Brenda is a feminist
There’s another one of those Open Letters, this one from “the LGBTQ+ community” of Ireland.
For decades the transgender community has advocated, marched, and fought for equality, and inclusion. This fight has never once wavered in supporting movements that garner equality for all marginalised communities.
Well that’s a lie. “The trans community” doesn’t advocate or fight for all marginalized communities, it advocates and fights for its own. Individual trans people may have joined in, but the “community” has not, and it has gone way out of its way to shit on women.
Our work, our fight, our campaigns, have all been underscored by two things, intersectionality and solidarity. The transgender community has always worked in advancing the equal rights and acceptance of all without discrimination.
Not true. Self-flattering bullshit.
For decades members of the transgender community marched in Pride, stood for women’s equality, all while our rights were left off the table.
Not true.
Even now, transgender people continue to work for reforms that will increase the rights of gay and lesbian parents in surrogacy and adoption. Never have transgender people sought to diminish the rights, or acceptance of others.
Ha.
Now, unfortunately, we see a rise in discriminatory organisations and vocal transgender exclusionary activists using Twitter and divisive antics to attempt to a drive a wedge in queer communities between transgender people and fracture our support from feminists. For our decades of solidarity, some seek to repay our community with a call for division based on falsities and bigotry. Let us say unequivocally that the statements of newly launched organisations that seek to defend biology or fight gender identity and expression do not represent the wider LGBTI+ community nor feminists in Ireland. More importantly, they are not organisations at all, they have no governance, no accountability, and are simply Twitter accounts. Further, they are not supported by the wider Irish community. Ireland has dealt with these pseudo-feminists before…
That’s more like it – that’s the real attitude to feminism.
Miranda Yardley posted an image with a trans flag and a description of “intersectional trans activism” that I found appealing:
https://www.facebook.com/miranda.yardley/posts/10224245507189728
It is clear that trans activism in the OP does not meet these criteria.
“that seek to defend biology”
Wow, the criminality! How dare they!
I need to lie down now:)
Ah, but it is true from their perspective. Let me translate their statement:
“The noisiest and most demanding subset of males calling themselves women has always worked towards inserting their presence into all spaces that welcome women as if they themselves were women, declaring anything less than total acceptance of them as literal women “discrimination”.”
But… capital P Pride marches aren’t about women’s rights, they’re about LGB and also T rights. Some of those people are women of course, but that doesn’t make the event about W rights.
…Ah. This person is now just lying. See the very next paragraph, where they throw advocacy for women – specifically, the female sex – out of the club.
Sackbut:
I wouldn’t say that. It meets the criteria (with provisos) as follows:
1. Yes, as long as we first all agree that TWAW.
2. Yes, as long as we first all agree that TWAW & TMAM.
3. Yes, see 2.
4. Yes, so long as the safeguarding is of what the children want, or of what they can be ‘counseled’ into wanting.
Full intersectionality achieved with just a few teeny-tiny compromises.
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