No speech for women

Eventbrite has determined women's speech is hateful and dangerous

Let Women Speak is coming to Austin, whether the woke Stasi like it or not. And I’m not just talking about the activists — the angry, pale, pharmaceutical-addled weirdos who once sat on the bench during your Grade 10 Phys Ed class looking sullen, but who do manage to shut their laptops on occasion, given the opportunity for some live action porn in the form of harassing and threatening women in public rather than from the other side of a screen.

The so-called trans rights movement claims to be grassroots. It claims to be fighting on behalf of the downtrodden — the historically marginalized population of men who like to jack off in women’s underwear. The march of the mentally ill. The youth who hate puberty, just like every other youth throughout history has (who, to be fair, probably are suffering of a variety of ills, just not the ill of being trapped in the “wrong body.”) The attention-seeking libs who are making up for being ignored in high school by tying up Zoom meetings with exhaustive talk of pronouns…

And while indeed the trans-identified may be struggling with a host of mental health issues, they do not suffer any actual discrimination. Not in a legal or institutional sense. Not even in a real life sense. It’s not like they are, say, being banned from speaking in public, threatened with violence every time they pipe up about their rights, are unable to gather in public or private, vilified by the government and media, censored and banned from social media platforms, fired from their jobs, their free speech rights and right to protest impeded not only by men threatening to murder them, but by corporations committed to this revolution. Not like that.

Instead, the “trans rights movement” has been invented, endorsed, and marketed by those with the most power and resources. Companies like Bud Light, Tampax, Nike, and Ulta Beauty have all sponsored the trans takeover, as well as bold dissidents, JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. If you ever doubted the oppressed status of transgenders, look no further than their allies, the President of America and the Prime Minister of Canada.

Naturally, a company like Eventbrite could not shy away from this fight, left behind on the wrong side of history, with the women (yuck).

Today, in response to an event page set up by Michelle Evans, organizer of Let Women Speak Austin, the event hosting platform and ticketing website gently reminded women that to let them out of the house is dangerous — perhaps even violent.

And it’s true that those of us who speak in public against gender identity ideology and trans activism do risk violence in doing so, but that’s not what they meant.

The description on Eventbrite explained attendees could “Gather with other women who believe that our sex-based rights are non-negotiable,” further explaining:

Women will be gathering to speak freely about the risks of gender identity ideology to women and girls, the dangers of gender self-ID, and the need to protect women’s sex-based rights.

In response, the company informed Evans that Let Women Speak would not be permitted to speak. Not on Eventbrite, anyway.

We have determined that your event is not permitted on the Eventbrite platform as it violates our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service specifically our policy on Hateful, Dangerous, or Violent Content and Events. As a result, your event has been unpublished. Please be aware that severe or repeated violations of our guidelines may result in the suspension or termination or your Eventbrite account.

To be fair, our speech is quite dangerous. It threatens to prevent grown men from wagging their dicks around in girls’ changerooms and from raping incarcerated women. It threatens the right of governments, universities, NGOs, and corporations to redefine men as women — men who must also have the right to breastfeed a baby if that turns them on, goddammit. Who are we to get in the way of men who just want to masturbate in peace in the women’s washroom? This is a free country.

But free for whom? Surely, if these men are free to parade their fetishes around in women’s private spaces, we are free to speak about it in public? Surely, if girls are losing their ability to compete on fair ground in sport, to change after a swim without being ogled by men, or to generally have boundaries around which dicks they are exposed to, women — the adults in the room — are free to speak against this?

But of course we are not. We, the women speaking out on behalf of women’s rights and safety, and against the nullification of those rights via gender identity legislation, have always been silenced, bullied, erased, screamed at, censored, threatened, and worse. And yet we continue to speak. We have refused the “gender binary,” as it were — the restrictive roles historically imposed on women demanding they be quiet and polite in the face of threats or oppression. We refuse to sit down and shut up, which perhaps is dangerous.

But we are not on the wrong side of history. Eventbrite is, as is this corporate-sponsored clown show of perverts, predators, and transhumanists.

See you on August 12.

Let Women Speak Austin is fundraising to support costs and provide security for women speaking and attending. Please consider a donation.