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Deliberate and orchestrated silencing of trans rights supporters on GN

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VioletSky Sat 26-Mar-22 00:08:13

I do think there are a lot of objective fence sitters in this debate and there is more damage done to the GC cause than there appears.

Elizabeth27 Sat 26-Mar-22 00:03:37

At some point in the trans threads it will be insulated that trans means sex offender and women need safe places. This angers me so much that I do not join in.

Do these ridiculous people confront everyone in the ladies' toilets and ask what their gender was at birth? Do they ask doctors and nurses that treat them the same?

However trans people want to live does not hurt anyone else, why people have to be so cruel and nasty is beyond me.

Rosie51 Fri 25-Mar-22 23:55:12

Personal attacks? Would that be the GagaJo who labelled this transwoman as "a nut job cis man"? The wrong sort of transwoman who was invited to headline a poetry reading event? Such short memories some have. The organisers of this 'celebrating women event' obviously concurred that this transwoman was kosher.

adaunas Fri 25-Mar-22 23:30:52

I don't come on GN very often, but you sound quite aggrieved. So when you say trans equality, what do you mean?
Equality with whom?
Established by what means?

MissAdventure Fri 25-Mar-22 23:12:27

By the way, I didn't say that to upset the applecart.
Only my thoughts on it.

MissAdventure Fri 25-Mar-22 23:09:35

Well, I have to say it's one of my favourite threads.
I'm more of a reader, because I'm nowhere near as educated on the issue, so I research the things I see.
By that I mean google, but I gain a little knowledge by reading it.
It gets heated from both sides at times, which is going to happen.

GagaJo Fri 25-Mar-22 22:50:34

Trans people are included, they have rights, they matter and they are equal in my eyes as an intersectional feminist.

There are more of us!

VioletSky Fri 25-Mar-22 22:16:17

I am still here, the evidence of personal attacks against me may have been deleted but it hasn't silenced me, it hasn't made me small, it hasn't harmed me and I'm still rising above it and saying:

Trans people are included, they have rights, they matter and they are equal in my eyes as an intersectional feminist.

GagaJo Fri 25-Mar-22 22:01:21

As the usual posters on trans threads know, I support trans rights and also self-label as an intersectional feminist.

The irony of that statement however, is that after the first few posts on the threads that deal with trans issues, I invariably more or less step away from them, other than the occasional comment. There are quite a few other posters that do the same. I could name them, but that would be inappropriate. The reason that we do this is due to the animosity and personal insults that are bandied about, towards those of us that support trans equality. No doubt, the same things will happen on this thread.

The point of this thread, therefore, is to show, publically, that despite the orchestrated attacks from gender criticial feminists, that there are still a good number of us that do not take that position.

To anyone that reads these threads but is too intimidated to join in for the reasons given above, I'm just saying, we are still here!