By Sherrie D. Larch
Cathy
Brennan’s hate group Gender Identity Watch and its followers and supporters the
Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists (also called TERFs) are publicly very transphobic and promote hate
and violence towards transgender people, especially transgender women that are
the main targets of their extreme hatred. Gender Identity Watch
has been listed as a hate group by The Transgender Violence Tracking Portal
(TVTP). “Ms. Allison Woolbert, founder of
the TVTP, states, “Gender Identity Watch is one of the most dangerous and
malicious anti-transgender groups that exist today. Gender Identity Watch consistently targets
specifically transgender individuals through daily campaigns of intimidation
and malice including misgendering, outing, publishing photos, stalking
transgender people on dating sites, social media and harassment of the
individual. Their long standing
anti-transgender actions constitutes a serious harm to any transgender person
they deem a target and as such are declared today a Hate Group”
http://www.transviolencetracker.org/index.php/press-releases/99-gender-identity-hate-group.
Gender Identity Watch’s hate has caused unneeded stress and dangers in the
lives of transgender people and their supporters.
But
Gender Identity Watch and Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists are also a
destructive force against lesbian and gay rights, with their belief that sexual
orientation is not a natural biological trait and that no one is born homosexual.
Gender Identity Watch and Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists; believe in what
they call political lesbianism. “Political
lesbianism is a phenomenon within feminism, primarily Second-wave feminism and
radical feminism; it includes, but is not limited to, lesbian separatism.
Political lesbianism embraces the theory that sexual orientation is a political
and feminist choice, and advocates lesbianism as a possible alternative to
heterosexuality for women[1] as part of the struggle against sexism.[2]” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_lesbianism.
Gender Identity Watch and Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists will discredit
and attack anyone that says homosexuality, bisexuality, pansexuality or
heterosexuality are biological traits. Like the religious right they believe a
person’s sexual orientation can be converted to just about anything that
society or their group wants them to be. Gay conversion therapy that is used to
try to make gays and lesbians straight has been proven dangerous for the individual
going through it and does not truly change an individual’s sexual orientation. The
Southern Poverty Law Center states: “Conversion
therapy – sometimes known as reparative or “sexual reorientation” therapy – is
a dangerous practice based on the premise that people can change their sexual
orientation, literally “converting” from gay to straight. Conversion therapy
has been discredited or highly criticized by virtually all major American
medical, psychiatric, psychological and professional counseling organizations. People
who have undergone conversion therapy have reported increased anxiety,
depression, and in some cases, suicidal ideation. The devastating consequences
of conversion therapy are why the Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to
ending this practice and defending the rights of individuals harmed by it” http://www.splcenter.org/conversion-therapy.
If gay conversion therapy to try and turn a gay person straight is harmful so
is straight conversion therapy to try and turn a straight person gay. No matter
how this conversion is done, either through force and coercion or volunteering
and sacrifice for a group, it is harmful to the person. Either for a religious
or a political cause, trying to change an individual’s sexuality is going
against their natural sexual orientation.
This
belief that sexual orientation is a choice and you can just change it like your
clothes is harmful and a generalization that causes gays and lesbians to be
seen as defective and wrong and in need of being psychologically or medically corrected
to be normal. This idea also goes against the political interests and legal rights
of gays and lesbians that have fought long and hard for the rights we have now
and slowly getting including marriage equality, employment and housing anti-discrimination
laws, the right to serve in the United States military and various other laws
that have been fought for with blood, sweat, and tears throughout history. The
question this brings up is, if a person can change their sexual orientation so
easily, why would they need all these basic rights. This dangerous viewpoint can
destroy the gay rights movement and completely ignores science and nature. “Recent
research has found that homosexual behavior in animals may be much more common
than previously thought. Although Darwin’s theory of natural selection predicts
an evolutionary disadvantage for animals that fail to pass along their traits
through reproduction with the opposite sex, the validity of this part of his
theory has been questioned with the discoveries of homosexual behavior in more
than 10% of prevailing species throughout the world. Currently, homosexual
behavior has been documented in over 450 different animal species worldwide”
Do
Animals Exhibit Homosexuality? By Arash Fereydooni (2012) http://www.yalescientific.org/2012/03/do-animals-exhibit-homosexuality/.
But just like the religious right, Gender Identity Watch and
Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists, ignore science for their own hate and oppress
others for their agenda.
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| Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist Cathy Brennan Founder of Gender Identity Watch |
Gender
Identity Watch and Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists main focus on sexual
orientation is to prove that scientific research on sexual orientation is wrong
and that it is a choice, which is also the religious right’s goal to destroy
the gay rights movement. Gender Identity Watch and Trans-Exclusionary Radical
Feminists also believe if they can get people to believe that sexual
orientation is a choice than they can get people to believe that gender
identity is a choice too. This is to try and prove there is no such thing as transgenderism.
Gender Identity Watch and Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists also promote
their political lesbianism by trying to destroy the gay rights movement. Conversion
of straight women into pseudo-lesbians for a political agenda is one of the
ways Gender Identity Watch and Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists wants to increase
their numbers and get back at cisgender men that they believe are to blame for
everything that has went wrong in the world and their lives. Cathy Brennan
states:
http://www.donotlink.com/http://bugbrennan.com/2012/09/06/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a-lesbian/.
Cathy Brennan’s theory is that any straight woman can leave heterosexuality and
her boyfriend or husband behind, without looking back and if she can not she is
supporting misogyny and is a traitor to womanhood. This idea is not only damaging
for the cause of gay rights but it is bad for feminism and women’s rights as a
whole. Feminism’s true goal is to give all women the right to choose for
themselves, this takes this choice away from them. This is also telling
lesbians that their sexual orientation has no real meaning except to punish men
and to be used as a political tool of hate. This is not true feminism or gay
rights. Gender Identity and Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists are both a
transphobic and a homophobic hate group. Just say no when they come to convert
you.
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