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2,361 Comments
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Anonymous
7 years ago
It wasn’t long ago that Stonewall didn’t even include the T in its mission. What changed that it now appears to be their singular goal to uncritically advance many dangerous aspects of trans rights at the expense of LGB?
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Anonymous
7 years ago
100% support
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Graham
7 years ago
We need to talk
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Sarah Watts
7 years ago
Dear Stonewall,
Since I was in high school you have fought for us, supported us, and represented us. You have been the organisation the UK looks to for guidance on how to accept and protect us. In recent years you have stopped looking out for bisexual and lesbian women. Many of us feel that your prioritisation of trans women to the exclusion of natal women’s rights and protections has lost any sense of balancing the needs of these two groups. Your refusal to engage in respectful discussion about the issues is disappointing and insulting. I no longer support Stonewall financially, and no longer count myself as represented by you. Please reconsider your position of trans ‘acceptance without exceptions’, and consider whether trans women can be fully accepted and honoured as the trans women they are, without erasing the protections of natal women.
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Bev Jackson
7 years ago
Founding member of the Gay Liberation Front
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Savannah Love
7 years ago
Please reconsider this dangerous and undemocratic approach. Women's sex based issues need to be separate from transgender issues, especially for lesbians. The term transphobic is losing any credibility by doing this and is essentially through these processes homophobic and misogynistic.
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Alison Monroe
7 years ago
Saying you are a woman doesn't make you a woman
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Will Thornton
7 years ago
We need calm and reasoned discussion about the implications for all people
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Nina Paley
7 years ago
Thank you.
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Anne Mortimer
7 years ago
We must be able to discuss the imications if changes rationally. If you won't engage in debate you can't persuade people to your point of view or find common ground.
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Gillian Bassam
7 years ago
I believe the proposed legislation to be ill advised as could be easily abused.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
The attempt to shut down debate and failure to recognise that this is an area where 'rights' of different groups conflict is deeply disappointing. Stonewall is trashing its reputation
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Anonymous
7 years ago
Once respected organisation, reputation now in tatters
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Alisha
7 years ago
This is very important and needs to be done
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Anonymous
7 years ago
I'm signing because I'm appalled at the mistreatment of women, lesbians and young gender-questioning children at the hands of this extreme and unreasonable new phase of trans activism. I don't think for a second their tactics are going to work out well in the long run, and the sooner we intervene, hopefully the less the damage -- to women, children, lesbians, gays, and trans people too -- will be done.
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Betty Boo
7 years ago
A woman is an adult human female without a penis.
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C J Murphy
7 years ago
Please take a broader look at this issue. There are concerns of women that need to be listened to
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Julia Gallacher
7 years ago
So sad that Stonewall - the organisation that did so much to educate and teach compassion when the AIDS "epidemic" was raging has now turned into the mouthpiece of the misogynists. Please do not write off our female sex whilst showing support for the genuinely transsexual. There has to be a way around this hateful dilemma.
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Alec Latham
7 years ago
A well-documented number of men have already got into women only spaces in order to sexually assault women. If those women are important, than self-ID is not a situation that should be sought. Women should have a right to spaces free from biological men.
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Liam Nelson
7 years ago
Stonewall is unaccountable and does not represent the interests and needs of LGB people. The only way to reform it is to de-fund it. Starve it until it changes.
It wasn’t long ago that Stonewall didn’t even include the T in its mission. What changed that it now appears to be their singular goal to uncritically advance many dangerous aspects of trans rights at the expense of LGB?
100% support
We need to talk
Dear Stonewall, Since I was in high school you have fought for us, supported us, and represented us. You have been the organisation the UK looks to for guidance on how to accept and protect us. In recent years you have stopped looking out for bisexual and lesbian women. Many of us feel that your prioritisation of trans women to the exclusion of natal women’s rights and protections has lost any sense of balancing the needs of these two groups. Your refusal to engage in respectful discussion about the issues is disappointing and insulting. I no longer support Stonewall financially, and no longer count myself as represented by you. Please reconsider your position of trans ‘acceptance without exceptions’, and consider whether trans women can be fully accepted and honoured as the trans women they are, without erasing the protections of natal women.
Founding member of the Gay Liberation Front
Please reconsider this dangerous and undemocratic approach. Women's sex based issues need to be separate from transgender issues, especially for lesbians. The term transphobic is losing any credibility by doing this and is essentially through these processes homophobic and misogynistic.
Saying you are a woman doesn't make you a woman
We need calm and reasoned discussion about the implications for all people
Thank you.
We must be able to discuss the imications if changes rationally. If you won't engage in debate you can't persuade people to your point of view or find common ground.
I believe the proposed legislation to be ill advised as could be easily abused.
The attempt to shut down debate and failure to recognise that this is an area where 'rights' of different groups conflict is deeply disappointing. Stonewall is trashing its reputation
Once respected organisation, reputation now in tatters
This is very important and needs to be done
I'm signing because I'm appalled at the mistreatment of women, lesbians and young gender-questioning children at the hands of this extreme and unreasonable new phase of trans activism. I don't think for a second their tactics are going to work out well in the long run, and the sooner we intervene, hopefully the less the damage -- to women, children, lesbians, gays, and trans people too -- will be done.
A woman is an adult human female without a penis.
Please take a broader look at this issue. There are concerns of women that need to be listened to
So sad that Stonewall - the organisation that did so much to educate and teach compassion when the AIDS "epidemic" was raging has now turned into the mouthpiece of the misogynists. Please do not write off our female sex whilst showing support for the genuinely transsexual. There has to be a way around this hateful dilemma.
A well-documented number of men have already got into women only spaces in order to sexually assault women. If those women are important, than self-ID is not a situation that should be sought. Women should have a right to spaces free from biological men.
Stonewall is unaccountable and does not represent the interests and needs of LGB people. The only way to reform it is to de-fund it. Starve it until it changes.