I did it

[MissScarletInTheBallroom]

I posted in support of the Supreme Court judgment on my Facebook profile.

I've made a note of my friend count, let's see if it drops.

Two likes so far, no comments.

Our old vicar wrote the "rebaptism" service for trans people (if ever there was a heretical piece of liturgy) and told us we couldn't be in the service with our DCs because they were loud (in the side chapel) and DD got on the pews and stood up (she was 2). Only needed to tell a breastfeeding mum to leave and he'd have got the hat trick of discrimination (but it was the previous vicar who did that).
There's a lot of it about I'm afraid.

Geezo.

I’ve had 15 💜 and 11 likes. A handful were a pleasant surprise.

One un-friend. Trans-identifying child and sibling so not exactly a shock. However, we’d agreed to disagree until now.

I posted on the day of the verdict.

I’ve also used the SC judgement to fully out myself as a Terf on Facebook.
I warmed up with male boxers in the Olympics (several likes from women with sporty daughters).
Moved onto TIM prison officers strip searching female visitors in Scotland.
Then went full celebratory with the SC announcement (a few likes, no comments).
Followed next day by DocStock in unherd (no comments).
No drop in friend numbers, no ranting.
Maybe no one looks at my posts anyway!

I agree. A lot of friends i have for my main interest are gay men, and yes gosh the TWAW rubbish I've put up with is crazy. There is a lot of misogyny and male entitlement. They just do not understand why women have objected so strongly. So perhaps opposite to you i haven't posted on my Facebook page, but have been strongly commenting and liking on twitter. I follow a lawyer who specialises in fighting sen education tribunals. He posted a lengthy Facebook post earlier and I and few other people did comment. I've had hostile comments and reactions. I may take a look later in the week but can't be bothered now!

Well done!

My small act was to immediately delete my preferred pronouns from my work signature.

Do you what I also find interesting about how deeply misogynistic many gay man are? That they can also be the most deeply transphobic also, worse than anyone could ever accuse JKR of (I don't really think JKR is transphobic). I think that is rooted in misogyny because, as they only want to be around other gay men and they hate women, they can see TW as being gay man who have 'transed' out of being gay to be women (who they hate) and they hate TM because they are women who want to be men. Just a thought I had recently.

I haven't posted anything yet! But I'm very tempted but I dunno whether to wait for the protests to quiet a little. I'm drafting a lengthy post actuslly as we speak. I hope you don't get too much more hostility!

I'm tempted to add something sex based to mine.

Speak out, and speak loud. You are protected now, and you need to pave the way for other women behind you.

I'm resolutely not unfriending anyone because I'm a reasonable person and alternative views don't make me feel that angry.

However I have been unfriended by two people as a result of my post, which I think says much more about them!!

I actually know everyone personally on my Facebook page and it's been a week of screeching about "this horrible court decision" and "transwomen are women". These are all people I've been friends with for years, totally brainwashed. One put give me one example of one transwoman who has hurt anyone just one. I answered Isla Bryson. It appears that I've been cancelled.
It's like Brexit all over again. Anyone who wants to discuss anything that is not pro trans is cancelled immediately.
I find this inability to even have a discussion really scary.

Also interesting to see that despite having over 2.5k 'friends' one particular TRA I've seen only receives a handful of likes on their posts. I wonder how many are silently disagreeing!

My gay male best friend thinks all this gender stuff is absolute tripe.

I'm thinking of "I'm a woman, in case you weren't sure" (my first name is a girl's name in almost every European language AFAIK).

Thank you for your post.
You've encouraged me to be brave and I've just posted the same link on my friend's FB page.

Underneath where she'd posted Transwomen Are Women.

@MissScarletInTheBallroom you have given me courage and I've done similar. I don't have that many friends but I can think of a couple at least who might unfriend me (if they notice!).

Well done!

I think a lot of my Facebook friends won't notice because I think a lot of them probably don't use Facebook anymore.

I have now ended my conversation on a very civil note and although I don't think the other person has significantly changed his views, I think I have opened his eyes to the possibility that the TERFs might have a point about some stuff.

As well as encouraging him to read the judgment I've also linked Hadley Freeman's fantastic interview with Sarah Summers to further illustrate the point about rape crisis services. Hopefully he'll read it and start to realise that the trans rights lobby really hasn't covered itself in glory.

I'm not that brave yet.

My FB is full of awful hate towards those who believe in biology.

Well done @MissScarletInTheBallroom

I'm not really a FB user anymore, but have posted a couple of IG stories in the past linking to articles by Hadley Freeman. (Though I admit I did hide a couple of people.)

After the SC ruling, I posted a screenshot of a Twitter post welcoming the judgement by Reem Alsalem (UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls), plus another Twitter post from a journalist.

She doesn't follow me, but the mother of my DD's best friend is despite also being vocal about how much of a feminist she is an ardent TWAW ally and has been making many posts about how unprogressive it is and how women are more likely to be subject to violence from men, especially those they live with, etc.

I was quite tempted to question her, but hers and my DD (who is autistic and depends on her friendship a lot) are so close and get on so well so I can't risk scuppering it.

I have however corrected my DD when she has suggested that there's "men, women and those in between" (she's nine, I wonder where she's got that from...!)

There's no shame in not being brave enough yet.

But it is insane how we have all been gaslit into believing that there is anything wrong with expressing our belief that women are female and have sex based needs which we don't share with trans women.

(she's nine, I wonder where she's got that from...!)

Just a rhetorical question, I'm sure! 😛

If you are in the UK you are somewhat protected in your rights to free speech by the Maya Forstater case and a media landscape that is able to give women whose livelihoods are threatened if they exercise free speech on GC at least a chance to make it through and get some exposure, and thus build support and funding for legal recourse if they are pushed out of work. In Canada, NZ and Australia, women who rely on professional boards for registration, especially in education and health have essentially been muted. The legal and media landscapes destroy us here. We look with admiration to the UK and lean heavily on the few of us with independent means (mostly retired women) who are able to speak up. This contributes to the (wrong) assumption that only ‘older’ women have GC views. If you can afford to step out of the shadows, in whatever way possible for you, it’s great and it has ripple effects all the way around the world. Thanks for your courage!

Bloody hell.

A light bulb moment- maybe I'm a bit slow -.but yes. When one is dependent on employment and so many fields are captured, of course younger women are more wary of speaking out.

I’m protected from being sacked. But not from work colleagues essentially making my working life miserable. And my workplace is pretty captured. I just can’t risk it.

If likes were private on Facebook, like on Twitter, you'd probably get a lot more.