Some more Joani tweets (it's not all a thread):
Joani Walsh
@joaniwalshi
I sat through a day of #HelenIslan’s evidence in which she repeatedly labelled Miranda Yardley as ‘disingenious’. If Islan of #Mermaids is now claiming the decision to put a transsexual through ten months of hell was nothing to do with her, Islan needs to look up ‘disingenious’.
#HelenIslan made a late submission to declare that she would not be able to give evidence if she was not afforded the luxury of protection for her views. Helen Islan was surprised she did not win to the point she had to deliberate if she could proceed. #MirandaYardley
The judge in the #MirandaYardley trial threw out the case on the strength of #HelenIslan's evidence. One would hope that would be salutary. Sadly, by her output since, it would appear Helen Islan is, instead, doubling down. She could have ruined someone's life.
How can you claim to want to make the world a better place, as #HelenIslan claimed in court, and surely know you will ruin someone's life for tweets? #MirandaYardley
Debbie Hayton was due to give evidence. It included Helen Islan describing Debbie as a man in a dress. Pages and pages of evidence were listed of Islan’s behaviour towards others online inc calling Lily Maynard a bitch.
She'd have known she had to give evidence. She just expected to be able to do it without having to take responsibility for it. She appeared on camera reluctantly and clutching a pack of tissues. Her obfuscation was appalling. And continued repetition of the same lines frustrating
I've been with Miranda this w/e and he is humbled by donations to buy him a drink. Sadly, he's not able to communicate with anyone because not only has he been chucked off totalitarian Twitter, he's on a 30-day ban from fascist Facebook for saying a word that rhymes with fanny.
So we have a truly transgender person being done for transphobia who is then also not allowed to describe himself.
I'm not sure everyone fully understood how important the Miranda Yardley trial was going to be for freedom of speech and the ability to criticise transgender ideology and its advocates. The application for reporting restrictions declared it was a case of transgender hate crime.
This would have been a first. The state wanted to set a precedent to enable them to lay foundations for transphobia to become a hate crime and to silence inconvenient views. As they are trying to do on other fronts regarding criticism of religious ideology and r/w political views
Miranda Yardley has had a really, really hard time. He said his life since last November has not allowed him to see beyond this weekend because he didn't know if he was going to have much of a future. He could have lost his livelihood thanks to Helen Islan. That is obscene.
What is even more abhorrent is that Helen Islan demanded the privilege not to be held accountable for what she was doing. She expected to be able to wield the knife in darkness.