Twitter has suspended me

[Glinner]

I'm really sorry to barge in on you Mumsnettters with my problems, but
I've been finally suspended from Twitter and I have a feeling they're either going to ban me or just take my verified tick. I've submitted an appeal with Twitter and the Better Business Bureau but I thought I'd post here too so people knew what was going on.

Recently, I keep being locked out of my account and forced to delete tweets to get back in. The latest tactic by trans rights activists is to run a search for any time I've used the word 'groomer', a phrase Twitter recently decided was Not Allowed.

This was not a violation of Twitter's ToS at the time I used the phrase, and I have been careful to avoid it since. I still use the word 'grooming' in various permutations because I believe that gender ideology is a form of societal grooming. It is a very real threat to the wellbeing of women and children and if our ability to name a threat is removed, it is even more difficult to fight that threat.

You may remember that Twitter similarly removed Canadian feminist Meghan Murphy. She lost her account when she said "that's him" about 'Jessica' Yaniv. Bear in mind that Yaniv was still going under 'Jonathan' at the time, and just as in my case, her crime against Twitter's Terms of Service was not actually an offence at the time she committed it. She probably never thought she could be banned from the public square for uttering the words "that's him". But that's Twitter.

Twitter has a high percentage of trans-identified employees and for some time has been silencing feminists and their allies who run afoul of its absurd 'misgendering' policies. The one good thing about my situation is that I'm in great company--Claire Graham, Meghan Murphy, Skylar Gwynn, Miranda Yardley, GNC Centric and many more, important feminist and critical voices who have been silenced for fighting a dangerous ideology that tells children it's possible to be born into the wrong body.

Anyway, that's what's happening. Please let people know it's entirely down to malicious reporting from the usual suspects and please keep watching my YouTube Channel and visiting my depressing blog. I'll also be available on Glindr if people from Twitter want to re-establish contact there. Hope it's ok to post these links to those destinations

YouTube:
Glindr: glindr.org/home
Women are Important: glinner.co.uk/

Thanks for all the support, and thanks for letting me fight alongside you.

@12boo

A new website is needed. Maybe run by cervix havers "twatter"

Twatter!

@ItsAllGoingToBeFine

I'm going to choose to read something significant into the fact that MNHQ often (usually?) simply delete threads that quickly descend into outright trolling, yet this thread they took the time to clean up and reactivate.

to MNHQ

I totally agree 👏👏

That had occurred to me to It's all

Terf is an insult here

Best read guidelines

They are pinned at top

Oh but I like engaging with the posters who claim the evidence is there of transphobia on mumsnet/insert person here’s twitter.

In fact I have kept a tally. Over the last three years on here/twitter/facebook there have been 89 posters who claimed there was hard evidence of transphobia right under my nose.

I searched high and low, I spent hours looking. I never found a thing. Confused at first, I would ask to be shown this obvious evidence that I was missing.

And you know, a funny thing happened. I started to notice that not one of them would answer with a screenshot of said evidence.

They all acted in exactly the same way, in the exact way that someone without ANY evidence acts.

They would question my intelligence, insult me, call me a bitch. They would claim I must be transphobic if I couldn’t see it as it was so glaringly obvious. They scream, shout, stamp their feet and then they would leave.

Never got one screenshot from those 89 people.

I’m hoping @Reuniono is the chosen one.

Thank you Glinner for everything you do.

[quote LockdownHairdo]@baronesswrongcrowd I said 'terrifying' not terrible, if you're talking to me, and I don't have to prove anything to you. I do wonder why Mumsnet has become such a hotbed of transphobia.[/quote]
I'll just change that for.
I wonder why Mumsnet has become such a hotbed for advocating Women's rights.

@Glinner another thank you here. And to MNHQ for the moderator who has demonstrated decency. To the newcomers: Welcome to our village, please invade carefully (with apologies to Eddie Robson).

How long is the suspension Graham?
Ps. I loved your interview with Stephanie D-A

Psst. We’re the mommies.
We’ve seen it all before grin

Indeed we have! A couple years ago it was the naughty step. What is the approved method of dealing with toys-out-of-the-pram tantrums these days?

I'm sorry I missed all the fun but really, it's easy to guess what was said. It's always the same isn't it? No discussion, just "you're all so meeeeeeen!" outrage.

This too shall pass.
The fury is because they realise that the wheels are indeed wobbling badly and will soon fall off the TRA bus.
Outside of Twitter hardly anyone believes TWAW. Not deep inside, where is really matters. It's a mantra without power.

That did not take me as long to read as i thought it was going to

I am pleased that mumsnet did a bit of banishing and have left the thread up💐

I don’t understand. How can Trump be still on Twitter. Yet OP is banned for nothing?

@PurpleCrowbarWhereIsLangCleg

2010 GRA??? No such legislation.

It identifies as being a lEgIsLaTiOn.

@PermanentTemporary

Oh *@Reunuio* (hope I've spelled that right) just to say I have a friend a flesh and blood person I talk to and have coffee with who was permabanned from twitter for saying that JY is a man. So that's an example.

I do feel twitter is only one thing. And they have to have some rules; what if those police officers had posted those selfies of themselves with the murdered women on twitter? Obviously those would have to go. So the argument is about the limits of free speech. But anyone who thinks being called a man is an insult of such proportions that someone should be permanently banned - it's odd. Particularly when, you know, it's objectively true.

Free Speech does not mean a freedom of consequences. What we're seeing, despite the noise and the pushback from the reactionary, is society steadily understanding this. Misgendering is a thing, it causes damage especially when ment to purposely hurt.

@Glinner

@FlamingoAndJohn

Hi *@Glinner*. You are welcome here. As indeed are all men. There are many long standing male posters.

Thank you!

& yes, thank you to MN for facilitating the debate. From back when the howls of 'no debate' were loudest, to now when we see so clearly that 'won't debate' = 'can't debate'.

You might have missed it, so just in case, the law has changed for #Trans folks. If you care to give the 2010 GRA a look, it's all in there

It hasn't given you women's rights dude has it though, you know, the real prize that you were really hoping for.

I quite like the expression Gender Critter. It sounds folksy and cuddly. You would say “Ah, what a cute little Gender Critter” in the same tone of voice I use to my cat when she’s being sweet (ie not yowling at me or lying down on my book when I’m trying to read it.)
But I expect I’m wrong and it’s meant as an insult.

Bullshit, Reunuio. Correctly sexing men is important for the safety of women and girls.

@12boo

How long is the suspension Graham? Ps. I loved your interview with Stephanie D-A

It's a perma ban

Won’t debate_ can’t debate.

So obvious here

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/7/contents

*2004

Goodness me, what a lot of 'brand new/rarely seen' posters were up and about in the early hours of the morning!

All because women aren't rolling over and letting them do exactly as they like and some men - thanks, Glinner - are standing up for us.