✨Doctoral Researcher | Writing queer experiences 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️| Co-Founder & Executive Director
@EqualityAmp
| Global Content Manager | All views are my own ✨
@munchl4xx
& I have been busy.
I’m so proud to launch
@EqualityAmp
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
LGBTQ+ hostility is on the rise, our community is being attacked in the media, online & by the government.
We need change.
I hope you’ll lend us your voice, unite & help us amplify equality.
Take a look:
🚀Today we are proud to launch Equality Amplified. An organisation championing LGBTQ+ voices, rights and truth through advocacy, education and combating misinformation. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Co-founded by
@munchl4xx
and
@ThomasWillett9
, find out more about us in the thread 🧵below.
Just a reminder that JK Rowling is a fiction writer. She’s not a psychologist, psychiatrist, therapist, healthcare professional or a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Her opinions on trans & LGB people are irrelevant & should be regarded as the sensationalist nonsense that they are
JK Rowling, this is the trans joy you so disgustingly scorn. Brianna Ghey will never experience this joy ever again; a young trans woman whose life was cut short owing to transphobia. The very same transphobia you encourage with your rhetoric and actions.
The problem is, JK Rowling isn’t defending women’s rights.
Misgendering a trans woman doesn’t help women’s rights.
What Rowling is defending is the right to abuse trans people with impunity.
She’s defending bullying and harassment.
None of these things help women.
I wonder if JK Rowling knows she’s become leader of a cult who stage homophobic/transphobic protests on the day a young trans girl’s murderers are sentenced to life in prison.
JK Rowling using the
#NotOurCrimes
is very problematic. Crimes do not belong to a group of people. We do not criminalise groups of people based on the crimes committed by a few. This thinking is what leads to racism, homophobia and transphobia.
Nobody is saying that trans criminals don’t exist. They do.
What we’re saying is that law abiding trans people shouldn’t be held accountable for, or their legal protections removed, owing to the behaviour of criminals. We don’t do this for any other group of people.
While anti-trans extremists scream about rights they’re not losing, this is the reality of transphobia. This is the abuse & pain they’re inflicting when they compare trans people to paedophiles & criminals.
This is what happens when trans lives are centred in a culture war.
JK Rowling straight up denying trans history now.
The Nazis targeted and burnt valuable trans research. This is fact.
It’s concerning how far she’s falling down the extreme anti-trans rabbit hole & denying reality.
She encourages disinformation that’s harming trans people.
Wait, did JK Rowling seriously unblock me to quote tweet me then block me again? 😂
No, Joanne, I understood your books. Seeing the power of love triumph over evil gave little gay me so much hope. It’s just a shame you decided to become your own villain and target my community.
On the day of Brianna Ghey’s murderers are sentenced, a group of anti-trans activists stage a transphobic & homophobic campaign at London Bridge’s LGBTQ+ History Month display.
There are no words to describe how disgusting this is. This isn’t “standing for women”, it’s abuse.
This is it. Trans people don’t want to erase women. They don’t want to take so called “sex based rights” away from women. They don’t want to groom kids into being trans. They just want to be seen and accepted as the men/women they are.
JK Rowling has reached the point of unjustified hatred and flat out bullying.
All she’s doing is abusing trans people. There’s nothing intellectual here. No genuine engagement or criticism. Just pure contempt for a tiny group of people who in reality have no impact on anyone.
JK Rowling’s tweets are offensive & upsetting. They also inspire extreme transphobia & homophobia.
By challenging JK Rowling, I’ve received death threats; been accused of paedophilia; been called a groomer, nonce, a danger to women.
This isn’t normal & shouldn’t be accepted.
The God like status JK Rowling has within the TERF cult is absurd.
How dare three adults with agency who starred in movies based on Rowling’s work as kids exercise their right to free speech to disagree with the almighty Rowling. Off with their heads.
