Christine Burns 2021: Silly older women: they can't comprehend the difference between transexuals and transvestites.
Christine Burns 2014 (writing about 2004): deliberate vagueness was a clever strategy we came up with at Press for Change
Christine Burns 2021: putting everything together into one umbrella term is bad, and something Stonewall came up with themselves
Christine Burns 2014: we used the confusion we had created over what "trans" meant to push organisations way beyond what the case law said
Christine Burns 2021: it was definitely Stonewall's idea, and it's not a problem anyway because no one is trying to use legal wins by transsexuals to open doors for transvestites
Christine Burns 2014: We used legal cases won by transsexuals to open doors for transvestites. Without spelling it out, obviously.
For reference: the 2014 quotes are from Volume 2 of Burns' memoir: Pressing Matters
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If i wear my husband's shirt some days am I a person who cross dresses?
What if he wears my blouse?
What the Scottish Government actually mean is men who wear women's clothes
As Susan Smith of @ForwomenScot asks - why is one set of people is being protected for sartorial choice and others not....people attacked for being Goths, having facial tattoos, piercings, the wrong football strip or school uniform. Why is one dress sense protected?
Today they suggest that self reported feeling happier and having better relationships with peers justifies stopping children's puberty and putting them on to a pathway to sterilisation
The their reporting as a self help group for parents of children with gender dysphoria is utterly one sided towards promoting blockers
1st of Feb - a year ago today I made this speech @Womans_Place_UK
What an amazing day it was.
As I said then "I am not an academic feminist, not a
professional feminist, not a radical feminist, not a socialist feminist. I am a feminist and I'm an ordinary woman
who knows what a woman is and who refused to shut up about it."
"I will stand beside Labour women, Conservative women Liberal Democrats, Greens SNP and the women who find
themselves politically homeless, Democrats and Republicans, men of all political stripes, transsexuals who do not demand that we deny reality....