Thread by @KaeleyT

Pt 1. I desperately want to post this on my public FB page, but I can’t because I’m in friggin exile again for a pronoun infraction. It’s going to be a long post:

It’s been nearly five years since I was fired from my job of 17 years for resisting men in our girls’ locker rooms.

That same month, I wrote a blog that got published by The Federalist, and it went viral. It was my opinion about transgender locker rooms from my perspective as a rape survivor. I got a pretty immediate platform on the right. I was asked to speak at important conventions and on

panels and on radio shows. People were interested in what I had to say.

But the further I engaged the fight for sanity, the clearer it became to me that some really important voices were absent from the broader conversation- the voices of radical feminists, whose knowledge of

the issue, insight on the causes, and personal work to combat it were more compelling and more helpful than anything I had to bring to the table. So I worked to try to bring them to the table with me- not for any sort of malevolent agenda, but because I thought the right had

much we could learn from them. And most of the platforms I worked with were eager to consider these voices. It’s been such a meaningful, fruitful alliance. I’ll never forget watching my friend Miriam speak into a crowd as a policy wonk whose work she disliked sat in the audience

feverishly taking notes as she spoke.

How is this not progress? Isn’t this how change happens? People from different perspectives uniting with enough humility to consider the possibility they have something to learn?

But since that time, both sides of this alliance have been

demonized by the demagogic left. The radfems can’t win. They’re accused of colluding with Nazis and misogynists. They’re excoriated at every step of the way for selling out and even talking to women like me because everyone knows the right is the enemy of women, right?

If I wanted to play that game, I guess I could point and shout “unclean!” while plugging my ears and refusing to work with anyone who works with the left. After all, they’re the party of #femaleerasure and the ones responsible for supporting the ideology that got me fired.

But I won’t do that. Because it’s dishonest, and people are people, and these women deserve to be heard.

So if you’re sitting there throwing stones at them on the left, shut it down. If you can do better, great! The wide world will rejoice if you can find someone on your side

of the political divide to end this catastrophe. But until then, don’t expect me to take you very seriously when you say you want to end transmania or effect change. If that were true, you’d be applauding those with the courage to step into the fray and get the job done.

You would t be running scared and playing purity politic police while women and our hard fought protections are erased.