I’m sick to my stomach. Sunak has made his anti-trans stance crystal clear. This government is responsible for endangering real lives by emboldening acts of transphobia & increasing LGBTQ+ hostility. Trans people exist, aren’t an inherent threat, & just want to live in peace.
"We shouldn't get bullied" into believing that "people can be any sex they want to be"
"A man is a man, and a woman is a woman, that's just common sense," PM Rishi Sunak says
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Child: I need gender affirming care.
Parents: We’d like our child to receive gender affirming care.
Doctors: We think it’s appropriate to help your child with gender affirming care.
Anti-trans activists: They should not receive gender affirming care. Only our opinion matters.
Calling gay men paedophiles during the Section 28 era was homophobic. Calling trans people paedophiles now is transphobic. It’s really not that difficult to understand.
It must have been exhausting for JK Rowling to have pretended to love and support her liberal, LGBTQ+ fanbase, only to come out as a conservative homophobe & transphobe almost two decades later.
“She has almost single-handedly neutralised trans extremism by running the most significant extra-parliamentary campaign in recent history, using little more than tweets and the occasional interview or speech. She is an inspiration to anti-woke dissidents across all continents,…
Today, we dropped a 30ft banner to say fuck the Cass Review. Trans youth know what they want and need. It’s not being pathologized or patronised. It's accessing the support they deserve, whether safe housing, education or puberty blockers.
JK Rowling casually dropping her loose change on a crowdfund to change the definition of sex in the Equality Act, which would strip trans people of their legal protections & cause untold suffering.
Rowling’s transphobia is blisteringly clear.
It’s happening now. A petition to remove LGBT content from the education curriculum.
To all those who deny the homophobia arising from the trans moral panic: WAKE UP.
They want Section 28 all over again. When our trans siblings suffer, the entire LGBTQ+ community suffers.
You can’t praise JK Rowling for being a leading voice of the GC/TERF movement, then deny the negative consequences her voice is having on the wider LGBTQ+ community. Hate crimes against LGB and trans people have increased. Homophobic rhetoric has increased. This can’t be ignored.
10 years ago, JK Rowling decided to become a man in order to sell some books. Some years later, she’d go on to incite a moral panic around trans people who transition because it’s who they are, and saves them from psychological and physical anguish.
So women spoke and agreed that they should include all women in their inclusive swimming policy.
It seems that when women do speak, they support trans women 🤷🏼♂️
If JK Rowling isn’t transphobic or homophobic, why do I receive transphobic and homophobic abuse from her fans every time I tweet about her, and why doesn’t she call out this behaviour?
JK Rowling clearly denied that trans people were impacted by the holocaust, attempting to erase trans history. She was unequivocally proved wrong, and now she’s threatening legal action. Rowling is uninterested in truth & fact, & would use any means to push her anti-trans agenda.
When a key LGBTQ+ charity that provides vital services and support to the community has to leave this hellscape owing to torrents of homophobia and transphobia, don’t believe the TRRFs/GCs when they say they’re being silenced. They’re doing the silencing.
Hello to the lovely little TERFs who are flooding my mentions owing to a certain friend of Glinner 👋🏻
Trans women exist.
Trans women are women.
Trans women deserve dignity and respect.
Nothing you can say will change my mind. So take your hate somewhere else.
xoxo
Hello. Gay man here 👋🏻
Trans people in no way threaten my rights or my identity, and I’d like it if cisgender, heterosexual people would stop speaking on my behalf.
Trans people have always marched side by side with LGB people for queer liberation. You do not speak for me.
‘This ideology is also trying to crush the notion of same sex attraction.’
Psychologist and social commentator, Dr Pam Spurr shares her thoughts and concerns about gender and its changing role in modern society.
Why? What is the issue here?
Open plan unisex bathrooms are easier to monitor while still providing privacy for everyone.
This is pointless, manufactured outrage.
You HAVE to be joking.
This post highlights the fact that systematic abuse and harassment of trans people puts their lives in danger.
