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In June, 7,000 women who accept being relegated to a sub-set of their own sex signed a letter to Liz Truss demanding she give away to men the sex-based rights valued by many women who understand why we need them. It has popped up again. Let’s correct it. https://liztrussopenletter.wordpress.com/?fbclid=IwAR1lLPyNAtAyxI7iJYT6ULNGduWhuaThDncWLwmNDBBpva6_PM2cwjgso-4
Trans rights - the self-ID lobbied for by Stonewall & TRAs - are inimical to sex-based exemptions in the EA 2010. Either you grant rights to women to the exclusion of males, or you grant them to males who ID as women. It’s a zero-sum conflict. Either/or. So, the letter authors...
are right that, if Truss leaves the law as is, trans-ID males still won’t be able to access women’s refuges & sports. That’s why Stonewall lobbied to remove those exemptions.
Calling this “anti-trans” is wrong. It’s not anti-male to exclude them from women’s spaces & sports.
Calling this “anti-trans” is wrong. It’s not anti-male to exclude them from women’s spaces & sports.
Calling @Womans_Place_UK @LGBAlliance_UK @Transgendertrd “transphobic hate groups” is inflammatory & untrue. These are all run by decent women with years of expertise. The smear would be laughable if it wasn’t defamatory. It’s not transphobic to campaign for sex-based rights &
children’s safeguarding. Note no evidence is offered of “hate.”
These groups recognise the difference between sex & gender, because gender undermines women’s boundaries.
Identifying as trans has no impact on patterns of male violence. Self-ID enables any many to ID as trans
These groups recognise the difference between sex & gender, because gender undermines women’s boundaries.
Identifying as trans has no impact on patterns of male violence. Self-ID enables any many to ID as trans
The consequences for women are obvious. In this country, we already have self-ID by the back door. Which men would easier self-ID most benefit? Opportunistic predators & fetishists. Those men may “only” want to use women as sexual aids to give them a hit of gender euphoria.
Regardless, women are not support humans, nor therapeutic or sexual aids for male use. Our privacy & dignity matters in addition to our safety from male violence.
Who are these 7k women to say that other women’s boundaries are theirs to give away?
Who are these 7k women to say that other women’s boundaries are theirs to give away?
As for the claim that self-ID works just fine elsewhere: what is proposed in this country is not the same as, eg. Ireland. Regardless, the impact of the reforms proposed here would have the effect of ending women’s sex-based rights. https://womansplaceuk.org/the-irish-question
Next the authors deny the medical pathway from puberty blockers to surgery, & claim those drugs are “safe.” They have not been proven safe, nor trialled for that usage & there is evidence they cause iatrogenic harm. PBs are licensed for use in elder male prostate cancer patients.
Then they trot out the reprehensible, unevidenced suicide risk of departing from the ‘affirmation-only’ model of paediatric trans health”care.” This claim has not only been debunked, it inadvertently promotes the very thing they claim to want to prevent. https://fairplayforwomen.com/suicide/
They claim “Trans men, women and non-binary people young and old have always lived among us” despite the concept of trans being the creation of early C20th sexologists, and nonbinary not existing as a concept before the advent of C21st transgender ideology & tech-transhumanism.
If the claim were true, how would trans ideologues explain the 4000% increase in UK teen girls identifying as trans? Why the exponential increase in that sub-set of the population, if trans/NB are naturally occurring characteristics which have always been observed?
Then they say this explosion over a decade only became a problem in 2015 when people started to ask why it was happening. Well, quite. Teen girls rejecting their sexed bodies & wanting mastectomies is a public health crisis which warrants investigation, surely? Why object?
These women think everything is more important than protecting lesbian, autistic and depressed girls from the paediatric transitioning system, even though detransitioners are speaking out about their regret that it was so easy to climb aboard the trans train. Why ignore them?
They set up a dichotomy between protecting women victims of DV during lockdown, and children harmed by the paediatric transitioning system, pitting two vulnerable groups against each other.
Stay classy, ladies
Stay classy, ladies
It seems that the power of numbers plus writing in bold type may not have been enough to sway the government. Statements to date strongly suggest @trussliz has engaged with the evidence. Here’s hoping she keeps her nerve, protects children, and preserves the legal status quo.
These opinions are mine, and not those of the organisations attacked in the open letter. I wanted to defend those groups, whose contributions have been inestimable, by unpacking some of the letter authors’ smears, misrepresentations, distortions & reaches.
