Thread by @reclaimingtrans

#TransHate
CW Transmisogyny, hate speech, abuse

It’s come to my attention that a TERF I knew from the detrans rad fem community, Kitty Robinson, was one of the sources of Caroline Lowbridge’s transmisogynistic BBC article. Kitty posted about her involvement on her social media.

Kitty’s been in touch with Glinner, who wrote about trying to get a UK journalist to cover Kitty’s story but failed to because she’s American. Still, it’s possible that Glinner may have been the one who connected her to Lowbridge, who then used Kitty for “background research”.

Kitty has published an anthology of stories from AFAB people who were abused or assaulted by trans women and is using these stories as transmisogynistic propaganda. She solicited these stories using her blog on Tumblr.

Kitty herself has been in abusive relationships with trans women. Speaking out about this abuse is not the issue here but how she frames such abuse as “male violence” and proof that trans women as a group are exceptionally dangerous.

Janice Raymond cites Kitty’s anthology extensively in her new anti-trans book Doublethink. She also cites the same “research study” produced by anti-trans hate group Get the L Out that was used for Lowbridge’s BBC piece.

Both Raymond and Lowbridge draw from the same biased sources to argue that trans women are "dangerous predators" threatening cis lesbians. Making the same arguments as the most infamous TERF is not a good look for the BBC.

I was not surprised to find out that Kitty was involved in writing of that article. She’s a trans eliminationist
whose views, words and actions have grown more extreme over time. She uses her own and other people’s trauma as an excuse to hurt others.

Further, she and others in her community downplay the harm of abuse and violence committed by AFAB people, arguing that it’s not the same as “male violence”. This ends up enabling abusers in that community and makes it harder to hold them accountable.

The BBC article and Kitty’s anthology are not about actually helping survivors, they’re about generating hatred towards trans women and justifying discrimination and violence towards them. Acting like one group is more dangerous than others has never stopped abuse or violence.

What we really need are more resources for survivors of abuse and assault in queer/trans/LGBT spaces and communities. No one, cis or trans, is helped by having their trauma exploited as propaganda to advance a hate movement. Survivors deserve far better than this.

Archived links of material cited
Kitty on BBC article
archive.ph/EBhE0
archive.ph/Bu351
archive.ph/Zzedp
Kitty's anthology recruitment post:
archive.vn/oLnct
Glinner's article on Kitty:
archive.ph/Tj4z6