We knew that appointing
@IndiaWilloughby
as club Patron would bring out the haters. That’s fine, as educating these people is the very reason we did it. This morning the club received this message, which makes every personal insult entirely irrelevant. Proud to stand with our
At
@Cougarmania
we proudly fly the Progress Flag around our stadium, with the amazing
@IndiaWilloughby
as our club Patron. Some people say we are too woke, overdo the LGBTQ+ issues. Then I see this bigot
@LozzaFox
, and it makes me want to do more to help and protect my LGBTQ+
I’m shocked by this. In 2024 it’s fine for bigots to shout abuse at me for being gay, shout abuse at
@IndiaWilloughby
for being trans. This is absolutely not ok. I think most British people are fed up of the hate, of the culture wars that have been forced upon us. We have one
1/ I met the police today regarding JK Rowling’s blatantly transphobic tweet about me - claiming I was a ‘man’ , who was just ‘cosplaying’ at being a woman. A statement which is obviously grossly offensive to any right thinking person.
@Nigel_Farage
I watched this and see a peaceful gathering. People celebrating. A cultural respect. Music and a great atmosphere.
@Nigel_Farage
I wish you would stop the hate and stop being a racist.
Proud our club stands up and fights for everyone to live their best life, comfortable in their own skin. No to division, no to hate, it’s time to end these culture wars.
@jk_rowling
@KemiBadenoch
@Martina
, it’s time to be kind.
So proud of our
@Cougarmania
supporters. Keighley Cougars unfurls a trans flag every game, and has the inspirational
@IndiaWilloughby
as club patron. This would not ordinarily be accepted. But this club, these supporters, this town say “live your best life”. Live, love, laugh.
@GullisJonathan
We are now at a level where the vice chair of the Conservative party is using an avocado to attack people. His fellow country folk. A school boy bully.
I remember when politicians had intelligent and reasoned debate. Not this.
It’s normal for journalists to ‘doorstep’ politicians with questions. It’s part of politicians accountability. Why did
@LeeAndersonMP_
decide to pick out
@Femi_Sorry
and denigrate him on X? We can hear that dog whistle
@LeeAndersonMP_
It is indeed inspirational
@jkrowling
to see
@Cougarmania
supporting & respecting people. You should come to Cougar Park and see what a positive place it is. No discrimination, a place where everyone is welcome.
@MrRypod
@KemiBadenoch
@Glinner
@IndiaWilloughby
@Cougarmania
Aw, it's so inspirational that these straight lads agree India's a woman, because they've got so much skin in the game! How incredibly brave, for a bunch of straight guys to approve of a misogynistic man getting access to female spaces! Honestly, I'm shedding a tear here.
Once again
@jk_rowling
using her platform to spew vile hatred towards the trans community. She understands the impact of hateful words. Sad to see the bullied become the bully.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
A unique privilege to experience this. Thank you to the exceptional players, coaches and staff who made this happen. Thank you to the supporters for your faith and dedication. A very proud moment for our team, our family, and our town. 🙌 🏉 ❤️ 🌈
How nice is this? As the world lurches dangerously Right…thank you! ❤️🏳️⚧️. Reminder: New shirts on the way after selling out ! Follow the link to Keighley Cougars shop🏳️⚧️⭐️
@Cougarmania
I want a GP appointment within a month. I would love to see a dentist. My husband would like an ambulance when he was doubled up alone and screaming with sepsis. We want our roads not to have potholes. We’d like water that doesn’t poison us. We’d like rivers and seas that
Be more
@KirstieMAllsopp
❤️. The Gender Critical swarm can be incredibly intimidating. They will say the most disgusting things. The one good thing is that more people are starting to see them for exactly who they are ⭐️🏳️⚧️
@cool2btrans
@jk_rowling
All power to you Katie. Really inspirational video. I’m sorry you have to explain yourself, but credit to you for doing so. Keep being you. 🏳️⚧️
@EssexPR
I live in Soho. Have done for 20 years. Feedback from me, a resident, is the streets have never been busier, busy with people safely sightseeing and going about their business. I’ve never had an issue, never felt threatened. London’s booming and vibrant thanks to
@SadiqKhan
Super day celebrating
@Cougarmania
#Pride2024
game. Our gracious thanks to the players for supporting us, wearing the
#trans
awareness kit. Also to the 1,800 fans who turned up with an open mind. We might have only mustered a draw, but it was wondrous to see everybody come
How absolutely disgraceful that a
@Cougarmania
post remembering the fallen of D-Day is hijacked by bigots. Shameful. The heroes on D-Day helped win a war against fascism, now it is our responsibility to end the culture wars and let people be.
@darrengrimes_
And again
@darrengrimes_
you’re sitting at your keyboard looking to spew your venom. Maybe the housing is available for any person of every colour of the rainbow.
@darrengrimes_
The irony that
@darrengrimes_
is ranting on that if you walk around London you’ll “get ya stuff nicked”….
