I am willing to bet that Laurence Fox would burn books about and by transgender people and still not think he was a Nazi (or at least I would be if widespread book burnings wasnât one of my Get Out Of Dodge alerts)
Far more bewildering has been the fringe left jumping in with its own perhaps unintentionally but effectively misogynist agenda. There was a time when campus groups and activist organizations advocated strenuously on behalf of women. Womenâs rights were human rights and something to fight for. Though the Equal Rights Amendment was never ratified, legal scholars and advocacy groups spent years working to otherwise establish women as a protected class.
But today, a number of academics, uber-progressives, transgender activists, civil liberties organizations and medical organizations are working toward an opposite end: to deny women their humanity, reducing them to a mix of body parts and gender stereotypes.
âPEOPLE OF THE WORLD,â she tweeted Wednesday (6 July). âMy tweet about women was a response to this fascinating and well written piece in the NYT on 3 Julyâ. She included a link to a New York Times article titled âThe Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Donât Countâ.
âThere was no intention of anything exclusionary or transphobic in what I said; it wasnât about that,â she added.
The âfascinating and well written piece in the NYTâ, I remember that article, it was the one filled with transphobia.
You still sound transphobic, Macy. But at least you gained a new fan.
Iâve almost given up. Iâd say it was my PTSD, but so many other people are in the same situation.
What drives me to despair though is the âsheer impossible volume of available information about the people who literally want to kill me and my friendsâ isnât enough to persuade people that TERs are bad.
Maybe itâs because of the PTSD that I find the will to get out of bed and stay alive each day.