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Six year old trans girl ‘tries to cut off her penis’ after Guide ban

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JonesTown · 29/03/2026 11:14

Quite a disturbing article in this morning’s Observer regarding the impact of the Guides’ ban on trans girls following the Supreme Court ruling.

It reports on the experience of one six year old trans girl named Emily after hearing she could no longer attend Rainbows:

Emily’s parents decided to be honest with their daughter about the situation, and explained that she was no longer able to take part in Rainbows because she was trans. A few hours later Curt said they found her “sobbing in her room” and were “shocked” to find her holding a pair of plastic scissors to her penis.

AIBU to find this a distressing consequence of campaign by anti-trans activists or is it a natural result of allowing such young children to change their gender identity?

Girlguiding facing mass exodus after setting deadline for...

Girlguiding facing mass exodus after setting deadline for...

The organisation is battling a backlash over new rules that will exclude trans girls from the organisation

https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/girlguiding-facing-mass-exodus-after-setting-deadline-for-trans-girls-to-quit

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 29/03/2026 14:16

This seems a good time to trot out this image which I have had saved for many years for just such occasions.

Six year old trans girl ‘tries to cut off her penis’ after Guide ban
Boiledbeetle · 29/03/2026 14:15

JonesTown · 29/03/2026 14:07

The Green Party position is that trans women are women, and should have access to female spaces alongside non-binary people.

Until we reach a position where all facilities are multi-gender, the Greens’ position would avoid trans people being so distressed that a six year old girl tries to cut her penis off.

The Green Party lost their grip on reality a long time ago.

The only people responsible for the distressed 6 year old BOY wanting to cut his penis off is his parents.

Why should every member of the female half of humanity suffer so that some boys and men don't get told no?

Ved · 29/03/2026 14:15

Scripturient · 29/03/2026 14:13

Yeah. Like I’m a vegetarian and so was Hitler. I don’t think we gelled on anything else.

😱😆

MrsMurphyIWish · 29/03/2026 14:15

JonesTown · 29/03/2026 14:07

The Green Party position is that trans women are women, and should have access to female spaces alongside non-binary people.

Until we reach a position where all facilities are multi-gender, the Greens’ position would avoid trans people being so distressed that a six year old girl tries to cut her penis off.

Agree partly. Trans women are not biological women, they are men.

Spaces where people are undressed - single sex, mixed space and accessible. When swimming I use the mix showers as everyone showers with sports wear on. DD on her period wants to shower in the female only shower.

Disagree - girls don’t have a penis.

lcakethereforeIam · 29/03/2026 14:15

I'd turn it on its head, if something like 'men should be able to compete as women in women's sports' is so batshit even someone as deranged as Trump can see how fucked up it is, it must be really fucked up.

ElenOfTheWays · 29/03/2026 14:13

JonesTown · 29/03/2026 11:32

The article is clear that this girl’s friends are all now boycotting Rainbows due to how she has been treated.

Six year olds do not boycott. It's the parents who are behind this if it's really happening - which it probably isn't.
Why can't girls have something just for them anyway? It's sad that anyone can think this way. Boys/men don't have to be included in EVERYTHING.

Scripturient · 29/03/2026 14:13

Ved · 29/03/2026 14:07

Woo hoo, seems we're all fans of Donald Trump because he also thinks men can never be women!

Again FML! 😠

Yeah. Like I’m a vegetarian and so was Hitler. I don’t think we gelled on anything else.

ThatCyanCat · 29/03/2026 14:12

Ved · 29/03/2026 14:07

Woo hoo, seems we're all fans of Donald Trump because he also thinks men can never be women!

Again FML! 😠

I can't quite believe they're still pulling this one, but they insist women can have knobs so there's no limit, really. The frustrating thing is that I can't tell whether OP is trolling because this movement is completely beyond parody.

Tbh I don't see why it's my fault if the left has gone so completely pants on head lying, gibbering insane that it's left Donald Trump to best it on a point of total objective fact. That's like being in a boxing match, punching yourself in the face and then screaming at the crowd for not declaring you the winner.

Boiledbeetle · 29/03/2026 14:11

Ved · 29/03/2026 14:07

Woo hoo, seems we're all fans of Donald Trump because he also thinks men can never be women!

