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.

Just adding my voice to the support for @Glinner. Thanks for standing up for women and children, Graham.

Glinner you kindly messaged me on Twitter to warn me that one of my posts was likely to get me deleted. Thank you.

I appreciate what you've done and what it has cost you. I hope you have a break and look after yourself.

Thanks Glinner and stay well. 💐

@nauticant

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.

What the actual fuck

Is that just a photoshopped version that someone has tweeted?!

Yes it is

Font is slightly wrong. It's doing the rounds...

Just logged into twitter (different handle there for reasons I probably don’t need to explain!) to see that you’ve been suspended. I just wanted to add my thanks as well @Glinner - I only recently got involved in this, like many others I just didn’t quite get what was at stake until JKR posted.

Thank you for supporting women’s rights and thank you to all the women here who have kept this conversation going whilst idiots like me were still in the ‘just be kind’ phase!

What a bunch of absolute tossers

And they think I was in support of the TRAs too. Idiots.

each time i read a thread like this i wonder what would happen if everyone on here who dedicates so much time and effort towards bitching about trans people on twitter did some real-life activism to improve the lives of women and girls.

@nauticant

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.

That Twitter user the way he's described Graham could be perceived as hate speech against the Irish.

Thank you @Glinner

Hopefully this will pour more daylight onto the shocking vitriol of the TRAs and action will be taken to get justice for everyone they have intimidated, threatened and harassed

Someone just said I might have been thrown off for saying "Women aren't men, tho".

Can you imagine?

The more light on this, the better,

Thank you @Glinner for standing up for women and girls. You have helped more than you know and I'm sorry that this has happened to you. The vitriol directed towards anyone who is seen as GC on Twitter is frightening. I see they''ve already upped their smear campaign. Disgusting.

Why can't you just go and setup your own website instead of coming to a site that you have no place on , I come here to discuss Parenthood and topics relating to this, I do not want your transphobic comments here.

Twitter is a company , they have guidelines, they clearly are with odds with your views on life. I'm all for free speech but not facilitating hate speech. We really don't need you and your views on this platform.

@snowsuit

each time i read a thread like this i wonder what would happen if everyone on here who dedicates so much time and effort towards bitching about trans people on twitter did some real-life activism to improve the lives of women and girls.

That's precisely what we are doing, thanks. Trying to protect women and girls from having their sex based rights eroded and their lived experience cancelled.

@AnnaPosie go to the chat boards then. Quite simple really.

AnnaPosie

Here you go, you seem to have come to the wrong place:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/parenting

Annaposie MN has dozens of different boards and hundreds of threads. Very easy to avoid this one if you want.

MN does not speak in one voice and we don't have a hive-think thank god.

Glinner Is hugely welcome here in my view and in the view of many others here.

@Glinner I hope you are doing ok today and the vitriol you've recieved has not affected you too much. As you know women are unfortunately well used to death and rape threats.
Due to many media outlets publishing misleading articles I fear now we will be over run with TRAs. I can only implore @MichaelMumsnet and the fellow mods to suspend new user activity on the FWR boards for the foreseeable future.

The sheer toxic spite of the made-up screenshots is linked to is astonishing.

Also noteworthy is the complete lack of the sharers stopping for one second and asking the question "is it real". They just don't care. Anything can be justified if it destroys the opposition.

This is what is driving people many in their campaigning to get safeguarding removed around women's single sex spaces and around children.

@AnnaPosie Can you provide examples of hate speech and transphobic comments please. If you see them be sure to report them. Also this is the feminist board. We talk about Women's and girls rights on here - it is one of the few places where we can. Mumsnet is not just about parenthood.

Bad reporting by the daily fail about this thread.

“ Mr Linehan should not be writing in a 'women's space'.

She wrote: 'Sorry who are you and why should I care that you have been banned from Twitter?

'You seem to be a man by the looks of it so why are you posting in a feminism forum?

'This is a female space.'

And nothing about the supportive posts. Typical

That’s the trouble with media today.

Someone just said I might have been thrown off for saying "Women aren't men, tho".

Can you imagine?

That's what this is all about, isn't it?
Or more accurately the fact that men can't be women.

I haven't RTFT , all those deletions made it hard going!
I just wanted to add my support to you Glinner.
It seemed inevitable that you would one day be banned for wrong think.
I didn't know that you had a You Tube channel, so I'll check that out.
If I ever see you back home I may feel brave enough to say Hi & or maybe just give a thumbs up & run away

I come here to discuss Parenthood and topics relating to this

Go to a Parenthood thread then.