David Paisley tells Gay Ireland News & Entertainment what makes him so awesome:

David Paisley is a Scottish actor and LGBTQ+ activist. He has had roles in Holby City and Casualty and currently plays Rory Murdoch in the BBC drama series, River City. He has also been fighting against the wave of transphobia that has crashed across the UK in recent years.

Just speaking out in support of trans people, even as a cis white man, has led to vicious online abuse, being targeted by a certain Father Ted writer and threats of legal action from an MP. He recently set up an organisation called the LGBT+ Glitterati to “create a positive voice of support for all members

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Glinner on why they charged her:

I’ve been reliably informed that the tweet for which she is being charged is this one. It’s a Suffragette ribbon.

https://twitter.com/millar_marion/status/1339695997929353217?s=20

Unbelievably, they’re claiming that this is meant to be a noose.

What does a noose actually look like?

See the differences?

One, there’s that thick heavy overlapping knot, that’s built to take a lot of weight. Two, there’s the direction: the noose is at the bottom, so that the weight of the body pulls the knot tighter and strangles the victim. Three, there’s the coarse thick rope, again built to take a lot of weight. A piece of lavender ribbon with a small pinned loop at the top is not a noose. … Read the rest

Speaking of “malicious communication” (not to mention threats) –

And this one pic.twitter.com/TG5twg39b6

— Susan “The Actual Susan” McDonnell (@sleeepysandy) June 3, 2021

We have referred the matter to the police and the outcome of their investigation will determine our next steps. [2/2]

— Brunel University London (@Bruneluni) June 3, 2021

Your statement appears to conflict with your actions, here you are seemingly supporting the threat of violence towards women (h/t @SinclairJM1987). Are females safe on your campus?#MVAWG#pride #WomenWontWheesht pic.twitter.com/gQrFX6Ug6v

— Dr EM (@PankhurstEM) June 3, 2021

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https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1400392232079921161 https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1400395034365677574

Marion doesn’t “harass and intimidate” trans people. Also, she’s a woman, and thus at a physical disadvantage compared to men like India Willoughby. This claim of intimidation, from a man talking about a woman, is the usual gaslighting bullshit that’s so central to this evil berserk reverse-everything stupid ideology. … Read the rest

Meanwhile…

https://twitter.com/ladyduckpojok/status/1400461259812708358

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Horrible, enraging news:

Apologies for mistakes in original tweet.
Old thread follows:https://t.co/oqS05BtnEO

— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) June 3, 2021

Charge is malicious communication with hate crime aggravator.

— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) June 3, 2021

https://twitter.com/Docstockk/status/1400422188281483272

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Oh go take a running jump. Women aren’t required to “balance” our rights with those of men.

Our CEO, Sam Smethers, reflects on the importance of empathy in order to balance the rights of both women and trans women in relation to the debate around sex and gender identity.

Trans women are men. Women get to focus on our own rights. Tell the men to have some empathy for us why don’t you.

For me, it’s about independent (evidence-based) thinking, clarity of voice and speaking truth to power. On the issue of sex, gender and identity I have refused to simply pick a side, although I am repeatedly told to, and instead maintain that this is complicated and 

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The “Good Law Project” fundraiser for their attack on the LGBA:

Charitable status is earned by those who serve the public good. Denigrating trans people, attacking those who speak for them, and campaigning to remove legal protections from them is the very opposite of a public good. 

None of that is what the LGBA is doing. He’s not very scrupulous with his accusations, that fox-basher guy.

Whatever sweet nothings the so-called “LGB Alliance” whispered into the ear of the Charity Commission

That’s just rude, and kind of sexist. We’re meant to think the LGBA people are like prostitutes.

…the truth was set out in a speech by LGB Alliance director Bev Jackson on 9 March 2020. She described their real

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Another Karen! Ok she’s not white and she’s not calling the manager but shut up, she is a Karen. She doesn’t do what male journalists tell her to do. Bitch.

Naomi Osaka, currently the highest-paid female athlete in the world, announced that she would withdraw from the French Open. She cited preservation of her mental health, the same explanation she’d provided earlier when she publicly declined to participate in tournament-related news conferences.

“Diva behavior,” declared the lead sportswriter of the Telegraph, following the news-conference revelation. “World sport’s most petulant little madam,” decreed Piers Morgan, taking a break from his bizarre Meghan Markle fixation to harass another young woman of color.

Karen. Karen Karen Karen Karen.

So from my limited, headline-osmosis

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NPR is on the job! If you’re at a loss for how to pronoun, NPR is there to help!

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1400121652441145344

Down pointing backhand index to you too, you lovely helpful advicey people.

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1400121311318401033

We heard you the first time but ok I guess.

Shall we read their cute 101 guide? Oh let’s.

“Pronouns are basically how we identify ourselves apart from our name. It’s how someone refers to you in conversation,” says Mary Emily O’Hara, a communications officer at GLAAD. 

No, pronouns are not how we identify ourselves apart from our name. Not basically or any other way.

This guide was created with help from GLAAD. We also referenced resources from the National Center for Transgender Equality, the 

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So few readers.

The blog that former president Donald Trump launched last month after he was banned from Twitter and Facebook is no more.

Jason Miller, a spokesman for Trump, said that “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” has been permanently shut down after all posts were scrubbed from Trump’s website.

