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I don’t “like” being angry. I AM fucking angry. Like the body I have and the sexism that comes with it, it’s not a choice.
What, in her own words, did Duffield say?
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What, in her own words, did Duffield say?
Let's just stick to what she's done this month, shall we? The list is too long and depressing to go through entirely. Here's a single twitter thread where she:
- referred to trans women as 'male bodied biological men' - this is mis-gendering, and therefore harassment under the EHRC guidelines
- said she does not accept the protections conveyed to trans women under the equality act - undermining one of the last bits of Labour legislation we got through
- repeated her support for excluding trans women from lists of murdered women - not an illegal thing to do but I think you'll agree, pretty poor taste
Then a few days later she appeared on Radio Four Today programme in which she:
- defended the convicted criminal Kurtis Tripp, a man arrested by the FBI on terrorism charges after threatening to shoot up a school, who thinks trans suicide rates are 'funny' and thinks trans people are 'cosplaying' as the opposite sex (a tweet which Duffield 'liked')
- accepted that by 'liking' the 'deeply offensive' cosplay tweet, she was endorsing the viewpoint contained within it
- suggested that bisexual men in relationships with women aren't really queer and are in fact co-opting gay culture - on bi visibility day!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zsdd - starts at 1:50:00
Do not get me wrong here. Cis women need specific protections too, and people like me - who only object to the mis-representation of the law, and the lies, and the framing of trans women as a threat - absolutely stand with you on those. Just off the top of my head, I also support laws for making misogyny a hate crime, and for making street harassment a specific criminal offence, one which imo should involve being put on the sex offenders register. I just don't think we need to get into bed with terrorists and criminals or bring the party into disrepute, or throw trans people under the bus, in order to stand up for women.
- referred to trans women as 'male bodied biological men' - this is mis-gendering, and therefore harassment under the EHRC guidelines
ReekBlefs
Be as angry as you like, I'll even join you on some of it. But Duffield is a legal representative of Labour, and what she says and amplifies about trans and bisexual people is far far worse than what Ken Livingstone and Pam whatsherface said about Jewish people.
Labour is legally responsible for her words and I do not want another EHRC judgement against us. She is a liability.