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[–]sisterinsomnia 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The first stage MUST be to get facts out there. I don't think there can be any second stage without that, and the whole #nodebate command is to try to stop the first stage. The facts should be focused on what is happening to existing women's rights, to the ability of feminism to address sex-based oppression if sex (well, the female sex) itself is erased as is the current trend ('menstruators,' 'pregnant people')

But yes, we should organize at the same time as this is being done. It will take some years for disseminating more facts to work, but currently they are not out there at all. Many people have the most superficial understanding of what trans activism actually aims for, many people think that all transgender people have had full surgery and have no idea that nothing now is required but a statement of identity, and many people have not followed what is happening in the medical field to children with undeveloped brains whose words are taken as the sum total of their medical diagnosis, with potentially irreversible consequences.

So the data needs to be spread, and the more of that we can do, the less the 'transphobe' slurs will bite. Well, I hope so, because the alternative is a return to some dystopic 1950s world of rigid sex roles and a few enlightened nonbinaries flitting about like butterflies.