Censoring Julie Bindel
Transgender activists who seek to ban her from speaking are wrong – we need to hear Julie Bindel on gender politics
o Beatrix Campbell
o guardian.co.uk, Sunday 31 January 2010 11.00 GMT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/31/julie-bindel-transgender-nus (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/31/julie-bindel-transgender-nus)
I love Julie Bindel. There, I've said it, I love the woman some people love to hate.
We are bonded by offensiveness. When her activities got her into rucks with strangers who knew no better she'd pass herself off as me. Out of sheer malice. Marvellous. She is an adversary to be treasured. She is necessary. She's clever and quick, which sometimes makes her rough and even wrong; and yes, sometimes rude.
This woman is an old fashioned London femininist. Views such as hers are not uncommon, though not mainstream.
This link, she explains some of her views. They portray a difficulity for her to integrate her tolerance for homosexuals along with the campaigning positions that entails, Iran and so on, with Transgender people.
Perhaps, not so much bad as misguided. Though it does suggest, much like many London liberals, that her position on homosexuals is based more on adopted dogma than intellect.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/aug/01/mytransmission (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/aug/01/mytransmission)
The real problem with people like Julie Bindel and others of her ilk is the hijacking of groups which the Transgender community need, other gay rights groups.
It may be time for the transgender community to separate itself from the gay rights movement and establish itself as a legitmate stance for individualism.
Post Merge: January 31, 2010, 04:49:26 PM
As a comparison, her stance of prostitution might also be interesting.
It isn't really anything to do with TG of course. But since it is the choice of some women, their right to make that choice would presumably be something Julie Bindel would support.
The conditions for those forced into prostitution is disgusting and wrong. There can be no doubt about that. But is it any more reprehensible for those women forced into factory work, or any other type of work?