Recently, some ‘gender critical’ Labour supporters welcomed the ‘progress’ they saw in an interview Keir Starmer gave to Mumsnet, in which the Labour Party leader was asked about the Cass Review’s interim report. The review, led by the distinguished paediatrician and former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Dr Hilary Cass,
Who wrote this? It's brilliant. I've heard that excuse about this being a fringe issue so many times from friends who live in the UK, and I'm not articulate enough to explain why it isn't. This is exactly what I need to send them
Sorry for barging in, a little off topic but not entirely since I'd like to enquire of anyone who might know of a writer called Amanda MacLean who as guest writer for the Communist Party's "Weekly Worker" wrote some absolutely exquisite and burning hot articles on the gender craze. She is at any rate articulate enough and more to explain why this is not just a fringe issue. However the Weekly Worker has not published anything of hers for over a year, so I'm wondering if she has gone somewhere else, and if anyone here knows where? More than keen to follow her and read anything she produces.
Here's my letter to Labour, accompanied by my membership number. Needless to say I have not received a reply.
_________________________________
Dear [Labour]
I am in the unfortunate position, for the first time in my life, of being unsure of whether I wish Labour to win an election.
I know that, as a woman, a feminist and someone who cares deeply about child wellbeing, I am not alone.
In conscience I cannot vote for, or support in any way, a party I believe does not support my rights and those of other women and girls.
Any party that supports the indoctrination of children into early sexualisation, deluded thinking and the possibility of irreversible damage to their minds and bodies loses the right, in my eyes, to any consideration as fit to take our country forward into the future.
A party that lacks the intellectual rigour to critically interrogate philosophical and political movements to which it allies itself and lacks the backbone to allow proper debate of the consequences is not a party I can be assured would make the right decisions for the right reasons in government.
A party that denies reality and demands that I repeat the lies, that I deny the evidence of my own eyes and experiences and that I participate in a mass delusion is not a party I can ever trust.
I am not a transphobe, a bigot or a shill for right wing extremists. I come from a proud left wing tradition.
I feel that you would rather support a movement that actively and abusively campaigns against me than listen to my voice.
I know that some assurances have been given by Kier and some colleagues but these are always compromised by other statements; for example, it is pointless assuring me that the party will protect women's rights if we differ on who is included under the umbrella of 'woman'.
I want to support the party and I want to hear from you that I can do so without abandoning my deeply held and fundamental principles..
Please help me and the many others in the same position as me to feel we can use our voices, our efforts and our votes to help elect a Labour government.
I look forward to hearing from you.
_________________________________
I'll update if I ever receive a response. I won't be holding my breath though I will be holding my nose and voting Conservative unless Labour changes their stance on this.
I sent it in response to two separate funding requests from Labour and Welsh Labour. I'm sure if I'd replied offering money they'd have got back to me PDQ. As it is I'm being ignored.
Excellent article! All of it but this hits the nail right on the head:
"If Starmer finds it hard to stand up for women and children’s rights against what is essentially a noisy shrieking mob with banners and Twitter followings, what hope has he of leading a country? How would he deal with big business or world leaders? How would he deal with Putin?
Starmer is educated, and like many famous people, he didn’t hold these views until five minutes ago. How can voters trust a man who denies biological reality and does so merely to score points with an increasingly deranged and relatively small base? How can women trust someone who was so quick to give away their rights on an ideology based in narcissism, porn, and bad faith?"
I've always voted Labour, but I won't be in the next election, I'd feel a bit like a turkey voting for Christmas. A lot of northern working-class women I know vote Conservative now, we just look at Starmer, Thornberry and Lammy spouting their nonsense and want to vomit. Labour do not represent the working class or women, so they can do one as far as I'm concerned.
For me it's the most important issue of our time because it's about the fundamental democratic right to be able to live according to what you know to be rational. If you lose that, anything's possible.
