I cannot even discuss this with my male lefty friends. I am profoundly disappointed that I cannot even discuss the impact the erasure of my identity and safe spaces has had on me.
I've been told by them "I won't discuss trans rights with you" when I have been discussing WOMENS RIGHTS. One has even started to call women TERFS. These 'friends' don't know how much I am afraid of them. I know they'd be happy to throw me under the bus. It's broken my heart, as much as the young women who are so desperate to placate them they play the handmaiden. We're all poets. So much for free speech. Women don't exist for them, and we are not allowed our own voices, speech our own safe spaces. My career in a male dominated field tanked out. I have never recovered from the toxic masculinity of my earlier life. Then I started to gravitate toward leftist politics only to learn that left politics are just as toxic. Leftists claim to be supportive of women and feminism but the reality of that is they are just as toxic as the right. Males run most left organizations, the best of them mute women's voices and views. The worst of them promote biological males claiming to be women as feminists, the voice of women, the preferred voice of women, the true voice of women while aggressively silencing women. Not only is this bad, but this is worse than what the right does because it fast tracks every effort of the right to disenfranchise women and bodily autonomy, and every tenuously protected aspect women have gained. We are aggressively and violently being silenced and driven from public space and accomplishment with lightning fast policy changes. Everything we gained over the past 100 years is vanishing in less than a decade.
I was President of my college's chapter of College Democrats. I have met three Secretaries of State, President Obama and Chelsea Clinton, for starters.
Last year I donated to three presidential candidates, and five Senate races. I have completely ceased all involvement and ESPECIALLY all donations and payments until this gender nonsense is taken care of. 3/1/2021 It has also unleashed a wave of misogynist rage which I haven't seen in my lifetimeRead Now A few years ago, I was a paid up UK Labour member, was member of a union, and went out canvassing for Labour. I care about environmental issues, social and economics justice issues, and land reform. I have worked in unions and in left-wing think tanks. In short, I was and still am left-wing, and have consistently voted Labour or Green.
However, I can no longer do that, sadly. I have been shocked at the speed with which many in the Labour party and the Greens have embraced gender ideology, and turned against women who are critical of it. From the Greens hustings in which candidates debated 'what is a woman' (answers included 'an attitude', 'a state of mind') to Lisa Nandy's appalling Piers Morgan interview. The disgraceful so-called trans rights pledge which called for gender-critical women to be ousted from the Labour party. Oh and how could I forget Dawn Butler saying that 'children are born without a sex'. The list goes on. If it wasn't so dangerous, this would be hilarious. However it is dangerous. This ideology is unscientific and untethered from reality. It insists that we view ourselves as having a 'gender' rather than a 'sex' - which makes invisible the reality of sex. It undermines women's rights and harms children. It has also unleashed a wave of misogynist rage which I haven't seen in my lifetime. And the worst of it, from what I've seen, has come from left-wing men. So no, I haven't left the left, but the left has left me. I won't be voting for Labour or the Greens again until they regain their senses. Profoundly depressed by the tick-box nature of political debate and now feel utterly dispossessed and unfranchised as a result of where I stand on this so called “debate”. I was a local councillor for the Liberal Democrats until July last year. There were more aggravated reasons for my departure from the job and resignation from the party but was becoming deeply troubled by where the party was going on women’s rights and for that matter how any of it related to representing my local residents. I share nothing with right wing parties but they must be rubbing their hands seeing how the left is eating itself up over this non-issue and at the same time putting women in their place.
For documentation of our struggle in the Green Party of the United States, please see: http://www.dialoguenotexpulsion.org/
"The Lavender Caucus of the Green Party has issued a statement calling on the Georgia state party to retract its endorsement of the “Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights” or face decertification by the national party. It is perfectly normal for Greens to have different viewpoints on this issue, as we do on many issues. The Green way to resolve such differences, however, is to talk to each other with an openness that seeks, at a minimum, a mutual understanding of alternative points of view. We—members, volunteers, contributors and supporters of the Green Party of the United States—therefore urge that instead of the action proposed by the Lavender Caucus a respectful discussion of these and related issues be organized. We ask that all member state parties, caucuses, candidates, and locals of the party take a step back from any suggestion that state organizations or their members be decertified, sanctioned, or silenced for positions they have adopted, or for concerns which they may have expressed on these important issues. We value decentralization, grassroots democracy, and a united Green Party—which will be especially important in this difficult election year. The political principles that unite us remain far more important than the questions where we clash, significant as those questions might be." 3/1/2021 There is no future in any so-called progressive effort for me, if reality is deniedRead Now I will never be a part of a political party or organization that requires me to lie about biological reality. The reality of humans having two sexes, and two sexes ONLY! I have lost the ability to serve on non profit boards due to my unwillingness to say that men can get pregnant and have lost my birth coaching business due to threats because I used the word "Mother" in my business name. There is no future in any so-called progressive effort for me, if reality is denied. Gender/queer ideology has invaded every corner of society, as a sickness, not a panacea of "inclusiveness". I will not submit.
