Lmao well I certainly didn’t expect this turd getting arrested to show up in the feed today. But here we are! Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person. :)
Something to keep in mind is that when a transphobe talks about males, men, or trans identifying males, they mean trans women. He was saying you should punch a trans woman if she’s in the bathroom. She’s being violent by being there existing, so cis women should respond with violence. Bullshit.
Reminds me of how there was a trans woman working with a feminist music group and a gang of women harrassed her into leaving.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/24/sandy-stone-olivia-records-trans-rights-los-angeles/
Harassment and hate mail continued until the collective heard of the threats made by the Gorgons. Stone had received death threats in the past, but, she says, “this seemed to be a new order of threat”.
That fear was warranted. Gorgons turned up at a Seattle concert, and had weapons confiscated by security. In a 2014 interview, she described how she was “pants-wetting scared” at the event.
Ultimately, Stone decided to leave the collective. Olivia was in a precarious financial position and there were potentially ruinous threats of a boycott.
So because she existed in a woman’s space (no actual member of the music collective disagreed with her being there) they harassed her, threatened her, and brought live weapons to an event she was at. Things haven’t changed much with them, have they? Existing near them is a threat, and they don’t give a shit how many women, trans and cis, they have to threaten to make trans women stop existing near them.
Did Lineham cross the free speech line into a call for violence? I don’t know the law. But I know he’s a shit who is making things worse for every woman while pretending he’s protecting us.
Good.
So many questions?.
What law was broken?
The cops went through his social media until they found something?
Do they do that to everyone or is this guy internet famous?
- Probably something about incitement to violence considering that he directly says to punch trans women as a response to their presence in specific places
- More likely someone reported it
- He’s real life famous, he wrote several very successful TV series prior to his bizarre career switch to being a dickhead on twitter
Fuck the police.
Yeah, but fuck you too.
Checks modlogs. Spots transphobic behaviour 😬
And?
I thought he was a piece of shit, but the article says he was against trans men in women’s spaces, and he insulted transphobes and misogynists. I’m missing something.
He wasn’t talking about trans men, he was using a slur against trans women.
What’s the xitter posts were about?
The first post, from his X feed, called it a “violent, abusive act” for a trans-identified male to be in a female-only space. He suggested: “Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails punch him in the balls.”
The third expressed his views, in which he said “I hate them”, referring to “misogynists and homophobes”, adding an expletive.
As I read it, he is turning the TERF argument on its head by calling for a scene if a trans-male (FtM) enters a women’s bathroom (what the law states).EDIT: A different article gave more context to the tweets. The dude is a hardcore TERF, like JK Rowling.
He wasn’t saying anything about trans men, at least in the part you quoted. That’s a slur used against trans women.
You are correct. A different article was far clearer on his stance. I am sure his choice of words was deliberately confusing. What a jerk. I’m sure he’ll play the martyr now.
The third expressed his views, in which he said “I hate them”, referring to “misogynists and homophobes”, adding an expletive.
That’s what would’ve gotten him arrested.
I too would like to know but there’s no way I’m opening a BBC article on one of my devices.
