Thread by @HairyLeggdHarpy

Those who are tasked in their formal roles with defending the rights of women and girls, but 'dare not' wade into the 'debate' on whether sexed bodies are intended to MATCH 'sexed minds'?

Understand this.

You stood in the way.

You stood in the way of those of us desperately trying to prevent girls coming to harm.

We could have spared more children physical harm, without your choices preventing us.

Some children have now come to harm, that we might have prevented, had you not demonised us.

Whilst we were desperately telling girls their bodies are not wrong, don't need binding, don't need amputating, that they ARE PERFECT AS THEY ARE,

YOU were saying "Well, we're not sure."
YOU were saying "Those women, they're quite cruel, not like us"

YOU were saying "It's complicated. Maybe it's valid. Maybe boy brains are real. Maybe we'd rather let girls irrevocably, physically harm themselves over stereotypes, than take a stance that gets US called mean too."

When we say to them "None of this is real, you can't change sex, you will only hurt yourself trying, and it won't work"

YOU are there, giving your false veneer of credibility to the idea that IT MIGHT BE TRUE.

Everyone 'moderate' is saying it might be true.

Maybe the people saying it isn't true really are the baddies. Maybe girls' bodies really ARE sometimes wrong.

You cast US as villains so that you could claim yourselves to be moderate. And that had consequences.

Real, physical, heartbreaking, irreversible lifelong consequences

Your "both sides" arguments meant that WE have failed to prevent harm to some children.
We've tried.

But with some, we've failed.

Not because we were ever in the wrong.
No.

But because you painted us as the untouchables. To be dismissed. Bigots. Cruel. Extreme.

Your despicable desire for self-preservation, led you to prioritise your popularity OVER our efforts to prevent harm.

I don't know how you live with yourselves.
This isn't an academic debate.
It's not abstract, and it's not philosophical.

It's children being groomed that they mustn't have intimate boundaries because it's unkind.

It's children believing they must remove their healthy organs, take life changing hormones, endure sterility, because they've been told female bodies are supposed to MATCH 'female minds'

And where were you?

Busy casting the feminists, the first responders, the truth tellers, the do-no-harm advocates as your cruel counterparts.

You discredited truth, because it served you.
You discredited us, so that we became the untouchables.

Children have been harmed.

Those harmed children are your responsibility.

We are doing everything we can to prevent real harm. To children.

And you are making it harder for us to do that, by telling people we are unreasonable.

We feel every child harmed is our failure.

But the truth is
It's yours.

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