[TRA = trans activist. Please note, TRAs are not necessarily trans people, and most definitely not all trans people are trans activists — trans friends of mine have been hounded for being ‘off message’ every bit as badly as I have. Similarly, lefty feminists, Woman’s Place UK for example, are not anti-trans and have not indulged in either violence or sabotage, they have merely been the targets of such behaviour.]

Burning everything down

What does a decade or more of harassment and sabotage do to a person? Do you wonder why women are getting increasingly snippy over ‘the trans thing’? Or have you forgotten just how polite women of the left were at the start of all this? (That was one of my early lessons in feminism – it doesn’t matter how polite you are, if you’re saying something they don’t want to hear whilst being female, they’ll find you loud and aggressive.)

I think just about everyone knows now, that attending women’s meetings and conferences tends to involve threading your way through a mini-mob of trans activists with ‘noise-makers’. Perhaps not everyone knows the vast amount of effort women’s event organisers have to put into supporting venue managers through the weeks leading up to an event, when their communications tend to be overwhelmed with vexacious complaints, and their security and insurance provisions under constant discussion. Worse, I suspect not many people understand that thousands of women have lost income, political and TU roles and more, due to campaigns of slander and sabotage against them.

If you already know want happens to women who are known advocates of women’s rights, please skim right on down to the heading ‘Our society does not value women‘, and join me in thinking about why it matters, and how we fix it. If you don’t know, here’s one woman’s tale of the years:

Every town has its mini-mob of transactivists. It’s important to make clear from the start, most of them aren’t trans people, and most trans people aren’t trans activists but the mini-mob will be there, usually congregated around a local Pride or antifa group. My first encounters with our local mob was somewhere around 2017, when I was a Labour Party officer, and took exception to the extreme rudeness and obscenity of social media comments directed at some of our local activists in Labour and Momentum related Facebook groups.

Facebook groups can be moderated but what was harder to deal with was the stream of foul and violent messages sent to female officers from a series of anonymous accounts and phone numbers.

Around that time, we got an SOS message from the all-women EC in a neighbouring CLP, who were at the point of resignation, having been hounded wherever they were visible in Labour Party or social media groups. The local TRAs responded to our two groups getting together by putting our names on a ‘Labour Against Transphobia’ ‘hit list’, so that their fellow activists nationwide could add to their constant stream of complaints to Labour HQ and social media pile-ons, intended to ‘persuade’ us to leave the party. Fortunately, what it did instead was introduce us to the other women on the lists, giving a massive boost to the national support network for women being targeted.

Then there began to be incidents around Pride and other events in town, most publicly, the person who was drunk at Pride, banging on the side of ‘Happy Harold’, yelling ‘terfs off the bus’ and other less printable things, because local councillors whose opinions he took exception to it were on board.

We began to see stroppy (and to most people, inexplicable) behaviour in meetings soon after that, at one point the then leader of Hastings Pride storming out of a meeting when our women’s officer stated her intention to work with our pol ed officer on a community project (Pride were at that time trying to ‘cancel’ the pol ed officer), and someone spreading a wild tale all over local pages about a mythical anti-trans motion I was supposed to have tabled. You can see my response to that here…

That led to a couple of individuals closing their Facebook accounts, which gave us a bit of relative quiet for a while, which got even better after one of them assaulted our disability officer whilst flouncing out of a meeting, got himself suspended, then left the party along with his partner.

But we don’t know how many members or potential members of our CLP we lost, because people don’t like that sort of conflict rattling around their ears. There were also a series of complaints to Labour HQ to deal with – the one that most directly concerned me hinged on something I did before I’d learned the facts of life on social media. I’d made up a comment aping the behaviour of the transactivists: the way they’d swoop into a conversation listing their own adopted identities and disabilities, explaining why they personally had the right to label others, being as offensive as possible, then getting upset when people told them where to get off. I posted it in all its horrible, tacky glory and let them get in a stew about it for a while, and then explained that it was there to show them how they made other people feel.

