Very mvoing tweet about how women have been colonised by men

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I came across this tweet by Diana Alastair today, and thought it was worth posting. It's absolutely heartbreaking, and anger-making:

OK, trans community – it’s truth time. One of the biggest differences between the way women are treated and the way that y’all are treated is that y’all are allowed to have safe spaces. You’re allowed to have subreddits that are trans-only, places and events that are just for you. We’re not.

When I tried to start a subreddit for female humans, for example (including the ones who identify as men) so that we had a place to talk about female things, it lasted less than a week, and the admins performed a delicate little dance before banning us for “hate.” They temp-banned me and all my mods, then banned the whole community because we weren’t able to take down the anti-trans posts that were clearly against our rules - and that didn’t appear until after we were tempbanned. Hmm.

Women get nothing: not subreddits, not dating apps, not even an app for women in general. No bathrooms, no changing rooms, no sports of our own; hell, we can’t even get away from y’all in prison! Any female-only event y’all get to hearing about is targeted by protesters, often violent ones, invariably carrying signs threatening harm or encouraging suicide — lovely behavior from people who constantly quote trans suicide statistics as if it’s the biggest crisis on the planet, btw.

Any women’s shelter or rape crisis center that is female-only is also targeted: the sole remaining women’s rape crisis center in all of Canada has been repeatedly vandalized with threatening graffiti, and even had a dead rat nailed to its door. This, in a city with 6 other rape counseling centers available, all of them trans-friendly. It’s not about being denied access to services — it’s sick, twisted, furious hatred at even the idea of women having anything of our own.

You have taken it all: our spaces, our sports, and our safety. You’ve taken our privacy, our dignity, our right to single-sex incarceration, and our right to single-sex intimate care. You’ve taken our identities, and the words we use to name ourselves.

You want us to agree that being female means nothing, is nothing, deserves nothing - no recognition, no separate existence — not even a name. We are “uterus-havers,” “menstruators,” “bleeders,” and “people with cervixes.” “Women” belongs to you now, and you’re even coming for “female.”

You’re taking everything we are, piece by piece — and what do we get in return, for the theft of the names you took from us? “Cis” — a prefix that sidelines us in our own demographic, and which privately, the trans community uses as a slur. What good little colonizers you’ve turned out to be.

https://x.com/sappholives83/status/1983648197403721787

So how would you define yourself?

A trans man is a woman who says she is a man. So why would a woman take your dignity away?

You seem very confused about what rhe issue is. Its about men. Not women.

Oh heavens I meant a trans woman!

A woman, mother, sister, daughter, friend, colleague, runner

Sure. But you said you are a woman. How would you define that?

Woah

way above my pay grade

I give this sort of thing fuck all head space

and I suspect I am somewhat happier for it! 😆

And yet here you are insisting that your dignity has not been affected by the fact that you have to define yourself as a trans woman, or a non-trans woman (cis).

Wake up. Don't do the "way above my pay grade" shizzle while insisting that your dignity has not been affected by other people defining who you are.

@Overdonecabbage I think trans men (now clarified as 'trans women') are farcical comedic figures that should be laughed at

I would look at this man and think… what a thoughtless farcical twat… dressing up so ridiculously

Heavens, I've found someone on this board who makes me actually stand up for trans people. I have major issues with trans ideology, particularly the colonisation of women's spaces and experiences, as per the tweet in the OP, and also re the medicalisation of healthy bodies, both children and adults.

But the trans people I know are not "farcical comedic figures". Some of them perhaps just want to live that way for reasons I don't understand, some of them definitely have autism or aspergers, and some have evident mental health problems. I certainly wouldn't laugh at them for any of this.

Maybe ignorance is bliss 😆
if I giving thought to what is a woman means I then lose my dignity 😧

Well we differ

I have no time for it and think it’s silly nonsense that’s got out of hand

Now you are starting to get it.

And I’m happy to wallow in to ignorance and choose not lose my dignity due to my ignorance in what is a woman! Or even worse than ignorance, not give it the the slightest brain space!

You not thinking about the assault on your rights, on the rights of LGB people & on safeguarding won't stop it happening. There's a notorious strategy document prepared by the international law firm Dentons for a trans activist group - it recommends working in the dark, secret meetings with legislators, influencing civil society via "training" that presents the law as trans activists would like it to be, not as it is (believing such guff has worked out very badly for a number of employers when they found themselves up against the real law in an Employment Tribunal), smuggling measures that suit trans activists into other legislation with as little publicity as possible (eg; Irish voters were given a well-publicised referendum on Equal Marriage, what wasn't well-publicised was that the proposed legislation also contained provision for gender Self ID).
Ignoring it doesn't make it go away. Have a read of Helen Joyce's book, Trans, it zips along nicely & lays out the issues very clearly.

Thanks for the recommendation but I have a long list of fiction books that I’m working my way through and for me, I like my reading purely for pleasure rather than educating myself on this issue. Sorry!

Hats off @Overdonecabbage to admit you dont know what you are talking about and that you dont care enough to even give it a minutes thought, even though you spent all day doing so. Chapeau.

Well not all day 😊

And now…. Season 5 of slow horses to start 🍾

so I’ll leave you to it

God, the sheer tiresomeness of someone coming on this thread to insist that they haven't lost their dignity, and then proceeding to go "La la la I don't care!" when we point out some facts to them 🙄

I've been thinking about the TRAs' insistence that "cis" isn't a slur, that it is entirely necessary and occurs in geography and biology to mean "same". And that people didn't used to define themselves as "straight", but now they do, and that "cis" is the same.

Except - there is already a word for not-women. And that word is - men. So there are women, and men. No "cis" required for gender nonsense such as "assigned at birth".

Not-women are called men. Not "trans women".

So much in life you’re angry and pissed off about. Life must be… fraught?!

Without anger, nothing changes.

I'm fine, but your concern for my wellbeing is touching. Now, if you're not interested in the topic of this thread, and find it totally irrelevant to your life, maybe you could spend your valuable time elsewhere? And we women will continue discussing what we find important. Thanks everso.

No concern?!

but sure…. Crack on.

Good luck!

So moving that you struggled to see through your tears to tap out the thread title!

Please ignore the derailer.

That tweet says it all. I don't see it as AI just very American and sadly very depressing.