Another for the Naughty Step: John Nicolson, (SNP) MP for Ochil and South Perthshire
(1) April 2020: tweeted repeatedly asking men to come on his Talk Radio programme to discuss what should be done about women who are not willing to give up sex as a protected category without a discussion. Those men mostly said: maybe ask a woman who's been working on these issues - here are some contacts. (Just one example, with links to others: twitter.com/MrJohnNicolson/status/1252364720612376581)
(2) Women (including his constituents) who offered to come on the show or to recommend an expert, and men who supported them, were then blocked. Was called out by many, including LGB Alliance, for systematically snubbing women on a set of issues that disproportionately impacts women. A partial list of blockings, just to show the scale and immediacy, some in embedded tweets: twitter.com/DiscerningCrit1/status/1256246976913584128
(3) Apparently blamed LGB Alliance for the tweetdown he received, and on his show denounced them as a hate organisation. Several people asking for evidence of his allegation or providing evidence to the contrary were blocked. LGB Alliance asked the public to make direct donations, if they could, in the name of someone who had slandered the organisation and then tweeted out the accompanying notes. Not surprisingly, Mr. Nicolson was a popular choice: twitter.com/ALLIANCELGB/status/1267156935897481230
(4) Allegedly used his constituency office staff to run a campaign - during COVID lockdown!! - to cut off LGB Alliance's JustGiving and GoFundMe campaigns. The tweets of him taking credit for this are no longer available, but here's a critical thread with screenshots: twitter.com/AugustaAndarta/status/1255871327191347200 and another thread from a supporter celebrating his "victory" with additional Nicolson screen caps: twitter.com/MichaelSturrock/status/1255568047747760132. And an excellent thread detailing the full set of events critically: twitter.com/TwisterFilm/status/1260950542991478785
In the same time period Nicolson allegedly sent another tweet, now deleted but captured here, erroneously alerting Police Scotland (again, busy with actual work, during a global pandemic) that LGB Alliance "is" funded by far right foreigners: twitter.com/RebelFairyJewel/status/1253964619523280896
(5) Used his Talk Radio programme AGAIN to denounce LGB Alliance, claiming they'd run a targeted hate campaign against him because he'd spoken out on behalf of his constituent "B", who was a trans child, and had consequently received hate tweets. His main example of this was LGB Alliance tweeting about donations in his name, no examples of actual hate or abuse were offeredand nothing referencing "B". Mr. Nicolson had been posting material and promoting policy that was widely perceived to be anti-women and anti-homosexual for quite some time; he must have expected massive criticism. It was clear what was behind the LGB Alliance fundraising tweets, which were not abusive. A thread with the relevant clip from his programme embedded: twitter.com/joss_prior/status/1267172295992324098
(6) Nicolson sits on the Digital Culture, Media, and Sport Committee (DCMS) at Westminster and has used that platform to call repeatedly for social media to remove anonymity protections, ignoring expert opinion and public criticism that such action would result in an open season on women from violent Anti-Woman Activists systemically protected by institutions hiding behind the "trans umbrella" while failing to represent the interests of actual trans people:
twitter.com/WebDevLaw/status/1255798850629091328
(All links above are also archived in case of deletion.)