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.

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

You were not told how to think
.
Your feminisim was questioned as from your posts you appear to center males wants and put females needs second. That is not feminisim.

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

Silly?? Don't be such a misogynist! You'll be calling me hysterical next.

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

No, a feminist pointing out a logical inconsistency to another woman. Only 'how to think' in the sense of 'engage critical faculties before posting', I suppose - not what to think.

ExoticEdna

You really do need to explore feminisim more before you start flinging around the word misogyny.
If you are a feminist then why are you centering males?

Nice name @WooblyBoobly, I like it

'Your feminisim was questioned as from your posts you appear to center males wants and put females needs second'

The pp was saying someone couldn't be a feminist because she didn't agree with her. Not me.

Silly?? Don't be such a misogynist!
How is that misogynist? We regularly tell men they're being silly. If you see that as a gendered term that's your interpretation tbh.

I know the term has been used on this thread several times, but Twitter really is a cesspit run by a bunch of perverts, and they're afraid of you because you tell the truth.
Thankyou @Glinner for all you do.

@transscandal also checking my
name change!

@glinner thank you for highlighting these issues and speaking out.

The pp was saying someone couldn't be a feminist because she didn't agree with her. Not me

Was that poster centering males? If so then its not feminisim. It really is simple to understand.
Feminisim is for females. Thats it.

'You really do need to explore feminisim more before you start flinging around the word misogyny. If you are a feminist then why are you centering males?'

Ah so calling a woman 'silly' isn't misogynistic? How odd I thought it was.

I'm not centering males if you actually read my posts, I just find this pity party for a man who has been banned from Twitter weird.

Is calling women 'silly' misogynistic though?

I think I call men 'silly' more often than I do women.

It's not like 'hysterical'. It doesn't carry those connotations.

transphobic especially when misgendering and dead naming people

I have autism and people trying to police my language is extremely distressing for me. Conversations are hard enough already, I will not be forced to speak a lie. And being polite doesn’t concern me.

Funnily enough it only seems to be the distress of some men that counts though...

‘transwomen are women’ is also an extremely illogical statement,

You are saying that transwomen = women.

Anyone vaguely familiar with maths knows that Both sides of an equal HAVE to be equal to each other. Or it is incorrect.

So if trans women = women

Then, women = trans women must also be true.

But it isn’t.

Only men can be transwomen.

@FleetsumNJetsum

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.

What's the definition of a woman that excludes the people you want excluded but doesn't exclude people you don't want excluded?

Just wanted to give a "thanks" to Graham for being an ally and standing up for women's rights at personal cost. I appreciate his courage.

I see this news has elicited a great many knee-jerk accusations in this thread that those who don't agree with certain strains of trans activism are transphobic. I myself didn't give a second thought about the implications of this agenda until an acquaintance posted on social media about how lesbians didn't have the right to say "no" to trans women as sexual partners. "No means no" is the bare minimum expectation of feminism, and to see someone firmly on the left espouse this view disturbed me. I wasn't aware of how transition was being used by the young to treat their own or their family's discomfort with their homosexuality without awareness of the long-term effects, or the high detransition rates in the studies that have been published (and the lack of long-term followup on detrans rates), or Ray Blanchard's typology and theory of autogynephilia, or how women were being pressured to cease talking about matters of biology that must be discussed in order to address the sources of women's oppression. Transition is a needed step for some folks, but it benefits no one to go in blindly or to suppress information - and I'm not fond of the tactic of threatening women (and their allies) to be compliant or shut up.

All this has been elided under the "no debate" sloganeering. I'm glad that Mumsnet is a forum where debate is allowed.

Ah so calling a woman 'silly'isn'tmisogynistic? How odd I thought it was.

No as silly is not an insult that is only ever thrown at women.
Anyone can be silly.
Plus that poster said the argument was silly so it wasn't even directed at a person.
You are really clutching at straws now.
You do know we can see the thread so we know what has been said dont you?

@transcandal2 that's a glorious name you have there

@Dhalmeup

That's wrong and you know that's wrong.

'Poos are brown' doesn't mean 'if it's brown it's poo'.

What's the definition of a woman that excludes the people you want excluded but doesn't exclude people you don't want excluded?

Someone who is a woman.

It’s not hard. They are the sex that can carry babies, though they may not want/be able to. They are discriminated against because of their sex/reproductive function/body and easily physically bested by the other larger/stronger sex. Hence all the rape and killing of them by that other sex.

And before you do the tired old ‘gotcha’ of dragging intersex individuals into this...just don’t. They have asked repeatedly to be left out of it and it is frankly offensive.

'No as silly is not an insult that is only ever thrown at women. Anyone can be silly.'

What? Anyone can be hysterical, shrill and screech too, but like silly they are terms used to put women down.

I'd really expect more awareness on FWR tbh.

Anyway well done Graham for saying wooblyboobly on Twitter.

What's the definition of a woman that excludes the people you want excluded but doesn't exclude people you don't want excluded?

oh! Oh! pick me! pick me!

@midclegs

Adding my support *@glinner* ESPECIALLY after seeing this just now on Twitter

re: that Twitter clip

How can they 'reclaim womanhood' when they never had it?

Suddenly Adrian Whatsit's idea of only letting trans women use ladies' loos starts to make sense...

Ah so calling a woman 'silly' isn't misogynistic? How odd I thought it was.

Well you'd be wrong. And silly. Especially by your own definition.

Feminism is the political liberation of women from a patriarchal society.

If the poster can't define Women, patriarchal, or what they want liberation from, they're going have a little difficulty defining feminism.

Something I want to call myself, that I can't describe and I don't know why, isn't really going to cut it.

@ExoticEdna

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

Silly?? Don't be such a misogynist! You'll be calling me hysterical next.

I said the argument was silly, not the person making the argument.

That is your inference.

I find the constant category errors around this debate so tiresome.

@transscandal 😉