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I want trans women to be safe. At the same time, I do not want to make natal girls and women less safe.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
Everywhere, women are being told to shut up and sit down, or else.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
I never forget that inner complexity when I'm creating a fictional character and I certainly never forget it when it comes to trans people.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
We're living through the most misogynistic period I've experienced....Never have I seen women denigrated and dehumanised to the extent they are now.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
It isn't enough for women to be trans allies. Women must accept and admit that there is no material difference between trans women and themselves.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
The supreme irony is that the attempt to silence women with the word "TERF" may have pushed more young women towards radical feminism than the movement's seen in decades.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
If you could come inside my head and understand what I feel when I read about a trans woman dying at the hands of a violent man, you'd find solidarity and kinship.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
I spoke up about the importance of sex and have been paying the price ever since. I was transphobic, I was a cunt, a bitch, a TERF, I deserved cancelling, punching and death.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
It would be so much easier to tweet the approved hashtags — because of course trans rights are human rights and of course trans lives matter — scoop up the woke cookies and bask in a virtue-signalling afterglow. There's joy, relief and safety in conformity.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
I've only mentioned my past because, like every other human being on this planet, I have a complex backstory, which shapes my fears, my interests and my opinions. I never forget that inner complexity when I'm creating a fictional character and I certainly never forget it when it comes to trans people.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
... as a much-banned author, I'm interested in freedom of speech.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
I've read all the arguments about femaleness not residing in the sexed body, and the assertions that biological women don't have common experiences, and I find them, too, deeply misogynistic and regressive.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)