I have already listed the ways in which (up to the time of the post) GagJo has twisted posters’ words, accused people of bullying, hostility and bickering, and how she has tried to close off all posts that disagree with her stance with a rather pompously announced ‘statement’ outlining her refusal to engage with what she defines as ‘demands’.
Since then, I have been accused of racism, professional incompetence and an inability to understand the importance of context by trisher. These accusations came after I questioned her attempts to divert the conversation to the usual red herrings of a black athlete with abnormally high levels of testosterone, and of hypothetical ‘butch’ women having to prove that they are female ‘everywhere they go’.
VS’s ‘arguments’ consist of accusations that people are ‘making assumptions’ and suggesting that only she cares about transpeople or children. Oh, and that we haven’t read the research paper that she hasn’t read herself. At the risk of making assumptions, I doubt that either trisher or Gagajo has read it either. Access to academic journals is expensive without access through a university library, and if any of them had read it they would have been able to answer the fairly basic questions about the research process.
After trisher’s latest attack I wasn’t sure whether to return to the thread, so slept on it, and considered the situation this morning. My inclination, in the cold light of day, is to continue what I started to do at the start of the thread, which is to point out the way in which any posts that give a point of view or ask questions that don’t fall in line with the TRA point of view are pushed aside with diversions, insults and accusations.
The thread has descended into an unedifying state, but whilst it might have been easier to walk away, if people point out these DARVO attempts (Divert, Attack, then Reverse the Victim and Offender) it might make the perpetrators less inclined to attempt them in future threads on this important topic. Time will tell.
