Maya Forstater: ‘I am fighting for the right to say men can never be women’

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[–]BiologyIsReal[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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[–]absoluteblasphemy 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, speak to truth. Biology isn’t something we can rearrange, we need to stop deceiving people and encouraging this baseless way of thinking.

It’s going to be a real Darwinian test to see how people fare and how the next generation of children will be born in this New World where biological sex isn’t real.

We have to keep speaking with dignity, it’s not malice to offer the voice of reason. Biology does not move for anyone. This unnatural medicine sterilises people. We are not God. Our actions have consequences. Etc. Etc.

IStandWithMaya

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

GREAT for her!!! This delusional madness needs to stop, ASAP.

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

All I can say is "You go sister" :)

[–]catoboros 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If I, as a hard atheist, can work with a young-earth creationist manager, who thinks that I am going to hell because I am not saved, to successfully deliver multimillion dollar projects, there is absolutely no reason why trans people such as myself cannot work with gender critical feminists. Even though I disagree with some of Maya Forstater's opinions, I support her right to hold and express her views. The more I read of her writing, the more I like her. Workplace safetyism is illiberal and corrosive. I really hope the unjust judgement against Maya is overturned.

[–]WildApples 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This was a good write-up for the most part, but I did not like the false equivalence and the caricature of GC arguments at the end. I wonder what the author means by this:

As much as there does seem to be, in the extreme arguments put forward by certain sections of the transgender movement, an element of misogyny, there is, too, a whiff of misandry coming from some of Forstater’s supporters. As a woman who grew up in the ’50s and ’60s, I think I have a more tolerant view of what my two daughters call The Patriarchy. And my, doubtless old-fashioned, acceptance of a more traditional female life puts me slightly at odds with the kind of feminism that Forstater and the ‘Terfs’ expound.

What exactly is a "traditional female life"? What kind of feminism does she think we're espousing aside from GC views? It is not like we are all a monolith that thinks exactly the same. This reeks of "I am not like the other girls."

[–]BEB 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hey lady (author, not you WA),

The misandry comes from these LARPing F-ers appropriating our oppression and biology and colonizing our safe spaces.

In fact, most of us terven weren't out fighting The Patriarchy until The Patriarchy V 21st Century decided to erase us.