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Quick! At a panel discussion re: media and trans and need intelligent questions

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FreckledLeopard · 03/03/2018 17:33

So, I'm at a screening of 'A Fantastic Woman' (Oscar nominated film about grief and a MTF trans woman) at the Watershed in Bristol. After the film is a panel discussion with various high profile individuals, including Shon Faye who, from a wick google, appears to be a typical TRA, slinging insults at TERFS and CIS women.

I'm appalled at the notion of self ID and the encroachment by TRAs into women's spaces. However, I appear to be surrounded by trendy, naive students who are keen to show how right on they are by saying how great TRAs are.

Can I please have some excellent and pointed questions to put to the panel after the film ends please? I'm incoherent with rage about women being thrown under the bus but need to be calm and intelligent.

Please give me some great questions!

Thank you!

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SmurfOrTerf · 03/03/2018 17:53

I would like to know why the media always make out women are the problem, instead of the TRA's.
And why the terms for women are: hysterical, bigots, TERF's i.e. insults, instead of just saying gender critical

Willswife · 03/03/2018 17:52

Ask if they would be willing to be exposed to by a man with convictions for sexual violence in a female changing room.

OvaHere · 03/03/2018 17:52

Ask about women's sport and how this can be protected. For example if there ended up being just one TIM in every Olympic category then women's sport would pretty much be over for those born female.

There is evidence that this is starting to happen in all sports.

Boxesandbuttons · 03/03/2018 17:51

Also really like CoCoCoconut suggestion.

Boxesandbuttons · 03/03/2018 17:50

CorbynTrouserPress has a good question if they are actually asking for questions - this would be the best line to take I think.

CoCoCoconut · 03/03/2018 17:49

You could ask if the panel believe that people born with female reproductive systems face any particular forms of oppression, marginalisation, or violence based upon their biology, and if so, should that group be free to name their biology as the axis of their oppression, and to centre it in their own liberation movement?

Boxesandbuttons · 03/03/2018 17:48

I'm not sure if a media event is a good place to raise concerns and questions about self-Id etc tbh. I think it will make you look like the bad guy.

If they say 'TERF' you could challenge that and say you know this has been used by some to suggest violence against women who disagree with others point of view, and ask they not use it.

CorbynTrouserPress · 03/03/2018 17:46

I'd ask how you can visually identify an opportunistic predator attempting to access women only spaces, from a genuine transgender person. Add what can be done to protect women from opportunistic predators.

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FreckledLeopard · 03/03/2018 17:46

Thanks - keep them coming. I'm not holding my breath that I'll get very far (assuming they take questions from the audience) but here's hoping!

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Gileswithachainsaw · 03/03/2018 17:45

Ask how you can advise your lesbian friend who is receiving abuse as she doesn't include transwoman in her dating pool and whether they also believe not wanting to date women with penises is transphobic.

Nickynackynoodle · 03/03/2018 17:43

If I wear a “men’s jumper” does that make me a man or the jumper a “woman’s jumper”?

CircleSquareCircleSquare · 03/03/2018 17:41

Ask then if people who have been abused by men should be subjected to treatment and shared quarters with males in women’s refuges.
You could even read out the letter I wrote to Women’s Aid - I am a 35 year old woman who was, for a time in a refuge as a child.

HawkeyeInConfusion · 03/03/2018 17:40

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will come along, but how about:

Please define 'woman' in a way that:
a) doesn't include the word woman
b) doesn't rely on gender stereotypes

And
Please describe how it feels to be a woman, again without resorting to gender stereotypes

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