Author of A Month with Starfish, Founding member of GLF. Co-founder of @AllianceLGB. Views expressed are my own.
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How does Claire Wang get away with such dishonest reporting? And it’s so transparent. Such obvious propaganda. Is this seriously what passes for “journalism” in Los Angeles?
So sick of this panicmongering. How dare the Guardian run a false headline like this? The bill to protect girls’ sports in Washington state does not “require genital checks.” It simply requires a doctor’s statement that the child is a girl - which could for instance be based on existing medical records. All athletes already undergo a physical exam before competing. share.google/NvqZvuO16Xus2V5…
So sick of this panicmongering. How dare the Guardian run a false headline like this? The bill to protect girls’ sports in Washington state does not “require genital checks.” It simply requires a doctor’s statement that the child is a girl - which could for instance be based on existing medical records. All athletes already undergo a physical exam before competing. share.google/NvqZvuO16Xus2V5…
I nearly missed it! 😱
The EU’s Justice DG is telling everyone it’s International Lying Day! It’s that day when you lie by colluding in someone’s fantasy.
It doesn’t help the person in the long term -- they will have to come to terms with reality eventually. But it makes you feel virtuous — which is what this pronoun business is really all about.
A great update on the need to continue protecting women’s rights and on the stubborn refusal of numerous public sector organizations to accept the law.
I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇
jkrowling.com/opinions/an-up…
Please read and digest. The bill to supposedly ban “Conversion Practices” is a Trojan horse for an assault on family life — and on gay and lesbian youth.
Does she really believe in this pernicious bill she is marketing? Or is she just parroting a script?
“A society which values freedom must protect everyone’s right to live openly and safely as themselves.”
My piece for @IndyVoices on delivering our manifesto commitment to ban conversion practices 👉🏻
independent.co.uk/voices/con…
I enjoyed this panel and the lively audience interaction.
Allowing TQ+ identitarianism to take over the LGB rights movement has been a disaster for LGB people.
The so-called “LGBTQ+ community” is a movement based on belief in universal gender identity. Lumping LGB together with TQ+ makes no more sense than having a “community” of vegans and chicken farmers.
Tomorrow I will be speaking at the #BattleofIdeas about the disastrous yoking together of LGB sexual orientations with TQ+ identity issues. The unjustifiable demands of the “queer” TQ+ movement have done incalculable damage to LGB people. Not just to public perceptions and LGB rights - but serious harm to LGB teens and young adults.
Gay teens aren’t sick!
It’s OK to be Gay!
Bev Jackson retweeted
At #BattleFest we discussed the forced marriage of LGB and TQI+ which Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth, co-founder of @AllianceLGB, described as equivalent to a union of vegans and chicken farmers. We all agreed we all want a divorce and to reclaim our history
Tomorrow I will be speaking at the #BattleofIdeas about the disastrous yoking together of LGB sexual orientations with TQ+ identity issues. The unjustifiable demands of the “queer” TQ+ movement have done incalculable damage to LGB people. Not just to public perceptions and LGB rights - but serious harm to LGB teens and young adults.
Gay teens aren’t sick!
It’s OK to be Gay!
Bev Jackson retweeted
Statement from the European Network of Migrant Women — who represent many women who have fled religiously repressive cultures — about the recent European Parliament resolution on combatting Muslim Brotherhood infiltration in Europe.
I recommend you read it, it’s like balm for the soul. All the left-wing organisations and political parties in Brussels voted AGAINST the bill because they didn’t want to be accused of “Islamophobia”.
We are so lucky to still have organisations like this that care about the welfare of women, above anything else. Absolute heroines. This is principle, not political expediency. This is courage. Shoutout to @ENoMW
Whatever you may think of India Willoughby, many, many people are complicit in persuading him that he was “born trans” and is a “real woman.” However obnoxiously such men may behave, they are nonetheless also tragic in the harm they are doing to themselves, and everyone who has pandered to their delusion shares the blame for it.
“Leven en laten leven” en “iedereen moet kunnen zijn wie die is” klinken zo aardig, zo progressief, zo humaan. Als we ontdekken welke consequenties daaraan worden verbonden, verschuift het beeld behoorlijk.
I didn’t really get the problem with gender ideology at first.
