Thread by @hatpinwoman

#peaktrans for me was when I learnt about the cotton ceiling and how some men who think they are women believe the cotton knickers of lesbians akin to a structural barrier they should overcome.

It was when I learnt that medicine is harming gender nonconforming youth

#peaktrans was when I realised those children were most likely to grow up gay if we left them alone.

It was when I heard about MichFest; one small, peaceful place for women where they didn’t have to worry about male violence at all….until men picketed it

One of the protestors of “Camp Trans” also went on to murder one of the attendees, her wife&son after the event had been cancelled.

Yet even today people will talk about Camp Trans as the brave rebels and the women who wanted to keep their space as the wicked bigots.

#peaktrans for me was when I realised “punch a terf” had become a casual enough saying even to people I knew and that it allowed them to dehumanise women entirely.

It was when I was dehumanised by similar rhetoric

But #peaktrans isn’t a one time event, or even a set of events in short succession

You can keep peaking,seemingly,forever

#peaktrans is when you hear a woman was raped in a hospital ward but everyone pretended she couldn’t have been as the man who raped her thinks he’s a woman

#peaktrans is when the BBC edited a rape victim’s words about her attacker to try to respect his pronouns.

It’s when societies started putting violent male offenders in women’s prisons&women were raped & hurt as a result (the first prison rape like this I can find was in 1999)

#peaktrans is when even reputable publications like The Lancet call women “bodies with vaginas” to be “inclusive”

It’s reading the medical literature going back to early 1900’s &seeing the vast pseudoscience here

It’s seeing trans activists constantly threaten women who dissent

#peaktrans is when you see how they speak to gay men and lesbians who won’t have heterosexual sex with them.

#peaktrans is when you see women assaulted for saying no to trans activists.

It’s when you see how the press lied about events like Wi Spa until they couldn’t anymore

Because,apparently,women raising the issue of men violating them MUST be lying when their attacker says he isn’t a man.

That’s the dark splinter right in the heart of trans activism

The slogan they dont put on posters; women are evil witches if they won’t give us what they want

#peaktrans is when you realise you aren’t accommodating Hayley Cropper

You’re sharing spaces with autogynephiles who fetishise every part of being female while insisting biological sex is a total irrelevance.

Men who’ll proudly masturbate over the thought of periods but

still trot out every form of misogyny possible to diminish women as a group

#peaktrans is when a whole society is pandering to these men despite the ongoing, escalating harms to women&girls

It’s hearing detransitioner stories and knowing their number is growing and growing.

#peaktrans is when you realise that if you believe in women’s humanity, at all, you simply cannot support the trans movement and its aims.