“I don’t consider myself a cis man; I consider myself a man,” he wrote. “For while I will happily employ any term that a person feels best defines them, whether that be transgender, non-binary or gender fluid to name but a few, I reject the notion that someone can force an unwanted term onto another.”
In response, Aoife Martin, a director of Transgender Equality Network Ireland, wrote that the term “cis” is merely a descriptor like “straight” or “white”. “Boyne, whether he likes it or not, is a cis man speaking from a position of cis privilege,” she wrote.
John Boyne, if you're reading, what you have to understand is that transactivism is a men's rights movement. Gender dysphoria is a mental condition, which bears little relationship to transgenderism and none to transactivism.
You have failed to separate the two. Both internally and presumably in your book.
And the people who are subjecting you to this abuse? Those are the very people, the very people, who are demanding access to vulnerable women and children. And will threaten if they don't get it.
Framing trans people as oppressed and everyone else as the oppressor is a master stroke.
But who has been forced to delete all their social media, and been subjected to awful abuse and harassment? Who has been told to watch themselves in public?
What does it feel like to be told that constitutes your oppression of transwomen?