to say not in my name

[yetanothertranswoman]

When transactivists threaten a woman organising a clothes swap on Facebook and get the venue to stop the event just because they don't like the views of the organiser.

Not in my name

When transactivists threaten women on twitter and tell them to 'suck my lady penis'.

Not in my name

When transactivists threaten women with hate laws and call in the police because they express their opinions.

Not in my name

When transactivists demand access to single sex spaces despite not bothering with thinking about how the women might feel.

Not in my name

When transactivists shut down venues and silence people who have their own concerns over what is going on.

Not in my name.

I can't imagine how angry you are to have these things done in your name. We know not all transgender individuals are like the TAs, we know that the majority just want to live your lives peacefully. It is a real shame that the transactivists are causing such a divide. Wishing you all the best.

The truth is that goady fighty arseholes are goady fighty arseholes no matter what is in their pants.

I do not support goady fighty arseholes.

What I do support is the right for people to express who they are and make their own life choices, as long as it doesn’t hurt others or trample all over them.

This is the kind of comment I've seen - by a trans activist talking about disrupting a meeting in Millwall

"TERFs tryna organise at millwall den?!?!?! maybe my lifelong dream of havin a ruck at the den might come true"

Not in my name.

The same person has just forced a venue to cancel a clothes swap.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3209838-transactivists-close-down-clothes-swap

Thank you

It must be so awful being stuck in the middle like this. It's heartening to see more and more trans people standing up and saying 'not in my name'.

Are you on Twitter? There are a couple of trans people on there trying to organise a collective voice.

@shushingthecult
@seven_hex

I should probably repost this from the feminist forum.

Fuck off fucking life up for those trans people trying to live our lives.

I heard about some of the stuff people like you got up to but I've had my eyes opened today. Seriously opened.

Stop talking about lady penises.
Stop saying you are a woman.
Stop demanding women be quiet when they raise concerns about what's happening.
Stop harassing woman online
Stop intimidating women trying to speak about their concerns.
Stop initimidating women trying to do a clothes swap.
Stop demanding access to female spaces and just saying "It will be ok"
Stop taking women's spaces as women's officers when you haven't got a fucking clue about life as a woman.

All you are fucking doing is making life more difficult for the rest of us and scaring the shit out of women.

Yes - trans people exist. Some of us have gender dysphoria which is bloody hard to live with. Some people just seem to think that putting on a skirt is enough to make you 'a woman'.

Are you capable of thinking about women and their concerns? All I've seen online is people saying it will be ok.

No - trans people are not the enemy. But there are some trans people and trans activists who scare the shit out of me with their demands and their behaviour.

I've tried to keep my head low and keep out of all this. But no more.

You don't speak for me and you don't speak for many trans people out there.

(that was a message to trans activists)

yetanother

Yes you should have this moved to the feminism chat board so that people can continue to ignore the anti-trans broken record brigade.

Yes you should have this moved to the feminism chat board so that people can continue to ignore the anti-trans broken record brigade

I am trans. So how can I be anti trans?

This affects me as well.

OP.

I completely understand why you have stayed under the radar but IMO trans people who don't have the radical views absolutely need to be heard. For their sakes more than mine.

Yes you should have this moved to the feminism chat board so that people can continue to ignore the anti-trans broken record brigade.

Yet IS trans...that's the fucking point.

It never fails! A trans person tries to push back against some of the more eyebrow raising antics of some trans activists and huh, what do you know, the desire to be supportive somehow doesn't include them.

Funny, that. Like the opposite of a superpower.

Thank you Op - please do speak up

I really feel for people like you, OP. Not only do you have to struggle to find a way to live happily, but you then find yourselves being lumped in with TRA arseholes.
One of the huge concerns I have is that people like you will suffer because there will be people who don't realise that there isn't just one "kind" of transperson and the loudest shouters are not necessarily speaking the greatest truth.

Thank you yet

Thank you OP.

OP

yet.

yet. Thanks for speaking out

Careful yet - someone will be along to call you a terf in a minute...

Thank you yet

someone will be along to call you a terf in a minut

Well - I am already on the Block List - blocked by 2 prominent trans activists with positions in political parties simply for asking 'difficult' questions.

It must be so hugely frustrating. But thank you so much for posting this.
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