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@CEB1980 @jackappleby @LindaRiley8 @JonnnyBest @Glinner 1)Yes, only the latter fits their narrative which relies on trying to convince us that transphobic hate is really about refusing to agree with a demonstrably untrue mantra (transwomen are women) rather than being about actual bigotry, violence or our unequal treatment as citizens
@CEB1980 @jackappleby @LindaRiley8 @JonnnyBest @Glinner 2) By this twisted ‘logic’ the absence of controversy about transmen going into men’s spaces makes it inconvenient for them to talk about the actual bigotry of many men lest the spotlight is taken away from equating anti-trans hate with those who dare uphold sex based definitions
@CEB1980 @jackappleby @LindaRiley8 @JonnnyBest @Glinner 3) & dare to uphold their boundaries to control who accesses women’s private spaces. Women are particularly guilty of this heinous crime of self-defining as members of the female sex in a sexist world. Thousands of them are engaged in an almighty battle over vulnerable spaces.
@CEB1980 @jackappleby @LindaRiley8 @JonnnyBest @Glinner 4) All of this growing defence of sex-based rights is (wrongly) characterised as being motivated by “hate”. Of course it’s nonsense, but it’s a big stick with which women can be beaten
@CEB1980 @jackappleby @LindaRiley8 @JonnnyBest @Glinner 5) & the trans movement has very few convincing arguments that can survive scrutiny so it’s a stick that gets used repeatedly to prevent and discourage such scrutiny of queer theory & trans ideology. However, the elephant in the room so rarely mentioned is women’s oppression
@CEB1980 @jackappleby @LindaRiley8 @JonnnyBest @Glinner 6) and women’s vulnerability to male people in a world were (on average) stronger, bigger, more aggressive males carry out by far the most violent crime & sexual crime & the limited studies available show that transwomen offend at similar rates to men, not similar rates to women.
@CEB1980 @jackappleby @LindaRiley8 @JonnnyBest @Glinner 7) Men by contrast just aren’t vulnerable to people born female in the way women are to males regardless of how they identify. It’s this disparity that explains the different reactions of men & women to trans extremist demands not bigotry.
@CEB1980 @jackappleby @LindaRiley8 @JonnnyBest @Glinner 8) There’s just no appreciation of sex-based power dynamics, let alone any acknowledgement that the economic system needs to foster bigotry & division, needs to oppress women & needs to perpetuate gender roles, the very thing which trans people are targeted for transgressing.
@CEB1980 @jackappleby @LindaRiley8 @JonnnyBest @Glinner 9) Thus, rather than fighting toxic masculinity, oppressive gender roles, actual violence, discrimination and systemic transphobia they are targeting women and on a sexist & increasingly misogynist basis. The movement for gender selfID is not a genuine progressive movement and
@CEB1980 @jackappleby @LindaRiley8 @JonnnyBest @Glinner 10) it certainly isn’t radical. It presents no threat to the system whatever. It is a divisive, individualist, sexist, top down, corporate-sponsored, state supported derailment of any genuine fight for trans and indeed human liberation that seeks to bully women into submission.
