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Baroness Falkner: Labour was the party of feminism — not any more
https://archive.ph/b9CcE
At times, the hostility has been overwhelming. Falkner was on the receiving end of relentless abuse from trans activists, and eventually had to leave social media entirely.
Some of the messages directed at her and others were so extreme that she became afraid that she was going to be attacked on her way to work, and began changing her daily route. “You’re afraid that somebody will flip and attack you, knife you, do whatever,” she says.
There was little respite at work. Falkner had to face down — and eventually overcome — an internal coup after a series of unfounded claims were made against her...
In the midst of it all, Falkner has been fighting her own, personal battle. In August last year she was given a diagnosis of advanced ovarian cancer, something she never mentioned publicly. Three months later she had surgery to remove several organs.
Through it all she kept working, including during two rounds of chemotherapy...
Then there's this:
The delay in publishing the EHRC guidance, Falkner says, leaves both women and trans people in a “grey zone”. Councils, NHS trusts and businesses are still allowing trans women — biological men who identify as women — to use single-sex spaces, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling.
“The danger in not publishing it is that people are left in the grey zone,” she says. “Women are still having to go to court to assert their rights. My greatest concern is that it’s very distressing for trans people.
Read that last sentence again. And yet she's still vilified by them.
https://archive.ph/b9CcE
At times, the hostility has been overwhelming. Falkner was on the receiving end of relentless abuse from trans activists, and eventually had to leave social media entirely.
Some of the messages directed at her and others were so extreme that she became afraid that she was going to be attacked on her way to work, and began changing her daily route. “You’re afraid that somebody will flip and attack you, knife you, do whatever,” she says.
There was little respite at work. Falkner had to face down — and eventually overcome — an internal coup after a series of unfounded claims were made against her...
In the midst of it all, Falkner has been fighting her own, personal battle. In August last year she was given a diagnosis of advanced ovarian cancer, something she never mentioned publicly. Three months later she had surgery to remove several organs.
Through it all she kept working, including during two rounds of chemotherapy...
Then there's this:
The delay in publishing the EHRC guidance, Falkner says, leaves both women and trans people in a “grey zone”. Councils, NHS trusts and businesses are still allowing trans women — biological men who identify as women — to use single-sex spaces, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling.
“The danger in not publishing it is that people are left in the grey zone,” she says. “Women are still having to go to court to assert their rights. My greatest concern is that it’s very distressing for trans people.
Read that last sentence again. And yet she's still vilified by them.
