And they're using trans voices to do it. Read this and remember it's 2018 and on AfterEllen and not in The Guardian in 2011:
https://www.afterellen.com/general-...-lesbians-girls-and-women#uLrS5sLQcUJEdewK.99
This is straight up right out of the Right-Wing Playbook , use a member of the community to say the truly hateful shit.
This entire piece is just a means to say look this trans woman admits trans women aren't women, so we're in the clear now.
Early in the year they also published a piece that was another textbook Right Wing play, use incidents of unacceptable but isolated violence to cast a net on an entire community and their language:
https://www.afterellen.com/general-...ied-women-jump-lesbian-outside-of-a-drag-show
This piece is entirely devised to make the trans women community out to be a gang of men beating up women. Note that just like Right Wing folks, the entire focus is always on hating on trans women.
And then it all makes sense:
https://thequeerness.com/2017/01/29...ian-to-afterellen-please-dont-break-my-heart/
Frankly Ellen DeGeneres should ask them to stop using her name.
You are about to be astonished at the appropriation of the lives, fears and culture of women by today's most fashionable form of homophobia. This is itself an attack on the sexual and bodily autonomy of all women and especially lesbians, and is not just rubber-stamped by the organizations who are supposed to defend the rights of lesbians and gay men, it is positively celebrated so much that the point behind these organizations is no longer the interests of lesbians and gay men. The point is now the bank account.
It's a measure of how completely topsy-turvy the transgender debate has made LGB&T politics and organizations that the person writing this piece is a transsexual. I am, however, uniquely placed to be able to write this piece as I am a man who 'lives as a woman,' whatever that may mean, and can see exactly how too many transgender rights activists think. And as anyone who has ever participated in social media knows, any criticism of transgender ideology, which we all of us have the right to accept, critique and reject, any deviation from the brain-sucking mantra of 'trans women are women,' is met with reports to our employers, threats of physical violence, and threats of rape and death. This is a viciously toxic form of men's sexual rights activism that has managed to rebrand and reframe itself as a civil rights movement.
The framing of any discussion or debate is all important, and political language is often used to reframe threats as harmless, or to sell us ideas we'd never ordinarily entertain. Sometimes though the only way to drill down and actually understand something is to walk away from any subjective post-structuralist pretensions and abandon the soft lighting of the political language we have been carefully taught, reverting to good old fashioned precise and factual descriptions: thus all pronouns and reference to sex within my writing shall be implied from real life actual biological sex, and biological males will be referred to as such, even when they LARP 24/7 as a man's idea of what it is to be a woman.
by redefining Serano as a woman
...
Of course, this only works if we perceive Serano as a disadvantaged woman, and not a man whose idea of 'woman' clearly is nothing other than a sexual object
...
Within the world of transgender, the elephant in the room is the influence of sex: to outsiders, this is visible clear as day, and a dip into trans-Twitter or the trans boards on 4Chan (4Tran…?) show obsessions with anime and a porn-influenced conceptualisation of 'woman' and, of course, 'lesbian.' The male fantasy of being the spectator to two (or more) women having sex is evolved by inserting into this scene the sexually aroused man, who by identity alone has become 'lesbian,' and this is the fantastical scenario the 'trans woman' aspires to: acceptance as a woman at the most fundamental level, by a woman who is sexually oriented only towards women. This is the achievement they would wish to unlock, this is the end-of-level boss.
...
If you looked to our lesbian and gay support groups, you'd be forgiven for thinking none of these problems exist. Here, in the United Kingdom, we have in Stonewall's Ruth Hunt and Diva Magazine's Linda Riley two women who are willing to compromise the integrity of what it means to be a homosexual human female, a lesbian, and these women who themselves are lesbians themselves, have inserted into their remit the class of people lesbianism excludes, males, and twisted their organization's objectives to all but center the love interests of the heterosexual male. In the Stonewall document 'The Truth About Trans' the following Q&A neatly encapsules just how far Hunt and Stonewall are willing to go to eliminate the material reality of what it is to be a homosexual female:
"So, could a lesbian have a trans woman as a lesbian partner, or a gay man be with a trans man?
Of course. If they fancy each other. First and foremost, we need to recognize that trans women are women, and trans men are men. After that it becomes a matter of who you are attracted to. Adults are free to have relationships with other consenting adults, whatever their sexual orientation or gender identity."
Diva's Linda Riley is unwilling to enter into any discussion with actual female homosexuals over whether men can call themselves lesbians, instead doubling-down by reframing even questioning her wish to validate heterosexual males as lesbians as nothing other than the incitement of hate:
"I refuse to change my views on Trans Inclusivity within @DIVAmagazine and I was very clear on this when I met you. To spell it out clearly DIVA will not print or publish any views which we deem to incite hate against the Trans Community."
