Dear _________, Thank you for your many years in service to the progressive cause. However, we must now advise you that your status as a “protected minority” (or “multiple intersectional protected minorities”) has been superseded by the latest in victim groups. We regret any inconvenience this may cause to you, and we wish you good luck in your future endeavors. Signed, The Left
As a general rule I avoid any media that list gender, gender identity and gender expression as protected characteristics but somehow omit sex. Gives the game away, really.
In any case, you’re doing the right thing so just keep doing it. Reason, fairness and reality are worth fighting for.
I fully support your stand. I am a gay leaning bisexual man, and I feel that I have lost my political home
This is not only a form of McCarthyism, it is a gift to the Right which could use the Gender issue against the Democratic swing voters
I am a lifelong progressive. It seems that a lot of people might secretly agree with you, but are afraid to be “against the liberal side” even if it is not all that liberal.
This is unacceptable in every way, and the climate is now akin to a witch hunt
You are a woman of conscience and integrity. I fully support you
calmly laying out a valid point and sticking up for gay women, women of color and women is hate speech. Sadly it has permeated media, society. Good article
I’ve stopped my subscription to Medium recently. I noticed a definite trend to emphasising pro trans gender ideology comment which I found, frankly, ludicrous. It was also highly disrespectful of and personally vicious towards accomplished individuals The favouring of fictions over facts, which were disappearing alarmed me.
Unbelievable and appalling that this happened to you. And what a powerful essay in response!!! I subscribe to Medium (for now) and they will hear my voice in your defense.
“Nazis and right-wing extremists have created a dangerous environment for transgender Americans.” Who told her that? And why did she believe them? It’s not true.
The ability to speak freely is what makes you an extremist. And conflating your very real, very legitimate concerns with an almost non-existent "threat" to trans people is very, very deliberate. (I say non-existent because the "threat" is almost always the same very reasonable and legitimate concerns we all have about keeping women safe in their own spaces, saving children from rash choices and manipulation, and striking a balance between acceptance of those who only feel comfortable transitioning and still understanding that acceptance of yourself as you are is always and ever the healthiest approach to being).
“I’m a Harvard educated lawyer and am on the Board of Advisors of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.”
Oftentimes being against “intolerance and racism” is just another way of saying you are against freedom of association. No one has the right to someone’s presence or the right to a job. In essence, anti-racism has laid the groundwork for woke intolerance.
No surprise here. Now that women are reclaiming our sports categories, leaving the podium, LGB (w/o the TQ++Greek alphabet 2 spirits), and trans widows like me speaking up (interview with Tammy Peterson, wife of Jordan this month) and detransitioners' documentaries, the facade is crumbling. They will fight like toddlers who missed their nap. Thanks to Colin and all. Colin, I got a photo of a red grasshopper in May--do they have an early phase of redness? Wouldn't you rather be telling us?
Along with trans widows' true tales, I post shorts of bees, butterflies and other insects:
Thank you for your courageous actions as you speak out, and then speak out again. There are so many of us nodding in agreement as we read your words. I hope that this fever will break. But what too few people understand is that laws are being put in place by determined "trans-rights" activists. Laws are a lot harder to change than minds.
Quoting from this article: "When I shared the incident with a left-leaning friend, she cautioned that conservatives, Nazis and right-wing extremists have created a dangerous environment for transgender Americans." Beware of the heavy propaganda that always seems to point the finger at "right-wing extremists", "Nazis" and "conservatives", especially those who are white. These terms have been hammered at us in order to scare and guilt sane, rational and thinking liberals from expressing and questioning a "movement" that cancels women. We are being very purposely divided (divide and conquer) in order to be massively controlled, hence the attacks on freedom of speech and other inalienable rights. Be aware of the vast sums of money that have been poured into the trans "movement" -- where is this money coming from? It sure isn't organic or grassroots. There is a force behind the trans agenda trying to convince us all that we are not what we are born as: men and women. Think trans-humanism: the Power Elite (Big Tech/Big Pharma/Big Gov't) desire to meld humans with machines. What better way than to bridge this gap than with telling us men can be women and women can be men? It's a colossal gas-lighting of the masses. Don't fall for it.
Dear _________, Thank you for your many years in service to the progressive cause. However, we must now advise you that your status as a “protected minority” (or “multiple intersectional protected minorities”) has been superseded by the latest in victim groups. We regret any inconvenience this may cause to you, and we wish you good luck in your future endeavors. Signed, The Left
> Extremists aren’t the only ones being censored. It can happen to anyone.
