The Star Vancouver reported that protesters showed up outside Meghan Murphy’s talk on Saturday despite the last minute announcement of the location.
Some protesters carried signs proclaiming that “Trans rights are human rights” and “Trans women are women.”
The event was originally scheduled to take place at Simon Fraser University, but was moved after the senior director of campus security said there was a high safety concern.
The talk included Meghan Murphy, a freelance writer who opposes trans rights, saying they threaten the rights of cisgender women.
Oh but that’s wrong – she doesn’t “oppose trans rights” – not the ones that comport with everyone else’s rights. She opposes special, new, invented “rights” like the “right” to be affirmed and validated and hugged and squeezed as whatever gender one “identities as.” She doesn’t oppose the human rights of trans people, but “trans rights” that cancel the human rights of other people.
Here they are, the darlings:
The pink sign on the right says “your identity is valid EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT ENTIRELY SURE WHAT IT IS”
Define “valid”…
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Define identity, if you’re not sure what it is!
The special trans rights don’t threaten the rights of “cisgender women.” They threaten the rights of women, girls, and LGB people.
in short, maddog, human females. (Well, some of the GB might be male, but I do suspect their rights are threatened, as well, but not as severely as human females, formerly known as women and girls, but now variously know as uterus-havers, menstruators, and various other incendiary terms to mark their uncleanliness, their evil, their privilege).
“Trans rights are human rights”
This is why Lara Adams-Millar describes “The gender movement [as] an inverted movement. Rather than basic protections common to all people, members of the mvmt are demanding that all of society make radical changes to policy.” (https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/dlt0gs/lara_adamsmiller_on_the_trans_movement/)
Slightly off-topic: Did anyone see this article in nature:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1657-6
They very clearly distinguish between biological sex and gender:
Can’t wait for PZ to tell them they’re wrong wrong wrong.