I have seen something very sinister unfold

This issue is important to me because I have seen something very sinister unfold over a number of years.

What used to seem inexplicable and random – feminist groups quite suddenly turning from places of robust exchanges of opinion between women, to places of censoriousness, telling off and marginalising those who question centering men – and now with the benefit of hindsight this is no longer inexplicable or random to me, but obviously coordinated, planned and deliberate.

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It is chilling. Women’s gains are being pushed back by male supremacists wearing rainbow flags who have infiltrated every organisation and space with the word ‘women’ in it.

To raise my voice I have spoken up to most people I know, written to my MP, taken part in consultations, protests, spoken on social media and given to crowdfunders.

I have experienced hostility and stereotyping – told that I am a bigot and a ‘Daily Mail reader’ in my real life. I have had it a lost worse on social media – lost accounts.