Strange bedfellows and uncomfortable alliances are one thing, but I'm seeing a lot of parents who seem pleased as punch, downright eager to be working with "god hates f***" homophobes. If they don't dial it back several notches, and fast, they are going to be standing alone.
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Replying to @DykeSolidarity
There are a lot of parents who feel they have been shafted by the left, by (liberal, but they might not see the distinction) feminism, by medicine and media and by LGBTQ+ orgs that are all about pushing T as the latest groovyist step on the path of progressiveness. >
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Replying to @dad_gc @DykeSolidarity
Waiting for permission to speak, from the left, from media, from the sort of feminism with a voice, isn't going to feel like progress to parents whose kids are 6 months or less from a T script or mastectomy. >
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Replying to @dad_gc @DykeSolidarity
Yes we have to be strategic, but we have to have a credible resistance for parents to pins their hopes to. In the UK we are lucky, we have WPUK, PP, Venice, Man Fridays, we had Magdalen, We gained a voice in the Times and the Mail, we had well known feminists like Bindel. >
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If you are a parent in Portland, where is your hope?
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Honest question: Is the hope ultimately to be had with individuals and organizations who have fought tooth-and-nail against gay rights for decades, given that so many young gender-dysphoric people turn out to be LGB? It's a legitimate question.
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Bingo. And it's that religious, extremely homophobic right who we've raised questions about, for which we get no answers.
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4thWaveNow Retweeted 4thWaveNow
Indeed. There are even some openly gay, very conservative individuals who don't espouse fire-and-brimstone views. We keep saying that, too.https://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/1180627527515152387 …
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