Thread by @EsmeBrazil

#YoungGCWomenUnite
A thread 🧵 on how I peaked. I grew up fairly rurally so was unaware of the issues. I went to university as was surrounded with the ‘be kind’ atmosphere- and I believed it, including that people are what they say they are. After about a year of knowing /

that ‘TERFs are evil’ but having never once seen any direct evidence of what they saying or doing I decided to investigate myself, expecting to be shocked. In late 2019 I joined r/GenderCritical and I was shocked. They were everywhere- logical arguments! /

Any riposte I had was based in feelings, and ‘be kind’. And their evidence was the shocking rates of male violence against women, the stories of incarcerated women on KPSSinfo.org , the attacks on women’s spaces and refuges. Vancouver was the point of no return /

I could no longer hide from the misogyny of the transactivist movement- their utter disdain for rape victims and female inmates speaking out (many of whom are rape victims), women who want their elderly mothers have female only intimate care. /

Telling female athletes they don’t train hard enough. Protests by men clad all in black against women daring to speak about sex-specific issues. Erasure of our language, but never that of men. The death and rape threats to women (but GC men are largely left alone)/

The utter refusal to call out male violence, but to always blame women for it. My eyes had been ripped open to what is an entirely misogynistic movement, and they can never be shut. I haven’t even touched what is happening to children and the effect of this movement on LGBs. /

Redefining homosexuality & calling lesbians and gay men bigots & genital fetishists for not dating the opposite sex (and obviously lesbians take most of the abuse) and pushing confused kids into lifetime treatment with experimental drugs and irreversible body modification. /end