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.

@ExoticEdna

'The word does not just relate to paedophiles. You groom someone for the Olympics.'

Oh please stop being so disingenuous. You know full well grooming has more connotations with paedophilia than the Olympics. As I say if people want to use a platform to get their opinions across they have to be smarter than to use words more commonly associated with paedophilia.

I cant help it if you don't understand the different meaning to words. Societal grooming is different to paedophile grooming.

But I'm entirely unsurprised that you didn't actually address my examples of it.

Maudspellbody That’s exactly how I feel, thank you for summing it up so eloquently.

@ExoticEdna

'Thank you for all you do, Graham'

Yes getting banned from Twitter for being unable to post within their guidelines is really useful. Well done Graham.

Their "guidelines" change and it was only a matter of time.

Taking the discussion away from Twatter is a good thing. It's not like we've lost some miraculous resource where debate and learning happens in a constructive way.

Any site that does not ban registered users with "minor attracted persons" (paedophiles - someone attracted to children) in their bio is no great loss.

Thank you Graham for speaking up in support of women. A thousand times over.

I agree with previous posters who dislike what the FWR board has become over the last few years.

I've been on MN for a long time, I don't post often
and I've changed names quite a few times but I have got lots of useful advice from members and have spent many a happy hour enjoying a parking thread.

I am a middle aged mother of two children, I am a feminist and I am very uncomfortable with the language used by those who are gender critical. I believe that some of the language used is transphobic especially when misgendering and dead naming people.

I have avoided the feminism boards for a while now due to the number of trans threads. However these conversations have now spread throughout MN and I've come across them in many threads in AIBU, chat, parenting etc and it is getting harder to avoid.

I support trans lives and I believe trans women are women.

'I've seen vast amounts of scolding about how female people should be nicer and better behaved to this group when saying 'would you please not remove our legal rights?'

No, not 'nice' rather intelligent and informed. I am on your side, I have huge concerns with trans issues but reading FWR on mumsnet depresses me. Everyone congratulating this op, someone who after a cursory Google tells me he isn't particularly helpful in debating issues.

TRAs may well insult and attack just be the better person and react with knowledge and debate not name calling and mocking. Well, feel free to mock and attack but just know that many posters avoid this board for that very reason. Surely you should be trying to rally support??

ExoticEdna - grooming is associated with paedophilia so it will of course cause great offence

Grooming and paedophilia cause great offence to me, and other women here, and Glinner. But you're not talking about that. You're talking about offending those who carry out these acts, and their online supporters. So people are actually being banned for opposing child abuse but not for supporting it. Cute.

Okay so you believe Transwomen are women. Humour me? How are they women specifically?

Also are you, as a feminist, also uncomfortable with the dehumanising language use to describe women. Menstruators, cervix havers, uterus havers, Cis, t@rf, people who menstruate, non trans women?

Ok Serafina.

Just posting to see if my name change worked

transphobic especially when misgendering and dead naming people

At last, a definition. Why do you believe it's transphobic to 'misgender' or 'deadname' people?

Do you approve of Twitter bans for women who misgendered and deadnamed Yaniv, for example?

'Grooming and paedophilia cause great offence to me, and other women here, and Glinner. But you're not talking about that. You're talking about offending those who carry out these acts, and their online supporters. So people are actually being banned for opposing child abuse but not for supporting it. Cute.'

Oh dear.

See. This is why FWR is such a depressing place. Of course paedophilia causes great offence, that was not my point as you know.

@Glinner - I support you and will miss following your tweets.

I support trans lives and I believe trans women are women.

You can't possibly be a feminist, as you claim.

If you can't identify the group that you are campaigning for, how can you call yourself a feminist?

You can't even define the word woman if you think men are women.

Please explain to me who constitutes the political group 'women', as a feminist campaigning on their behalf??

I’m surprised so many posters seem not to know how easy it is to report Any & all transphobic posts they see here 🤔

I was shocked to see this had happened to you. Thanks for the link to your YouTube.

@Serafinapekkalas
OK - so if you are right.... And transwomen are women, then women must be transwomen.

And I'm not a bloke.

Why can't transwomen be transwomen? Why must you insist that they are?

'You can't possibly be a feminist, as you claim.'

A feminist telling a woman how to think. Oh the irony .

I support trans lives and I believe trans women are women.

Do you think it is OK for a 13 year old girl to share a shower with a 50 year old, 6 foot self-declared transwoman who has an intact male physique, including penis?

You believe this transwoman is actually a woman -- what makes this so?

Would it be transphobia for this girl to feel uncomfortable in such a situation? If so, who should legally be obliged to leave the shower, she or the transwoman?

@glinner - just adding my support here. I'm a recent follower of yours on Twitter. You will be missed.

I think the word grooming/groomer is a very apt word to describe a person or organisation that encourages children to step away from family support, keep secrets, look to strangers for emotional support, advocate sexualised adult pass times and behaviours ( think drag queen story time or the fetish leather card dog costumes).

I am not sure what other word fits as well.

It is not surprising that certain types of people want this word banned on twitter as it is a way of identifying abusers of children and we already know Twitter allows MAPS to post carefree so I think they are protecting their own.

Same here TransScandal

@Serafinapekkalas

I agree with previous posters who dislike what the FWR board has become over the last few years.

I've been on MN for a long time, I don't post often
and I've changed names quite a few times but I have got lots of useful advice from members and have spent many a happy hour enjoying a parking thread.

I am a middle aged mother of two children, I am a feminist and I am very uncomfortable with the language used by those who are gender critical. I believe that some of the language used is transphobic especially when misgendering and dead naming people.

I have avoided the feminism boards for a while now due to the number of trans threads. However these conversations have now spread throughout MN and I've come across them in many threads in AIBU, chat, parenting etc and it is getting harder to avoid.

I support trans lives and I believe trans women are women.

In what way are transwomen women?

I don’t think it’s fair to say Linehan never genuinely supported women. For example, he supported Irish women’s right to choose before it became mainstream to do so.

How did that “put down trans people”?

@ExoticEdna

'You can't possibly be a feminist, as you claim.'

A feminist telling a woman how to think. Oh the irony .

She's not telling how to think.

She's saying that her position is not consistent with feminism.

The whole "feminism is anything any woman thinks" argument is very old and just as silly.

I support you, Glinner.