September 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – One of the most fascinating aspects of the transgender movement’s meteoric rise over the past half-dozen years is the increasingly overt hostility between old guard feminists and transgender activists. Veteran sexual revolutionaries like Germaine Greer have been “de-platformed” and protested for stating that biological males identifying as female cannot understand the female experience, and trans activists claim that feminists who do not accept their version of gender ideology (or gender fluidity, for that matter) are TERFs—“trans-exclusionary radical feminists.” One trans activist—a biological male named Tara Wolf—actually physically assaulted a female feminist earlier this year for being “exclusionary.”
Watching the feminists who began the deconstruction of femininity do battle with the activists who want to take the next big step is almost surreal—especially considering the fact that they genuinely loathe each other. Some of the angriest columns and essays denouncing the transgender movement have not come from social conservatives, but have instead come from feminists—many of whom seem to realize that their movement is rendered entirely irrelevant by many of the transgender movement’s ideological premises. The hatred is hot and mutual.
Things are only getting worse as the totalitarian instincts of the transgender movement come into full view—with one irony being that it is so often biological males claiming to be female going up against biological females, with the men playing the victim. Watching biological males bully women by claiming that they are women and that they are being bullied has been bizarre to watch. One particularly insane story this week highlighted the lengths trans activists will go to in order to destroy the “trans-exclusionary” feminist movement—and their war on language itself.
Feminist blogger and mother of four Kellie-Jay Minshull, who writes under the name Posie Parker, raised 700 pounds to have a poster put up in Liverpool during the Labour Party’s conference this month. The poster simply featured the definition of “woman” according to the Google dictionary: “Woman, women, noun, adult human female.” Within a week, a transgender activist and doctor, Adrian Harrop (who is not himself transgender), complained to the company that owned the billboard that this anodyne poster made transgender people feel unsafe. The company promptly took it down and apologized.
It is ludicrous to suggest that someone could actually feel “unsafe” after reading a dictionary definition, but Harrop went all in, haranguing executives of the billboard company on social media and accusing them of assisting “the spread of transphobic hate speech.” The company, probably terrified that they were about to become the trans movement’s next target, actually offered an apology that noted that the “copy did not raise a red flag the way it should have done.” They did not say why the dictionary definition of “woman” should have raised a red flag in the first place.
Harrop was pleased with being able to harass and frighten a company into complying with his demands so swiftly, and when asked why he found the dictionary definition so offensive, he launched into a mansplaining ramble on why the poster, with the apparently sinister motivation behind it, was very scary to “trans women” (biological males.) He then referred to the feminist blogger as a “transphobic hate group” guilty of creating “a state of heightened vulnerability,” and concluded by hilariously stating his support for free speech.
Keen-Minshull, for her part, was stunned. “I find it far more sinister and pernicious than the old-fashioned sexism where the guy at the garage is surprised I know anything about engines,” she noted. “I’d take that guy any day over the Twitter troll who thinks I don’t know what a woman is. If the word ‘woman’ can mean anything, then women lose their sex-based protections and nobody is protected. Women are getting really, really fed up. Every single organisation that capitulates, paves the way for the next one to do the same. This is what trans activists do. This is how they silence women. I hope this will help people wake up to what’s going on.”
