JK Rowling, the author of Harry Potter has drawn the wrath of trans activists, after posting a series of tweets in which she expressed an ironic point of view on the difference between the sexes.
We feminists wish to alert the general public to the situation of the lesbian community in France and abroad. To begin with we would like to remind that lesbians are not the only ones living in fear of extreme trans activism.
James Caspian, Eva Poen, Kathleen Lowrey… the list is long of university researchers (American, Canadian, British ...) harassed and sometimes dismissed by their hierarchy on the orders of radical radical activists (who do not represent all trans communities ).
James Caspian, for example, was attacked for trying to set up a study on the percentage of people regretting having "changed their sex". The mere fact of wanting to do a study on the subject is now considered offensive.
In Sweden, the number of girls under the age of 18 wanting to “change sex” to become transmasculine has increased 15-fold from 2010 to 2018.Selina Todd, a British historian, was not harassed by her hierarchy but had to hire bodyguards following threats from some hardcore trans-activists. Rosa Freedman, a law professor, was jostled and threatened with rape.
For the past year or so, there has been a boom in Anglophone and Scandinavian countries of people depicting their de-transition on Twitter, Reddit and YouTube. But these people will have to live all their lives with the consequences of their transition. The more advanced the transition, the more severe and irreversible the physical damage. Hormones create severe bone problems. The ablations are final.
In Sweden, the number of girls under the age of 18 wanting to "change sex" (something technically impossible) to try to become transmasculine increased 15-fold from 2010 to 2018. According to statistics from the Swedish government, among them 15% were autistic and 19% hyperactive.
French youtubers encourage young people under the age of 15 to take hormones "secretly from their parents".In the United Kingdom, their number increased 45-fold from 2010 to 2018 (from 40 cases per year in 2010 to more than 1,800 in 2018). The British Minister for Women's Rights at the time, Penny Mordaunt, was publicly moved.
French youtubers encourage young people under the age of 15 to take hormones "secretly from their parents" and are illegal.
But the wind eventually turns, despite the market that has been created, despite the lobbying of the pharmaceutical industry.
On April 22, 2020, under pressure from feminist lesbian movements, the United Kingdom announced that it wanted to ban operations on people under 18 (note: they were authorized with parental authorization). Since November 2019, six states in the United States have banned all forms of transition: hormones, operations, and puberty blockers (hormone inhibitors that are meant to delay puberty before beginning a transition). Eight other states in this country are currently debating identical laws.
In Australia, Senator Amanda Stoker went on a crusade against sex changes in children.An article in the newspaper "The Economist" also showed that in the overwhelming majority of cases, puberty blockers are useless because the overwhelming majority of children concerned will not become trans as adults.
Sweden is also starting to consider a law banning operations and blockers of puberty after broadcasts on the subject by Malou Von Sivers, television presenter and feminist activist.
In Australia, senator (mother of three daughters) Amanda Stoker went on a crusade against sex changes in children. The pioneer countries in the mass transition are becoming the pioneer countries of the mass de-transition.
In addition, studies on regret rates do not take into account people who leave the “trans community”, stop all follow-up and therefore come out of the statistics. And above all, these studies were done at the time when children could not transition, when the transition was a treatment for a very rare and very specific situation: gender dysphoria which qualifies the feeling for a person to be born of the wrong sex.
To say of a category of the population that it includes anyone claiming to belong to it is to say of this category that it does not exist.A study by Lisa Littman - public health researcher - explains that certain forms of rapid onset gender dysphoria (gender dysphoria ) are sometimes caused by traumas, adjustment difficulties, contagion linked to social networks or to a homosexuality poorly assumed in a society where it is invisible. Littman's research has been publicly denied by the university, using it not because of the means used but because the results invalidated the feelings of some.
Through lesbians all women are attacked
Certain movements claiming to be feminist explain that a woman is a person who calls herself a woman. To say of a category of the population that it includes anyone claiming to belong to it is to say of this category that it does not exist.
We observe that men are not affected by this: a man is always a person who is said to be man by other men, who is perceived to be man by other men.
How could Keira Bell, this young 23 year old English lesbian activist who today regrets having taken hormones and puberty blockers at the age of 16, know that she was a lesbian?
In France too, when lesbians want to organize activities among themselves, they are pressured by groups identifying with feminist “queers” to integrate into their activities transfeminine people attracted exclusively by women.
We find that too often these people try to control our speech, our practices and our visibility. We want to keep our spaces, our sporting and festive activities unmixed.
We want our space without certain groups preventing us from doing so in the name of a “right to inclusion”.Gays have intimate spaces of their own, trans people have associations too, we want to be able to do the same without certain groups violently trying to prevent us from doing so in the name of the right to "inclusion".
The injunction to the transition of adolescent girls (lesbians or not) and the negation of the sexuality of lesbian women are related to sexism and lesbophobia.
We alert all of society to the dangers of extreme trans-activism (which does not represent all trans people) which obscures all women and ask them to work for lesbian visibility.
This is proof given to little girls and adolescent girls (including heterosexuals) that it is possible to be a woman without conforming to gender stereotypes. The longer we delay reacting, the more young women will be affected, who may be forced to make a transition, and the more severe and irreversible the physical damage will be.
* The rostrum is signed by the association “44 naughty girls” (Nantes lesbian collective), and Marie-Jo Bonnet , researcher, historian, co-founder of Les Gouines Rouges, lesbian and feminist activist; Christine Le Doaré , Former President of the LGBT Center in Paris and universalist feminist activist; Yolanda Alba , Vice President of the European network of women journalists and writer; Florence-Lina Humbert, Journalist 50/50 Magazine; Marguerite Stern , Podcast producer and feminist activist; Marie Josèphe Devillers , feminist lesbian activist; Ana Minski , writer and activist; Marie Montaigue , teacher; Valérie Pelletier , abolitionist and radical feminist activist; Nadia Guenet , radio producer and producer of "the revolution will be feminist"; Julie-Elisa Go , feminist and developer; Chantal Hervouet , lesbian feminist activist and abolitionist; Alexis Solis , lesbian feminist, abolitionist; Martine Ragon , abolitionist feminist activist; Morgane Ricard , activist; Feminist Valentine Minery ; Lucie Robin-Lesage , feminist; Marie Noëlle Gerolami , feminist lesbian; Sophie Plisson , archaeologist; Muriel Petit , teacher; Annick Karsenty , abolitionist feminist activist.
