(PM.) More information has come to light about Fae Johnstone, the trans-identified male chosen by Hershey Canada as one of the faces of its International Women’s Day campaign, including Johnstone’s support of biological male rapists being housed in women’s prisons, and the desire to push gender ideology in schools.
In a Twitter thread, Matt Walsh accused Hershey Canada of choosing a “vile, woman-hating extremist” to represent women, with a series of screenshots of Johnstone’s social media history.
As you know, @Hersheys has made trans-identified male @FaeJohnstone one of the faces of its International Women’s Day campaign. But Johnstone, along with being a male, is also a vile, woman-hating extremist. This is the sort of person that Hershey’s has chosen to represent women.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 3, 2023
The now-widely shared series of tweets in which Johnstone calls for women who have different political beliefs to be “so vilified they don’t dare speak” are included in Walsh’s thread alongside a recent Twitter exchange in which Johnstone argues that male rapists who identify as women should be housed in women’s prisons.
In an exchange with LGBT activist Peter Tatchell on the subject of Isla Bryson, the Scottish serial rapist who had been housed in a women’s prison before being moved to the men’s facility following uproar from the public, Tatchell tweeted in support of this decision, and Johnstone responded asking him why his fight for LGBTQI liberation did not include “trans women.”
“So should we also segregate gay prisoners? Lesbian prisoners?” asked the male being celebrated as an inspiration to Canadian women and girls. “It’s not the misgendering that hurts here – it’s the idea that trans women are a threat to cis women that underpins the separation ‘solution’. Also, abolish prisons. Lol.”
With his newly acquired victim status, he now thinks he’s above criticism as he calls for male rapists to be admitted to female prisons. Again: this man, who wants to lock women in prison with male rapists, is the one @Hersheys has chosen as a representative of women. pic.twitter.com/glyF8dTVRu
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 3, 2023
Walsh pointed out that Johnstone’s desire that women should be so “vilified” and attacked that they don’t dare “speak their views publicly,” is nothing new. Johnstone was calling for “militant” queers to rise up against political opponents in 2017, shortly after discovering a female identity.
The individual honored by Hershey Canada on a day that is supposed to celebrate women hasn’t been identifying as a woman for very long. In 2014, Johnstone was using hashtags such as #gayboy and #queerboy and apologized to the transgender community for having “cis privilege” and taking up space as a “queer” man.
“I want to acknowledge my own #cis privilege, and say that across the board, white queer men like myself take up space that marginalizes the most oppressed and diverse members of our communities,” wrote Johnstone in 2014.
But then Johnstone discovered a “femme” identity and began advertising as a #professionalqueer seeking paid gigs and opportunities. By Dec 2017, Johnstone was lecturing “cis allies” about “allyship,” just a few short years after apologizing for having “cis privilege.”
Immediately after discovering his “femme” identity, he started to monetize it, advertising himself as a “professional queer” and asking for paid gigs and honorariums pic.twitter.com/togYtNUDOi
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 3, 2023
“On Allyship: allyship means taking cisgender and heterosexual spaces and making them queer and trans-inclusive,” wrote Johnstone in January 2017. “It means not expecting trans and nonbinary people to have to educate everyone around them every day and in every new space.”
