Deeply worrying blog by @lowles_nick: "In 29 years of fighting fascism, I have never experienced the level of abuse we have received this week. The fact this abuse came from people purporting to be from the left has made it all the more shocking." https://t.co/MdRNh8rj2t
If the media outlets had stuck to not calling rapists and child abusers women when they were trans identifying males no one would be speculating whether the #youtubeshooter has/had a penis.
@MagdalenBerns Another new radfem here. Most women are instinctively sympathetic to those who don't fit gender norms, I think. I was hugely supportive of the trans movement until recently.
Radfems didn't change my mind.
The sheer scale of gendered abuse from trans activists against women did.
Just to head off the inevitable...if it does turn out that the YouTube shooter was trans, our need to know this is not to vilify trans people, but to avoid adding false data to the statistics about female patterns of criminality.