Solid hard-left article against genderwoo

There is a strong class element to all this. The poorest and most vulnerable women are being really hard hit by this. But that doesn't bother Keir's labour party or momentum members. Cos its only women, innit?

I am a firm believer that conspiracy theorists are dangerous... but that right-minded people should be constantly aware that there might be a bit of truth in some of them.

you would be naive to assume that it's not a badly planned conspiracy, or that the right aren't loving this

I'm prepared to believe that much of life is a badly planned conspiracy 😀

I definitely don't think that the TRA movement was cooked up by the Right in the UK, because they were just as on board with gender woo until they clocked how unpopular it is - remember Maria Miller? And there are still plenty of Tory MPs and peers who go along with it. However, I agree that the Right in the US was much faster to utilise the divisive potential of identity politics.

I agree with everything she wrote in that article.

This really stood out to me, "Some people might see a definition of women that centres on traditional norms - on passivity and submission - as positive. Personally, I think it is an insult - possibly a deliberate one - to very many women, both alive and dead."

I for one am relieved that the Gulags will not be unisex.

Next: guard, can you assure me that this cabbage soup is organic?

I may be about to delete it and sod the battery saving 🙂

Gosh that was a good read. I love how you don't need to share the writer's politics to nod vigorously along to her crystal-clear arguments (I feel the same way when I read stuff from Conservatives for Women, for example)

I never use the app because it looks weird!

I'm back off to Site Stuff to complain about the App again!

This has just come out from the Communist Party of Great Britain (not the Communist Party)

Sorry, just reminded me of this:

How humans change sex.

That is a fucking brilliant article - she's managed to communicate so eloquently and clearly what I have been trying to for eons.

Lies?

You want to label the thoughts and feelings, lived experiences and beliefs of any woman who writes clearly about how the hard edge of trans activism affects our lives as lies?

So no feelings but trans feelings?

No truths but trans truths?

That's ridiculous. Common sense and the common majority knows the truth, human beings cannot change sex.

Most women and transwomen know that for decades they operated on a basis of trust and that the current demands for what was once given freely has all but destroyed the every day lives of so many transwomen.

Five years ago I was a firm believer in TWAW, socially but not biologically. Two years ago I still believe there was an opportunity to find a compromise that would work for women and transwomen alike.

But people denouncing well written articles as lies, well educated women as witches, issuing threats to the families of said women, parading their aggression across social media has utterly altered my perspective.

Are you proud of any of that?

Do you think you are doing any transwomen a favour with your denunciations?

Do you ever consider transmen?

Maybe go and have a lie down and contemplate the damage your posts cause. You only serve to further reinforce the idea that gender ideology is utterly bereft of honesty.

Who does that damage?

With friends like you....

Many trans identified men are very privileged; white, educated, middle class, senior level etc. But somehow have identified into the most oppressed class in society .

Then again childhood poverty is a much harder societal problem to solve than giving out rainbow lanyards and parroting mantras.

It's a bit like 'gender quotas' in business, there was an article recently that stated that transwomen would be counted as women for gender quotas on management boards, which is such a lazy way of solving the problem of getting more women in C-suite positions.

It's an easy box tick for organisations who don't want to spend any time or money making an effort.

What lies? Tell us.

I really want someone to show me or explain how this happens - science not emotion/feelings.

Why do you all tell so many lies? Do you truly feel that any victory built on lies truly counts?

The only lie here is that men can somehow become women. That is a lie that has facilitated so much nonsense.

@PumpkinSpiceWoman feeling worried? The amount of sunlight which has been shone onto the extremism of gender ideology even over the past few days is a sign that the house of cards is finally starting to come down.

The CPGB-ML as opposed to the plain old CPGB are gender critical too (so is the Morning Star). Traditional Marxists are I think more used to conceiving of sex classes and hierarchical oppression (plus the dislike of capitalist individualism). Unfortunately the CPGB-ML are also batshit and spend the rest of their time trying to claim Stalin and Mao did nothing wrong.

The lazy part though is assuming that the supposed horseshoe means you can dismiss the far left view on an issue because similar to the alt-right.

This is where I find people tend to say something about politics being a horseshoe, and the hard left is the same as the alt-right.

Mmm, I can see the point when looking at, say, anarchists and libertarians, where both oppose mainstream government.

With gender politics, the similarity is between transactivists and the extreme right. Both put the individual above society. As a lifelong socialist, I could not support a movement that promotes individuals' right to identity themselves into an oppressed class, especially when their very presence there is oppressive. I don't see how any socialist could.