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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Lily Madigan, the Labour woman's officer, has blocked a transwoman

39 replies

yetanothertranswoman · 22/03/2018 16:38

Just for a few comments that were very polite but were different to their politics on what being trans means.

It's disturbing that someone who claims to be trans and who wants to speak for women blocks people who have different views to them.

It's disturbing that someone who claims to be trans will block a transwoman.

I only put 3 comments on their feed.

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OvaHere · 22/03/2018 16:44

All the gender critical transwomen get blocked and lumped in with 'terfs'.

Try and see it as a rite of passage Grin.

For what it's worth I don't think Lily is any kind of trans that you or I would recognise. Lily is an agent provocateur and most likely an MRA.

TerfyMcTerface · 22/03/2018 16:45

Does that make Madigan a transphobe? A TERM (Trans-Exclusive Radical Misogynist)?

Springtrolls · 22/03/2018 16:50

Wasn’t that why LM was but on the block list because the blocker realised LM is a terf?

yetanothertranswoman · 22/03/2018 16:50

It's a bit disturbing it only took 3 tweets. And they liked a few of them. I can see why someone would block abuse - I have blocked people who have sent me abusive messages - but surely someone who claims to be a politician should not live in a filter bubble.

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yetanothertranswoman · 22/03/2018 16:52

Wasn’t that why LM was but on the block list because the blocker realised LM is a terf

Can you block yourself on Twitter because people who you follow have sent you a list of people to block and you are on them? Grin

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CharlieParley · 22/03/2018 16:53

Unbelievable, isn't it? No matter how politely worded or how close you come to Madigan's point of view - dissent, no matter how minor is simply not tolerated. I still worry that Madigan is a vulnerable person in an incredibly hostile public arena, but many other, equally vulnerable people are blocked, doxxed, gaslighted or silenced by Madigan & friends in that very same arena without any thought given to their feelings. It's complete madness...and I'm sorry this happened to you as well.

Tbh I was completely shocked to read how much contempt people like Madigan seem to feel free to show to other trans people, but to transsexuals in particular. But I recently read an article written by a post-op transwoman who has come to understand this as an intrinsic part of the new trans community. Otherwise they wouldn't use ridiculous notions like "passing privilege" as sticks to beat other trans people with. She was vilified for criticising an aspect of the trans community that was important to her life and the whole full machinery engulfed her - they got her fired, ostracised, she was threatened...and all for expressing an opinion they didn't like.

She's now removed herself completely from the scene and I wonder if this isn't why the community seems to become more and more hostile and poisonous to itself and those it feels slighted or threatened by. If the reasonable adults all leave, what are you left with?

TerfyMcTerface · 22/03/2018 17:56

I wonder if this isn't why the community seems to become more and more hostile and poisonous to itself and those it feels slighted or threatened by. If the reasonable adults all leave, what are you left with?

This is what will mark the end of this destructive movement's power, imo. The atomisation of identities as all these pomo-addled [thanks to the MNer who coined this term recently] loons seek to outdo each other in laying stake to the superior identity, means that they will ultimately turn on each other. Sadly, they will leave in their wake the genuine trans people whose plight they have highjacked.

MissPiggysKarateChop · 22/03/2018 18:07

I am not at all sure politics is the right career for this person. Politics means listening to other points of view whether you like them or not. That said if they are particularly depressed which seems likely I can understand them shutting out things which would make that depression worse.

TerfyMcTerface · 22/03/2018 18:08

Sorry, I do know how to spell hijacked, but my autocorrect weirdly, er, hijacked my sentence Grin

MissPiggysKarateChop · 22/03/2018 18:10

Pressed post too soon - politics also means you are the subject of abuse and speculation and while this is very unpleasant when it is personal (and arguably unnecessary) it is a fact that you must and will be held accountable for your views and be prepared to defend them - that doesn't mean pretending the other point of view doesn't exist.

That said, politics can also be pretty childish (see HOC bun fights and all the boos and heckles)

PositivelyPERF · 22/03/2018 18:11

Aww yetanothertranswoman. You should take it as a compliment. Do you really want to be lumped in with the rest of the creepy fanclub? Welcome to the Tell Everyone Real Facts club.

TerfingHell · 22/03/2018 20:38

This explains all

Weird choice of music though!

Lighthouse75 · 24/03/2018 11:41

Lily Madigan does not represent transsexual women and is a pawn of the current Labour party.

CisPinkHoodie · 24/03/2018 11:54

blimey that moves s-l-o-w-l-y

Can whoever made it speed it up a bit please??

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 24/03/2018 11:58

Lily's definition of TERF is "doesn't totally agree with Lily"

SpringHen · 24/03/2018 12:09

Blimey! My MP has fundamentally disagreed with the issues I have contacted him about.

So he blocked me....OH NO WAIT HE DIDNT he met with me, took notes, explained his stance and gave detailed reasons for it, and promised to keep an ongoing eye on the issue..

...all whilst TOTALLY disagreeing with me and voting in the opposite way to how I would have liked.

Cause adults in the actual world cant just stamp their feet and block everyone who doesnt flatter their ego agree with them always!!

SunsetBeetch · 24/03/2018 12:12

And now this. Lily is unhappy with Hether Peto:

twitter.com/Brienne_Of_Bath/status/977310094353485824?s=19

Lily Madigan, the Labour woman's officer, has blocked a transwoman
PositivelyPERF · 24/03/2018 12:44

SunsetBeetch 🤣

When they think they have silenced women, it’s only a matter of time before they turn on each other. I used to say, during the troubles, that the monsters that kill in the name of religion/politics will always find a reason. If they didn’t have religion/politics they would still find a reason because they needed someone to hate.

The same will happen with the TRAs. When they think they have won, they will turn on each other. You will have to be the ‘right kind’ of TIM, or you’ll be a terf. Look at how they already hate the transsexuals, because they don’t fit the TRAs’ narrative.
I imagine many transsexuals are quite relieved to be hated by, rather than included with them.

PositivelyPERF · 24/03/2018 12:47

It’s all going down. 🤣

Lily Madigan, the Labour woman's officer, has blocked a transwoman
ChattyLion · 24/03/2018 13:02

springHen sunsetbeach Grin

SpringHen · 24/03/2018 13:09

Well Jack cant throw first stones re people having short memories given that Jack is now back on the transactivist wagon after it turned on HIM a while back when she (as self IDed at the time in question) came out as not trans any more just a woman trying to escape misogyny.

SuitedandBooted · 24/03/2018 13:10

Here is Lily's job description;

d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/labourclp96/pages/1278/attachments/original/1445544799/Job_Description_-_CLP_Womens_Officer.pdf?1445544799

I will be sending it to as many Labour MP's as I can, along with his most "interesting" tweets etc, and ask how they think he is doing - seeing he is a Womans Officer, and a "gay gal" and all..

SpringHen · 24/03/2018 13:12

And didnt Jack come on here for support (and got it) at that time cause the trans community were erasing her (at the time) identity as a woman who cross dressed to escape gender steriotypes.... but now she's on the TERF witch hunt re JK Rowling????

SpringHen · 24/03/2018 13:13

Theyre eating their own young and tying themselves up in knots with their echo chambers within echo chambers...

SpringHen · 24/03/2018 13:14

but now she's on the TERF witch hunt re JK Rowling????
Apologies, thats present tense so "he"

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