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'm an Australian woman who has voted Labor, Greens or Socialist for the lost 20 years. Upon realising what is happening to women's rights and to young girls under the left's insane gender ideology policies, I will for the first time ever be voting conservative in coming elections.
In my home state of Victoria, Labor has introduced self-ID laws, allowing any man to gain legal protections meant for women and girls by simply signing a statutory declaration. They have just passed legislation criminalising gay conversion therapy but have included 'gender identity,' meaning that clinicians will have no choice but to affirm a child's self proclaimed gender identity. This is terrible, especially for young lesbians that will be mutilated because of this. The Australian Human Rights Commission is all for these changes and issued guidelines for including males in women's sports that have been adopted by 10 peak sporting bodies. I simply cannot support the left until they come back to reality. 2/27/2021 We have to vote out this dangerous ideology that has hijacked our political partiesRead Now Hi 'Why Women Left', I live in Australia & I've voted Labor all my voting life.
Now with Left being the place where this dangerous Gender Ideology is entering legislation - I've left. So have my kids in their twenties. I contacted every Labor politician I could get through to & told them in a 4 page email what was happening with links to GC sites & articles. I got a few rude responses but mainly silence. Contacted Greens Party - they were hysterical or smug or arrogant - all with hint of threat for Terfs. I then contacted all the conservative parties & independents. They all responded politely and thanked me for my information. We have 4 female conservative politicians standing up for Women's Rights like Claire Chandler. Claire's team were extremely polite. I advise everyone to send long emails to all politicians in their country with lots of links to GC websites & articles. So no politician can claim they weren't told. I also told Labor I belonged to 150 GC organizations & we were recording their responses to our letters in central data bases. They did not seem too happy with that! They couldn't dismiss me as a powerless woman crack pot. As we go further along in this war against Women, I say we all start asking our politicians to answer questions - like, will you call me a Mother or a Chestfeeder? Will you allow men who self ID as women in my daughter's change room? Will you speak up for Detransitioners? Then come election time, we can nail them on the questions with the answers they've given. By the way, luckily in Australia we have Murdoch media who is GC - with Conservative paper The Australia, right-wing sensational Skynews Australia. Good luck everyone - and let's make our votes count! After we win this war, we can go back to voting where we feel most comfortable. We have to vote out this dangerous ideology that has hijacked our political parties. Lee Mother |
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