What I hadn’t anticipated was them screenshotting it and popping up with it in various places over the next umpteen years, posting it as supposed evidence I was every kind of bigot you could think of. Still. Really. Some eight years down the line, it is it still turning up from time to time, probably causing me problems anywhere I don’t see it and come in to explain.

Not a very effective attempt at slander though – even the lefty-hating suits at Labour HQ failed to find it evidence enough to have a go at me, but annoying none the less. More serious was the incident where someone contacted our political education officer’s child’s school, trying to come up with reasons why she was an unfit mother, and the email Hastings Pride sent out to every venue in town packing all kinds of slanderous nonsense about us when we were trying to organise a women’s meeting in town, and the bomb threat that followed when we did get a venue.

By the time I addressed a Woman’s Place meeting in Brighton in 2019, I was pretty used to having to shove my way into meetings past the mini-mobs but that was the first meeting where I’d had to holler into two mics to be heard above a mob who spent the entire evening kicking the windows of the meeting room whilst Brighton police looked on impassively.

Slanders continue to turn up in odd places – I remember someone pointing out a comment after my name on a petition, claiming I was an alcoholic. As far as I know, none of that harmed me but one does wonder about the incidences no-one tells you about, and what affect they’ve had on your life.

I was kept pretty busy trying to do damage limitation after the Green Party told their members to ‘do anything’ to get seats on councils, and the Hastings lot went for transactivism. They went after one of our councillors. I wrote about ways of dealing with it, comparing tactics with another councillor who was similarly targeted, Sue Lent, from Cardiff…

Then, there’s the famous pile-on tactic, that throws an individual’s life into chaos for days at a time. The most memorable one in my case wasn’t even about me, really. There had been a big Palestine march, after which the Met indulged in their very dangerous habit of posting photos of individuals they want to talk to on Twitter. In this case, one who went on the march with a rather dodgy-looking placard. Someone who, by the look of their twit-address, was a transactivist, picked one of those ‘wanted’ appeals and said, ‘is that Kay Green?’, added in a link to my blog contact form, ‘found’ my work address (it was on my blog – not exactly the discovery of a great secret!) Anyway, they and/or the Zionists they were angling for posted the whole lot out around twitter, leading to me getting an endless stream of rude and threatening messages from Zionists – enough that it was impossible to find actual messages to me, from either the blog or my email box, for several days.

For me, it died down to a smatter again after that — although they were rather dramatic outside FiLiA this year…

… but now they’ve been re-energised by Zara Sultana, so that when I returned from conference, I found a wild spat going on in the local lefty groups where a couple of them were trying to tantrum-bounce members into kicking me out (which led to some innocent at a meeting telling us it’d all be okay if we were nicer to trans people. Feminists have had to put up with ten years of that fatuous rubbish, too), and then this week just gone, that eight-years-ago screenshot turned up again with a load of ill-aimed accusations, along with a warning from a friend that someone had just messaged our local party group, denouncing me, and had also reported me to the police.

That’ll do. It’s not the complete list of inconveniences transactivism has caused me — more examples have been coming to mind ever since I drafted that list but it’ll do to give a flavour of it.

Our society does not value women

For me, the years of this stuff have been annoying, but not disastrous. I’m an outsider, an independent, and I’m used to earning a living by the seat of my pants — and I’m not a member of anything it’d break my heart to be kicked out of. I mostly work with people who see through transactivists’ nonsense anyway, but I know that’s not true of everyone. I’m writing this account because although transactivists are a tiny minority, there is a mini-mob of them in every town, and not all women are equipped to withstand the constant mithering. Add it all together nationally and what you get is a huge, but unknown, number of women being hounded out of jobs, political and community roles and social circles.

But it is not the lowdown tactics of transactivists that’s doing the harm, it’s that all this can go on happening on a national scale whilst socialists, trade unionists, and anyone with significant public roles either doesn’t notice or doesn’t care about the resulting loss of women’s input into public and community life.

Please take this seriously and talk to associates about it — why are so few people concerned at the loss of thousands of womens’ participation? Why aren’t trade unions or political or community groups trying to figure out what to do about it? Why do organisations that know women have been hounded out continue to call internal votes democratic, when only the bullies and the silent on-lookers remain?