We've already got chemical and surgical mutilation of kids, women exposed to dangerous men, people locked up for refusing to deny biological reality (in Ireland) and the compulsory teaching of Queer Theory-style paedophilia and anti-scientific ideology to primary school kids (in Wales) - and this is just the beginning of the ideological grip,.
So whoever stands up and admits what we all know to be true, gets my vote. Right now I can't see any of them doing that but maybe the Tavistock trial will change the conversation. Or even just start one.
We desperately need a move away from the established main parties. The SDP under William Clouston’s leadership seem to be the only party willing to publicly nail their colours to the mast regarding biological sex-based rights. Their other policies actually make sense too. Maybe we should be turning to them?
Sadly there is no real chance of candidates for smaller parties getting into Parliament under the first past the post system. This may be why the parties often don’t always listen to the mainstream. Most constituencies in England are controlled by one party and will elect a right wing loon or a left wing loon.
But you don't need MPs to change policy. What about Nigel Farage and his various iterations of trying - desperately - to get into Parliament? They never achieved a single MP elected under their banner (only 2 Tory defectors), and yet here we all are, out of Europe, because they made enough noise and got enough votes all over the country to terrify the Tories and Labour into changing their policies to one of madness. You might say look at the Trans Lobby too - what a huge influence that has had to the detriment of women and children in the UK, and yet the only "trans" MP is a previously elected Tory frightened of getting arrested if he was just an ordinary bloke who drove his car into a lamppost while drunk, but found that doing it while trans made him brave and otherwise immune from approbation.
Make enough noise and you don't need to get a single MP because the political parties that exist now will bend to your will. The problem seems to be that women just don't have the chutzpah to do it. Hey Posie P, fancy starting a political party?
But we need a new party that promotes an agenda for women. One Labour MP on her own is not going to change very much ( outside of her own constituency perhaps). We need a party with candidates all over the country, promoting an agenda that makes sense for women (and men supporting women) and for whom women vote. A mere 2 million or so votes later (considering we have a potential 30 odd million), and Labour will drop the trans agenda like a hot brick.
I don't think Posie is standing as a labour party candidate. The Labour Party wouldn't support her anyway. She would stand as an independent....with no expectation of winning. It would be to force the conversation right out into the open, in the doorsteps, in the media....the mainstream media ignore her. If she stood against Izzard, the contrast would be stark, the *national* media could not ignore her....Posie would not be quiet....the debate would be out and the entire country would be watching one small constituency. The spotlight would be blinding. It would be a stroke of genius on Posie's part.
Can’t vote Tory - their reluctance to recognise sentience in animals has worried me hugely. NOT voting for any party that doesn’t know what a woman is. So not voting Labour- too ridiculous for me. Seriously no one to vote for unless Graham or Posie interested in setting something up
The problem with the 'no one to vote for" stance is that not voting is effectively casting a vote in our system; in the next GE an abstention will be a vote for Labour.
I am a Labour party member and a lifelong supporter. I despise the Conservative party.
I have always voted on principle and in the next election I shall be voting on the principles of child safeguarding and women's rights. If that means voting Conservative then so be it.
But new parties struggle to make any impact in our two party system and independents are unable to sway policy.
Quite frankly I think our best hope is that the Conservatives manage to remake themselves as a pragmatic just right of centre party. We'll all know they're doing it for political survival rather than out of conviction but I don't think we can afford to get precious and purist about politics any more.
Making "misgendering" a crime is going to harm disabled and neurodiverse people too. I'm autistic and even though I'm high functioning, I can't lie convincingly or keep track of gender nonsense in social situations - I'm already having to actively concentrate on and process the other person's body language, facial expressions and tone of voice and manage my own, as well as follow the content of the conversation, because they don't come naturally to me. I will just say what I see. Lots of us are brutally honest to the point of rudeness, which is something we try to work on if we have the functioning to do so - but it isn't easy or always possible.
Though this is the same ideology that promotes sterilising autistic people in childhood before they can pass on their genes, so I suppose it's to be expected. For all their talk of "inclusivity" they don't give a fuck about us lot, and they care even less about low-functioning autistic people.
