I'm wondering what, if anything, I can do. I have a Twitter account which among other things I use to tweet news articles, Brexit updates, the bagel offerings at the café down the road and so forth but increasingly I have retweeted people with GC views on the trans discussion.
I do not work in a role related to the social media management of my organisation but we do have a sort of generic social media policy that outlines the usual things such as not bringing the organisation into disrepute. Thus far none of my musings have done so - as it's not a line I wish to cross and I'm very wary of a backlash having seen it happen to others.
However, at some point during the past couple of weeks a senior manager 'had a word' and in effect told me to be more "mindful" of the content I tweet/retweet as the organisation "does not tolerate discrimination". This has never been an issue until my recent tweeting of articles and assorted tweets by those I think are making valid contributions to the wider trans discussion and the role of women within it.
To give you a couple of examples of the things I have tweeted; please do point out where I have crossed the line and stumbled into impudence:
- Recent news story about a transwoman whom pretended to be a 14 year old boy in order to groom a young girl. I retweeted someone who commented under an article that had used 'Woman' in its headline as opposed to 'Transwoman', something along the lines of; why be a determinist about time because if the predator can be a woman why can't they also be 14 years old.
- A story about the unfairness of a transwoman who had won a cycling race.
- The use of the #NoDebate hashtag serving as yet another convenient tool to silence and denigrate women who take an alternative view to the dogmatic "Transwomen are women. Full stop. #NoDebate".
Apologies for the essay but I'm caught between going back to just tweeting about bagels and cream cheese, the occasional news story and leave it at that; but equally I also want to scour twitter for more GC views to retweet as frankly I don't want to be silenced.