The Trans Exclusionary (self-identified) “radical feminist” lawyer Cathy Brennan sent, via her attorney, a cease-and-desist letter, asserting that the following statement from a TransAdvocate story titled, Fake “Radical Feminist” group actually paid political front for anti-LGBT James Dobson organization is false and must be removed from the story:
This is not the first time TERFs have worked with anti-feminist/LGBT groups in targeting transgender kids. In 2014, TERF attorney, Cathy Brennan and her “radical feminist” organization worked with the anti-abortion/LGBT group the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) in targeting a 15 year old trans girl, resulting in the youth being placed on a medical suicide watch.
Let’s fact check that: After a hate group’s hoax targeting a 15 year old trans girl is debunked, Brennan contacts the hate group; after mainstream news agencies retract their stories based upon the hate groups now-debunked claims, Brennan obtains a set of new talking points supplied to her by the hate group and proceeds to distribute the hate group’s talking points via her organization’s anti-trans social media accounts; Brennan’s group then continues trying to bolster the hate group’s narrative position days after the hate group’s claims were proven false. Finally, the sadistic hate the hate group’s narrative inspired results in the trans teen being placed on a suicide watch.
Timeline of Events
The Lie Begins
10/10/2013
The Pacific Justice Institute, an anti-LGBT hate group, concocted a story, claiming that a 15-year-old trans girl was sexually harassing cis girls in the girl’s bathroom and that the school couldn’t do anything to prevent the harassment because it had a nondiscrimination policy covering gender identity.
The Lie is Debunked
10/14/2013
The TransAdvocate debunks PJI’s claims. Even so, here is a taste of some of the hate this lie generated toward the trans girl:
The fake story is still up on the Fox News website.
Gender Identity Watch
10/14/2013
Brennan’s organization Gender Identity Watch, a group several thousand people have identified as being an anti-trans hate group, disseminated content backing false and highly stigmatizing claims PJI made about the trans girl.
Even though the school itself was, by 10/14/13, on tape asserting that the narrative Gender Identity Watch was pushing (ie, PJI’s narrative) was false, Brennan claimed that the debunking was “bullshit” and that she would be contacting the source of the debunked claims against the trans girl, the anti-LGBT hate group, PJI herself.
Debunked & Retracted: GIW Won’t Stop
10/15/2013
By October 15, 2013 major news outlets retract and delete the false stories they had published about the trans girl, based upon PJI’s debunked claims. Even so, Brennan’s group continued to promote PJI’s debunked narrative.
Working together: GIW & PJI
10/16/2013
After contacting PJI, and after major news outlets had pulled their stories and issued apologies to the trans girl, Brennan’s group publically issues PJI’s talking points to the TransAdvocate via Twitter, while disseminating PJI’s talking points to its own social networks.
Ordeal Culminates in a Suicide Watch
10/24/2013
By October 24, 2013, the trans teen was placed on suicide watch.
In light of the above documented behavior, focused upon supporting and sustaining a demonstrably false media narrative, targeting an innocent trans youth, and crafted by an anti-LGBT hate group, one might be tempted to view such obdurate behavior as being the actions of someone involved in, as several thousand people assert, an anti-trans “hate group.” Such documented behavior might belie claims of any self-professed “radical feminist” status. In such an event, one might understand the motivation that drives one to attempt to intimidate trans journalists into censoring certain timeline facts relevant to news regarding fake “radical feminist” organizations funded by anti-woman/anti-LGBT James Dobson organizations.
Read the cease-and-desist letter below:
Postscript
If you’d like to know how a little trans advocacy helped right all the wrong done to the 15 year old trans girl, you can read all about that here:
Restoring your faith in humanity: supporting Jane Doe
Cristan, thank u for your advocacy and continued blessings to you and all who raise the vibration of fear to loving kindness for all transgender youngsters and adults who add so much love to the world.
I LOVE your work!! LOVE LOVE LOOOOOVVVE!!
Somebody should send them a ceas and dessist letter
Also when you click on that link it takes you to https://outofmypantiesnow.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/when-is-90-not-substantially-all/. Here is a quote from that site…” This is what transgender does:rape and kill 6 year old girls” That’s just 1 entry. There is a load of garbage like that on that site. People shouldn’t be allowed to incite violence like that and spread falsehoods that conjure up hate!
Well, from reading the Gender Identity Watch website, they ought to be ordered to remove their false statements about trans women. They call transwomen men and talk about how transwomen have “psychosexual disorders.” They say transwomen have a “fetish.” They talk about how transwomen (they say men) assault women and children in the womens bathroom. Here is a quote from their website…”There are numerous other reported incidents (assaults on women and children, indecent exposure, public masturbation, covert photography etc.) by disordered “transgender” men (https://outofmypantiesnow.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/when-is-90-not-substantially-all/); there are over 250 media reported stories at this link alone.” They should have to retract that statement because it is false, hurtful, incites violence, etc.