This is interesting, hosting their own server. It is kinda like truth.social…but with actual truth.

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      It’s a single article The lesbians who feel pressured to have sex and relationships with trans women, which was previously named “We’re being pressured into sex by some trans women”, that’s being used as the brush to paint the entire BBC transphobic.

      If people bothered to read the decision which led to the amended article, and the amended article itself, they would read:

      Ultimately, it has been difficult to determine the true scale of the problem because there has been little research on this topic - only one survey to my knowledge. However, those affected have told me the pressure comes from a minority of trans women, as well as activists who are not necessarily trans themselves.

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      Angela created a questionnaire for lesbians and distributed it via social media, then published the results.

      She said that of the 80 women who did respond, the majority reported being pressured or coerced to accept a trans woman as a sexual partner.

      The survey was not statistically valid since the respondents were self-selecting and Get The L Out is an active campaigning group on lesbian issues. But while Angela acknowledges the sample may not be representative of the wider lesbian community, she believes it was important to capture their “points of view and stories”.

      The article is a description of the problems within the queer community itself that seem to be experienced by a minority, brought upon by the extremes of another minority.

      The reaction to call the BCC “transphobic” seems to me like a very twitter-esque reaction based in identity politics and hardline “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” tribalism.

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        Rabidly screeching at anyone who disagrees with them is kinda a trademark of the trans community at this point, we also saw it with the debate around trans women in sport.

        They need to accept they’re not above criticism, and aren’t always right.