I've got lots to say, but I need some time to process the events of this week. For now though, I do want to make one point. My blog called for 'dialogue not division'. In particular, I wanted to raise the issue of what happens to 'dissenters' such as myself. Short thread...
Maybe it wasn't implicitly clear in my blog, but the people who piled on to me online were not (as far as I know) trans. They were largely doulas, hypnobirthing teachers and midwives. There's a massive problem in the birth world with all of this which is being swept under the rug
By making an example of me (a person well known in the birth world) a powerful message was sent to others to shut up or else. So this is the point I wished to raise - that we need to address this climate of silencing people and start actually properly discussing the issues.
I will try to write properly next week what I think some of those issues that need discussing might be. But in the mean time, please let's not continue to attack each other. I don't think that takes us further forward and to repeat again, it was not trans people who attacked me.
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