The Gender Dissidents SurveyNobody knows how to properly read studies or articles anymore, nor formulate arguements with sufficient political and dialectic efficacy.
I’m just speaking up, whenever I can really.
It seems quite a number of both trans and conservative people don’t like what I have to say, but that’s apparently my fault for dissecting and bring nuance to misinformation and propaganda.
Paige, :), USA
I care because women’s rights exist on the basis of sex. Gender isn’t an accurate substitute for what it’s like living in a female body.
I have been vocal online as myself and with a sock account.
I have lost so many friends and professional contacts that I barely have any left.
Germaine F, Female human being, USA
It matters to me because I believe there are many of us who have lived under one set of understandings (I am 60) and others who are more progressive and are angry if I don’t understand their position or have doubts about it. It seems that if you don’t agree you are ‘hater’ or on the side of injustice. It’s a little too much.
However, I have gay family members and gay friends, children of my friends are gay or trans-gender and I treat them with the same love and respect as anyone else.
I may have doubts about the issue on a grander scale, but I feel like some will label me a ‘hater’ if I share or have doubts at all.
I don’t want to discuss it with over-passionate people.
Mary, Believer in God through Jesus Chris, mom of two adult children and three step-children, professional, and I stay active (exercise), USA
I have a daughter and a son. I tell them that they can perform their gender any way they want but there are biological facts to having a penis or a vagina (or being intersex).
This matters to me because it is a fact. It matters to me because I think pretending it is otherwise can set the progress women have made back. It matters to me because it invalidates the experience of being born a female…a physically weaker sex with less muscle mass…which translates to sports and safety.
I haven’t done much – I would be kicked out of my community! I haven’t spoken up except to a few close friends.
Brenna A, USA
This matters to me because I’m a woman! And over the past ten years, coming into that womanhood, I have felt increasingly erased, spoken over, and silenced.
I have started an alternate twitter account, and had conversations with friends.
I have been called a terf in a bar and been threatened with violence.
E, Young, radical, and XX, US
This issue is at the heart of modern politics because once again women are being sidelined, if not erased, to meet the needs and wants of men. Woman are not a subset of their sex. It matters that I make a public stand to raise the voices of women around the world demanding to be recognised, heard and keep their sex-based rights.
Gender is a cultural construct and an individual can dress & name themselves how they please but insisting that women accommodate the stereotypical imagery so many mtf (male to female) transgender people insist on rather than men moving up and broadening their gender dynamic.
I have spoken with friends and acquaintances about the issues – loss of as sex-based rights in loss of sex-based communities, revisionism of lesbian and gay history, the demand of lesbians to be accommodating the whole concept of “male lesbians”.
I have been called TERF, put friendships at risk, been asked by my daughter not to discuss the issue bc she doesn’t want to fight.
trash alou, Middle aged old lady with a determination to stand up for those women and children who need a voice
I believe that this is part of a major rollback against women’s rights and I’m concerned for my safety and that of all women and girls if single sex spaces are lost.
I have only felt brave enough to make few anonymous posts online and tentatively mention the issues at work. I have filled out government consultations online and signed petitions too.
I haven’t been negatively affected but I have been met with disbelief, e.g. “that would never happen” type responses to things that have already occurred.
Jiggery Wokery, Politically homeless left-winger
As a woman I have suffered discrimination and sexual abuse, we need to have single sex spaces etc to protect women and their dignity.
I have answered the consultation, emailed my MP, posted on social media, talked to colleagues at work.
I have been called a terf, lost friends.
Helen, Gender free adult human female
This matters to me because we are women, and our biology is a fundamental factor in our oppression worldwide and throughout history. To ignore it, or pretend it isn’t exactly what it is, is just ridiculous, not to mention extremely dangerous. Aside from that, I’m a believer in facts and reality, and I won’t pretend something is X if I know it to be Y. I disagree with compelled speech with every part of my being.
I have created an anonymous twitter account to join conversations and show my support, in light of the brave actions of JK Rowling. If she can stand up for what’s right, it’s time I did too. However I’m sorry I do so anonymously, I’m just scared of TR activists and what they might do if I annoy one of them. I also read and research a lot around the topic, and speak to my friends on the matter where it feels safe to do so.
Not yet really, but I’ve only just started to be properly vocal this week. I imagine it’s only a matter of time.
V GKC E, 31 year old female, who won’t be forced in to a lie that endangers others
I care about this because I believe strongly in both trans rights and women’s rights but while there is a significant overlap between the two, they are not the same. I want properly written laws which are properly thoughtful to the needs of biological women, trans women and trans men not coopting women’s rights without thought to differences or equal consideration to trans men.
I have taken part in surveys and spoken to friends in person.
There have been no consequences because I have only spoken to people I feel safe with.
M
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