Who is the "they" that Anonymous Series Of Numbers is wanging on about here?
"This statement completely misses the issues of intersectionality and the oppression of femininity. Transmisogyny is part of the same oppressive structure as misogyny and misogynoir. It should be a united struggle against paternalism, not broken into competing camps. Our warnings about how this is rooted in white supremacist systems and push to categorise for oppressive (and historic, colonial) reasons has been ignored. Violence against the feminine is the oppression and is disproportionately felt by transfemme people. We warned that there is a right wing branch of feminism aggressively denying the rights and existence of mainly trans women, and it is the same people denying that women of colour, particularly black women, face greater oppression than them. You only have to hear the experiences of people like Afua Hirsch, see the treatment of Chimene Suleyman, Monish Rajesh and Sunny Singh. It's the same people. They claim to protect women, but only the right sort of woman. In this stance, the CSP are not standing against transphobia or sexism. The statement is weak and splitting the issue is perpetuating misogyny, transmisogyny,
and femme-oppression. An own goal, sadly."
Anonymous is right, the statement completely misses the issues of intersectionality, but not in the way that the rest of the mumbo jumbo comment mumbles.
Disabled women, women of faith, lesbian and bi women, older women, impoverished women, immigrant women, those with learning disabilities and any of life's curve balls - those intersectional issues matter. Just not to my exec.