Leftist parties have lost their goddamn mind all around the western World: gender ideology is not the reason why it happened, but it certainly is the most common symptom.
A couple of years ago I thought that they were just well-intentioned people who wanted to do something good, now I think that they have fooled us all for decades and just humoured us (women, LGBs, children, ethnic minorities and workers) to get our votes while at the same time brainwashing us that they care about us and that we need them. How many of us will keep voting and supporting these assholes because we feel like we have no other choice or because we still have some hope that they are going to change their mind? Way too many, if you ask me. It honestly feels like whatever accomplishment we reached, it was just them "allowing" us to have some crumbles until they came back to recollect them and put them in the right hands... theirs. Even if they suddenly stopped being like this and grew integrity and brain cells, I would be unable to trust them again after this: it would just feel like they were humouring me again in order to keep me good while they prepare the next shot. I can't forgive this relentless destruction of women's rights, brainwashing, gaslighting, endangering children, denying LGBs's status, corruption of words, anti-science/common sense mentality, and all of it just to please a bunch of men in dress. I can't vote right wing because I disagree with them pretty much on everything, but I can't vote left wing because they are determined to show how much they want to erase reality and replace it with feelings (of people they give a damn about), all the while "identifying" as the party of science. How the fuck can you trust political and social groups that yell "real over feels" and then tells you that if you value biology over emotional distress you are the worst kind of person because? That claim to be for representation for everyone... as long as you agree with them. That claim to condemn rape and physical abuse and then shut their eyes and ears (or even cheer) when their followers threaten you with rape and torture? That claim to be for science when they refuse to consider measurable facts as real and want to replace them with feelings and unproven metaphysical theories. That claim to be for debate and discussion and then not only try to make it illegal to even tell the truth, but can't even answer simple yes-no questions? 2/28/2021 The gender identity ideology seems less about acceptance of ourselves and others and more about forcing others to agreeRead Now I’m a disabled LGB woman who has leaned far to the liberal left my entire life. I’ve been a voting member of the US Democratic Party since the 2000 Presidential elections. I was involved in Gay rights activism in the 90’s and 00’s, I protested the Iraq war, and have been a disabled rights activist for the last dozen years. I’m a Democratic socialist who resisted Trump and boosted the DP’s candidates. I’ve voted straight Democrat every ticket of my adult life. I have a bachelors in science and believe in the promise of the scientific method. I believe in diplomacy over violence. I believe in tolerance and open debate.
However, I no longer feel that my party represents me. As a disabled woman, I depend on sex-based laws and medical research that accounts for the material difference between male and female patients. There is already a disparity in medical research and healthcare outcomes for women. Now the Biden administration is further diminishing sex-based legal protections. Major medical institutions around the world are erasing the language of biological sex and the liberal government parties around the world are facilitating the process. It goes against science and will cause disproportionate harm to the human beings most dependent on medical care: the disabled. I have no problem with trans identified individuals. They should be able to dress and call themselves what they want. They should have the same rights as anyone else. However, that is not what I see happening in the trans rights movement. I don’t see people being accepted for who they are. I see people, including young children, being encouraged to change their bodies with hormones and surgery if they don’t fit snugly into rigidly-defined gender roles. I see the social pressure on young people to identify their gender driving them to deep depression and searing anxiety. I see families torn apart when a kid comes home from school one day demanding to be called by a new name and itching to call their parents abusers if they have any questions before putting their child on the path to medical transition. I see culture wars breaking out all over the world over this issue, and anyone with doubts or quest being branded as a right-wing bigot. I see women being called TERF for using the word ‘woman.’ I see women deplatformed, doxxed, harassed, fired, and threatened with death and ‘corrective’ rape for saying only people born female can menstruate or get cervical cancer. Or for asking what safeguards are in place to prevent children being accidentally treated for gender identity disorder. I see people with whom I once shared a political party and tolerant world-view accept this kind of behavior because they think the target of such harassment is transphobic and therefore barely human. I see women being told to make room in their legal protections, sports, changing rooms, domestic violence shelters, trauma support groups, rape crisis centers, and online spaces for any male born individual who self-identifies as a woman. Regardless of whether or not this person has done anything to transition, if a male claims to feel female, they should be allowed to bunk with a battered woman in a rape crisis center or be moved to a women’s prison. I have no problem with trans identified people having equal protections, third spaces in sensitive situations like jail, hospital rooms, changing rooms, and trauma support groups. I would love to see more peer-reviewed and replicable research on gender and more effective treatments for dysphoria. I would willingly donate my money and volunteer my time to make these things a reality. I want everyone to live their safest and most authentic life. They should have the same access to healthcare, housing, and gainful employment as their countrymen. Equal, not superior access. Equal, not superior social status. Unfortunately, that is not what is happening. The gender identity ideology seems less about acceptance of ourselves and others and more about forcing others to agree. That behavior is not compatible with a liberal Democratic society. I would not support such means regardless of the end. I can’t support self-ID laws. I can’t support the erosion of women’s sex-based rights. If that one principle is enough to convince you that I am no longer a member or the liberal left and have joined the authoritarian right, you may have a shallow or distorted view of the issues involved in the gender identity debate. 2/28/2021 The right hates me for being same-sex attracted, and now the left hates me for being same-sex attractedRead Now I'm an Australian woman and lesbian and I have voted for the ALP (Australian Labor Party) my entire life, but now I'm not so sure I can keep doing so because of their pro-trans stance.