I know you often refer to trans rights activism as a men's rights movement, have you done any pieces that go into detail on the disparity between Trans identifying males on the public stage and trans identifying females?
The Wikipedia category for Transgender women covers three pages with 599 entires.
Well over a three to one deficit of prominent trans identifying males by comparison to trans identifying females. This is a confounding ratio given that 74% of Tavistock referrals are female. The patriarchy doesn't seem to be under threat from all these girls and women identifying as men.
The fortunes of all those trans identifying males also seem to be much greater. Books, columns, modelling contracts, movies, TV shows, awards (for women), gold medals, tours, political appointments and campaigns. The names I recognise don't seem to have seen any drop off in work at all and most have only accelerated their career.
By Comparison, if you're female and transition, your options seem to get pretty limited pretty fast. Without porn, voiceover work or TV cameos the only names I recognised are a couple of (not very prominent) writers and an attorney.
This should alarm any trans allies that claim to be feminists every bit as much as gender critical feminists. In the public arena, females don't seem to be empowered by identifying as men to any extent while males retain their privilege whenever they adopt a female identity. This sex based discrimination should be highlighted by all, but from a GC perspective, it's important to remind girls and women who believe that they can identify out of their oppression that they're mistaken.
Anyway, here's the bullet points of the prominent trans people's careers since transition which got me worked up about this. Not saying anything all your readers don't know, but don't think I've seen it laid out like you have with "this never happens" and other stuff.
First the males, then the females:
Munroe Bergdorf
- ‘Changemaker of the Year’ at the 2018 Cosmopolitan Awards
- honorary doctorate in 2019 by the University of Brighton
- Loreal modelling contract
Juno Birch
- International touring show
Aimee Challenor
- Appointed Green Party equality spokesperson
- Appointed as a Diversity Officer for the Liberal Democrats
- hired as an administrator by Reddit
Andrea Long Chu
- Book published
- appointed book critic for New York
- Published by n+1, The New York Times, differences and Women & Performance
Charlotte Clymer
- Fortune magazine's 40 Under 40 list in the "Government and Politics" category
Contrapoints
- topped the Dazed 100 list, which ranks people who "dared to give culture a shot in the arm."
- New Yorker Profile
- 11,000+ Patreons
- 1.6M Youtube Subscribers
Juno Dawson
- Published several books
- won the 'Queen of Teen' award
- represents Stonewall as a School Role Model
- judging panel for the 2016 BBC Young Writers' Award
- acting roles in I May Destroy You and Holby City.
Eli Erlick
- 2013: Refinery29 30 Under 30 SF
- 2015: Westly Prize for Young Innovators
- 2016: Davis Projects for Peace
- 2016: Teen Vogue's The New Faces of Feminism
- 2017: Glamour Magazine College Woman of the Year
- 2017: GO 100 Women We Love
- 2017: Lambda Literary Award, LGBTQ Anthology
- 2018: Real Leaders 100
Shon Faye
- Two book deals
Fallon Fox
- inducted into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.
- Documentary film
Laurel Hubbard
- Won gold at the 2017 Australian International & Australian Open
- qualified for the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- at the 2019 Pacific Games
- won gold at the Roma 2020 World Cup
- Qualified for the 2020 Olympics
Veronica Ivy
- Published by NBC News, Vice, and Newsweek.
- broke the record for the 200-meter sprint for females aged 34–39
- won the world 200-meter sprint record for women in the 35–39 age range
- won the UCI Masters World Track Cycling Championship in the Women's Sprint 35–44 age bracket
Eddie Izzard
- Multiple TV, Film and Theatre Credits
- Currently standing for MP
Caitlyn Jenner
- won the 2015 Social Media Queen award at the Teen Choice Awards
- One of Glamour magazine's 2015 25 Glamour Women of the Year
- named Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating Person of 2015
- Placed on Time magazine's eight-person shortlist for the 2015 Person of the Year
- received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award during the 2015 ESPY Awards
- In 2016 chosen as the face of H&M Sport
- Dozens of TV credits
Jazz Jennings
- 7+ Season TV show
- received LogoTV's 2014 Youth Trailblazer Award.
