Superb article from Victoria Smith in The Critic

OuterSpaceCadet · 22/04/2025 14:21

Yep

Victoria Smith has the uncanny skill of always describing exactly where I'm at.

QAOPspaceman · 22/04/2025 13:48

Plumedenom · 22/04/2025 13:29

I'd like to share this but people don't think deeply enough about this issue and they just label you as a trans hater. I am also aware that people who put their political beliefs on Facebook piss me and most other people off. I guess I will focus on educating my own kids and family.

Same here Plumdenom but I've cracked on this because I couldn't stand people thinking that because I'm usually leftish I'd automatically agree that TWAW

Plumedenom · 22/04/2025 13:29

I'd like to share this but people don't think deeply enough about this issue and they just label you as a trans hater. I am also aware that people who put their political beliefs on Facebook piss me and most other people off. I guess I will focus on educating my own kids and family.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 22/04/2025 13:24

Supporterofwomensrights · 21/04/2025 18:49

I very much hope TRAs do go around accusing everyone and everything of being evil TERFs who want all trans people dead. The sooner politicians and organisations realise that there is nothing they could do or say to placate the TRAs, the sooner they'll be ready to stand up to bullies.

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And the sooner 99% of the population realises they are TERFs, the sooner that word will cease to function as a slur.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 22/04/2025 13:22

NotAtMyAge · 21/04/2025 14:44

Our terfy middle-aged lawyer daughter has just sent me this by the wonderful author of Hags.

https://thecritic.co.uk/gender-critical-women-do-not-lack-empathy/

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Screamingabdabz · 22/04/2025 13:11

You could just weep reading that. It really encapsulates who genuinely are the hated, silenced, marginalised and whose lives and mental health are really at risk. A brilliant piece of writing. Thank you for sharing.

user1471471849 · 22/04/2025 13:02

Excellent article! Thanks for posting it.

GraduationDay · 21/04/2025 21:04

Yes Gaby’s article was so… vanilla in its mild recognition that there might be something to be gained from a biological understanding of sex. But I suspect she will still be declared a beyond the pale transphobe because of it anyway, be frozen out of the morning tea room at the Guardian and finally come to realise that even showing a hint of understanding or empathy for women gets you kicked out of the ‘club’. She has tried to placate the extremists for so long now though that even if she went full terf because Owen, Arwa and Zoe won’t share cookies with her anymore, she has lost all credibility as someone who truly understands and cares about feminism and women’s rights.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 21/04/2025 19:15

DisappearingGirl · 21/04/2025 18:25

Excellent article.

I see Jo Grady from UCU has waded in, and little OJ has popped up again.

Agree re the chilling TERF threats.

A question: are the Supreme Court judges, the UK government, and everyone who thinks the judgement is broadly sensible, all classed as TERFs now?

Yes, like Hillary Cass is.

Supporterofwomensrights · 21/04/2025 18:49

DisappearingGirl · 21/04/2025 18:25

Excellent article.

I see Jo Grady from UCU has waded in, and little OJ has popped up again.

Agree re the chilling TERF threats.

A question: are the Supreme Court judges, the UK government, and everyone who thinks the judgement is broadly sensible, all classed as TERFs now?

I very much hope TRAs do go around accusing everyone and everything of being evil TERFs who want all trans people dead. The sooner politicians and organisations realise that there is nothing they could do or say to placate the TRAs, the sooner they'll be ready to stand up to bullies.

Shadowsunray · 21/04/2025 18:42

Wow, absolutely brilliant article!! Thanks for sharing. I hope JK shares it on X so it get's the number of readers it deserves.

DisappearingGirl · 21/04/2025 18:25

Excellent article.

I see Jo Grady from UCU has waded in, and little OJ has popped up again.

Agree re the chilling TERF threats.

A question: are the Supreme Court judges, the UK government, and everyone who thinks the judgement is broadly sensible, all classed as TERFs now?

AcquadiP · 21/04/2025 16:57

Excellent. Thank you for posting.

Nightingalenight · 21/04/2025 16:43

Oh that’s so good!

IllustratedDictionaryOfTheDoldrums · 21/04/2025 16:20

She is really good. I always love her articles

PollyHutchen · 21/04/2025 15:44

There's another one in The Critic on the harms of gender identity ideology in children's libraries.
thecritic.co.uk/queering-the-kids-section/

TheOtherRaven · 21/04/2025 15:28

In a piece for the Guardian, Gaby Hinsliff worries that “some gender-critical feminists who have endured years of death threats, ostracisation and attempts to get them fired […] are clearly in no mood to be magnanimous”, whereas “for trans people and those who love them, this is a frightening and uncertain time”. It’s an interesting play-off. Gender-critical feminists might have experienced years of the worst, most terrifying abuse but the main issue isn’t their lasting trauma. It’s that it might have made them less “magnanimous” towards those who perpetrated it, who are too busy being “frightened” by women having basic rights to give a second thought to how the women they harmed might be coping.

Too bloody right.

Cracking article, thank you for sharing it.

Pyjamatimenow · 21/04/2025 15:24

What a great article. I wish I had the guts to share it on my social media

VeraWangTea · 21/04/2025 15:21

Great article.

The link to the evidence of TRAs threats is chilling.

BottleBlondeMachiavelli · 21/04/2025 15:15

Thanks for that. Superb writing.

LadyMary50 · 21/04/2025 15:14

Brilliant article and spot on with her analysis..

Ereshkigalangcleg · 21/04/2025 15:11

Fantastic article.

Grammarnut · 21/04/2025 15:07

I am afraid the trans backlash means we must continue to fight. Governments, businesses, etc are so captured that we may have to defend the SC's ruling against demands for Parliament to overturn it - which, of course, they can do.

Jackiebrambles · 21/04/2025 15:05

Wow that’s so good!

Supporterofwomensrights · 21/04/2025 15:03

Amazing. I wish a training module could be written based on this content and made mandatory for every public sector worker.