More transphobic stickers have been spotted on Edinburgh University Campus.
Oh no! What do they say? 'Burn all transexuals?' 'We know where you perverts live and we're coming to get you!'..?
This is very worrying!
One sticker read “Seahorses ARE horses. Hotdogs ARE dogs. There is no debate. #WarOnWomen.”
Ah. As you were, everyone.
The hashtag has been used to refer to attempts by the Republicans in the US to restrict access to abortion. It has since been co-opted by Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) to attack trans women being given the same rights as all other women.
If you think that this is just a 'fringe belief' by a small number of unrepresentative hairy-legged feminists, you're in for a world of surprise, snowflakes!
The stickers were found by Anna, a fourth year Politics and Sociology student earlier this week.What are the odds..?
Elliot Byrom, EUSA’s Trans and Non-Binary Liberation Officer, said: “It’s really disappointing and frustrating. However it is not surprising, with the recent goings-on in Parliament and continued hate campaigns in the press.
“Anyone who sees stickers like this should send photos to campus security, so they can be included in ongoing hate crime statistics that are reported to the police. If anyone affected by this wants support, they can always reach out to transnonbinary@eusa.ed.ac.uk.”Well, it's not like anyone believes the hate crime statistics represent reality anyway, so what's a bit more inflation?
H/T: Maya Forstater via Twitter
It really takes four years to study Politics and Sociology????
ReplyDeleteI do do yearn for the old days when we just had men and women, life was so much easier to understand then. True there were always a few people about who didn't seem to sort of fit either of those categories but you just treated like anyone else and it worked most of the time.
ReplyDeleteTrojan horse?
ReplyDeletePenseivat
"It really takes four years to study Politics and Sociology????"
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in Edinburgh it was well known that you did sociology if you couldn't get on anything worthwhile. Hence the four years . . .
And I DEMAND that you shoe my seahorse!
ReplyDeleteAm I the only person who can't make head nor tail of this metaphor?
ReplyDelete“Seahorses ARE horses. Hotdogs ARE dogs. There is no debate. #WarOnWomen.”
Seahorses are fish. Their heads have a superficial resemblance to a horse's head hence the name. A hot dog isn't a dog it's a sausage. All this apparently has something to do with some kind of war on women. How exactly does it resemble a hate crime when no one has a clue what it's supposed to mean?
"It really takes four years to study Politics and Sociology????"
ReplyDeleteIndoctrination ain't a quick process!
"...but you just treated like anyone else and it worked most of the time."
Ah, indeed. That's probably a hate crime itself now.
"Am I the only person who can't make head nor tail of this metaphor?"
It's refuting the oft-stated 'Trans women are women' slogan.