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SpeakOutSister
@speakoutsister
Women advocating for inclusive feminism and liberation. Opposing misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, racism, ableism, ageism and all forms of prejudice.
Dec 11, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
So more on the "we need to quantify women to end misogyny" argument and why it's plain wrong.

Point 1 is that it's nearly always made by people who say they are "gender critical" but also want to classify women by biology. This is not coincidence. 2. Misogyny is not aimed just at people who are biologically female. It's not even aimed at people who society mistakenly thinks are biologically female. Cis men - who patriarchy says are "biologically male" - but are "feminine" are stigmatised because of misogyny .
Dec 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Hypothetical scenario:

Society becomes much less gendered. Gender neutral pronouns are used for most people. Clothing/hair/cosmetic use isn't gendered at all. We don't have jobs heavily dominated by one gender. We don't put "sex" on ID documents

The problem with that is? Blocking fingers at the ready folks..
Nov 21, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Hope that @theipaper will allow a reply to address the significant problems with this piece. But going to list them. Firstly the piece equates "gender critical feminists" with "women". When women (particularly if lesbian/bi) are more likely than men to support trans people. Secondly it implies the only issue "gender critical feminists" are concerned about is self ID and implies that this would allow trans women to access women only rape crisis centres for example. Self ID to get a GRC changes only a birth certificate. Most rape crisis centres are
May 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"Sex" is assigned at birth on the basis of external organs and this is considered to be so important that it decides many things that are nothing to do with reproduction. Because of gender.

That some "feminists" need this pointing out is amazing. "If you have a vulva you're a woman" is a patriarchal definition because we live in a patriarchy. There's no way around that. The categorisation is not benign or neutral. It is not done for the good of female people.
May 29, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
For free you can read Kathleen stock here. She (and others) admit that "women only spaces" rely on misogynist assumptions about appearance and will lead to gender non conforming women being excluded and trans women who "pass" not being affected.
medium.com/@kathleenstock… She also says by the way that there is no single defining characteristic of being female but still says that being a woman is an adult human female because reasons.
May 29, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
What we hear "gender critical people"saying is that trans people should be routinely excluded from spaces they already use (like toilets), that they should be prevented from transitioning, that they are sex offenders and one said that they are a "huge problem to a sane world". If you don't agree with these views then say so. If you do, don't expect support from trans people and those who think trans people are entitled to the full range of human rights and to live their lives free from hatred and discrimination.
May 28, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Apparently white working class men can't be trans gay or bi and are therefore excluded from the LGBT intersectional paradigm (intersectional analysis recognises class of course) unherd.com/2023/05/irvine… This is such a poor argument. And yes of course working class people end up.at the bottom of the heap. But a black working class man is still more disadvantaged than a white working class man who is otherwise comparable.
May 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A young female person is a baby or girl. Your body isn't "programmed" or "designed" to do anything. DNA is like a set of instructions but it's affected by external factors. And those include hormones and surgery. That's why medicine exists. The food you eat. The viruses and bacteria you come into contact with. The amount of exercise you do. Being hit by a speeding car or a bullet. All can have fairly profound effects on the "design" of your body.
Mar 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The trans exclusionary movement has a real problem with young women. Not just that they're more likely to reject the movement out of hand but there seems to be a lot of resentment of them. It's actually more puzzling if you're an older woman who isn't trans excluding.. There's a genuine animus and point scoring. Whether it's Kellie Jay Keen yelling"you will turn into us" or Bel Mooney in the Daily Mail claiming it's every young woman's fate to see the light and love Jk Rowling, big brother (or sister) style.
Mar 21, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
It's important that feminism supports parents. Looking after children is work, and all too often it's completely unacknowledged work because it's mainly women who end up doing it.