TERFs don’t want to acknowledge the repercussions of their rhetoric and actions, so will silence us instead of facing the truth.
So let’s get this straight
@ReduxxMag
, you make the transphobic father and the daughter anonymous, but doxx the trans child? This is absolutely breaching journalistic standards, and suggests you want to target and abuse the trans child in question. Shame on you.
If you still think women’s rights will be threatened by the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill, ask yourself: When was the last time you used your birth certificate for anything? Making the process easier for trans people to change their birth certificate won’t affect you.
@ThomasWillett9
Girl, the only one responsible for your self destructions are the doctors who took advantage of your delusion and mutilated your breasts and put on you on testosterone. Hopefully you can sue them one day and use this tweet as evidence of your delusion and poor judgment.
This is why we need Pride.
This is why we have flags.
This is why we need representation.
This is why we won’t be silenced, because LGBTQ+ people can’t just walk down the street without being attacked.
JK Rowling once again using her wealth to silence critics. She clearly denied the systematic targeting of trans people by the Nazis. Rowling always cries freedom of speech, yet is ready to litigate against people who challenge her, specifically those who cannot defend themselves.
It's alleged that
@UWVolleyball
rescinded the scholarship from the male vying to play with the women. Sources say the coaches had NO idea he is a male.
He and his family concealed his sex throughout the entering recruiting process.
The power of public opinion & accountability.
I’ve said this before, but LGB will always belong with the T. Why? Because we share the same common enemy: Oppressive heteronormativity.
Homophobia and transphobia are two heads of the same coin. It’s no coincidence that current anti-trans rhetoric is recycled homophobia.
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“You’re suggesting that trans people do not exist… that they are lesser than other LGB people. I will not stand for it”
JK Rowling is no LGB ally. Laughing at a gay man for receiving targeted online abuse led by a charity who supposedly fights for LGB people? The other way around, JK Rowling would be crying cancel culture. But no, when it happens to gay men supporting trans people, it’s hilarious.
😡Heterosexuals: We don’t want you in our spaces.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️LGBTQ+: Fine, we’ll make our own spaces.
😡Heterosexuals: How dare you make a space where you feel comfortable being yourselves in. Why are you excluding us? That’s not very tolerant.
I mean, are we really surprised when a large part of JK Rowling’s/Harry Potter’s fan base was made up of queer people and she threw them under the bus?
That’s what happens when you align yourself with transphobes and homophobes.
Glinner posting a trans man’s post-op bottom half without permission just proves that “Gender Critical’s” don’t see trans people being worthy of decency or respect. Ridiculing trans people for having procedures that has nothing to do with GC’s is unnecessarily cruel.
When the anti-trans activists claim they’re being silenced, just remember JK Rowling threatened to sue a Jewish woman because she challenged Rowling’s lie that trans people weren’t targeted by the Nazis.
Why is it that the “right to offend” is reserved by those who want to discuss and ultimately remove minority protections, but when minorities exercise the same “right” to argue against removing their protections it’s condemned as silencing? 🤔
This is beyond parody; a heterosexual, cis woman demanding her book on invalidating trans people’s existence should be included in an LGBTQ+ history display.
If history does remember Joyce, it will be as a transphobic bigot who called for a transgender genocide.
The lengths JK Rowling will go to to gaslight the world that she cares about trans people is extraordinary.
Her behaviour and rhetoric over these past few months alone doesn’t suggest a woman who wants trans people to live in safety and peace.
Re JK Rowling’s homophobic & transphobic abuse:
Today, Rowling has incited a pile on of a gay man who dared to speak out against her transphobia.
By speaking up, this friend of mine has received torrents of homophobic abuse, has had his other social media profiles stalked, 1/4
Hey Scott, it is not “misgendering” to call a “trans woman” a man. It is fact. We are DONE participating in this delusion. There is no such thing as a “trans woman.” There are women, and there are men. PERIOD.
