Trans women are twice as oppressed as women.
Transgender women are targeted because of their gender, just like cisgender women are, and *also* because of transphobia. That's like how women of colour can be targeted both on the basis of misogyny and race.
Marginalising these women even more contributes to violence. https://t.co/hZ1GgIn9mI
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) March 11, 2021
Twice as targeted, so obviously they get to shove women aside and take up all the oxygen. … Read the rest
Good timing. Good front paging.
Front page of tomorrow's Guardian. Can't wait to find out how one is promoted to she. pic.twitter.com/Sysnnm5O5T
— Margaret Nelson (@Flashmaggie) March 11, 2021
The headline at the top is a man bragging about being a woman while directly under that is more coverage of a woman who was grabbed off the street and murdered.
If being a woman were a promotion, if it were an honour, women wouldn’t get grabbed off the streets and murdered.
I’m so tired of this self-indulgent self-centered nonsense that shoves women aside for the sake of narcissistic men who play at being women. So tired of it.… Read the rest
Scotland has a shiny new hate crime bill that doesn’t include women.
Scotland’s controversial hate crime bill is set to pass later on Thursday amid anger about its current exclusion of women and assurances that the legislation will not criminalise those whose views are considered by some to be transphobic.
It did pass.
The final vote was delayed from Wednesday, after a marathon five-hour debate over a lengthy series of amendments resulted in one of Holyrood’s latest sittings and concluded the rocky passage of the bill. It is intended to consolidate existing hate crime laws but also creates a new offence of “stirring up hatred” on the grounds of religion, sexual orientation, age, disability or transgender identity.
But not … Read the rest
Councillor Dom Armstrong wrote Tuesday:
It is with great sadness that I tender my resignation to the Green Party.
I have been a member since 2015 and a councillor since May 2019 in Washington/ Sunderland, a role which I will also be giving up.
In that time they accomplished good things.
… Read the restI joined the Greens, and agreed to stand for public office, simply because I have two daughters. I did hope that through joining the Greens, and fighting climate change, this would be a worthy way to honour them. They didn’t always understand, especially when they were younger, why their Dad was working at nights, or at weekends, or posting leaflets in the snow, or responding to emails during
Well now we all want to know what “dinner party TERFs” are and why we haven’t been invited.
It’s some guy called Ryan Broderick who came up with the label, but it’s very misty what he meant by it. It’s something about Glenn Greenwald and a NY Times reporter called Taylor Lorenz which is too uninteresting to describe further.
… Read the restGreenwald is part of a cadre of writers who position themselves as neither left or right-wing, instead focusing on culture war Twitter drama about being “canceled” and trans people in bathrooms and woke college students to make the actually very standard and traditional right-wing status quo that they’re defending sound slightly less tedious. Other writers in this network are people
Rachel Hewitt makes an interesting point about street harassment and who own public space.
The disappearance of Sarah Everard while she walked through Clapham, south London, at 9pm on 3 March gives horrific shape to the hum of fear that women constantly feel in public spaces. My social media timelines are full of women who are distressed by Sarah’s disappearance, and terrified that it could have been them. Men have asked what they can do to help women feel safer. But what’s needed beyond the education of individuals are urgent political solutions to counter men’s attempts to claim public spaces as their exclusive domain.
Street harassment of women by men is so common that there are no women … Read the rest
What I have in common with a transgender woman is that the person most likely to hurt me is a man. She's at risk of domestic violence, she's at risk of street harassment, and she's at risk of assault too.
Trans women are our sisters in this fight, because it is the same fight. https://t.co/uk7uVC6OFJ
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) March 11, 2021
That’s some very feeble reasoning. Men are the most likely to hurt anyone simply because men are stronger than women; that doesn’t mean less muscular men are women’s sisters. Men don’t become our sisters by getting beaten up by men. Having something in common with a set of people isn’t the same as that set of people morphing … Read the rest
Well, anyway, I’m relieved that Major hasn’t been exiled to Delaware permanently, which is what I thought I’d read yesterday (or I did read it and the reporting was wrong). I know it’s trivia but I liked having dogs back in the White House after that Lump of Nothing who hates all animals.
Major got a little bitey but he’s only exiled while DOCTOR Biden is traveling.
… Read the restWhite House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that on Monday, the 3-year-old German shepherd was “surprised by an unfamiliar person and reacted in a way that resulted in a minor injury to the individual.”
Psaki did not disclose any information about the person who crept up on the pooch but she did
Hahahahahahahahaha… Read the rest
A trans woman has been nominated for the Women’s prize for fiction for the first time, with Torrey Peters making the longlist for the £30,000 award for her acclaimed debut Detransition, Baby.
Oh do shut up.
The whole point of having a Women’s prize for fiction is to get around the problem that women get overlooked so easily. “Trans women” are men; men should not be candidates for prizes designated for women.
