I'm doing a thread of all the times "gender-critical" voices have been heard. This is off the top of my head. Please add your own examples.

December 2017: BBC Documentary, “Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?” However, this documentary was subsequently banned in Canada. 1/
April 2018: Tabloids falsely claim that Ian Huntley is undergoing transition, and taking the name of one of his dead victim’s mothers.

This was completely untrue, but would be used by GC people against transgender people for a year before retractions were printed. 2/
November 2018: Channel 4 Documentary, “Transgender Kids: Time To Talk.” The host of this doc gets multiple interviews on Irish radio. The director would later take part in a gender-critical talk called "Woke News," sneering at the people who wouldn't take part in his doc. 3/
January 2019: @RTE_PrimeTime interviews Graham Linehan about trans people. (He was subsequently banned from Twitter, and is currently to be found on his Youtube channel talking about how he could "barely contain himself" when he saw a trans woman acting in "Queen's Gambit." ) 7/
Feb 2019: Two prominent gender critical leaders, Posie Parker and Julia Long, fly to America to livestream themselves harassing a trans woman, (now Senator) Sarah McBride, at work. 4/
Feb 2019: Following a campaign by the gender-critical movement, the National Lottery UK withholds 500k of funding from Mermaids (trans supportive org), pending a review. The review is completed, no issues are found, and the money is granted. 5/
November 2019: Meanwhile, over 100 transgender people in Ireland find out that they have been on the wrong waiting list for years due to their files being “misplaced.” This barely makes the news. 6/
Dec 2019: After raising ~120K for legal fees, Maya Forstater goes to an employment tribunal to argue that it was unfair her contract was not renewed because she expressed GC views online. This generates a lot of discussion of her views in the media.

She is heard. She loses. 7/
The judge concludes...“she will refer to a person by the sex she considered appropriate even if it violates their dignity and/or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment. The approach is not worthy of respect in a democratic society.” 8/
Feb 2020: @BBCNewsnight interviews Graham Linehan about trans people, and challenges him over his view that standing up to "trans ideology" (as GC people call it, a phrase very much like "gay agenda") is akin to standing up to Nazism. 8/
Jun 2020: Having already supported Maya Forstater after her loss, and after she accidentally pastes a bit of a transphobic news report in a tweet praising a kid's artwork, JK Rowling writes an essay called "TERF WARS" explaining why she supports the gender critical movement. 9/
In this essay, she promotes Magdalen Berns to her 14 million Twitter followers as a "brave feminist." MB is a "Shero" in the GC movement, who called trans women "blackface actors," "men who get their sexual kicks from dressing up as women," and "sick, pathetic fucks." 10/
Jun 2020, The UK Government disregards 70,000 out of 100,000 responses supporting a UK transgender self-id law (similar to the 2015 Irish law) and undemocratically sides with the gender-critical campaign, deciding not to reform the UK GRA. 11/
September 2020, The Times UK publish a letter signed by 200 celebs supporting JK Rowling against an “an insidious, authoritarian and misogynistic trend in social media”. Their opinions on calling trans women "blackface actors" and "sick pathetic, fucks" are, to date, unknown. 12/
Nov 2020: Meanwhile, in Ireland, it has just been discovered that the National Transgender Healthcare Steering Committee report has now been “misplaced,” while waiting lists continue to grow. I have yet to see this reported in the media. 13/
This is not a comprehensive list. There have also been countless articles in outlets like the Telegraph, The Times UK, The Guardian, the tabloids, all expressing the "gender critical" point of view over the last few years. This is why the hashtag #WeWillBeHeard is ridiculous. 14/
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