Ban that woman
And there’s the “never let this woman speak anywhere ever again because we say so” thing.
Transgender advocacy groups and supporters have demanded that Leeds Lit Festival ban Dame Jenni Murray from speaking amid accusations of transphobia.
An open letter, signed by TransLeeds, Non-binary Leeds, Yorkshire Mesmac and 13 other groups, says Dame Jenni is ‘an active transphobe’ and that ‘there is no debate as to whether trans women are women’.
Oh but there is debate, it’s just that the narcissistic wing of trans activism wants to wipe it off the map. Saying “there is no debate” is an attempt to enforce the absence of debate by demanding that all dissenters be forcibly prevented from dissenting where anyone can hear them.
Dame Jenni, who was born in Barnsley, is due to appear at The Leeds Library on Saturday to talk about her book A History of the World in 21 Women.
Leeds Lit Festival and The Leeds Library have said they are standing by their position.
See here is one compelling reason to think, and to continue to say, that trans women are not literally women: it’s because of this lust to silence a well-known woman talking about women. There are anti-feminist women, of course, but even they mostly don’t try to prevent women from talking at literary festivals in libraries about their books about women. That bit of specialness is pretty much confined to trans “women”…which makes it ever more difficult to ignore their raging hostility to women.
The open letter to The Leeds Library and Leeds Lit Festival reads: “Jenni Murray is clearly hostile towards the trans community, but especially towards transgender women.
“This isn’t feminism. It is misogyny. This is not free speech or radical discussion. Far from it.
“It is hate speech against a vulnerable minority that in the last year alone has been the subject of a hateful campaign by the British media, both nationally and locally here in Leeds.”
No. Saying that men who “identify as” women are not [literally/in every sense] women is not misogyny. You can call it anti-trans if you want to, but it’s nothing to do with misogyny. Saying a dog is not a cat is not canephobia. It’s not misogyny at all, and calling it that is appropriation of a word that names what keeps women down.
It’s also not hate speech, and the flag-waving about “a vulnerable minority” is, again, appropriation of women’s oppression to dress up narcissistic entitlement as “political.”
The event has happened (or not) by now, but so far I can’t find anything about how it went. I hope it went well, with no raging misogynists in lipstick standing in the way.
Bullying isn’t activism.
“A hateful campaign by the British media” = a few journalists have reported questions or challenges to claims made by trans activists.
Yep, that’s very familiar. “It’s clear that _______ hates trans women and wants us dead” when the topic has been sex segregation in sports, and other utter silliness. Confident assertions as to other peoples’ states of mind seem to be very common from this tribe.
Point of order: to be more of a parallel, saying a dog is not a cat is not ailurophobia.
Otherwise, with you all the way. It seems that the only arguments they have are “proof by assertion” and “proof by intimidation”.
I just ordered this book. It sounds awesome.
Does that make me a TERF?
‘there is no debate as to whether Rachel Dolezal is Black’.
I mean, if you ask HER.
Congratulations to the festival and the library for not kowtowing. No one needs to ignore the level of violence and deprivation faced by trans-women. Especially minority and ‘lower class’ ones. But can anyone find ANY instance of lesbians attacking trans-women? Isn’t the actual threat always posed by homophobic men?
Geez, John, get with the program TERF speech is GENOCIDAL. Attacking TERFS is legitimate, actual self defence, because women who disagree with trans claims are literally out to kill them. Or something.
Yeah, but lesbians are easier targets. It’s like trans women athletes jumping from having had to compete with men (where they were just average, if that) to competing against women, where they stand a much better chance of coming out on top. In both instances, if they take over, they’ve usurped pre-existing institutions and organizations that they didn’t have to build themselves from the ground up. Saves a lot of time and effort. It’s also helpful to have a ready supply of useful idiots at hand to aid and abet.