Would Margaret Thatcher be a TERF?

[DJLippy]

If Margaret Thatcher was alive and still running the country would she oppose the trans rights juggernaut?

I mean many have pointed out that gender identity ideology is end stage neo-liberalism. The ultimate expression of an individualist ideology that totally separates the individual from society and broader social connections. Maybe she'd be all for it.

Then again she was a bit no non sense wasn't she?

What do we reckon women. WWMTD?

Then again

She wasn’t a radical feminist so, irrespective of her opinion on transgenderism, no, not a ‘TERF’.

I can't see her even acknowledging it

I can't imagine her giving such nonsense the time of day.

She'd just think "Terfs" were overreacting to something (feminism/gender ideology) that would never affect her or even cross her mind. She'd go along with the "tiny minority" and "vulnerable" hyperbole.
Today, she'd be too horrified by Brexit to think about anything else anyway.

Would she think TWAW? No. But she wouldn't care less if others did.

She'd go along with the "tiny minority" and "vulnerable" hyperbole.

Yes, she was famous for giving into appeals to her compassion.

I think Thatcher would have agreed with Stonewall that trans falls under the LGB banner.

She wouldn’t have accepted transwomen are women, but she would have thought they were gay, and treated them consistent with the way she treated other gay people.

She’d have banned the promotion of trans ideology in schools but for precisely the wrong reasons.

she was famous for giving into appeals to her compassion

She would have gone along with the hyperbole as a convenient way to dismiss women's concerns. No compassion involved. It simply wouldn't have affected her in any way.

She was a chemist - a woman who studied science. She would have told them to bugger off.

Who cares what she would have thought? She was hardly a feminist or anyone who even gave much of a shit about women. She would probably have loathed trans people as well as lesbians and gay men.

Isn’t her daughter gay?

She was famously not for turning.

She would have gone along with the hyperbole as a convenient way to dismiss women's concerns.

That’s as likely as Trump aligning himself with TRAs. Just because you oppose two things doesn’t make them on the same side.

No, Margaret Thatcher was not a feminist.

No, her daughter is not gay as far as I am aware.

You’re right! She isn’t gay - I must have been thinking of someone else.

She was not a feminist, l actually don’t think she cared about women or anyone but herself.

I can't see her taking it seriously, but that is what I expect of almost any woman of her generation.

Whatever else I think about her, she'd have recognised this for the nonsense it is.

Thatcherism was about radical right-wing economics that was anything but conservative but very conservative about ‘traditional’ family values, just as Reaganism was.

There was a contradiction between their anything-goes economic theories and their belief in the innate ‘rightness’ of heterosexuality and monogamy.

This thread led me to googling, and I found this article, which is quite interesting:

www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/09/margaret-thatcher-women

The Guardian, 09 April 2013, by Jenni Murray, "What did Margaret Thatcher do for women?"

Thatcher would have been opposed to the GRA in its original form let alone self id. But not from any safeguarding viewpoint, just a reactionary one. And she was no feminist.

Margerate Thatcher was a very nasty bloke in a dress, she was apalling.
She tried to upstage every bloke PM in being warmongering, supporting dictators,

Margaret Thatcher was a woman. Biology exists even when you don't agree with people.

Margaret Thatcher was certainly no feminist. She certainly pulled up the ladder behind her, excluding other women. I seem to recollect that she appointed 1 - one! - woman as a cabinet minister, during her time as PM? I may be wrong on this, so feel free to correct me on the issue of female ministers during Margaret Thatcher's tenure.

She was a scientist and wouldn’t have entertained this bollocks for 2 minutes. Actually I wonder if the TRAs would have labelled her a trans man as she wasn’t simpering, dressed in frills or felt any need to be nice.