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Let’s Have A Debate

A practical suggestion for practical campaigning

jane fae
3 min readOct 17, 2021
Campaigners for trans rights in Portsmouth, 16 October 2021: photo reproduced with kind permission of Steph’s Place

The last week has been a bit sad. The usual, in the UK media, which now seems to mean taking at face value anything and everything said by people not fond of trans folk. Endless hit pieces explaining how academics are being silences by evil trans activists.

And back in the shadows, a lot — a whole lot — of supportive academics and public figures who have told me that THEY are the ones afraid to speak out: they are the ones afraid for their careers.

Case in point? The WHRC Declaration which, many experts in this field have told me, is effectively a programme for the removal of trans people from public spaces. You’d think someone would notice? Call it out? But nah. All that ever gets said is that some critics of trans people have been condemned for “saying that biological sex is real”.

So, if you are fed up with this double standard and are looking for something useful to do as the days grow shorter …now read on!

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Since people are wary of speaking out as individuals, here is a short, sharp motion that you might consider bringing forward to any and every body of which you are a member. To your political party. To your union. To the local Women’s Institute, if fancy takes…

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jane fae
jane fae

Written by jane fae

Feminist, writer, campaigner on political and sexual liberty who also knows a bit about IT, the law and policing. Not entirely serious…

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