It's vital that feminism fights the idea that women are defined by birth and child rearing. Most children have two parents. Many have a variety of people involved in their care, who don't have to be biological parents. Men have children too. Feminism is also about ensuring that those who give birth aren't ghettoised into "motherland" and robbed of any personhood.
Mar 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Mate it's not our letter. And we've spent a long-ish life dealing with cis men who want validation. Maybe go and deal with the ones in your movement who tell women what to think, you're not exactly short of them. You're talking to someone who was there on that "vibrant lesbian scene" of the 1980s. Stop being so patronising and making assumptions.
Mar 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Reasons to call the anti trans movement anti trans:

-They're not in any way "gender critical" but gender essentialist
- They're anti trans. We know they are anti trans because if you ever suggest a practical solution to any of their concerns -eg getting rid of the few communal changing rooms that still exist, they'll have a host of reasons why they don't want that to happen.
Mar 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Yes we did indeed know many suffragettes supported the far right.

That mean some suffragettes supported fascism though, not that politics is complicated. The suffragettes as a movement were sympathetic to the right because of the politics of Emmeline Pankhurst who is far from a feminist heroine. She also didn't support universal female suffrage which meant some women waited ten years longer than men to get the vote
Mar 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Almost no one in the anti trans movement in the UK will unequivocally condemn Kellie Jay Keen. Because she's massively popular. Some have said negative things about her. But the hostility they get if they outright call her out will mean they haemorrhage support. So they don't. At best they might call out her remarks about Muslims. None we have seen have called out her remarks about LGBTQ people or on abortion or Gillick competence. Or calls for men in guns to go into toilets. Or of course the fact she openly says she's a transphobe.
Mar 18, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
We already set out why we think trans exclusionary beliefs are, by their nature, right wing so we believe @Womans_Place_UK are wrong to state that the far right can be removed from the trans exclusionary movement.

womansplaceuk.org/2023/03/18/wpu… The far right are attracted to the anti trans movement because it opposes bodily autonomy, enforces reactionary ideas of gender roles and dehumanises a minority group from the LGBTQ community. All these are core beliefs to the far right.
Mar 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
To repeat @project_lesbian have the absolute right to decide who they are attracted to, how they define their sexual orientation and who is in their group. They have NO right to define other people's orientation. Especially when the women who are defining lesbian aren't lesbians We don't care who is in their club, we are saying their club doesn't speak for lesbians and they have no right to define other women's boundaries.
Nov 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The risk a woman will murder another woman and dismember her body with a circular saw is not zero, given it happened recently. You don't know which women might murder you either Jean. Like the entirely separate woman who decapitated a friend of hers. The point is that's not how risk assessment works. The risk is never zero. In a public toilet, the added risk from allowing a trans person to use it is pretty much zero, given that a cis person can also access that toilet and commit the same crime if the trans person can.
Nov 20, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
We agree with @bindelj that there is nothing hateful about promoting female only spaces. We also don't believe trans women are a threat to women or feminism. We deplore the attacks on trans inclusive cis women. Is that a 'threat to feminism'? What is meant by 'gender ideology'? Defending Women’s Spaces is a book about the threat to fe Most women who flee domestic violence will go to friends or family, not 'a women-only domestic violence refuge', those friends and family likely include men. A teenage girl raped at a party will probably seek help from friends and family, who will probably include men.
Nov 20, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This piece from @Womans_Place_UK very much gets the issues right, but the solution wrong. They think that the majority of the trans inclusive left must ally with them. We say they need to understand why we don't support them. womansplaceuk.org/2019/10/15/tur… This is an early example of their movement openly allying with the right. Today WPUK are finding themselves increasingly disregarded by the rest of their movement, which is very happy to do this. It's time they acknowledged the reality of their movement.
Nov 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The trans exclusionary movement has moved well beyond wanting services for cis women only (something that is already lawful if it's legitimate and proportionate). It's now a full on right wing movement which is attacking the wider LGBT community. It's also teaming up with anti women's rights groups to push its message. Another unsurprising development to a lot of us. So our question to those of you who claim to be left wing feminists. Where do you draw the line? What do you want? Do you have any credibility left?
Nov 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
We are once again offering to debate @Womans_Place_UK as they claimed to want back in July. Our DMs are open.