@parislees 1)This illustrates much of what’s wrong with trans activism atm. Instead of targeting toxic masculinity, male violence & a male dominated economic system whose employment practices, tabloid scapegoating & priorities oppress us, it’s women (themselves oppressed) who are targeted. @parislees 2) We’re not stigmatised because people understand the validity of sex and that you can’t fundamentally change it. That’s just a biological fact, not hate. No, we’re stigmatised & discriminated against as transwomen and transmen because

1) It’s surreal & frightening to see people who’ve never attended wpuk public meetings, tripping over themselves to declare it as a violent hate group. In their haste they show deliberate ignorance, perhaps even their own projected hatred of women who refuse to know their place. 2) We have a word for that but I fear there is little point in trading insults, we need to raise the level of discourse. In their movements’ jaundiced rush to demonise women who are merely trying to peacefully & democratically discuss changes which directly affect them,

@bullsh1tblue @PykusPiraticus @HedyLamar8 @SusanH_ENC @ConorMadrid @Raspberry_Saucy @OTnotjustajob @kayewrites @bloominanna @Brooke_Willow_ @EyeEdinburgh @cursesinvogue @AnneBevan1 @maria_siulee @half_half_lady @evilniamh @melanarkatis @teresamaryclark @TerrorizerMir @CJHoward428 @usethespacebar @PaddyOdoors79 @o_guest @vogelbeere @RozKaveney @Giuliana_London @mimmymum @CarlitaRogers @joss_prior @natachakennedy @charliekiss 1) I lived for a short time to all intents & purposes (outwardly) as a very feminine heterosexual man. Daily I paid what within months became an unsustainable price in social ridecule, rejection & menace as well as a growing sense of isolation. You just can’t put this on kids 2) & young people. The very act of being more true to your own personality even if conflated with sex often risks losing everything, family, friends, sometimes the chance of a job or a partner. It requires enormous courage just to face all or part of that depending on your.

I don’t need validation. I KNOW I’m not a woman. Neither did I freely choose this path. Now that I have & almost literally cut off other possibilities there are certain realities to my life. Social relationships are real & women do exist in a broad but distinct social reality You can dismiss that as stereotypes but I conform less to female stereotypes than most women do. Even Julia is not immune to the social norms, pressures & context in which we live. No-one is, that’s an impossibility. We are a social species & we conform to some norms that help

1) I DEMAND #transrights . Instead, tragically we have trans rights conflated with a ‘right’ to minimise or obliterate the reality of biological sex instead of a fight for equality, freedom from violence & discrimination, to proper services & a real fight vs systemic transphobia 2) Instead of targeting forces reproducing/policing the gender role oppression that underpins transphobia (clue-it isn’t feminists) we’re in effect told there’s a ‘right’ to throw biological science into the trash and remove entirely from women the right to define their own sex.