We will prosecute any medical professional or anyone in ANY position of authority who has deliberately mutilated a young child in the name of gender ideology.

[SingleSexSpacesInSchools]

I do like someone who speaks their mind, clearly.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUiPrqDYHD/

Restore - Rupert Lowe

"Important news. The sick puberty blocking trial has been stopped, for now.

A real win for everyone who has campaigned against it.

Our petition sent a strong message, but it is definitely not enough.

Restore Britain is clear here. We will prosecute any medical professional or anyone in ANY position of authority who has deliberately mutilated a young child in the name of gender ideology.

That will apply retrospectively.

We must keep this filth away from young children. We are sending a message that will hopefully make them think twice now.

Well done to all involved who have fought this - particularly James Esses and Rosie Duffield.

Heroes.

A good win. But the fight has just begun."

(FWIW Rupert says plenty of things I agree with, so does Zack , I hold a spectrum of views and I refuse to get involved in the polarising omnicause attitude both "sides" appear to have)

I am however, for reasons that may be clear if you have followed my exploits, not to mention the ones I have not yet shared, a single cause voter. ... not that they're going to win in Brighton...

I don’t think we should conflate a political party in this case Rupert Lowe’s policies and opinions with those of their supporters. They’re not the same thing.

I don’t think his language is helpful. I agree with him in principle, but describing what is often an extremely difficult, sensitive and confusing experience for children as “this filth” isn’t helping anyone

Does he bear any responsibility for his paid staffers? The guys who are writing policy for him?

If the guy who wrote his deportations paper - the centrepiece of his platform - is flying off to Austria to meet a neo-nazi who's banned from entering the UK, should Rupert be considering whether this is a good look?

I don't know as much about them as you - if you have evidence rather than just opinions, please share them I'm interested.

Although again - I think yo are derailing from the point of this - which is that someone, an elected politician, has made the strongest possible statement on this and that is to be applauded.

I do not in any way subscribe to the position that unless you agree with everything someone says, they are 100% wrong on everything.

"You're giving opinions without evidence"

"Here is Lowe's policy chief tweeting about his friendly meeting with a notorious neo-nazi activist who's banned from entering the UK"

"That's not evidence, that's just opinion, and a politician can't associated with what his policy chief is doing"

Honestly, I don't think I can help you. I spent years trying to make similar points to friends in Labour who insisted that Jeremy Corbyn barely knew the people he kept appearing on platforms with.

I don;t understand why you're trying to change my mind on an opinion you don't know about. You have given no evidence, just called people Neo nazis, a technique which always makes you look daft. It's a huge accusation, it needs huge evidence, not just Rupert spoke to someone I don;t like.

Please - stop derailing

You could literally just Google Martin Sellner and you'll see the kind of person he is. It's not an opinion.

He's been banned from several countries due to his extremely racist, anti-Semitic views. That's a fact, not an opinion.

He has been active and leading in known neo-Nazi groups. That's a fact, not an opinion.

And this is the kind of person that RLs chief policy officer (not "a supporter", no matter how much you try and minimise) thinks it's a good idea to pose for photos with.

I think what we have here is a "stopped clock" situation.

If you don't know who Martin Sellner is, he's easy enough to look up.

It's a question of reputational risk. Every party gatekeeps, or should gatekeep. Especially if you're an insurgent party faced with a hostile media. Reform know this, because of the steady stream of news stories about a "top Reform figure" who's done something bad, and it's only when you get past the headline and dig into the story that you discover the "top Reform figure" is a councillor nobody has heard of, or someone who donated to UKIP in 2014 and who Farage hasn't seen in ten years.

Neither Lowe nor the young men he employs to actually run Restore seem to believe in gatekeeping. In the case of his bright young men, there might be a motive for that when you look at the circles they move in.

When Rupert's policy chief Harrison Pitt tweets about his friendly interactions with neo-nazi activist Martin Sellner, that's a bad look.

When Rupert's head of campaigns Charlie Downes refuses to answer a black TV anchor who asks him whether she's British, that's a bad look.

When Rupert sits down for a cosy chat with Carl Benjamin... there are lots of journalists who've been keeping an eye on Carl for years. I'm pretty sure Carl has been mentioned many times here on FWR, and not in a complimentary way.

So if the argument is that Rupert has the most hardline rhetoric against transactivism and therefore he should be applauded...

Can you understand why I might be more reluctant to applaud him than, let's say, Rosie Duffield?

Jewish people thrown straight under the bus as soon as they are no longer useful as a stick to beat Muslim people with.

Nobody from any religious or ethnic minority should trust this lot as far as they can throw them.

How terribly tiresome.

Anyway.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DU0KdzoDRkE/

"Restore Britain will not pretend that a man wearing a dress is a woman. We’re just not going to do that.

We will not deny biological reality, we will not indulge this madness.

Men will be banned from women’s sports, categorically and absolutely.

Women’s private spaces will be protected, unequivocally. If a man enters a women’s toilet, that will be treated as the invasive act that it is.

Biological men will not be placed in women’s prisons, under any circumstances."

Again - this is hugely, hugely useful to be said by elected politicians, I applaud it without reservation.

The overturn of rule of law in favour of political party based "moral" judgements.

Go on, ask another head scratcher...

Sounds an awful lot like the Green Party and puberty blockers, not to mention half the Labour Party.

Anyway...

It's just populist rhetoric... He doesn't give a shit... He just knows his market is all..

How terribly tiresome.

I mean, if you're going to insist we applaud Rupert (or whoever's doing the "Rupert Lowe" SM today) for knowing there are two sexes, and insist that what he's doing is hugely useful, you can't very well complain if some of us would like to zoom out and look at other things he and his team have been doing.

You know that TRAs love to accuse us of being "far right" or having "far right" associations. Overwhelmingly that's nonsense. You aren't convincing me that it's hugely useful to applaud man whose head of policy thinks it's a good idea to pose for photos with literal neo-nazis.

I'm sorry that you think this is all tiresome and derailing, but this does speak to Lowe's character. Either he's an unsavoury man or (more likely IMO) he's got so little attention to detail that he's happy to hire some pretty unsavoury people to run his organisation, because he allowed himself to be flattered by young men who had been blackballed from Reform without bothering to ask whether Farage had good reason for blackballing them.

There are other MPs who talk sense on genderwoo. Why is it so important to amplify Lowe?

Anyway.

I look forward to more politicians having the guts to make these very clear statements I think it helps hugely.

Tommy Robinson of all people is worried that an association with the Rupert Youth might damage his reputation:
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 on X: "@gabbycabby @RestoreBritain @RupertLowe10 It just needs a straight answer . I’m still confused. https://t.co/H1JBCDlg8i" / X

I'll ask again: out of all the politicians who have been critical of genderwoo, why specifically is it important to single out Lowe for praise and amplification? Why not Rosie Duffield, or Tonia Antoniazzi, or Sarah Pochin, or Rebecca Paul, or Kemi Badenoch?

If you think he's going to make GC feminism a centrepiece of his movement, I regret to inform you that the supporters of his movement are much more interested in wanging on about why Ian Wright isn't British.

Exactly. We do not have to applaud every nut job who knows about biology. Take a stand wims

Or, we might notice that Rupert's long-time colleague and friend Ben Habib recently raised concerns about tolerance of racism in Restore, and people online who describe themselves as Restore supporters have been proving Ben right by subjecting him to a torrent of racist abuse.

Rupert could easily record a 30-second clip saying "I know Ben, he's a decent patriotic man and nobody should attack him for the colour of his skin". Or Charlie Downes, who actually does the "Rupert Lowe" content on social media, could tweet the same thing. But they haven't, and I don't believe they will.

It wouldn't take a lot of effort to do this. It would annoy the white nationalist audience who Charlie has been cultivating, and who would turn on them viciously. But it would be the right thing to do.

What is it about Rupert Lowe that makes it imperative to single him out for praise?

I'll stand with any fucker who wants to stop others mutilating and experimenting on children and vulnerable young adults. I'm sick to the back teeth of purity spirals and bekinders and ooooh, maybe not that person types. I'm also sick to death of people trying to emotionally blackmail others. Take a stand wims indeed 🙄

Given that the majority of the country does not want this, I do not need to stand with fuckers like Lowe and his merry band of nasties @BiologicalRobot you can support whoever you want

I don't think I do purity spirals, unless you've got a different definition of purity spiral.

Anyone who knows me on FWR knows my track record of annoying tribal Labour supporters by pointing out Labour MPs and union officials collaborating with the rape defending SWP. It's not a left/right thing. It's a standards thing.

I am simply pointing out that, whether or not they know biology exists, Rupert Lowe and Charlie Downes and Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson and Steve Laws and Neema Parvini - feel free to google any of these clowns if you haven't heard of them - are not my team.

They might be your team. Fine. You do you. I don't need to go to them to find people who know biology exists.

I don't even think I'm holding them to an unreasonable standard. It doesn't take a massive amount of effort to not fly to Austria and pose for photos with the country's most notorious neo-nazi activist.

Given that the majority of the country does not want this,

Tell that to Starmer and Co, and the Green party, and all those in powerful positions then. Tell it to the medical and scientific communities who think humans can change sex.

Right now I'm politically homeless due to all the twats who think it's acceptable to mutilate young children. And I'm sick of it.

The capacity for young people to give one's consent is a focus this month particularly.
The age of consent varies from around 16 to 18.

I would err on the side of older age consent (18) with something that is as irreversible as reassigning gender.

Absolutely-fucking-lutely

I can tolerate peoples whose opinions do not 100% line up with mine. As I mentioned before.

ANYWAY.