On this point, I want to elaborate more into something I touched on in my most recent piece on Brennan’s interview on Roseanne Barr and Kathleen Wells’ show; the silencing of trans women’s voices in their own discourses on trans women and their identities, lives, and issues. This is something I’ve touched on in other pieces, such as “Cathy Brennan and TERFs Hate Women” and “Silence Kills”. Brennan’s most recent interview on Barr’s and Wells’ show elaborates a perfect example of how silencing works. The show took one caller, who asked Brennan to further define how she sees the term radical. This was the only call that was taken. Not from a trans woman to refute Brennan’s points or a trans* ally. No, they chose someone who wanted a small semantic clarification. It is very possible no one called to support trans women. It is very possible no trans woman called (which I know is incorrect). However, there lies a very big problem with trans women calling. Brennan has a history of what is called doxxing. This is when someone takes a person’s personal information and puts it online. This is generally not easily obtained information and can include personal phone numbers, home addresses, work addresses and numbers, e-mail accounts, and so on. It is any personal information that a person intended to keep personal. As mentioned before, Brennan places these on websites that place these people alongside convicted murderers and rapists. She (or others) may contact a person’s place of employment with slander in an attempt to get them fired. I touch on several examples of Brennan’s history with this in this article (click here). Any caller, whose even first name may be used, will most likely be researched by Brennan. This means a caller may end up having their personal information end up on a website that Brennan runs. Brennan also IP logs her websites and looks into the IPs of those who look into her sites. For someone who advocates for stronger stalking and harassment laws for online, she certainly engages in a lot of it. Due to this threat, many trans* people and their allies to do not engage with Brennan. This threat is very real and can lead to very real and damaging.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 17:02:36 +0000
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