This would put people at risk, if it were true
Cool story but is there a shred of truth in it?
Unfortunately, we had to cancel the planned protest against Women’s Place UK and Fairplay for Women due to concerns about the safety of attendants. We heard rumour of a counter-protest by more….’radical’ elements of the anti-trans community. This would have put people attending at risk of physical and psychological harm. If you wish to organise your own protest, please keep in mind that Posie Parker and Dr Julia Long may organise a counter protest where the aim may be to incite violence. We apologise for the situation, this was not how this wanted to go. If anyone ever claims that TERFs are being intimidated and silenced, I urge you tell people about this specific case where the people who had to stay silent for their safety were trans people and their allies.
But is there so much as one example of gender critical feminist women causing or threatening physical harm to anyone? Ever? Because I don’t know of any. Some people were terribly shocked that two such women asked a trans woman some questions in a public place this one time, but I don’t think that counts. Other than that? I don’t know of one single example. No baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire, no fake-blood-streaked T shirts, no tweets full of “Kill all the TERFs transwomen, nothing.
It’s an interesting trick, inventing a threat out of whole cloth and then announcing “If anyone ever claims that TERFs are being intimidated and silenced, I urge you tell people about this specific case where the people who had to stay silent for their safety were trans people and their allies.” What specific case? What “had to”? There isn’t any.
When gender critical women are threatened or attacked there is documentation of it. There are photos, there are screen grabs, there are witnesses, there is video. It’s not just a matter of saying it on Facebook: there is copious evidence. This? This is just people saying “We heard a rumor of a plan” – that’s literally all.
DARVO much?
Why not just be honest and admit that they’re protesting against women?
As for ‘concerns about the safety of attendants’ and ‘Posie Parker and Dr Julia Long may* organise a counter protest where the aim may be to incite violence’, I have to wonder: were these men-pretending-to-be-women so scared of women-who-are-actual-women before said men transitioned into their fantasy roles? or is it just a narrative designed to add to their pathetic claims of victimhood?
* I assume that ‘may’ was inserted by the cowards to protect against claims of libel from Parker and/or Long. Effective smearing whilst maintaining deniability. ‘We only said you might, not that you would’.
So…
Unconfirmed rumour…
Unfounded speculation…
Unfounded speculation…
More unfounded speculation…
Claim moral high-ground…
Unjustified claim based on all of above.
What a dishonest bunch of fucks. Especially since the only online and real life silencing campaigns I’ve seen have come from trans activists AGAINST feminists and their supporters and there are at least two videos of actual violence online where the perpetrator is a trans person and the people who have so far lost careers or speaking opportunities have been academics or feminists who dare question trans orthodoxy. Did I say dishonest fucks already?
At this point, it can’t be said too much.
Given that misgendering is literal violence, and that the bar for something being “upsetting,” hateful,” or causing “psychological harm” is set so low, absolutely EVERY gathering of gender critical feminists is going to “incite violence” simply by taking place. TERFS make all spaces unsafe for transwomen by just existing. Anywhere.
Speaking of incitement, if we’re keeping score, how many TRAs who originate or retweet TERF-threatening posts have been suspended or banned from Twitter? How does that number compare to those gender critical women who have been suspended, or banned (or suspended THEN banned) for much, much less? Again, the threshold for the latter group’s expulsion seems to be a good deal lower than for the former. How does cis privilege thing work again?
You are asking unallowed questions. It just does. Because cis. Cis-magic. Something like that. Blah blah reasons blah kill TERFs reasons blah blah.
The mere existence of people disagreeing with trans theory is taken to be violence against them. Words just no longer have meaning I guess.
I think there’s a bit of “wink-nudge” going on here, too. I strongly suspect the writer intends to plant the seed among readers that their own violence will be justified, now that they know how dire the TERF threat is.
I didn’t know that Londoners Against Transphobia had hired Lionel Hutz to write their material:
“Well, your honor, we’ve got plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are kinds of evidence.”
On that particular post, I (and several others) repeatedly made that point over and over, viz. that gender critical woman don’t go around threatening or inciting violence (much less taking part in it themselves), so it was silly for this man to darkly warn “his people” (as he styled them throughout the comment thread-discussion) to beware. Some of them apparently did demand that he produce proof that GC women incite violence. Eventually (I guess after enough googling), he came up with a video of Linda Bellos at what appears to be a talk or conference discussion in which she says, as what seems to be a response to a question, “I am quite prepared to threaten violence because it seems to me politically what they are seeking to do is piss on women”.
Here is an article that goes into a bit more depth:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1023691/Labour-news-linda-bellos-transgender-court-case-latest-news
The case in question was dropped, but the infuriated trans* started one of their own. It was also thrown out. As Julie Bindel put it in a tweet:
https://twitter.com/bindelj/status/1068454163330285568
“Case against Linda Bellos and Venice Allen thrown out. Let’s hope this puts off other trans-activists, motivated by misogyny, taking private prosecutions against feminists for daring to refuse to capitulate to the Orwellian ideology.”
I only bring this up because this is apparently a cause celebre among the trans*, and they use it to fuel their fury and insist up their ultimate victimhood, despite the fact that they are unfailingly the ones swinging bats, screaming “DIE CIS SCUM”, and making endless numbers of youtube videos in which they happily muse about “killing all the TERFs”.
At any rate, the man who runs the “Londoners against Transphobia” facebook page got such a righteous intellectual beat-down on that thread that he eventually deleted all the comments, in the typically intellectually dishonest fashion that these types always seem to follow.