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Voluntary sector

I have raised it carefully and professionally in a range of work settings

I am very committed to eliminating discrimination against women, creating equality between women and men, dismantling the patriarchy. Forcing women to accept that trans women ARE women and thus should be in our personal spaces is the anathema of everything I believe in and fight for every day of my life

I have challenged people in real life and lost very close personal friends as a result. I have raised it carefully and professionally in a range of work settings (voluntary and paid). I have met with my MP to voice my concerns. I have an anonymous Twitter account and I post frequently on that. I have promoted posts from WPUK on FB.

I have lost two good friends – one of them was one of my best friends; I’ve bored people half to death as well.

R, Feminist campaigner

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Public Sector

I felt as a former psychiatrist and seasoned politician I should stand up and be counted

I first became aware of how large an issue this had become about three years ago on Twitter. As a man, it wasn’t something I had seen much of before then. As someone who has always supported women’s rights I think I just assumed that this was no longer a campaigning issue but a matter of driving home the message at work and in politics.

Then I encountered the loathsome Dr Adrian Harrop bullying a woman who had had the temerity to stand up for her rights.

This introduced me to the delusional world of the trans activists, who I discovered were infiltrating every aspect of women’s lives.

I felt as a former psychiatrist and seasoned politician I should stand up and be counted.

I have argued with TRAs on Twitter and Facebook, organised a meeting in the House of Lords, joined groups of like minded people, contributed money to groups and encouraged others.

I left the Labour Party I had served for forty years. I’m not sure if that’s really a negative.

Lewis Moonie, Member House of Lords, former MP and government minister

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Public Sector

As an ally to lesbians I want to protect their rights to homosexuality

As a woman I am terrified of the erasure. As an ally to lesbians I want to protect their rights to homosexuality.

I have only spoken on social media. I’m too afraid otherwise

I am too afraid to say something at work.

EA, Concerned adult human female, No thank you, USA

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Others

This is a physical biological link to the world that everyone forgets

I care as it’s to hard bloody being a women for men to believe being a women is JUST a feeling!  Women are a biological reality.

Women are  connected to the earth and moon rotation that creates monthly cycles that are so strong on your body you mensturate each month. This is a physical biological  link to the world that everyone forgets.  This biological cycle does not disappear in menopuase, it’s still definitely there.  

I joined Speak Up For Women in New Zealand and I’m actively working out ways to inform more people. Bringing it up in conversations.  Going to talk to my MP.  Leaving the NZ Green Party as they are so woke there’s no way I can stay.

Middle aged Kiwi women, Gender critical with no political home, New Zealand

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Public Sector

It’s toxic for morale in an organisation when someone decides to identify a certain way for cynical reasons.

I work in HR in a large government organisation. It’s toxic for morale in an organisation when someone decides to identify a certain way for cynical reasons. I’ve had several really bad experiences with this. I’m sick of it.

I have been very forceful in making sure the actual not the stated wishes for is adhered to. I treated false accusations of discrimination and bullying extremely seriously.

I’ve been removed from groups, made feel unwelcome at events. Nothing too serious because I stood up to it.

Joh , 20 years as a HR professional, wont be intimidated by bullies, Ireland

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Public Sector

Gender ideology spreads lies and reinforces sexist stereotypes

I care about the truth. Gender ideology spreads lies and reinforces sexist stereotypes.

I’m anonymously vocal on Twitter. In real life, I talk about this to everyone (friends, family, coworkers). Most people are not even aware of this issue. Yet when they find out, all agree with my position.

I serve in the military. If I were using my real name on Twitter, I am 100% confident that activists would track me down and that I would be forced to release.

Nathalie, Canada

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Public Sector

When I can’t use the words women or woman, how can I work in a feminist way?

As a woman and long-time feminist I need the language to be able to describe the sex class I belong to and the issues we all face as females. To have this language taken from us, to be silenced in this way, is profoundly disturbing and authoritarian.

Knowing the harsh and unfair consequences that some women face for speaking out has had a chilling effect on me. I am otherwise an outspoken woman but working in local government, I know I cannot question the gender ideology that is prevalent these days.

I risk being labelled a bigot at best and facing official censure at worst. This means I cannot work as I would like to further the cause of women’s liberation. When I can’t use the words women or woman, how can I work in a feminist way?

I have done all my activism in a very different way to usual. It’s been filing in consultations and getting informed. I’ve only spoken about the issue to my male partner and had one or two tentative conversations with friends.

At work, where our ‘diversity and inclusion’ officers have removed women from campaigns against violence against women and have widened International Women’s Day awards to men (not just those who think they’re women), I have had to be very careful.

I edit with caution, use words that can’t be argued with (for example, quoting external official bodies that haven’t totally erased women). But mainly I stay away from work fighting for women’s rights that in previous years I was driving within our communications team in local government. I am so disappointed in myself for this but I also don’t want to take on the bullies in my organisation who I know will attack me if I stand up for women’s rights and against gender ideology.

I haven’t really spoken up yet. I am slowly building my confidence and being inspired by vocal women who have. Like you Maya.

Sarah, local government worker, Australia

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Parent

I was suicidally depressed as a bisexual GNC teenager and suspect the trans ideology might have snared me if it had been around then

I care because I’m a human who believes that truth and reality is the only way for humanity to progress. I care because I’m a woman and I care about womens’ rights for myself and for my sisters and daughters. I care because I am so grateful for the generations of feminists who won me my rights and I don’t want to squander their incredible work.

I care because I was suicidally depressed as a bisexual GNC teenager and suspect the trans ideology might have snared me if it had been around then, with permanent medical consequences. I care about womens’ sex based rights and our dignity. Most of all I care about my 2 year old daughter and the world she is going to grow up in.

I have spoken with my partner and friends in real life, anonymously on social media, have written in to letters and petitions, and donated to GNC causes.

I have been very careful.

Holly B, I always thought I was solidly left wing until I learned about the trans ideology, Australia

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Healthcare Public Sector

I work in a university where there are no female toilets anymore

I care because self id has swept into every single workplace throughout the UK with no change in the law. I work in a university where there are no female toilets anymore, where disabled toilets have been renamed accessible to open them up for Trans/Non binary.

A disabled toilet loses all meaning if you open them up to everyone. They are scarce as it is.

But while it has swept in under the guise of Stonewall training, it cannot be questioned.  You must not speak badly about any aspect.

As it stands there is nowhere a woman can go where a man cannot follow.

I’ve shared posts on social media, shared facts about the equality act, donated to crowd funding.

I am threatened every day on social media. Called a Nazi, told I should be raped, told I shouldn’t have children because I’m a horrible human. Told they will find me and rape me with their “Lady cock” called a bitch, whore, hater of trans women.

It’s never ending abuse.

Eve

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Public Sector

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