It's interesting because as I think it was Datun who said that the free speech angle is what is making this story run and run, so many people are relating to it and it isn't going away. The fact that the subject matter is trans is a bonus to peak more people
Its a shame, although not a surprise, that the rights of women and children are not featuring as much in discussions, especially those led by males. The choice of focus made by media is worth watching.
Harry has been clear that the rights and safety of women and girls is his motivation.
James Kirkup: 'Women get treated far worse than men in Labour’s transgender debate'
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And if general run-of-the-mill Twitter is angry and stupid, gender-identity Twitter is angry and stupid on steroids. Simply liking the ‘wrong’ bit of content on Twitter can have you branded a transphobic witch and burned at the electronic stake, at least if you’re a woman. No one, or more accurately, no woman, is safe from the online inquisition’s charges of transphobia. You might think that JK Rowling was about as insulated as a person can be from online vitriol, since she’s lovely, kind, thoughtful, the creator of the world’s most popular wizard – and a billionaire. But you’d be wrong, because even JK has had her turn in the ducking stool (by the witch-finders at Pink News) for the heinous crime of ‘liking’ tweets that said Bad Things and, in one case, linking to a column by Janice Turner of the Times who is, of course, a Very Bad Person because, well, she has some weird idea that women should be listened to and children protected or something. The cow.
Anyway, the point is that if not even JK Rowling is safe from accusations of transphobia online, heaven help mere mortal women. Women like Ann Henderson, for example.
Henderson is a Scottish trade unionist and community worker who is currently serving as rector of Edinburgh University, elected by staff and students to chair the university’s governing body. She is also a Labour member from the left-wing/Momentum bit of the party that leaves a lot of Jewish people thinking hard about packing a bag and heading to the airport to buy a one-way ticket out of Britain.
In October, Henderson enjoyed a brief moment of fame thanks to the Edinburgh University student newspaper (which I edited, badly, a mere 23 years ago). That organ upheld the proud tradition of bad undergraduate journalism by accusing her of transphobia. Her crime? She retweeted about a meeting organised by A Woman’s Place UK, a feminist group largely run by left-wing women who organise public meetings to discuss changes to gender recognition laws to make it easier for men to change their legal gender and be recognised as women. The group worries such changes will undermine the legal and social standing of women, where ‘women’ is taken to mean ‘adult human females’. (continues)
blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/01/women-get-treated-far-worse-than-men-in-labours-transgender-debate/
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www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3491159-James-Kirkup-on-the-sexism-and-double-standards-of-the-transactivists