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New blog from Rosa Freedman and Rosemary Auchmuty

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SusanBunch · 05/10/2018 15:33

theconversation.com/what-would-changes-to-the-gender-recognition-act-mean-two-legal-views-103204

See above link. Rosa and Rosemary present a GC view and Alex Sharpe presents a TWAW view. A lot of Alex’s argument seems to be that women are overreacting by not wanting to be around male bodies. Very much ‘nothing here to see’ tone.

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SusanBunch · 05/10/2018 18:58

Pineapple yup, sounds familiar. Either disbelief (who would fancy YOU?) or dismissal (get a grip-it was a joke). Saw it all again with Christine Blasey Ford. It hammered it all home. Nobody genuinely cares about women getting harassed, abused and assaulted.

Really saddened that those that I thought were pro-women are immediately siding with Sharpe. One of the saddest was the statement that ‘oh we used ‘pregnant person’ instead of ‘woman’ because of the word count’. Really? There’s not enough words to include us now?

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PineappleSunrise · 05/10/2018 18:47

This all reminds me of my teen years, when I tried to tell the boys at school about men leaning out of their cars to scream abuse at me and they all stared at me like I'd grown a second head and told me it couldn't have happened like that. (It was a compliment, or I'd exaggerated it, or I'd made it up. Pick one.)

Same shit, different generation.

Knicknackpaddyflak · 05/10/2018 18:45

From Sharpe's other writings it appears that they are not without personal agenda, and like Harrop, may be finding this debate a very useful outlet for their personal issues.

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SusanBunch · 05/10/2018 18:39

Oh I agree, HomeStar. The words of someone fortunate enough not to be socialised as a woman and be subjected to harassment, assault and violence, only to sadly realise that it’s a part of female life and that nobody much gives a shit about it (especially not people like Alex and Alex’s mates).

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HomeStar · 05/10/2018 18:29

In relation to men who might take advantage of trans law reform in order to abuse women, there is nothing to stop them doing so now, except of course a raft of criminal laws which are more than adequate to the task.

“More than adequate to the task.”

I don’t know what I’m allowed to say about Alex Sharpe. Probably saying what I think would get me banned. I’m unsure what gender Alex Sharpe believes Alex Sharpe to be, but Alex Sharpe’s lack of care or concern for women is staggering, and Alex Sharpe is manifestly unqualified to comment on any issue regarding women’s safety. The whole screed is invalidated by that one line.

No, Alex Sharpe, the laws protecting women from male violence are not adequate to the task. If you were capable of experiencing guilt, you should experience it upon realising what dangerous, evil, callous lies you just wrote. But I suspect you are not.

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