Hello friends,
This ridiculous sign actually made me come out of my blogging hibernation to make a post. At the University of Northern British Columbia, students have put a “No Terfs” sign on the front door of their Women’s Centre, ironically right above a sign saying “All Welcome.”
This is 2018, and women who understand human reproductive anatomy and whose activism focuses on rights for female humans are no longer welcome in places that purport to enhance rights for female humans. Such women are such loathsome garbage that they aren’t even considered part of the ‘everyone’ who is supposed to be included in all-inclusive spaces. Organizers aren’t able to grasp the basic illogic, stupidity, and misogyny of this position.
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That’s right. If it happens to have occurred to you that the entire history of enactments of protections and competitive options for women and girls was for the benefit of biological female humans, as a response to the oppression of biological female humans, and you’d prefer that language that refers to biological female humans stay that way because all this oppression is still very much culturally embedded, and these legal changes are relatively recent – well sucks to be you, because we’re handing all that over to men and boys now. Also DIAF!
They might as well say “no witches” except these guys like to try to appropriate that too, along with everything else of women.
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Begging to be stickered.
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Favorite comment on this story so far:
“You know, I really don’t care what the apparatchiks post on their doors. They’ll fall into line lickety-split when the fashion tide turns, as it will next year. TERFs will be cool as heck. TERFs, get your bangs on!”
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The shitty thing is, I think a lot of women are going with this “no terfs” thing because it’s trendy–not because they actually understand what they’re supposedly against.
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And they want to be kind and accepting etc.
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When they’re not kicking around lesbians at dyke marches, I mean.
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Especially very young women.
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Actually, someone should make and post another sign for their window — “we love to suck lady dick here”.
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“No Penis Left Neglected.”
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OMG – you’re a genius! That would be PERFECT!
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I’m surprised it’s still called a Women’s Center. I would think they would have changed it to a
“gender-neutral” name long ago. Like here in the states … there’s very few Women’s Studies Colleges anymore … they’re all Gender Studies now. & of course it’s all trans ideology that they teach … no more women-centered academics.
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There once was a place where women could unite
Once a power source, now they face a plight,
No terfs could enter
The Wow man’s centre
Which was now a club for the fight.
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That is so sickening , Brainwashed, and lack of loyalty to women’s suffrage, male centered to show us how they worship their ugly lifestyle of misogyny, how repugnant it is to see this blatant hatred to women , to critical thinking feminists , lesbians, to be publicly slurred to be unwilling to discuss or listen to what males have done to women, to see just how blinded to their own on going erasure to their biological sex,and the sex based rights and protections hard fought for rights they eventually they will realize when they need them they will be gone complete what a weak, disgusting little business, I hope someone over their has some guts and protest in from of them daily loudly and if one is taken away by the authorities then another steps up.
Women need to stop being afraid and stand up speak out and show some affirmative action,get use to being uncomfortable , women won their rights because they did drastic stuff like firebombed houses. the suffragettes had guts … Women died for the cause.
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Thank you for posting this! I know we all like getting to hear form you. I hope your hiatus has been going well!
I don’t know how many people here have read it, but I recently got Lundy Bancroft’s excellent book “Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men” which is about abusive men and how they work, and I have to say it totally applies to trans-identified men and their reality-denying rhetoric.
I like how you point out how the people in charge here don’t seem to be willing to see the rather obvious misogyny involved in supporting gender identity politics. Seeing your post made me think how it’s the same as the dynamic Lundy talks about in his book between abusive men and their male and female allies. The men deny the reality of their abuse, and for a variety of reasons their allies aren’t willing to confront the contradiction, so they choose to side with the men. It’s all very frustrating.
Thanks again for the post and the analysis!
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Who could ever have imagined women would banned from a women’s center in favor of men masquerading in woman face?!
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It sucks that it’s this that bought you back to the ‘post’, but, ‘Hi there’ 🙂 … I guess the ‘terfs’ will have to start their own Women’s Centers, just like we did last time.
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They’ll get you with anti-discrimination clauses now that we have men who are legally female. That’s driving a lot of this. Or funding stuff, where you can’t get government funding unless you obey all the rules of trans that have been instated. Churches may be the best way to go. A church can be a kind of holding company and have all sorts of other organizations under its auspices.
Or conservative backlash may throw the whole ideology in the trash.
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Church of the Vagina Unchained! 😀 … that, or a ‘private club’.
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Churches are nice because of the tax privileges. Also ministers can do certain things without medical licenses that other people can’t, as I recall. People sometimes are very resistant to the idea of churches but basically it’s just a flexible legal structure for an organization.
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Hmm … I wonder what hoops one has to jump through in Canada. 🙂 … this bears more thinkatude. 🙂
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If this link works correctly, you’ll see they took the sign down and replaced it with another one. https://twitter.com/MeghanEMurphy/status/1052697645502758914
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Took down all our comments, too, but okay. Also said they aren’t allowed to turn women away so the previous sign was already illegal.
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Now it reads:
“women who don’t identify with their oppression can fuck off!”
What the fuck?!??
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I wonder what would happen if they put up a sign that said “no rapists.”
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Looks like they must have gotten a few reactions since there’s a sticky on the door saying to not post notices on the door. Hahaha… they KNOW they are handmaidens.
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People are still yelling at them on FB.
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There is no longer any freedom of belief and freedom of conscience. We are not allowed to believe what we want. If we do, we are discriminated against, pure and simple. “Do not come here if you believe this”, “you’re fired if you think that”. Doctors and pharmacists can refuse service based on their religious beliefs, even if it means putting a woman in danger, but you can be fired or refused service for believing that producing sperm makes you a man…
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Insisting people talk about GNC people as if they were the opposite sex discriminates against them, as it reinforces oppressive sex stereotypes.
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Reblogged this on vaskaxtumir and commented:
Hard fact: women are not welcome to a Women‘s Centre.
Transgender males who think they are women are.
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It looks like WordPress has suspended GenderTrender unless it’s some kind of error message. Does anybody know what exactly is going on. “gendertrender.wordpress.com is no longer available. This blog has been archived or suspended in accordance with our Terms of Service.”
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Well, how about that. I remember reading that years ago GT got suspended a couple of times, and both times it returned again. Keeping my fingers crossed.
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Yes, I think I read about this GT history. But I sense more than a chill, because Transgender Tropes, another WordPress site bears the same suspension message. This may have happened earlier, but I must assume that it’s for the same reason, and may have very well been taken down today. May this be brief and for something less than a threat.
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Oooh, is this the Purge, WordPress?
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Reading the suspension message text, it looks pretty clear that the blogs were suspended for Heresy. WordPress usually doesn’t pull this kind of crap, but web censorship is creeping like black mold of late.
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There’s a long discussion of these WordPress gender critical suspensions at Reddit Other blogs have also been taken down. (I see my link looks dead, but you can google gendertrender suspension)
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They took down Gender Identity Watch too. Apparently WP has decided it’s against their policy now to refer to personal details of men who identify as women.
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