Paris Lees
- Vogue Column
- Penguin book deal
- Published by The Independent, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, PinkNews, and Vice,
- Invited onto Question Time
Rachel Levine
- Promoted to Four Star Admiral
- Appointed Assistant Secretary for Health
Chelsea Manning
- Published a book
Parker Molloy
- Published by Rolling Stone, The Huffington Post, Salon, and The Advocate
- Published a book
- nominated for a 2014 National Women's Political Caucus Exceptional Merit in Media Award
Renee Richards
- Published two autobiographies
The Wachowski Brothers
- Wrote, Directed and Produced 5 Movies
India Willoughby
- took part in Channel 5's Celebrity Big Brother – Year of the Woman
Buck Angel
- Multiple Pornography credits
Chaz Bono
- Multiple TV & Movie appearances
Jude Doyle
- received the first Women's Media Center Social Media Award
Freddie McConnell
- Writes for the Guardian
- Published a childrens book
Eliot Page
- Signed a book deal
- Voice role in an animated TV show
Chase Strangio
- included in 2020's Time 100 most influential people in the world
- chosen for NBC Out's 2017 "#Pride30" list
- awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by his alma mater Grinnell College
Far from being marginalised and discriminated against, men identifying as women seem to be largely lauded, applauded and rewarded, in all arenas from the arts to sports to modelling.
It has become a cause for celebrity but that is a sad reflection of our society today. In terms of recognition and success the ratio of men identifiying as women and becoming famous to women identifying as men and becoming famous is interesting but sadly not surprising. Like you say, something trans allies should really be aware of.
Freddie (1) is an "adviser" for CBeebies, the BBC children's selection. She has a huge influence on their programming, responsible for the "I am Leo" "documentary" a few years ago. (2) went to the Court of Appeal to try to be named the "father" of the child which she gave birth to. CoA refused. Has since had another baby. BTW: why, oh why does the NHS inseminate a woman who plainly has no intention of "living like a man" by getting pregnant and giving birth ?!?
As a lifelong labour voter ,I really feel politically homeless right now ,and as things stand I don't trust labour or any of the left leaning parties on this issue. I've never voted Tory in my life ,but I really would consider doing so if they return ,at least in part.,to traditional conservative values ,like controlling our borders ,standing up for Law and Order upholding our traditions and culture and supporting family values. Sadly ,they have become too liberal and weak.and chaos is the result ,evidenced by failing institutions and public services. 💔🤮😭
"But once your eyes are blinded by political allegiance on any side, there is often an irresistible urge to look for excuses in the most appalling stances and find assurance where there is none."
I don't vote...they are all the same to me. Just use your vote wisely if you do!
It's worth spoiling your ballot, in that case. They still have to count spoilt ballots, so it registers that you chose not to vote, rather than them assuming you were apathetic or disengaged.
I want to scream at these women who hang on his tiny miniscule crumbs and make out HES SEEN THE LIGHT..he is the same coward he has always been - STOP PRAISING HIM.
In Scotland the gender issue is an open goal to the opposition but no one is taking a shot. The Labour leader is a Muslim - why is he not defending single sex spaces.For the Muslim community alone this is unacceptable. I don’t understand him. What are these politicians gaining from this? Is it funding?
Who wrote this? It's brilliant. I've heard that excuse about this being a fringe issue so many times from friends who live in the UK, and I'm not articulate enough to explain why it isn't. This is exactly what I need to send them
It's the destruction of reality and reconstruction of society for everyone.
Thanks Padraig! I did! I wasn't on Substack but I have now arrived!
Welcome! 🤝
Cheers Tom!
