Opinion

Press photo of Penny Mordaunt MP Source: HM Government, Ally of the Year

Penny Mordaunt isn’t our best option for Prime Minister, she’s yours Jayne

Gemma Stone - 12 July 2022

Jayne Ozanne writes in Pink News that Penny Mordaunt is "by far and away the best" candidate and that Jayne believes Penny "is a true champion of all the LGBT+ community". Which is just wrong. She isn't our best candidate, she's yours Jayne. By which I mean semi-wealthy white cisgender queers. She's got your back, and judging by your endorsement of her after her tirade? Clearly you're fine with sticking the knife in ours if it means you don't have to look over your shoulder so much any more.

‘Cancelled’ Starkey unrepentant as he takes on trans lobby Daily Mail2 Sep 2022 UH- OH, Dr David Starkey is whipping up a storm again — and this time he’s taking on the notoriously prickly trans lobby. The television historian, who was ‘cancelled’ after making racist remarks in 2020, has now publicly questioned the right of transgender women to identify themselves as female. ‘One of the terrible problems of the age that we live in is the refusal to confront the truth,’ declares the Tudors expert. ‘The whole world of so much of the social media, the whole world of critical race theory, and the whole world of transsexuality is a gigantic lie.’ He explains: ‘It’s an act of faith — it’s preposterous the idea that a man can become a woman. ‘These are simple absurdities. ‘And large parts of the population — the young population, those who, one would hope, are more questing, are most disillusioned with fiction — swallow fiction.’ Speaking on LBC’s Iain Dale All Talk podcast, Dr Starkey (pictured) adds: ‘We don’t need a new Jesus Christ; we need a teller of blunt, cruel truth. Well, perhaps that was Jesus. If you read the Bible, the Bible was brutal.’ Dr Starkey, 76, apologised after his incendiary remarks about slavery. He was dropped by his long-standing publisher, HarperCollins, and his literary agency, Rogers Coleridge & White, as well as losing top academic posts after he claimed that slavery did not constitute genocide. Last year, however, he shocked diners in London’s Soho by saying he stood by his original offensive comments. ‘I don’t regret that statement,’ he said at the London Grill Club. ‘I regret how I said it, and the fact that I gave a handle to my enemies, which is a stupid thing to do. ‘I regret stupidity, I don’t regret a moral position.’

GCs and media continue to erase lesbians: The week in trans 04/09/22

Lee Hurley - 4 September 2022

Another week, another series of articles talking nonsense about trans people in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, and Times.

Society of Authors mobbed by transphobes over disability support

Gemma Stone - 8 August 2022

The Society of Authors posted a tweet which included the phrase "self-identified" in relation to disability. Transphobes, who have been trained to view the phrase as negative, reacted badly.

Group photo of activists and campaigners for Stonewall mostly dressed in Stonewall red t-shirts which read phrases such as “Some people are gay, get over it” and so forth. There are also many, many signs and rainbows. Wholesome.

What is “Stonewall Law”?

Gemma Stone - 21 March 2022

Today it’s the largest LGBTQIA+ charity in Europe, so it’s no surprise it’s become the target of European queerphobia.

Sunday Mail page 5 showing Angela Raynor with the headline 'Stone the crows! Tories accuse Rayner of Basic Instinct ploy to distract Boris' Full Alt Text: https://pressreader.com/article/281569474285911

Gender critical cult silent over Mail’s Rayner misogyny and Shriver abuse

Lee Hurley - 25 April 2022

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...

A photo of World Master's 800m Women's Swimming competition from 2017

Watersports governing body, FINA, bans ‘male puberty’ from women’s competitions

Gemma Stone - 20 June 2022

Its my view that these rules won't stand up to legal scrutiny and will amount to discrimination despite their best efforts not to. Not only that, but it will also put pressure on healthcare organisations to allow younger transitions to happen - something which the anti-trans forces behind campaigns such as "protecting women's sports" also campaign against.

Is Maya Forstater the world’s foremost trans expert? The week in Trans 28/08/22

Lee Hurley - 28 August 2022

Unlike the first week of this trans media watch, which mostly centred around one story about JK Rowling, how she was the real victim...

An image of a suffragettes march in New York dated October 1915. There are hundreds if not thousands of people watching as about 20 women march with signs I can't read because the picture is old and small and I have bad eyes.

Women’s Aid decides some women are less equal than others

Gemma Stone - 25 March 2022

Women’s Aid, founded in 1996, are a sadly vital and much needed resource and refuge for women across the UK. Domestic and sexual violence are a scourge that primarily affects women with low income women in particular not having the resources or ability to escape as easily. So its extremely disheartening to see their recent statement deciding that women like me are just less deserving of sanctuary or escape.

Major media mostly ignore massive trans protest outside Downing Street

Lee Hurley - 11 April 2022

It will come as no surprise to most trans people that the majority of the mainstream media completely and utterly ignored thousands of people...