I’m liberal-minded about most things. 'Live and let' live has generally been my motto. I believed inclusion mattered. I believed in being kind. In not using language that might upset people unnecessarily.
I knew people who identified as transgender. I knew some adults chose medical treatments or surgery to resemble the opposite sex. That seemed to me a matter of personal autonomy. Adults can do what they wish with their own bodies.
What I hadn’t realised - and I feel slightly embarrassed admitting this - was that I’d misunderstood what was being claimed.
I thought “transgender” meant a form of self-expression. A man who liked wearing women’s clothes. Someone changing their name. Gender non-conformity.
What I hadn’t grasped was that some activists weren’t just asking for tolerance. They were asserting that declaring yourself the opposite sex made you the opposite sex. Not metaphorically. Literally.
And that this wasn’t just cultural. It had legal consequences.
- It meant men who said they were women were demanding access to women’s sports, prisons, domestic violence shelters and hospital wards
- It meant the rewriting of healthcare language - “pregnant people”, “bodies with cervixes” - to avoid saying “women”
- It meant children struggling with identity being affirmed onto medical pathways with lifelong implications
And also redefining same-sex attraction. Lesbians called 'bigoted' for not wanting relationships with men who identify as women. Gay men accused of prejudice for saying they're not attracted to female bodies. None of which made any sense.
But I'd also overlooked how far this had travelled - into HR policies, professional bodies, schools, political parties and public institutions.
And how easily disagreement was framed as cruelty. Speaking up felt risky - because others were being publicly humiliated for doing so.
None of this is abstract.
Because sex is the basis on which safeguarding works. On which data is collected. On which cancer screening programmes run. On which fair sport and single-sex spaces depend. It’s written into law - including the Equality Act - because material differences matter.
If sex becomes a 'feeling' rather than a biological category, those protections become unstable.
And once reality becomes negotiable, everything does.
Once I saw it, I couldn’t unsee it.
But I needed to be sure.
So I read. Books, research papers, policy documents. When I finally spoke publicly, there was backlash from all directions.
Many women thanked me - both quietly and publicly.
But some feminists criticised me for speaking too late.
Others were angry about a past interview I’d done with the parent of a transgender person, accusing me of promoting harm.
It takes courage to change your mind publicly.
It takes courage to speak when you know your reputation, friendships or livelihood may be on the line - when you know raising your voice could strain, or even end, relationships you value.
Once I understood what was at stake, staying silent was no longer an option. I lost my livelihood simply for saying I didn’t like the phrase “pregnant people”. That alone tells you something is deeply wrong. It shouldn’t be this way.
I will never judge any woman for when she finds her voice.
Because every voice adds value - whenever it is raised.
And I know how persuasive this ideology can be. I know how easily it bypassed me. And I know how much courage it takes to admit, publicly, that you got something wrong.
Misogyny, homophobia, and antisemitism are among the oldest forms of hatred on the planet. Most people know these are reprehensible forms of prejudice and avoid expressing them openly.
However, those who harbor these prejudices have devised a form of casuistry enabling them to express them under cover of supposedly “progressive” views.
They can shout “trans rights are human rights!” — claiming they are standing up for oneofthemostvulnerablegroupsinsociety, which enables them to pour scorn on and trample on the sex-based rights of lesbians and women and girls in general (and gay men) — and to feel virtuous and good about themselves.
They can shout “Zionism is racism!” — claiming they are opposing “genocide” and standing up for the “victims of colonialist oppression”, which justifies them in denigrating their Jewish fellow citizens and striking fear into them — and which makes them feel virtuous and good about themselves.
These were smart strategies, which worked well for a while. But more and more people see through them. The activists will not succeed in reinstating these vile prejudices at the centre of our public life.
Most people reject them.
Just lovely, isn’t she.
EXCL: Greens open investigation into author of Zionism is racism motion after JC revealed her written testimony defending the character of a convicted al-Qaeda terrorist who plotted a suicide attack on Heathrow Airport
thejc.com/news/uk/exclusive-…
We’re seeing plenty of examples of chutzpah today. Like this one.
Bev Jackson retweeted
It's horrifying that these people don't have the grace to think about stepping back on the third anniversary of a massacre. I'd have hoped that even the most ardent pro-pal campaigners would've had the humanity to recognise the cruelty of this. Let people grieve fgs.
