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1./ How out of touch is our political class? A thread about a bullying politician and the trendy but dangerous delusion he promotes that means big burly guys get to shower with girls, a lesbian can have a penis and children are taught there are 100 genders. At least.
2./ In the age of a pandemic you'd think our political elite would at least TRY to understand science. But let me introduce you to SNP MP @MrJohnNicolson who recently hit the headlines when he forgot the name of the constituency he was standing for. 
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/politics/scottish-politics/1899920/snp-candidate-john-nicolson-gets-the-name-of-his-constituency-wrong-in-hustings-gaffe/
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/politics/scottish-politics/1899920/snp-candidate-john-nicolson-gets-the-name-of-his-constituency-wrong-in-hustings-gaffe/
3./ All MPs were recently given ÂŁ10K to help them cope with the extra burden of the pandemic. What did @MrJohnNicolson do with his 10K? Well, his staffer @Archie_Sturrock spent a lot of his time trying to close down donations to an organisation I'm involved in @ALLIANCELGB
4./ In tweets he celebrates his role in getting our @JustGiving funding page taken down. Our @gofundme was removed too. Important work eh? Do you think he happened to mention Nicolson's membership of the powerful DCMS Committee in the Westminster Parliament?
5./ Surely not. Wouldn't that be an abuse of power since the committee investigates digital companies. Anyway, why is Nicolson so obsessed with @ALLIANCELGB? One reason is our campaigning against a Bill that was close to his heart, the Reform of the Gender Recognition Act.
6./ That reform would have enshrined in law the daftest idea our political class has ever embraced: Self-ID of gender. Self-ID means anyone gets to decide what 'gender' they are; no questions asked. So if a bloke wakes up tomorrow and decides he's a woman. He is. Da nah!
7./ Self-ID is at the heart of a new woke mind-set that demands biological sex (male and female) should be replaced with a 'gender spectrum'. There's no scientific evidence for this 'spectrum' but here's a BBC film for primary schools telling kids there are 100 genders.
8./ Self-ID has taken our political class by storm. Here's @lisanandy saying a child rapist who claims he's a woman should be housed in a women's prison despite the fact a "transwoman" Karen White recently assaulted women prisoners. Her answer is at 2.09
9./ Right now if someone decides to "change their sex" and wants full legal recognition of that including a new birth certificate that says they were born as their new sex they must go thru a 2 year process involving careful medical assessment. Self-ID would sweep this away.
10./ Instead just a signature on a declaration form would allow a man to 'become a woman' and vice versa. Why does that matter? Well, goodbye women's sport for a start. Transwomen athletes never undo the advantages of their biologically male bodies https://www.wired.com/story/the-glorious-victories-of-trans-athletes-are-shaking-up-sports/
https://www.wired.com/story/the-glorious-victories-of-trans-athletes-are-shaking-up-sports/
11./ Nicolson claims @ALLIANCELGB is 'transphobic' for opposing this stuff. But what does 'transphobic' mean? It surely depends on what trans means. Most people assume trans refers to transsexuals many of whom go thru a medical or surgical process. But trans has been redefined.
12./ Here's the new definition of trans provided to police forces by the trans lobby group @stonewalluk in which transsexuals are just a tiny subgroup of a much larger one that includes the gender-fluid, the genderless and the 'neutrois'. Whoever they are.
13./ We wish all these people well. Good luck to them. But the problem with such a vague definition is it has no boundaries. Someone who looks like a big burly bloke with a beard can say he is trans and how would you know if he is or isn't? That's a very big, burly loophole.
14./ Effectively anyone can self-ID as trans. Here's Alex Drummond who goes into schools to tell kids "she" is a lesbian. Alex has discussed how she decided in "her" 40s to transition but kept the beard and the tackle. It was liberating apparently.
15./ Alex is just the beardy tip of the iceberg. Thousands of one-time heterosexual men now claim to be lesbians and accuse actual lesbians of transphobia when they refuse to consider dating them. This is a great piece on the subject by @Docstockk https://www.thearticle.com/can-biological-males-be-lesbians/
https://www.thearticle.com/can-biological-males-be-lesbians/
16./ If that's not creepy enough here's Stefoknee Wolscht a Canadian trans activist who Self-IDs as a 5 year old girl. Wolscht campaigns to be able to use the "little girls room". Here "she" talks about how much fun it is to share fantasies with other big burly "girls".
17./ If Stefoknee tried to enter a girls changing room in Nicolson's constituency there might be an err...kerfuffle. But once Self-ID is accepted any big burly guy who says they're female will assume they have the right to enter. You think I'm exaggerating, don't you?
18./ I recently asked a supporter of Nicolson's how we should react if someone who looks like a big burly bloke with a beard goes into a female space. His answer? "If you were a fair-thinking person ...you would assume it was a transwoman". What planet are these people on?
19./ It's this refusal to even consider safeguarding issues that makes the Self-ID lobby troubling. @MhairiBlack MP recently took a drag queen called Flowjob to a primary school. Flow then posted photos of the kids on their highly sexualised instagram. https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/5322947/drag-queen-flow-job-paisley-school-nathan-mullen/
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/5322947/drag-queen-flow-job-paisley-school-nathan-mullen/
20./ It's not just the SNP. Self-ID activist & trans candidate Aimee Challoner forgot to mention to the Greens her official agent, fellow Self-ID activist (& father) was up on a child rape charge. He was later jailed. She was living with him at the time. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/12/green-party-failed-to-properly-investigate-child-abuser-report
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/12/green-party-failed-to-properly-investigate-child-abuser-report
21./ Self-ID is often presented as progressive but it's deeply reactionary. Nicolson urged opponents to watch & learn from a recent TV show. In it one contributor says they were born with a male body but a female brain. What's a female brain? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/1vJmwcFRP2Wq4PQHp7jSdrr/three-personal-stories
22./ When activists like Caitlin Jenner discuss their "female" inner self they often use 1950s stereotypes of women such as being dipsy, bad at maths or emotional. This piece demolishes this rampant sexism that women rightly feel insulted by. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/opinion/sunday/what-makes-a-woman.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/opinion/sunday/what-makes-a-woman.html
23./ So why have so many politicians bought into this stuff? Last year @jameskirkup exposed a document from a major law firm advising trans lobby groups how to achieve their aims. It admits their ideas are so strange the public will never accept them. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-document-that-reveals-the-remarkable-tactics-of-trans-lobbyists
24./ So instead their lobby groups plant activists within political parties where they bully and agitate. They and politicians like Nicolson know if there was ever an open debate ideas like Self-ID wouldn't stand a chance. That's why he tries to silence the likes of @ALLIANCELGB
25./ So what can you do about this capture of institutions and its undermining of the rights of women, parents and gay peeps? Get informed. Stand up for common sense. Oh and you could also donate to @ALLIANCELGB Think how annoyed John Nicolson would be. https://donate.lgballiance.org.uk/donate-now
https://donate.lgballiance.org.uk/donate-now
