Trish BendixVerified account

Do you believe that your readership has so little intelligence that they are incapable of making up their own mind. You should be encouraging critical thinking on this subject in order to diminish the levels of abuse that many women including T women face when expressing views.

on the contrary, INTO's readership is quite interested in critical thinking especially when it comes to cis men dictating anything to do with womanhood and gender.

1/ But your censorship means that this critical thinking isn't allowed to happen. shutting down the discussion will not make it go away. I don't agree with everything that has been said, and I have advocated to allow T women in to female spaces such as refuges here in the UK.

It's not censorship to not publish someone based on their harmful and misguided opinions masquerading as fact.

Whether an opinion is "harmful" (whatever that means) is neither here nor there - he emphatically supported trans rights in his piece. The idea that trans women/ men are not identical to natal women/ men should not be controversial and if it is then everyone has lost their minds

Exactly, it’s madness that publications and organisations who claim to support the whole community LGBT+ but are shutting down the L voices should their opinion not be in line with their own. That’s not balanced reporting or support

I'm an "L" who doesn't feel like I'm being erased or forced to have sex with anyone simply because trans people exist and ask for respect

well as long as you don't feel that that, that's great should we all feel that way?

Thank you, Trish. You’ve never treated me as anything but the woman I am. Seeing you attacked here is maddening! @SkylarJordan You’re a #TERF Yes: everybody has the right to fuck or not fuck who they wish. But some #trans ppl are gay. Not all #girlslikeus have penises. Just #STFU

He said there would a backlash and now it has happened. He has courage, you do not #1984

Ah yes 1984, the famous book about an lgbtq magazine choosing not to publish transphobic views

You completely miss the point, it is the thin edge of the wedge, a wider malaise. My comment was not trite but sincere. If you do not like the differing opinions of others then you should challenge them. Banning them for the most part is adolescent behaviour.

You completely miss the point of 1984

Explain the point of 1984 and we will take it from there. I might learn something.

Marginalization of trans people IS the dominant worldview so you’ve got it all backwards, for starters.

It is so ridiculous. I wonder if they also see roosters as hens and hens as roosters... because they too are males and females just like us, or is this ridiculous theology of "changing sex" only reserved for us humans?

I just find it shocking that they believe so many gays and lesbians are speaking up about this out of "pure hatred". It doesn't even make any sense. Because the price to pay for speaking out is steep- what would the pay off be??

Yeah, I seen that many times now from the transgender authoritarians. Pointing out that lesbian mean homosexual female and nothing else they claim is an "attack" on them and a comment made on "hatred" for transgender people. Its the tactic of abusers to twist and turn things.

*Everything* is an attack. I just had a Trans activist tell me threatening to "shoot Terfs in the head" & all the other vile fantasies was justified because "Terfs deny their existence and wish Trans people dead'. I have yet to get any proof. NONE.

But proof doesn't matter to these people. It's like they enjoy vilifying everyone who doesn't agree with them 100%. Relish in fighting some ideological war. And they ignore the mountains of proof provided of the legit issues people have.

It's like arguing with Trumpers.