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There is no way to fully explain my plight as a lesbian Middle-Easterner without the basic idea that I am oppressed due to my sex

It matters to me on a sheer logical level. There is no way to fully explain my plight as a lesbian Middle-Easterner without the basic idea that I am oppressed due to my sex, as all women are.

I’ve spoken up to my friends and family about it. My social media isn’t explicitly obvious but is to anyone with a keen eye.

I’ve lost friends, most have been long-standing online relationships but a few have been in person. I have no idea if my ability to get published as a fiction writer has been affected by this.

N, USA

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I believe in biological sex

I care because I believe in biological sex and I believe women have the right to sex-segregated spaces.

I’ve created a twitter account with a pseudonym and engage in GC platforms on Reddit. I haven’t spoken up for fear of retribution. Everything I write is under a pseudonym.

al, Adult human female and lesbian

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Public Sector

I have joined the equality committee of my union to try to make a difference.

I am worried about the effect of transgender ideology on women’s rights. For example, “gender” replacing “sex” on official forms, equality law being misrepresented with “gender Identity” cited as a protected characteristic when it is not and “sex” omitted, former women’s toilets being made “gender neutral” while the men’s is left as it is and the overall misogyny of a movement that insists on labelling women “cis” and calling us “transphobic” for wanting to talk to other women about our bodies.

I have posted on social media (Twitter) anonymously. I am afraid to use my real name because of the hatred and harassment by trans activists I have seen. I have stated concerns in a “feminist” group on Facebook but was thrown out by a man for refusing to state “TWAW”. I have discussed the issues with friends in real life. I have stated concerns about the lack of women’s toilets in a union meeting. I have joined the equality committee of my union to try to make a difference.

I have been removed from an online “feminist” group and been shouted down at a trade union meeting. I have been verbally abused on social media which confirms that my decision to remain anonymous is the correct one.

Sarah B., Feminist who believes that any form of feminism that centres male people is not feminism

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It has become almost impossible to speak the truth about sex

I believe the truth matters, and language is important, and it has become almost impossible to speak the truth about sex. I believe I would be at risk of losing my job if I were to state publicly that I don’t believe trans women are female.

I don’t have any understanding of what it is supposed to mean to “feel” female (particularly in people not suffering dysphoria) and can only think that such feelings must be based on restrictive gender stereotypes that are harmful to everyone. I would be happy for trans people to change my mind on this but it feels like it’s not possible to even ask this question without accusations of hatred and violence.

I have spoken to my friends, but have not spoken publicly because of fear of social and professional repercussions.

I have not yet spoken up in a context that would have negative consequences.

H, Feminist hoping I’m not on the wrong side of history

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The responses to any comment that is not perceived as 100% pro-trans… are misogynistic and fascist

This matters to me because the responses to any comment that is not perceived as 100% pro-trans – no matter how conciliatory or reasonably-expressed – are so disproportionately aggressive and violent they are misogynistic and fascist.

C, 52 year old post-menopausal non-menstruator-therefore-what-the-fuck-am-I mother of a teenage daughter

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At my partner’s university a man was caught with a hidden camera in gender neutral toilet

I care because I read that 90% of sexual assaults in toilets are taking place in gender neutral rather than same sex loos – there needs to be a choice. I have experienced gender neutral toilets done badly – having to squeeze past men at urinals and walk through their urine to get to the cubicle and it is not nice for them or for me.

At my partner’s university a man was caught with a hidden camera in gender neutral toilet, no one had suspected he was a pervert. Too many young women de/transing, lesbian erasure. Gone too far now – I refuse to be scared to call myself a woman.

I attended a March 9th 2020 Labour Womens Declaration/ Womans Place UK/ LGB Alliance event. Tweeted and shared on Twitter. I’ve spoken to a couple of friends about my concerns.

I lost a trans friend who has become a trans radicalised extremist.

TG, When rights clash, we need to talk

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Not giving up without a fight

Women are a sex class & if we cannot define ourselves we cannot identify or fight discrimination. This discrimination still exists and happens because of our sex.

I’ve attended meetings, lobbied elected reps, signed Labour Women’s Declaration, raised the issue at Union training – dismissed & mocked for raising it, put literature about this when trying on clothes in shops, left literature in public toilets

I can no longer talk about it at home for fear of harming my relationship with my ROGD child.

CM, Not giving up without a fight

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I once was a TRA, and considered myself a trans man/non binary

This matters to me because I can’t unsee the truth, that this is a bigger threat to women, homosexuals and free speech than I had ever imagined possible. I had no idea how quickly and easily all our legal rights could be taken away, and how much hated and indifference society and men feel towards women.

I once was a TRA, and considered myself a trans man/non binary. But deep down I knew the rhetoric I was trying to convince myself was progressive and forward thinking was the most regressive sexism and entirely because of trauma.

I now consider much of the gender movement a cult, promoting an entirely nonsensical agenda which is applicable to pretty much anyone who isn’t a walking stereotype, and conveying transition as a wonderful, liberating journey, rather than a serious medical undertaking with many risks, and irreversible and unknown consequences.

The thing I find the most unbelievable, other than the most insane misogyny I’ve ever seen, is the attack on free speech. The complete complicity of the media, government, NHS, the police and many public figures who are not only parroting rhetoric they themselves cannot explain, but aggressively denounce groups like a Woman’s Place UK and LGB Alliance as hateful. That anyone could watch the videos or read the website of the former and view it as bigoted hate makes me feel like I’m living under Stasi dictatorship, where something is so obviously wrong, yet everyone is publicly paying tribute to the ideology in the face of all evidence, reason, and plain sanity.

I am active on social media ‘under an alias’ and speak about it with trusted friends and colleagues.

I’ve had aggressive responses online. But in person no, only because I keep it completely secret most of the time.

CJ, GC women’s rights activist, CJ_liberte

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When one of the trainers declared a propos of nothing in particular ‘we love puberty blockers’ I was absolutely disgusted

Apart from the obvious risks to women inherent in allowing any man to declare himself a woman, I am really concerned about the state and other powerful organisations expecting us plebs to affirm what we know to be untrue out of fear.  This goes way beyond anything about trans rights and sets a terrifying precedent.  Where will it end? 

I wrote a long letter of complaint to my HR Director following (optional) training on LGBTQ+ full of the usual unscientific sex (and lesbian) denying crap.  When one of the trainers declared a propos of nothing in particular ‘we love puberty blockers’ I was absolutely disgusted.  The other trainer was a transman who lamented the arduous and pernicious process he had to go through to get his GRC.  I did think that was a devious way of getting people onside.  I did raise my hand to ask what process should be in its place but we ran out of time.  I felt cowardly and I wish I had had the time and courage to speak up more during the session.  

I did ask that my message be treated in confidence and I was careful to state that I wrote it (it was long and took me a great effort) in my own time.  I feel a bit cowardly that I did that.  I stand by what I said and I don’t really care who knows. 

Susan, Northampton mum

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As a grandmother I want the future of my my granddaughters…to include full participation in public life

This matters to me because as a grandmother I want the future of my my granddaughters in particular to include full participation in public life.  The onslaught on the rights of women and children will limit that participation by making single sex facilities unsafe by allowing males free access.  They will also be limited by the removal of women only shortlists and the right to single sex sports.

I have spoken to as many people as I can in my daily life and written to my MP and several retail outlets pointing out the dangers of self idenitfication and the removal of single sex provisions.

I have been dismissed as having a bee in my bonnet which detracts from the overall respect I am shown.

Sophie Smith, Mother, grandmother