Get the violins out - Stonewall is "in crisis"

If you give advice which is legally incorrect and the organisations you’ve advised then have to pay a fortune in payouts after losing multiple legal cases due to that incorrect advice then it’s no wonder organisations are going to avoid consulting you anymore.

Straight with a spicy haircut & a transally of course.

What the flip is gender queer? Can anyone explain as if to a six year old please?

What the flip is gender queer? Can anyone explain as if to a six year old please?

https://www.flagcolorcodes.com/genderqueer

Not all marketing campaigns are successful....but thanks to David Lammy (rare words) some are. 🦕 🦖

An LGB charity does not need to include the T no more than it needs to include issues like cancer care, disabled support or environmental concerns. Most charities stick to one thing. Should the RNIB join with greenpeace?

Cant they see that their approach to trans activism at the expense of women’s rights has caused the damage? Lesbian groups are fearful of Stonewall and its male privilege approach.

And we are all bloody tired of these people and the media and the politicians telling the female population to shut up and be kind. Has Stonewall not seen the horrible terminology of TERF and cis-women? Have they not seen some of the violent behaviour of TRAs at demonstrations? Have they not read some of the horrible comments on social media?

Stonewall needs to get back to basics to re-gain support. The erasure of women and the introduction of all the cervix-haver, womb-carrier, chest feeder terminology needs to stop as the majority of the population is thinking WTF!

What on earth is gender queer? Why do they all need flags?

Interesting how marketing changes our perceptions I think. Watermelon used to be a racist trope in the USA.

I noticed that some trans groups were trying to co-opt suffragette colours too

They haven't come for our 🦕🦖....yet

Feeling same way about Watermelon. Was DD fav fruit and she has watermelon things from prior to 2023 when it became a secret symbol.
She has only now things where the watermelon is Pink. The other things where it’s red, she chucked.

I think the Rainbow as a symbol was part of the marketing campaign, ie the Rainbow Umbrella under which many identities and who ever else might generate income could be said to belong together.

The allocating of colours to represent some thing or another was a later refinement - an "in depth" explanation to bamboozle the credulous that it was all part of some set of beliefs that already existed in these numerous communities.

Although part of me that is only too aware of the increasingly overt targetting of children, that the rainbow would be an easy symbol to sell.

And agree with others that if I see the rainbow on anything now I am immediately have a negative response. Which for those who have previously used the rainbow prior to it being colonised by Stonewall and others, in an innocent, apolitical way must be really galling.

After thought. I haven't seen a real rainbow for years. Have they decided they cant display themselves because no doubt someone will captured their image and repurpose it.

I'm a lesbian and I freeze at the sight of the rainbow lanyard and flag. They're increasingly a sign of homophobia. At their best, they're a sign of a well-meaning idiot, at worst they're worn by abusive people as a form of cover.

I can't see the relationship between those white blankets with dark blue and red stripes - and the trans flag, which is pale blue and pink.

I can't see the relationship between those white blankets with dark blue and red stripes - and the trans flag, which is pale blue and pink.

I think the Rainbow as a symbol was part of the marketing campaign, ie the Rainbow Umbrella under which many identities and who ever else might generate income could be said to belong together.

The allocating of colours to represent some thing or another was a later refinement - an "in depth" explanation to bamboozle the credulous that it was all part of some set of beliefs that already existed in these numerous communities.

Although part of me that is only too aware of the increasingly overt targetting of children, that the rainbow would be an easy symbol to sell.

And agree with others that if I see the rainbow on anything now I am immediately have a negative response. Which for those who have previously used the rainbow prior to it being colonised by Stonewall and others, in an innocent, apolitical way must be really galling.

After thought. I haven't seen a real rainbow for years. Have they decided they cant display themselves because no doubt someone will captured their image and repurpose it.

I think the rainbow 'became' - I don't think it was chosen by a committee or anything - the flag of the lesbian and gay community because it is a symbol of unity: all the colours are contained in it (except black and white because they are sort-of not-colours). It represents everyone, unlike national flags.
[Hence the annoyingness of the Progress flag, adding bits to something that already represented everyone].

Before that, it was widely used by the environmental movement.

I believe the trans flag is based on the baby blankets used in hospitals in the USA, which have blue and white stripes - gender neutral because for all the babies!

I really like the rainbow as a symbol of diversity. The progress flag can fuck all the way off. An absolute tragedy of a thing.

not seen a real rainbow @IwantToRetire? They don’t control the weather, you know! 😄 Real rainbows, fortunately, continue to be a reminder that the natural world is full of beauty.
#electromagneticradiationisaspectrum