Another day, another virtue signaller
Julie Bindel doesn’t want to be lectured by late arrivals.
Another day, another virtue signaller standing by their ‘trans siblings’ and taking a pop at feminists. Sandi Toksvig, she of the unfunny Radio 4 shows more recently known for her involvement in the Women’s Equality Party (WEP) – has denounced feminists who are ‘anti trans’.
Toksvig says she’s been an activist all her life, but Julie is not convinced.
When feminists were battling to set up single sex services to support women that had experienced rape and domestic violence, was she there? Was Tokvsig on the feminist frontline in the 1960s and 1970s? If so, what did she achieve? If not, perhaps she should pipe down about those feminists who were present, instead of berating us for being trans exclusionary.
Rather than aiming her fire at women, Toksvig needs to realise there are important battles still to be won. Even today, lesbians are lectured by some for excluding men who identify as women from our dating pool. Such attitudes are a rerun of old misogynistic times, but with a progressive spin. Toksvig should surely understand how distressing it is for lesbians to be told we are not valid unless we include a penis in our relationship.
Maybe Toksvig thinks a penis that belongs to a trans woman isn’t a penis at all.
Perhaps Toksvig felt the need to speak out because she has seen what has happened to lesbians such as myself, Kathleen Stock, and numerous others when we pushed back against gender ideology? Whatever her reason for adding fuel to the misogynistic fire currently raging, it is cowardly, craven, and deeply disrespectful of those women that have fought for the rights that she enjoys. ‘Radical feminists’ like me will not be rebuked by someone who spends time attacking us – instead of concentrating on fighting for the rights of women.
The Twitter Trans Guard is raging at Julie for being such a big meany to that nice incloooosive Sandy Toksvig.
Meh, surely it’s just an overlarge clitoris?
As to your consistent mis-spelling of her name: Did you know that “tosk” is Norwegian for “fool”?
Oooops! And when it was right in front of me, too. Sorry.
If anyone knows what a real activist is or is not, it would be Julie Bindel.