Horrifies me to see transgender activists gloating over a feminist’s terminal illness. To be deemed TERF is to be stripped of your humanity. Over & over I have watched this. Sadistic vitriol that is never applied to predators in the community doled out gleefully to wrongthinkers.
When my gf & I published an essay openly owning & explaining our gender critical beliefs, friends we had for years told us we deserved to starve in the streets. Strangers posted about how incredible my suicide would be. I was surprised as I no longer am able to be.
I have witnessed mass celebration of the assault of an older feminist in a square named to honor the right of free speech. Watched people proudly proclaim with their faces attached that a young lesbian should have been killed instead of merely jumped & beaten for misgendering.
The worst for me was a single comment on a thread in r/transgender about Dana Rivers’ murder of Patricia Wright & Charlotte Reed (and their son Benny Diambu), that read simply, “They were probably TERFs.” Based on nothing except being lesbians murdered by a trans woman.
I hope in palliative care Magdalen is surrounded by the love & light of her closest friends and family. May the anger we feel at the casual, reflexive, compulsive denigration of her as a person, a woman, a lesbian & an outspoken thinker keep the flames she lit alive.
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