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This point has been made before, but the GC movement is, collectively, a fascist movement. GCs fit 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, and 14 very closely, and the others to varying degrees. I have a mutual who's laid this out point by point and I'll try to find her stuff on this.
It's true that fash will virtually always reply to any accurate description of their ideology and actions as "You just call anyone you disagree with a Nazi" or whatever, but we need to be able to identify what hate movements are doing, how they operate, and what they may do later
It doesn't really matter if they've been feminists for decades or are otherwise "old school." Bev Von Dohre, aka "Bev Jo" was in the Daughters of Bilitis alongside Beth Elliott 50 years ago, and she's recently openly wished for the deaths of all trans women. Janice Raymond said
that we must "morally mandate [trans people] out of existence." Her later clarifying remarks do not make this aspiration any less genocidal (and I do not believe her as to her original intent in any case). Mandatory conversion therapy is torture to eliminate a marginalized group.
Obviously this hate movement is a cult, as shown through writings by those who have left said movement. Many are recruited through the use of cherry picked screencaps and alarming stories obligingly provided by the UK media. Deliberately triggered into fear and rage against us.
I have every bit of sympathy for DV and rape survivors who have a lot of anger about what was done to them. I have a lot of anger for literally the same reasons. But exploiting and manipulating them into attacking people who never harmed them is an extremely cynical move.
The fact that this is a fascist movement does not mean that none of them are in any way associated with the left. Much of the left is all too willing to embrace fashy types as it is, never mind movements such as Strasserism in early 1930s Germany or National Bolshevism now.
You can see it in their rhetoric: "Erasing/replacing women" is a big one (white genocide/great replacement), their numerous websites documenting violent crimes by a few trans women as a means to argue that all trans women are dangerous - the same strategy the Nazis used with
Jewish people in 1930s Germany. The broadly applied slander and libel, such as accusing all trans people (or more typically, all trans women) of being paedophiles, and connecting that accusation to advocacy on behalf of trans children. It's also not a random error that GCs
frequently name George Soros as one of the "wealthy backers" of the trans movement.
These tendencies were obvious in the mid-late 2000s and pointed out by many. They've only grown worse since then. One might argue that this modern movement is not the old movement, but people
These tendencies were obvious in the mid-late 2000s and pointed out by many. They've only grown worse since then. One might argue that this modern movement is not the old movement, but people
like Bindel and others who were part of that older movement have ushered in this new one. The Bewilderness has been active in terfery for a long time and is still active on Mumsnet. Aside from a token objection to Posie Parker's trip to the US, Bindel's frequently expressed
that she's finally no longer alone in fighting this battle. That the GC movement is now filled with far right evangelicals and fundamentalists, outright Nazis, lazy bigoted academics looking for relevance, and career homophobies doesn't show a change from an earlier movement.
It shows an *evolution*, as hate movements inevitably draw in those who hate their targets.
This is why no leftist or progressive should tolerate transphobia and transmisogyny any more than they should tolerate racism, ableism, misogyny, fatphobia or homophobia.
This is why no leftist or progressive should tolerate transphobia and transmisogyny any more than they should tolerate racism, ableism, misogyny, fatphobia or homophobia.
These things are vulnerabilities in our movements to be exploited by entryists who only really care about destroying those whom they hate.
I CANNOT emphasize enough that a lot of these people *are* leftists, *are* in feminist movements, and the problem is that the left accommodates them, along with all the other bigotries I mentioned. The left is kinda fucked.
But also, the people who are frightened into the movement deserve to know there's nothing to be frightened of from trans people.
Like a lot of these people are horrific but a lot of them are being abused and lovebombed into GC. And they don't deserve that mistreatment.
Like a lot of these people are horrific but a lot of them are being abused and lovebombed into GC. And they don't deserve that mistreatment.
