Here's my e-mail. I just realised I forgot to mention the Liberal Democrats, should have added that they're worse than useless on this issue too. Was it a Lib Dem meeting that cheered the prospect of a parliament consisting of 50% men and 50% transwomen? Or was that the WEP?
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As a 62 year old, lesbian feminist I see the removal of hard won, sex based rights for women and girls, and the dismantling of the women-only services we built from the ground up, without any state financial support, as the most important political question since women won the right to vote. Yet, to my utter dismay the only parliamentary politicians brave enough to openly stand against the trans lobby juggernaut are a few exceptionally brave SNP women, and one Conservative bloke.
I left the labour party after it became apparent that Corbyn was choosing to withhold support from Linda Bellos, who was being persecuted in the most despicable way. The behaviour of the rabid mob that hammered on the windows of the Woman’s Place UK (WPUK) meeting in Brighton, while the police stood by, arms crossed and pointedly looking in the other direction was endorsed from the platform at Momentum’s The World Transformed event. The Greens now classify women as non-men, and the Women's Equality Party kicked out Heather Brunskell-Evans for believing in the the biological reality of womanhood.
This leaves me without political representation. For the first time in my life I will be registering a protest vote. To ensure that it is not dismissed as "voter's intention uncertain" I will be putting a single line through all the boxes, and writing NONE across the ballot paper.
Every political party now insists that transwomen are women. Leaving us without a word to describe all the females who have shared experiences of growing up as girls and living as women in a world designed and adapted for men. The fact that many late transitioning males are heterosexual, and have come to their new identity via cissy porn and an AGP fetish is not allowed to be mentioned, nor the fact that they get a sexual thrill from forcing themselves into women's spaces, and breaking through the cotton ceiling of lesbian knickers.
We lesbians have had to watch all our women only spaces targeted, invaded and destroyed by males who identify as lesbians. They insist on being allowed to join every women-only group, and then demand to be the centre of attention, talking over women and constantly bringing everything back to themselves. Any topic that fails to centre them is declared "triggering" and accused of making them feel "unsafe" many subjects important to females are shut down, there should be no mention of female anatomy, no mention of sex based discrimination in the work place, no mention of female health problems, no mention of anything that doesn't "centre the vulnerable transwoman".
Lesbian groups have been forced back into the closet, we have to arrange to meet in private groups, with membership by invitation only, just like our foremothers did before the gay liberation movement. Anytime the news leaks that a group of adult female homosexuals has formed, and is excluding those lesbians unfortunate enough to have been assigned male at birth, then that group, and it's members are hounded and persecuted without mercy. The frenzied hatred that Allison Bailey experienced for the crime of being involved in founding the LGB Alliance, a group aiming to protect the interests of same sex oriented people, is a very clear example of how enraging it is to some people when women dare to say no, and demand the right to their own space.
Also unmentionable is the escalating number of girls who reach puberty and are horrified by the way boys and men react to their rapidly changing bodies. It was bad enough when I was a lass, back in the early 70's. What girl in her right mind, being exposed to a constant stream of internet porn and a barrage of unwanted sexual attention, wouldn't choose to opt out of a cis female identity if the possibility was on offer?
Many lesbians were tomboys in their youth, growing into butch lesbians. We see our baby dyke sisters being badgered to "state their pronouns", undermining their confidence and self acceptance. We watch with impotent rage as they get sucked into a cult that persuades them to hate their female bodies, to take testosterone and have their healthy breasts surgically removed.
Stonewall, the charity we built to fight for our rights, is actively involved in the gaslighting of young lesbians, spreading the lie that homosexuality is "same gender" attraction, and supporting the view that lesbians would learn to overcome their revulsion to the translesbian penis, if only they were willing to try a bit harder, to acknowledge the internalised transphobia that prevents them appreciating the female penis, and persevere until they learn how to cope with "strapless" in their sex lives.
All the bad things we predicted are happening. The Karen Whites in women's prisons, the Jessica Yaniv saga in Canada, and ever increasing numbers of damaged young lesbians, detransitioning in their mid twenties, and wondering why there were no safeguards in place to protect them when they were vulnerable teenagers under the influence of a cult.
Perhaps the terrifying Jenni Murray could do a series about this. After all, she strikes fear into the heart of great big, violent-porn loving, trans ladies like Jane Fae, so she'd be ideal for the job.