Alison Moyet

She does sound scared.

It is scary.

I hope she's ok.

I went though a period of intense anxiety about all this.

At the end of the day she has to prioritise herself and her family.

I think it’s fairly obvious that AM doesn’t really believe that TWAW, but she’s forced to say that to save face/slow down the abuse and harassment. She can’t win, whatever she says.

I figured her Twitter was being heavily monitored by TRAs/MRAs when something she tweeted about period poverty was turned into “but what about the menz?” I think something she tweeted about FGM was treated similarly?

I don’t blame her for leaving Twitter.

I think she sounds scared. Don't blame her. I'm scared about being openly gender critical on social media, & I'm nobody - she's absolutely a target for all those little AWA rat eyes in the dark.

People can see what's happened here. More visibility is always good.

Just announced she's leaving Twitter.

That looks more like, 'my PR team are taking over my official twitter account'.

I'm reading that as meaning, her personal opinions and her career interests seem to have hit a point of conflict.

Sad that she is leaving twitter over this, but not surprising. It is really hard when you’ve always stood up for minorities, to suddenly find that you are being called a bigot. Transactivists know this and exploit it.

NOOOOOOO!!!!

Alison's words on Twitter demonstrate female socialisation quite neatly.

Some people have said that they have hurt feelings so her reaction to that is to give up her own space and withdraw.

I would love to know what went on behind the scenes to cause her to back down, issue that statement, and leave Twitter.

This is a real shame, I thought Alison had been radicalised? I wonder what she must have been put through since signing the letter...it must be hell being a female in the public eye taking a stand on this issue. I hope she will just get her head together & do more research. There is no way you ever go back from #PeakTrans.

Just announced she's leaving Twitter.

I don’t blame her. It’s pointlessly toxic on twitter for anyone in the public eye who is expressing a gender critical view just now.

Raising a cup of tea to you Alison, and I hope you find your way here (if you aren’t already, I suspect you are...)

Also surely the point is not whether an individual woman is happy to share space, but that many women are not happy, for very good reasons. Reasons that might include prior rape, violence, sexual abuse, or religious belief. If a women has had the luck to never feel truly terrified of a man, then that is wonderful for her, but it shouldn’t colour how we organise our single sex spaces. It doesn’t change the reasons why we have them in the first place.

Well, that's another woman silenced then.

Perhaps she is finding the whole thing too stressful. I wouldn't blame her.

Agree Redkeyboard

twitter.com/alisonmoyet/status/1047933884778909696

Just announced she's leaving Twitter.

I have great respect for her and admire her for thinking things through and coming to her own conclusions in her own time. Also for standing up for debate.

The questions are:

What is a transwoman? Is it every man who says he is a woman for whatever reason?

How do you balance women’s rights to exclude males for privacy, safety or fairness?

If your answers are yes a transwoman is any man who says he is a woman + TW must not ever be excluded for any reason unlike other men. Then you are handing the power to any man to dissolve that right simply by saying ‘I am a woman now’.

If he wants to he can take away any woman or girls’ right to women only sport, private single sex changing area, female doctor, women only refuge, single sex hospital ward, female rape counsellor, etc etc

I don't get it when women say 'I'm perfectly happy to share a toilet with a transwoman'. I mean that's great for them.... But what about the women who are uncomfortable sharing with male bodied people for whatever reason?

I don't know what to make of the letter, but at least she is not saying 'transwomen are women #nodebate'

She gets it, but she has just been told a load lies about 'terfs' by some people and it has made her question whether she knows the whole story.

Note: she NEVER says transgender, she always says transsexual, so bear in mind that when she says 'trans women are women' she means the proper ones with gender dysphoria, not wider trans umbrella of cross dressers etc..

In a post just now she said: "Trans women to me are women and I have always accorded them their respect and dignity. Re self ID without any parameters there are questions that should be raised if women need to. Trans women too can be affronted when their struggles have been diluted for any man." So she acknowledges that self id is problematic for women and trans alike.

Stonewall must be thrilled. Now they can undermine all the signatories - they're either bigots or were really nice people tricked into signing.

No I’m not giving her a pass. She said she was radicalised? Not one bit

She is probably thinking transwomen as in those with a GRC, and trying to be kind. We have all been there.

I still love her, wish she hadn't caved but I'm sure her opinions come from a good place, unlike so many TRAs.

Jeez

One thing she says is that she is fine about Transwomen in womens bathrooms. I'm glad she has had positive experiences in her life. But if she read this paper which makes me very sad she might see how woman survivors of male violence and abuse feel very differently: fovas.wordpress.com/

I'm not sure what issues she signed up for that she does not hold with - she seemed to hold them all there.

Still it is a bit of a rollercoaster, all this peak transing. I don't think she likes to be told what to think, which is as it should be.