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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Lily Madigan has published an article.

492 replies

UpstartCrow · 01/02/2018 00:09

www.youngfabians.org.uk/transmisog

''100 years on since the first women got the vote, there are still inequalities in the feminist movement. Why are some feminists still failing transwomen?

The evidence is there if you look for it – Transphobic leaflets being given out in the safe zone at Labour annual conference; prominent party feminists suggesting violence against transwomen; someone being kicked out of a Labour Women’s Network party for harassing a teenage trans woman; fundraisers being started to try and legally challenge Labours trans-inclusive policies; transwomen being excluded from Labour run women’s events by a women’s officer. The list goes on.

Most state their actions aren’t transphobic at all, but they are merely seeking the protection of women’s spaces. Some go further, suggesting transwomen are men’s right activists working purposely to erode women’s hard won protects. They commonly misgender people like me as a means to belittle our experiences and score social media points. And so I think its fair we question how much authority they have as cis-women to decide whether they are being transphobic.''

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Collidascope · 01/02/2018 04:04

Oops, Lily. Pretty sure that calling trans identified males 'transwomen' as opposed to 'trans women' makes you transphobic...
Also, learn to use apostrophes.

AngryAttackKittens · 01/02/2018 03:55

Behold, Liam, this tiny violin that plays just for you.

I hope whichever party members decided that feeding this tedious adolescent's narcissism was a good idea are punished by being stuck in a lift with him for hours.

slightlybefuddledlibrarian · 01/02/2018 02:57

Jeez. Can one of our under 31 labour supporters please dash off an intelligent response to this garbage? I’m too old for this shit. It’s embarrassing.

cromeyellow0 · 01/02/2018 02:05

Feminism: failing transwomen since 1918!

It's embarrassingly bad, no regular man or woman would be invited to publish this drivel on the website.

(At a glance at the previous blog post, you can see that it's intelligent and interesting:
www.youngfabians.org.uk/labour_s_relationship_with_towns)

He seems to have mesmerised them all.

RebeccaWrongDaily · 01/02/2018 01:06

oh grow up and fuck off. (LM, not you OP)

DonnyAndVladSittingInATree · 01/02/2018 01:05

I did actually pass GCSE English, contrary to what my spelling actually suggests Blush

DonnyAndVladSittingInATree · 01/02/2018 01:04

You when you’re in year 9 and your English teacher splits the class in two and gives you a debate topic? That’s what this reads like. It’s like Lily was handed a topic last week due in today and they only started it last night so googled “transphobia” and fired a load of key phrases into word before going back on snap chat to see what Georgia said about that girl from then othe school in town who was texting her boyfriend.

GretchenFranklin · 01/02/2018 00:52

He has literally no idea what life as a woman actually is. Not. A. Clue.

hipsterfun · 01/02/2018 00:40

Also, Lils, feminists haven’t got a phobia of trans-identified people - get over yourself.

PositivelyPERF · 01/02/2018 00:33

lies as fact and allowing me no comment - the real no-platforming oh do fuck off with your misogynistic, self gratifying bullshit.

SuburbanRhonda · 01/02/2018 00:33

I wonder how many other Labour Party Women’s Officers have talked about a whole group of women as “they”.

pitterpatterrain · 01/02/2018 00:33

Cis-woman Hmm

To a certain extent, I hope they grow up one day and look back at this with serious embarrassment - about how small their life experience is, that they appear to have no empathy or understanding about what it even means to be a woman in society or more broadly across the world

hipsterfun · 01/02/2018 00:30

and seek to present me in an unfair light, often pushing lies as fact and allowing me no comment - the real no-platforming

Pushing lies as fact, you say? Hmm

VivienneEastwood · 01/02/2018 00:25
Biscuit
WillowWept · 01/02/2018 00:23

Well on the plus side labour clearly don't value him enough to give him any assistance with his writing

SuburbanRhonda · 01/02/2018 00:19

“They commonly misgender people like me”.

Well then you can fuck off with your “cisgender” bollocks, you hypocrite.

GrockleBocs · 01/02/2018 00:15

Me, me, me, me, me.