We are writing to express our great
appreciation and support of the Morning Star for its exceptional courage and
solidarity with women everywhere in publishing two recent articles [here and here] highlighting the
problems of current political dogma regarding gender identity.
Along with the writers of those articles, we are
watching with some alarm as the few hard-won rights and protections that women
have managed to gain are being eroded through political and social developments
that will have very serious consequences for women indeed.
We very much appreciate your efforts in giving a
platform for a sex-class based analysis of women's position, in the face of the
convergence of neoliberal individualism and alienation from class consciousness
which we believe is very clearly at the heart of gender identity politics.
Those of us who speak out in defence of women are
no strangers to the particular viciousness of the backlash that such speech is
invariably met with.
We applaud the Morning Star for taking a
courageous stand against the erasure of women as a class, and stand in
solidarity with you in the face of this inevitable backlash.
Please note that some signatories were only able
to provide their initials, for fear of possible repercussions were they to be
identified. This, sadly, reflects the climate of fear and intimidation that we
are currently living in.
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