Hadley Freeman promoted the idea that trans people shouldn't be allowed to access public spaces that human beings need to participate in society
She's now quit columns, bemoaning how some take opinions they disagree with as a sign that the person with them is a bad person (1/5)
Earlier this year she put out a column specifically about how she has lost friends because she is anti-trans and how this isn't right because people should be able to disagree and still be friends.
(2/5)
How disconnected from reality do you have to be to think that holding the opinion that a minority is less deserving of accessing public spaces because they are that minority...isn't going to make a some people think "this is a bad person"?
Especially a trans person!
(3/5)
This isn't like "I believe Jeremy Corbyn's economic policies are bad."
This is "I don't believe human beings are as legitimate and shouldn't be allowed to use public facilities as a result"
Many people are going to think that is an evil view. Especially trans people.
(4/5)
Hold that view if you like.
Do it!
But you don't get to demand that everyone still likes you for it.
(5/5)
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This is a thread about why the Sunday Times report about Rosie Duffield is probably bollocks and the result of weaselly words
CN: All of the above and transphobia, references to non-binary people being blasted by Duffield and just...you get the idea.
ONWARD WITH THE THREAD.
The Sunday Times has a report about Rosie Duffield
Headline & subheading: "Speaker’s anger as extremists terrorise Labour MP Rosie Duffield
"Threats after feminist branded ‘transphobic’"
What kind of threats? Death threats? Violence?
Let's take a look at the article. THREAD
Opening paragraph...we learn from this that she has received "online threats"
So we know how she got them. Not clear yet on what kind of threats. If they were death threats or threats of violence...wouldn't they be in the headline? Maybe not. Let's keep going.
Hmm....they are going for the whole gillick competence thing eh?
Almost as if that was the plan the whole goddam time.
Gillick Competence is a thing used to measure a childs ability to consent to medical treatment. It became a thing because a kid wanted birth control.
Considering that both Paul Conrathe and Alasdair Henderson (Bell's barrister) are pro life christian fundies it is ASTONISHING to hear that they want to destroy the thing that allows under 18's to have abortions and get trans healthcare.
Maybe cis people, famous or not, need to really think about what JK Rowling actually said and maybe ask why trans people would be so angry
We didn't attack her because of a 'difference in opinion'
She told the world that we shouldn't be allowed in certain public spaces
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It has been over a year and still random journalists are asking random famous people for their opinion on the whole JK anti trans stuff and STILL this same line gets trotted out
"The attacks on JK Rowling just for having an opinion, ghastly"
They never look at what she said.
So here it is, what she said boiled down from 4k words to...some words but less...
Trans women shouldn't be allowed in single sex spaces
Trans men, adorable but probably deluded and autistic
Trans kids aren't real
I have been at a location where asylum seekers are placed to wait until the home office deals with their applications to remain in the UK. I have talked to many residents and talked a lot with a transgender resident. Here is a thread about what I have seen, been told and thought
The one thing that is universal amongst residents I’ve talked to is the food being awful. I was told that they bring in food and it is often served cold. A diabetic resident told me that the food makes them sick and they get no help to manage their condition
Here is tonight’s dinner. It’s not great. It was served cold. It went uneaten. It looked worse in person…