Thank you :)

It also touches on the work @fossilfreebooks.org does in solidarity with Palestine and for climate justice: bsky.app/profile/foss...

(Hopefully) needless to say also, but the fault here lies with the anti-trans movement, not everyone who fights for trans rights, for us all being divided and consumed by this!

GC politics fails on its own terms: it does not materially help cis women.

I’ve been reading Marx (yes) & I think this is the argument we need to make, we need to say what is it you want? Is it no poor women? Is it no domestic violence? Because your not fixing that this way; this is a distraction.

I do not care what jk Rowling thinks a woman is. i do care that she poured £70k into a campaign that harms cis women (as well as trans women) when she could have funded every single abortion the Abortion Support Network did last year.

*whatever your definition of woman*, you should not want the state policing this for you & you should not want to strengthen the evangelical anti-abortion movement. Because this only harms cis women. But this what GC lawfare achieves.

We actually don’t have to convince ppl what a women is or isn’t to take the air out of the trans panic - we just have to show them the two sides, and ask which side they are on.

There are two sides: one is fighting trans women in women’s prisons; the other is fighting the incarceration of pregnant women, the death of babies born in prison, the rape and abuse of women who are mostly working class, disproportionately woc, and survivors by the state.

On the left we do a lot of TELLING people why they’re wrong… what’s more effective is SHOWING we are on their side by fighting for improvements in their material conditions (or, in the case of GCs, the ppl they say they care about)