Thread by @WomensLibFront

If the left’s message to people concerned about the destruction of women’s sports is going to continue to track genderist retorts, like, “or you could just tell your weak *** daughters to get in the gym,” it may become a problem for them.

When women tried to raise these concerns from within the US left, from within progressive and Democratic circles, because we cared about the fate of movements that we’d invested so much energy and care into supporting, we got shunned, fired, and blacklisted.

Many women tried many different avenues for raising concerns. Not just WoLF members, not just women we personally know. As the takeovers of private discussion and movement spaces proceeded, there’s almost always been one or more women who questioned before getting shut down.

We just get ignored, at best. At worst, we lose our livelihoods, and then get lectured about fighting extremism by men who threaten feminists and compare us to fascists.

When the institutional leaders of the various nonprofits, international NGOs, political parties, grassroots networks, and media organizations that call themselves the left, broadly, put us in the crosshairs of men like this, it was a choice they made.

theguardian.com/us-news/2020/o…

We would have made a different choice, and we said so. We will keep saying so.

PS: “There is literally nothing you can do about me and my dick being in changing rooms. Hahahahaha hahaha,” may also not prove to be the vote-winning crowd-pleaser that some people seem to think it is. Just a thought.