About being a gender critical:
The thing is, we are not debating whether trans people deserve rights.
What we are debating is whether trans people’s rights should override the existing, hard won, sex-based rights and protections of women and girls,

and whether child safeguarding should be put aside to speed up the process of transition for children who think they are/identify as trans.

People who support retaining female sex-based rights and protections, and who question, challenge or oppose what’s become known as the “affirmative approach” to trans identifying children, have become known as gender critics.

If you’ve only dipped your toe in the water of this debate, you’re likely to be under the impression that gender critics are mainly women, and in particular older feminists, who hate transgender people and are “bitter”

about the usurping of their movement by the 'progressive generation' You’re right that most of us are women. Many of us are older and remember what it was like before 70s feminism won us some rights. But the rest of it is misinformation.

I’m writing this piece to explain why gender criticism is the only legitimate position that liberal lefties who care about equality and human rights can afford to take.

Gender critics reject the socially constructed stricture&norms foisted on the two sexes male and female, support the sex-based rights and protections of women and girls, and dispute the notion that sex is a feeling/essence that can b identified into rather than a biological fact.

Contrary to the myths and smears, gender critics agree that transgender people, like all human beings, deserve human rights, civil rights, equality of opportunity and freedom from discrimination

Gender critics do NOT:
-oppose trans rights
-hate and fear transgender people
-deny that transgender people exist
-invalidate transgender people’s ‘identities’

We are not fascists, bigots, fundamentalist Christians, or far right fanatics.
We are whistleblowers, drawing attention to the concerted ideological attack which is being waged upon the rights, wellbeing and safety of female people and children.

the 'progressive' are permitting& joining in with, the vicious misogynistic attacks on women who stand up for their sex. I’m disappointed at the way people who have little if any understanding of the issues at stake feel competent to dismiss our concerns as transphobic rubbish.

I’m fed up of kneejerk opinions based on uninformed assumptions, frustrated and angry at the unquestioning swallowing — and repeating — of smears and slurs, and outraged at the disregard for child safeguarding and sex-based legal rights and protections.

The point behind the “trans women are women” is to say that there is no difference between transwomen and non-trans women.people, who celebrate diversity, who pride themselves on being tolerant and inclusive, take this to mean that transwomen are no less valid as human beings.

But objectively, factually, scientifically, physically, transwomen are different from women in one key respect. Regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, disability, class, sexuality, etc , all women have one thing in common — their membership of the biological sex category Female

The same well meaning, tolerant, inclusive people who chant along with “transwomen are women” seem oblivious to the significance of ignoring the biological sex difference between males and females.

But sex difference in humans is of enormous political significance, because female people —who make up 52% of the global population — continue to be subjugated, exploited, enslaved, trafficked, abused, raped and murdered on account of their membership of the female sex category.

It is impossible to fight for the rights and protections of female people if we deny that sex difference exists, or that it matters, and even more so if we insist that the very definition of woman must be rewritten to include males.

Some people seem to think sexism is no longer a problem, and women are equal. This is patently untrue.
In the west, the ‘gender’pay gap,the burden of care work, the undervaluing of female labour not just in terms of economic reward but in terms of recognition and prestige,

the under-representation of female people in politics, and in positions of power and influence generally — in the media, in business, in science and medicine — are all clear examples of the persistence of sex discrimination.

The #MeToo movement revealed the ubiquity of male sexual abuse of female people across all social strata. So too the horrific statistics on serious sexual assault and rape male perpetrators account for 99%and 84% of victims are female.

Domestic abuse victims are vastly more likely to be female, and perpetrators to be male. Females account for 77% of victims of child trafficking.

In the developing world and in Islamic countries the situation is far worse. Female infanticide, FGM, forced marriage, forced pregnancy, dowry deaths and acid attacks target female people, not male people who identify as female.

Sharia laws that permit the stoning to death of female adulterers and rape victims, that exclude women by law from politics, medicine, teaching, and the law are aimed at people who are members of the biological sex category female.They don’t care how these people ‘identify’.

If ur female, ur not equal. Maybe ur not even fully human.
International law recognises that females are targeted on account of their sex, and this is why sex is a protected characteristic in law, and why sex-based rights and protections for female people are legally protected.

Yet these are being flouted in the name of progressive politics, tolerance and inclusion. Women’s prisons house male prisoners who ‘identify as’ women even after they’ve raped women and children.

Domestic abuse shelters accommodate male domestic abusers — if they ‘identify as’ women. Males win women’s cycling events. Males lead the Women’s March. Males lead Amnesty’s Women’s History event.
This needs to stop.

Violence against women & sex discrimination still exist.
Women need reserved places, separate spaces & distinct services.
Women who have escaped abusive relationships, and women who have been raped, suffer ongoing and often crippling post traumatic stress.

54% of women in prison are survivors of domestic abuse. Many more are survivors of sexual abuse as adults or children. Almost all serious sexual abuse (99%) is perpetrated by male people. Women prisoners who are housed with males cannot walk away.

They are forced to remain in close proximity with male people, including convicted male rapists and paedophiles.

Its impossible to accurate data about sexual offences, violent crimes and domestic abuse if sex is not taken into account, yet already government agencies are allowing male criminals to self-define as women and so have their crimes officially recorded, as women’s crimes.

Data on health, the pay gap, female inclusion in politics and equal opportunities will all be meaningless in terms of protecting female people if it ignores sex difference and accepts male people who ‘identity as’ women as the same as women.

Allowing male people to compete in women’s sport is deeply prejudicial to the aspirations and achievements of females. Female sports are already undervalued.Women have so many hang ups about their bodies, which porn culture and the selfie generation are only exacerbating.

Sport offers women a chance to take pride in the strength and power of their bodies.This is all under threat because male people have natural advantage over female people in sport, yet transwomen are being allowed to compete against women, and are winning all the medals.

There are already serious impacts on homosexual rights and protections, predictably, particularly, for lesbians.
Homosexuality is same-sex attraction, but the same organisations that fought for equal rights to marriage, to pensions, to parenthood, and to free expression of love

free expression of love between people of the same sex, are decrying same-sex attraction as transphobic, calling female people who are only attracted to female people “gynocentric” and “genital obsessed”

Amnesty International Women’s History month was led by a transwoman. The Woman’s March London was led by a transwoman. Opportunities for female people are scarce enough. We have been written out of history for long enough.

Women had to fight for the vote only 100 years ago. We had to take men’s names to be successful authors.

Even after finally winning the right to be educated,our contributions to art and science were hidden, appropriated and denied. And now we are being told by progressive liberals and the left that we must cede our hard won places and spaces to males, because they identify as women.

This text was originally written by Bea Jaspert and i decided to post part of it here on my twitter
here's the link to have full access to the original text https://medium.com/@BeaJaspert/im-coming-out-as-a-gender-critic-a4bf0d0cb3