During this recording Darren is walking around London with expensive headphones on and talking into his expensive iPhone. Not feeling remotely threatened, and not having
My council tax in Soho (average income £100k) is 40% less than council tax for a 2 bed flat in Bradford (average income £24k). This is so wrong.
@UKLabour
need to reform council tax, set a local income tax, and distribute it fairly, according to need, across the country.
This is it. Representation, representation, representation. Lovely to see
@Hollyoaks
share trans stories. We need to see more trans stories and role models in today’s society to combat this demonisation of a whole community.
@IndiaWilloughby
being an amazing patron of our club,
UK soap
#hollyoaks
continues to explore and advocate LGBTQ+ storylines. Most recently the soap explores the relationship between Kitty (Iz Hesketh) and Freddie (Charlie Clapham) As well as the powerful narrative of the journey of Ro Lomax (played by Ava Webster)
Cast your minds back to 2016.
#brexit
campaign by
@Nigel_Farage
and his crew. For them it was supposedly about sovereignty, our right to set our own laws, make the economy boom, a way to make lives better and fund the NHS.
Those cheerleaders, what are they spouting now?:
-
With the gays watching
#Eurovision2024
. There are 12 of us, 7 are immigrants. What a wonderful group of people. All of us routing for Ollie Alexander
@uk_eurovision
, but wow
@Switzerland
Nemo, love it!
@GarrySchofield6
As one of the owners of Keighley Cougars, I have never met you Garry, you have never worked for our company. You are confusing us with the previous company & people who owned Keighley Cougars, you should be contacting and chasing them for monies they owe you.
I’ve no involvement or knowledge of what led to Keighley Cougar’s parting company with our coach this week - but predictably, SOME transphobes and homophobes are making it all about me,
@MrRypod
and
@itskauegarcia
and Cougars being 100% pro LGBT 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️. Fair enough if you disagree
Wow, scary how much to the right the Conservatives have moved. 2017, they were listening, even compassionate. The moment
@theresa_may
left office, the UKIP bigots took over. It’s time for a better future,
#votelabour
.
In 2017, then Prime Minister Theresa May invited me to a party at Number 10 with about about another 100 or so LGBT folk where she PROMISED to:
⭐️bring in self-id.
⭐️ban LGBT conversion therapy.
Now had 14 years. Nothing. Both should take a day, tops. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@derek_beaumont
An exceptional season. What you have created at Leigh: Branding, entertainment, & on-field performance, is something all clubs, including mine, need to learn from. Huge respect to you Derek, Laura & your family for all you give to Leigh, and the sport rugby league.
@IndiaWilloughby
@IndiaWilloughby
you are so strong and brave. I’ve had a day of it and feel exhausted, you’ve had to endure it for years!
Today the haters have bizarrely picked on my eyes! Apparently my eye colour proves I’m a drug addict, a paedophile, insane, a dog, and even a lizard.
Pleasure to meet the owners of my birthplace rugby league team
@Cougarmania
the only gay couple in the world to own a sports team. Good luck
@MrRypod
and
@itskauegarcia
in bringing the Keighley story to the screen and in your fight to win back promotion and relegation
That the ‘equalities’ minister
@KemiBadenoch
, just 3 days into
#Pride
month decides to go after trans people, shows what a vile infested government this is. Wonderful though that she came across just as she is, arrogant, stupid and plain nasty.
Shockingly bad from Kemi Badenoch on the 8:10 slot on the Today programme.
No grasp of the detail of this culture war-baiting policy. And says Liz Truss appearing on Carl Benjamin's podcast after his vile comments is "trivial" and "unserious".
Full thing here👇
The danger of the huge
@UKLabour
poll lead is that people think it’s all done and dusted. We must get out and vote to get rid of this rancid government. Vote tactically:
"The usual suspects who toxify debate" ?
@KemiBadenoch
, I guess you're referring to supporters of trans rights? Please go to my non-toxic post yesterday, it has 1.5k comments of bile & abuse by
@jk_rowling
's cult of bigots. Why not use your priveleged position to unify people,
The plan I announced today to clarify biological sex in law has attracted a lot of comment. Including, of course, vitriol from the usual suspects who toxify the debate!
My Times piece explains the policy and shows the area is complex -the media interviewing me were by their own
@DeborahMeaden
@deborahmeaden
you need to appear more on news channels. You have a huge public following, and voices such as yours (fundamentally not being a politician), can only be a positive for a
#PeoplesVote
We need people like you to lead the resistance.
Proud that
@Cougarmania
pioneered the Pride kit movement in rugby league. Sad to see the pressure
@SeaEagles
are under with their Pride jersey, having to fight the prejudice of the few. This is why Cougars does Pride and will always fight for equality for all.
@FOXNRL
#SeaEagles
Way to go husband 🥰
The boy from Brazil who moved continents with nothing more than a passport and a dream.
You are the example of what is good in this world. Confronting bigotry and standing for what is right. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Honoured to have met King Charles for the work
@Cougarmania
does for the LGBTQ+.
