“Get on with it”; Arthur Webber on Parliament’s Conversion Therapy Ban debate
The debate was attended by so many, from different parties and nations. Yet all came to the same conclusion: conversion “therapy” is abuse. The overrepresentation of LGB+ MPs (the only openly trans MP, Jamie Wallis, was not present) shows that as much as the media attempt to divide us, we are a united community.
Fanfiction was my gay-girl-to-gay-guy pipeline, and I’m proud of it
Smutty BL fanfiction was at the heart of me coming into my transness - and I’m proud of it.
Trans Pride London 2022
To me, the trans community is like a big bag of pick n’ mix – some are sweet, some are sour, some are soft, some are crunchy. We are strawberry laces and chocolate nougat and caramel buttons. Fruity gummy bears and rainbow Skittles.
On days like Trans Pride London, surrounded by my family of trans candy; I felt as happy as a kid in a sweet shop.
Why I’m blocking certain LGBTQIA publications
In recent weeks I have seen a lot of really poor content coming out of LGBTQIA publications and so I've made the decision to start blocking them. If you feel the same, feel free to drop this article in their comments sections before you do.
Gender critical cult silent over Mail’s Rayner misogyny and Shriver abuse
Self-declared feminists who are ‘only concerned about women and girls’ have had little-to-nothing to say this week on either the Sunday Mail’s misogynistic hit-piece...
Asking for LGBTQ+ tolerance is not enough
As Arlene Foster, former Northern Ireland first minister, was made a Dame in the Queen's latest honours list, it reminded me of a speech...
#DropKiwiFarms: How to survive the internet in 2022 while transgender
Twitch streamer Clara Sorrenti, also known as Keffals, has been under siege from users of a cyberstalking website after she had armed police raid her home due to a fraudulent email. Sorrenti began #DropKiwiFarms to get CloudFlare to stop hosting the site.
Suella Braverman says “schools should not pander” to trans children
Put simply; GRC or not, the law states that discrimination against transgender people is not lawful in the vast majority of circumstances. (Which I only add because single-sex exemptions exist, but have never been tested in law)
Justin Webb lied, the BBC did not cut ties with Stonewall over suicide statistics
Justin Webb of BBC Radio 4 recently posted on Twitter regarding the BBC's decision to back out of Stonewall's Diversity Champions and Workplace Equality Index Schemes. He claimed that the BBC and "responsible organisations" cut ties with Stonewall over claims they had made in a 2017 School Report. The BBC response to a Freedom of Information request I sent does not corroborate this.
Equality Act and the awful anti-trans debate in UK Parliament
On Monday 12 June, MPs met in Westminster Hall for a three hour debate on the definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010. A contentious debate that had been bubbling up for several months. Moss writes;