I lost my job for speaking up about women’s rights

https://medium.com/@MForstater/i-lost-my-job-for-speaking-up-about-womens-rights-2af2186ae84

by cygaril • 7 years ago

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jamewatson• 7 years ago

Sensible article, you are amazing

hashberry• 7 years ago

The biological sex vs cultural gender debate is rather fascinating because it comes down to categories and definitions. Each side can't agree on the "correct version" of reality because culture creates simulacrum (representations) that feel real and authentic.[0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacrum

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

gehwartzen• 7 years ago

Some transgender people have cosmetic surgery. But most retain their birth genitals. Everyone's equality and safety should be protected, but women and girls lose out on privacy, safety and fairness if males are allowed into changing rooms, dormitories, prisons, sports teams.

I'm not sure I follow her argument here. Does she mean that fundamentally the presence of male genitalia in these spaces is the problem? That a transgender female is not acceptable in these spaces unless birth genitalia is removed at which point it becomes acceptable (independent of any other changes i.e hormonal)?

And if so how does the presence of male genitalia make the space less safe? I assume because males have a higher rate of committing sexual assaults (which I guess is a fair argument). But then why would a penis attached to an otherwise female body pose a problem since I assume it is male neurobiology and hormones that drive sexual assault behavior (not the genitalia)

anon1000• 7 years ago

The author cites a number of sources which deal with "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism" which asserts that Transwomen aren't in fact women at all.

She emphasizes this with a tautology: >Trans women are trans women

Which deviates from the trans-positive claim of "trans women are women".

Her position is fairly clear in that she doesn't think of trans-women as being interchangeable with "real" women.

From there, you can much easier derive her line of thought.

intarga2• 7 years ago

She only says

Transwomen are transwomen

once, in an effort to sound reasonable. The rest of the time she just calls them men...

lsaferite• 7 years ago

I find this reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

Every group eventually finds itself under attack at some point. How they respond when _other_ groups are under attack is what tells the most about any group IMHO.

I say this as someone with no strong opinion in any direction on the issues raised in the article.

intarga2• 7 years ago

It seems that she was actually fired for targeted abuse of a colleague...

I've got a Q for my male twitter friends who have pledged not to appear on all male panels - if u were invited on a panel w Pip Bunce - one of FT's top 100 female champions of women in biz & another guy would u say yes or call the organisers & say sorry i don't do #manels?
This question sparked several threads of discussion and I wrote about 150 tweets over the course of a week [...] The tone of these discussions was one of ordinary discussion and disagreement, but not long after I received an email from HR

I lost my job for speaking up about women’s rights

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