Starmer stands with the misogynists and homophobes of Pink News

Tonight sees the Pink News Awards, which are like an LGBTQ+ tribute act to the comedy 'League of Gentlemen', full of misfits and ideas so mad you'd cross the road to escape from them. Why do people like Keir Starmer associate with the least reliable source of facts since Viz?

Maybe Starmer doesn't mind the whiff of weirdness? When Pink News started Benjamin Cohen tried to repress his desire to be the biggest clown in the LGBTQ+ lobby's circus. A hint of the future though was an early piece by staff writer Jacob Breslow who became a major defender of paedophilia.

It was in 2015 that Benjamin decided to really put on huge clown shoes and troll lesbians and gays with what became a dark recipe of unthinkingly pro-trans but often homophobic obsessions. Here's Pink News celebrating the bearded "lesbian" transwoman, Alex Drummond.

Later, when JK Rowling dared to like criticism of Drummond by gay rights pioneer Fred Sargeant, Cohen lashed out claiming she was being "hideously transphobic". How dare a straight woman defend lesbians from the contempt of an entitled gay publisher or a grifter with a beard?

Pink News' hyperbole drifts into lies almost constantly. It's had to apologise to @bindelj and @joannaccherry for lying. It lied about Fred Sargeant claiming he wasn't at the Stonewall riots. This led a trans group who'd repeated the claim to apologise publicly. Pink News never did.

Once it got a taste for misogyny, Pink News couldn't stop itself. Anyone who defended women's single sex spaces like @DuncanBannatyne was traduced as transphobic. PN never explained how allowing anyone to self-ID as a woman would prevent any male entering women's bathrooms.

Soon Cohen was pushing the word 'queer' which many gays still loathe as a slur. When Rob Roberts MP came out he was described as brave and queer. Two months later, when he was accused of sexual harassment, Roberts was downgraded to bad old ...gay. Queer = Good, Gay = Bad?

Once he hit this homophobic stride Cohen decided to open a new front with the promotion of science fiction about elective surgery for young and often troubled people. This report on "top surgery" (double mastectomy) was utterly misleading. So obviously Pink News amplified it.

It was just one of a constant stream of bad science papers Pink News has promoted. Jack Turban's study claiming puberty blockers saved lives is widely discredited. Yet according to Pink News its claim is "literally" true. It's literally not.

When Turban published an even dodgier paper that claimed to show there was no "social contagion" driving some children to identify as trans it was torn apart even by other trans activist-scientists and described as garbage. Pink News acclaimed it. Obviously.

Given its scientific illiteracy and general stupidity it's no surprise that PN applauded research the government commissioned on "trans conversion therapy" which was so spectacularly bad and cobbled together the government had little option but to drop both evidence and ban.

We now have the absurd situation that a leading gay news outlet campaigns for a therapy ban which would in effect push gay teens towards infertility and lifelong medicalisation. And their justification is evidence so jaw droppingly poor they refuse to debate it.

The misogyny, internalised homophobia and lack of concern about child safeguarding have now combined in Pink News' most disgraceful project so far : ‘Trans Joy’ on SnapChat which presents a one-sided encouragement of surgery including phalloplasty and the removal of breasts.

Pink News claims it's redressing the balance but it's not as if the other side is presented anywhere in the mainstream media. There are no warnings about the dangers or poor outcomes of most so-called "gender-affirming surgery". That would...be "transphobic" no doubt.

The uncomfortable truth is Pink News is a toxic force in public life. It's the woke equivalent of Alex Jones, spewing out hate and untruths, bullying anyone who dares to criticise anything the LGBTQ+ lobby suggests; especially if that critic is a lesbian or a gay man.

Yet Keir Starmer will be there tonight. Maybe he should reflect one reason Blair, Cameron, Thatcher and Johnson won elections was they weren't seen by the public as the puppet of their party activists. It's easy to win party brownie points by sucking up to Pink News. Or alternatively, he can stick up for ordinary parents, women generally and LGB people who have deep concerns about gender identity being over-promoted. He might also reflect on the success of the last major politician to embrace Pink News' agenda. Fat lot of good it did her.