In Support of Dr. Michele Moore

The following is a response to a post on Transgender Trend in support of Dr. Michele Moore.

McCarthyist indeed. 

There is a big push to make every aspect of life, every choice a person makes, gendered. A little girl who likes playing with trucks is certainly a boy. A boy who loves to crochet is certainly a girl.

I became a feminist because I wanted to get away from this sort of narrow-minded thinking and because I was tired of being told what girls can't do.

I was always fine with being a girl. I wasn't always fine with being a girl who likes boys because a lot of the time boys treated me like garbage, but I couldn't change the way I was wired. (I tried.) I was not fine with being told I couldn't be an air force pilot because I have ovaries. (This was in the early 1980s.) I wasn't fine with being told that my only aspirations in life should be to make babies and make sure my husband has a nice hot meal and to make sure that my house looked like a pictorial from Good Housekeeping. 

Feminism was supposed to be an ideology for the advancement of equal opportunities and better treatment for women. I never minded fighting for equal opportunities and better treatment of trans people too. Hell, I was always willing to accept trans people as they were, to call them by their chosen names and to refer to them using their preferred pronouns. I don't know exactly when the feminist movement got co-opted by TRA extremists, but it extremely distressing.

The left needs to stop kowtowing to these violent extremists. That's the only chance we have of stopping them.

I support Dr. Michele Moore in being a voice for vulnerable young people.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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