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We were absolutely clear about the need to dismantle sex stereotyping (aka ‘gender’)

I got involved with lesbian and gay activism and then feminist activism in the early 1970s.  We were absolutely clear about the need to dismantle sex stereotyping (aka ‘gender’).  And now it is being amplified despite all the successes we thought we’d had.

I raised the issue of the Labour Party deciding that trans-identified men counted as ‘women’ for the purposes of all-women shortlists et al.  I’ve talked to innumerable friends and acquaintances and a few relations.  I’ve spoken at two public meetings (in Newcastle).  I’m involved in the Labour Women’s Declaration Working Group and in a small group doing some research and analysis for the LGB Alliance.

I got absolutely pilloried in my constituency Labour Party….  One friend is suspicious of what I say but not totally disagreeing.  But that’s all.  I’ve had it easy compared to many.

Alice Bondi, retired psychotherapist and very long-term feminist (as in second wave feminism)

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I have spoken to most people I know in real life and online

Could cite about twenty reasons why I care. Maybe the biggest is the irrationalism & witch hunting tendencies it shows up among people who I would hope would be trying to prevent oncoming planetary disasters – ecological most of all.

I have spoken to most people I know in real life and online. The negative consequences have not been great for me – just online acquaintances lost

M, Most of my life has been spent in work with psychiatric patients

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I promised myself that I would never again collude in someone else’s bulls**t.

I care because I have a daughter- having grown up in a very women-unfriendly family and country, I view transgenderism as another robe that misogyny wears.

I watched “Panti’s noble call” and really felt sympathy for people who felt that they were “born in the wrong body”…and later reflected that at no point in his speech did he reference that the abuse he experienced is something that young women deal with ALL THE TIME.

You titled your questionnaire “speaking up for reality” and having been gaslighted almost to oblivion when married, I promised myself that I would never again collude in someone else’s bulls**t. I am very kind,  considerate and empathetic- but I will not reduce my own boundaries to accommodate someone else’s needs. They have to take responsibility for themselves.

I speak to my children constantly (teens) and advise them to keep their heads down about the issue at school.

I refused to work with a school (professionally) that wanted to modify a bathroom to accommodate a (trans) child, under the guise of adapting the bathroom to meet the needs of another (different) disabled child.

I tentatively raise my voice with friends- but most are still at the point of “what’s the harm in being kind?” or “what difference does it make?” without thinking it through to it’s logical outcome, when manipulated by someone who refuses to recognise usual social boundaries, or who refuses to reciprocate respect.

Not really, but then I havent yet been brave- I really worry for my livelihood (I work with ASD children and teens).

MRP, Ireland

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This all just feels like the same old misogyny in a new package, and I’m appalled by how many women are falling for it

I care because the basis of women’s oppression is and has always been their female body. To me, it feels completely wrong and like a new, “progressive” form of misogyny to deny women the language to talk about their own oppression.

The ideology behind the trans movement is logically inconsistent and inherently sexist – that “woman” is an amalgamation of sexist stereotypes, that women could somehow identify out of the violence and oppression perpetrated against them, that men could somehow identify into experiencing life just like a woman, that women who speak up are deserving of hatred, threats, losing their jobs, or violence.

This all just feels like the same old misogyny in a new package, and I’m appalled by how many women are falling for it. Men I might expect, but the women who enforce it are the most painful of all.

I have spoken up on social media and I have donated to feminist organizations. I don’t feel like I have done enough. Most of my speaking up on social media has been under the protection of anonymity, and when it hasn’t been, there was backlash. I’ve also spoken to certain people in my real life about this, and have found that most people tend to agree once I’ve explained my thoughts to them. I have been threatened and called names online.

I have been told that I am a bigot, that I am hateful, and that I need to be “educated” (I hold a doctoral degree in human biology and have never expressed hatred towards anyone identifying as trans).

