@Ilovelurchers
Yet some posters on here seem to believe that the worst and most important abuse of women's rights currently occurring is some privileged middle class white women having to endure (what they think is) some privileged middle class white men saying they are women If you want an example of over privileged, racist, classist bollocks, then what you’ve just written serves it up by the bucketload.
Firstly, do women of colour not count as women? Are they not equally as entitled to single sex spaces? Should the bloody wonderful Allison Bailey have just shut up and sat down because she wasn’t white? Gender Criticals want women’s rights for all women, irrespective of their age, their political beliefs, their faith or their skin colour. The fact you think this issue only affects white women, or that white women are the only women to care about it is fucking disgusting. And fucking racist.
And let’s add a bit of Islamophobia and anti semitism and anti half a dozen other religions in there as well because, by your reckoning, they shouldn’t be caring about the fact that they can’t bank on a single sex facility actually being a single sex facility so they can use it in accordance with their faith. But that doesn’t matter, unless they’re white, right?
And as for privilege, you can sod right off with that crap too. Do you think it’s privileged middle class women who are sharing prison cells with men? Do privileged (rich) women with other options spend time in women’s refuges because they’ve got no choices? Of course they fucking don’t. I’m working class. Other than the colour of my skin and the country of my birth, I’ve had no privileges whatsoever. I’ve lived in poverty (including a spell in a women’s refuge as a child), I don’t have a great education, I still live in social housing and I earn well under the national average. Men taking women’s rights affects me, and women of all skin colours in the same class as me. Do you think Sandie Peggie was sat at home counting bundles of cash and deciding which Caribbean island to visit in between working as an NHS nurse? Do you think the girls on my estate can simply take up horse riding or violin lessons instead if their place on a running team, or rugby team, gets taken by a boy? How dare you suggest that this doesn’t affect working class women?!
I’m so grateful to all the women who have spoken up and fought for my rights. Both the working class women who really have had everything to lose, and the rich ones that have been able to put their money where their mouths are. And for you to attempt to reduce them down to ‘privileged middle class white women’ shows that you really have fuck all understanding of this issue.
Trafficking, FGM, women being denied an education, I mean, where do we start? Truly terrible things, horrific things that warp and destroy lives Surprise! We can concentrate on more than one thing at a time. The FWR boards are confirmation of that. Although, while we’re on this topic, I hope you’re on Reddit and/or attending Pride events to ask all those TRAs who are so passionate about wanting to be a woman why they’re only concerned about gaining access to single sex spaces? Why aren’t they concerned about women in Afghanistan? Why aren’t they campaigning against FGM? Perhaps ask them why they stood outside the FiLiA conference in Glasgow and drowned out women’s rights campaigners from Iran and Afghanistan if being a woman is so important to them?