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I care about this issue as it disproportionately affects women and girls

I care about this issue as it disproportionately affects women and girls. It affects women’s privacy and dignity, it affects teenage girls, some of whom undertake drastic interventions and it affects lesbians.

I have lobbied government, talked to friends and been effective in changing policy locally.

I have received negative reactions from local LGBT organisations including being accused publicly of causing young people to consider suicide as I stated that I do not believe people can change sex.

JLP

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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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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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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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We are being told that we have to accept that a man with a penis and testicles who identifies as a woman has to be recognised as a woman and it’s nonsense

This matters to me because it feels like women are being erased.  We are being told that we have to accept that a man with a penis and testicles who identifies as a woman has to be recognised as a woman and it’s nonsense.  I am genuinely afraid for my safety and my place in the world and I don’t know what to do.

Shamefully I have done very little because I am afraid for my job, my safety and my child.  I work in politics and my manager is a gay man who fully and vocally supports the trans movement.  We have discussed how I feel up to a point but I know I can’t be completely honest as I would lose my job and, as a single mum I can’t afford to lose my salary so I toe the line despite the strength of my feeling that this is very, very wrong.

Because I know the consequences of speaking up I have stayed quiet but this is becoming harder every day.  Until recently I felt lucky to enjoy the privileges afforded to me by generations of women who fought for our rights as women.  I recognised that there was still a long way to go but now it feels like we have no rights at all.  It feels like we are being erased by men who are taking our place because they know so much better than us what it means to be a woman.

Georgie Mac, ashamed to be so afraid

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You cannot feel what it is like to be a woman

This issue is important to my heart because I value my human right to safety as a woman. Moreover, a woman who has been assaulted by males throughout my short life, I recognise the importance of distinguishing between sex (reality) and gender (stereotypes). You cannot feel what it is like to be a woman. If you were born male, you cannot understand the attacks made against you on a daily basis by everyone in your life, and you cannot empathise genuinely with the suffering of women the world over. I won’t be silenced.

I have devoted my social media accounts to amplifying women and lesbian voices against the tsunami of false information, men deciding what women are, and bile spewed against women like JKR, who is an honourable and admirable representative for women who have suffered at the hands of men.

I’ve been banned from countless groups and communities and added to several lists of public enemies belonging to those groups admins. I have received death and rape threats, as have every other woman I know who has spoken their mind on this matter.

Vi, An unsilenced woman, womensrightspls

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I care about the fact that as a gay man supposed “gay charities” are now violently homophobic

This matters to me because on a selfish level I care about the fact that as a gay man supposed “gay charities” are now violently homophobic and claim that terms like homosexual are “transphobic” and every gay charity and organisation in the UK thinks homosexual people should accept opposite sex people as partners. Also I care about women’s rights and to be frank every woman I know in real life – my mother sisters aunts my female friends etc – do not want to share female only places with male bodied people

I’ve only really spoken out on social media. With my friends and family in real life they know how I feel but they feel similar. I have spoken in work with some colleagues I am close to and found they likewise feel similar but are terrified to speak out

I have lost some friends. I have had social media bans and restrictions. I have been driven out of countless “LGBT groups” including my company pride network.

Sheridan Sinclair , Gay male, civil servant

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A colleague suggested drag for under 5s sessions

I am chilled by the unwillingness to debate a rights conflict. The tsunami of misogyny directed at women with the courage to speak makes me sick. I think language is so important; women need our words to describe ourselves, it’s not hateful or unreasonable. I am so disappointed in the left, I feel politically homeless.

Very little, I suffer from anxiety and I am too scared. I work in the library service in London. Pronouns are appearing in email signatures, a colleague suggested drag for under 5s sessions (I did say something about there being reasonable, not transphobic, not homophobic, objections to this). Even in a public service environment I am afraid to say too much for fear of being labelled a bigot.

I’ve said very little but no overt reaction to the little I did say.

Jane W

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I have to be careful about my views at work for fear of repercussions especially when trying to raise safeguarding concerns for young children

I care about all rights and equal rights, but I am a woman, a lesbian. I have been called a terf, verbally abused on line and during marches, having to be in a group for fear of reprisal… for saying a sex and gender are not the same, being called transphobic for saying a trans woman is not a biological woman and certainly not a lesbian.

I have to be careful about my views at work for fear of repercussions especially when trying to raise safeguarding concerns for young children and people who say they are trans…without any proper evaluation or analysis of their living situation.

I’ve joined marches, online groups, twitters, help crowd funding to name a few.

I have been called terf, bitch, cunt.

DK, Womansworld65