It's awful what they are doing to her. Some of them started by objecting to her Liking the tweet where the guy (Kurtis Tripp) said that he doesn't want to be called "queer" but then it got a whole lot worse.
I don't know how many people vet every Twitter account before they dare to Like someone's tweet, I know I don't.
Rosie Duffield's extra crime is that she is either supposed to be psychic or to have researched Kurtis before liking that tweet because it turns out that he has a criminal record in the USA . . . however . . .
THE GOOD NEWS
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#IstandwithRosieDuffield is trending on Twitter
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"US rapper Kurtis Tripp talks to Dennis Kavanagh about conversion therapy at 13, the pressure to identify as trans and his journey back as a gender critical gay rights activist"
Lesbian and Gay News, 19 July 2021
American rapper and musician Kurtis Tripp has been on a journey from trans rights advocate to gender critical gay rights activist. Dennis Kavanagh talked to Tripp about his personal story of conversion therapy and the pressure surrounding gay men and lesbians to identify as trans.
If you’ve spent any time recently in the LGBT gender debates on social media, you’ve probably encountered a TikTok video by Kurtis Tripp. The videos are avowedly “gender critical” and normally feature the 30-year-old responding to videos aimed at gay people being urged to “unlearn their genital preferences”. In a style evoking Magdalen Berns, Tripp looks directly to camera making the case that conversion therapy is alive and well. He should know, as a 13-year-old he experienced precisely that courtesy of a hyper-religious stepmother.
The videos have prompted a predictable backlash in what is generally regarded as one of the most toxic social media debates there is, and his detractors have been quick to publicise the fact that he is a convicted criminal having threatened to go “white boy crazy” and “shoot up a school” on social media in 2018. As with so many attempted social media “cancellations”, there seems to be more to the story than the extravagant claims given the Judge presiding over the case sentenced him to a 3-year probation order later reduced to one year. He’s experienced “pile-ons”, duplicate impersonation Twitter accounts falsely accusing him of rape, mass reporting and accusations he is a terrorist. Incredible it is then to discover that until very recently Tripp considered himself “non binary” and a member of the trans community. His trajectory in the debate is as mixed and unlikely as his distinctive accent, a voice that occasionally produces a Tennessee drawl, most obvious when he says “Y’all” mixed with his native, quick talking, Michigan State cadence.
Continued at:
lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/07/us-rapper-kurtis-tripp-talks-to-dennis-kavanagh-about-conversion-therapy-at-13-the-pressure-to-identify-as-trans-and-his-journey-back-as-a-gender-critical-gay-rights-activist/
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Among the MANY people speaking up for Rosie is the author of that article, Dennis Noel Kavanagh
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Dennis also wrote for Lesbian and Gay News about his thoughts on the current use of the term "Queer"
"Dennis Kavanagh: Queer?"
March 23, 2021
In the game of thrones of gay politics we have our own seat forged of weapons with many pretenders to it, the iron throne that is the word “queer” from which those with dubious claims to real homosexual lives can rule the seven kingdoms of victimhood and identity politics.
For many of us, the word “queer” was an integral part of the soundscape of real hatred that got us beaten up, sacked and bullied – for years we were “dirty/filthy queers” who had “queerboy” shouted at us as we anxiously left pubs in groups for safety. As words go, it’s a sharp blade, the wounds it leaves are messy lacerations that don’t heal neatly rather than clean surgical cuts. Strange it is then, that a word which was an essential piece of architecture of social hate is now contorted like an Escher staircase to nowhere where up is down, left is right and being “queer” is now desirable.
Us run of the mill gay people weren’t consulted about this of course. We don’t have the leisure time for “queer activism”, nor do we have the desire to mentally self-harm required to read even 10 minutes of “queer theory”, the not-fit-for-human-consumption reconstituted meat of the academic abattoir. We don’t attend seminars on “queering particle physics” or the like, because for us unenlightened troglodytes particles have always pretty much been particles. We also don’t just accept without question self-declarations of “queerness”, but then again and we’re used to treating anything associated with the Q word with a high degree of scepticism, forgive our cynicism, but 20 odd years of “queer bashing” will do that to you.
When we look to our new blue haired overlords in gay culture, we see scheming nobles meaning to win the throne of “queer”, ferocious puritans who have less sex than the generation before but do nothing but talk about sex. They wear “identity” and anime avatars online like a monk wears a habit, only they require that it us lowly congregants who take a vow of silence regarding our objections to this word.
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lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/03/dennis-kavanagh-queer/
(Dennis Kavanagh is a legal commentator and barrister (non-practising).