To be angry and feel the Scottish Gov’s Twitter header is an attack on women?

[Badmoonsarising]

i’d like them to clarify exactly what their definition of “transphobic” is because it seems to have become a slur these days often aimed at anyone but mostly women who are critical of or question in any way the recent upsurge of identity politics. I just feel they’re doing a knee jerk, ignorant, unnecessary huge fuck you to women.

So where is the one for hating women, specifically? Have they made one yet?

Yeah, it's a bit of a stretch to be honest. YABU. But well done for shoe-horning another trans thread into AIBU.

Tweet here has a good point. This does not look like good governance to me.

I think YABU.

The full poster talks about harassing people in the streets etc.
You aren't harassing people by asking for a debate, or standing up for single sex toilets, safeguarding of children etc, so that's OK.

Now, if the poster said other things such as you aren't allowed to say that TWAnotW that would be another matter. But it doesn't.

You aren't harassing people by asking for a debate, or standing up for single sex toilets, safeguarding of children etc, so that's OK

All of this is transphobic - particularly safeguarding children.

All of this is transphobic - particularly safeguarding children.

No it isn't. Some people say it is transphobic. But asserting something doesn't automatically make it so.

Calling out any transphobia is a good thing, it's just as unacceptable as racism.
If you actually read the full poster linked, how anyone can have a problem with not wanting trans people to be attacked is beyond me.

I do think yabu, yes.

I know that teen.

But the establishment is supporting organisations who have described all of this as transphobia.

This is timed to coincide with the consultation. This is not a random expression of goodwill.

Blanchedupetitpois you completely rewrote irnbruforlife's points. That's dishonest. She didn't say anything comparable to the points you made.

Comparing race to trans isn't a good tactic. Firstly it doesn't work. Secondly it recalls the case of Rachel Dolezal.

While Caitlyn Jenner was winning Woman of the Year (a preposterous decision) Rachel Dolezal hit the headlines when she was exposed as a white woman who was representing herself as African American and working for the civil liberties group, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

While Rachel was slammed, Caitlyn was lauded - and the scales fell from the eyes of many, many women.

TRAs and their insistence that lesbians should do dick if said dick belongs to a man who identifies as a lesbian are guilty of the most blatant homophobia.

As for transphobia, it's become so devalued that in some circles simply pointing out that people can't change sex or that women don't have a penis qualifies. I no longer give a flying fuck about being accused of transphobia. Just having a biology GCSE can get you in trouble. It's absurd.

Megan Murphy’s tweets about abuser YV were transphobic. For describing them as him.

She got kicked off Twitter for those transphobic views.

Sorry JY not YV. Autocorrect had not a clue what I was hinting at

That's weird. I replied to a comment, posted it, and it disappeared. That was nearly an hour ago. So I replied again and now both my answers are up. I was on a train when I posted the first time and home when I did the second. Odd...

I thought most people were now in agreement that the word “transphobic” has become completely devoid of meaning.

All of this is transphobic - particularly safeguarding children.

Assume you're being sarcastic, rightreckoner. Because if not it's a crazy thing to say.

I’d like to know who was responsible for that header, what their definition of transphobia is, what their views on “terfs” are and what their twitter and Facebook tweets/posts on “transphobia” look like - before i dismiss it as being harmless rather than a calculated, targetted political statement against gender critical folk.

Course I am prawn. My point was made better by family. Transphobia now means nothing. In fact the one thing it tends not to mean is discrimination against people because they are trans.

If this was a campaign against all forms of bigotry why did they use trans for a header? Why not just "if you're a bigot"? By selecting just one they are promoting that as worse than the others.

Fiona Robertson
@FionaSnp
The SNP's National Women's and Equalities Convener. My own opinions, RTs=/=endorsements, etc. She/her

Of course this is just about random attacks in the street when the SNPs Women’s and Equalities Convenor happily bandies about the term “Terf”.

If this was a campaign against all forms of bigotry why did they use trans for a header? Why not just "if you're a bigot"? By selecting just one they are promoting that as worse than the others.

It's not just a campaign against transphobia. Apparently there's a poster campaign going on against homophobia, transphobia,
racists, disablists, etc and calling it out. Lots of different posters.
www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/scotland-ad-campaign-hate-crime-abuse/

The Scottish Government are consulting on making misogyny a hate crime. news.gov.scot/news/tackling-misogyny

If this was a campaign against all forms of bigotry why did they use trans for a header? Why not just "if you're a bigot"? By selecting just one they are promoting that as worse than the others.

It's not just a campaign against transphobia. Apparently there's a poster campaign going on against homophobia, transphobia,
racists, disablists, etc and calling it out. Lots of different posters.
www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/scotland-ad-campaign-hate-crime-abuse/

Yes, that's what I said. But on the header they are only mentioning transphobic when they could easily use a phrase that would cover all forms of bigotry. By doing it as they have they make it appear that transphobic is the most important one.

I wish I was shocked by the sarcastic and dismissive responses of Fiona Robertson to legitimate concern, but sadly this is the standard I’ve come to expect from the ‘progressive’ Scottish ‘government’.

I am very curious to learn what this new science about sex is, because somehow during a PhD in Biomedical Science and subsequent decades of working in Biomedical research this has passed me by. Indeed most of my medical colleagues are also under the impression that sex is determined by your chromosomes and is immutable. Hormones and surgery can change your outward appearance but not your genetics, body structure or muscle composition for instance, and as such there are very serious discussions to be had about protecting single sex spaces.

So, following that link to the posters available there is still no poster against misogyny? Or misandry?

All the protected characteristics except sex!

Why is that?