Even when trans people are being stabbed in public, Glinner can’t help but spread his transphobic bile.
How low do you have to sink to post something like this?
Graham Linehan, like many TERFs, is just a bully.
He doesn’t care about women, or girls, or having ‘meaningful conversations’, he just wants to hate, and ridicule, & beat down a minority group because it’s easy & makes him feel better about his little life.
As a writer, you’d think JK Rowling would endorse the use of an adjective to accurately and succinctly describe people who aren’t trans.
Instead, she feeds the false victim narrative designed to increase the hostility towards trans people.
Trans people are not an ideology. They are living, breathing humans who are deserving of the same equality rights as everyone else. Your bigotry does not change this.
As history shows, reducing people down to an idea is an easy way to justify eradicating them.
Being pro-trans does not mean you’re anti-woman. Being anti-trans, however, does harm women. Because when we question who is ‘woman enough’, cis women also fall under this scope. Suddenly not everyone fits within narrow definitions that don’t treat us as the complex beings we are
I will never apologise for supporting trans rights. Trans people have always existed, and will continue to. They deserve equal rights and the right to live free from discrimination and bigotry. Real women’s issues are being overlooked by this moral panic fuelled by
JK Rowling’s ever so close to understanding that the real issue here isn’t trans people, but abusive cis men.
Trans women & cis women both suffer at the hands of patriarchy. Forcing trans women into men’s spaces solves nothing.
JK Rowling has become a fountain of misinformation, transphobia and increasingly homophobia.
The hand around Posie Parker (Kellie-Jay Keen) in the photo is that of her security. Rowling continues to deliberately mislead the public to turn everyone against trans people.
A trans woman being in a woman’s ward does not endanger the privacy, dignity or respect of the other women there. Pushing trans women into men’s wards, however, endangers the privacy, dignity & respect of the trans women & men there. It’s not just women who deserve these things.
Trans kids exist. Gay kids exist. We don’t magically get our LGBTQ+ powers at 18. If a student wants to be called by a different name because it might make them feel more comfortable with themselves, it’s not the teachers job to discourage that. It’s their job to teach.
Does PM agree it's "inappropriate for schools to encourage young people under the age of 18 to socially transition… without parental consent?” asks Andrew Bridgen
Rishi Sunak says, “I don’t think that’s acceptable, we must protect our children”
#PMQs
If a child doesn’t feel comfortable coming out as trans or gender non-conforming to their parents, there’s a reason. And that reason is often abuse.
Outing a child to potentially abusive parents is not safeguarding.
“What is right is that parents know what is going on with their children at school"
Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch discusses forthcoming guidance on trans pupils in schools
#BBCLauraK
You can’t praise JK Rowling for being a leading voice of the GC/TERF movement, then deny the negative consequences her voice is having on the wider LGBTQ+ community. Hate crimes against LGB and trans people have increased. Homophobic rhetoric has increased. This can’t be ignored.
Rest assured that John here doesn’t speak for the gay community. The vast majority of LGB people support our trans siblings.
It doesnt take courage to be transphobic. It does, however, take an extraordinary lack of empathy, understanding & cowardice to target & abuse trans people
What did we learn from this?
TERF isn’t a slur.
TERFs get enjoyment out of ridiculing trans and gender nonconforming people. It’s never been about “genuine concerns and discussions”.
TERFs revel in spreading hatred.
TERFs couldn’t care less about women’s rights.
“We’ve been ‘TERFing’ and it’s been such fun”
It’s clear that for many ‘gender critical’ transphobes, being a transphobic bigot is just a recreational activity! 😣
These heartless transphobes clearly have no life outside of their obsessive bigoted campaigning!
This has filled me with so much rage.
Graham Linehan, Maya Forstater, Helen Joyce, Kathleen Stock, these loud voices are directly responsible for emboldening trolls who harass trans people, their family and allies. Even the mother of a dead trans girl. It’s sickening.
