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.

Unbelievable that the media are reporting this as Glinner getting attacked on Mumsnet and the TRAs loving it. I think the responses on the thread are overwhelmingly encouraging and supportive.

There is so much vile misogynist pedophiliac trash on twitter, some accounts are horrifying (all males of course too). But its the honest decent person who has sacrificed so much to help others who gets suspended. This is truly a battle of good against evil.

Twitter is sailing very close to the wind and I don't think it's MRA or TRA audience will be enough to save it. It's much more of a cesspit than Facebook and it openly tries to manipulate and influence politics from its (frankly laughable) trending topics to its application of bans to the red carpet it rolls out for death threats, misogyny and paedophiles.

Particularly after GL being suspended for daring to mention grooming. What kind of person on a parenting forum would want that topic silenced. Absolutely @LadybirdsAreNotBirds - it's quite disturbing actually and is making me question a lot!

@VenusTiger I don't believe that he was suspended for using the word grooming. I recently was in a thread the went on forever and was all about grooming. No suspensions there.

I wonder if the Daily Mail are in breach of the IPSO rules there.

They have certainly misled the public into an entirely wrong conclusion of this thread. It's actually the opposite. It's very supportive.

Deleted post after post makes a riveting read.

Interesting, the DM have had some quite pro-woman content of late.

Wonder why they'd misrepresent the tone of this site?

Hang in there, Glinner. We are.

Wow ive never seen so many comments deleted... But didn't you falsely accuse someone of being a pedophile and grooming??

@Highperbolay

I have used Mumsnet on and off for 10 years under a variety of usernames and I hardly ever post now because the transphobia is so rampant and off-putting

Can someone please, for the actual love of God, post some examples of the 'rampant transphobia' on this site!!!!

I know, right? Here we are begging on bended knee, and yet, to date -- nothing.

They probably took the story from Twitter not realising that certain sectors of Twitter misrepresent MN as much as they misrepresent reality.

He was pushed off Twitter because he didn't succom to this misogynist bollocks that Twitter and most left wing media are pushing. 99% of women and most men agree with every bloody thing he said.

Wouldn't be the first time a TRA has posted stuff on Mumsnet, screenshot it, and then run back to Twitter with it.

Mumsnet is an overwhelmingly female-voiced space - but men can and do post on here, and hat's fine. Glinner is welcome here.

Thanks Glinner - they've been going after you for a long time now, it was only a matter of time. Thanks for supporting women's rights, which are under sustained attack.

mellymoop
Yes

Keep up the good work @Glinner - it's a battle i know, but we all stand with you

Anybody posted some examples of the 'rampant transphobia' on this site yet?

Thought not.

They have published the odd good article but most Daily Mail writers just don't get it when it comes to these issues, or they write whatever makes for best clickbait.

Or maybe it's one of those articles that had to be pre-approved by the trans lobby? (Or was that the Sun, can't remember)

The thread is far too big for me to get to the end of any time soon so sorry if this is a repeat of what's already been posted:

twitter.com/MisterGLS/status/1276811983938097154

That is taking up the nastiness up a notch.

I think you need a lawyer. This is on the Guardian

The subscribers to his YouTube account is growing. Good.

@Quillink

Misgendering is a thing, it causes damage especially when ment to purposely hurt.

What thing is it and what actual damage does it cause? Actual damage, beyond hurt feelings? As Germaine Greer says: try being an older woman. My feelings are hurt all the bloody time.

Or try being a young black girl growing up in the 50s and 60s in a racist British colony. The hurt was constant.

I never had a tantrum, I never complained, and somehow I emerged bigger and stronger than ever.

If you nurse your hurt feelings and expect them to be stroked you remain just that: a hurt feeling.

That Daily Mail article is dreadful.

The only thing they manage to be truthful about seems to be the date.

The rest is a journalistic wacky races.

A lot of media sources are reporting on this thread. For those that came for a browse I have bumped up the ASDA thread, the Guardian thread and the Baroness thread. It might open the some peoplesort eyes.
Glinner, thank you for being brave enough to speak up.

@ThePurported

They have published the odd good article but most Daily Mail writers just don't get it when it comes to these issues, or they write whatever makes for best clickbait.

Or maybe it's one of those articles that had to be pre-approved by the trans lobby? (Or was that the Sun, can't remember)

Just another example of today's lazy journalism.

@Glinner I appreciate your support for women's spaces. We fight the fight for women's spaces, NOT against trans spaces. A strange world where it is considered hateful to protect rights that are ours in law.

I have a gay male friend who is clever, funny and kind.

I can’t reconcile this with the fact he’s also “high up” in one of these TRA organisations and was gleefully posting at the crack of dawn that glinner got his arse handed to him by the feminists on mn of all places.

So yes, it was a call to arms.

And no, I have no idea what to do about my friend who clearly hates women and I’m sure genitals would suddenly be very important on Grindr. (I know, grow a backbone and ditch him)