This is for all those councillors, MPs, TU reps and organization heads who think women’s rights is a minority interest.

The accurate answer to ‘transwomen are women’ is ‘no, women are women. Transwomen are transwomen‘.

Unfortunately, the people running all our councils and government departments and big organizations hardly ever hear the right answer, so they still manage to operate as though a) most people – nice people – believe transwomen are women and/or b) it’s cruel and dangerous to trans people to say they aren’t.

Let’s get those ideas out of the way first, shall we. Let us imagine a reasonably intelligent town councillor is reading this, knowing that something has gone wrong somewhere. Councillor, please consider this. You have always known that women exist as a sex-class. If you’ve been out and about very much, you’ve also always known that women in general are far more tolerant of, and friendly towards, transsexual people than men are, just as women have always been more welcoming to gay people, in fact to anyone who’s ‘a bit different’ therefore, it’s highly unlikely that thousands of women – many of them socialists, are refusing to say ‘transwomen are women’ just to be annoying.

In recent years, despite knowing all those things, you’ve sadly had to break links with quite a few women who stood against the ‘received wisdom’ of Stonewall, Pride and the rest, when they went to war on real feminism. Having let that happen, you’ve stuck with your position despite finding out all the reasons so many women are holding out – to defend women’s sport for example, or to rescue kids who get lost in the middle-aged, misogynist male world of ‘sex changes’ and night-club drag.

Did you know that holding that position is facilitating a lot of under-the-radar illegality? Take a look at this court ruling and some of the commentary around it (you can click on the panels to see the text full size)…

This is the latest in a series of cases women have won against people who are automatically rude and obstructive to women who talk about women’s rights, or indeed talk about women as a sex class at all. These cases continue to be necessary because of two large groups of people:

The first and largest is all the people and organizations that have decided to sit quiet and let ‘mouthy women’ take the heat until it’s sorted out.

The second is those who have political or professional positions that were designed for people with more brains than they have. They believed everything people like Stonewall and Pride told them because when they were young, those organizations were the good guys. They believed every corruption and misunderstanding of the law that was circulated by people who were trying to live a dream called ‘gender ideology’.

If you have critical thinking skills, something like this might be bubbling up around now:

The kids have been fighting older women. Teenagers are very prone to that, it’s part of growing up and finding your feet. For around 20 years now, they’ve been encouraged to extend that fight by a bunch of grant-farmers like Stonewall who weaponized ‘transwomen are women’ and its less respectable corollary ‘older women are terfs/bigots’. Now though, the brighter kids are pointing at the naked emperor and laughing. Loudly.

Don’t get left behind

If you’re wondering how it happened, here goes: organizations like Stonewall decided, consciously or not, that white, gay men had pretty much won their fight. The fight that remained on Stonewall’s to-do list was to defend lesbians and black, disabled or otherwise discriminated against gay and lesbian people. Because misogyny and racism were riding so high in our society, that was going to be a difficult battle and Stonewall had got used to an easier life than that, and bigger grants, so they imported the gender ideology cult from the United States, added the ‘T’ to ‘LGB’ and created a more lucrative war for themselves – the imagined divide between feminists and gender-non-conforming people.

That has to be an imaginary battle because feminists, gay and lesbian people and gender-confused, gender-distressed or gender-rebellious youngsters are all gender-non conforming people. Nevertheless, by getting people to believe real feminists were the enemy, Stonewall got some very nasty people on their side:

Misogynists – oh, how they love the chance to virtuously call older women ”bigots’, ‘terfs’ and ‘Nazis’ – and ‘handmaidens’ - women who are so lost and fearful they side with men over women. Many of those bright-eyed, hectic women run schemes ‘for all women’, desperately trying to be modern, progressive, inclusive and generally be approved of. Don’t be fooled. It’s easy to find real women’s rights groups. Just go look for the ones the nasty people and the nervous people call ‘anti-trans hate groups’. They are all relatively new, but that’s because they were set up by life-long women’s campaigners who had given up with established organizations when they caved in to gender ideology. They were joined by socialist and trade unionist women who were being pushed out of their former roles in politics, charities and academia.

Here’s a handy list from Sex Matters.

The writing on the wall

Maya Forstater won her case. Jo Phoenix won her case. In between, lots of less well known women won their cases. What is possibly more damaging for diffident organizations is the vast number of women who chose not to go to court – people like Prof Kathleen Stock, who gave up on Sussex University (they couldn’t handle her ability as a philosopher to explain all sides of the sex v gender-identity arguments). She waved goodbye and launched into a far more attractive career as an author, speaker and advisor, leaving Sussex University the poorer. People like Ruby Cox (who responded to ‘say transwomen are women’ and ‘support self-ID’ with ‘no, we need to think about this and discuss it’). After a year of mistreatment and marginalization, Cox lost her council seat, said ‘to **** with politics’ and moved on to a different life, leaving her council team stuck in the silent appeasement pit.

