The nonprofit, Secular Women has created a petition calling on the Southern Poverty Law Center to regard TERF attorney, Cathy Brennan’s group, Gender Identity Watch, as a hate group.
The petition starts off, “As a feminist organization, Secular Woman promotes gender equality. We stand against and combat sexism, hate, intolerance, and misogyny.” It then make the following radical claim:
Transgender women are women.
Cisgender women are women.
The petition details the way Brennan and her group has acted to adversely interfere in the personal lives trans people Brennan designates as being fair game.
Members of our community have been targeted by trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs). Personal information such as former names, current legal names, and photographs have been compiled and displayed on the website “Name the Problem”. Several of the entries are self-attributed to “Pegasus” (“PegasusBug” is a pseudonym of Cathy Brennan, the head of Gender Identity Watch). This information was presented alongside reports describing rapists and batterers of women.
Countless others, including members of transgender advocacy groups have reported similar treatment, as well as other alarming behavior, such as Cathy Brennan contacting employers, schools and medical doctors of transgender women, girls and young men.
This is unacceptable.
It is anathema to our vision of a future in which women have the opportunities and resources they need to participate openly and confidently in every aspect of society.
Cathy Brennan’s tactics, as described, are reprehensible, reckless, and irresponsible as they have the potential to embolden violence and harassment of those she targets and to result in job loss and other discrimination informed by the open knowledge of the target’s transgender status.
Stand with more than 5,000 others in denouncing this brand of hate!
[…] Let’s start with Cathy Brennan’s site Gender Identity Watch. Cathy Brennan is a radical lesbian feminist whose adamant defense of “female-only space” against transgender intrusion has made her a primary target of the anti-TERF campaign. Make no mistake: Brennan’s enemies are trying to destroy her, going so far as to petition the Southern Poverty Law Center to label her site a “hate group.” […]
I have another radical statement to make.
Transgender women are not women.
Cisgender women are women.
That’s it.
I don’t hate you. You’re just talking nonsense, and it offends me when I realize that I’m obliged to agree with nonsense, in a way or another.
I’m well aware of what people like you believe they know about gender. Additionally I’m well aware of what people like you believe they know about hate, nonsense and obligation.
really ? well, I’m also well aware of one or two things, when someone answers me like that.
1/ lessening my words by assimilating me to a group I don’t know nothing about. (i. e. “people like you”)
You don’t know me, respect me.
2/ telling me I “believe I know”. Infantilizing much ? I don’t “believe I know” anything. There’re things I know, and things I don’t know. I don’t talk about the latters. I know for sure that women don’t need the prefix “cis” to the word “women”.Things already are complicated enough for women, so please. Are we obliged now to specify “a woman with a vagina” ? Don’t tell me I’m ignorant, because you see, as a woman, I’m really fed up of being told that.
Please go on with the “derailing technics”; I know them all.
You and “People like you”, it seems that you believe you know what being a woman means. You believe you know that women like me don’t know a thing about gender, and that you have an unique point of view, almost much more “authentic” than most women *cough cough*. No, indeed, I believe I know that it is not the case. Your point of view may be unique and authentic, it is not the one experienced by women. Call yourselves another way, trans-persons seem very creatives when it comes to create new words and impose them upon others. You can perform your gender however the fuck please you, inventing words, changing the definition of previous ones : people using the right definition of words are not forced to agree. A rose is a rose is a rose…and a woman is a woman is a woman…
I’ve read some of the Cathy Brennan claims, and while I still don’t comprehend everything, what you forget to mention in your article is that she first received death threats, insults, and hate messages, and what for ? because she first expressed a point of view that does not conform to the one of trans-people. They dont “accept” it. But in a human society, and a democracy, stuff like that happens, meeting people that don’t conform to your point of view. She “openly and confidently” participated in this society debate. No one should suffer harassment and cyber-bullying because he or she expresses a well-grounded and legitimate opinion that do not please other people.Some trans-persons experienced a backlash from this woman, simply because hey, who are they to think that they can have a “mob-mentality”. She fought back and I think many of the trans-people who were anonymously insulting and death-threatening her online have been surprised it could happen. Surprise surprise.
Violence and death threaths are unacceptable and be sure that “people like me” won’t accept it.
I rest my case.
I have a radical comment. If there is no such thing as “brain gender” there is no such thing as “brain sexuality”. There is no such thing as a lesbian. You may all stop calling yourself lesbians now and return to having sex with men. You are born biologically female and therefore you are genetically attracted to men only. The proof of this is lesbians use phallus shaped dildo’s, not vagina shaped dildos that look like female genitalia. Stop trying to convince us you are gay. It’s just in your mind.
Until that happens we are going to have heterosexual only women’s festivals where we will create safe spaces for heterosexual women. I do not feel safe with women pretending to be lesbians in the bathroom, leering at me. Enjoy!