I have never believed in gender ideology. I never believed that a trans man was a man and a trans woman was a woman. I had understood this to be a personal opinion, and I believed that my support for and kindness towards trans people was good enough, that we did not have to see exactly eye-to-eye in order to have a friendship, that I would respect their wishes to live life as a trans person and they would respect my belief that gender is a social construct and not an innate thing. I was proven wrong when I began to receive numerous threats from trans people (and trans activists), the vast majority of which were targeted attacks on my same-sex attraction, calling me bigoted, a genital fetishist, and not a real lesbian or feminist, because I said that I would never date a trans woman. I never said that lesbians who dated trans women weren't lesbians, I respected people's decisions to date who they wanted, and I did not really care how they chose to label their relationships, but that did not protect me from getting attacked. At first, I thought it was a small, vocal minority of trans people who felt this way, but then I saw these similar sentiments everywhere. Things like: gay people should not care about their partner's genitals or they're gross, women are not women but bleeders and breeders, women should be forced to open their spaces like sports and bathrooms to trans women, there is no room for a diverging opinion, if you don't agree with all the above, you are a terf and deserve to die painfully. I don't want to sound melodramatic, but I was really scared. It was terrifying to me that the left, where I had always considered to be my political home, suddenly wanted me dead because I did not believe in this. I felt like I was a bad person, but at the same time I could not shake my beliefs. I won't say that up is down, two plus two equals five, or that trans women are women, and I won't apologise for that. I will not stand for allowing women's and gay people's rights to be smudged out in the false name of equality. The LGBT+ community has been so much more aggressive and hateful towards me than anti-gay right-wingers ever have. I worry so much about the young gay people growing up today. Gender ideology has left me politically homeless. The right hates me for being same-sex attracted, and now the left hates me for being same-sex attracted. The Greens are no better than the ALP. I just feel so lost. I want a political party who will listen to us, but the trans train has the money, the influence, and the appearance of equality and progressiveness. It all feels so hopeless. I just want to be heard. I align with Democrats on so much, and still half-heartedly vote for them, but I cannot throw my money at them (or organizations like the ACLU) any longer. I can't be part of my own erasure.
I'm a software engineer. To have fought against sexism in pursuing my technical interests since I was a child is far beyond the experience of any "trans woman" who became a principal engineer before coming out in "her" 30s. I am willing to meet the trans community halfway, but I'm at the point where I can't point out that there are only two gametes before being called a bigot. I am willing to separate biological classification from social classification (which is why I stood with the trans community 10 years ago), but I am not willing to erase biology when it's a fundamental part of how I am treated. I am willing to allow transwomen in my safe spaces, but only after they have met a certain bar, far beyond that of mere stated self-ID. I am willing to call trans people by their preferred pronouns, but I am unwilling to pretend that self-identification is infallible, and I am unwilling to ignore or trample the growing body of detrans people (primarily gnc girls/women like I was/am) who have been deeply harmed by the lack of medical standards around diagnosis. I've redirected my financial support towards charities that fight FGM and sex trafficking. 2/28/2021 all she did was parrot back a load of dubious trans rights blurb without a single mention of women’s rightsRead Now I left the Labour Party after Lisa Nandy and the other one signed a pledge to say women who support Women’s Place UK should be expelled from the party. I wrote to my MP explaining this and all she did was parrot back a load of dubious trans rights blurb without a single mention of women’s rights. Which is what I wrote to her about in the first place. She didn’t even ask me to stay... or reconsider. I won’t vote Labour again (lifelong member and voter) until this is fixed. I am now politically homeless.
