I am exhausted. All day I have been watching and listening to women and girls sharing their experiences of rape, sexual assault, verbal abuse, harassment, misogyny and generic bullying. From the age of ten. Let that sink in. In school uniforms girls are attacked and abused.
I have been crying most of today, in anger, empathy frustration... for me, my sisters, daughter and all women. And we are the lucky ones, we in the west... my soul has been broken today.
And now to top this, the Scottish parliament have decided that cross dressers need more protection then me, well it has blown my mind. How many cross dressers per week are killed in their own homes? How many.. and let’s broaden this out here, trans and cross dressers are attacked and abused every week (and by abuse let’s be clear I do not include someone put a sticker on a lamppost saying women’s rights are human rights).
My experience today underlines that lawmakers in 2021 place no value on 51% of the population. Or women (adult human female to be clear).
I am broken. A professional women & mother, I have no value.
I can see my sisters on Twitter, but where are the leaders? Where are the political parties, how the fuck can they look at themselves and not squirm. Where the fuck are you?
Open your eyes (yes looking at you SNP, Greens, Labour, Libdems)... it’s a fucking strange world when the only one clinging to our rights is Liz Truss.
I spend a good bit of time in Scotland and it was evident there (and elsewhere) that people really struggle with how gender ideology messes with their politics. They assume that the left leaning voices must be the correct ones, and can’t understand how someone they hate like Piers Morgan or Donald Trump or outlets like the Daily Mail can be supporting women and girls’ rights more than the people they usually look to for leadership. It is genuinely hard to get one’s head around and I think it is a real impediment to making progress.
Do you know Graham, not today.
I am exhausted. All day I have been watching and listening to women and girls sharing their experiences of rape, sexual assault, verbal abuse, harassment, misogyny and generic bullying. From the age of ten. Let that sink in. In school uniforms girls are attacked and abused.
I have been crying most of today, in anger, empathy frustration... for me, my sisters, daughter and all women. And we are the lucky ones, we in the west... my soul has been broken today.
And now to top this, the Scottish parliament have decided that cross dressers need more protection then me, well it has blown my mind. How many cross dressers per week are killed in their own homes? How many.. and let’s broaden this out here, trans and cross dressers are attacked and abused every week (and by abuse let’s be clear I do not include someone put a sticker on a lamppost saying women’s rights are human rights).
My experience today underlines that lawmakers in 2021 place no value on 51% of the population. Or women (adult human female to be clear).
I am broken. A professional women & mother, I have no value.
I can see my sisters on Twitter, but where are the leaders? Where are the political parties, how the fuck can they look at themselves and not squirm. Where the fuck are you?
Open your eyes (yes looking at you SNP, Greens, Labour, Libdems)... it’s a fucking strange world when the only one clinging to our rights is Liz Truss.
Shame on you. Shame on all of you.
I spend a good bit of time in Scotland and it was evident there (and elsewhere) that people really struggle with how gender ideology messes with their politics. They assume that the left leaning voices must be the correct ones, and can’t understand how someone they hate like Piers Morgan or Donald Trump or outlets like the Daily Mail can be supporting women and girls’ rights more than the people they usually look to for leadership. It is genuinely hard to get one’s head around and I think it is a real impediment to making progress.