Transcript of the video about the LGB Alliance 2024 conference that upset Sophie Brooks

Hi everyone. As soon as I say I need to take a break to get on with other pressing issues in my life, loads of things start happening that I can’t ignore. As I said to many people at the LGB Alliance conference yesterday, I can’t pull away from this fight. The more I hear of the atrocities carried out in the name of gender bollocks, the more determined I am to fight it. And I heard about many such atrocities yesterday.

In spite of that, I had a wonderful time at the conference. They’ve had four annual conferences now and I’ve been to all of them. If anyone is wondering why I, an unashamedly straight woman, loves them so much it really boils down to basic humanity, basic human decency, having myself grown up in a very homophobic era and been horrified by so much of what I saw and heard – and most importantly – having very close relatives who are gay. I go to learn and to show support.

That is  why I used to follow Pink News and applauded Stonewall and other gay projects.

However, I have no say in what the LGB Alliance does. I’m not a trustee or anything like that. It is an LGB organization and the thought that kept occurring to me as I interacted with many other attendees throughout the day was, “Why do the detractors, the numbskulls who call this organization a ‘hate group’ resort to the ridiculous nonsense that the LGB Alliance is mostly straight people? Like this one for example,

Oh for crying out loud! Well the answer to my question is, of course, that it hurts those in thrall to this deeply homophobic and misogynistic cult, that some gay men and lesbians and bi people have the strength and courage to stand up to them.

Anyway, every conference session was fantastic and I hope they will, in the fullness of time, be posted online. Will the numbskulls bother to watch and try to understand? I doubt it. But I do urge those who support this channel to watch them and to give whatever support you can to the LGB Alliance. If you’re not in the UK, check to see if it exists in your own country.

The keynote speech, delivered by James Dreyfus, was just brilliant – I couldn’t begin to do it justice here. One line that I posted on X at the time was that the trans rights activists – I’m not sure if he called them that or something else – but whatever he called them, he said they are the most homophobic group that he has known since the early 1980s. I see some people are saying JK Rowling has no right to comment on the homophobia of trans activists because she’s straight but you can’t get any gayer than James Dreyfus.

The only other session I’m going to mention now is the very first one of the day, in which our friend, the brilliant journalist Jo Bartosch, interviewed a young woman I’d never heard of before called Alison Ellis, who has a TikTok channel and what she said of her experiences as a young lesbian in today’s environment, just broke my heart.

Now, onto the reason why this conference has made newspaper headlines. Here’s some of my footage.

So as you can see, these crickets were released en masse into the main hall. It happened as we were waiting for a session late in the day to begin. They were smuggled in, in white sacks and then dumped at the ends of some of the rows of seating. One of the dumps was very close to me in the row in front of the one I was sitting in.

One of the newspaper reports I read said something about screams from the audience and people climbing onto chairs and running out of the hall. I didn’t hear or see any of that. Of course there was a lot of excitement, a lot of confusion at first as people were thinking “What the hell just happened?” and then the realisation that this could only be the work of gender cultists and what wonderful ammunition they had given us.

People were asking how they’d done it. Well, there is very good security at the centre. Nobody gets in without a ticket, every bag goes through an airport-style security check. Once you go in, you pick up a lanyard with your name on it to get into the conference hall.

However, if you then leave the building, as you might do at any time – I chose to have my lunch elsewhere, for example – people go outside to smoke, and whatever and, as long as you are wearing your lanyard with your ID, you are just waved back in. Bags are not put through security again, so that’s a lapse.

Now, four of the perpetrators were apprehended. The journalist Andy Ngo got footage of them and I will link below to his post on X where he shows it. You can see from it that they are very young girls and some people online said “But didn’t they stick out like a sore thumb?” . Well, yes.  I didn’t see them or notice them at all – there were about 600 attendees – but some who did thought how nice it is to see more young lesbians like Alison Ellis become involved in fighting for LGB rights. Other people were a bit suspicious – including some of the stewards.

One heroic young steward, who had his eye on two of the girls, saw them dump one of the sacks in the hall and try to make a run for it. He caught them and apprehended them but when security staff arrived (I don’t know if it was one officer or more), they said – quite wrongly – that they didn’t have the power to detain them so they let them go. The head of security – who knows fine well that they did indeed have that power – arrived too late to prevent that fiasco. How stupid do you have to be to think you can’t detain someone in those circumstances? Imagine if they’d done something potentially dangerous to people? “Oh they just started a little fire did they?” “Planted a wee explosive did you? Oh well, we don’t have the power to detain you, so off you trot!”

