Feminist speaks out against trans movement
Julia Beck weighs in on the trans debate and the argument against trans people in female-only spaces after she was ousted from a Baltimore LGBTQ committee over her views.
Feminist journalist sues Twitter for banning her ‘Women aren’t men’ tweet Feminist writer Meghan Murphy has filed a lawsuit against Twitter because she was banned by the social media giant after she criticized so-called transgender people. A Canadian, Murphy frequently writes on gender politics and is the founder of Feminist Current, an influential feminist website. In 2017, she spoke before the Senate of Canada and described her reasons for opposing transgender ideology. On Facebook and YouTube, she explained the reasons for the lawsuit. Murphy wrote that Twitter “allows porn, as well as accounts that enable sex trafficking, on their platform, but ban women who speak the truth about material reality and challenge the idea that individuals can change sex through self-declaration.” She alleged that Twitter refers to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to “shut down and silence women who share opinions and arguments they don’t like,” even while the platform allows “illegal activities, violent threats, and pornography.” Murphy also claimed that Twitter refuses to hold “predatory men to account.” According to Murphy, Twitter banned her in November, “presumably for violating Twitter’s new rules on ‘misgendering,’ though no one from the company has ever explained the reason for my ban, as certainly I have never engaged in ‘hateful conduct’ on the platform, which were never made known to users.” Murphy wrote that Twitter permanently suspended her account in November after she tweeted, “‘Yeah, it’s him’” about a male who identifies as transgender but who continues to use his male name on social media, including Twitter, as well as in a Google review “I shared as part of my tweet. My account had previously been locked for posting such seemingly innocuous statements and questions as, ‘Men aren’t women,’ and, ‘How are transwomen not men? What is the difference between a man and a transwoman?’” National Review reported that Murphy deleted several October tweets reading: “Women aren’t men” and “how are transwomen not men? What is the difference between a man and a transwoman?” Another tweet read, “I’m not allowed to say that men aren’t women or ask questions about the notion of transgenderism at all anymore?” She also tweeted, “That a multi-billion dollar company is censoring basic facts and silencing people who ask questions about this dogma is insane.” |
Feminist Lesbian Outrages Libs by Refusing to Use Transgender Rapist’s Preferred Pronouns
By Pluralist | Feb 3, 2019
“It doesn’t matter that he sexually assaulted two women in a women’s prison.”
A feminist activist complained Monday that she was kicked off a city queer rights-initiative for using the wrong pronoun to describe a transgender convicted rapist.
Julia Beck made the allegation during a discussion panel at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. She addressed it toward the Baltimore mayor’s LGBTQ Commission, of which she was the only lesbian co-chair. She called the experience “as unbelievable and absurd as it is common place.”
“I got kicked off of the Baltimore mayor’s LGBTQ Commission as the only lesbian, simply for stating biological facts,” she said. “After a months’ long witch hunt, I was found guilty of ‘violence.’ My crime? Using male pronouns to talk about a convicted male rapist who identifies as transgender and prefers female pronouns.”
Beck went on to complain that the commission seemed to care more about the trans woman’s pronouns that about what Beck herself saw as the real danger: the rapist’s placement in a women’s prison.
https://pluralist.com/feminist-lesbian-heritage-foundation-transgender-rapist/