The Gender Dissidents SurveyI care because I have daughters and they should not have to face this dangerous ideology.
I have spoken out in life and social media. I have asked my daughters school to ensure they keep sex segregated facilities after they built an entirely new block of “all gender” toilets with very limited school funds.
I’ve only experienced negative reactions on social media.
Cheryl , Fighting for women’s rights and safeguarding children
I don’t understand the UK today, why has ‘diversity’ mandatory training in all jobs suddenly become something done by Stonewall – who as far as I can tell from Twitter, have invented a new range of people, instead of just male and female. I
am, at age 52, glad not to be working and having to be ‘educated’ to believe a male with intact genitalia is a woman, the same as me.
I am house bound, no friends and family, so other than trying to put across the dangers of putting men in a women’s prison as Labour MPs like Ms. Butler are recommending, (even when the man has intact genitals but claims to be female), by my use of Twitter, there is nothing I can do.
Just the one Twitter mention of that issue being wrong and dangerous, and I was swamped with hateful tweets and had to lock my Twitter and change the name I used. Yet I was a Prison Officer, so I had a valid contribution to make.
I also emailed the Body Shop about their patronising Tweet to JK Rowling, and have just got a long email back, none of which makes any sense but informs me that ‘males menustrate’ and that ‘ some women don’t have periods’. I don’t understand the world around me now at all and scared of interacting with people if this is what they believe.
I was swamped with hateful ‘Terf’ tweets that left me absolutely shattered – my usual arthritic joint and muscle pains increased, I couldn’t sleep and my depression and anxiety are now severe.
I had to keep my Twitter locked and will never comment again, despite supporting Maya F and JK Rowling completely. As mentioned, the long Body Shop reply email I got back after supporting Ms. Rowling, seemed to be written by somebody who was insane. Why would companies even be involved in trans issues when they sell cosmetics and body butters? Why has my whole being as a female, woman, wife etc been erased as though I don’t exist, and the rights of a man who says he is a woman, are suddenly more valuable? Why are Body Shop campaigning to say men have periods at all?
Mrs D J, Woman, wife, and not invisible
It feels like I have gone back to the gender stereotyping of the 1950s. Also because I have a gay son (in his thirties now) who would definitely have been fast tracked in gender changing – he played with girls, hated football and loved dressing up. I am really concerned about what they are doing with children.
I’ve tried to talk to people
I’ve experienced refusing to discuss and/or dismissal of my concerns.
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This matters to me because of the reinforcement of gender stereotypes, the legal erosion of women’s rights, the homophobia and especially through educational programmes.
I have discussed what is happening with family and friends and posted (anonymously) on twitter.
I have been careful (cowardly?) about who I have spoken to.
Anne, Left wing, feminist, lesbian, autistic
I care because I look at how easy it is for girls to have their breasts cut off. Five times since the age of 22 I have asked for a breast reduction I’ve been 5ft and a 28GG+ since 14yrs. I gave up they always ask if I have my husbands permission.
Then I saw a man with a beer gut gain entry to an antenatal class then sympathy and a go fund me page for a grief doll when said baby was ‘stillborn’. I was told 30yrs ago to hop to it and get another one started.
I’ve started posting to my Facebook it’s mostly relatives and other women I game with 😂. So many of them knew nothing of about any of the risk of us losing the right to be women. They’ve been private messaging and using zoom bingo to spread the word: Age range 35-76yrs.
A few of my younger relatives and a non binary friend female with three kids unfriended me, no biggy. I don’t care anymore.
Agnes , I am a Woman = An Adult Human Female
I care because I am already short changed in life as a women. Now I am expected to move aside to accommodate a man who wants to call himself ‘woman’ and me ‘cis’.
I joined and attended meetings with WPUK. I follow and post comments on twitter, I follow feminist boards.
I have been unfriended on social media, I have been ridiculed for my views by family and friend and told ‘it isn’t a problem and I should show empathy’.
DB, I am Woman XX
I care about fairness in sport and safety in single sex spaces.
Mainly twitter posts, the one middle-road article I shared on Facebook cost me an acquaintance.
Woman
It matters to me that men who identify as women may enter into jobs where I would be forced to accept them into my space, specifically: the care sector and nursing. I will need personal care in the future and I may be forced to accept a self ID’ing male for my personal care needs. I was abused from a young age by many of the men in my alcoholic mother’s life and I cannot allow a man to touch me in intimate areas.
I have written to my MP and MSP and received bland stock emails in return. I have funded campaigns, leafleted my local area, attended meetings, been vocal on social media, spoken to my few friends, challenged where possible.
My two best friends have told me they find it boring and nothing to do with them, leaflets I put up in the local area were defaced or removed, I’ve received abuse and been ‘limited’ on Twitter.
Doreen M, Survivor of childhood abuse
This matters to me because I’m a woman and I should have the right to speak about issues that affect me.
I’ve shared information with family and friends. Shared thoughts on Twitter.
I’ve only experienced negative consequences from morons on Twitter.
Helen K, Female. Scottish. I won’t be silenced
This matters to me because when I lived in a women’s refuge with my children, my ex partner had already injured me repeatedly and if he knew where we were he’d have done anything to get to us, I expect I would have either been murdered by him or killed myself if there hadn’t been a women only safe house because we were completely alone with nowhere else to go.
I don’t feel safe in places I can’t get out of easily with men around.
I’ve only spoken on social media and talked to a friend when I had one but she said it’s all fake news and we fell out. We are in our 50s.
I’ve talked to my daughters and grandchildren about it, my daughters, one took a while to understand then was horrified when the reality of self id was explained, the other not so long.
One of my granddaughters came home from school aged 10-11 after a boy ‘is now a girl’ and an assembly about it, unsure if she was a girl or boy but definitely both!! Who gave her the idea? Primary school, this is in East Sussex.
I’ve been called terf and insulted online but in real life just lost the friend.
woman: adult human female, I was a tomboy in the 70s & 80s. Best in the school at maths. Was told I shouldn’t be good at maths because I was a girl.
If I was a teenager now I would probably be told I was a boy and instead of struggling through puberty and being happy to be female I would have gone through a transition that wasn’t right for me.
I have followed people on twitter and ‘liked’ their posts. This week I was brave enough to share JK Rowlings post on twitter. I am worried about the career I want to develop as a novelist though, so today I have created a second twitter account so I can be more vocal about the issues and support others who are braver than me.
Siân, Adult Human Female
The Gender Dissidents Survey