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Suicide rates and being spoken out of existence

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crunchynuts12345 · 19/04/2025 21:59

A lot of transwomen / people unfortunately won't survive this. Feeling like you're being legislated or spoken out of existence, especially when you're already part of a group at such high risk for mental health struggles and suicide, is devastating. It’s not just policy or rhetoric — it’s lived impact. Much like the way the awful section 28 law impacted gays - every time identity is debated like it’s theoretical or optional, it chips away at a person's sense of worth. It's so sad. You’re not welcome, not valid, not safe — can hit deep

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crunchynuts12345 · 19/04/2025 22:08

@Needspaceforlego

Like with Section 28, silence helped harm flourish.
So please check in on your trans friends/loved ones. Don't generalise an entire group of humans. Most trans people are quietly trying to live their lives.

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atamlin · 19/04/2025 22:08

Why can’t you just accept that you aren’t a woman? You’re a transwoman. Insinuating you won’t survive not being called a woman and suggesting many will take their own lives is bonkers and why you need good mental health support.

Neodymium · 19/04/2025 22:07

Blame trans women like that one at the rally last year who said to ‘punch terfs in the fucking face’. To a cheering crowd.

maybe if trans people had collectively condemned that kind of behaviour instead of encouraging it, then people would have more sympathy.

Planetmonster · 19/04/2025 22:07

Sigh

what are you drivelling on about? Everyone continues in their existence, they just now have to be bound by reality. people can’t change biological sex.

stay in your lane. If you don’t have a lane then get one created. Don’t hang out where you are not welcome.

Itchybritches · 19/04/2025 22:06

I’m genuinely sorry about anything that happens because if it, but as PP has said, similar sensitivity was not shown when the word ‘woman’ was being happily eradicated. I genuinely hope that a less aggressive approach will get transgender people the spaces and support they need.

TheWiseGoose · 19/04/2025 22:06

There are many reasonable trans women, but the very loud minority have literally been mansplaining women in their space, sports etc the past few years. It has to stop.

2024onwardsandup · 19/04/2025 22:05

It’s never about trans men is it. Funny that.

myplace · 19/04/2025 22:04

The words associated with woman being erased from policy- chest feeding, mother, woman no longer meaning those of us who’d had all
the complications and harassment that being a woman came with- and our word was no longer reserved for us? And you are the one being erased? I think not.

Needspaceforlego · 19/04/2025 22:04

Well what do you want to do about it?

Women deserve to have single sex spaces, for their dignity and freedom.

myplace · 19/04/2025 22:02

The word woman was spoken out of existence. So while I feel sorry for anyone struggling, perhaps they could have considered the implications of their behaviour.