Anyone else left wing and gender critical?

I used to be a leftie but now I'm more in the middle. The left have gone too extreme for my liking and have been taken over by facists

I am fully hard left, in my 30's, Corbyn supporting socialist and I am GC. I never used to be. Until I actually looked into it and realised that my long held beliefs on gender did not fit with the trans agenda.

I'm a politically homeless lefty too!! And GC!! No one to vote for here! I blooming hate this Tory government as well!!

'This idea that Remain is right wing is a bit weird to people outside London'

Meant to say Brexit

BTW anyone. Is there an edit function on this new format?

I'm a lefty and one of the few that doesn't think there's anything wrong with being woke i. e. politically aware, polite etc. I don't believe TRAs are woke, I believe they are in the same camp as MRAs.

Have never and will never vote Tory.

Any GC people I know in real life are staunchly left wing as well.

The British Communist Party are also Brexiters. This idea that Remain is right wing is a bit weird to people outside London.

OP. Hardly anything in your OP is what I'd consider to be truly left wing, apart from you're mentioning poverty. It's more like liberal progressive ideas imported from the USA.
To me left wing is about class perspective and not really much else to it

Can you actually link to a right wing sounding post on this board?

Politically, no left party are GC though. Who would you vote for?

I’m GC, I’m left, I’m voting Labour. Recently joined the Labour Party, our local CLPs women's group seems to be full of senior (not being rude - but they are in their early 70’s) Lesbians, the policy is not set, so it’s no good being on the outside - you fight it for within.

Yep, left wing and GC here. I haven’t stopped voting Labour, can’t bring myself to not vote and they are the best worst in our area. I keep quiet about my GC views at work (traditionally lefty creative industry, currently totally captured), refused pronouns on emails but apart from the that I keep my head down. I am the middle aged back office woman so partly invisible, but I suspect the emails thing + my age has been noted by some and I may be seen as a terf/Karen. I roll my eyes inwardly and get on with it, but feel sad that I’m now wary of creative activities for my DC as they approach their teens because so much of it is gender fucking woo.

Most GC feminists are left wing, Jk Rowling for a start, in fact I would think that most feminists are left leaning. It really is a shame that everyone has to fit in a box these days. I am a feminist but wouldn't vote for the present Labour party. Not everyone fits a "type"

Well I suppose if you think that left-wing means the kind of adolescent 'smash the system' anarchy that seems to underpin XR and BLM, the more nuanced and moderate left-wing opinions common on this board probably seem, as the OP says, right wing. Social Justice Warrior, anyone?

Of course, there's thousands of us on here. There have been many recent threads on how the Labour party has alienated a huge number of female voters. I linked a couple in an email of complaint/protest to my local female Labour MP.

You must be on different threads to me as I don’t see much of that if any. I do see a lot of left wing women very pissed off with being abandoned by the Labour Party

OP you could be describing me, I’d add concerned about the environment

What is trans rights about the climate? XR is full of similar types to the TRAs I see amongst the Uni folk.
Aggressive.
Conformist.
One could say - far right in their outlook and their aggression and their sense of righteous justification.

I’ve just spoilt my ballot. I wrote on it why I could not vote for any party that doesn’t support women as a sex class. I wrote that across the boxes for the left and centre parties, left the tories blank. It was a hard decision. I’ve voted in every election I could for nearly fifty years.

I have always been left wing and always feminist, realising early on how discriminated I was as a female. That I had a far smaller chance of getting into my university of choice because of my sex. That once there, I was in an even smaller minority in maths and science. That my work would be judged differently because I was female (remember the study where students marked the identical essay, but half thought it was by John Smith and half thought it was by Joan Smith ? John Smith did well, Joan only so-so). That I would be paid less, promoted less, listened to less.

I marched against racism, held out on the poll tax, and supported the miners during 1984-5 amongst many other campaigns. I was active trying to get women and girls into technology.

One thing that made me unhappy about genderism was knowing a man who appeared to be a leftie feminist supporter for many years, who then came out as trans. I was sympathetic. He was a troubled soul. I refer to him as “he” because I never saw him in anything but male presentation and he wasn’t out. We had a lot of coffees. After a few years of listening to his complaints, though, I couldn’t see anything but a narcissistic man. His idea of fellow feeling with me as a woman was to talk about how nice it is to wear “a bit of slap” - I never wear make-up but he hadn’t noticed. My sympathy evaporated when he invited me to a Burns Supper with his transgender friends. There were four of them, all in bad wigs, flicking their hair like girls and talking exactly like men would while the girlfriend of the one I knew served everyone food and drink.

I am a second wave feminist. I believe that gender is a socially constructed system that acts to keep the two sexes in certain roles. Gender has been restrictive and harmful to women and sometimes not great for men either. Why would I want gender to continue? Why would I want gender to be confirmed as a defining concept? Especially when it would now be confirmed as it is in the status quo by a bunch of people whose self-interest is to keep it restricting women to existing stereotypes.

More urgently, I want women and girls to be protected from males. I am horrified that single sex spaces are being compromised.

Given that XR put out this today I don't think you'll find many GC women wanting to support them. That doesn't mean that we aren't concerned about climate change (I've work in the field), it just means we don't 'belong' to a particular group.

twitter.com/xrbristol/status/1521462318693076993

I agree @tilder
I think also that there are prominent people on the left who are vocally NOT doing something about it, including people who we thought would have a spine. So it's polarised the issues further.

I would definitely say most of us on here are in that category OP.

It’s a pain in the arse when it comes to voting, of course. I voted for the Communists last time (list vote in Scotland).

I'm left wing and GC. I stopped paying subs to very left organisation that I'd been a proud member of for about 17 years because of their TWAW stance.
No one to vote for on Thurs either.
I bet the vast majority of GC activists are lefties.
Solidarity comrades

Me and my friends and family - all left.

I'm seriously considering spoiling my vote for the first time ever. I'm in Scotland and want independence, so would normally vote SNP or Green, but I cannot vote for people who can't tell a woman from a man.

Yes I know council elections are supposed to be mainly about bin collections and parking, but you can't easily separate local issues and national ones when voting for a party.

This made me smile. Love that you are both radfems, and that the Communist party is GC here. As far as I can tell there is not a single left wing party in my home country, which is not TWAW.

Also want to see Labour commenting very strongly on the awful anti abortion situation in the US, or I really will despair of them.