Furiousandfrustrated I can only imagine how upsetting it was to have your job threatened by this. I’m sorry about the redundancy too. And whoever Marie is she has done women a really good turn.
It was brave of Duncan to write this and I can see that he’s trying to ‘do what is right not what is easy’ as he says, by doing so. I’d expect that he is also rightly feeling some shame and guilt about reporting a woman to their HR department for having some views that he and his group didn’t like. I would be interested to hear more if he writes more about this for Medium. What threat did he feels that she posed? What did he want to happen by reporting her? What did he feel like once he’d done it? Who was it done to benefit? (and who does he feel actually did benefit?)
And I can appreciate that It must be hard for Duncan to feel the strong change in reaction to the rainbow flag that he has come to feel. Something that once offered safety and solidarity and community and fun has been used as a Trojan Horse to represent a divisive politics that is antithetical to same-sex attraction, all without the consent of the majority of the same-sex attracted people who built the community that gave the rainbow flag its meaning and who still rely it as a signal of community and safety. And for the future- this affects all the people coming out, who can no longer have any certainty in what the flag will really mean or what it will point them towards. Particularly if they are lesbian or bisexual women.
There’s lots of other people feel that way about the rainbow flag now- www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3834960-What-do-you-think-about-the-rainbow-flag
these are both LGB people and women who fear the actions of people (like Duncan) who might try to get at them in some way because the woman is standing up for women in some way against genderist politics. Maybe even in such a controversial way 
as posting online saying that she doesn’t agree with it, or just, you know, as a woman defining the word woman. Like the actual dictionary does. The silencing that is going on is really scary. I would be interested to hear former TRA’s reflections on this. (And reporting a woman to HR for being gender critical is TRA behaviour in my book)
I am not trying to be self righteous about assuming that Duncan has guilt and shame. (I mean, I think he must do- he should do?) Shame and guilt motivate me too, I know that much. How many of us on here have posted about shame and guilt for not speaking up and doing more for women because we fear for our jobs, privacy, children, mental health, lots of other reasons? I have felt all that, its a relatively common theme on FWR. I support the crowdfunders and applaud the sheroes speaking out gratefully because they’re doing something I don’t feel able to do and they are taking an immense amount of shit to help all of us.
So it’s great that the LGB alliance is now here for same-sex attracted people and hopefully can be a coalescing point for anyone who will find that helpful. Like it’s great there have been the various gender critical women’s groups and lesbian and detransitioned women’s groups emerging or becoming more prominent in the last few years, obviously many women on here will have started or been involved with some or all of these.
I can appreciate that Duncan’s realisation about genderism must have prompted a similar feeling to what women on here have called becoming ‘politically homeless’ - when you realise no political party will stand up for women so there’s no one to vote for.
I mean same-sex attracted people realising what Stonewall, their LGB groups and venues etc have become and how that affects especially people coming out and needing to be in touch with other out people- that sense of dislocation from what you thought was your community. So I would be interested to hear about his thoughts on Party politics as informed by his disillusionment, if he writes more on all this.