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. Comments are closed.
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