Recently I cut up my Labour Party membership card. Lots of people asked me why. Then the Party itself wrote and asked. So I sent them this letter: simonfanshawe.com/?p=321
Simon Fanshawe
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Simon Fanshawe
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- Dear @adelewilliams I was a founder of Stonewall. If @bindelj, a lesbian who has spent her adult life fighting for Women’s rights and against violence against women, is “at odds with your EDI strategy”. It might be the strategy that needs challenging rather than the lesbian.
- Replying to @BluskyeAllisonThis is a reminder to Stonewall not to betray its legacy of representing the whole lesbian and gay community and not to behave as an ideological organisation pushing a single view of our world with sanctions for being “the wrong kind of gay”. The point of equality is diversity
- Diversity and inclusion are about difference. How I admire this woman. Her cool expression of opinion, the brilliance of her writing and her commitment to difference which is the core of our humanity."There were people on social media saying that my parents had died ... because I had refused to say 'trans women are women.' There is a raging epidemic of violence against women ... and it's become unfashionable to talk about." — @ChimamandaReal Dec. 2021
- Just wrote this about Stonewall and thought you might like to see it
- What you got wrong Carly-May was that you abused those who hold a different view in a way that was entirely inappropriate for someone who works for an MP. MPs represent their whole community. See my letter below to @lloyd_rm - your boss.
- It is public knowledge that I have spoken at LGBAlliances conferences. The question is what have I said. Attempts to argue through guilt by association does not stand the test of evidenced discussion. If there was any evidence that LGBA is a hate group I would not have done so.
- Replying to @EdinUniStaffI am delighted and honoured to have been named Rector. I will do all I can to advance the university and its staff and students and fearlessness in the exchange of ideas
- It was disgraceful. As we walked into the meeting these people yelled scum at lesbians and feminists who have been fighting for women’s rights for decades many of them. This is not solidarity or diversity. It is aggression our and simple#WPUKLab19I have NEVER seen a feminist - radical, GC or otherwise - hammer on the window while a trans meeting is in progress, or seen women attempt to destroy property like this. This is violent intimidation. All because some women want to talk about how proposed law changes affect them.
- My issue with Stonewall is not WHAT they campaign on, but HOW. They reject the diversity of views on issues, they refuse to discuss, they seek to impose their narrow view rather than find good solutions for all. Dogma did not win us the progress we have.
- It’s not that I am right or wrong. I certainly don’t have the answers. But I am totally certain that a small group of people trying to prevent discussion will not get us to good solutions. And most people are waking up to that. The centre now needs to isolate the extremes.Cambridge students protested and walked out of a talk by Stonewall co-founder Simon Fanshawe, accusing him of being transphobic. Simon: “They had a look of absolute entitled pleasure for walking out. The pleasure should be the discussion!” @JuliaHB1 | @SimonFanshawe
00:00 - “The tragedy is not just that Stonewall’s refusal to engage damages the interests of trans people and of women. It betrays the charity’s remarkable legacy of change”. My piece in today’s Telegraph.
- What has become of us. When lesbians are dragged by the police from Pride?? @stonewalluk where are you on this??
- Two things: great thread just reminding everyone (including the BBC-which I love) to stop assuming all gay people people think the same. And, increasingly, informed by many feminist friends’ thinking, I am more and more finding this kind of stereotyped drag deeply offensive.Stop and think. Why will Ant and Dec dressing up in an exaggerated, stereotyped image of the idea of “woman” help anyone “LGBTQ”? In what way? And how will it help “LGBTQ children”? What is an LGBTQ child? 1/ bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-…
