The absolute brass neck of Ruth Hunt

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www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fe117e6b-0b9b-4157-aeb6-23ad2f88e6ba?shareToken=309d7a26354dc115f9ce038238e47473

No. You're not going to get to rewrite history.

Threader version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1779159322666181054.html

That photo makes me want to weep.

Good god. Aimed at y6! There must be adult influences to put suggestions such like this. That is sickening.

x.com/stilltish/status/1779177001930125349?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

It's like something out of a horror film.

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/about-us/news-opinion/2024/09-04-2024-sir-peter-wanless-leaving-CEO-role/

CEO just announced he's stepping down on Tuesday.

Damm right.

"Young people know their own mind and wouldn't be overdosing if they didn't genuinely feel like they needed to"
"No, children aren't influenced into self-harm by others and no-one would pretend to be vulnerable if they weren't to induce children to do things".

Just getting the usual arguments in before they arrive...

'Like Moses'

Sorry, did someone say delusions?

I wonder if that is significant timing, Arabella. He picked up his knighthood when all this was quite well known and after the James Makings debacle, IIRC. Maybe we can hope the road is running out.

And we've been censored and warned on MN for saying the word cult when the leader of Stonewall was spouting about have had revelations from frekking Jesus!

Could be entirely coincidental. No successor in place as yet ...

Curiouser and curiouser

Please can someone explain the WhatsApp/NSPCC situation.

Apologies! I'm finding it hard to understand what's happened there.

People who claim to have had direct instructions from a deity often are not considered wholly reliable.

It's only just struck me as a particularly risky strain of the 'appeal to authority' fallacy - where the authority is mysterious, supernatural, and can't be questioned.

Plus the endless assertions that feminists were being steered by Christian organisations is particularly irritating me now.

There may well be some feminists who are religious, but I don't recall any of them claiming to have had divine instrction!

Amidst may remarkable revelations, that managed to stand out.

If I didn't know better, I'd think Hunt is styling herself after Eileen Atkins' Saint Joan. I've included a clip of her 1960 performance as Joan of Arc here but the image I have in mind is from the theatre programme and vivid description that a relative had from seeing her in Saint Joan.

(1977) She acted in Sir George Bernard Shaw's play, "Saint Joan," in a Prospect Production at the Liverpool Playhouse in Liverpool, Merseyside, England with Charles Kay, Frederick Treves, Paul Jesson, John Bowe, Geoffrey Palmer OBE, Emrys James, Robert Eddison, and Ronald Lacey in the cast. John Dove was director.

James Esse posted an image where the nspcc / childline were working with mermaids to facilitate online web chat spaces etc.

Mermaids described teens using WhatsApp to remain in touch after residential weekends.

NSPCC keep being recommended for support for children who've experienced harm via WhatsApp groups

Obviously Cass cites online peer influences

that will be some legacy. To have, virtually single handedly rendered the previously good name of Stonewall on a par with PIE.

Allison Bailey has read the article:

https://x.com/bluskyeallison/status/1779209777777705077?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

"1/ According to Ruth Hunt CEO of Stonewall until 2019, “It’s perfectly legitimate for Stonewall to advocate that position [that transwomen are women]. It doesn’t say ‘trans women are women’ and if you disagree, we’re going to do something terrible to you”

https://x.com/bluskyeallison/status/1779209779644105132?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

"2/Well, Ruth, I did disagree and Stonewall did something terrible to me. On 21 October 2019, Stonewall wrote to my chambers (a few months after you stepped down as CEO) demanding that I be sacked, shamelessly leveraging Stonewall's influence to do so. https://allisonbailey.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/PH-Bundle-pp-331-2-Stonewall-Complaint.pdf"

https://x.com/bluskyeallison/status/1779209781359644825?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

"3/ Whether Stonewall's actions in soliciting my removal from chambers was unlawful under the EqA 2010 is the subject of appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal. That Stonewall sent this letter to my chambers is not in dispute. All because I disagreed that TWAW literally."

https://x.com/bluskyeallison/status/1779209783163097258?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

"4/Ruth, I watched you in the House of Lords recently as you talked about how hard it was coming out, the battles you had to fight. I too had to fight those battles, a decade earlier. I also had to fight to become a barrister. None of that mattered to your organisation though."

https://x.com/bluskyeallison/status/1779209784777961717?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

"5/So, please, stop lying. Stonewall under your tenure, and as a result of the actions that you took, turned into a shameless, vicious and dangerous organisation. This is your legacy, Ruth.
Ends"

I wondered if Allison would comment. Good on her!

Seems she just came back to say that:

x.com/bluskyeallison/status/1779218940499014088?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

Still good to hear from her online though

That appeal has a slightly different context at this point doesn't it?!

About 36 minutes in:

'Stonewall does a huge amount of work on God's behalf'

https://www2.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=3781

Ruth Hunt on Stonewall history, strategy, and future.