Like church said though, the actual real life encounters, hooded black garbed figures, baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire, and threatening calls to libraries and other public facilities who have the temerity to consider hosting women challenge that ‘trolls’ would be an appropriate name.
For the avoidance of doubt
I do not for one minute deny that there are plenty of violent, misogyist TRAs around. I have had RL encounters and seen all the stuff online we are all so familiar with.
My comment about trolls and bots arose when I looked at a collage of screen shots of some of the disgusting, misogynist threats and abuse targeting JK Rowling.
Seeing all of those comments together reminded me of the troll farms I had read about that have used threats of sexual violence against female activists who posed a threat to various oppressive regimes.
And even if they weren’t rampant mysoginistic violent trans people, but political or otherwise agents of discontent, they are definitively going after women, not attempting to make trans people look bad.
But if you look at the collection of screen shots together, while they are definitely "going after women" they also make trans people look really bad.
Now personally I do not belive that all trans identified people are rapists and sexual predators. Nor do I belive that the all post disgusting stuff like "suck my lady dick you crusty TERF cunt!"
Nor do I belive that they all support people who post stuff like that.
I also do not believe that all trans identified people support sex cults that advocate the sexual abuse of children.
So I am going to post a thread in which trans identifying people who want to protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse and protect women from threats of sexual violence can express their commitment to such a cause.
On another thread a TRA poster ridiculed safeguarding concerns by claiming that some women sexually abuse children and that some lesbians are in abusive relationships.
When I asked them whether they would pledge support to distancing the TRA movement from paedophiles and paedphile apologists they went very quiet.
I think it is time to ask the trans activists to step up and nail their colours to the mast.
After all, in the issue of safeguarding Silence = Violence*
- I could spend all day discussing this statement. In one way it is simply as escalation of the "hurty words" issue. However when safeguarding issues need to be addressed urgently we need commitment from people who claim to have children's interests at heart.