An acquaintance of mine’s (neurodivergent) daughter is at Goldsmiths. I knew she would be vulnerable to the cult. When I saw her (the mother) over Christmas, she told me her daughter had been in a les relationship and the girl had been really horrible to her, criticising her looks, gaslighting her and trying to manipulate her. I was chomping at the bit when she said the ‘girl’ was also trans (ie a male). And apparently when another member of the family ‘misgendered’ this person, other family members rallied against them (the misgenderer) and refused to entertain the fact that the ‘girlfriend’ wasn’t a girl.
I couldn’t stop myself and went into a full-on spiel about how women and girls are being erased and harmed by the trans movement, how are language is being policed etc etc. This was in front of a group of 6 other women whom I have known for several years, yet have never shown my TERF tendencies to. To my surprise, they all agreed with me, a couple of them strongly (although a couple were also #be kind). I am speaking up more and more now and if people don’t agree, that’s their prerogative.