Tom James
Sorry for barging in, a little off topic but not entirely since I'd like to enquire of anyone who might know of a writer called Amanda MacLean who as guest writer for the Communist Party's "Weekly Worker" wrote some absolutely exquisite and burning hot articles on the gender craze. She is at any rate articulate enough and more to explain why this is not just a fringe issue. However the Weekly Worker has not published anything of hers for over a year, so I'm wondering if she has gone somewhere else, and if anyone here knows where? More than keen to follow her and read anything she produces.
Here's my letter to Labour, accompanied by my membership number. Needless to say I have not received a reply.
_________________________________
Dear [Labour]
I am in the unfortunate position, for the first time in my life, of being unsure of whether I wish Labour to win an election.
I know that, as a woman, a feminist and someone who cares deeply about child wellbeing, I am not alone.
In conscience I cannot vote for, or support in any way, a party I believe does not support my rights and those of other women and girls.
Any party that supports the indoctrination of children into early sexualisation, deluded thinking and the possibility of irreversible damage to their minds and bodies loses the right, in my eyes, to any consideration as fit to take our country forward into the future.
A party that lacks the intellectual rigour to critically interrogate philosophical and political movements to which it allies itself and lacks the backbone to allow proper debate of the consequences is not a party I can be assured would make the right decisions for the right reasons in government.
A party that denies reality and demands that I repeat the lies, that I deny the evidence of my own eyes and experiences and that I participate in a mass delusion is not a party I can ever trust.
I am not a transphobe, a bigot or a shill for right wing extremists. I come from a proud left wing tradition.
I feel that you would rather support a movement that actively and abusively campaigns against me than listen to my voice.
I know that some assurances have been given by Kier and some colleagues but these are always compromised by other statements; for example, it is pointless assuring me that the party will protect women's rights if we differ on who is included under the umbrella of 'woman'.
I want to support the party and I want to hear from you that I can do so without abandoning my deeply held and fundamental principles..
Please help me and the many others in the same position as me to feel we can use our voices, our efforts and our votes to help elect a Labour government.
I look forward to hearing from you.
_________________________________
I'll update if I ever receive a response. I won't be holding my breath though I will be holding my nose and voting Conservative unless Labour changes their stance on this.
Beautifully written.
Thank you.
I sent it in response to two separate funding requests from Labour and Welsh Labour. I'm sure if I'd replied offering money they'd have got back to me PDQ. As it is I'm being ignored.
Excellent letter.
Thank you.
Excellent article! All of it but this hits the nail right on the head:
"If Starmer finds it hard to stand up for women and children’s rights against what is essentially a noisy shrieking mob with banners and Twitter followings, what hope has he of leading a country? How would he deal with big business or world leaders? How would he deal with Putin?
Starmer is educated, and like many famous people, he didn’t hold these views until five minutes ago. How can voters trust a man who denies biological reality and does so merely to score points with an increasingly deranged and relatively small base? How can women trust someone who was so quick to give away their rights on an ideology based in narcissism, porn, and bad faith?"
Thank you!
Thank you for replying! Now I have found your Substack! :-)
https://tomjames.substack.com/
I've always voted Labour, but I won't be in the next election, I'd feel a bit like a turkey voting for Christmas. A lot of northern working-class women I know vote Conservative now, we just look at Starmer, Thornberry and Lammy spouting their nonsense and want to vomit. Labour do not represent the working class or women, so they can do one as far as I'm concerned.
For me it's the most important issue of our time because it's about the fundamental democratic right to be able to live according to what you know to be rational. If you lose that, anything's possible.
We've already got chemical and surgical mutilation of kids, women exposed to dangerous men, people locked up for refusing to deny biological reality (in Ireland) and the compulsory teaching of Queer Theory-style paedophilia and anti-scientific ideology to primary school kids (in Wales) - and this is just the beginning of the ideological grip,.
So whoever stands up and admits what we all know to be true, gets my vote. Right now I can't see any of them doing that but maybe the Tavistock trial will change the conversation. Or even just start one.
We desperately need a move away from the established main parties. The SDP under William Clouston’s leadership seem to be the only party willing to publicly nail their colours to the mast regarding biological sex-based rights. Their other policies actually make sense too. Maybe we should be turning to them?
