@VladmirsPoutine
I think a lot of the anger stems from what essentially is the state broadcaster shining a negatively damaging light on a minoritised group who already face multiple challenges.
Yes.
But that doesn’t make it improper or gratuitously cruel / negative to draw a convection between the policy shift of a major national charity with a huge political and corporate influence, and the lived experience of people also facing multiple challenges.
The voices of lesbian women have been constantly derided and closed down in the emergence of the call or trans rights. The cotton ceiling workshop was exposed years ago, Get The L Out demo was how many years ago? The LGBA has taken a few years to set up and establish.
Meanwhile CG women have been dragged through the courts and been highlighted in the press for their views, bringing hate down on their heads.
I know trans people face harassment, hate crime, discrimination and attack. But I strongly suspect that their vulnerability on a late night bus is not due to feminists and / or lesbians.
The stats of women who have faced sexual assault/ harassment/ pressure for sex are really really high.
It would be nice to see Transwomen acknowledge this, understand it, join the fight for women to be free of unwanted sexual attention, rather than protest against and undermine them (as in the Filia and Girls Night In instances) , or become dismissive, in denial or defensive when Lesbians speak out about pressure from Transwomen.