We’ve long said that if you replace the word “terf” with the word “woman” you see what trans activism really is
When you replace the word “transwomen” with the word “men” the same revelation applies
Here’s a quick thread of examples:
Men want to be allowed inside women’s rape shelters where the women are trying to heal from male violence.
Men who have committed crimes, including serious sex offences against women and children, want to be in women’s prisons
Men want medicine to transplant wombs into them & they also want medicine to help them ‘breastfeed’ babies. Regardless of potential risks to that baby
Men want women to be unable to meet without them present and they insist they must always be included if they say so
Men don’t want women to be able to name themselves as a distinct group of humans anymore
Men insist they are better women than us
Men think that if they get their penises out in women’s changing rooms,women should just “look away”
Men think lesbians should sleep with them
Men think they should be allowed to give any woman, including a profoundly disabled woman, intimate care against her will.
Men think they should be able to socially, and legally, lie about their sex even though male violence exists and women and girls deserve rights.
Men think it’s ok to threaten women with rape and murder if we say no to them about any of this.
Men have assaulted women who have said no to them about this.
Men think women should be socially isolated if we won’t pretend they are the same as us.
Men think that calling women “bodies with vaginas” and “uterus havers” is social justice but, for some reason, they aren’t demanding to be called “bodies with prostates” or “sperm generators”
Men think that women lie about being threatened, assaulted and even raped by them
Men think it’s ok to lie to children about biological sex even though male violence exists and children deserve to know which group of adults is generally much safer.
Men think they should be prioritised in feminism
Men think International Women’s Day should be about them
Men think their feelings are more important than women’s safety or women’s rights
Men think that performing stereotypes about women changes their sex
Men think women should submit to their needs in all spheres of public life
Men insist we should be punished if we wont submit
& if you’re a man,whether you want to be or not,and you read this & say “I’m not demanding any of that, this is a calumny against my sex” then start speaking up against the monstrous demands that other men are making
I’m now reading a really excellent, slightly creepy book called Fashion Victims about the various harms over the centuries to the wearers and makers of the dazzling objects that people have worn for the sake of fashion🧵
A famous John Tenniel drawing features. As a fine lady admires her reflection,the mirror shows the seamstress dead from her endeavours. Tenniel was inspired by the real case of Mary Ann Walkley who sewed 26 and a half hrs straight to make a ballgown, and died.
The book looks at the hatter industry, men’s toxic hats, mercury poisoning, and the baffling trend for taxidermied birds on women’s hats which lead to disaster for whole species (which reminded me of *this* lovely book which goes hard on hats as well as women’s history)
Women are demonised because they hold the common sense position that they don’t want any woman or girl to find herself on the wrong side of the door with a male predator in what should have been a safe space:
We don’t want the prison cell door,or rape shelter door, or domestic violence shelter door,or changing room door,or the toilet door,or the hospital ward curtains to close on any woman with her rapist or her killer on the inside beside her
We want him shut out, not welcomed in
&we know the only way to exclude men who hurt women from female spaces is to exclude all men because predators do not wear a flashing sign
We don’t want any woman or girl to have to take on an additional risk of male violence,in addition to the risk she already faces in society,
I’ve read this cautionary tale that will make you hardened terves repent! 👀
Gather round please 😂
Glenda, an elderly woman who is “built like a horse” &has facial hair, decides to pop into town on the bus (to Iceland,no less) in a “flouncy” velvet dress&high heels,as one does
She puts on some rare make-up for this endeavour but doesn’t pluck her chin hairs because she “forgot”.
So there she is dressed like she’s about to attend a Ball while, presumably, carrying her bag for life and her “crocheted coin purse”.
But the bus driver aggressively misgenders her😱
As she’s a Made Up Woman she cares terribly about being called Sir &doesn’t correct him. Just cowers in her bus seat as other women shoot her evils
Also no one worries that the bus driver has impaired vision which seems important
If medicine chooses to call all the reasons people try to escape their sex “gender identity” it can give them an easy prescription instead of helping them. No one has to deal with a patient’s eating disorder,borderline personality disorder,paraphilia or their struggles to fit in,
No one has to try to address a patient’s reaction to their own same sex attraction (or the reaction of a homophobic society). No one has to consider what it’s like to be female in this world or how it impacts female patients, especially if theyve been raped,abused or traumatised
If it’s all “gender identity”, even though gender identity is a concept built on sand, no one has to take time to consider what is happening to the volume of children coming in from foster care situations who want to flee their sex. No one has to do much work for them at all.
So, according to the current consensus among trans activists here are just some of the things that are unspeakably bad 🧵:
Disabled women wanting intimate care to be performed by female carers
Female domestic abuse&rape victims wanting single sex groups to heal from trauma
Women rejecting labels like “cis”, “bodies with vaginas”, “birthing person”
Women & girls having single sex changing rooms, hospital wards & toilets
Women saying we’re not a gender identity but a material class of human beings
Any exclusive same-sex attraction
Anyone suggesting female prisoners should not be subjected to imprisonment alongside male offenders. Including violent/ sexually violent male offenders
Lesbians saying no to males infiltrating their spaces and demanding to sleep with them.