Open letter to The Bookseller says 'transphobia acceptable in British book industry'

If you re-read many of the speeches and comments from the those who seek to tell us that speaking about transgender people this way is a valid opinion, and in your mind replace the word transgender with 'Jews' or 'Refugees' or 'Gay Men', you'll see how unpleasantly familiar it becomes

Again, no mention of lesbians.....

*The letter reads: “The hardest thing to say here is that the deepest damage is being done unwittingly, by those who don't understand, or who want to try and take no side. It is easy to express abhorrence of discrimination in literature, but we all need to express it in our own day to day lives too.” It calls on organisations to make specific statements of acceptance and discusses previous forms of discrimination in regards to “homosexuals, Jews, disabled people, people of colour, Muslims, suffragettes, even left-handed people in our past”>

No unqualified mention of women there.....Mention of women and women's rights is reduced to the 'suffragettes'; who I take it must have been 'proper' feminists?

The Overton Window is in the process of being moved to the far end of the fucking building.

Too much is happening. Too much sunlight is being brought to this and too much sense is being talked in courts of law. They need to drag out the weary old trojan horses of genuine historic oppression. 'But don't forget the segregated drinking fountains! Exactly the same thing is happening now!' Yeah. Except it isn't. And the only people who are afraid to speak out because they'll lose their livelihoods are those upholding women's rights.

the dissatisfied customer at the Argument Clinic

Made me think of this Blue Jam sketch

“quiet statements of acceptance from companies and organisations within our industry”.

Shut up and comply basically. Freedom dies quietly, under a rainbow flag.

"The Bookseller has been passed some details of signatories but has been unable to independently verify these for reasons of confidentiality."

Well maybe that should have made them think twice about publishing such a load of misleading, histrionic old bollocks!

'Signed anonymously'.

That’s SO BADLY WRITTEN. How on earth could a professional writer put their name to that garbage... oh, wait, they didn’t. Never mind.

Reading TRA writing always makes me feel like the dissatisfied customer at the Argument Clinic. This isn’t an argument!

Phew! Gave up

Our industry excuses it, says that to view transgender individuals as having less than full human rights is OK

such fucking liars.

To quote Douglas Adams: “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

Oh the irony of them using this quote...