Tim Walters
1 min readDec 15, 2019

Your first sentence, including “ gender critical feminist” is a red flag. The only people being criticized are trans people. That is why the original acronym, TERF, is a better description. The only qualm I have is that it should be just gender critical, eliminating the word feminist, which you are not if you debate or argue about trans existence or validity. Dressing this up in academic speech and other niceties does not alter the bigotry. No surprise you would mention LGB, which is an obvious and vile attempt to marginalize trans people even more.

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Tim Walters
Tim Walters

Written by Tim Walters

Husband, father, artist. Friend of Bill. Animal lover. LGBTIA+ Ally. Suicide prevention. Eccentric, but in a friendly way, mostly. he/him

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love that you noticed this too… thanks for sharing
Holly never answers responses to her posts
I think hers may well be called a “literary hit-and-run” style
still… a strange MO coming from a source (or at least a representative from one or more of the…

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