… Read the restPeters’ longlisting comes after organisers clarified in 2020 that it was open to any “cis woman, a transgender woman or anyone who is legally defined as a woman or of the female sex”. “It’s a prize for women, and trans women are women, so …”
Dang. If ever there’s an issue you’d think would be immune to the Trans Policing & Shunning it would be the Irish church’s persecution of women and children…but nope.
Seeing a certain TERF group beginning to wade into the #MotherAndBabyHomes issue. No. You don’t get to use this issue to legitimise your existence. You are not welcome here. Trans rights are human rights. #NotInMyName
— Dr Claire McGettrick, born Lorraine Hughes (@cmcgettrick) March 8, 2021
ExCUSE me??? Feminist women “are not welcome” to talk about the Mother and Baby Homes issue? Then who the fuck is? Priests? Popes? Men who play at being women?
Here’s a news flash: men, no matter how intensely they play at being women, remain immune … Read the rest
Imagine if white people had done this when George Floyd was murdered.
https://twitter.com/shonfaye/status/1369698397750517767But he’s not a woman.
https://twitter.com/shonfaye/status/1369698481888190464But they’re not women so it’s not misogyny.… Read the rest
Who gets to say that X is lying? Who gets to say that X is lying on a widely-seen tv news-chat show? Who gets to say that X is lying without troubling to offer any evidence?
Anybody who works for Fox News, is one answer, but Fox News isn’t alone in allowing and indeed inviting a lot of claims of the “X is lying” type.
Piers Morgan has made a name for himself with that kind of thing.
Meghan Markle formally complained to UK broadcaster ITV after Piers Morgan lashed out at her and accused her of lying about her mental health on “Good Morning Britain,” according to a report.
What jumps out at you about that? What jumps out … Read the rest
Cotton ceiling again.
Only predators and rapists don't take "NO" for an answer.
Pressuring lesbians to date men is RAPE CULTURE. Men are not lesbians. pic.twitter.com/YJQCL3Yz7V
— Amy E. Sousa (@KnownHeretic) March 9, 2021
First one. Yes a few minutes ago I said I wanted to hook up because I thought you were a lesbian.
Second one. But you are one.
Third one. It’s not being a not-decent human being to want to know the sex of the person who wants to have sex with you. Other way around, actually – the not-decent thing is to keep what sex you are a secret.
Fourth one. No, creep, you’re the jerk – you’re the one trying to trick or bully … Read the rest
Graham did this:
Proud to know this manhttps://t.co/t0GOIkYjRi
— Prof. DR TheFamousArtistBirdyRose (@TheFamousArtBR) March 9, 2021
He also posted the text.
… Read the restAlmost four years ago I saw that feminists were being bullied, harassed and silenced for standing up for their rights and their children’s rights. I decided to use my platform on Twitter to bring attention to what seemed to be an all-out assault on women, on their words, their dignity and their safety. Also, I saw that vulnerable children were being fast-tracked onto a medical pathway that carried severe long-term implications. My position is very simple. I believe everyone should be allowed to talk about these issues. In fact, I believe it is a moral imperative that
The ACLU ordered us to pretend that men are women on Facebook too.
Policing womanhood hurts ALL of us.
Funny how it’s just womanhood. Funny how they don’t order men to pretend that men are women or that women are men – funny how they leave men alone on this subject.
It’s weirdly sly and passive-aggressive to call it a “reminder” to tell us a lie. “I am here to remind you that frogs are gorillas.”… Read the rest
Sounds like “Jessica” Yaniv without the “trans” aspect.
An Ottawa charity focused on the well-being of Black, Indigenous and LGBTQ youth is in disarray after staff quit and speakers pulled out of a recent conference because they believe the group’s leader has multiple aliases and a history of taking her enemies to court.
That description is oddly vague. What does it mean for a charity to be “focused on the well-being” of anyone? I wonder if there’s any connection between the vagueness of the description and the alleged multiplicity of its leader’s aliases.
… Read the restMaxine Adwella is known as the head of the National Collaboration for Youth Mental Health (NCYMH), which, according to its website, has spent nearly 20 years
Part of the census guidance for England and Wales accompanying the question on a person’s sex should be withdrawn, a High Court judge has warned.
Campaign group Fair Play for Women argued the guidance unlawfully allowed “self-identification” as another sex.
The guidance says people could use the sex listed on their passport – which can be changed without a legal process.
Well of course the sex itself can’t be changed – the word you put on your passport can be changed. Changing a word on your passport isn’t magic; it can’t change your sex or age or species or planet of residence.
… Read the restTaking place in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on 21 March, the census
Good old ACLU. On International Women’s Day, here they are to bully us for saying that we are women and men are not. On International Women’s Day, they think it’s the best possible day to tell us to shut up about men trying to usurp the word “woman” and the ontological status “woman.” On International Women’s Day they shout at us for continuing to think that women are women and that fantasies and let’s pretend games don’t change that.
No one gets to tell us what it means to be a woman. Not our bosses. Not the government.
Policing womanhood is bad for all women.
— ACLU (@ACLU) March 8, 2021
On International Women’s Day here’s your reminder; you … Read the rest