JK Rowling has reached the level of transphobic troll. She’s unable to engage in good faith with trans people and allies, instead encouraging blatant transphobia, disinformation and general nastiness.
She’s become the very bully she inspired me to overcome when I was young.
Don’t know about you, but I think any MP being deliberately insulting and transphobic should lose the whip.
@LGBTLabour
@Keir_Starmer
when are you going to grow a spine and deal with the bigotry in your party? Rosie’s transphobia has been well evidenced for a while now.
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Before JK Rowling penned her opinion piece on trans people, I never experienced homophobia online. If I post anything trans positive now I’ll be called a nonce/predator. Transphobia is becoming commonplace & is unchallenged, this is encouraging people to be similarly homophobic.
You can’t praise JK Rowling for being a leading voice of the GC/TERF movement, then deny the negative consequences her voice is having on the wider LGBTQ+ community. Hate crimes against LGB and trans people have increased. Homophobic rhetoric has increased. This can’t be ignored.
JK Rowling continues to be completely disingenuous about her transgender views. If she wants people to be safe, why align with people who’re lobbying to remove the very rights that keep trans people safe. There is zero evidence to suggest trans rights endanger women and girls.
🏳️🌈 JK Rowling: I can afford to take the hit and speak out on trans issues.
Harry Potter author says 'I want trans people to be safe. I just don’t want women and girls to be any less safe'
I’m gay and the LGB Alliance will never speak for me.
They are a single issue hate group, whose mission is to make the lives of trans people worse.
They peddle in disinformation and lies, trying to divide our community. But we won’t let them.
LGBT with the T, now and forever.
Re JK Rowling’s transphobic thread:
Trans people are deserving of protection against the kind of harassment & abuse she incites.
Female criminals exist, yet she, I, & the majority of people still think women should be protected. These things don’t stand in opposition.
One of my favorite dress shops- a modest old fashioned linen company- featured a man modeling their dresses. They’re down 1,000 followers and the comments are a dumpster fire for them. I truly do not understand what they expected. Who do they think their audience is?
You say it’s about protecting women and kids, but when a grieving mother shares the news her son died by suicide and transphobia was a contributing factor, you hound and harass her with that same transphobia she has to delete the tweet.
You truly make me sick. Vile beings.
Rishi Sunak is culpable for fostering the climate of trans hostility we find ourselves in. He did have Brianna Ghey in his thoughts when he was attacking trans people during his conference speech, he wanted to ridicule & centre trans people like her in his transphobic culture war
Dear
@NHSEngland
your letter inviting me for a smear test says ‘we offer screening to all women and people with a cervix’. WHAT DO YOU MEAN?? No MAN has a cervix, only, literally ONLY females have a cervix, that is a FACT. Tell me otherwise - GO ON. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Me: I support trans men.
TERFs/GCs: WHO DO YOU HAVE SEX WITH.
My sexual history has no bearing on the way I treat & accept trans men as men. Or the way I treat people generally. I don’t care who you date/sleep with. I care if you’re a decent person.
P.S. trans men are hot af.
Much has been said about JK Rowling’s recent tweet. What I will say is that those defending Rowling as not being anti-trans are bare faced liars & fooling no one. Defending trans people is in no way the same as being a ‘rapists’ rights activist’. This is disgusting rhetoric.
Trans people: “Puberty blockers would have saved me a lot of pain and suffering growing up”.
Some fantasy author, non-medical care professionals and anonymous trolls: “We know better than trans people and their healthcare professionals to make decisions about their lives”.
“I want to see if it will scream like a man or girl”.
It doesn’t get more disturbingly transphobic than that. But Kathleen won’t admit this, because that means there are consequences to transphobic rhetoric that translates to real harm for trans people.
Standing up for the LGBTQ+ community, of which women are part of, doesn’t endanger the rights of women and girls.
This is extraordinary homophobia from JK Rowling and shows a true disconnect from any genuine concern for women’s rights.