Someone called Craig McLean has written an article entitled “The Growth of the Anti-Transgender Movement in the United Kingdom: The Silent Radicalization of the British Electorate”. This “radicalization” includes such radical notions as standing up for women’s single-sex spaces.
McLean also accuses @GetTheLOutUK and @ALLIANCELGB of refusing to accept that penises can be female organs (how radical!). Amusingly (but predictably) the author assumes the UK is importing culture war tropes from the US. Nope. All home-grown movements for women’s and LGB rights.
It’s assumed that because the main *visible* resistance to gender ideology in the US is rightwing and/or religious, it must be the same in the UK. The fact that GC people in the UK come from across the political spectrum (and most are lefty feminists) is an inconvenient truth.
Such authors are unaware of the huge numbers of Democratic women who share our concerns, but dare not speak out in the current climate. They’re afraid of losing their jobs and/or healthcare, and of being ostracized by the self-styled “progressives”.
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If you support a measure or legislation that supposedly benefits LGBTQ+ people, please understand it likely benefits some of those concerned (likely TQ+ people) and disadvantages others (likely LGB people, esp. lesbians). There is no monolithic community with identical interests.
Take the fraught subject of conversion therapy.
Gay conversion therapy is disgusting, ineffective, & utterly unacceptable. It means trying to change a person’s sexual orientation.
These vile practices were suspended in the UK - in clinical contexts - many decades ago.
Yet we are seeing a completely different kind of gay conversion therapy taking place in the UK right now.
It has been given a different name, which has caused great confusion.
It’s happening under the heading of “gender affirming health care”.
That sounds nice. It isn’t.
“Inclusive” means including within the category of women (a sex class) any male who asserts [pronoun] identifies as a woman: everywhere from sport to lesbian dating sites; from rape shelters to women’s prisons. It also means *excluding* all those who disagree.
Language tricks:
A “trans child” is a boy who says [pronoun] is a girl, or a girl who says [pronoun] is a boy. This is to fly in the face of everything we know about child developmental psychology. It denies the lived experience of detransitioners.
Everyone who has understandably been focusing on Covid, the environment, the economy and numerous other issues may have missed the strange debate going on about sex and gender.
When we assert the incontrovertible fact that there are two sexes (something of which every lesbian looking for a sperm donor is acutely aware), we face accusations of “transphobia”.
When we stated in an ad that a lesbian is an adult human female attracted to other adult human females we were accused of “transphobia”.
Some of the defamation of @Alliancelgb (the nonsense that it is “hateful”, the lie about rightwing funding etc) is clearly part of an effort to discredit LGBA instead of engaging with its concerns. But today I came across a tweet that initially had me stumped./1of5
What was this person talking about? Most people thought the tweet was anti-lesbian. But the person calls herself a butch lesbian. Suddenly I realized: she thinks LGBA is straight men pretending to care about lesbians in order to express what she misinterprets as transphobia./2of5
How strange! She doesn’t know that LGB Alliance was founded by lesbians, long-time gay & lesbian rights activists, or that over half of the people who work for it (all as volunteers) and its supporters are lesbians. She is unaware that lesbian erasure is causing real misery./3of5
I cheered to see the results of the US election. It was an enormous relief (as many Republicans agreed) to see the defeat of Trump. An enormous relief for the environment; /1
An enormous relief for all those desperate for COVID relief and a centralized vaccination and testing program; /2
An enormous relief for undocumented immigrants, who have been living in fear; /3
@StemopeenVrouw Volgens @StemopeenVrouw is iedereen die zich identificeert als vrouw een vrouw. (En omgekeerd een man, neem ik aan). Geen discussie. Dit betekent dat de definitie van “vrouw” naar binnen worden verplaatst, naar een persoonlijk gevoel, in plaats van objectieve werkelijkheid. /1of2
@StemopeenVrouw Als er geen vrouwen zijn die objectief als zodanig kunnen worden beschreven, zijn er geen #vrouwenrechten meer. Er is in Nederland geen linkse vrouwenbeweging die deze elementaire waarheid begrijpt. In de VK gelukkig wel. Vrouwen van #Nederland, word wakker!/2of2