Regular reminder that the Suffragettes are a terrible comparison for almost any direct action; they did not have a vote, therefore argued they were not bound by laws they had no democratic way to change. Have you got a vote? Right, you’re not like the Suffragettes then, are you.

Reminded today that I sued Prick News. And won:

Dear friends and supporters of free speech, I am Eldur, a gay man from Iceland who has spent years speaking out against the sexualisation, medicalisation and sterilisation of gender non conforming children and the erosion of gay rights, women’s rights and free expression. Today, 9 June 2026, I am standing in Héraðsdómur Reykjavíkur (Reykjavík District Court) facing a lawsuit brought by Ugla Stefanía Kristjónudóttir Jónsdóttir — co-author of the notorious Dentons “playbook” and Reykjavík City’s “transgender issues specialist” — simply because I called puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on minors what they are: child abuse. The preliminary hearing is imminent. The case is moving forward. And right now, £6,000 (just under one million ISK) in legal fees is due immediately to keep my defence alive. This is not just about me. This is a SLAPP-style attempt to bankrupt and silence a gay man who refuses to lie about sex, biology, and the safeguarding of children. Ugla’s lawsuit is designed to scare anyone who dares question the current orthodoxy. If it succeeds, it sets a precedent that critics of gender ideology can be dragged through the courts and financially ruined for telling the truth. I have no big organisation behind me. I am an ordinary Icelander relying on the goodwill of people worldwide who still believe in evidence-based safeguarding, free speech, and the right of gay men to say that men are not women and that kids need protection. £6,000 is needed now — today — to pay the next tranche of legal costs and continue the fight. Every donation, no matter how small, makes a real difference. If you believe children should not be sterilised, that women’s spaces should remain sex-based, and that gay people should not be cancelled for defending biological reality, please stand with me. Donate here to my legal fundraiser:
gofundme.com/f/help-me-defen… (GoFundMe is in euros but converts automatically; every pound/euro goes directly to my legal defence.) Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your support keeps this fight going when the activists want me silenced and broke. With gratitude,
Eldur Smári Kristinsson
Icelandic gay man, free-speech advocate, and defendant in the fight for truth. Share this. Donate if you can. The children — and free speech — are counting on us. 🙏

With a cost of living crisis, don't you think you should have bigger priorities than stoking a moral panic over women having spaces of their own?

Surely we can look to @ucu for robust criticism of this latest assault on academic freedom.

Nobody is "marginalised" by obeying the law. It's what all of us are supposed to do. Do people like @BellRibeiroAddy bother to read their tweets before they hit "send"? I'm starting to think they really don't ...

I hope the x00,000 of people - mostly women - that pay your salary stop paying it. Because this level of incompetence is truly scandalous. Never mind (tho I do) that you think working women should get their kit off for the lads - this guidance DOES NOT APPLY TO EMPLOYERS.

Hello Stella. (Labour Party member here, if that makes a difference) IMO, it’s remarkable that you are co-sponsoring an EDM to reject guidance on established law, and extensively engaging/justifying this action because you think the guidance “is wrong”, yet decline to explain why you think the guidance is wrong. You are an elected official with a national platform and accountability. Being coy about your rationale for attempting to prevent guidance on such a hotly-contested issue being approved really isn’t on. I expect more of our parliamentarians, frankly. Don’t you think constituents, including both the broader party constituency and non-constituents who, nonetheless, live in a country where you belong to the party in power are worthy of explanation? You’re talking to the expert, advocates and representatives of this guidance. Maybe an actual discussion would be fruitful? Is the guidance wring but you think the law OK? Is the guidance wrong because you think the law is wrong? If you think the solution is legislation, that means you wish to change the Equality Act - I don’t see another interpretation. Your voters deserve to know how you are planning to do this. Don’t we LP members deserve to know how our party is approaching this (including the range of views on offer)? No Debate is over.

Inevitable I suppose that I am now being flooded with ads for motorhomes...

Let’s stop pretending this is about toilets. That is the smallest doorway into a much bigger argument. This is about women’s rights: the right to assemble as women, organise as women, speak as women, and be represented as women. It is about dignity, privacy, safeguarding, safe spaces, fair sport, single-sex services, hospital wards, refuges, changing rooms and the basic right of women to set boundaries without being smeared for it. The toilet door is only the symbol. The real battle is whether women are still allowed to have anything of their own. labourheartlands.com/trans-r…

It is not sexist, never mind 'misogyny' to question Nicola Sturgeon, who presided over the worst era of misogyny in Scotland in my lifetime, and is a cynical mistress of spin. This week's Scotsman column. Enjoy! scotsman.com/news/opinion/co…