Good on Janice, I'm so glad more women are having the balls to talk about this.
Given that I actually live in Berlin, I will have to try to organise something with other radfems here (I know many of you aren't radfems, but here politics is something people are very passionate about). I did recently connect with an activist girl who I really admire; she was interviewing me for a short piece for a feminist film festival. She didn't actually know much about the trans issue but I'd say she is fully converted now. She has invited me to speak at events and I'm going to stick my neck out and do it.
But we need another strategy, one that fits with our lives, one that doesn't put us at risk from physical violence, so here's my proposal: we need to go underground, we need to start stealth-converting fence-sitters. Don't bother with men, though I don't want to be sexist, the issue is too abstract for them to fully understand; they don't know what it is to fear male-bodied people. And they already benefit too much from the system, and deep down most men still have a residual mistrust of hysterical, bitchy, cliquey females and especially feminists who aren't the "fun kind", to quote Dworkin.
Focus on women - young, liberal, well-meaning women, those who are drawn to support trans ideology because they want to be kind. Find them on any social network. Ask them what they think the root of female oppression is and where "gender" actually originated. Make sure you explain to them how homophobic the transing of gay children it is, how conservative an ideology it actually is. You need to talk about Iran, how it has one of the highest rates of SRS in the world, and is essentially used to disappear gays and lesbians from society - a society which will otherwise execute them. From this you can also talk about the danger of including MtF trans people in women's sports - a photo of the Iranian "women's" football team, 8 of which are biological males, should be an eye-opener here.
You need facts too - make sure they understand that for all the bleating of privileged white western TW activists about the murder of trans people, the TW killed are almost exclusively people of colour from poor backgrounds who work as prostitutes. Every single TW killed this year in the US is either black or native american. They are murdered by homophobic, misogynistic johns . No police raid of the home of a TW-murder suspect has ever uncovered a large stash of radical feminist literature. No person who killed a TW has ever cited Sheila Jeffreys as a key influence. No murderer is arrested clutching a copy of "the second sex" by Simone de Beauvoir. White TAs cynically appropriate the murders of these women in order to shut women up and gain liberal sympathies for their political cause. This practice must be stopped, and armed with knowledge we can do it.
Lupron (the puberty blocker commonly used in young trans children) is another weapon we can use. Touted constantly by the fact-resistant TAs and the sadly complicit liberal media as completely safe and reversible, it seems that for a long time the opposite has been true. Lupron has been used for many years to delay early-onset puberty in young girls or as a fertility drug for women, and there are grave concerns about its safety. It seems that severe degenerative bone loss is one of the main issues, though you can read more here www.nwhn.org/lupron-what-does-it-do-to-womens-health/ and here www.hormonesmatter.com/lupron-victims-advocate/ www.lupronvictimshub.com/ rxisk.org/lupron-a-nightmare-produced-in-abbvie/
note how all the sources cited are unconnected with transing children - the stories are all about women who have used the drug for infertility or little girls going through puberty during early childhood. In this way we can see they are not partisan - the erasure of doubts surrounding puberty blockers, and the suppression of attempts to talk about this however, is absolutely partisan.
Crikey this is getting long. Maybe I should start a new thread where we can share activism strategies?