My response to Stella Creasy
Why Stella Creasy's faux feminism was rejected by Mumsnet
So naturally, Stella didn’t answer my question with a “yes” or “no”. She cannot do that without being cancelled by her advisors and mates on the one hand, and feminists on the other, and so we have the usual evasive Gish Gallop that ends with vague insinuations about abuse.
I do indeed remember campaigning with you on Article 8. At the time, I presumed you knew that the category of “woman” did not include any males. Your position on that appears to have changed, while mine has not. So I’ll ask again, is Eddie Izzard a woman? Eddie thinks he can go into women’s spaces when he is in ‘girl mode’.
If Eddie Izzard can get in, so can Karen White and Aimee Challenor, that’s why it bothers me. Your insane, privileged, cult-like beliefs are a disaster for safeguarding. I’m currently corresponding with two Scottish rape victims who can’t use rape crisis services in Scotland because an abusive trans-odeentified male is CEO. That’s why it bothers me.
Stella, do Lia Thomas’s teammates deserve to lose medals and privacy to Lia Thomas? I actually got quite angry about it recently. Have you commented on their situation? I can’t imagine you have so much as liked a tweet about it.
Aren’t you concerned about the credible reports of homophobic parents using gender ideology to ‘trans’ away the gay in their gay and gender non-conforming kids? Do you reject Emily Duggan and Sian Griffiths’ reporting? If so, on what basis? If not, why aren’t you fighting it?
What about the lesbians who are being harassed for sex and even assaulted by transwomen? Should they be forced to accept intact males in their spaces and dating pools? Doesn’t it worry you that young lesbians are being groomed and pressured into accepting ‘girl dick’, schooled in fellatio and how to stimulate a penis by supposedly lesbian publications? And if they protest, they are bullied and harassed, accused of ‘transphobia’ and ejected from their own community, branded ‘sexual racists’ by Stonewall. Do lesbians have penises, Stella? Another simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer.
I say no.
Don’t you care about women’s sports, Stella? Trans identified males are now able to compete against them despite retaining all of the physical and physiological advantages of male puberty. They are stealing places, opportunities, medals, records, scholarships, sponsors and accolades from women. Do you have no sympathy for the women replaced and beaten by cyclist, Rachel McKinnon, weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, sprinter, CeCe Telfer and AFL player, Hannah Mouncey, to name but a few? And what about the women seriously injured by the males with whom they are forced to compete? Like the woman whose career was ended by MMA fighter, Fallon Fox, with one skull-crushing punch or the woman who was folded ‘like a deck chair’ on the rugby pitch by Gareth ‘Kelly’ Morgan?
Do you believe women need and deserve privacy, safety and dignity in bathrooms and changing rooms etc, Stella? How are they supposed to tell the difference between the trans-identified males who ‘just want to pee’ and those like Lisa Hauxwell or Laken McKay or Aliea Rose Brown or Paula Witherspoon or Davina Ayrton or Johanna Wolf or Jessica Brennan or Michelle Winter or Jessica Smith or Leah Harvey or Synthia China Blast or Wolfgang Schmidt or Dakota Nieves etc etc, all of whom have murdered, raped or assaulted women and girls? Some of them, like Katie Dolatowski and Hanna Tubbs, attacked their victims in a women’s bathroom.
What about women of certain faiths and cultures who cannot share ‘intimate spaces’ with males? You call yourself a feminist so how do you feel about marginalised women being even further marginalised by gender identity ideology? Who is the ‘victim of the patriarchy’ here, Stella? The woman who can no longer use the spaces intended for her sex or the male displacing her?
What of the women in rape crisis centres and domestic violence refuges? Do women traumatised by male violence not deserve a female-only space in which to heal? A rape victim was forced to give up her therapy sessions because she felt inhibited and threatened by the presence of a trans-identified male. Who is the ‘victim of the patriarchy’ here, Stella? The woman who can no longer use a vital rape crisis service or the male who chased her away?
Are you concerned about the women in prisons, many of whom are victims of male violence, being forced to share their accommodation with trans-identified males? Women in prison are one of the most marginalised and vulnerable groups in society. Who is the ‘victim of the patriarchy’ here, Stella? The woman sexually assaulted while incarcerated or the rapist who blagged his way into a female prison?
As a law maker, do you not have concerns that male violence is being recorded and reported as having been committed by women if the perpetrators ‘identify as female’? Aren’t you disturbed that obfuscating the biological sex of rapists, abusers, paedophiles and predators will not only skew crime statistics, it will affect public perception and opinion? Can you suggest how we fight the endemic problem of male violence against women when we cannot even name it?
Does your feminism extend to the women who’ve been abused, bullied and terrorised, who have lost their jobs and livelihoods, whose lives have been turned upside down, just because they dared to speak out about their sex-based rights?
Marion Millar suffered extreme stress and anxiety for months thanks to a long drawn-out legal process. Rosie Kay lost the dance company she founded. Academics such as Kathleen Stock and Jo Phoenix have been hounded out of their jobs and others have faced threats and abuse, even to the extent of requiring security guards on campus. JK Rowling has faced an out-pouring of vitriolic abuse, threats and libel and has even had to suffer activists turning up at her house. Do you have any empathy for these women?
Women have a right to define themselves and to name their sex. They have a right to gather and organise politically. They have a right to cast-iron safeguarding, especially in changing rooms where they or their children are vulnerable. They have a right to fair competition. I stand with Posie Parker, JK Rowling, Rosie Duffield, Maya Forstater, Julie Bindel, Jane Clare Jones and Helen Joyce on all this, women who have little in common except that they are feminists. I don’t know what you are. You certainly are not the person I thought I was marching beside.
My response to Stella mis-quotes the fine wordsmith of Leytonstone tube station; YOU AIN'T NO FEMINIST, BRUV.
Brilliant compendium! Doubt you will receive any answer from Stella . . . For to answer, Stella would be forced to agree with you, and that's not in the cards, is it?