There are many interesting and valuable insights here. I’ve always felt the biggest driver of girls and women “transitioning” and seeking to pass as men is the pervasive sexism and homophobia of our society and the lack of a mass women’s liberation movement to help women envision and create a collective path toward women’s liberation, rather than this individual “solution” of major body modification.
But I have some disagreements here as well. There is nothing inherently “right wing” about opposing gender identity ideology, including its indoctrinatation into schools, in the workplace and into law. Nor is it “right wing” to recognize that trans identified females, to the extent they continue to embrace and advocate the denial of sex including their own, are being used as battering rams against women’s rights and lesbian rights. Transgenderism is a misogynistic and homophobic ideology that is the polar opposite of feminism. Those who continue to embrace it, do actual harm to their sisters.
I had the experience of a trans identified female at work targeting me for termination and leading a witchhunt that successfully got me fired . She began her investigation of me because I had said at a diversity training that my lesbianism was about “same sex” not “same gender” attraction. She said my statement was obscene, the equivalent of discussing genitals, and thus inappropriate in the workplace. She began investigating my outside feminist political activity with Feminist in Struggle. Finally, she attacked me viciously for asserting during a discussion initiated by my liberal non profit employer on abortion, that abortion bans harm biological women as a sex. She said my statement was a “dog whistle” & called me a “TERF” and hate monger. She organized a petition with 15 other coworkers to demand that I be fired for my “transphobia”.
There are also many examples of TIFs on social media that demand that women put up with trans identified males encroaching onto our spaces and programs )and into our social circle and beds if we are lesbians) , based on self- ID, or we are “bigots”.
So, those trans identified women who continue to buy into this ideology, and who are at all political or outspoken about it, have, like a worker who crosses a picketline, put themselves into the position of being enemies of feminism. This is a tragedy but also reality.
"There is nothing inherently “right wing” about opposing gender identity ideology, including its indoctrinatation into schools, in the workplace and into law." I don't think that's what they were saying.
They said we shouldn’t be doing it and that it fed into the Right’s culture wars. They expressed concern that the WDI caucus left out those trans identified people who still bought into this ideology. There should be an open door to these women as they may begin to question things or develop regrets. . But otherwise they really have placed themselves on the other side of the picketline.
So important that we hear and share these stories! Thank you, Max, Kitty and Katherine. Brilliant xx
There are many interesting and valuable insights here. I’ve always felt the biggest driver of girls and women “transitioning” and seeking to pass as men is the pervasive sexism and homophobia of our society and the lack of a mass women’s liberation movement to help women envision and create a collective path toward women’s liberation, rather than this individual “solution” of major body modification.
But I have some disagreements here as well. There is nothing inherently “right wing” about opposing gender identity ideology, including its indoctrinatation into schools, in the workplace and into law. Nor is it “right wing” to recognize that trans identified females, to the extent they continue to embrace and advocate the denial of sex including their own, are being used as battering rams against women’s rights and lesbian rights. Transgenderism is a misogynistic and homophobic ideology that is the polar opposite of feminism. Those who continue to embrace it, do actual harm to their sisters.
I had the experience of a trans identified female at work targeting me for termination and leading a witchhunt that successfully got me fired . She began her investigation of me because I had said at a diversity training that my lesbianism was about “same sex” not “same gender” attraction. She said my statement was obscene, the equivalent of discussing genitals, and thus inappropriate in the workplace. She began investigating my outside feminist political activity with Feminist in Struggle. Finally, she attacked me viciously for asserting during a discussion initiated by my liberal non profit employer on abortion, that abortion bans harm biological women as a sex. She said my statement was a “dog whistle” & called me a “TERF” and hate monger. She organized a petition with 15 other coworkers to demand that I be fired for my “transphobia”.
There are also many examples of TIFs on social media that demand that women put up with trans identified males encroaching onto our spaces and programs )and into our social circle and beds if we are lesbians) , based on self- ID, or we are “bigots”.
So, those trans identified women who continue to buy into this ideology, and who are at all political or outspoken about it, have, like a worker who crosses a picketline, put themselves into the position of being enemies of feminism. This is a tragedy but also reality.
Ann
"There is nothing inherently “right wing” about opposing gender identity ideology, including its indoctrinatation into schools, in the workplace and into law." I don't think that's what they were saying.
How did it get indoctrinated into schools so easily?
They said we shouldn’t be doing it and that it fed into the Right’s culture wars. They expressed concern that the WDI caucus left out those trans identified people who still bought into this ideology. There should be an open door to these women as they may begin to question things or develop regrets. . But otherwise they really have placed themselves on the other side of the picketline.
I'll be sure to listen to this.
But why would you resist anyway?