In Defense of Lynn Meagher

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I was in the middle of reading the Facebook post below from KaeleyAnne Harms when it disappeared right in front of me. Facebook deleted the original post from Lynn Meagher too. Facebook is defending slanderers and a wife- and child-abuser while silencing the abused and slandered.I know Lynn Meagher, and I know some of what she's been through. This is the first time I've learned the whole story.Please share this widely, on any social media channel to which you have access.
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There are not words strong enough to capture the fury I am experiencing in this moment on behalf of my dear friend Lynn Meagher.She flew all the way to South Dakota to testify in defense of a bill that would prevent kids from being butchered by monsters who line their pockets off the agony of gender confused children.Two of Lynn’s own children identify as trans, largely as a result of growing up in a house with a father (Lynn’s ex-husband Tim) who fostered a raging cross-dressing porn addiction that wreaked havoc in their home. He was fired from one job when a co-worker caught him masturbating in his office. He was fired from another job for a similar reason. He tried to hire a trans prostitute but decided not to pay the $100. He clipped out newspaper ads soliciting relationships with “hot red headed trans identified people.” He wore women’s lingerie and strappy high heeled shoes and left journals of his fantasies and cartoon trans porn around the house.You tell me if you think this had any bearing on the way his kids turned out.Lynn finally left him when she found him searching for “tweens wearing stockings” on a porn site. She brought his computer to the police station and asked them to search it. They refused to do so without his permission.Tim had violent altercations with Lynn’s son Chris, including one where he broke a chair over Chris’ head. Chris was ultimately arrested, having caused physical damage himself.Lynn has suffered largely in silence for over 20 years. In her defense of kids and her opposition to transmania, she has been discerning and discreet, never vindictive, and always hopeful of restoration for her kids.Her kids, unfortunately, have been possessed of the same addictions and demons as their father, who enables and “supports” them. They’ve made a common enemy of Lynn, who insists on living in the light and telling the truth.Last week, I encountered Lynn’s son Chris at a women’s event in Seattle. I had gone to a very small Christian high school with him. I sat next to him in art class. I was kind to him when he was bullied. Someone once lit his hair on fire with a blowtorch in chemistry class. I was so upset for him.But Chris’ wounds have made his heart hard. He now goes by “Christine,” and shouts down women who won’t bow to his preferred pronouns. He was carrying an airhorn to drown out women’s voices in Seattle. I sat behind him and said, “Chris Meagher.” He turned. He still knew his name. I reminded him that his mother loves him. And she does.But he and his sister are bitter and angry and vacant. The truth no longer resides in them, and this past week, they took to social media to slander Lynn, accusing her of all manner of hideous things, including wrongs that had actually been done by their father. It was an international Twitter smear fest so intense and so effective, that even freaking Pink News ran an article maligning her.Lynn was declared too controversial to testify in South Dakota today. So she sat broken and bruised and voiceless on a plane until the truth came flooding out of her in a powerful FB post about all the secrets she would no longer cover and all the abuse she would no longer keep silent.Lynn told the truth that could save those who need most to surrender to it. She smashed down the strongholds that have kept her children bound and oppressed for years.But the post wasn’t even up for 24 hours before FB censored it as a violation of community standards, rendering her once again voiceless. Imagine that- it’s a violation of community standards to tell the truth about abusive men. This, friends, is why feminism exists and why I will continue to identify as a Christian feminist.I write this post in bed on my IPhone from a sock account because my own voice has once again been silenced on my primary page for having the audacity to tell the truth. And I do so knowing full well that it’s only a matter of time before this account gets shut down, too.Well I’m here to say that I don’t give a damn how many accounts we have to make or how many articles we have to write or how many heartbreaking stories we have to share. Trust me, hell hath no fury...We are done shielding abusers or covering for predators or playing nice with fetishists. There is nothing “nice” about gaslighting women or reducing our existence to a feeling or a costume. There is nothing nice about turning a blind eye to porn addictions. There is nothing nice about making people feel comfortable in their delusions and self-hatred.There is nothing nice about punishing women who have finally, after 25 effing years, found the courage to tell their stories of trauma.I have nothing sanctified you say to or about people who play make believe with nonsense. Kids are getting permanently sterilized before they’re even old enough to consent to piercing their ears. Rapists are getting housed in women’s prisons where female inmates have to shower with them. Do you think that’s very nice?For the love of God, do something and say something while you still can. A woman in the UK is currently being tried for the hate crime of referring to a man as a man.The problem is not the presence of darkness; it’s the absence of the light. Rise and freaking shine already._____
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