We’ve been made aware
The campaign to bully women out of Labour and feminism and LGB rights continues.
It’s a lie, of course. She didn’t “endorse homophobic & transphobic content online.” She liked a tweet by a gay man on the subject of the word “queer,” which he dislikes. Disliking the word “queer” is hardly homophobic (and has nothing to do with trans anything). Liking a tweet by a gay man who dislikes the word queer has even less to do with homophobia let alone transphobia.
Acting like high-handed twitter “like” cops who hate women.
I would guess that the transphobic part they objected to was about men cosplaying women. Which is true, of course, and not homophobic, but I could see how it is seen as that “transphobic” thing. This illustrates another way in which the “T” are homophobic, and dismays me that they are allowed to get away with it, honored for it in fact.
“We’ve been made aware…” ==> we’ve received our instructions which must not be questioned.
And more passive-voice rigamarole.
I detest the whole concept of TransPHOBIA. Words matter. Nobody is afraid of or hateful of the (deluded) dears. We are simply SKEPTICAL. Why is this one subject not assessed with a skeptical eye throughout much of the skeptical and atheist community? What’s next-Otherkin? How can these vaunted “skeptics” and “science based” people and groups reject the otherkin because the whole trans movement is based on “the feels”.
I love the comment “cosplaying like the other sex” by the way!
Michael: Also the ROYAL WE, of course.
@Brian M #4, re use of “-phobia”
Debbie Cameron had an excellent post in her “language and feminism” blog on that topic recently:
Fighting Words
@sackbut #6 – That’s an excellent article.
Not being able to blindly accept an extraordinary claim, specifically that trans women are women, is not based on fear of difference. Accepting something so profound based on definitions so flawed there is no way to produce any sort of “evidence,” and using that to break down privacy barriers of women exposing them to additional oppression and abuse, well that’s not fear of someone who’s different. It’s skepticism mixed with caution, and yes, even empathy for those with a GD (as opposed to AGP cosplayers.) Throwing the word hate around is so much easier than thinking, adding a “phobia” just makes it sound more endemic and oppressive.