Sadly there is no real chance of candidates for smaller parties getting into Parliament under the first past the post system. This may be why the parties often don’t always listen to the mainstream. Most constituencies in England are controlled by one party and will elect a right wing loon or a left wing loon.
But you don't need MPs to change policy. What about Nigel Farage and his various iterations of trying - desperately - to get into Parliament? They never achieved a single MP elected under their banner (only 2 Tory defectors), and yet here we all are, out of Europe, because they made enough noise and got enough votes all over the country to terrify the Tories and Labour into changing their policies to one of madness. You might say look at the Trans Lobby too - what a huge influence that has had to the detriment of women and children in the UK, and yet the only "trans" MP is a previously elected Tory frightened of getting arrested if he was just an ordinary bloke who drove his car into a lamppost while drunk, but found that doing it while trans made him brave and otherwise immune from approbation.
Make enough noise and you don't need to get a single MP because the political parties that exist now will bend to your will. The problem seems to be that women just don't have the chutzpah to do it. Hey Posie P, fancy starting a political party?
I think Posie Parker is considering standing If Eddie Izzard is selected for Sheffield. That would be great.
But we need a new party that promotes an agenda for women. One Labour MP on her own is not going to change very much ( outside of her own constituency perhaps). We need a party with candidates all over the country, promoting an agenda that makes sense for women (and men supporting women) and for whom women vote. A mere 2 million or so votes later (considering we have a potential 30 odd million), and Labour will drop the trans agenda like a hot brick.
I don't think Posie is standing as a labour party candidate. The Labour Party wouldn't support her anyway. She would stand as an independent....with no expectation of winning. It would be to force the conversation right out into the open, in the doorsteps, in the media....the mainstream media ignore her. If she stood against Izzard, the contrast would be stark, the *national* media could not ignore her....Posie would not be quiet....the debate would be out and the entire country would be watching one small constituency. The spotlight would be blinding. It would be a stroke of genius on Posie's part.
Communist Party of Britain, CPGB-ML and Alba are all gender critical/materialist/secular too.
Being named Labour is transphobic lol! 👶🍼👩🍼
Can’t vote Tory - their reluctance to recognise sentience in animals has worried me hugely. NOT voting for any party that doesn’t know what a woman is. So not voting Labour- too ridiculous for me. Seriously no one to vote for unless Graham or Posie interested in setting something up
The problem with the 'no one to vote for" stance is that not voting is effectively casting a vote in our system; in the next GE an abstention will be a vote for Labour.
I am a Labour party member and a lifelong supporter. I despise the Conservative party.
I have always voted on principle and in the next election I shall be voting on the principles of child safeguarding and women's rights. If that means voting Conservative then so be it.
We need new parties or independents
We do.
But new parties struggle to make any impact in our two party system and independents are unable to sway policy.
Quite frankly I think our best hope is that the Conservatives manage to remake themselves as a pragmatic just right of centre party. We'll all know they're doing it for political survival rather than out of conviction but I don't think we can afford to get precious and purist about politics any more.
Making "misgendering" a crime is going to harm disabled and neurodiverse people too. I'm autistic and even though I'm high functioning, I can't lie convincingly or keep track of gender nonsense in social situations - I'm already having to actively concentrate on and process the other person's body language, facial expressions and tone of voice and manage my own, as well as follow the content of the conversation, because they don't come naturally to me. I will just say what I see. Lots of us are brutally honest to the point of rudeness, which is something we try to work on if we have the functioning to do so - but it isn't easy or always possible.
Though this is the same ideology that promotes sterilising autistic people in childhood before they can pass on their genes, so I suppose it's to be expected. For all their talk of "inclusivity" they don't give a fuck about us lot, and they care even less about low-functioning autistic people.
Hi Graham,
I know you often refer to trans rights activism as a men's rights movement, have you done any pieces that go into detail on the disparity between Trans identifying males on the public stage and trans identifying females?
