Time and again the targets of trans activists are gay men and women

[IwantToRetire]

... line up the casualties and another pattern emerges, one that almost nobody in the legacy gay press will touch. Over and over, the people in front of the mob are gay.

The weapons are gay people’s own institutions. Stonewall, founded to defend gay people from persecution, filed the complaint against Bailey. Athlete Ally, set up to support gay athletes, expelled the most famous gay athlete alive. Sydney’s Mardi Gras began in 1978 as a march the police broke up with batons and arrests, and now it cancels lesbians on behalf of men. Build a replacement for these corrupted institutions and they come for them too. Mermaids dragged LGB Alliance through a quarter-million-pound legal fight over its right to exist as a charity, while Australia’s Human Rights Commission decided that lesbians meeting without men present would be discrimination. Women at least know the institutions were never theirs. Gay people watched thirty years of their own infrastructure get captured and turned around to fire on them.

And the objective isn’t any gay person in particular. It’s homosexuality itself. Gender ideology says the body is irrelevant and self-declaration is everything. Homosexuality says the body is the whole point. A lesbian’s no is the one thing the ideology cannot survive, which is why the slur for it, “genital preferences”, treats same-sex attraction as a bigotry to be trained out.

So yes, it’s a war on women, and women have borne the worst of it, but it was never only that. The activists understood from the beginning that the two groups who could falsify the doctrine were women, whose lives depend on the difference, and gay people, whose desires turn on it.

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/trans-activists-and-their-recurring

Please note these are only extracts from a longer article and shouldn't be taken to represent the article as a whole!

Thanks for this @IwantToRetire. I read the article earlier today (it’s a good one) and wondered about sharing it on the thread about MF. I was particularly disheartened to read about Fred Sergeant’s treatment at the hands of the TRA.

I was surprised at the article on one level because it had seemed that Glinner has recently been going a bit shouty headlines.

This is thoughtful and pulls together the real life events that have happened to women - and gay men.

And whilst recognising women as being the first point of attack raises the issue of same sex attraction being another reality that TRAs and their queer promoters want to say isn't real. Or if it is real should not be acknowledged as it shows that the gender identity ideology is false.

I think I was aware of all of those events but hadn’t seen the names lined up together - pretty shocking.