad to see people return to planet reality. But they have left so many people’s lives and careers in ruins along the way.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'Who does it hurt if we make every space mixed-sex?'
This is who it hurts: the most vulnerable, those without power and influence, the invisible people politicians don't bother to consider when chasing likes and photo ops. If this girl or an adult acting on her behalf wants to take legal action, contact https://t.co/EQnwivL9hW

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

We’ve all had a few days to sit with @JuliaGillard’s declaration of whoops and as the minutes go by, the angrier I get. Not just at the admission that, basically, it was a “regret” to open up the legal category of women to men, but at the reluctance to admit it was wrong.

And the fact that it’s only now, after amazing UK women & men are putting on pressure by turning up to her events to remind of her of the whooosy, that she dares to say anything.

Not when @jk_rowling was getting countless r*pe & d*ath threat from the very men these kind of laws were changed to include.

Not when a man in his 50s took a pregnant woman (🙋‍♀️) to federal court, using that very specific Australian law change & institutional capture to his advantage.

Not when @ActiveLesbians were told by the Australian Human Rights Commission that heterosexual men who claim to be lesbians must be included in lesbian events.

Not when @martina came under attack for defending women’s sport, years after already battling for LGB rights.

Not when @KirralieS was dragged through courts for bringing attention to MEN who claim to be women in womens sport.

Not when that very league told the women in that sport if they so much as walk off the field because men are on it *they* will be punished.

Not when media started reporting on school girls not drinking WATER at school because boys were in the only unisex bathroom available to them & no adults would help them.

Not when women prisoners finally got word to the outside that they were in cells with MALE SEX OFFENDERS, locked up with them only because the Gillard amendments to the sex discrimination act (arguably) allowed it.

Not when Jasmine Sussex’s life was turned upside down for stating the fact that men cannot breastfeed infants, and because men can be women in law suddenly she’s the bad guy.

Not when the sex discrimination commissioner told senate estimates that men who claim to be women can have pregnancy protections in law but women can’t have single sex spaces, thereby interpreting the Gillard amendments to give men protections they don’t need while taking away women’s protections we do need.

Not when countless women in Australia and around the world were and are being punished for saying NO to this absolute bullsh-t that men can be women in law.

She said nothing until it started to interrupt her day in the mildest of ways. It’s pathetic.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

It’s quite amazing that the state will give women this much police protection against trans activists so we can safely hold a rally advocating for women only spaces… but not actually allow us to have women only spaces even for safety.

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Mmmm. Very pretty & professional looking, I’ll admit…

I’ll also admit I wasn’t instrumental in LGB activism, like Bev Jackson, Kate Harris or Fred Sargeant, but, if I may, I’d like to correct the multitude of errors that litter this statement (again, very pretty, all typed out neatly, by Miffy The Whiffy Gamer… either from some bot or his imagination)

But let’s get a few facts straight, shall we?

I’ve been a vocally out gay actor since 1990. In those days, if you were gay, & open about it, you were only cast in gay parts. And it was bloody difficult.

I worked for The London Gay Theatre Company in 1992 & 1994. I was in many different LGB plays throughout the 90’s, & was interviewed & spoke about being “openly gay” with Gay Times, Attitude, The Pink Paper & many other gay publications. In every interview I gave, it was mentioned (much to my eventual boredom & to the irritation of the gay press, who seemed to be frustrated at me for not believing that being gay was the most interesting thing about me.)

In 1993, I was part of the West End cast of “Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens”, alongside Regina Fong, Simon Fanshawe, Trudie Styler, Kim Cresswell & many others. The show was about those who’d died from AIDS, & every night, we raised a significant amount of money for AIDS charities. We also all performed on the main stage at Pride that year.

In 1994, I was in New York during the Gay Games, where I made a film about lesbian ice skating, which we shot on location. I marched with Ian Mckellen (who was also in the film) & Martin Sherman, to celebrate the Games.

In 1996, myself & 6 other openly gay actors were part of a successful little indie film called “Boyfriends”. Again, we all vocally supported gay rights in various interviews.

In 1997, Stonewall invited me to their Equality Show at the Albert Hall, to high kick with the Tiller Girls, as part of a small group of out performers, including Stephen Fry, Jimmy Somerville, Simon Fanshawe, to encourage others to come out & be proud. Yes, we were actually “celebrated” by Stonewall back then, believe it or not.

In 1999, I played a controversial, purposefully vile gay character in Jonathan Harvey’s sitcom ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme’. It was controversial because it was one of the first gay characters that was entirely comfortable with his sexuality, was vulgarly open about it & wasn’t always portrayed in a positive light. The gay press were not happy, initially, but it apparently grew on them. The series continued until 2001. Again, I did interview after interview discussing & championing gay rights.