This gross neglect by Hunt and Riley of their key constituents is, of course, all about money: the diversity and inclusivity industrial complex offers rich rewards for organizations who are happy to promote the message that people should cease thinking for themselves and relinquish all control over their personal boundaries.
The reality then is that the very organizations that should be challenging the decimation of lesbian and gay culture, which under the label 'queer' has had its political force diluted to homeopathic significance, have instead become the cheerleaders for the poor, sad, sexually oppressed heterosexual male and are unwilling to challenge damaging cultural practices that affect our younger lesbian and gay populations, as this is seen as 'progressive'.
...
The victims of this new religion are, of course, women: lesbian culture has been decimated as lesbian bars rebadge themselves as 'queer' so that they are more 'inclusive', which in this context means 'less likely to be attacked by transgender activists claiming discrimination'. Women-only groups, organizations and even festivals are compelled, by direct threats to funding, to accept 'self-identification' as the passport to these spaces, rather than a collection of shared physical characteristics and a life of experience of living with the resultant personal and intimate consequences.
This is the antithesis of freedom; this is a new form of fascism through economic coercion, which has cleverly been disguised as a civil rights movement. If the transgender rights movement may be described as a revolution, it is now time for counter-revolution: bring on the backlash.
https://www.afterellen.com/general-...-lesbians-girls-and-women#uLrS5sLQcUJEdewK.99
This is straight up right out of the Right-Wing Playbook , use a member of the community to say the truly hateful shit.
This entire piece is just a means to say look this trans woman admits trans women aren't women, so we're in the clear now.
Early in the year they also published a piece that was another textbook Right Wing play, use incidents of unacceptable but isolated violence to cast a net on an entire community and their language:
"Over a year ago, I was at a drag show with a woman I was seeing at the time who is now friends with my attackers. At some point, I called Natalie/Nat/Dickie Rebellion (that's her drag name) a female…That is, initially, why they began calling me a TERF," she told AfterEllen. "When I heard that the woman I dated last year was running around telling people I'm a TERF, I called her out. I told her that if acknowledging that sex is a biological reality and that humans are sexually dimorphic makes me a TERF, then I am one."
TERF is a slur, created and used by the queer community, which can be applied to anyone who questions or appears to question any of the popular claims of gender ideology. One of the quickest ways to be called a TERF is to say publicly that homosexuality is defined by a sexual attraction to the same sex and a revulsion to the opposite sex. Lesbians are frequently the targets of this homophobic rhetoric, online and in person. The queer party line is that lesbians should be willing to have sex with transwomen, regardless of their transition status, because transwomen are women, full stop. TERF is being used as an excuse to incite violence against women and is considered hate speech.
https://www.afterellen.com/general-...ied-women-jump-lesbian-outside-of-a-drag-show
This piece is entirely devised to make the trans women community out to be a gang of men beating up women. Note that just like Right Wing folks, the entire focus is always on hating on trans women.
And then it all makes sense:
Some controversy has arisen lately around AfterEllen, "the pop culture site that plays for your team". The site was taken over by a new company and fell victim to significant disinvestment earlier last year, leading to a slightly acrimonious parting of ways with the then editor and a number of staff writers. The site was pronounced dead, only to jump out of its grave and deny that it had ever lost consciousness.
Now with a new Editor-in-Chief, it seems as though AfterEllen has adopted a new ideology too. Attention was called to the fact that the new Editor, Memoree Joelle, signed, promoted and commented in support of a petition to "drop the L" from 'LGBT', which explains in its first paragraph that the petition was set up following a lack of response to an earlier petition to "drop the T" from 'LGBT'. The petition is addressed toHRC, GLAAD, NCLR, Lambda Legal, The Advocate, and HuffPo Gay Voices.
The second paragraph elaborates: "The addition of T to the LGBT has resulted in Lesbians being silenced and threatened, all women and girls to be at risk for our safety, and our interests to take a backseat to those of transgenderist males who co-opt our name and culture."
...
For her first "Letter from the Editor" of 2017, Joelle wrote of the need to end infighting under the LGBTQ+ umbrella, which she sees as being fuelled by "immediate labelling with names like "biphobia" "lesbophobia" "transphobia" "TERF" [Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist] and countless others."
This echoes, or at least clarifies, the sentiments within her choice to post a particular video to the site a few weeks earlier of Orange is the New Black's Lea DeLaria. Joelle explained that the video provides warning to the LGBTQ+ community of "our biggest obstacle". "Nope, it's not the alt-right", it's "political correctness".
https://thequeerness.com/2017/01/29...ian-to-afterellen-please-dont-break-my-heart/
Frankly Ellen DeGeneres should ask them to stop using her name.