3/1/2021 Whether this is the result of progressive naïveté or cynical misogyny -- the Left is openly betraying womenRead Now I grew up with a core set of working-class Democratic ideals for women's advancement -- the importance of education, athletic fair play, economic opportunity, support and protection for the health and safety of women and girls -- that are now openly mocked and derided on the Left. Prostitution has become "sex work," gender roles (which we've labored so long to be free of) have been regressively enshrined by gender ideologues, the science-based language we use to describe our own bodies is being stripped from us, adolescents are being steered to gender transition clinics, and our objections, however reasonable, nuanced, and rooted in scientific evidence, are routinely silenced in progressive journalism and social media.
Whether this is the result of progressive naïveté or cynical misogyny -- the Left is openly betraying women. Why stay? I've been a leftist since I was 16. I was a member of PFLAG in the 90s and supported the LGBT on the 2000s. In my career, I worked to administer social services to people affected by AIDS, most of whom were gay men. I've always hung a rainbow flag outside my door and donated to liberal organizations that fought for oppressed groups. Since 2018, everything has been called into question. That is when I first saw a woman dogpiled online for stating that women deserve a single-sex rape center. I saw articles trashing feminists like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for stating that boys and girls are socialized differently. I saw pimps glorified and girls groomed for sex work beginning on their 18th birthday. I thought the left supported women. All these years I've prioritized the oppressed and fought for them. I thought we were a party of camaraderie. How wrong I have been. I no longer trust the left. I have pulled all my monthly donations and transferred them to women's groups. I will never volunteer for, donate to, or vote for another candidate that doesn't know what a woman is and doesn't fight for women to be safe and free from predation.
I can’t take it anymore. I emailed all my representatives this afternoon with the following letter:
I am a voter and California native residing in the (xxxxx) zip code in San Mateo county. I am contacting you about legislation related to gender equality being pushed by the Democratic party. It pains me to write this, honestly. I am a lifelong Democrat. I’ve voted straight blue in every election since I turned 18, but that has changed. Today I re-registered to vote as an independent and will not vote Democrat in the future unless I see serious changes in the party’s approach to trans activism. Democrats want to market themselves as pro-women’s rights, but that’s not what I’m seeing at all lately with legislation like the Equality Act being pushed through Congress. Female-only spaces and sports, which women fought long and hard for, are being erased to appease a small group of men who wish to identify as women. I find this absolutely unacceptable. Women should not be forced to compete against trans-identifying men in sports. Women should not be forced to serve time in prison cells with trans-identifying men, particularly when some of those men are in prison for domestic violence and rape of women and children. Women should not have to accept trans-identifying men into their bathrooms, changing rooms, locker rooms, public showers, etc. I say this as a survivor of violent rape who has been formally diagnosed with PTSD: I do not want to share female spaces with any and every man who decides to call himself a woman. I wish my consent mattered to the political party that claims to support #MeToo. I am appalled by the anti-scientific mantra, “Trans women are women.” It is simply not the truth. Trans women are men and pointing that out is not bigotry or discrimination. It is a simple acknowledgment of reality. I wish the Democratic Party would stop falling in line with this propaganda and trying to gaslight and bully intelligent people into agreement. It’s insulting and irresponsible. Please know that I will be looking elsewhere for representation if the Democratic Party continues to trash women’s rights and treat biological women as if our feelings and needs mean nothing next to a trans-identifying man’s. For the time being, you have all lost my vote and I’m deeply offended by the misogyny I’ve been seeing. |
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