How Metro lies to its readers
Recently the Metro published a hit piece on me, dishonestly characterising my joining the dating app Her as an ‘anti-trans’ stunt. Of course, I did it to expose the fashionable homophobia of straight men invading lesbian spaces while claiming a lesbian identity. They could have found this out by contacting me for a comment. Instead, they merely stated they had contacted me, while not contacting me.
After people started calling them out on their dishonesty, Metro took the extremely ethical step of shutting down the comments section on the post, which remains up. Here are some of the comments they didn’t want their readers seeing.
If you would like to complain to Metro about their dishonesty, you can do it here. I’ve already written to IPSO and I’m considering my legal options as I have not yet received the apology and retraction I asked for by the end of the week.
Sorry to bang on about it, but this stuff has real-world consequences and I’m not letting it go.
Do not let it go. I think the edited the article with out saying they updated it SNEAKY. I was key word searching for ANTI TRANS and they have removed it all but one where they changed it to something like it is said he used anti trans rhetoric. Smash them up if you can
I e-mailed the newsdesk at Metro:
Dear Sirs and some Ladies,
https://metro.co.uk/2021/02/23/graham-linehan-joins-queer-womens-dating-app-her-in-anti-trans-stunt-14130662/
You have missed the point of Graham Linehan's spoof entry on HER: it is to draw attention to the erasure of true, honest-to-God lesbians - the female ones.
That's what the HER dating website is supposed to be about.
The problem is that, due to their mental disorder (gender dysphoria is a disorder: S25 of the Gender Recognition Act) a number of male-to-female transsexuals have invaded this site with their unwanted advances, thus chasing away lesbians. I am not going to use any language which is any way "validates" the delusions of male-to-female transsexuals, also known as autogynaephiles. I don't care what their mental problems are, but it is obvious that they need to proper treatment which they are not getting at the moment.