Exactly, for everything trans women claim, women such as those who were the hijab/burka etc are definitely more at risk of dsicrimination/violent attack than they are, statistics clearly show this. I had thought (hoped probably is a better word at this point) when it started to impact on this there would be more outcry...I think it's important for those living in the UK to raise the issue of Hampstead pond with groups like the Board of Deputies, the British Council of Muslims, as well as local religious leaders and community leaders. It is extremely unfair and disgusting that the rights of women (in this case religious women) are being overlooked, in favour of a minority who have repeatedly shown that they are aggressive, intimidating and display complete disregard for the safety of women. I know, from my own experience when I was younger, that women of faith tend to be forgotten about or even mocked by others. These TRAs and TiMs taking pleasure in pushing them (and other women) out of a woman-only space angers me - it's the disrespect, the male entitlement that no amount of make-up or badly fitted clothes can disguise and the insistence that they are the victims in all of this, when they are not
Precisely. TiMs will scream about oppressed they are, and claim that they are undergoing a genocide, but not realise how safe and protected they are (many of them are from European countries and the USA). They do not have to fight for access to education like Afghan women and girls are, their dignity and right to live safely like Hazara women, nor do they experience FGM or come from communities where baby girls are aborted or disowned by their families. They cannot handle being women and cope with everything the patriarchy subjects us to.Exactly, for everything trans women claim, women such as those who were the hijab/burka etc are definitely more at risk of dsicrimination/violent attack than they are, statistics clearly show this. I had thought (hoped probably is a better word at this point) when it started to impact on this there would be more outcry...
Exactly this, as you can probably tell I am not in one of these discrimated religious communities, but I can imagine that, as an already marginalised group, you just woudn't want to make another big open statement (and then probably be critiised, let's be honest) when you already have so much criticisim/hostility. I don't even know what the answer is at this point, but we need to basically make an effort so the "woke" side of the left has to ackowledge that they are now disadvantaging relgious women, who are exactly the people they should be defendingPrecisely. TiMs will scream about oppressed they are, and claim that they are undergoing a genocide, but not realise how safe and protected they are (many of them are from European countries and the USA). They do not have to fight for access to education like Afghan women and girls are, their dignity and right to live safely like Hazara women, nor do they experience FGM or come from communities where baby girls are aborted or disowned by their families. They cannot handle being women and cope with everything the patriarchy subjects us to.
Re religious women's reaction, I think there is a mix of quiet shock and fear from religious women - especially in my community, where my female cousins just stopped going. I can only speak from my own experience, where lots of women I know say that they feel 'safer' by staying quiet, blending in and being invisible, because of past experiences where they were either targeted or attacked for speaking up. It's something that upsets me deeply, even though I understand where they are coming from.
My best friend, siblings and cousins know my views on TiMs and being GC. Thankfully they all agree (TiMs taking women's spaces angers my dad; he always worries for me, my sister and my cousins). Like me, they stay quiet at work and in public, because they know that they can't be forthright with their opinions. They won't just be accused of being transphobic, but are also afraid of any racist backlash they may experience, which would end their careers and jeopardise their safety
I wonder the same thing; it does tend to be young people from more middle class/comfortable backgrounds who seem so caught up with trans rights. It's easy to see nothing wrong with intact TIMs in female prisons, if it's unlikely you'll ever go to prison for instance.Ide be interested to hear the economic/lifestyle backgrounds of the TWAW. I am openly GC, I come from a very very working class background and the majority of my family and social circle are low income/social housing etc. We are all on the same page although I would say they aren't exactly GC but more that they call a spade a spade and if you have got a nob then you are a bloke
It'll give them a little " frisson" inside, no doubt.This was after they posted a tweet about how Terf lesbians aren't welcome at Pride.
Imagine being on the so-called right side of history and being so scared of your 'allies'.
It's actually pretty pathetic.
And us. We are too old & in too much pain to fret over their feelings about absolute bullshit.Pretty much all my friends know my stance on the whole gender woo thing and almost all are in agreement although a few had no idea at all about any of it. I have one friend I’ve mentioned in here before who has said to me she is ‘pro trans’ whatever that means but having spoken to her a bit more on the subject, she is concerned about how self ID will effect her young daughter as she gets older. And she knows some non binary girls who she admits are clearly trying to disassociate from their female bodies because of trauma or abuse rather than NB actually being a thing (because it’s not). So I’d say we agree more than disagree. It’s just more the aesthetics, she’s happy to appear to be pro trans but when you get into the ramifications for women and girls it’s a different story.
As for family, my husband took a while to fully grasp what I was talking about and thought I was exaggerating (who could blame him, it’s all nuts - pardon the pun lol). But is of the same opinion as me. It just doesn’t affect him in any way though, being a man. He hates how upset I get about it though. Other family members are the same, we are a no nonsense central Scotland family and will call out BS when we see it, whether it’s a TIM saying he’s absolutely a woman (no yer no pal) or anything else that’s clearly batshit.
“Men will look at you” they’ll look at you anyway.
Actually yes, you should be able to see delicious food and not automatically start eating it with no free will.
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