The Wikipedia category for Transgender women covers three pages with 599 entires.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Transgender_women
The Transgender men category does not need to extend further than a single page, containing only 173 entries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Transgender_men
Well over a three to one deficit of prominent trans identifying males by comparison to trans identifying females. This is a confounding ratio given that 74% of Tavistock referrals are female. The patriarchy doesn't seem to be under threat from all these girls and women identifying as men.
The fortunes of all those trans identifying males also seem to be much greater. Books, columns, modelling contracts, movies, TV shows, awards (for women), gold medals, tours, political appointments and campaigns. The names I recognise don't seem to have seen any drop off in work at all and most have only accelerated their career.
By Comparison, if you're female and transition, your options seem to get pretty limited pretty fast. Without porn, voiceover work or TV cameos the only names I recognised are a couple of (not very prominent) writers and an attorney.
This should alarm any trans allies that claim to be feminists every bit as much as gender critical feminists. In the public arena, females don't seem to be empowered by identifying as men to any extent while males retain their privilege whenever they adopt a female identity. This sex based discrimination should be highlighted by all, but from a GC perspective, it's important to remind girls and women who believe that they can identify out of their oppression that they're mistaken.
Anyway, here's the bullet points of the prominent trans people's careers since transition which got me worked up about this. Not saying anything all your readers don't know, but don't think I've seen it laid out like you have with "this never happens" and other stuff.
First the males, then the females:
Munroe Bergdorf
- ‘Changemaker of the Year’ at the 2018 Cosmopolitan Awards
- honorary doctorate in 2019 by the University of Brighton
- Loreal modelling contract
Juno Birch
- International touring show
Aimee Challenor
- Appointed Green Party equality spokesperson
- Appointed as a Diversity Officer for the Liberal Democrats
- hired as an administrator by Reddit
Andrea Long Chu
- Book published
- appointed book critic for New York
- Published by n+1, The New York Times, differences and Women & Performance
Charlotte Clymer
- Fortune magazine's 40 Under 40 list in the "Government and Politics" category
Contrapoints
- topped the Dazed 100 list, which ranks people who "dared to give culture a shot in the arm."
- New Yorker Profile
- 11,000+ Patreons
- 1.6M Youtube Subscribers
Juno Dawson
- Published several books
- won the 'Queen of Teen' award
- represents Stonewall as a School Role Model
- judging panel for the 2016 BBC Young Writers' Award
- acting roles in I May Destroy You and Holby City.
Eli Erlick
- 2013: Refinery29 30 Under 30 SF
- 2015: Westly Prize for Young Innovators
- 2016: Davis Projects for Peace
- 2016: Teen Vogue's The New Faces of Feminism
- 2017: Glamour Magazine College Woman of the Year
- 2017: GO 100 Women We Love
- 2017: Lambda Literary Award, LGBTQ Anthology
- 2018: Real Leaders 100
Shon Faye
- Two book deals
Fallon Fox
- inducted into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.
- Documentary film
Laurel Hubbard
- Won gold at the 2017 Australian International & Australian Open
- qualified for the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- at the 2019 Pacific Games
- won gold at the Roma 2020 World Cup
- Qualified for the 2020 Olympics
Veronica Ivy
- Published by NBC News, Vice, and Newsweek.
- broke the record for the 200-meter sprint for females aged 34–39
- won the world 200-meter sprint record for women in the 35–39 age range
- won the UCI Masters World Track Cycling Championship in the Women's Sprint 35–44 age bracket
Eddie Izzard
- Multiple TV, Film and Theatre Credits
- Currently standing for MP
Caitlyn Jenner
- won the 2015 Social Media Queen award at the Teen Choice Awards
- One of Glamour magazine's 2015 25 Glamour Women of the Year
- named Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating Person of 2015
- Placed on Time magazine's eight-person shortlist for the 2015 Person of the Year
- received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award during the 2015 ESPY Awards
- In 2016 chosen as the face of H&M Sport
- Dozens of TV credits
Jazz Jennings
- 7+ Season TV show
- received LogoTV's 2014 Youth Trailblazer Award.
