Over 16 thousand people have signed a very stupid, homophobic letter
Doctor Jane Clare Jones breaks it down
From this thread by Jane. Reproduced with her permission.
I've taken the Rainbow Pens of Doom out of retirement because *that letter* pissed me off so much.
Here is the letter. It's a FUCKING EGREGIOUS attempt to dismiss the testimony and gaslight the BBC into recanting.
Bullshit argument 1: “When you say 'some' trans people you actually mean ALL trans people and you are demonising the whole of a marginalised community so you must never say anything about any members of that community and they must be immune from all suspicion of violence against women and girls.”
Bullshit argument 2: “The study is a non-representative sample and so even though you make it completely explicit you are not making a statistical claim you shouldn't even use it to demonstrate that something is actually happening and STFU.”
Bullshit argument 3: “If you're a lesbian who won't sleep with trans women because they are male you are saying you don't think they're women and THAT MAKES YOU AN EVIL HERETIC. [This is in no way relates to a possible motive for trans women to want to sleep with lesbians]”
Bullshit argument 3b: “You must not name male characteristics as male characteristics and if you are a lesbian you are allowed not to have sex with trans women as long as you don't say it has anything to do with them being male.”
Screaming gaslighting bullshit argument 3c: If you are not attracted to a male trans woman you must say it is because they are a woman you are not attracted to even if they are completely and obviously male.
HOW MANY MORE WAYS DO YOU WANT TO TRY AND GASLIGHT LESBIANS OUT OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION by mandating how they can understand and express their own desire in order to pander to males you absolute fucks?????
6. Bullshit argument 3a REPRISE: “THEY SINNED AGAINST THE SACRED AXIOM. THEY ARE EVIL AND HAVE STRAYED FROM THE ONE TRUE WAY. THEY MUST BE BROUGHT TO KNEEL BEFORE THE GOODNESS AND THE LIGHT.
'We care a great deal about evidence but no amount of testimony from lesbians is evidence however these people are ALL hateful bigots based on claims for which we will give no evidence.'
“Demonstrating lesbians are frothing harpie bigots but when we draw dicks outside women's meetings or tell you to choke on cocks and shit we are just exercising our right to free speech.”
Over halfway through this letter we will now acknowledge that *maybe* some lesbians have been sexually coerced but on the basis of no statistical evidence we will now suggest that it is not widespread enough for anyone to give a fuck about.'
Bullshit argument 4: “Lesbians saying they are being coerced by males is like homophobia.”
Bullshit argument 5: “Lesbians saying they are being coerced by males is like racism.”
Bullshit argument 6: “We are the most vulnerable in the world so STFU lesbians.”
TOTAL BULLSHIT 7: 'Trans women are in danger from gay panic violence from straight men who find out they are trans and this means that lesbians need to shut up about them having penises or it will their fault or something, um.....'
Bullshit argument 1 REPRISE: “Some groups of males must be immune from all accountability for VAWG you bigots so suck it up.
FINALE: 'The BBC has finally started reporting on what is happening and it makes us look shit so it must be stopped.'
“REPENT MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!”
I love this. Not the BS letter to the BBC asking them to repent, but the fact that Dr Jane Clare Jones sounds so like me when I read this poisonous garbage. Every bit of that toxic open letter makes me spew forth bile and vitriol. I am so glad I wrote to the BBC via their complaints form to thank them for their article. They need to hear that there are many people thanking them in case they mistake this crap for a majority and make the huge mistake of apologising.
I so love the bit about the "non representative example" in the self selected study of 80" being far too small to be if use. What did Stonewall and Mermaids use to project the numbers of trans young people who would be suicidal without puberty blockers etc. I can't remember, but it was under 50 and they self selected too, I think.
They just don't get how insincere and srupid they sound. In fact I would use the word disingenuous to describe the majority of those who have complained. Using anecdotal evidence as other people's lived experience seems to be a one-way street, which makes their arguments short-lived, shallow, and unimportant.
The media have to stop taking notice of the tantrums. Tantrums from toddlers and other small children, I can jyst about tolerate as they don't know any different. Tantrums from adult biological males need to be chalked out for what they are every time.
Rant over.