I've not just met a "trans person", I was married to one. I'm not ignorant about these men. They are men. Women don't need to understand anything more than that. That's where we draw the line. We don't draw it at understanding. All that needs to be understood is that men are not women and they don't belong in female spaces. Women have a right to say NO. It is pretty basic. If women cannot be afforded the dignity and privacy of single sex spaces, care, and categories they will not be able to engage in society in the same manner men bc unlike men, women have to deal with the reality that we aren't always safe in the company of men.
🧵When you see how trans/gender identity ideology has reshaped the political discourse, medicine, civic structures, the education/ safeguarding of children, & removed rights from women....
It is hard to sustain the argument that the trans community is uniquely oppressed. /1
“Victorians everywhere should know that the Liberal Party is inclusive & can be a voice for them” says @LiberalVictoria as they expel a woman for knowing what a woman is, thereby silencing a voice for women.
Men are not women.
#IStandWithMoiraDeeming#ThisIsNotADrill
@AncientSpoonbil Colonisation isn't something that was made and then let to rest. It continues not as a passive act, but as an act of incursion. Our children were taken away in her reign. She's the one who intervened in some actions (75) and not others (that, for instance). She had power.
For those saying we should be magnanimous about the passing of the queen, a reminder that the queen inserted herself into the lives of Indigenous people here multiple times. She wasn't a bystander to the effects of colonisation and colonialism, she was an architect of it.
Liberal feminism tells women it's important we talk about male violence - then the small print says we're not allowed anything so grand as a class analysis, since that would implicate male people who don't feel personally powerful. >
"'These women are trying to learn how to heal, and now they’re making sleep schedules so that one woman is always on watch to make sure no one gets raped. The women ask us every day for help and for answers about why this is being done to them.’"
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We sometimes hear women say they have no problem sharing private and intimate spaces with men. These women can consent on their own behalf to this but they cannot consent on behalf of other women. That's not how consent works. Along with many other women, I do not consent.
When a woman says it is distressing to share an intimate public space with males, TRAs say her distress doesn’t matter, but when a male says it is distressing to share an intimate public space with other males, TRAs say that is ALL that matters. This is a men’s rights movement.
As the clash of womens rights & trans rights escalates in Australia, it’s important to remember the core premise of feminists argument: It’s nothing personal. We simply have no idea which males are the good ones & which ones are the bad ones & so none are welcome in female spaces
“I absolutely in my heart of hearts think that everybody has a right to play sport. I don’t care what colour, race or biological sex you are, just not in the women’s category” – Former track & field Olympian Jane Flemming ❤️ #SaveWomensSports#IStandWithKatherineDeves@insightSBS