2/28/2021 But I found that gender ideology had aggressively infiltrated *every* women’s space and group in my cityRead Now I’ve always been politically engaged - and volunteered at our local Peace Centre some years ago. After 2016, I wanted to re-engage with local politics, particularly in local women’s groups. But I found that gender ideology had aggressively infiltrated *every* women’s space and group in my city - each group advertised themselves as accepting ‘self ID’d women’ at every forum. I notice more and more that obvious males, with merely performative ‘femininity’ have started to dominate all women’s groups here and that talking about uniquely female issues is now ‘exclusionary’. I would no longer feel comfortable in any of the women-only political spaces I’d previously enjoyed - as they are dominated by men. The language of ‘cis’ and ‘terf’ are everywhere, and GC groups have faced harassment and accusations of hate. Ironically, in my workspace and society as a whole, most people have NO idea about trans activism or gender ideology - when they’re informed, they are both bemused and horrified. Gender ideology is in no way a mainstream belief - but institutional capture has served to make it seem so.
2/28/2021 Third generation American Democrat who cannot in good conscious continue to support the Democratic PartyRead Now Third generation American Democrat who cannot in good conscious continue to support the Democratic Party. How can a party bark on about science, but also support magical thinking/delusions about "women trapped in men's bodies." It's not just politically unsound... it's downright batshit crazy!
I can’t used mixed toilets. I had a lucky escape some years ago. Toilets are not safe when men can access female toilets.
I hate what men are doing to women, they are not defending trans rights. They are misogynists that want to eradicate women’s rights. I am a woman, not something by any other name. I will not vote labor or greens and unless the liberal party stands up to defend the rights of natural born women and girls I will just scribble over the ballot papers and lodge a nil vote. I worked at the New Zealand Educational Institute, a large union for teachers and support staff.
I was investigated twice for making gender critical statements on social media and for organising with Speak Up for Women NZ. Because I cited the NZ Bill of Rights Act, in defence of my rights to political opinions and expression I was not able to be sacked. Instead my team was reviewed shortly after the second investigation and I was made redundant. The (straight, male) National Secretary decided without consulting any LGBT staff that the Institute would adopt the NZ Standards Association's standard for Rainbow Friendly workplaces. I protested and said that staff who are actually gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans should have a say in that. We were invited to make submissions on the standard. In my submission I pointed out that while the Glossary had a number of definitions of gender and trans terms there was no definition of "sex" or "lesbian". The standard is heavily influenced by gender ideology. I said I could not agree to be bound by a policy based on the standard, but that I would like to be involved in the group deciding the institutes LGBT policies. I reiterated that LGBT staff should be the ones to decide what our policies should be. I was told by the straight woman in charge of implementing the policy that I could not be part of the group. The group ended up having a lesbian who was pro gender identity, and a couple of other straight people on it including a straight man. My comments were put in moderation in 2 New Zealand Trade Union Facebook groups, along with any other gender critical people who tried to discuss gender ideology in those groups As a member and branch secretary of the New Zealand Labour Party, I was told I could not join the Rainbow Labour organising group because it was "inclusive" and I would make some members unsafe.because I had gender critical views. At a Rainbow Labour Wellington Branch meeting I attended, a transwoman announced that there had been a "TERF"problem at another branch, but it had "been fixed", and "she" had not had any further problems with that branch. At the same meeting Grant Robertson, the Deputy Prime Minister, and an out gay man, referred to a Member of Parliament as making "TERF comments" in Parliament, referring to ex-MP Sarah Dowie, a member of the opposition National Party, who asked the Minister of Statistics if his department would still collect statistics about sex in the Census. I am not a union member any more as I am now unemployed, but I am still a branch secretary in the Labour Party. For starters, I have embraced the idea that sexism is, in fact, bipartisan. This movement, on making sex nonexistent on a biological basis, has prompted me to look elsewhere and be more active on social media with the truth that I know. I have strongly considered continuing the legacy that Flo Kennedy left behind. She founded a political party, called 'The Feminist Party', and I now believe it to be our best bet at combating misogyny. Both the left and the right have evaded any responsibility of sexism and misogyny for far too long in U.S. history. I think sex-based and sex-motivated political sociology and philosophy (i.e. real feminism) is our best way forward for our sisters and brothers. The denial of existence of sex from the left as a singular oppressing problem, has prompted me to reconsider what is truly in our best interests as women and as people.
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