You wouldn’t think that would need to be part of their training but, obviously, it is. Huge mistake.

Now, I think we all noted – some of us with disappointment – that not a single protester was outside the venue when we arrived. Three years ago at the first conference, we’d enjoyed goading and laughing at quite a large group of posh brats. Two years ago, the group was somewhat smaller but still a noticable presence. Last year when we arrived, there were maybe six of them and, as I posted on X, by lunchtime they had “terrifyingly almost doubled their number”.

This time, the only protesters I saw were at the end of the day. I had left the venue and was chatting to people outside and I saw these two – one of whom appears to be this idiot, known as “Sophie Brooks”, who is basically nothing more than a pathetic bully desperate for kudos and attention from other bullies in the cult. He does things like dressing up as …a middle-aged librarian from an Agatha Christie novel perhaps? but wearing TERF colours and turning up to Let Women Speak events. Sometimes he is accompanied by his heroes, sometimes not. At one of these events, Kellie-Jay came up with a far more probable name for him, than Sophia.

Tarquin is believed to have masterminded Operation Cricket and to have got that bunch of silly little girls to do the dirty work and risk getting caught – that would be absolutely in keeping with the impression he gives of his character. He’s a coward with all the intelligence of a sack of manure but I’ve no doubt that one day he will get his comeuppance. He is on X, he’s changed the name of his account from when he repeatedly tweeted at me saying I should be in a care home. He’s currently on there as Cynthia Payne – I’ll leave you to google who the real Cynthia Payne was – handle @aSohodoll and, of course, he has currently made his account private.

So, anyway, the police came and I spoke with one of them afterwards. He confirmed that all four girls who were caught were minors, meaning under 18. Now that doesn’t mean, as some people have suggested, that they can’t be charged with a criminal offense. The age of criminal responsibility in England is ten and you may remember that two 15-year-olds were convicted of the murder of Brianna Ghey.

The rozzer I spoke to said none of them had criminal records and that a parent of each of them had turned up at the venue on being called to be with them during questioning and that the girls were being released into their care. The case would be passed to a different unit of the police  because the police who attended were the emergency response team and he obviously didn’t know whether they would face criminal charges or not.

And we also don’t know whether the venue will go after them for civil damages given they had to get the building fumigated overnight.

So that’s what happened. Some people thought those insects might be cockroaches. No, these were silent crickets, which are native to the UK and can be bought online. You can buy a thousand of them for under £20, they are usually bought by people who keep snakes and other reptiles as pets.

At the time of making my notes, there was a fundraising page set up in support of the action. It claims that 6,000 of these creatures were released into the hall – I don’t believe it was anything like that number. I think that’s an out-and-out lie but if it was, that’s easily a hundred quids worth. The tickets to the event cost in the region of I think £70 or £75 and each of the girls had a ticket, so that’s several hundred pounds spent on this caper…for what?

Let’s just read a bit of what’s on justgiving:

Crickets released into hate group LGB Alliance’s annual conference.

Hate group? I think it’s pretty obvious who the hate group is and it is not the LGB Alliance, who are doing such a sterling job in fighting back against your hate and especially in giving young LGB people the support that your cult has deprived them of. I know about this because I go to the LGB Alliance conference and I listen to LGB speakers. I will of course link to their website where you can find out about the work they’ve been doing if you don’t already know it – work that the real haters are trying to stop.

The result of the conference, if it had gone ahead as planned…

Which it did, actually. Sorry, did you not realise that? In terms of silencing speakers, your action had zero impact. The only major session affected was one involving an American whistleblower called Jamie Reed, which took place in the lobby rather than the main hall. Why would you want to prevent us from hearing what she had to say? Well, you didn’t and, even though that session couldn’t be filmed, I’m told that they are going to rerun the conversation, film it and put it up anyway. (Here it is.) She’s not going to be silenced by posh brattish bullies.

…would have been an acceleration of transphobic hate and misinformation, which drives much of the attack on our healthcare and our dignity.

You wish! No, come on – that is what you wish because you think could then claim the moral high ground but that was never going to happen. The Alliance is not responsible for hate and misinformation – you are. You have carried out an act of hate against an organization of gay men, lesbians and bisexual people because they have the courage to stand up to you, hateful bullies. They have reason and evidence on their side, they can point to actual “lived experience” of the awful effects your disgusting vicious cult is having, they are willing to engage in civil, grown-up discussions, to sort out differences but when we ask you to justify your hate, your misinformation, when we ask you for evidence of what you say, all you’ve got in return are….crickets.

That’s all.