TQ at war with LGB
The Oxford University LGBTQ Society has a passionate Statement on Facebook denouncing the L part of itself.
Our statement on Kathleen Stock’s speaking event at the union. Watch this space for updates regarding our next steps.
Steps? Like what? Kicking her?
The Oxford University LGBTQ+ Society is dismayed and appalled that the Oxford Union decided to platform the transphobic and trans exclusionary speaker Kathleen Stock.
Stock has been campaigning against trans rights, labelling them as dangerous to women, calling for the exclusion of trans people from the LGBTQ+ movement, supporting conversion therapy, and supporting hate groups such as the LGB Alliance and Lesbian Project.
Once again, the Union is disregarding the welfare of its LGBTQ+ members under the guise of free speech. Letting Stock bring her campaign of hate and misinformation to Oxford, allowing her to stoke fear against trans people without challenge or opposition – right before pride month and at a time when the trans community is facing a constant attack on its lives and rights – is a move we vehemently oppose and will actively protest.
We call on the Union to rescind its misguided
invite[invitation], and on all Oxford students to stand in solidarity with the trans community and express their dissent with these views.As always, if you need support or someone to talk to, our welfare secretaries are available at ouwelf01@gmail.com. If you’d like to join the efforts against Stock’s speech, reach out to our president at ouprez@gmail.com.
Stock has not been “campaigning against trans rights.” There’s no such thing as a “right” to force other people to endorse or corroborate or play along with one’s personal fantasies. There’s no such thing as a “right” to force lesbians to pretend that men can be lesbians. There’s no such thing as a “right” to compel everyone to adopt the manipulative vocabulary of the trans ideology. Gender critical feminists are not trying to take human rights away from trans people, we’re trying to keep trans people from giving our rights to men who pretend to be women.
“Welfare secretaries”?
The word “transphobic” has lost all semblance of meaning. Everything and everyone is transphobic. Granny Smith apples are transphobic. The color blue is transphobic. The musical note G-flat is transphobic. Electrical current. Quarks. Aluminum smelting.
As The Bard had MacBeth’s trans alter-ego MacTrans, or BigMac or whoever it was say:
I’m pretty sure that’s right.
I notice the construction “In the name of free speech”. Yes, it is “in the name of” free speech. Because that is what free speech is: tolerating other views even if you don’t like them. Protecting people from being prohibited from speaking because they disagree with someone else.
If an university doesn’t allow freedom of speech and freedom of ideas, than who will? That is the very premise of a university – thinking and learning about things you don’t already know about, which may conflict with some things you believe very deeply. It may hurt; you may feel like you are bleeding (though hopefully not literally). You may want to run away and hide your head under your pillow and cry for hours.
Yeah, that’s how it works. That’s called learning. It’s called growing up. Mature adults need to learn how to cope in the real world. The trans are attempting to force the world to make it so they don’t have to learn to cope.
I hope there comes a time when people generally understand that sexual orientation and gender presentation are two different things. It would solve so many problems.
iknklast @#4:
Very well said, (and a very good post there from you.) I am sure that Dr Goebbels went through the same agonising process before hitting on a few answers of his own.
The concept of free enquiry is as least as old as Plato’s Academy in Athens, and probably goes back further to the Ionian Greeks. Those who are upset about their ideas and rationales being up for debate and challenge should quit the university environment while they are ahead, and go and join some fundamentalist church, or better still start one of their own; and then see how they go. There are plenty out there for them to choose from, and likewise inspiring examples to follow: Joseph Smith and the Mormons would be my recommendation. And who knows? A bit of research on their part might reveal that Smith was trans-inclined himself.