I’m so sorry that you’ve been subjected to this. I have a very narcissistic dad who might have chosen trans as the route to humiliate and abuse my mother had his chosen brand of Christianity not already given him ample methods, motivations and justifications. So I have some familiarity with this type of man but in a different context. I hope you will find healing eventually and I am so glad that you physically got away. My mother continues to suffer my father’s abuse even in old age and there is nothing I can do about it. This has broken my heart.
My reference to the colonies for me is really those countries in the ‘Commonwealth’ which are particularly captured by trans ideology all the way through their political and civil institutions with very little resistance able to break through. That is New Zealand, Australia and Canada. It’s a play on the Handmaid’s Tale references to the ‘colonies’ where rebellious or infertile women are sent to languish. It’s that sense that women are languishing out here with few tools at our disposal to fight this that I suppose I am trying to convey.
The US feels like its own special case to us outside it, with the deeply divided partisan political situation. I would find that very difficult as I would be torn on so many conflicting positions between the two camps. Trump is not my cup of tea and yet… on gender the republicans are spot on. Thank goodness that you have at least one side of the political spectrum willing and able to expose the dangers and fallacies of trans ideology, even if it does come hand in hand with some other highly destructive ideas about women and our role in society. I continue to fear for the future of the Democratic Party and movement as a whole because they have been so susceptible to GI and other nefarious strains of identity politics.
Sorry for the long post but I really like thinking about how this thing manifests in different countries and across political movements. GC women of the world, unite! :)