I wrote the words below in April, about the UK left, and I'm retweeting them today for the benefit of some of the numbskulls in my mentions.
Women like me, and there are a lot of us, aren't and never have been far-right. We simply want the left to wake the hell up, because we're watching it do its utmost to alienate people it used to represent.
I'm not saying Trump's win was down to the gender stuff - I'm not an American voter, so can't judge. In any case, the Labour Party won the last UK election and they've embraced gender identity ideology whole-heartedly (although they won against a Tory government so enfeebled and unpopular it would have been miraculous if they hadn't, and their popularity since gaining office has plummeted.)
What I do know is that millions of women in the UK and across the developed world are extremely angry about men in women's sport, men in women's jails and the erosion of single-sex spaces. Parents are angry at being demonised because they don't want their troubled kids to undergo irreversible medical treatments of extremely questionable benefit. People are sick to the back teeth of being bullied and threatened for refusing to embrace an elitist, academia-generated ideology that's having severe real world consequences.
Large swathes of the left continue to be threatening and abusive to anybody who resists their attempts to impose ideological language or bully them out of wrongthink. Leftist activists jeer and sneer at erstwhile female allies for the crime of believing biological sex is real and matters. And leftist leaders still appear more interested in sucking up to gender activists than - to take a topical example in the UK - female nurses whose crime is not wanting to undress in front of a fully intact male.
So to those screaming 'bigot' and 'fascist' at me, you should know two things. Firstly, I'm completely indifferent to your disapproval, as I'd have thought you'd have realised by now. Secondly, and far more importantly, the only thing more harmful to your cause than your pseudo-religious belief in gender identities is your astounding, self-righteous arrogance.
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'Some sources suggested that the reluctance to push ahead with broader [gender change] reform was down to a desire to protect relations with the United States.' So Trump succeeded where a multitude of British women, including lifelong leftists, failed. 1/4 thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
However, in spite of the puberty blockers ban, 'separate moves for a transgender-inclusive ban on “conversion therapy” are understood to be going ahead.' This means therapists will be banned from fully exploring why a child wants to transition. 2/4 thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
We know that children who are autistic, same-sex attracted and those who've experienced sexual abuse are overrepresented at gender clinics. We also know, from multiple studies, that the vast majority of children grow out of gender dysphoria if allowed to go through puberty. 3/4
This astounding paper reminds me of Hannah Arendt's The Banality of Evil: 'The net effect of this language system was not to keep these people ignorant of what they were doing, but to prevent them from equating it with their old, ‘normal’ knowledge.' 1/5 bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
We're all used to the obfuscatory language gender activist medics and their cheerleader, insist upon. 'Gender affirming care/treatment' is so much nicer sounding than 'sterilisation, surgical mutilation and provision of toxic drugs to troubled minors'. 2/5
But this paper breaks new ground. It acknowledges that by the usual medical standards ('old normal knowledge') transitioning minors has not been found to be the unqualified success many have claimed. The proposed solution? Jettison the old knowledge. Redefine success. 3/5
The UK Charity Commission has directed that Mermaids - the single most influential activist group regarding child transition in the UK - must "have regard to the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the Cass Review.” 1/6
Cass found "the rationale for early puberty suppression remains unclear, with weak evidence regarding the impact on gender dysphoria, mental or psychosocial health. The effect on cognitive and psychosexual development remains unknown."
Mermaids disagreed: 2/6
Mermaids also sent out breast binders without parental consent. A 2015 study found that 97% of female users "reported at least one of 28 negative outcomes attributed to binding." Mermaids has now been told to follow Cass Review findings re: binders. 3/6 tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
Roz Adams has been awarded £35k for the harassment she suffered at Edinburgh Rape Crisis. She was subject to a ‘Kafkaesque’ ordeal for believing the centre should be allowed to discuss the natal sex of support workers with rape survivors. 1/12 telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/1…
As Roz says: 'I don’t know how any organisation can claim to have women only spaces or services while not defining what a woman is or what female means.'
In 2023, Sandy Brindley, CEO of RCS, said 'work was underway' on a definition of women. 2/12
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One year on and Brindley still hasn't produced her definition. You might think the CEO of a service that claims to offer woman-only support would be able to say what a woman is, but Brindley is one of those whose ideology forbids any definition of women that excludes men. 3/12
While you've been in charge at Rape Crisis Scotland, a man now serving time in prison for multiple sexual assaults was 'treated' at the Edinburgh centre.
The man in charge of the Edinburgh centre called rape survivors who wanted single sex services 'bigots.' 1/9
Under your leadership, multiple women self-excluded from the Edinburgh centre because of the male CEO you defended and praised.
On your watch, a 14-year-old girl who'd been raped felt unable to access support because she wasn't guaranteed a single sex space. 2/9
You claim I misrepresented what happened at the meeting at which rape survivors were harangued by your trans activist partner, who shouldn't have been there at all. Here's the survivors' own account of what happened. 3/9 parliament.scot/-/media/files/…
I've been aware of one of the incidents described in this thread for a long time, because I know people involved. I'm posting this in response to the head of Rape Crisis Scotland's attempts to use rape survivors as human shields for her own career. 1/9
The incident involves a group of female sexual assault survivors, who a few years ago requested a meeting with Sandy Brindley, head of Rape Crisis Scotland. They wanted to express their concerns about gender self-ID legislation. 2/9
Specifically, the survivors wanted Rape Crisis Scotland to support a woman's right to request a female medical practitioner. They went to the meeting well aware that they'd be reliving and possibly discussing their own highly traumatic experiences . 3/9