Lookada pitty twain
It would be quicker to list what’s not “transphobia.”
LNER spent £58,000 repainting one of its trains with a rainbow-themed Pride livery, it has emerged.
The cost of the Pride rebranding was revealed after a passenger sent a freedom of information (FoI) request asking the government-owned train company for more information about it.
58 THOUSAND quid. Just think of all the useful things one could do with that kind of money.
But instead of answering Carol Fossick’s other detailed questions, a senior LNER manager wrote back and labelled her “transphobic” after trawling through her social media posts.
I’m not a Mormon. I think the content of Mormonism is silly. Is that phobic?
I don’t take part in pyramid schemes. I think pyramid schemes are a surefire way to lose money. Is that phobic?
I was never a girl scout. I don’t regret it. Is that phobic?
Maya Forstater, the chief executive of the charity Sex Matters, said: “LNER’s refusal to respond to an FoI request on the basis that the requester had expressed views that challenge gender ideology was disgraceful and discriminatory.
“It’s appalling to see one of the UK’s largest transport companies losing touch with reality to the extent that it sees a focus on ‘binary sex divisions’ and criticism of its expensively clad Pride train as ‘vexatious’ and appropriate grounds for refusal. This attempt at thought-policing passengers for blaspheming against the rainbow suggests a corporate culture that is more akin to a medieval church than a modern business.”
Exactly so; that’s why I brought Mormonism into it. We don’t have to join your church; you don’t get to force it on us.
Ms Fossick’s questions to LNER included requests for things such as “information about LNER’s diversity initiatives, including the demographics of their staff and the selection process for future train designs” as well as the composition of the panel which decided how to rebrand the train.
When LNER refused to reveal anything other than the cost of the whole exercise, she asked it to reconsider.
A senior manager wrote back to brand her “vexatious” and said: “Since you submitted your internal review, your subsequent social media posts have demonstrated views that indicate a bias against transgender individuals.”
Yo, spending 58 THOUSAND pounds on painting a train trans-color demonstrates an inability to spend the public’s money reasonably.
An LNER spokesman said: “The Together train celebrates support of Pride activities on the route as part of our long-term commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives for colleagues, customers and communities.”
No, it doesn’t. It really doesn’t. It does the opposite of that, and does it with hostile energy. It’s not “diversity” or “equality” or “inclusion” to obsess over people who pretend to be the opposite sex while ignoring every other disregarded set of people on the planet. Paint a god damn train in women’s colors or workers’ colors for a change, then tell us how keen on equality and diversity you are.
It’s not even a “pitty twain” because it’s using the ugly “Progress” colours. Rainbows are fine, rainbows work aesthetically, you have red yellow orange green blue purple just like we’ve all seen in the sky…and then this horrible clashing smear of black and brown and melted-icecream pastels that just screams LOOK AT US MAKING OUR MARK BY GRABBING ATTENTION AND CLASHING WITH EVERYTHING, WE ARE SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU. They’ve deliberately made it ugly to centre themselves, and that’s what they’re “proud” of.
Exactly, Piglet. I’ve seen the ‘progress pride’ flag described as a visual representation of the pædophilic gender cult invading the LGB rainbow by hiding behind diversity of race, and since then I haven’t been able to see it any other way.
The gender goblins aren’t generally paedophiles… the paedophiles become gender goblins after they go to prison. Not saying there aren’t any amongst them, but that’s natcon/MAGA talk…
The trannies and goblins are sufficiently unpleasant and annoying without slandering them.
@BKISA
That’s something I’m been wondering lately. Is there any good evidence that the “Progress Flag” or at least the bay pink and blue part it was designed by a paedophile or someone who was paedophile adjacent? I’m mean I could probably just Google it but I don’t want to end up on some sort of list (perhaps not a completely unreasonable fear given how vindictive the TRAs can be and what happened to Helen Joyce).
Francis Boyle, let’s start with the Wikipedia version of the biography, which refers to the designer as ‘she’ even when describing his life before he decided to start pretending to be a woman.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Helms
Now for the more detailed and honest Reddux version:
https://reduxx.info/creator-of-trans-pride-flag-was-admitted-crossdressing-fetishist/
Lastly, I leave you with this:
https://reduxx.info/trans-pride-flag-creator-71-announces-adoption-of-14-year-old-trans-daughter/
If that doesn’t raise massive red flags, I don’t know what would.
Thanks, tigger. I probably should have thought to look on Reduxx. (Wikipedia not so much. I mean I’ve got more Wikipedia tabs open than I care to count, but it’s as captured as any organisation and then there’s the hordes!)
And having read the articles (which I’m pretty sure are where I got my initial impressions) I’m back to square one. The guy’s creepy as hell and his place is festooned with scarlet bunting but there’s nothing the TRAs can’t shrug of with a few shouts of “help, we’re being oppressed”.
Unfortunately, they’ll do that anyway. Look at the Greens in England, and how they treated the Challenor scandal.
Well that was some depressing reading.
And that’s before you get into the WPATH SoC being partially written by castration fetishists.
https://reduxx.info/top-trans-medical-association-collaborated-with-castration-child-abuse-fetishists/
#6 Tigger
Quote from the link you gave:
“but I’m more of a bigender person,”
Which made me think of the dispute among the Lilliputians in Gulliver’s Travels about which end of the boiled egg to crack open. ;^)
Jim Berg, that cracked (tee hee) me up, too!
Turns out there’s a whole fucking rainbow of (mostly male) sexual weirdness that’s only interrelated in the sense that pleistocene sexuality doesn’t mix well with civilization. Then you’ve got to explain Strangio and Elliott Paige…