astro wrote:
Yep. There is a whole climate of intimidation and fear of reprisal, that they are afraid to say the obvious, that this is a travesty, that the athlete in question is a selfish, egotistcal jerk. That's the reality despite pages and pages of filibustering nonsense. So not only is the athlete in question bullying the biological female athletes he is competing against without any conscience, but they are being bullied again because no one at the university is willing to speak up for them.
One of the reasons that the gender identity lobby and all the institutions supporting trans tyranny have gone after so many prominent and successful women who've raised objections to this new way of waging war on women is to intimidate girls and women across the board into silence and capitulation.
Girls and women are terrified to speak out not just because many have been indoctrinated into gender ideology, but because they've seen the way that highly accomplished and wold-famous women like JK Rowling, Martina Navratilova, Germaine Greer, Mara Yamauchi and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie have been viciously attacked and ostracized for speaking out even in the mildest, kindest, most reasonable ways.
Same goes for many less famous but still very accomplished and prominent women like UK philosophy Professor Kathleen Stock, poet and children's author Rachel Rooney, visual artist Jess DeWahls, attorney and international human rights expert Rosa Freedman, US journalist Abigail Shrier and US physician Lisa Littman. Any woman who puts her head above the parapet to point out the conflict between what the trans lobby demands and women's rights gets shot down, piled on and pilloried. Many have lost their jobs and livelihoods for speaking out, too.
(In the UK, a number of people been reported to the police, arrested - and a couple have been prosecuted - for comments others have deemed as "transphobic.")
None of the women I've mentioned have said anything remotely hateful, disrespectful or phobic about people who identify as trans. On the contrary, they all say they want people who identify as trans to be safe and happy, and to be able to live their lives without being unfairly discriminated against or mistreated. Yet because these women also blaspheme against the new orthodoxy - by saying that biological sex is real and immutable; that sex matters in life, law and sport; and that pretending gender identity can eras sex and physical sex differences means eroding or eliminating many of women's hard-won rights, and destroys safeguarding - they've all been branded as bigots, haters and heretical transphobes anyways.
For their stance in support of girls, women and reality, prominent women who've spoken up have been subjected to campaigns of relentless and vile abuse - much of it incredibly misogynistic.
Rowling alone has received thousands of rape and death threats; Twitter has allowed her detractors to openly wish for her death and share their fantasies about how they hope she'll die under the hashtag "RIP JKRowing;" and now the powers-that-be in Hollywood and the entertainment industry have made a point of telling the press that due to Rowling's belief in biological reality and support of female people, they have decided to exclude her from the documentary film, TV specials, marketing campaigns, parties and celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter movie.
On social media, former admirers of worldwide bestselling author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie have called for her to be attacked with machetes, and just recently they've said both her parents died in quick succession in the past 18 months as "punishment" for her refusal to say the cult mantra, "transwomen are women."
So much for acceptance, kindness and inclusion, eh?