Councils, trade unions and political parties are growing steadily less intelligent and articulate as a result of this forced exodus of articulate women and, when the inevitable court cases come along, they lose them.

Real feminists?

Yes. If you are over 40, think back. If you’re under 40, here’s the thing you need to know: ‘gender-critical feminist’ is a tautology. Real feminists know that sex is a real, biological state. They do not believe in ‘gender identity’. They discuss how people come to believe they have a gender identity. They call it ‘sexism’. It can go so deep people may not be aware of how they’ve been dragged into sexist views of life.

If you are a councillor or trade union official, you will be surrounded by trendy, well-funded organizations supposedly working for women or for young people who are enthusiastic supporters of ‘gender identity’. They call it ‘inclusiveness’. Somewhere in the depths of their minds, they know it’s nonsense, but they also know loudly believing in it gets them the grant money.

Unfortunately for us, all that bullying and marginalization that’s been going on has resulted in them being the only people who get heard in all those meetings in councils and trade unions, so you can go on telling yourself ‘gender critical feminism’ is a minority view.

Unfortunately for you and your organizations, it also leads you to tolerating bullies, or even to illegally discriminating against women. That’s why we keep winning court cases. I advise you to get ahead of the game, before one of those cases descends on you. Remember all those times when you promised the women you used to work with that you’d have a proper, brave debate about gender identity v sex and feminism? The gender cult is losing – slowly and painfully, because we have to do it in court, case by case, against all those trendy organizations who don’t want to lose their grants.

Talk to the real feminists

We will win though. Case by case. This would be a great time for you to get on and have that debate. Try getting in touch with some of the groups listed below. They know the law, all too well. If you’re in politics, local government, the charity sector or trade union work, I promise you know quite a lot of their members, speakers and supporters already. You used to work with them.

Oh and by the way, this isn’t a ‘left right issue’. Most people know women exist, and are fed up with all the nonsense – many have worked out that gender ideology is a cruel trick played on our children by middle-aged misogynists. It’s just that the Daily Mail got there first, speaking up for the popular view when you missed it. The groups listed here span the political spectrum. If you’re a lefty or trade unionist, you’ll probably be happiest with FiLiA or Woman’s Place UK. If you’re Labour Party, go for LWD (Labour Women’s Declaration). If you’re on the other team, try Conservatives for Women or contact Miriam Cates MP, who has done some excellent work on safeguarding for women and girls.

Why does it matter?

(This last section is added on later, at the request of various women who got in touch wanting me to say something about what they have been enduring).

For those who were happy to wave goodbye to women’s sex-based rights and services, or haven’t noticed how the trend for mixed sex everything has impacted on girls or women, or isn’t concerned about the number of women lost to public life through bullying and slander, here are a couple of apposite comments, and some snippets from the Jo Phoenix hearing – please have a glance through, and ask yourself how women are supposed to get on at work in the face of a barrage like that?

Diane Jones, a member of the Labour Women’s Declaration team, would like to point out “… the extent of the intimidation by the transactivists (who are not in the main trans people) which keeps women, and many men too, silent in their work, in their trade unions, and in their cultural and social settings. It’s truly horrific.”

Another woman said to me, “I wonder how many others are in my position, small fry in the grand scheme of things but still in the position of having to rebuild their lives after being (metaphorically) burnt at the stake?”

Here are some clips from the Jo Phoenix hearing, which confirmed again that it is illegal to discriminate against women for ‘gender critical beliefs’, to slander and marginalize them with ‘TERF’ and ‘transphobe’.

I say it is worse to sit in a role that gives you a voice, and just watch it happen. It is damaging for women and girls, probably more damaging than you know, for all of us. Maybe you are thinking ‘oh, but this doesn’t happen in our organisation’. If you are thinking that, please look at how and when the word ‘inclusion’ gets used. These days, nine times out of ten, it pans out as ‘don’t let women use their legal, sex-based exception’. It’s also a quick, one word way of telling real feminists they’re not welcome.

What would it take to stop this happening? It’s very, very easy. We need some organizations to have that debate together, and make some public statements together, saying that being abusive towards women colleagues who say sex matters is not acceptable, that writing off feminist views as ‘transphobic’ does nothing for trans people, and that neither will be tolerated in their organizations.

You don’t have to go it alone, as so many of the women have had to – you can discuss it in private, and make your statement as a group. You won’t get into trouble with the law because sex is a legally protected characteristic. You will in fact be upholding the law, as all the women who have spoken up for their legal rights were doing, when you watched them bullied into silence.

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