The Gender Dissidents SurveyWomen have enough to deal with. Men being in our spaces is an additional burden and intrusion. After all most are still biologically men
I have Tweeted, joined small groups, contacted my MP, Local Authority, attended meetings
Any consequences? Not at all
Ecuadorian Mum, I stand with JK Rowling,
I am concerned ecause I find it frightening (appalling actually) to think that self-ID could allow men into women’s spaces. To allow men to take opportunities and positions set aside for women. We need to be able to organise ourselves and be recognised and protected as a distinct category, separate from men. It’s not possible to change sex, and sex fucking matters. I have a young daughter who I want to protect from having to share her most intimate spaces with men. She shouldn’t have to compromise on her identity or safety to accommodate the feelings of men.
I attended a few talks. Opened a Twitter account to follow more GC women and learn so as to be informed when having discussions about this in real life to people I know.
I haven’t had any major consequences because I hold back a LOT worried of it affecting my friendships.
Lil , F*cking fed up
As a woman, a feminist and now as a mother this matters to me because the boundaries which define my existence as a female person are being erased in law.
Legally, politically and socially the definition of woman is being diluted to the point of nothingness for the benefit of males.
The sex-based protections offered to women through the 2010 Equalities Act become entirely meaningless and thus leave women and children at even greater risk from male violence.
Our rights, our safety, our privacy and even the language we use to speak of our lives, bodies, our uniquely female experiences and how we are oppressed globally under patriarchy is threatened by this unnecessary and highly misogynistic redefinition.
I have attended some feminist talks and meetings about this issue.I have donated money to feminist groups when possible. I try to have civil and straightforward conversations about these issues with the people in my life. I read widely and research as much as I can. I share and discuss content online in feminist groups and through an anonymous account.
I have gotten into emotionally charged debates with some people. My anonymous social media account has been featured in several “terf block and stay safe” lists circulated online. I have received some nasty, misogynistic comments.
Lisa W., Radfem mother
I care because I’m a woman, a mother to 3 daughters. I want privacy, dignity and safety for us all. I also object to the sexist and misogynistic stand point.
I share often on my private social media, have had a few arguments. It has come up occasionally at mother’s groups, women are worried, but we only ever speak if we feel it’s safe to do so. We’re worried and scared. I also wrote to my local MP who ignored me.
I’ve been called a TERF, bitch and cunt. All online. Also lost long-distance friends.
L
I care because I am a Woman. I care because I have a daughter. Women need their own words, spaces, rights to assemble. No other class of people would be told they must accept their oppressor into their own class of people. Moreover, my daughter is disabled and my responsibilities stretch beyond my own lifetime. I want to know her right to same-sex care will be protected. Her right to undress outwith the male gaze is maintained.
In a world in which Women are overly sexualised from an early age it is appalling that we would be asked to give up our privacy. Telling Women to embrace discomfort or that saying no is bigotry is coercive.
My Government has already redefined Woman in one Act- more will follow and in law Women will no longer be deemed to exist as a material reality. This terrifies me as if we do not exist as a material reality violence against Women disappears, sexism disappears, misogyny disappears. How often Women are told their concerns are ‘all in their head’ like their concerns are made up, imagined, but when something is in a man’s head it automatically becomes truth.
I have set up a social media account devoted to this subject in an attempt to get information to as many Women as possible since Governments are not informing Women of the changes that are being made. I attended a demonstration. I attend Women’s meeting. I leafleted re GRA reform. I have written to politicians.
I have been name-called on social media. Being called Terf is a regular occurrence. I have been added to ‘Nazi’ lists. I have received threatening memes. And sexual comments have been made to me. I have been called stupid, and told I need re educated as many times as I have been called Terf.
EH, worried, exhausted but still standing
This matters to me because as a concerned woman, I should be able to freely speak my mind without people telling my views are abhorrent or receiving any consequences for speaking my mind.
I have talked to friends and family about the trans cult.
They told me to get off of the internet, seek therapy and eventually cut themselves out of my life because “i’m fixated on an issue”
Rose, Mother and concerned woman,
This is very personal for me. My 14 year old daughter (likely ASD, complex mental health history) told her Year Head that she wanted to transition to a boy. The Year Head embraces this with enthusiasm and formally transitioned her across the school behind our backs. When we found out and told him we wanted to do watchful waiting (non affirmative, giving her a neutral space to grow and develop) he told us we had no say as parents. I had no idea affirmation was pushed by lobby groups to school as the only acceptable approach.
It’s a highly complex, sensitive issue and schools need to work with parents, not push them out of the picture.
I have written to multiple MPs and MSPs as well as the Children’s Commissioner Scotland. I am active on social media and in a parent support group pushing for evidence based medicine around gender dysphoria in children and adolescents. I have attended and spoken from the floor at various meetings – e.g. seminar at the Scottish Parliament on GD in children/adolescents.
I do the vast majority anonymously to protect my daughter’s privacy. I get backlash on social media- just the usual calling me an abusive parent (and one told me my experience was “not worthy of respect in a democratic society” – wonder where they got that from Maya, eh?). IRL has been fine as have only told a small supportive group of friends. School has been a battle with some teachers supportive, others not.
Betty
I care about the ability to name reality, women’s safety, dignity & privacy, the safeguarding of children. I don’t think the trans movement will encourage genuine acceptance of trans people or lower their suicide rate. I think we should be open and accepting of AGP. I care that children are being told their bodies are wrong and need to be changed.
I have written to my child’s school & talked to people in person.
I have lost friends
Lucy, Mum & concerned member of society
I have been interested in the changing terminology of ‘woman’ and being exposed to gender ideology. My children are in primary school and I am happy for them to be taught about sexuality and different types of relationships. I have been concerned by the influence of Mermaids on school policy and education. There are two sexes. Gender is a social contruct and should be pushed in to the open, where there are no boy ‘things’ or girls ‘things’, just ‘things’.
I have done very little, becauase I follow on social media and have seen the consequences for those who speak out.
I tend not to speak about this with my family or friends, as I never know what the response might be, it is usually that my opinion is a bigoted one, or ill informed. That I dont understand what it is like to be Trans.
Louise, Woman and parent
As a woman, and a mother with 2 teenage daughters who both don’t conform to society’s idea of girl and womanhood I think it’s very important to speak out and raise awareness.
I have spoken at length with both my daughters about this issue. And if I hadn’t raised it with them both I think they would be at risk of being “transed” through peer pressure.
They have both been called tomboys and asked if they were trans, over and over again because they refuse to wear dresses and make up. As children they both played more with “boys toys” than “girls”. And were called boys as children.
My eldest in particular, she is Autistic. And admitted at one point she thought she may be trans. But through talking at length she realised she was perfectly happy as a girl. It was society’s pressures that she hated.
The rate at which girls and boys seem to be being told they’re trans because they don’t conform is horrifying! This is one of the most important issues in today’s society. We have to keep fighting.
Been very vocal on social media, and to an extent in real life. I’ve opened the eyes of several family members and “peak transed” them.
I haven’t had any consequences at the moment, I keep my social media anonymous for this very reason. I have to protect my children.
A Leyland
The Gender Dissidents Survey