And I keep coming back to the fact that both Julie Bindel and Heather Brunskell Evans, who were on the receiving end of this, appear to have responded positively, if cautiously.
JB's focus is elsewhere
Julie Bindel's article in Spectator USA today
'Meghan Murphy, Twitter and the new trans misogyny
A Canadian feminist journalist is the latest casualty of the transphobia crusade'
"I woke up this morning to a private message on Twitter from a young student. She had been warned that her account would be suspended if she ‘violated the rules’ again. Her crime? Tweeting details of Sheila Jeffreys’s book, Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism. Refusing to accept the mantra ‘Trans women are women’ is, in the eyes of many now, a crime, for which there must be punishment. Everyone from massive corporate social media machines to well-meaning liberals seem to be toeing the line.
But some of us resist. Meghan Murphy for example, a Vancouver-based feminist journalist, has been permanently banned from Twitter for referring to a man who identifies as a woman as a man." (continues)
concludes:
In tweeting about this case, Murphy referred to Yaniv as ‘he’. For this, she has now lost her account, and with it, the potential to promote both her paid work, and her feminist activism on Twitter.
Recently it transpired that so-called ‘deadnaming’ – referring to a previous name of a trans person – is also banned.
If deadnaming becomes officially illegal where the trans Taliban have influence – which appears to be pretty much everywhere except perhaps the Galápagos Islands – it will be perfectly legal for dangerous male sex offenders to hide their previous identity, and, in turn, apply for jobs and voluntary posts with vulnerable groups. There have been a number of cases where men who identify as women and who have committed crimes while using the threat of reporting ‘deadnamers’ to hide their past.
What has happened to Murphy will act as a deterrent to other feminists to speak out against this horror-show. The transgender extremists are the new misogynistic men’s rights movement. So-called progressive men are telling us we have to accept a dude as a woman, or we will be damned by history. I warned feminists this would happen back in 2004 when the trans Taliban first came after me after I wrote a feminist critique of trans ideology, but most were too scared or cowardly to speak out. Now is the time for us all to get brave, join forces, and shout out, ‘Enough is enough’.
spectator.us/twitter-trans-meghan-murphy/