Make the women stay home
There was a Lesbian Strength March in Leeds today, and protesters showed up to do a counter-march. Theocratic homophobes, right?
No.
A Lesbian Strength March in Leeds today was met with a counter-protest by trans rights activists.
Police were called in to keep the groups separated on either side of City Square.
So trans rights activists are telling us they oppose lesbian strength? Women can’t have anything without trans approval?
On one side, the Lesbian Strength March gathered to fight for a ‘visible lesbian presence’ on the streets.
The women travelled to Leeds from across the country and said they were protesting as they no longer felt safe at Pride marches.
Organiser Julie Furlong said: “Pride doesn’t represent us for lots of different reasons.
“For just once this year, we want to be somewhere where we are appreciated, where we are valued and where we are with our sisters.”
Julie claims that the march has nothing to do with transgender people – but trans rights activists gathered opposite City Square to oppose the Lesbian Strength March.
The counter-protesters believe that the march is inciting hatred against trans people.
Do they? Or do they just believe that the march isn’t about them, and that that won’t do?
Well, women can’t get trans approval, so if that’s the case, we have nothing…what the right couldn’t do, the left may succeed at: killing feminism.
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And it’s an engineered killing of feminism from within as well. In my tiny group of female geek friends and acquaintances, the 50 and older crowd are watching the under 50 crowd in academics rapidly ‘changing genders’. I get the rational; it’s the old “If you can’t beat them, join them” logic. Meetings are getting surreal, with the ‘former women’ ‘performing masculinity’ and guffawing with the men while the few remaining ‘not declared men’ are now even further out of the ‘in crowd’.
Yeah. We haven’t had much of that where I work yet (for the moment, I’m thankful to be in the conservative midwest, at least on this issue). But my theatre group, well, let’s just say if there are any more changes in genders, we won’t have any problems finding young men to cast in the plays anymore, but we might have to search a long way for young women. Genders are changing there almost as fast as I change socks.
It’s funny how these parallels with religion and religious apologetics just… keep turning up in trans theory and its outcomes.