In 2000, I played Bette Midler’s ‘openly gay’ musical accompanist, Oscar, in the short lived sitcom ‘Bette’. Being a series regular, I used my voice in interviews to speak up for gay rights.

In 2004, I took part in the first series of Gordon Ramsey’s Hell’s Kitchen, raising £40, 000 for my chosen charity The Terence Higgins Trust, which I publicly supported & endorsed endlessly.

Do bear in mind, there was no social media as we know it now.

I joined Twitter in 2014. From 2000 to 2014, LGB people had achieved equality & for the first time, it seemed to be ok to be gay.

I rejoined the fight online when I saw the damage the TQ+ was now was doing to the rights we’d, as gay people, had already won, at much cost. I was reluctant & angry, as I’d thought we’d been there, done that, bought the t-shirt etc. But no.

So if you mean I played no part in the fight for LGB rights, you’d either be wrong or lying. The world didn’t start with the advent of the internet.

Perhaps if I stuck on a red beret, a dress, held an Antifa flag & hollered at a crowd through a megaphone to “punch terfs in the f**king face”, I’d already be lauded as a “champion of LGBTQIA+ rights”.

Maybe that was my mistake…🤷

Please RETWEET as my reach is yet again severely restricted. Thank you.

[Antonia @flaminhaystacks]

Look how they have romanticised this headline. Woman dies days after her partner is found dead.

Only when you read the article does it tell you Zoe Marie Dixon was bludgeoned with a hammer by her partner and it took her 6 days to die in hospital

He ran off and killed himself

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You mean men, men who claim to be women. You are a national broadcaster that consistently obfuscates facts around sex because you’ve taken an ideological position the public overwhelmingly rejects. This isn’t news, it’s propaganda.

[serialsockthief @serialsockthief]

Hills I will gladly die on:
- men cannot become women
- telling a child he/she might be in the ‘wrong body’ is abuse
- transing a child in *any way* is abuse
- those who promote this dangerous bollocks to children (or make money from it) should be in jail

[Rach @Zephyrdust8]

@DreyfusJames She creeps the hell out of me, she's completely deranged, terrifying what she's been enabled to do.

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

I completely understand why some people say “Just ignore her…she’s crazy”about Helen Webberley.

However, there is an argument for airing her views as much as possible, due to the fact that she never says anything of tangible substance, constantly seeks to manipulate language/definitions & always resorts to “be kind”, when her ideology is thoroughly dismantled before her own eyes… all with a deranged smirk on her face…

‘If it walks like a duck’…etc etc…

[Róisín Murphy @roisinmurphy]

My heart breaks for lesbians. There were never large numbers of exclusively same-sex attracted women. Now they are being dismantled. Young girls are transitioning before they get the chance to explore their sexuality, and men are demanding access to every space, intimate or otherwise. A fragile culture built by one of the most marginalised and misunderstood groups is dying, and very few care.

And before anyone comes here to tell me “lesbians won’t save your career,” again, I know.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

The only reason prerequisite to being a “transwoman” is to be male.

[England @England]

🫲🦁🫱

[Rach @Zephyrdust8]

Pure insanity! You're amazing @salltweets 💜

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“The Full federal court went even further: direct discrimination, looking like a man is a protected characteristic of being a ‘transwoman’, yet ‘transwomen’ are women, and $20,000 in damages because I laughed and called him a man in court.”

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Oddly, this ‘artwork’ celebrating a woman’s double mastectomy, fails to also ‘celebrate’ her likely vaginal atrophy, osteoporosis, distressingly enlarged clitoris and other irreversible health conditions.

May the artwork stand as a reminder of how so many were complicit in the mutilation of young women, and are accountable. Keep the receipts.

https://t.co/Ia4uPPeRzX

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

I just love this woman.

The absolute crap she’s been going through for years, & she’s just powering on through. It must be utter exhausting, frustrating & maddening.

Eventually, she will be vindicated.

I’m with @salltweets ❤️

[Rachel Rooney @RooneyRachel]

This is conversion therapy for 4 year olds.

[Róisín Murphy @roisinmurphy]

I don’t believe men can actually be women.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

Jack Green, the little son of former Mermaid's boss Susie used to love playing with Polly Pocket dolls.
His homophobic father made it clear that little boys don't play with Polly Pocket dolls.
That little boy is now Jackie Green, given puberty blockers at 12 and flown to Thailand to have his penis inverted at 16, a practice even the Thai government now ban at that age.
I really want to know if that is conversion therapy too?

[Rachel Rooney @RooneyRachel]

Children's publishers, authors, illustrators, librarians & reading agencies are wholly to blame for this phenomena. They are only concerned with their short-term financial & social gains while blithely ignoring the long-term damage they wreak.