Gemma Stone Archives: 05/2022

Owen Jones criticised the original piece for having not done journalistic due diligence of including comment from the school or those accused of allegedly having ousted this 18 year old from sixth-form for being transphobic, who I remind you are students at an all girls school and sixth-form. He asked for someone from that school to reach out with comment or statement. Not least due to the fact that The Times have had to issue multiple corrections for poor journalistic practice in the past, including on trans issues in particular.

Fairness in sports is important, but it will never be achieved through bigoted nonsense like the kind advanced by the BBC in this piece. I would say the BBC should know better, but we already know it doesn’t. Its happy to join the bandwagon of anti-trans sensationalism for the sake of a few clicks. You know, the usual horrific bigot crap our community has come to expect from media giants around the world.

Writing to “Stonewall, Mermaids and all your friends” Kavanagh says he “means this” before showing a tweet he had made previously which is just violent threats all the way through. Quote; “I will fucking nail you to a wall what you have done to these innocent children. Your mutilation of these little humand because they were gay will be nothing compared to what I will do to you legally. You think you are ghouls wait till I deal with you bastard and I mean to”, but in all caps.

There have already been attempts from transphobes to blame this on trans people. We have seen comments wherein people take aim at gender neutral language, such as “people who can get pregnant”. The argument being that not using the word “woman” has made things more difficult, confusing and harder to argue. However I haven’t used the word “woman” in this piece even once, and don’t plan to. It’s not only women who require access to abortions and abortions should be accessible for all those who need them.

Dylan Tippetts for Compton in Plymouth, Kira Lewis for Higham Hill in Waltham Forest, Isla Wrathmell for Vauxhall in London’s Lambeth, and Elaine Gallagher in Glasgow were all successful in the vote, earning their place on their local councils.

This is important because if its true that women are more likely to be gender critical then it would support the claim of indirect discrimination based on sex and sexuality, which is what Bailey alleges happened. However the barristers supporting the defendants, Garden Court Chambers and Stonewall UK, were very quick to shut this idea down. Not only citing polls which disprove that anti-trans views are more common amongst women, such as one by YouGov, which aren’t hampered by the selection bias of dedicated anti-trans groups. But also with a thorough cross-examination of supporting evidence too.

According to its ‘about us’ section, Survivor’s Network was founded in 1990 by a group of female survivors of childhood sexual abuse to provide services that would support other female survivors. They were the first organisation in Brighton and Hove specifically focused on sexual abuse in childhood and the network has “grown considerably, while staying true to their activist roots”.