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A couple of days ago I commented on a @KatyMontgomerie tweet about AidanC linking some violent tweets with Helen Staniland and which I though was misleading. Tbh I’d never really read much about HS but found her constant penis tweets a bit irritating.
HS saw my tweet and thanked me for standing up for her (which I wasn’t, really, just though AidanC was being unfair). I thought that was uncharacteristically nice of her and started looking through her timeline. Yeah, she asked the same question a lot but it was a decent
question that no one ever answered in good faith. The only penis talk I could see was her just repeating the question, not asking for genital inspections etc as I had been led to believe. Her arguments seemed genuinely well meaning, if differing from my own viewpoint.
She was then permanently suspended from Twitter yesterday much to the absolute glee of many people I previously considered to be fairly decent moral compasses. I find any crowing about silencing anyone distasteful at the best of times but this was just downright nasty - mocking
her appearance and openly saying she is a sexual deviant. I completely believe that trans women are women. I’m not going to change that view point. But w to #TheStanilandQuestion I’d have to say ‘No’ and I’d be seriously concerned about anyone who answers otherwise.