Trump rolled out the blog last month after being absent from social media since January, but his effort to regain some of the attention he received with his headline-grabbing tweets largely failed. An adviser told The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey that the former president wanted to open a new “platform” and didn’t like that this platform was being mocked and had so few readers.

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The Times reports on the Jolyon/Mermaids lawsuit:

Stonewall has backed transgender activists in a legal challenge to the charitable status of a rival campaign group that is accused of “denigrating trans people”.

I think it’s a little underhanded to call the LGB Alliance a “rival” group…as if Stonewall were some kind of obvious Rightful Owner and the LGBA a trespasser. Stonewall doesn’t own All Things NotStraight, and anyway it’s far more about the T these days.

In their objections to the Charity Commission’s decision, the groups argued that “charitable status is earned by those who serve the public good. Denigrating trans people, attacking those who speak for them, and campaigning to remove legal protections from them is the very

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Barrister Dennis Kavanagh at Lesbian and Gay News reports on the kimono guy’s lawsuit against the LGB Alliance:

The public campaign against the LGB Alliance by established trans-focused charities Stonewall and Mermaids escalated into litigation today with an appeal against the Charity Commission’s decision to award the LGBA charitable status (available here). This follows ferocious objections from the groups to the initial application for registration and a campaign of well publicised subsequent complaints to the commission itself by supporters of both charities, (many of which were dismissed as “emotional”). It seems then that 2021 Pride month will set the stage for an extraordinary legal spectacle of large, multi-million pound trans focused charities seeking to silence and effectively destroy

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While Jolyon is persecuting lesbians in London, police in Bristol are persecuting a woman who, according to them, made “transphobic comments” to someone.

Police have released a CCTV image after transphobic comments were made to a woman.

Avon and Somerset Police are investigating the incident that occurred in the St Paul’s area.

The transphobic comments were made by an “unknown woman” in Badminton Road at around 6.50pm on Thursday, May 6.

But can we trust the police on this? Can we trust them to know the comments were genuinely transphobic as opposed to ordinary statements of fact?

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The Fox-basher is persecuting uppity lesbians again.

NEW: LGBTQ+ people across the UK face an onslaught of attacks in the media. Those carrying out those attacks ought not to be dignified with charitable status. We’re taking action. @Mermaids_Gender @LGBTConsortium
https://t.co/7xcULz329m

— Good Law Project (@GoodLawProject) June 2, 2021

Demanding LGB people support the aims of Stonewall and others in their push for self ID, and the redefinition of “man” and “woman” as identities is deeply homophobic. We are not a hive mind, and we will not be bullied into submission.

— Duncan (@DuncanHenry78) June 2, 2021

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Should Michael Flynn be court-martialed for advocating a coup? Not quite, legally speaking. (Morally speaking he should be court-martialed and then pushed into a deep mud puddle.)

Flynn made the comment at a QAnon-themed conference in Texas this past weekend. After Flynn delivered a speech to the group, a man in the audience rose and said, “I’m a simple Marine. I want to know why what happened in Minimar [he was referring to the February military coup in Myanmar] can’t happen here.” Amid much whooping and clapping from the crowd, Flynn replied, “No reason. I mean, it should happen”—i.e., a coup should happen here. (Flynn has since denied saying this, but the videotape clearly shows he did.)

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Originally a comment by Nullius in Verba on Happy pride day punch a terf.

(Warning: not new information for many here.) I really do think that these people have somehow reconceptualized words like lesbian from descriptions to memberships. For example, atheist as a description is a word that applies to someone who does not believe in any gods. Believe in no gods? Atheist. Believe in at least one god? Not an atheist. As a membership term, it applies to someone who is part of the group “atheists”. Thus, if one is permitted entry into the group, one is an atheist. No other criteria apply, and this is how we get to normative notions of inclusion and exclusion, of “policing” … Read the rest

Trump is telling people he expects to be “reinstated” in a couple of months. That’s not how that works, Treasonbro.

It isn’t happening in a vacuum. It is happening as he faced the possibility of an indictment from the Manhattan DA.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 1, 2021

The anti-democratic conspiracy theory has been bubbling up in fringe conservative media for several months. It has no basis under the Constitution or any legitimate legal framework.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been a prominent proponent of the theory.

So what? What’s the pillow guy got to do with anything?

Lindell has said August is when he would go to the Supreme Court to present evidence he’s acquired that would be

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The Toronto Star says there are more mass graves.

“If you think there’s another Kamloops just coming around the corner, there is one — trust me,” says Lyle Keewatin Richards, the child of a residential school survivor who is part of a group trying to preserve an unmarked cemetery near the former Red Deer Industrial School in Alberta.

According to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, approximately 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children attended these residential schools. Estimates vary, but the commission put it at just over 4,000 dead, which would mean that more than one in 50 children who went to the schools died there. Most experts say the toll is likely higher.

It was a rate of

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Stonewall is having a rough day.

Meanwhile, @DawnButlerBrent asked whether we trusted @trussliz or @stonewalluk more.

I don't know about anyone else, but we will take whoever will stand up for women in the face of comments like this (remember, all to "celebrate" #pride) pic.twitter.com/LRdKHasDX7

— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) June 1, 2021

https://twitter.com/Docstockk/status/1399614477163769857

Also as that Telegraph article mentioned, Channel 4 has also dropped Stonewall.

I plan a meeting on Stonewall policies next week. https://t.co/RUAOyEdE6E

— Emma Harriet Nicholson (@Baroness_Nichol) June 1, 2021

A glimmer of light at last.… Read the rest