Stephen Flaherty

I'm suing Nottingham College after they fired me for informing a parent the college was “socially transitioning” her child and hiding it from her. The case raises important issues about Safeguarding and Parental Responsibility. Support it at crowdjustice.com/case/fired-for…

@abbeylinegold @GwydionMW China jails a lower %age of its population than the USA. Probably executes more, though. You can find things wrong with any society, of course. What the OP is asking is: 1) Is China well-run? and 2) Would it be better or worse under Competitive Democracy? India can be an example.

@GwydionMW China is a communist dictatorship that jails (or worse) its dissidents. Why on earth would we want to copy that?

Britain’s Competitive Parliamentarianism began centuries before Britain was even loosely democratic.  We should not require other societies to copy it.  Should respect well-run systems like China. mrgwydionmwilliams.quora.com/Competitive-Pa…

@jasonrope Half of all transwomen in prison are there for sexual assault against women. That's a lot higher than the male average (and it's an order of magnitude greater than the female average, around a hundred times higher).

What’s more plausible? 1. Half of all trans women in the U.K. are in prison or; 2. Half of Sharron’s skull is stuffed full of cat shit?

@Greenstein9432 @skyeliner I'm not, though. Upton was found Not Guilty on a technicality (that his employer had advised him wrongly). This may well get overturned at appeal.

@StephenFla43386 @skyeliner I have read the judgement, you’re wrong, you mischaracterised or misunderstood it entirely, at least the parts you’ve referenced thus far. I very much doubt that, I’ll he surprised if it even goes anywhere at all given everything that has come out subsequently.

My language is spicy today. And I’m not apologetic. Dr Beth Upton. Is a medical doctor and a qualified anaesthetist who has relocated to Australia, after years of transphobia in the UK. She was found completely innocent of any allegation of wrongdoing. Leave her alone.

@Greenstein9432 @Forgotnameagan @skyeliner He continued to use the changing room after Peggie made it clear she didn't want him to be there and had made a complaint about it. That was wrong and the judgement does say so. His employer advised him it was OK, which means he's not liable, but he was still wrong.

@StephenFla43386 @Forgotnameagan @skyeliner After Peggie made the complaint, which is very much a distinct point.

@skyeliner Well, if it's a "pack of lies", it should be easy enough for you to show where the judgement gives the lie to it. Note paras 1079 & 1089 onwards, where the judge says, basically, that Upton was wrong but not liable as NHSFife had given him permission. judiciary.uk/judgments/sand…

@StephenFla43386 That is a pack of lies… You have twisted the reality. You are a mentally ill terf. You have nothing to contribute here, other than disrespect and hate. Fancy spending your online life attacking trans people. Do your family know what a hateful misfit you are…

@Greenstein9432 @Forgotnameagan @skyeliner It did, though. And you know it.

@Forgotnameagan @StephenFla43386 @skyeliner done something wrong or violated some sort of civil protocols somehow but that it was as a consequence of her employer wrongly advising her—that was false, the ruling said no such thing.

@Greenstein9432 @skyeliner No. Read the judgement. And the Appeal will be even harsher and may well find Upton guilty despite the bad advice he received.

@StephenFla43386 @skyeliner No Stephen, that is a complete misrepresentation of the nature of the ruling, every single charge against Dr Upton was dismissed and was cleared of any wrongdoing. The reason NHS Fife was found liable is because they failed to respond to Peggie’s grievances, not because of any-

@grannies4equal He wasn't "fully exonerated", though. He was found not liable, but that's not the same thing. Basically, the court determined that his actions were wrong, but that his employer (NHS Fife) had wrongly advised him that they were OK. Hence his employer was liable, not him.

The author of the article said publicly that the fewer trans people there are in the world the better. Not enough that Dr Upton, totally exonerated in court, was forced by Terf persecution to flee to the far side of the 🌍 Joyce & co continue to hunt & harass her cruelly

@doctor_rahmeh Hi Dr Rahmeh, best of luck tomorrow. Have you thought of getting @SpeechUnion involved in your case? They're very right wing, but say they're pro Free Speech, so you'd probably give them a dilemma. They are, however, supporting me in my arrests for "terrorism" (holding up a sign)

Hello and peace be upon you all. As some of you may be aware, I was arrested for the fifth time on 25 March, charged, remanded overnight, and released on bail. For tweets. It has become difficult to determine what words or phrases will result in the police knocking on my door and placing me in handcuffs. But I am not the story. I am one voice out of billions in what is humanity's greatest fight today. While the genocide in Gaza continues and spreads to Lebanon, we in Britain are criminalised for words. This Friday, I will appear at the Old Bailey court in London for my first hearing. This is the start of yet another battle for our basic freedoms in the UK. Thank you all for your support. I have missed you.

@JaneCaro It isn't, though. Even the Guardian agrees that it's not: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Transphobia is absolutely anti-feminist. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@B76TonLaron @jk_rowling @boswelltoday @ForWomenScot @RealEndated @campbellclaret Kid (and child) has 2 meanings: 1) a minor; an underage person; 2) the offspring of a parent. Obviously, meaning 1) refers to people under 16 or 18, but meaning 2) can refer to someone of any age.

@jk_rowling @boswelltoday @ForWomenScot @RealEndated @campbellclaret The definition of a "kid" is someone over 30 now? Unless of course, she identifies as a kid!

Mmmm. Bit weird 👇🏻 but hey ho … for all those claiming we won’t listen to people who share @jk_rowling views we have in the past asked @jk_rowling who said no. She is a leading voice and therefore we would happily talk to her on LEADING. Previous attempts have been rebuffed.

