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LGB Alliance Ireland launched (getting lots of flack)

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GrainneMhaol · 29/10/2020 15:29

Hi everyone, LGB Alliance Ireland launched this week. This is their twitter page twitter.com/Ire_LGBAlliance?s=09

They've got a lot of flack about them being British T**fs bring their hateful ideas to Ireland etc. (Infecting our poor sweet innocent Irish colleens with their British ideas Hmm That is the tone of the reaction).

Some of the replies here will give you an idea of the hyperbolic reaction, and also the quote tweets
twitter.com/Ire_LGBAlliance/status/1320845845810597888?s=19

Unsurprisingly Pink News and Gay Community News (like an Irish version of Pink News) have run with the evil Brits line.

Archived link to Pink News article
archive.is/80c5B#selection-705.0-707.183

Gay Community News archived article
archive.is/6g8ND

Just to clarify I'm not involved directly with the Alliance but support it.

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thinkingaboutLangCleg · 18/12/2020 17:24

Xenophobes and homophobes form a toxic mix. But their hate-filled insults can't harm the strong-minded LGB people who are speaking up for themselves. Good luck to the LGBA everywhere. You flourish in the sunlight, while it withers xenophobia and homophobia.

PurpleHoodie · 18/12/2020 16:51

Sending Christmas cheer Ceri.

Hope everything is going well.

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 17/12/2020 22:18

So if TW are really lesbians they have more privilege than any other lesbians in history because they are the only lesbians who always had the same rights as straight people. If they are women they have more privilege than any other woman in history because they are the only women who always had the same rights as men.

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CeriBlack · 17/12/2020 22:09

Totally up for secret handshakes, lol.

It should be something hilarious, but subtle.

FionaMacCool · 10/12/2020 19:34

Brava Ceri! Welcome to MN.
We should have a secret Handshake for real life ;-)

Weatherwarning · 10/12/2020 19:20

Welcome

Annasgirl · 10/12/2020 19:17

Welcome Ceri - fantastic to put yourself out there.

PurpleHoodie · 10/12/2020 19:07

Welcome Brew

OhHolyJesus · 10/12/2020 18:57

Welcome Ceri, loved you on Glinner. We are right beside you.

Apollo440 · 10/12/2020 18:52

Welcome the the nest of vipers or whatever they call us.

CeriBlack · 10/12/2020 18:39

I'm one of the founding members of the LGB Alliance Ireland, and my friend pointed me in the direction of this thread.

I'm so moved.

Thank you, lovely people.

You lovely people were the ones we try to speak to, whenever we open our mouths.

I'm @femmeloves on twitter. Come say hi.

PurpleHoodie · 11/11/2020 00:59

Good news-ish GrainneMhaol.

Debate and sunlight.

Abhannmor · 11/11/2020 00:47

@Lisz

According to a tweet currently knocking about with a link to Companies House, LGBA are

Malcolm Clark (58)
Katherine Harris (66)
Beverly Jackson (69)
and
Anne Marie Sinnott (71)

The average age of people going to Pride in Europe is 29.

One is mindful of the old Bill Hicks quote about the 'War on Drugs' being lost because the side against drugs were like the red-coated colonials fighting Indians in the jungle.

I mean it'd be almost funny if it weren't so absolutely pathetic.

Harris and Jackson were the women on the very first committee of the Gay Liberation Front afaik. That was 50 years ago so fair play to them for keeping up the struggle.
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GrainneMhaol · 11/11/2020 00:28

There was an awful piece about the LGB Alliance in the Irish Independent over a week ago (however it is likely this is the first time most of the readers got any inkling about what is going on, so a win for us I think)
m.independent.ie/opinion/comment/lgb-must-stand-with-t-in-the-fight-against-transphobia-39688679.html

And thankfully the paper gave the LGB Alliance a space to reply with their own article, which drew attention to some key issues

amp.independent.ie/opinion/comment/the-lgb-alliance-is-not-transphobic-we-are-just-trying-to-protect-ourselves-39727908.html?__twitter_impression=true

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ArabellaScott · 01/11/2020 17:24

"A trans woman being granted refuge in a women's-only space is not of harm to cisgender women."

How on earth do they come to that conclusion? Some kind of magic incantatory spell that renders transwomen uniquely harmless? And the women who have recently taken the govt to a judicial review to explain exactly how and why transwomen are of harm, how is that explained? Is it bigotry to have been raped/assaulted in prison by a transwoman, or is it just bigotry to actually mention the fact?

RuffleCrow · 01/11/2020 17:12

Transwomen have Christ-like status within the church of gender orthodoxy, for reasons which are never explained. Apparently they're incapable of harming other people (they're "without sin"). This holds true however many transwomen sex offenders and murderers may appear in the news. Confused

FionaMacCool · 01/11/2020 10:00

"A trans woman being granted refuge in a women's-only space is not of harm to cisgender women."

I wish this were true...but it blatantly is not. And it is wishful thinking to imagine that it could be true.
Not grounded in reality at all, at all, Emma.

buckeejit · 01/11/2020 09:20

Great that Ireland has LGBA now. The article smacks of playground bullies saying 'but you have to be my friend cos I say so...'

Really hoping this helps open some eyes in this country

notyourhandmaid · 01/11/2020 03:16

Irish Independent about the LGB alliance:
www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/lgb-must-stand-with-t-in-the-fight-against-transphobia-39688679.html

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GrainneMhaol · 01/11/2020 02:33

Good points ByGrabs

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GrainneMhaol · 01/11/2020 02:31

LGB Alliance Ireland is definitely Irish-run.

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MaudTheInvincible · 31/10/2020 23:52

No ineffective movement would engender that level of resentment.

Indeed. Keep pulling!

RuffleCrow · 31/10/2020 23:51

A little bit of ageism there @lisz

RuffleCrow · 31/10/2020 23:49

I think it's brilliant. We LGB people face a common set of experiences and barriers which have nothing in common with people wanting to change sex. If we could change sex at will we wouldn't be LGB!

It's right that we should once again have pressure groups which represent our unique needs.

PurpleHoodie · 31/10/2020 23:42
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