Labour, Momentum and Trans-Censorship

One of the issues that continues to raise it's ugly head is the suppression of women (and men) who have strong reservations and opposition to some of the aspects of the proposed Gender Recognition act. A former activist in Momentum, Venice Allen has founded We Need To Talk and was interviewed on the American feminist website Feminist Current:

Her group founded a year ago resulted from her experiences on the Labour Left:

I was part of Momentum at the time, which is a sort of [Labour Leader] Jeremy Corbyn fan club. At the time, I didn’t think legislation allowing individuals to self-identify as the opposite sex would come to the UK, so I was shocked when I heard a speech by Corbyn in July, saying he fully supported British Prime Minister Theresa May’s intention to update the existing Gender Recognition Act.

As one does when querying aspects of forthcoming legislation Venice raised her objections:

I posted an article from Fair Play for Women in a popular Jeremy Corbyn Facebook group, saying: “I’m a bit concerned. How can we stop predatory men from abusing the system?”

Guess what happened:

In a couple of hours after posting this, I got 700 replies. People called me a bitch and a cunt. At that point I would never have expected that sort of language.

Not having expected such a response she went ahead and:

A friend and I organized a local Momentum meeting to talk about it. I booked the local library under the Momentum name but then Momentum refused to have anything to do with it. I was so naïve.

Bad move. Despite getting speakers arranged from groups like Stonewall what happened next is an attack not just on Women's Rights but the concept of Free Speech as well:

The event was scheduled to take place on Wednesday, September 13th. The two Stonewall speakers pulled out on Sunday, three days before the talk was due, but we decided to go ahead with Julia and Miranda anyway. Goldsmiths’ University and LGBT Lewisham found out what the venue was on Tuesday and called us; we agreed to meet them on that day to resolve any issues. The issues could not be resolved so they phoned up the library, protesting, and at 9pm that evening the library contacted us to say they had undertaken a risk assessment and were cancelling.

What was particuarly disturbing is the following tweet from a "Sue Pascoe" a trans-activist:

WPUK together with their connected We Need to Talk group have been reported to the police counter terrorist unit as a hate group under the UK Prevent programme. They are regarded in the same category as Britain First. This is not listening and debating with a reasonable group.

I try not to swear but FFS a "terrorist" organisation that needs reporting to the police? This is beyond any kind of reasoned response. It is people like this who are a danger to rest of us. Male aggression hidden in women's clothing.

No wonder there are so many women (and men) who oppose the GRA and are more than disturbed about the aggression of trans-activists.

It boils down to one simple fact it is not hate speech to say women don't have penises. 

At the moment only 18% of the British public support so-called "self-Identification"

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The full interview can be read on Feminist Current: Here