Mick Hartley

BBC man Russell Davies in the Guardian:

Russell T Davies has said gay rights are “rapidly and urgently getting worse” thanks to the rise of Reform UK and the influence of the Trump presidency on British politics.

The award-winning screenwriter, who is best known for reviving Doctor Who and writing Queer As Folk, said the LGBT community should be “revolting in terror and anger and action” in response to growing support for Reform, which has pledged to “ban transgender ideology” in schools.

You see the switch there? He's ostensibly talking about gay rights, but he really means trans rights. After all this time he still hasn't noticed – or still pretends not to notice – the glaring disconnect between the two. 

Duly demolished:

1/ Where does one start with this? Russel has nothing to say when the Scottish Government argued in the Supreme Court that the protected characteristic of same sex attraction should be rendered “meaningless”. That threat to rights didn’t bother himhttps://t.co/dJPo7d5oEb

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2/ Of course had he said something, he would have incurred the wrath of his new overlords, so he unthinkingly rails against people who object to children being taught that somehow they have the wrong bodies and need chemical and surgical interventions.

3/ Russsel doesn’t seem to appreciate 80-90% of the cohort at the Tavistock were same sex attracted, if cross sex ideation is naturally occurring in any population there is no good reason for this figure to be so high, or for autism to feature in 35% of cases.

4/ This is the world turned upside down, here we have a gay man cheering on an ideology that opposed the lesbians in the Supreme Court and is visiting brutal conversion therapy on the young – and he does all this is the name of gay rights, which I find remarkable.

5/ There is no excuse for this level of ignorance or betrayal of the very people you claim to champion. This is not 2015. We have had Cass, Forstater, the Supreme Court Judgment, I could go on but I trust the point is clear. Ignorance now is a choice and it is wilful.

6/ It is profoundly dishonest to lament the recession of gay rights (which is markedly not happening) and then to bait and switch to political transvestism concerns. This is a fraud. This is ignorance wrapped in a rainbow. This is betrayal and the expected level of cowardice.