@CatherinaJTV
the article is shockingly poorly researched, based on a biased online poll of 80 women. Sheesh, give me a break. Complaint to BBC regarding the violation of their own quality standards going out, not with much hope of any success. It's sad to see the decline of a once proud institution into Jeremy Kyle style mud slinging.
Yep those 80 women should shut the fuck up about rape and sexual coercion because talking about it is bigotted.
Okkkkkaayyyyy.
The article refers directly to the weakness of the survey and even the author of the survey comments on its weakness. They don't try and dress it up as being more meaningful than to say 'there is an issue here, that we aren't allowed to talk about even though its causing real harm because political correctness is preventing us and thats adding to the problem because no one is willing to acknowledge it, much less tackle it.'
Generally when there is a problem - even in controversial areas - we can still talk about it, albeit in a sensitive and considered manner. Which this article is doing; I note at this point it actively also talked to transwomen who though this was appalling and knew it was going on to friends but even they were finding it difficult to talk about openly and speak out about how others are abusing and silencing women using the trans trojan horse at their expense.
Then Stonewall come in like a bull in a china shop, demanding everyone to stop being nasty to transwomen ^even though the transwomen in the article are saying we should acknowledge and address the problem, but are being prevented from doing so by extreme activism and instititional level silencing. Thus demostrating in part what the lesbians and transwomen in the article are both saying is at the heart of the problem and allows law abiding and respectful transwomen to be tarred with the same brush as the rape apologist authoritarians who want the nasty lesbians to STFU and reframe their socially constructed sexual orientation and suck cock to demonstrate they aren't bigotted.
It has to be pointed out that there isn't any Jeremy Kyle style mud slinging here. There are a bunch of women and transwomen talking about their experience and disgust at rape culture within extreme trans activism and Stonewall come along and illustrate the same point very clearly themselves.
All thats happened is someone is pissed that the slick PR and bullying by Stonewall didn't do its job and silence people this time, and instead there are questions being asked about who is pushing this (given that a lot of trans activists aren't actually trans themselves) and why is there such a homophobic and lesbophobic stench eminating from Stonewall itself. Quite aside from the other question about just how common this is and whether there is a good case to do a wide study to try and get a better idea of the scale of this abuse.
I think there are parallels here with the recent unearthing of abuses of power by police officers targeting vulnerable women for sexual purposes and the Weinstein case. Women, not being believed and having to fight the power of a large institutional force or body otherwise they are discredited and how their reputations damaged.
Stonewall could have handled this so, so much better. The fact they have responded so appallingly is indeed very much a key part of the story and reinforces the entire point.
You can't blame the BBC for Stonewall dropping the ball so spectularly.