Labour MP Fleur Anderson saying TWAW, change must happen and be kind

Hmm. Trans awareness week, apparently? Sure there was one of these not long ago..

twitter.com/KeithFarnish/status/1329087507875598343

Also as usual, right in with 'protecting womens rights is taking trans rights away!!!!11'

There is no conflict between trans women’s rights and cis women’s rights

I wish someone would tell her that, under the current definition of 'trans', feminists by definition are not 'cis'.

And, as women who are neither cis not trans, we are completely erased from her words.

A friend of the family works for an independent school that is inspected by ofsted. It’s not a fancy school or anything - many of its pupils are ones who can’t cope in mainstream education, including those who have been excluded. They used to have single sex provision for toilets. In the past few years, several pupils have decided that they ID as trans or NB. The school leadership responded by making all toilets gender neutral. Several girls complained saying they were scared of some of the male pupils and felt very uncomfortable. They were basically told they were bigots. It turns out the provision of single sex toilets is actually a legal requirement so the agreement between the teachers now is that if an Ofsted inspection is sprung upon them, someone will immediately replace the male and female toilet signs that are kept in the head’s office and which were removed. Absolutely staggering. They KNOW they are failing their girls but they don’t care.

Oh and the family friend is woke (but older) so was telling me this in an ‘oh isn’t this funny’ way. I tried to stay calm but gave her a bit of an earful about how they were breaking the law. Poor poor girls.

I’m not kind. I’m nice but being kind just means letting someone do/say what they want so that you don’t hurt their feelings in this case.

Isn’t it international toilet day tomorrow? And they don’t mean share a toilet.

Let's be kind while we watch little girls have to share toilets with boys in school, girls who are too young to articulate why that even makes them uncomfortable.

The sad thing is that girls are articulating it, they're just being ignored. That's not very kind.

Pupils are missing school because they don't like mixed sex toilets and 'period shaming' is one of the main issues

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/pupils-missing-school-because-dont-15839558

Sorry that was the BoE. No idea what to BoI is up to!

We’ve just had the Yorkshire Ripper back in the news. There we had dozens of women attacked, many brutally murdered for no other reason than that they were women and Peter Sutcliffe hated them and wanted them dead. They were defenceless against a much stronger man. Now that would warrant a remembrance ceremony but nobody’s interested because violence against women is so commonplace.

Yup, Mimmymum has told on the "transphobes".

Labour really don't want many votes. 🤷‍♀️

So yesterday the BoI was lit in the trans colours. We have days if remembrance for precisely zero people who have been killed, IWD centres people not born female.

Do these people not actually look at the real world and think ‘hmmmmmm, lotta lobbying and money swishing around this issue. I wonder who wins and who loses?’

This 'be kind' crap completely does my head in.

Kindness can only go so far. Kindness lets you be walked all over. Kindness can put you at immense risk, risk that you may no appreciate or understand. Kindness can be massively taken advantage of by the greedy or cynical.

Be kind, as it's being plugged at the moment, means 'be a doormat, there's a good girl.'
Fuck that shit.

I see Mimmymum has commented on that tweet about this thread...

"Let's be kind."

Female socialization at work. These people are always so baffled that some women refuse to "be kind". They just don't understand how we didn't get the memo, that as women, our job is to be kind despite our rights, safety and privacy are being decimated.

Let's be kind while we hear reports of vulnerable women in prison being raped by male inmates.

Let's be kind while we watch teenage girls try to escape misogyny by doing irreversible damage to their bodies.

Let's be kind while we watch women's sports being destroyed, female athletes who have trained entire lives don't get a chance to compete because Josh has decided he is now Jenny after not qualifying for the men's team.

Let's be kind while we watch males who have raped someone get that crime recorded as a women's crime.

Let's be kind while we watch little girls have to share toilets with boys in school, girls who are too young to articulate why that even makes them uncomfortable.

I will not be gaslight into submission by being told that putting up with this is kind. If that is what kind is, there is something wrong with Fleur's definition of the word kind.

While there is an argument for it happening when someone has irreversible genital surgery and obtains a GRC, if you suggest that, you get shouted down as hateful because being trans has nothing to do with genitals.

There’s an argument that a legal fiction has been created. Humans cannot change sex. Not now, not ever.

Stupid, misogynistic and wilfully dishonest. No new surprises from Labour, then.

I believe Putney was the only constituency in the last election to switch from Conservative to Labour. (The Conservative candidate was truly woeful, the Lib Dem campaign was bizarre).
I voted for Fleur despite many concerns about the Labour party. I think this is the first time I've seen comments from her on this issue, and now there's really no one to vote for.

*do

At what point though? At what point to transwomen become women?? At the literal point of identification?? So Pip/Phillip Bunce is a woman? Except on the days he/she isn’t?!

Lots of people have written to me about trans rights from a whole variety of views. I engage honestly but clearly and welcome this conversation.

^This is how change happens, and change must happen.

Let’s just be kind^

This is completely incoherent

Why are TWAW mantra shouters not embarrassed? I cringe for them. They would all go into the spider's parlour wouldn't they.