Death threats to authors of Transmania

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Dora Moutout and Margeurite Stern, the authors of the French book Transmania, have been subjected to death threats because of the book. They have now had to cancel a conference in Brussels next week.

This is what Dora Moutot tweeted yesterday:

"ENGLISH READERS : With @Margueritestern, we have decided to cancel our conference at Café Laïque in Brussels on October 22. Some will be disappointed or say that we are giving up, but that is not the case. Everything we have to say is in our book Transmania.

However, we do not wish to play with fire; we don’t want to lose an eye like Salman Rushdie, or even our lives like the journalists of Charlie Hebdo, just because a group of trans activists would find it "glorious" to kill us.

They have published a manifesto on "Paris Luttes Info," explaining that their ultimate goal is to kill us. I became aware of this text because it is circulating as an "inspirational text," a "guiding line" within activist groups opposing our conference in Brussels. Thankfully, some people alerted us. Read the manifesto here: paris-luttes.info/trans-ultra-violence-18736

As Marguerite says: "For now, we consider the situation too dangerous, and faced with people who explicitly write that they want us dead, we choose life. Unlike them, I don’t romanticize violence, and I don’t wish to die a martyr, nor take that risk."

I fully agree with her words."

But, but, the TRAs tell us that trans are the most marginalised and vulnerable group ever, who just want to pee.

Indeed.

Which is why this group said « This can only be done by force and violence, and therefore by the bursting of the heads in question. In this perspective, a telescopic baton seems to be a step in the right direction » (Translation tweeted by Roisin Michaux yesterday.)

Another venue where Mouton and Stern where due to speak was recently firebombed.

All this just so they can pee.

Surely any other men threatening to kill specific women would be arrested?

So this sounds like a real and credible threat from a group that can be identified. Time for the police to get involved I would think unless French law is very different.

Regular TRA posters here never come on and condemn this sort of thing, do they?

They're all doing this 🙈

I agree, surely this is domestic terrorism?

Earlier threads:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5074493-dora-moutot-and-marguerite-stern-taking-abusive-tras-to-court

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5170741-trans-activists-set-off-explosion-in-attempt-to-sabotage-conference-critical-of-gender-ideology-france

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5184162-iron-bar-wielding-trans-activists-arrested-at-paris-protest-over-gender-critical-book

They probably count this as a win, to successfully silence Moutout and Stern. But they seem oblivious to the fact this just underlines the violent misogyny at the heart of the current mainstream iteration of trans rights activism.

Aggressive entitled authoritarian men behaving like.... aggressive entitled authoritarian men. People aren't gonna believe the lie that they're women.

I hope Moutout and Stern are ok. They're extraordinarily brave.

I asked this on the Connelly thread but why is this threat and clear violence not ending in prison sentences in the same way?