Paris Lees
- Vogue Column
- Penguin book deal
- Published by The Independent, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, PinkNews, and Vice,
- Invited onto Question Time
Rachel Levine
- Promoted to Four Star Admiral
- Appointed Assistant Secretary for Health
Chelsea Manning
- Published a book
Parker Molloy
- Published by Rolling Stone, The Huffington Post, Salon, and The Advocate
- Published a book
- nominated for a 2014 National Women's Political Caucus Exceptional Merit in Media Award
Renee Richards
- Published two autobiographies
The Wachowski Brothers
- Wrote, Directed and Produced 5 Movies
India Willoughby
- took part in Channel 5's Celebrity Big Brother – Year of the Woman
Buck Angel
- Multiple Pornography credits
Chaz Bono
- Multiple TV & Movie appearances
Jude Doyle
- received the first Women's Media Center Social Media Award
Freddie McConnell
- Writes for the Guardian
- Published a childrens book
Eliot Page
- Signed a book deal
- Voice role in an animated TV show
Chase Strangio
- included in 2020's Time 100 most influential people in the world
- chosen for NBC Out's 2017 "#Pride30" list
- awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by his alma mater Grinnell College
- Staff Attorney the ACLU
Pornography and pregnancy are the main options if a 'transman' wants any public attention at all.
...and how did I forget:
Jamie Wallis MP
-Appointed to the Parliamentary Women and Equalities Committee
Thank you for this.
Far from being marginalised and discriminated against, men identifying as women seem to be largely lauded, applauded and rewarded, in all arenas from the arts to sports to modelling.
It has become a cause for celebrity but that is a sad reflection of our society today. In terms of recognition and success the ratio of men identifiying as women and becoming famous to women identifying as men and becoming famous is interesting but sadly not surprising. Like you say, something trans allies should really be aware of.
Freddie (1) is an "adviser" for CBeebies, the BBC children's selection. She has a huge influence on their programming, responsible for the "I am Leo" "documentary" a few years ago. (2) went to the Court of Appeal to try to be named the "father" of the child which she gave birth to. CoA refused. Has since had another baby. BTW: why, oh why does the NHS inseminate a woman who plainly has no intention of "living like a man" by getting pregnant and giving birth ?!?
It's all nonsense, isn't it?
As a lifelong labour voter ,I really feel politically homeless right now ,and as things stand I don't trust labour or any of the left leaning parties on this issue. I've never voted Tory in my life ,but I really would consider doing so if they return ,at least in part.,to traditional conservative values ,like controlling our borders ,standing up for Law and Order upholding our traditions and culture and supporting family values. Sadly ,they have become too liberal and weak.and chaos is the result ,evidenced by failing institutions and public services. 💔🤮😭
"But once your eyes are blinded by political allegiance on any side, there is often an irresistible urge to look for excuses in the most appalling stances and find assurance where there is none."
I don't vote...they are all the same to me. Just use your vote wisely if you do!
It's worth spoiling your ballot, in that case. They still have to count spoilt ballots, so it registers that you chose not to vote, rather than them assuming you were apathetic or disengaged.
I don't vote because of my religious beliefs. I have not entered a polling booth for about 40 years!
Politics is busted!
Starter is a wishy washy individual hunting with the hare and the hounds, lammy is a fool. Labour have made many people politically homeless
Should read starmer
I want to scream at these women who hang on his tiny miniscule crumbs and make out HES SEEN THE LIGHT..he is the same coward he has always been - STOP PRAISING HIM.
And same applies to the SNP in Scotland.
You will soon find out where that red lines sits with many of your voters.
In Scotland the gender issue is an open goal to the opposition but no one is taking a shot. The Labour leader is a Muslim - why is he not defending single sex spaces.For the Muslim community alone this is unacceptable. I don’t understand him. What are these politicians gaining from this? Is it funding?