Believing in basic objective reality now makes one an extremist.
Ultimately they’re gonna have a tough time selling YOU as a Nazi-Maga-Putin (etc) shill. Glad you’re pushing back on this! Keep going
As a general rule I avoid any media that list gender, gender identity and gender expression as protected characteristics but somehow omit sex. Gives the game away, really.
In any case, you’re doing the right thing so just keep doing it. Reason, fairness and reality are worth fighting for.
Of course they did. Medium's swallowed the gender kool-aid and they'll ban anyone who speaks up too loudly against it.
Any person to the right of Marx is deemed a fascist, nazi, transphobe, homophobe, etc.
I fully support your stand. I am a gay leaning bisexual man, and I feel that I have lost my political home
This is not only a form of McCarthyism, it is a gift to the Right which could use the Gender issue against the Democratic swing voters
I am a lifelong progressive. It seems that a lot of people might secretly agree with you, but are afraid to be “against the liberal side” even if it is not all that liberal.
This is unacceptable in every way, and the climate is now akin to a witch hunt
You are a woman of conscience and integrity. I fully support you
calmly laying out a valid point and sticking up for gay women, women of color and women is hate speech. Sadly it has permeated media, society. Good article
I’ve stopped my subscription to Medium recently. I noticed a definite trend to emphasising pro trans gender ideology comment which I found, frankly, ludicrous. It was also highly disrespectful of and personally vicious towards accomplished individuals The favouring of fictions over facts, which were disappearing alarmed me.
Unbelievable and appalling that this happened to you. And what a powerful essay in response!!! I subscribe to Medium (for now) and they will hear my voice in your defense.
“Nazis and right-wing extremists have created a dangerous environment for transgender Americans.” Who told her that? And why did she believe them? It’s not true.
The ability to speak freely is what makes you an extremist. And conflating your very real, very legitimate concerns with an almost non-existent "threat" to trans people is very, very deliberate. (I say non-existent because the "threat" is almost always the same very reasonable and legitimate concerns we all have about keeping women safe in their own spaces, saving children from rash choices and manipulation, and striking a balance between acceptance of those who only feel comfortable transitioning and still understanding that acceptance of yourself as you are is always and ever the healthiest approach to being).
“I’m a Harvard educated lawyer and am on the Board of Advisors of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.”
Oftentimes being against “intolerance and racism” is just another way of saying you are against freedom of association. No one has the right to someone’s presence or the right to a job. In essence, anti-racism has laid the groundwork for woke intolerance.
No surprise here. Now that women are reclaiming our sports categories, leaving the podium, LGB (w/o the TQ++Greek alphabet 2 spirits), and trans widows like me speaking up (interview with Tammy Peterson, wife of Jordan this month) and detransitioners' documentaries, the facade is crumbling. They will fight like toddlers who missed their nap. Thanks to Colin and all. Colin, I got a photo of a red grasshopper in May--do they have an early phase of redness? Wouldn't you rather be telling us?
Along with trans widows' true tales, I post shorts of bees, butterflies and other insects:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FsSvUr9LGh8
Thank you for your courageous actions as you speak out, and then speak out again. There are so many of us nodding in agreement as we read your words. I hope that this fever will break. But what too few people understand is that laws are being put in place by determined "trans-rights" activists. Laws are a lot harder to change than minds.
Quoting from this article: "When I shared the incident with a left-leaning friend, she cautioned that conservatives, Nazis and right-wing extremists have created a dangerous environment for transgender Americans." Beware of the heavy propaganda that always seems to point the finger at "right-wing extremists", "Nazis" and "conservatives", especially those who are white. These terms have been hammered at us in order to scare and guilt sane, rational and thinking liberals from expressing and questioning a "movement" that cancels women. We are being very purposely divided (divide and conquer) in order to be massively controlled, hence the attacks on freedom of speech and other inalienable rights. Be aware of the vast sums of money that have been poured into the trans "movement" -- where is this money coming from? It sure isn't organic or grassroots. There is a force behind the trans agenda trying to convince us all that we are not what we are born as: men and women. Think trans-humanism: the Power Elite (Big Tech/Big Pharma/Big Gov't) desire to meld humans with machines. What better way than to bridge this gap than with telling us men can be women and women can be men? It's a colossal gas-lighting of the masses. Don't fall for it.