BuzzFeed News is dead, but when it was still a thing, its LGBT editor was Patrick Strudwick. Now he’s a special correspondent for the iPaper and reporting on anti-trans rallies such as the Let Women Speak event in Melbourne, Australia. Strudwick claims there was a “mass Nazi salute” at the event. We’d have thought there’d be video of that all over social media if it really happened.
“Transphobe” J.K. Rowling stepped in to call out the REAL fascists who are calling people Nazis for wanting women to have their own spaces free from biological men, such as women’s shelters, locker rooms, and showers.
As @PatrickStrud has blocked me on here (we've never, to my knowledge, interacted on Twitter or anywhere else) I can't challenge him directly about the claim he published in iNews (see below) that a Let Women Speak event in Australia 'staged a mass Nazi salute'. This is a lie so… pic.twitter.com/5rSkOfDIxl
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 29, 2023
It’s a long tweet; here it is in full:
As @PatrickStrud has blocked me on here (we’ve never, to my knowledge, interacted on Twitter or anywhere else) I can’t challenge him directly about the claim he published in iNews (see below) that a Let Women Speak event in Australia ‘staged a mass Nazi salute’. This is a lie so brazen, so easily disprovable and so libellous, I’m amazed it was allowed it into print by a supposedly reputable news source. For years now, women and gay people concerned about the erosion of their rights, the dismantling of safeguarding and the escalating threats and violence of trans activists have been called ‘fascists’ and ‘Nazis’ by people like Strudwick for holding what, until five minutes ago, were solidly left-wing/feminist political positions. Nobody but useful idiots can be genuinely surprised that REAL fascists have spotted a glorious opportunity in trans activism. The homophobic, anti-feminist far-right has long held that the left is degenerate, foolish, immoral and authoritarian, and now they can point to the incoherent arguments of the gender ideologues, the bullying tactics of the no-platformers and the swarms of masked men threatening violence against women for wanting to retain single-sex spaces, and crow ‘we told you so’. Actual Nazis have turned up on the fringes of Let Women Speak events for exactly the same reason aggressive, narcissistic trans activists are there. These groups closely resemble each other. Both are rife with misogynistic opportunists who’re using a clash of rights to push their own agendas, both are there in the hope of violence, and neither gives a damn about the women who’re there to speak out in their own voices, about their own lives, on their own behalf. It’s high time those peddling lies like Strudwick’s are held accountable and I sincerely hope @ThePosieParker takes action.
But Strudwick says he won a journalism award in 2018. An award-winning journalist wouldn’t just throw a claim like that out there.
Thanks for supporting Kellie-Jay. But it is financially very tough to take legal action and she doesn’t have the financial resources of some people 😘
— Heather Finlay 🇺🇦 KPSS💚🤍💜 (@LuxuryMoon) May 29, 2023
But as I've already told her, she knows where I am.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 29, 2023
Gay men like @PatrickStrud make my skin crawl – and I say that as a gay man myself….
— John James (@JohnJamesNI) May 29, 2023
The women who call rape survivors Nazis for wanting penis-free spaces make my skin crawl, too. This whole debacle has been a fiesta of skin crawling.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 29, 2023
He knows he's lying.
— Helen Staniland (@helenstaniland) May 29, 2023
As ever, absolutely spot on.
— RCL (@radicalcatlover) May 29, 2023
Brilliantly put. It’s so dispiriting that Strudwick, Bragg and others are pushing arguments and dragging people along while completely ignoring the violence underpinning the actions of so many TRAs. Power to you for standing up for your beliefs without descending into lies/abuse
— Peter Bone (@PeterBone1) May 29, 2023
As a PhD in developmental psychology and working in academia, I can tell you I have watched a consistent rise of misinformation and an unhealthy agenda that promotes forced conformity and militant forced acceptance or you’re ostracized. It’s unhealthy and regressive.
— Max the surfer (@maxsurferli) May 29, 2023
Thank you so much Jo. I regularly go to LWS events and the abuse that gets thrown at us is off the scale. In reality, the people that go are the most wonderful, diverse and accepting people I have ever met (they generally can bloody drink though!)
— Janine Humphrey🦖🧟♂️🦕🧟♀️ (@janine_humphrey) May 29, 2023
He knows. He just doesn't care. As men like him aren't affected by any of it. No risk involved. A 'look at how good I am' tweet.
— B.Face (@BertfaceBerty) May 29, 2023
Both sides are men, happy that now they have an excuse to be openly misogynists and be applauded for it. Trans rights put male feelings above the safety and dignity of women, trans rights are men rights
— Darkiora 💚🤍💜 (@Darkiora) May 29, 2023
Strudwick blocked me too. He long since stopped any pretence of being a real journalist. Perhaps he identifies as one though.
— Jill Foster (@JournalistJill) May 29, 2023
He’s apparently blocked just about everyone in the replies, even though they’ve never interacted with him. He must be using a “Transphobes” block list to make sure reality doesn’t pierce is bubble.
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Related:
ICYMI: J.K. Rowling scorches trans-activists for making up imaginary childrenhttps://t.co/0YPLyaKrMT
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 15, 2023
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