Claire B

Prior to about 5 or 6 years ago, none of us cared. Many of us championed people's rights to live however they felt comfortable. Many of us applauded them for being brave enough to "be themselves". I certainly did. We would all have been quite happy to have let that continue as it was. But when it became very clear that there this was much more than wanting to change your name and appearance, when men used their newly acquired female costume and identity, to access female only spaces, sports, and, worst of all, as a means to access children, we had to say STOP. Ian Brady was only able to get those children because he had Myra. As a woman, she was trusted. As a woman, she was able to entice children and gain their trust, because society, especially children, instinctively trusts women; we're weaker, less inclined to be sexually motivated, less inclined to be child abusers, more inclined to be kinder and compassionate and caring. It's was because of this abhorrent betrayal of womanhood, that the history books despise her. People hated Hindley more than Brady. So when men started dressing as females, and acting like they were trustworthy and vulnerable and caring and weak and sweet and all the things that come with womanhood, to gain access to woman and children, we couldn't help but instinctively recognise that these were dangerous men, cosplaying womanhood with nefarious intent. It wasn't long before lesbians were being forced to have sex with these new women. It wasn't long before vulnerable children with spectrum issues were being coerced in to life altering medical procedures, it wasn't long before women were being smashed in to comas in contact sports, it wasn't long before every award, achievement, sport, fight, space, that women had spent over a century fighting for, had been entirely coopted by these men pretending to be women. And the minute women realised what had happened, they were branded "TERFS" and "fascists" which then, once labelled, gave these men carte blanche social acceptance to threaten to rape and murder them, punch them ans entirely disseminate their lives, steal their jobs and destroy their careers. So, you know what India? We DID support you. We gave you all an inch and you took a mile and then some. You had your chance, for many years, and you used it and abused it. We, NONE OF US, want any of you harmed, we just refuse to be bullied by men a single day longer. We wish you all the best x