Today we're talking about the establishment war against trans people and against the

LGBTQ civil rights organisation Stonewall here in Britain.

This is Pride Month.

This is the one month of the year when which is dedicated, I suppose, to the struggles

of LGBTQ people in terms of amplifying the voices of LGBTQ people, looking at what's

been won but looking as well at how far there is to go.

And during that month is so far being celebrated in the British media by an all-out war against

Stonewall which is the main LGBTQ civil rights organisation in this country, not just in

the right one press, I should also emphasise, the echoes with the 1980s and 1990s media

war against gay and bisexual people is disturbingly uncanny, back then it was gay people being

sexual predators, tick, gay people, brainwashing children, tick, biology's destiny, tick, why should

the majority have to redefine themselves for the whims of a tiny minority tick, that this

is actually defined by a mental illness tick, that it's some sort of bizarre fetish tick.

It's the same songs being played all over again and why so important we have this discussion

is the anti-trans cult, I suppose, is quite inaccurate describing them the way they work

in terms of very striking cult-like operation, online radicalisation, the obsessive behaviour

towards one of the most marginalised minorities in the country, very well organised, well-resourced,

well connected in the British media and in the British government which I'm sure we will

talk about.

Now I'm very, very honoured to be joined today by Freddie McConnell who has been someone

I've worked with, at the Guardian newspaper, and do check out Freddie's brilliant film

about being a trans dad, which is of course, I was going to say mermaid's, what's wrong

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