@campbellclaret @jk_rowling @RestIsPolitics @SarahEMcBride Being ratioed is defined as having more replies than likes AND the replies getting more likes than your comment. There are 3,000 replies to your 620 likes (nearly 5x). The highest rating of those replies - which eviscerates you - had 6,500 likes, (over 10x). You're wrong here.

For those in the middle of the @jk_rowling conversation I strongly recommend you listen to @RestIsPolitics LEADING interview with @SarahEMcBride - you could not wish to hear a more compelling, passionate and measured advocate of trans rights and human rights. m.youtube.com/watch?v=UvxQze…

@Gaynotqueer1 You're right. You can't understand. By your own admission, none of the things you've said about her make sense to you. So maybe start there.

"JK Rowling is at it again."

@daniellismore I notice you didn't tag @jk_rowling into your tirade. Afraid she might reply and point out the bullshit you're saying, are you?

JK Rowling has built a public identity around protecting women. She talks about women constantly. Women’s spaces. Women’s rights. Women’s safety. Women’s sport. Women’s everything. So where is she on Reform UK’s behind the scenes campaign against abortion rights? Silence. Where is she on Reform’s position on removing the United Kingdom from the European Convention on Human Rights, the legal framework that protects women from domestic violence, forced marriage, honour crimes and state discrimination? Silence. Where is she on the broader rollback of women’s rights being driven by the exact political forces she has chosen to align herself with? Complete silence. This is a woman with over thirteen million followers, a billion dollar franchise, a personal legal fund and the ear of Supreme Court justices. She is not short of a platform. She is not afraid of controversy. She has demonstrated repeatedly that she will say difficult things loudly when she wants to. She just does not want to say these things. The pattern is not subtle. Every campaign she has funded, every legal case she has backed, every public statement she has made has had one subject. Not women broadly. Specifically and only transgender people. When the conversation moves to abortion she is absent. When it moves to the ECHR she is absent. When it moves to Reform UK’s social conservatism, which would take the rights of women backwards by decades, she is absent. The European Convention on Human Rights is not an abstract legal document. It is the framework that has delivered concrete protections for women in this country. It underpins the right not to be subjected to domestic violence without state protection. It underpins reproductive rights cases. It underpins protections against forced marriage and trafficking. It underpins the right to private life, to bodily autonomy, to equal treatment under law. Reform UK wants to remove the United Kingdom from it. It also protects transgender people. That appears to be the problem. Because the only coherent explanation for Rowling’s silence on every other women’s rights issue while spending her fortune on this one is that her campaign was never really about women. It was always about transgender people. Women were the framing. Trans exclusion was the goal. A person who genuinely cared about women’s rights in 2025 would be screaming about Reform. They would be funding legal challenges to abortion restrictions. They would be speaking loudly about the ECHR. They would understand that you cannot claim to defend women’s rights while staying silent as the political movement you have empowered works to dismantle the legal architecture that protects women from the state and from violence. Unless the rights you actually care about are not women’s rights in general. Unless they are specifically the right to exclude transgender people from public life. In which case the silence makes perfect sense. Follow the silence. It tells you everything the statements do not.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ She wonders why she lost friends. I’ve spoken to 3 of her old friends in person. And they had the worst possible for us to say about her. So she may be your hero but it seems to me that she’s not a very nice person.

@MariFenic @mark_slapinski "transgirls" are men (or, at least, boys). So,no, it's not worth analysing. No males in women's spaces, no matter how rare. Including red-green colour blind men.

@StephenFla43386 @mark_slapinski Pues si ellos son hombres pues no, pero si es una chica trans pues mínimo vale la pena analizarlo

Trans people are a tiny minority of the population. You have more of a chance of being struck by lightning than seeing a trans woman in the washroom.

@PaperLeyla @ThomasWillett9 It's not rare, it's non-existent. The 16 cases mentioned were all misdiagnoses, and have been acknowledged as such. As a rule of thumb, don't believe a word of "research" that talks about "cisgender" men or women. "Girl" is inexact. I was being precise.

@StephenFla43386 @ThomasWillett9 It is incredibly rare, but it is possible. Not sure what you tried to say with your second argument, as "girls" doesn't refer to people that haven't had their period.

She wasn’t “criticised”; she was abused, harassed and ultimately hounded out of her position. The only “criticism” was about Steph being trans, and not her qualifications and experience. That’s not criticism; it’s prejudice.

@Willibee64 @SteveReedMP And yet when people are accused of "transphobia", all this due process you talk about goes out the window and they're hit with "no-fault" suspensions for months or years. I'm not saying that Reid is right. He's a hypocrite, apart from anything else. But so is Polanski.

@SteveReedMP You know he can't sack them. You know the process has to be followed. You know this is why Labour were found guilty of breaking equality law. You flat out just don't care about Jews.

Zack Polanski has said he will disown candidates that have anti-Semitic views. The evidence is there for all to see. Will he step up and sack them or stay silent?

@PaperLeyla @ThomasWillett9 No. Only women can suffer from endometriosis. And Steph Richards is a man, not a woman, as you and he both know well. And yes, you're quite right on your second point, girls (pre-menarche) do not suffer from endometriosis either.

@StephenFla43386 @ThomasWillett9 Cis men can get endometriosis too in rare cases, not that it matters since Steph Richards is a woman. Also, "only affects women" exludes young girls suffering from the horrible disease as well.