To any of my followers who are women or LGBT and yet have been called a 'bigot' by LGBT wokies for not conforming to all their standards... Here's (what may be an epic thread warning in advance) on my run in tonight with the Co-chair of the LGBT Foundation Olivia Butterworth

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So earlier today I replied to a tweet about a new train in service here in the UK which includes the 'new' trans-blm-gay-pride flag, of which I'm not a fan, (I call it the Frankenstine Flag as its made up of so many disparate parts) (2)
Low and behold it attracted someone (whilst the name rang a bell I didn't click on at first)... Olivia is Co-chair of the LGBT Foundation & also works with NHS England. I've long been critical of LGBT Foundation's work as I feel it misrepresents the gay community... (3)
So after making the point that the original point of the đŸłïžâ€đŸŒˆ flag was that it represents everyone, I also pointed out that the new one represents the schism that's opened up in the 'LGBT community' of late. I was quickly denounced... (4)
Please note the person that is supposed to be the Co-chair of a charity that represents LGBT across the UK, quickly using both my race and sexuality against me...
So I called her out, she's a bigot and I explained I do indeed care about trans people and actually have a deep concern about how certain 'activists' misrepresent them and spread homophobia & sexism in their wake... I then realised who she was! 😄 (6)
Olivia did not address my (valid) points about trans-activism, something that would become a common theme in this thread... She certainly didn't like me calling her out over the NHS LGBT recording keeping mess though & 'pretended' to not know what I was talking about

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I pointed out why I thought she was a bigot (she felt the same about me, shock) and a discussion ensues about the NHS collecting data on LGBT people in the UK

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She seemingly can't see how (God forbid, but it is 2020) if some looney far-right/left, homophobic, nut job of a party suddenly seized power, it could be incredibly dangerous to LGBT people. I then 'denounce' the LGBT Foundation for its repeated misuse of data & studies.

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Olivia didn't seem to believe I had done any research into this. I actually have. After the NHS debacle I went and read lots of info on how LGBT Foundation was making its claims. It wasn't good (as you will see later on)...

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Olivia then links to this 👇 very recent 'survey' that was done by the Foundation on the effects of COVID-19 & Lockdown on the LGBT population of the UK. I hadn't read this (at that time) but I remember it making media headlines...

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I really wasn't up for a prolonged debate with Olivia though, which I knew would probably not be in good faith & were any legitimate points I raised would be ignored. So I just asked her to think of as to whether or not she truly represented the whole 'LGBT community'
However Olivia wouldn't seemingly let it drop, I tried again to end the convo & posted the tweet from earlier where she had mentioned my race & sexuality to try & shut me up...

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Still, she really thought I was just slandering her LGBT Foundation with no evidence... So I decided to take a look at the 'evidence' she posted to me about how great the LGBT Foundation was at representing the LGBT community as a whole... She wants to play, OK!!!

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So, this survery (which it turns out is also a report), its had under 600 respondents. Below is how these respondents breakdown by various demographics...

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The survey makes these fundamental claims about how LGBT are effected by lockdown and uses these points to claim LGBT are more effected than the rest of the UK population...

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So I ask some questions (which I already know don't have answers as I've run through the data provided in the report) of Olivia about how this survey can be used to prove LGBT are more severely impacted by the pandemic than others...

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Olivia claims 'it's all in the survey' and then (the truth) the results are simply based on those who answered...

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So that means when the LGBT Foundation make claims about how the 'LGBT Population' has been impacted by lockdown, they think the UK's LGBT population looks like this 👇... Apparently 22% of us are trans, 3% are intersex & 27% of us are disabled! 😄

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This is the same pattern I've spotted time & time again with 'research' done by the LGBT Foundation & is why I denounce it as an organisation...

I moved in for the kill...

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Suddenly Olivia doesn't seem open to chat as she was insisting she was a bit earlier up the thread... Oh and she doesn't believe that I have done my research... 😂

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So I offer her up the opportunity for me to prove I have if she would like, or, as I'm now feeling a little bit sorry for Olivia for poking the bear (no pun intended) we can end this grudge match...

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😂 😂 😂... And... Fin...

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The point is, these types of people feel so superior. But so many of their claims are based on appallingly shaky ground. They do not often properly represent the people they claim they to do and yet media orgs, governments, academic institutions all so often listen to them

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Anyway guys thanks for reading (and well done if you've made it this far on the epic thread)... Go have a read of the LGBT Foundations papers, studies, polls and reports when you get a chance 😉

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