CSP Moderators have removed text that they feel is transphobic from comments on the Trans Allies statement thread! Censorship again.
I had copied to PDF the thread the other day and I have checked the removed words, sentences and paragraphs:
"The classic question of ‘what is a woman?’ is very relevant here – a woman is an adult human female, no more or less. A woman can dress and behave in a ‘masculine’ way and she will still always remain a woman (adult human female). A man can be feminine and ‘less manly’ and will still always remain a man (adult human male). A man can have surgery to look like he has the secondary sexual characteristics of a woman, but he still remains male in every cell of his body. It is not transphobic to say this, it is biological fact.
A woman/man is who you are, not how you feel.
By saying that a man can feel like he is a woman, and by feeling like a woman he is actually a woman, this makes the word woman (describing an adult human female) completely meaningless.
(a male)
How can it be transphobic for a woman who is attracted to women to say they are not attracted to males?!
are male, and therefore
in exactly the same way that all other males are.
It is not transphobic to say that because trans women are male they should not be in single sex female spaces.
We haven’t even got on to the issues of males in womens sports, males on all women shortlists, males receiving nominations for ‘woman of the year’, how gender ideology is harming children etc etc. The basic point comes down to the fact that humans cannot change sex, however they feel about their sex or whether they feel they have a ‘gender identity’. It is disrespectful to all women to suggest otherwise.
because I acknowledge the reality that they are male
But that tiny minority of people feeling unhappy in their body should not mean that women’s rights to single sex spaces, single sex sports etc are negated."
I am shocked but not surprised. I can't even comment at the moment I am too angry.