Sound as a pound: gay men who oppose gender ideology
A handy though incomplete list for those confused by the issues
There are those who would have you believe that the current bitter divisions within LGBT activism, are a simple case of homophobes/transphobes versus the LGBT movement. This could not be further from the truth. For many years, lesbians like Kate Harris, Julie Bindel, Anya Palmer, Joanna Cherry, Bev Jackson and the late Magdalen Berns were ringing the alarm about the homophobia of trans rights activists, but recently more and more gay men are joining them by speaking out.
So here is a handy though incomplete list of some of the best gay bloke tweeters and thinkers on the subject.
It is the absence of dialogue that is so damaging. Not just between parents and children but across political discourse of all kinds. There is a crisis in dialogue and Stonewall is a symptom of an even bigger problem.
Levi Pay @levipay
I'm premiering a new video at the top of the hour: a lovely interview with a mom whose teenage son has gotten caught up in the gender madness. Come watch along!
Being gay isn’t a bias. You cannot reprogram homosexuality. This type of rhetoric is actively confusing and harming young homosexuals. We must do better for the gay kids. They deserve more than to be told there’s something wrong with them for being gay.
I increasingly hear “you’ll be on the wrong side of history” in the exact tone that fundamentalists always told me I’d be sent to hell.
My position on both remains: if that’s where the truth leads, that’s where I’ll go.
You don’t speak for us gays, you’re vile.
As a gay man, @RosieDuffield1 has my full support! https://t.co/XoIQT50FWg
LGBT+ Labour @LGBTLabour
So did I, not once did we gays erase biological sex. Or demand heteros redefine heterosexuality to mean homosexuality. Or call hetero’s bigots for not having sex with us. Or teach kids to hate their own bodies. And we didn’t threaten to kill or rape women. So there’s that. https://t.co/HZnd8gYChU
Steve 🇬🇧🏳️🌈😷💉 @WohYeahWohYeah
#IstandwithRosieDuffield and alongside every one prepared to stand up for Rosie Duffield. 👇👇 https://t.co/hpUbGHgmCH
Nimco Ali (OBE) 🔻 @NimkoAli
I just want to announce that I no longer blumpicate as the glork that I was wumpled at birth. My new floofus is demi-dingle-beep and my preferred jorfunkles are moog / bibble. If you didn't understand that, you're probably a hateful bigot.
Funny how TRAs were open to the facts, the homophobic injustice of his arrest, when he was one of them and chanting their dogma - but now that he's standing for women's rights, they conveniently blindspot the truth so they can use him as a gotcha in their misogynistic campaign 🤷♂️
Kurtis @kurtistrippdied
Now doubling down. But the thing that actually hurts is accusations of homophobia. Not only is it untrue but it cheapens and minimises what homophobia is and feels like. I call on @UKLabour and @Keir_Starmer to eject this group from labour. https://t.co/YJKKs4PWe5
LGBT+ Labour @LGBTLabour
Friday is Podcast Day (It's almost Friday!)
Episode 8 -
Interview with the wonderful Mr Menno (currently banned from Twitter)
Previously subscriber exclusive, now available to all. Link here to Substack, but this is also now available on Spotify.
Still think there isn’t something VERY wrong here? Still ready & willing to defend the indefensible? Still ok with this?
Beyond reprehensible. https://t.co/G8sTRgAuSY
Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg
I try to keep out of feminist debate, but Phipps’ reading speaks more of luxury beliefs than women’s liberation. Safe from any of the fallout of her words, she condemns women to male violence while congratulating herself on her kindness. What a train wreck. https://t.co/l1tlTIzUrh
People often say that the biology-denying extremes of gender ideology are as crazy as flat-earthery. In my new novel, out on Kindle today, I explore how you might foist flat-earth beliefs on the world in the way that gender ideologues have performed their own spectacular capture.
If it is lawful to house male-bodied sex offenders in women's prisons, then the law must be changed.
I politely asked @maelstroam_ not to conflate Trans people & people with DSDs, and guess what, yep an instant block! Whilst all the time denying there's any agenda that these TRAs are actioning. Appropriation of people with DSDs is clearly happening & I will not tolerate it!
Nick (of Wessex) @DSDvoice
Nightingale
"So did I, not once did we gays erase biological sex. Or demand heteros redefine heterosexuality to mean homosexuality. Or call hetero’s bigots for not having sex with us. Or teach kids to hate their own bodies. And we didn’t threaten to kill or rape women."
From what I can see - some see this as an outright assault on the freedom of others.
(Not the money people preying on people with problems...gender reassignment surgery. Or those using people to gain power eg Stonewall.)
While others can see the big picture and use joined up thinking.
If trans people take over women's spaces and try to change the terminology, they will be eroding the freedoms of women and girls.
Beside stirring up trouble with a lot of males who have wives, girlfriends, daughters etc.
Quite some time after I started being aware of all this stuff, I had a chat with a gay friend about it. He's pretty straightforward and fair-minded, and gave me his perspective on it all. It seems that for him, at least, it can be a difficult place to be - he's supportive of trans folk, but at the same time doesn't like the eroding of women's spaces and rights, and the rather forceful nature of a lot of the trans activists. He's said he has to be very diplomatic among a lot of his friends, lest he offend or get a bad reputation, though his own personal views were more on the gender-critical side of things. A shame he can't speak out, but we all have to do what works for us, I suppose.