So that was a lie then?
JK Rowling says Patrick Strudwick told a huge brazen lie.
It’s one of those new long tweets that subscribers get to do.
As @PatrickStrud has blocked me on here (we’ve never, to my knowledge, interacted on Twitter or anywhere else) I can’t challenge him directly about the claim he published in iNews (see below) that a Let Women Speak event in Australia ‘staged a mass Nazi salute’. This is a lie so brazen, so easily disprovable and so libellous, I’m amazed it was allowed into print by a supposedly reputable news source.
For years now, women and gay people concerned about the erosion of their rights, the dismantling of safeguarding and the escalating threats and violence of trans activists have been called ‘fascists’ and ‘Nazis’ by people like Strudwick for holding what, until five minutes ago, were solidly left-wing/feminist political positions. Nobody but useful idiots can be genuinely surprised that REAL fascists have spotted a glorious opportunity in trans activism. The homophobic, anti-feminist far-right has long held that the left is degenerate, foolish, immoral and authoritarian, and now they can point to the incoherent arguments of the gender ideologues, the bullying tactics of the no-platformers and the swarms of masked men threatening violence against women for wanting to retain single-sex spaces, and crow ‘we told you so’.
It’s true.
Actual Nazis have turned up on the fringes of Let Women Speak events for exactly the same reason aggressive, narcissistic trans activists are there. These groups closely resemble each other. Both are rife with misogynistic opportunists who’re using a clash of rights to push their own agendas, both are there in the hope of violence, and neither gives a damn about the women who’re there to speak out in their own voices, about their own lives, on their own behalf. It’s high time those peddling lies like Strudwick’s are held accountable and I sincerely hope @ThePosieParker takes action.
I await developments with interest.
The cheeky, cowardly, unethical bastards have already removed that claim from the article without giving any clue that they’ve done so.
“the fascist takeover of transphobic ideas”
WHAT f*ing “transphobic ideas”?
There aren’t any!
“Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?”
There’s nothing “transphobic” in supporting the same human rights for trans people as for any other group.
There’s nothing “transphobic” in recognizing the reality of sex. Human beings cannot actually change their biological sex, no matter how much they might wish they could. Even trans people know this.
But maddog1129, they don’t want rights, they want power. Retaining male power over women while dressing it in female garb and lippy.