Work reproach regarding my social media usage in trans discussions

[VladmirsPoutine]

I'm wondering what, if anything, I can do. I have a Twitter account which among other things I use to tweet news articles, Brexit updates, the bagel offerings at the café down the road and so forth but increasingly I have retweeted people with GC views on the trans discussion.

I do not work in a role related to the social media management of my organisation but we do have a sort of generic social media policy that outlines the usual things such as not bringing the organisation into disrepute. Thus far none of my musings have done so - as it's not a line I wish to cross and I'm very wary of a backlash having seen it happen to others.

However, at some point during the past couple of weeks a senior manager 'had a word' and in effect told me to be more "mindful" of the content I tweet/retweet as the organisation "does not tolerate discrimination". This has never been an issue until my recent tweeting of articles and assorted tweets by those I think are making valid contributions to the wider trans discussion and the role of women within it.

To give you a couple of examples of the things I have tweeted; please do point out where I have crossed the line and stumbled into impudence:

• Recent news story about a transwoman whom pretended to be a 14 year old boy in order to groom a young girl. I retweeted someone who commented under an article that had used 'Woman' in its headline as opposed to 'Transwoman', something along the lines of; why be a determinist about time because if the predator can be a woman why can't they also be 14 years old.

• A story about the unfairness of a transwoman who had won a cycling race.

• The use of the #NoDebate hashtag serving as yet another convenient tool to silence and denigrate women who take an alternative view to the dogmatic "Transwomen are women. Full stop. #NoDebate".

Apologies for the essay but I'm caught between going back to just tweeting about bagels and cream cheese, the occasional news story and leave it at that; but equally I also want to scour twitter for more GC views to retweet as frankly I don't want to be silenced.

For various reasons I proactively sent the FPFW explanatory email to my line manager with a little preamble to explain why.

He was not aware of any of it bar seeing the odd headline, but after reading the email, he has reassured me that I have his full support should any attempt be made to dox or otherwise negatively affect me via my employer.

What a ridiculous state of affairs where people are now having to pre-empt the thought police.

Have you got a link to that ShotsFired?

Thought you might be interested - thread in Twitter I’ve just seen from someone in your boat OP - very eloquent

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1055511561987674113.html

I don't, sorry Bingle, but you can ask FPW for it, or if you pm me an email address I can forward it to you?

Cheers @ArkeNOTen, I did stumble across that thread on Twitter and whole heartedly agreed with it; despite consciously deciding against retweeting it

Thanks Shots, I'll contact FPW. Can you tell me the subject header so I ask for the right one?

Sure - it was "Fear, fence-sitting, compassion for trans people & women’s rights. What to do?" and I got it on the 7th October.

This thread is is helpful to see and I completely understand the caution around this. My employer has got various policies that refer to gender when it should legally be sex. I am just thinking how best to approach that.