I'm not seeing that at all, and the OP-linked article says:
Nice bit of selective editing there. The article was about a protest by a group calling themselves "Get the L Out". Here is their statement on what they are about:
Why “Get The L Out” ?
Excerpt:
Who We Are
Get the L Out is a group of lesbian and feminist individuals and organisations, opposing the increasingly anti-lesbian and misogynistic LGBT movement and the erasure of lesbians
These are the people who are being explicitly supported by certain people in this thread.
Here's the part that you cherry-picked your quote from:
Get the L Out believes trans politics (with uncritical support from the LGBT movement) does the following:
Promotes the social transition of lesbians, encouraging them to present as straight men thus favouring the pretence of heterosexuality over lesbianism – this is nothing more than a form of conversion therapy.
Promotes the medical transition of lesbians and pushes harmful drugs (untested hormone blockers, Lupron etc.) as well as unnecessary medical practices on perfectly healthy bodies – these are a form of misogynist medical abuse against lesbians.
Promotes the rights of heterosexual males who “identify” as women and lesbians (despite most of them still retaining their male genitals) over the rights of lesbians to choose their sexual partners. This new ‘queer’ LGBT politics thus coerces lesbians to accept the penis as a female organ and promotes heterosexual intercourse between male and female as a form of lesbian sex. This is simply a new facet to rape culture and compulsory heterosexuality.
What we Believe
“The trans movement with the complicity of ‘queer’ LGBT politics is coercing lesbians to have sex with men. We firmly condemn this vicious form of lesbophobia disguised as progress”.
Reading their website beyond this one article also conclusively demonstrates that they are profoundly anti-trans in general, they oppose not only the existence of transwomen, but also of transmen, and promote the conspiracy theory that lesbians are being "erased", their term, by the existence of transpeople and a shadowy cabal of "transactivists" controlling media and social organizations. I recommend actually reading their rhetoric if you want actually understand what is going on here. They deny the existence of transgender identity, and many of their members and supporters have accused
all transpeople of being wanna-be rapists and/or mentally ill.
Further,
there is no evidence that lesbians are being coerced into having sex with transpeople. None whatsoever. That's the same sort of libel as the assertion by religious right groups that all homosexuals are child molesters or "recruiting" straight children.
As for Rolfe's assertions that she's not anti-trans, well, let's look at the record, shall we?
Her first post in this thread:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=12363092#post12363092
The entire post is a link to this site:
https://www.peaktrans.org/london-pride-2018-fearless-feminists/
Which is nothing more than the same conspiracy theories and unsupported accusations of lesbians being forced into transitioning or being raped by transpeople. It insists that transpeople do not actually exist, transwomen are nothing but men trying to rape women, and transmen are an attempt by the patriarchy to "erase" lesbians.
And she follows it up with this post:
https://www.peaktrans.org/london-pride-2018-fearless-feminists/
The article explains the incident from the point of view of the women. There is no hate there and I entirely concur with the author.
And another one:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=12365726#post12365726
No comments, just a link to another anti-trans blog. Let's take a look at it
Excerpt:
Only a couple of years ago I was blissfully ignorant of these issues and had no idea that society was heading down a deep, dark rabbit hole called “GENDER”. Now I am acutely aware of the debate, however, and I grow increasingly alarmed about the way women (the class of people with female reproductive anatomy) are being effectively erased. If, as the government intends with proposed self ID legislation, any man can be a woman by simply identifying (you have to say the magic word!) as one, then the word “woman” is rendered meaningless. And if we have no word with which to describe our biological sex, then we cannot challenge the oppression and discrimination inherent in it.
Women are being erased, subsumed, over-ridden… generally swallowed up whole by this well-financed and very powerful trans lobby. Women must shut up, shove up, give up their spaces, their rights, their opportunities, even the very language they need to discuss their lives and experiences… and if they protest they’ll be terrified into silence with screams of “TERF!” and “Bigot!”.
So there is yet another iteration of the conspiracy theory that transpeople are a "powerful lobby" seeking to "erase women" by forcing them to have sex with men, and denies the existence of transgender identity.
And for somewho who claims to not be denying the existence of transpeople, why this insistence on biological essentialism, the insistance in re-defining transgenderism to be, in her words,
Supernatural trans-substantiation. There has not been a single post on the subject where she has not equated transgender identity with believing in "magically" changing their genetic makeup.
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=12366559#post12366559
I don't know what else you'd call it, asserting that a man can actually turn into a woman.
That has been a persistent straw man throughout the thread. What else is that but trans-denialism?
If that's not enough for you, then here's a post where she explicitly denies the validity of transgender identity:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=12366599#post12366599
Well of course they're pointing out that these people are not women. Because they're not women. This seems to be the basis for your position, that you demand that others should acknowledge something which is outside actual reality.
Well hey, reality called. These people are not women because a man cannot turn into a woman.
Oh, and she also denies the existence of female-on-female rape (and, I'm assuming, female-on-male rape by extension:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=12367132#post12367132
So yes, a woman in prison cannot possibly be raped if there are no men there.
Oh, and then there's this little gem:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=12375759#post12375759
Another post with no commentary, just a link, which says this:
Transgender activists don’t admit that this is a metaphysical claim. They don’t want to have the debate on the level of philosophy, so they dress it up as a scientific and medical claim. And they’ve co-opted many professional associations for their cause. Thus the American Psychological Association, in a pamphlet titled “Answers to Your Questions about Transgender People, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression,” tells us, “Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth.” Notice the politicized language: a person’s sex is “assigned at birth.” Back in 2005, even the Human Rights Campaign referred instead to “birth sex” and “physical sex.”
And that's just the start. The entire premise of that article is that trangender identity is nothing but a mental illness. If Rolfe does not believe that, then why link it without comment?
My last link regarding this part of the thread.
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=12385035#post12385035
And that one where she specifically supports anti-trans rhetoric from an individual, Cathy Brennan, who joined with religious right organizion Pacific Justice Institute, to promote a report that PJJ admitted was falsified, and attempted to convince a transgender teen to commit suicide (more details here:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=12385549#post12385549).
Not going to dredge up every single instance of the denialism and assertions of a shadowy conspiracy theory of "transactivists" trying to erase women, since there are far too many of them, and there's a limit to both the size of posts allowed here, and my own free time, so I'll just alinks to one of her posts where she cites an anti-gay, anti-trans, religious far-right organization to support her anti-trans rhetoric.
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=12385617#post12385617
Enjoy!
Except that that is exactly what it was about. The group who staged the incident said so quite clearly and explicitly, using exactly that language.
