Jonny Best to be investigated for transphobia by Uni of Huddersfield

How very odd that they go to such lengths to document their claims but they don't quote Jonny accurately.

The association remark is chilling. It's as if they've never heard of 1984 or Herbert Hoover or 'Are you now or have you ever been...' And they think they're the liberal, open-minded ones.

Love Johnny, he's kind and insightful.

This letter reads like something McCarthy would have been proud of "are you now or have you ever associated with Glinner or retweeted him?"

As for the "mental health" comment 🙄
Some of these children really think that if they aren't bring indulged and pandered to the entire time, their resulting narcissistic tantrums are evidence of their fragility and need for further indulgence.

I know what you mean that the university should respect your right to freedom of speech and you should be immune to repercussions arising as a result of your freedom of speech!

I know what you mean that the university is crazy for listening to these fee paying people making complaints and upholding their own policy as it is your right to call a spade a spade and hard luck if they don’t like it.

Looking at the crowing over this on twitter I'm struck yet again by how accusations of transphobia and abuse get thrown about but no one ever seems to want to point to a particular comment, let alone to explain why it's supposed to be transphobic and abusive.

The accusation is made and then it's a sign of more guilt for anyone to asks questions. We've seen this before.

Poor JB, it can't be nice having this hang over you.

I am going to trust Huddersfield to do the Right Thing.

The wheels are coming off this movement. The issue in universities regarding freedom of thought etc has been raised, they have enough support and backup to reject this.

I don’t see how it has to be a student who complained. Could be anyone.

Pascoe commenting - how on earth has Jonny abuses anyone?!

Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. And Mimmymum is tweeting about it. How interesting.

mobile.twitter.com/mimmymum/status/1157439161584017409

Wow, complete madness.

He's not saying anything that many people, including students, aren't saying about the dangerous nature of 'identity politics.' When reality spills into fantasy.

And he's also saying what many transsexual people have begun to say.

This student needs to get out more.

Ludicrous. When I was a student the appropriate response to "I could not go through much more without harming my own mental health..." would have been, at best, a suggestion to seek urgent medical help. How do these people function in the world?

I see from Twitter this morning that GL has steam coming out of his ears in response to this.

They may have overreached here. GL may have grounds for a libel suit, I'd have thought.

Dear University of Huddersfield, please stop wasting your money on advertising, giving my teenage children free pens etc. When you wreck your public image by ridiculous nonsense like this nobody with half a brain is going to take you seriously as a university.

Christ this is pathetic.

People that can't handle others not sharing their unsubstantiated beliefs do not belong in universities.

Jonathan Best is unfailingly thoughtful and polite, which is more than I'm capable being on this issue anymore and I have no profile to make me a target.

Are you now, or have you ever been a T*RF, Jonny?

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law

But..but whoa whoa whoaaaa Neddy! Johnny is doing this grovelling apology self-flagellation thing all wrong surely?
He’s supposed to be backpedalling furiously whilst simultaneously shunning the devil Glinner and all his works and promising to sin no more.
Digging his heels in and fighting back? Standing up to the bullies? I think a million rainbowxcoloured kittens just died.

Come on Johnny, get with the program, you know resistance is futile.

JB is a fucking legend 🍷

Goody Johnny atwittering with....
Hilarious

In every one of those examples put forward by the complainant, Jonny says “ideology” but the complainant changes it to “people”. Remarkable that someone who has reached university-level education doesn’t know the difference.

Or they do, and it’s deliberate misrepresentation....

Hopefully sense will prevail, but who knows in this day and age?

So will Stonewall allow a gay man to be hung out to dry for an anonymous trans person by proxy? If the university fire JB they will have to pick a side.

"...associate positively with Glinner"

FFS, is this really where we're at now?

What does two plus two equal Winston?

AnyOldPrion: "They somehow entwine their entire identity around their ideology, and if you refuse to believe, then you are violating their entire sense of self."

Well, if their entire identity is wound around a fiction and you refuse to believe the fiction, you are violating their entire sense of self.

But that isn't usually considered grounds for supporting delusions. That's the only thing that's new here.

As to the main point, re Jonny, I am so sad, upset, angry, the whole boiling, to hear that now they've upped the persecution on you!

"I could not go through much more without harming my own mental health"...

But here's 12 screenshots that I've personally taken the time to annotate with my own false interpretation of his words

And here's some links to stuff that he's published

And here's a link to somebody else calling him transphobic

And here's a long bit of guff about Stonewall bollocks

Idiot.

Jonny Best - one of the kindest men on Twitter. How ludicrous.

Crimes of association. Stalin would be proud

Isn't it just. Regardless of one's position on trans gender issues this policing and controlling of ideas is terrifying.

As I tend to post on the Best threads of FWR: