#lgb alliance is a hate group

[enbycrip]

So given the Rowling stans crawling out of the woodwork to say they are still allies - or worse yet, community members - while still plastering Potter stuff all over their online presence by saying they “separate the art from the artist” after the latest acknowledgment that she is trying to swing Labour in an even more transphobic direction, a short primer on what “death of the author”, which is the origin for that less provocative phrase, actually means.

“Death of the author”, in extreme brief, is an academic construct that was developed at a time when the author as the sole arbiter of meaning in a text was very privileged in the discourse to help people understand that any interpretation of a work is valid *as long as it can be supported by textual evidence*. Your interpretation of a text, as the reader, is as valid as the author’s *if* you can produce just as much, or more, evidence from *within the text itself* that supports your interpretation.

This is particularly useful for students within an academic context.

It is *not* in any sense a reasonable justification to say that one is not *actively supporting* a living artist/author/creator, particularly one who has gained huge cultural influence and financial wealth, by buying and actively promoting their work.

Genuinely, I wouldn’t engage with work from a dead very bigoted artist without acknowledging their bigotry.

If I write about or produce a story set within the Cthulhu Mythos, you had better bet that I am acknowledging Lovecraft’s horrific and pervasive racism and misogyny and the effects of that within the Mythos.

If I write about or do some sketches that acknowledge Degas as an influence, you can bet that I am acknowledging his rampant racism and antisemitism and the fact that his familial wealth which allowed him to have the financial freedom to create the art he did was built on plantation slavery in the Caribbean.

If I write about or paint something with Klimt’s ethereal goldwork as an influence, you can bet I’m writing about his deeply abusive sexual relationships with the women he drew and painted, that he used sapphic eroticism in his work while sexually abusing working class sapphics he paid to model for him, and acknowledging that he had the freedom to produce that work because he got the women in his family to tend to his every whim and perform all his domestic labour for him.

That’s the basic acknowledgment you undertake while engaging with the work of someone deeply bigoted - *even* if they are not directly benefitting from your engagement with their work because they are deceased. The material conditions around how a work is produced and consumed are *always* relevant to that work, because otherwise we miss why, for example, privileged people have the time, resources and cachet to create art and have it be consumed *as* art, while other people never have the resources to do so or have the work they create relegated to categories like “domestic crafts” if it is acknowledged at all.

So just saying “I can separate art from the artist” while financially supporting a living bigot who continues to use your money and the cultural cache you are giving her by doing so to wreak genuine damage on the queer, especially trans, community - that’s basically both completely meaningless and incredibly disingenuous. Particularly when said bigot is *actively* attempting to parlay that financial and cultural influence into making an already very transphobic, racist and disableist political party who are, according to current polls, likely to be running the U.K. shortly, into supporting more actions that *will* materially harm trans people.

[sibrownphoto-tumbl]

Wonderful work from our trans siblings.

Given who the LGB Alliance are one wonders if the speaker meant the crickets or our siblings.

Oh, yes. I’m an old queer man, one who owes his life to a much missed trans woman friend. If that, and my support for inclusivity bothers you; please let the door hit you inelegantly on the arse as you flounce off.

The group released approximately 6,000 crickets from bags hidden on their persons which they snuck through security just before a talk on the “dangers” of medical transition. They made sure to spread the crickets (which do not infest and pose no danger to humans) across the entire hall, in order to ensure the conference could be safely brought to an end. The speech was postponed and later speeches were cancelled.

[hiinafuraido]

if you have a twitch account, please vote to have these hate groups removed from the charities list

[elierlick]

Six trans youth activists released thousands of crickets on the LGB Alliance's event in London, causing the anti-trans hate group to shut down their auditorium. Hope to see them face the other 9 plagues soon!

[worstdykeever]

not enough people are talking about the fact that a bunch of homophobic TRA 'activists' released thousands of LIVE CRICKETS at the LGB alliance meeting. these people were part of the 'trans kids deserve better' group that was lead by a trans identified man. however, the man decided to only have trans identified women release the crickets because he didn't want to get his hands dirty. the 'activists' were sent home and no charges were pressed. how is this not considered a homophobic hate crime ?

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Pretty disappointed with you reblogging that bad take post on the latest JKR furore... You have such good takes on political stuff usually but not this time. Look up Malcolm Clark's twitter thread on this subject and you'll see a much more accurate take

Well, I'm more disappointed in you for (a) thinking it's remotely appropriate to send criticism to people anonymously (either accept responsibility or don't send it, bach) but (b) for genuinely thinking you could direct me to *checks notes* the Twitter account of noted transphobe, friend of JKR and founder of transphobic hate group the LGB Alliance Malcolm Clark and I would think he had anything approaching a 'more accurate take'.

Like. Mate. Come on.

However if you normally think I have 'good takes on political stuff but not this time', clearly I haven't yelled this from the rooftops enough recently, so here you go:

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Transphobes fuck off.

Hope that clears things up

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Andrew Doyle

Published: Oct 14, 2024

It was hardly a plague of locusts, but it was disruptive nonetheless. During the annual LGB Alliance conference at the Queen Elizabeth II centre in Westminster on Friday afternoon, teenage activists unleashed thousands of crickets into the auditorium. The inconvenience was only temporary. The crowd simply relocated to another room and the event went on as before.

As those responsible were apprehended, many people were struck by just how young and posh they were. By this point, it should surprise precisely no-one that anti-gay activism in its current form is a predominately bourgeois pursuit. The symbolism of the crickets was, of course, deliberate. It was an attempt to dehumanise those in attendance, to suggest that they were akin to parasites, vermin, spreaders of disease, a common trope of those who seek to demonise minorities.

The perpetrators were children, and so it would be unwise to speculate too much on their motives. It is likely they were being manipulated by the group that has claimed responsibility, calling itself “Trans Kids Deserve Better”. As Bev Jackson, co-founder of LGB Alliance said on my show last night:

“Trans kids do deserve better. They deserve better than to be told lies that that they might have been born in the wrong body. They deserve better than to be told that these hormones and surgeries that they are clambering for will somehow solve all their problems. Many are on the autism spectrum. Many are struggling with their sexual orientation. We know that. They deserve better than to be told that we hate them. And they deserve better than to be labelled trans when they’re going through all the turbulence of adolescence, when your feelings about yourself are in constant flux.”

Irrespective of the intentions of the teenagers involved, this was anti-gay activism. To attack a group of lesbian, gay and bisexual people who have assembled to discuss the ongoing threats to their civil rights could hardly be defined in any other way. Likewise, to refer to groups such as LGB Alliance as “anti-trans”, “transphobic” or “hateful” - as activist media outlets such as the Metro and the Guardian have been known to do - is also an anti-gay strategy. In order to address a problem, one needs to label it accurately.

Gender identity ideologues are, by definition, anti-gay. They are campaigning to force their pseudo-religious belief-system onto the rest of society, one that claims that same-sex attraction is a myth, and that a mysterious spiritual sense of “gender” is the defining feature of homosexuality. Even if they have convinced themselves that they are “pro-trans” and “compassionate” and “progressive”, the implementation of their demands would result directly in the demolition of gay rights. And so “anti-gay activism” is not only an accurate description, it also cuts to the heart of what is at stake.

The trans activist movement in its current form is dominated by this belief in a material and stable “gender identity”, what one trans campaigner explained to me as an “essence of male or female”. This is a departure from the theories of Judith Butler, who posits that “gender identity” is an illusion created performatively and repetitively in accordance with societal expectations. For all their deification of Butler, the trans rights movement is insistent that she is wrong on this key point, and that an individual is “born trans” when there is a misalignment of body and “sexed soul” (to borrow Helen Joyce’s phrase).  

This belief is wholly incompatible with the struggle for gay rights, which has always been predicated on the notion that there exist a minority of people who are innately attracted to their own sex. Activist groups such as Stonewall now argue that “homosexuality” is based on gender rather than sex, meaning that it is possible for a man to be a lesbian. He may have been born male (or “assigned male at birth” to borrow the voguish parlance), but his “gender identity” is female and this should be the salient factor when it comes to sexual orientation.

It is no easy feat to explain the contortions of logic on display here. Lesbian dating apps are now replete with men who claim to be women, many fully bearded and bepenised. Likewise, sex clubs for gay men now routinely admit women who have had their breasts removed and believe themselves to be male. The gay male hookup app Grindr even prohibits its users from filtering out women. As the company’s website puts it:

“When designing gender settings on Grindr, it was important to us to not further perpetuate discrimination and harm for the trans and nonbinary community. For this reason, we allow filtering based on gender - you can specify that you want to see men or women - but this will include all men or all women, because trans men are men and trans women are women.”

In other words, a company that has made a fortune from gay men’s sexuality is now shaming its customers for being gay.

The situation is so confusing that we now have mainstream celebrities such as Billy Bragg effectively campaigning against gay rights without realising it. He is not homophobic (as far as I’m aware) and yet he is assiduously promoting a movement whose end goal is the eradication of homosexuality. Bragg’s 1991 song Sexuality included the lyric: “Just because you’re gay, I won’t turn you away”. Perhaps a more appropriate version would be: “Just because you’re gay, I’ll have you surgically corrected in order to better conform to heterosexual paradigms”, although it wouldn’t scan or rhyme.

This is why to grow up gay in 2024 is considerably more risky than during the time of Section 28 in the 1980s. We have gay conversion therapy being promoted by the NHS in the form of “gender-affirming care”, and children who are gender non-conforming (and therefore statistically far more likely to be homosexual in later life) are being medicalised and shamed for their orientation. Moreover, the very organisations that were originally established to fight for gay rights are now actively working against the interests of gay people.

To release bags of insects into a gathering of homosexuals is the kind of tactic we might once have seen from neo-Nazis and extreme religious fundamentalists. Just because those responsible now claim to be “on the right side of history” does not justify their behaviour or make them any less regressive. These are the new reactionaries, espousing a particularly toxic form of anti-gay ideology because it has the approval of the corporate, media, political and managerial class. Homophobia never went away, it just took on a fresh disguise.

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Gay men are not allowed to filter out women from their dating pool.

[demilypyro]

Twitch has recognized that LGB Alliance is a hate group and has removed it from its list of charities.

Autism Speaks, however, remains.

[lil-tumbles]

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Trans Kids Deserve Better released 6000 crickets into the far-right LGB alliance conference, disrupting it enough to get the last speech cancelled! All kids are safe and home, but they are launching a fundraiser - above is an insta post they made about this fabulous action.

EDIT!!! Just Giving closed their campaign without giving them adequate time to respond after a mass reporting by LGBA terfs. If you donated previously, your donation has been refunded - please donate at their new link!! (See below) https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/tkdb-crick-kids?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZ0EAURLRUodAYkaS10vH1o8z__gyw5X6GJALIiG7uTv81e8SAFoxvW5U0_aem_0hbyrSYaEG1CZj2ZnfkwXw

They lost the 5k they had raised for trans kids. Please help them get it back.

If you want to show support and can't donate, please share their fabulous action, and post crickets in support with TKDB tags/messages of support/link to the fundraiser or their site. Go! Post crickets! They flooded the conference hall; now let's flood social media in support of these incredible kids!

[ayeforscotland]

The university of Edinburgh has just elected one of the founders of anti-trans hate group, LGB Alliance, as its rector.

This doesn’t surprise me because after all my time at that fucking university I have very few positive words to say about it.

[werewolf-cuddles]

#also go see if you can find a uk place to donate#since trans folk over in the uk are more affected than others by jkr's bs

Good addition that deserves to be on the post itself instead of hidden away in the tags.

Anyway, last thing I wanna say about the wizard game, because quite frankly I'm tired.

All of the anger and vitriol being thrown around on both sides has only helped the game's visibility and sales. As far as the publisher is concerned, all publicity is good publicity, and the games sales have definitely not been hurt at all.

At this point, getting angry at people over it isn't going to accomplish anything, so my suggestion would be to do one or more of the following instead;

Donate to a trans-specific or trans-supportive LGBT+ charity (e.g. Mermaids, The Trevor Project, Stonewall, etc.)

Promote indie games made by trans developers

Call out transphobia when you see it, and stick up for trans people both online and IRL

Getting mad at people over the internet isn't going to accomplish anything good. It's only going to keep the game trending, keep it in the public eye, and keep the sales of it high.

You may as well just channel that outrage into something productive instead.

[sophieinwonderland]

If you ask me, ofc it's lateral aggression. CDD systems and endos are lumped in with each other by virtue of history, terminology, and how they're viewed in society, whether that's a good thing or not. A key component of lateral aggression is internalized bigotry. The LGB Alliance internalizes queerphobic narratives, but rather than applying it to themselves, they dump it on a scapegoat--transgender people. It allows them to think of themselves as "the normal ones" while still holding the harmful beliefs society has pushed on them. Just for a different group.

Similarly, CDD systems are subject to horrible systemic ableism, medical abuse, and toxic inner communities policing for "fakers". It's not hard to see how that narrative is being pushed on endos of all kinds, especially when you factor trauma responses into it. "Oh that's not me. I'm the good kind. *They're* the ones you're looking for." Is a key component of lateral aggression.

This is a legitimately great point, and has changed my mind on this. I had been on the fence about whether it was lateral aggression or not, while leaning towards not. But yeah, when you put it that way, the hate is pretty much entirely based on scapegoating and subjecting people to the same prejudice they've experienced.

So yeah, I'm definitely firmly on the side of it being lateral aggression!

While still being bigotry.

[literallyautistic]

Oh but they do "research" it's just that they find misinformation and take it as fact, did you know in the UK an anti trans hate group known as the LGB alliance was given charity status

what i don't get is when terfs say shit like "oh if you're gnc people will come up to you and force you to transition."

nah fr. do they forget that trans GNC people exist?

[vintage-bentley]

Unfortunately your post about "gender ideology" somehow ended up on my dash, but I'm going to engage in good faith.

I am gen z as well, but I am trans. I don't believe you're a genuinely hateful person, just misunderstanding. The fight for trans and LGB rights as you would call them are inherently linked by history. The first gay rights movements were spearheaded by trans and gender nonconforming people. Groups like the LGB alliance who would like to convince you otherwise are trying to sow unnecessary division by pitting a once unified community against each other with an "us verses them" mentality. At the end of the day, bigots don't care about the difference. Once they're done coming for us, they will come for you.

The truth is, we just want to live our lives, same as you. The "gender ideology" scare going on today is *extremely* similar to how gay people were persecuted in the past (ie, "they're pushing it on children", the whole groomer panic, etc etc).

Also, you'd be hard pressed to find a trans person in real life who thinks having a genital preference is transphobic. I don't feel the need to deconstruct this idea here because it's already been done so many times, and if you're really curious about it you can look into it yourself. No one is forcing you to have sex with trans people. Just respect our existence.

This is getting long, but honestly if I can convince one person that we are not the evil monsters TERFs make us out to be, it will have been worth it. You can also just delete this, I can't control what you do. I just wanted to reach out and try to level with you, because I genuinely believe you're not a hateful person.

Wishing you a happy pride and nothing but the best, with love. ❤️

The thing is, that gay and bi people who were actually at the grassroots movements say that they did it themselves. For example, Fred Sargeant (who was attacked by trans protesters at a pride event that exists largely because of his activism). I have no doubt that people who would be considered trans today were there…but they would’ve been homosexual or bisexual, not heterosexuals claiming to be gay. From what I understand, that’s why trans people were grouped with LGB people to start: because they were a subgroup of LGB people. But today, what it means to be trans has completely changed, and has completely moved away from having anything to do with LGB.

Sexuality is based on sex, trans identity is based on the idea of gender. These two things have nothing in common, and actually directly contradict each other. A homosexual is a person who is exclusively attracted to the same sex, and who completely lacks attraction to the opposite sex. No matter how much a female person identifies as male, a gay man can never be attracted to that person. No matter how much a male person identifies as female, a lesbian can never be attracted to that person. The idea of gender identity tries to overwrite this fact, therefore erasing the reality of homosexuality.

There’s also a big difference in the way LGB people and trans people speak to the next generation. With LGB people, it’s “it gets better, you’re perfect just as you are, don’t feel like you need to change”. With trans people, it’s “it gets better, but only if you change yourself”. Which includes telling lesbians to transition into “straight men”, and gay males to transition into “straight women”. Aka conversion therapy. So even the ways we go about inspiring others is contradictory.

In other words, the progress that trans people want to see is very different from the progress LGB people want to see. Whenever LGB people, specifically homosexuals, try to put emphasis on our needs (example: recognition of sexuality being innate, unchangeable, and based on sex not gender), we are faced with backlash from the trans community. So many of us have decided it’s best to go our own way so that we don’t have to deal with the concept of gender overshadowing us.

And of course we know that bigots don’t like us either. That’s why many LGB people such as myself are very much opposed to allying with conservatives, especially the religious ones. Because the LGB community is so vast and diverse, you’ll of course see some allying with the right. Just as you’ll see some trans people allying with the right. I don’t think either are being very smart in doing so.

Just because LGB people don’t ally ourselves with trans people doesn‘t mean our only other option is homophobes. Our other option is to ally ourselves with people who support us and agree that our sexuality cannot be changed, or identified into or out of, because it is sex based.

You don’t just want to live your lives. Just wanting to live your lives would be doing what you need to do to be at peace personally, and not expecting anyone else to get involved. It wouldn’t be expecting everyone to change their view of what sex and gender are. It wouldn’t be expecting homosexuals to accept a change in the way we define our sexuality. It wouldn’t be expecting women to redefine our sex as an “identity”. It wouldn’t be telling women we need to accept male people in the spaces our foremothers fought to carve out for female people only. It wouldn’t be telling women we can’t discuss women’s issues as such, because we’re expected to believe that men can get periods or can need abortions. It wouldn’t be shutting down female-only shelters. It wouldn’t be throwing a fit when lesbians try to create spaces just for homosexual females. I could go on.

What the trans community is doing, is trying to force their view of gender onto everyone else. That’s not okay. And as I already mentioned, goes directly against the interests of LGB people, especially homosexuals. If somebody wants to take all the steps they can to live as the opposite sex, that’s none of my business and I don’t care. It becomes my business when they then expect me to believe that they actually are the opposite sex. In the same way that it’s none of my business if a Christian wants to believe that Jesus is the son of god who they need to repent to…but it becomes my business if they expect me to believe the same.

Also, I’m very tired of the “nobody is forcing you to have sex with trans people” argument because nobody said that was happening. We obviously know that nobody is holding us down and forcing us to have sex with trans people. We also know that there is a lot of pressure on homosexuals to at best feel guilty about our lack of attraction to the opposite sex, and at worst pressure to “fix” this. Even the term “genital preference” that you used is an example of this—because our exclusive attraction is not a “preference”. A preference is “I like [X] best, but if it’s not available I’ll have [Y]”. That is not how homosexuality works. There is no other option for us except for the same sex. Stop calling our sexuality a preference.

Lesbians will never be attracted to trans identified males. Gay men will never be attracted to trans identified females. The trans community has proven repeatedly that they have a very big problem with this, and have let homosexuals know. Just look at the term “cotton ceiling”, where trans identified males consider female homosexuality to be a barrier holding them back. To many trans people, “respect our existence” means “change your sexuality to include us”.

I’m more than happy to respect the fact that trans people exist. I already do. Just don’t expect me to play along with your belief system.

“TERFs” don’t think trans people are evil monsters. We just see a concerning amount of misogyny and homophobia in your community and are calling this problem out so it can be fixed. Unfortunately, many trans people consider this transphobic, because misogyny and homophobia are essential to upholding their beliefs about gender.