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Now the term FGM is cissexist? WTAF?

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NormaStanleyFletcher · 28/10/2014 21:30

elegantgatheringofwhitesnows.com/?p=2069

By the very brilliant Louise Pennington.

How can they try to erase the lived experience of violence against women by banning a discriptive term for what is actually happening?

"It is not “cissexist” to talk about the biological reality of women’s bodies and the damage done to them within a capitalist-patriarchy. Frankly, even the suggestion that it is “cissexist” demonstrates a fundamental inability to actually understand the reality of lives of women and girls in our world."

RowanMumsnet · 29/10/2014 08:56

@AyMamita

Careful guys... someone very close to me got banned from MN with no warning for saying that they were tired of transactivists pushing their agenda on here.

Completely confused by this AyMamita - it certainly isn't something we recognise.

The only explanation we can think of is that a particularly persistent banned FWR poster popped up on a recent discussion about trans and we banned her when we realised it was her. We're not saying this is the person you're close to because obviously we don't know, but when we ban people without warning it's usually either because their posts are absolutely beyond the pale or because we can see they're a re-reg of a previously banned poster.

We've always acknowledged that discussion around the tension between some aspects of feminism and some aspects of transactivism is a legitimate topic for debate.

Do feel free to mail in if you'd like to discuss it off-board.

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