Have just finished my second year at what feels like the world's wokest university and am pissed off at the prospect of yet another year buttoning my lip about gender shite. I go to a women's college which, the year after I leave, is going mixed (though technically it was mixed anyway as they announced about a year ago that they'd accept anyone describing themselves as a woman), and although I didn't choose it because it was a women's college, I've enjoyed being in a female environment. It's pretty much the only female environment left, because every event, society, whatever, that in the past would've been for women, is now for "women and non-binary". Why?! Including people who call themselves non-binary isn't even necessary to placate the TWAW lot. They're not women, according to them. So why invite them?
It seems the new gender orthodoxy has even been taken up by non-students; when I've made the odd irritated comment, I've been argued against. I do know of one department member who bravely signed a letter protesting a student union publication decrying "TERFs" but I don't have anything to do with her. And I know of one other student who feels how I do but she's also quite right-wing and we agree on little else. So I feel very alone — I'm planning on joining the radical feminist society but TBH I'm not utterly sure I'd describe myself that way.
The then-upcoming decision on allowing self-declared women into college was almost the sole topic of conversation in the one and only college LGBT society meeting I attended. Eight or so gay and bi women sitting around talking about how to bully the college into accepting male students. Fucksake.
I don't even know what answer I want to this. Just… the loss of female spaces, the silent pressure to stay quiet about the nature of reality, the posters and stickers everywhere saying TWAW and informing you that a man in the ladies' loos absolutely belongs there and you're a prejudiced bigot if you even think otherwise… it's bloody annoying.