Forgive me if I’m wrong but I have only been using Tattle since September and this thread intermittently. I was so happy to see that there was a space to discuss these issues as so few exist.
I’m not sure I understand the parameters correctly though … to my mind the discussion about rainbow crossings and the lack of actual same sex spaces in lgbtq communities are directly connected to the gender debate. One of the first communities to speak out were lesbians. We have been likened to canaries in the coal mine because also it ten years ago there were workshops called The Cotton Ceiling run for transwomen on how to get into our pants. It’s what freaked me out, even before I realised they were transing children and putting them on medical pathways. It’s the cloak of lgbt rights and diversity and inclusion that has shoehorned the total erosion and obliteration of women’s rights and single sex spaces throughout the western world. So the crossings are part of the whole issue!
JKRowling wrote much about lesbian erasure in her essay. The corporate world and Human Resources departments are pushing this ideology onto all of us at work as well as in our general lives. It’s all part of the same problem, gender ideology is touching every part of our lives, in our schools and consequently brainwashing our children.
It’s impossible to separate topics up as I can’t actually think of a part of my life that isn’t actually infected by this dreadful cultural phenomenon at the moment.
Sports, prisons, workplaces, schools, government, changing rooms, gay spaces and on and on and on. I feel like we are fighting on all fronts and sometimes it’s actually terrifying how insidious it all is. So playing down any element of it, whether it’s a road crossing or a lanyard is annoying as it’s all connected.
We are in a culture war and sometimes I feel we have already lost. Spaces like this make me feel less bleak so I hope we can discuss any element we feel is relevant. I don’t want to be signposted to an LGB area ( I didn’t know there was one) because I know that us lesbians are submerged by gender ideology, just like the rest of us, and it feels like drowning!
(Sorry that this reads a bit like a dramatic Jack Monroe blog - I feel too emotional about this stuff at times).
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1. Trans and gender ideology takes over the gay rights movement. They sell this to governments as diversity and inclusion.
2. Local authorities demonstrate their diversity by replacing zebra crossings with rainbow ones.
3. Some people point out that this is a danger to blind people as dogs can’t understand them.
4. Some people accuse other people of transphobia and homophobia.
5. The blind community lose safe road crossings and can’t even complain about it.
This is how it works.