Representation matters. That’s why we spread a positive message of acceptance & inclusivity.
The world needs to see more role models that represent each and every one of us. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻
#LGBTIQ
The right-wing nutters say they “want their country back”.
To a time when men expected women ‘to be in the kitchen’; Poofs & trans in prison; ‘blacks’ & Irish barred from pubs & jobs; immigrants ‘stink & send them home’.
This photo is UK in 2024. Educated, progressive, wanting
Lovely happy hopeful crowds at the
@reformparty_uk
here at Trago. Thank you all for your kindness. You are splendid indeed. Well done Trago. Well done REFORM. Well done young people.
Another tough week for our trans brothers & sisters. The bullying & demeaning keeps growing. Disappointed
@Keir_Starmer
&
@wesstreeting
let us down. But we need them to win, they are our only chance to end the toxicity. Let’s hold our noses. We need a govt that is decent &
@RickBuxton2
@Cougarmania
@IndiaWilloughby
We support trans people, and you desert the club you have followed for decades.? You know the club still plays rugby and no trans people are going to attack you? Currently top of the league. If you are such a bigot then enjoy your sofa, otherwise open your mind up and respect
With respect
@SirJimratcliffe
, it has turned out exactly as 48% of voters feared it would. Politicians really need to start the debate about correcting our mistake and rejoining. We need to stimulate growth, this is the way to do it.
#rejoin
#EU
#rejoinEU
This is now the
@immigration
election’. 2 simple questions:
1) why restrict illegal immigrants to live in hotels and benefits, why not give them a temporary National Insurance number and help them to work= self worth, fills skill gaps, generates revenue for the exchequer;
2)
Of all the stupid click-bait hate that ‘grifter Grimes’ spouts, this is one of his most absurd.
‘Allahu Akbar’ = ‘God is most great’.
My Catholic grandma used to say similar in our nightly prayers.
I personally don’t believe in Divinity, but I absolutely respect the
Let’s not get carried away by
@reformparty_uk
and their 5 MP’s.
UKIP 2015: 3.8m votes - 12.6%
Reform 2024: 4m votes - 14.3%
Not a stellar increase given they have had their own ‘news’ channel in GBeebies, brainwashing people for 3 years.
They have been grifting on free media,
The photo of a conman.
@Nigel_Farage
thinks we’re all so thick we believe this appalling fake photo. He won’t be watching the Euro’s as it involves Europeans. Probably in his Mayfair club having a cigar, laughing at how many people he’s conned so far in Clacton.
@DreyfusJames
@IndiaWilloughby
You are beyond reason James. I’m sorry you have become this bitter person. Society has moved on. The LGB community we grew up lovingly embraced the T a good while ago. I’m proud of that.
@darrengrimes_
@darrengrimes_
everyday I see your negative, reactive posts. It’s exhausting. You seem to complain every hour. Please wake up tomorrow and take a step to being a positive person, Step 1: quit being a racist?
@DreyfusJames
@IndiaWilloughby
@DreyfusJames
what happened to you? You were such a fun actor in Gimme Gimme Gimme. I loved growing up watching it. I would never have thought you would become this unpleasant bully.
@Otto_English
@calvinrobinson
reminds me of me in my late teens. A closeted gay. Hates everyone because he hates himself. Projects prejudice because it shields him from questions over issues he would feel deeply uncomfortable.
I’ve been there, I know the crazy things you can do to protect
A reminder why
@Cougarmania
make a point of
#LGBTQ
issues. Our community has been executed, imprisoned, beaten up,careers & lives destroyed. Even in 2024 it’s still happening. That’s why I’m proud our club respects & remembers, the keyboard grumps will not stop us.
#RugbyLeague
@DreyfusJames
@IndiaWilloughby
Similar upbringing James. Boarder, bullied, struggled and came out in the 90’s. Your show helped me understand myself a bit. Now you have become this person, sad.
@MartinDochert12
Been there, one of them. I worked for William Hague MP when he was leader of the Conservatives. Why? Wanted to feel posh and closet gay. I saw the light.
#votelabour
Hull KR are extremely disappointed with some of the replies and comments to this post.
It highlights why events like pride are so important in the fight against prejudices and for equality.
Our supporters should know, if you are feeling unsure about your sexuality or about
A depressing piece of realism by
@PaulBrandITV
. The fascism that has been creeping in for a while, has now been spoken out-loud by
@SuellaBraverman
. We need a moderate Conservative Party to hold the government to account.
@Suella
’s politics are repulsive. I fought for a
Suella Braverman’s speech in Washington this evening contains a blistering attack on pro-LGBT Tories.
She says the pride (progress) flag has been flown on govt buildings as if marking “occupied territory”, accusing Tory colleagues of supporting a “horrible political campaign”
Diversity? Nooooo says
@Nigel_Farage
, with the arrogance of the school bully. He’s a straight white entitled man. To hell with the rest of us. Why have the
@BBCOne
given this racist, homophobic, transphobic bigot a platform?