I repeat, these saboteurs are not trans people, they are ‘transactivists’, they are the alphabetti who’ve attached themselves to what used to be ‘LGB’ and they’re there because they want to be important, indignant, ‘social justice warriors’. They do not help trans people, they make their lives a terrifying battleground. They do nothing but create division and resentment. They have convinced a huge swathe of the population that feminists hate trans people, they’ve convinced more than a few women to actually hate trans people. They have also convinced a generation of young people that feminists hate trans people — a strategy that perhaps has been the source of more pain and distress than anything else, as it often cuts across families.

Trans activists are the ultimate expression of ‘identity politics’, and the left in particular need to shake them off and start actively fixing this for women – in fact, not only for women, because Zara Sultana has now given them another target with her decision that people with ‘socially conservative views’ are not welcome in the party, a pronouncement that appeared to be directed at the small team of independent MPs who’ve been working with Jeremy Corbyn. Within days, I noted the transactivist types responding to posts about those MPs with ‘accusations’ about ‘socially conservative views’ and I thought uh-oh, here we go again – but this time, instead of adding to the weight of misogyny, they’re adding to the weight of anti-Muslim racism, something which is already a serious source of division and harm in our country.

And that’s where the whole sorry story segues into the one about Zionist activists, and the harms they do. For more on that, here is one of the many laments that followed FiLiA 2025…

Do you see what the real tragedy of all that was? The Zionist women at FiLiA were calling us (lefty feminists) ‘The Islamoleft’, and riding on the tide of racism that Zionist propaganda creates. They proceeded to harass West Asian women at conference – Lebanese and Palestinian women – women who, unless you are a Zionist or a totally self-absorbed trans activist, you will know have had an incredibly hard time these last few years and do not deserve to be bullied at an international conference.

And now here we are, with those few lefty feminists who had the stomach to join ‘Your Party’ wondering if they want to carry on, now ‘Your Party’’s first conference, with a bevvy of SWP transactivists amongst them, voted to consider dual membership, thus ensuring the SWP’s identity-politics bruisers can dig in and start work on chasing lefty feminists out again – but this time, with a particularly cruel side-line in aggression towards Muslims (who they’ve decided all have ‘conservative views’.)

There is still a shred of hope for ‘Your Party’. The Materialist Left are also on board – follow them, support them, join them – that is probably the only way we can ever hope to bring ‘Your Party’ round to actually being electable.

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We need more voices – and we are beginning to hear them. There were, for example, more than a few people who cared about the TRA attacks on FiLiA this year. Please do find out more, talk about it more, and please, please dissuade people from voting for ‘Trans Liberation’ in their political groups and TUs, because they want to ‘be kind’. the Trans Liberation Manifesto is divisive and dangerous and does nothing but destroy organisations that go down that road. Explain to them that the way to be kind to trans people is to – well, be kind to trans people, and join in the conversations about how to make life, and politics, work for everyone.

As for being kind to women – not very fashionable I know, but please remember that many, many women have put vast amounts of time into trying to set the record straight on all this, and between us, vast amounts of money into crowd funders for all those court cases — socialist women are more likely to be in jobs in education, the ‘caring professions’ and academia — those are the jobs where accusations of ‘transphobia’ tend to end up in court (and then there are those of us who blog — a blogger can survive on notoriety as well as universal popularity but it’s only supporters who read the bit at the bottom, where you’re asked to share, subscribe or donate – please do so, that’s a real help to this woman, and others whose blogs you read.)

And finally, please consider this: we women who’ve been wading through this nonsense for years don’t know the extent of the damage it’s done to us – not all of it. How many lost jobs, lost clients, lost political roles, were down to slanders and sabotage we didn’t spot? The more our friends are out there braving proper conversations about all this, the braver they become about addressing slanders against feminist, the less that will happen in future, and the more women will raise their heads and return to politics — and the more chance projects like ‘Your Party’ will have of surviving the era of identity politics, and rediscovering real socialism.

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