These things have been said by strangers as well as a close friend. I have had my Twitter account suspended multiple times for saying things like, “Men cannot become women.” I work in a professional career, and although there have been no professional repercussions yet, I really fear professional repercussions if I were to continue to speak out.

D, feminist scientist, USA

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Because of my profession, I cannot share my name

I participate actively, every day, and have done for the past several years, anonymously on social media accounts.

Because of my profession, I cannot share my name. I donate regularly to local and international women’s organizations. And I sow seeds in my professional environment.

I have received threats of rape, death, beheading, disembowelment, etc. I have lost friendships and social supports.

“Lavender Amethyst”, Radical Feminist Psychotherapist, USA

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I have helped set up and organise groups and events

This matters to me because women must have the right to define ourselves and  to our own spaces, so we can organise politically for our rights, and be physically safe.

I have helped set up and organise groups and events, spoken in social media, and posted other people’s blogs and information, written to parliamentary select committees,

I’ve been given the silent treatment and spoken of very negatively in general terms. But I don’t speak up as much as I would like, in order to avoid further abuse.

Roberta, 1970’s second wave feminist,  lived in women’s communities, single parent. socialist

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Objective reality is important

This matters because objective reality is important. Women’s rights are being undermined by postmodern misogyny. Woke ideology is sweeping the youth of the middle classes and has captured a lot of government bodies.

I’ve written blog posts (Redline Marxist blog in NZ), I’m in Speak Up For Women, NZ, held public events including touring Meghan Murphy, interviewed Meghan for Redline.

My employer tried to sack me and I left after a mediated settlement. I am a nurse working in sexual health, contraception.

Cassandra (pseudonym), Fighting the new misogyny

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I want to protect my lesbian daughter, and all the other girls out there

This issue is important to me because I see the risks to women and girls. I want to protect my lesbian daughter, and all the other girls out there.

I’ve attended public meetings of GC feminists, debated on social media and talked to a number of women IRL (in real life). I’ve donated to a few fundraisers and signed many petitions.

I have had difficult conversations with my children, who are split, two pro GC and two anti GC. I have been endlessly insulted and threatened on twitter. I’ve had temporary bans for harmless comments.

JD, Feminist, mother, worker, New Zealand

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Being woman is not a gender or men’s idea

This issues is matters for women because being woman is not a gender or men’s idea. Women is oppressed by men. Not because we ‘identify’ as women we suffered because we born biologically women

I posted a i.g post and ig stories about Why transgender (Genderism) is harmful for women

One of my friends DMed me and said that ‘ you are ignorant as fuck because you currently living Asia so you can’t understand how important to understand transgender ‘ and she said that if you are feminist you MUST understand a transgender.

And 10+ ppls cancelled my account.

JuyoungI instagram:crisp_summer_air /naver(st.korea) blog: young_in_wonderland, Korea

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I’m a therapist in an LGBT setting and I’m being requested to see younger and younger kids who are very confused

This is hugely important to me as I’m a therapist in an LGBT setting (have been for years) and I’m being requested to see younger and younger kids (as an example a 13yr old the other day) who are very confused and feeling like they’re ‘in the wrong body’ etc, 99% are gay.

The increase is not coincidental, and all of these kids (roughly 12/13 to around 17) are constantly online. They’ve been taught that if they feel it or suspect it, it just be so.

I have to be very careful not to lose my job and feel like I can do some good actually by keeping quiet and trying to develop a relationship with these younger clients and encourage them to really listen to their own voice. And if I can, to try to open them up to the idea that so much changes at this age and you just don’t know who the hell you are till you’re a bit older.

There’s no *way* this amount of young people can be trans, and the ones who I’ve either kept seeing past their 18th and 19th etc haven’t been, they’ve been gay in the majority of cases.

If they get steered to the wrong place/person in such a state of confusion and vulnerability, I dread to think if the possible long lasting consequences.

Psychotherapist, Ireland