The hypocrisy here is two fold tonight. A poster who claims to be supportive of trans people has just politicised a tragic event for their own purpose. While also then mischaracterising the abuser as being ‘gender critical’ when any one seeing the account can see it is a purely trolling account. I can’t see anything on there except trolling tweets. Yet the account is being used to characterise people who are, in this poster’s eyes, ‘gender critical’. (I am assuming GCA is gender critical activist)
This shows a distinct ignorance about what the term gender critical actually means. Extreme trans activists use this tactic regularly.
So here goes for any reader who hasn’t caught on to what this poster and those extreme activists have done.
The term ‘gender critical’ was first used as the term ‘gender critical feminist’. More specifically a feminist who rejected gender roles and gender stereotypes. Who incidentally also believed that sex cannot be changed in any human being.
For those who seek to abuse feminists for their stance, extreme trans activist in this instance, the feminist was dropped from the term. They did this because they then wanted to lever in an overwhelmingly huge number of people from different groups with very different, in some case opposite, motivations under the term they now made into an umbrella term. Many of those groups being wedged in were politically motivated by right wing objectives and some were extreme right wing. For instance, this troll account posted in this quoted post seems to be posting nazi supportive content which may be part of their trolling activity or it may be their belief, either way, it is abhorrent.
So with the term feminist removed, and the term being used by extreme trans activists being just the ‘gender critical’ part, the term has now lost all meaning. Because now reasonable people are expected to believe that feminists are allied with Nazis and with groups who have the opposite political aims of feminists, all because people with weak or nonexistent logic have abusively changed the term to make this now huge grouping of people ‘aligned’.
The only thing that ties these groups together is the universally held belief that sex cannot change in humans.
This has been proven and well established in science for a very long time. This is despite a group of people who are desperate for others to believe it is possible and actively using emotional manipulation to convince others it is possible.
Loosely, it could be said that the groups wish to prevent laws and policies from prioritising gender over sex where sex matter. However, any person looking beyond the very superficial labelling of each campaign point would see that the end outcome sought likely differs. Because the motivations differ. Only someone who is ignorant of the political aims of these groups OR ignorantly seeking to force team them portrays the outcomes as being shared.
Many of those groups wedged under this now huge umbrella, believe in gender stereotypes and gendered roles. Hence, they render the term ‘gender critical’ meaningless.
In fact, it could be said that using the same logic that those extreme trans activists who rely on gender stereotypes and gender roles for the definition of themselves are closely aligned with those very same groups they have tried to shame and silence feminists with.
So on one hand, feminists are supposedly aligned with the ‘far right extremists’ through believing the scientifically proven fact that humans can not change sex. And hypocritically, on the other hand, those activists using the term ‘gender critical’ as a term of abuse such as seen on this thread tonight, may be just as aligned with those same groups through their belief in gender stereotypes and gender roles.
Yet, they either cannot see that connection or don’t wish to.
This abusive mischaracterisation of feminists has led to some, likely many, feminists to reject the term ‘gender critical’ as it has been used here on this thread. And it is abusive. It is used to shame and silence women rightfully speaking and campaigning for the
sexed based rights that benefit all female people and not male people.
Just to clarify my use of extreme trans activist. To me, this term encompasses those who make extreme demands on society that people believe that humans can change sex and that male people
should access any female single
sex spaces or provisions developed to progress female people after millennia of negative sexist discrimination. It does not refer to all trans people. Merely a
group of trans people, along with other groups who are not transgender themselves, yet seem to set themselves up as spokespeople for transgender people. Hypocritical because transgender people are most definitely not homogenous in believing humans can change sex either!
The people using this ridiculous falsity may as well call all people
who believe water is wet ‘Nazis’. It is the same premise.
TLDR: this poster has hypocritically politicised this tragedy for their own agenda.
In doing so, this poster hypocritically has also used the term ‘gender critical’ to force team feminists with an abhorrent person. Because that person seems to believe humans cannot change sex . Ie using the same metric, this person is aligned with the vast majority of people on earth, this poster uses that as a tool to shame and silence feminists on a feminist board.