Again FML! 😠

I'm also surprised as a member of the far right that the Labour Party happily takes my membership fees each year!

ainsleysanob · 29/03/2026 14:11

JonesTown · 29/03/2026 13:55

The IOC have caved into pressure from Trump and the far-right gender critical activists.

Those who are campaigning against dignity for trans women should be asking themselves if they’re really happy to be on the same side as Trump 🙄

I absolutely do not give a shit if I’m on the same side as Donald Trump and the other people displaying common sense and intelligence (sorry Far-Right gender critical activists!) in regards to this particular subject. No qualms at all. I congratulate him in fact on having the balls (not unlike the 6 year old boy) to challenge it and state fact as opposed to the arseflaps we have who can’t or won’t differentiate between Chromosomes. #teamtrump

Bigearringsbigsmile · 29/03/2026 14:11

JonesTown · 29/03/2026 14:07

The Green Party position is that trans women are women, and should have access to female spaces alongside non-binary people.

Until we reach a position where all facilities are multi-gender, the Greens’ position would avoid trans people being so distressed that a six year old girl tries to cut her penis off.

Girls don't have penises

Ved · 29/03/2026 14:11

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 29/03/2026 14:10

Is this a reverse? Surely nobody could genuinely be this stupid. You are making a spectacle of yourself. Best to stop now and go and have a walk in the fresh air.

I think the OP needs a long nap too.

TheKeatingFive · 29/03/2026 14:11

JonesTown · 29/03/2026 14:07

The Green Party position is that trans women are women, and should have access to female spaces alongside non-binary people.

Until we reach a position where all facilities are multi-gender, the Greens’ position would avoid trans people being so distressed that a six year old girl tries to cut her penis off.

The Greens position is that women have to give up their boundaries and basic safeguarding so that they can give men everything they want.

No fucking thank you.

Vaxtable · 29/03/2026 14:10

JonesTown · 29/03/2026 13:55

The IOC have caved into pressure from Trump and the far-right gender critical activists.

Those who are campaigning against dignity for trans women should be asking themselves if they’re really happy to be on the same side as Trump 🙄

So have all the other organisations who have now said only those with female chromosomes can enter female sports also ‘caved into pressure’?

You are aware of the ruling last year about the legal definition of a women? So no doubt the UK Supreme Court has also ‘caved ln’

The reality is no one has caved in, they have simply made it clear that your chromosomes at birth state you are male or female. That now is carried forward into the workplace and sport

That you seem to think it acceptable that it’s ok for say a male boxer to decide they are female, take part in female boxing and kick the shit out of them ( just look at the recent Olympics) is shameful

Hobnobswantshernameback · 29/03/2026 14:10

I'm going to start a drinking gamr
everytime the op says "her penis"
take a slug of your drink of choice
reckon I'll be twatted in no time

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 29/03/2026 14:10

JonesTown · 29/03/2026 13:55

The IOC have caved into pressure from Trump and the far-right gender critical activists.

Those who are campaigning against dignity for trans women should be asking themselves if they’re really happy to be on the same side as Trump 🙄

Is this a reverse? Surely nobody could genuinely be this stupid. You are making a spectacle of yourself. Best to stop now and go and have a walk in the fresh air.

Triskellion75 · 29/03/2026 14:10

Supporting single sex spaces = Trump supporter?

Aye, very good. 😆

TheKeatingFive · 29/03/2026 14:10

Imagine not being able to use your own brain and conscience to make moral judgements?

Imagine having so little confidence that you have to base all your beliefs on what others think (either in agreement or in opposition).

Ved · 29/03/2026 14:07

Boiledbeetle · 29/03/2026 14:06

Oh no! Accusations of being on the same side as Trump. Well obviously I can't have that I must change my mind about reality just because a bloke on a different continent also thinks men can't be women.

🙄

Woo hoo, seems we're all fans of Donald Trump because he also thinks men can never be women!

Again FML! 😠

JonesTown · 29/03/2026 14:07

Ved · 29/03/2026 14:03

I know right. All these years and years - decades and decades - of women fighting to be heard, to be respected, to have the vote, to be able to have financial independence, to be able to have a job, to be recognised at work, to be thought of as a human being with rights; and it's nigh on gone to shit in less than a decade because of TRAs. Even actresses are ACTORS now. Just take away everything about women. Let's just call us all non-men like The Green party want. Hmm

FML!

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The Green Party position is that trans women are women, and should have access to female spaces alongside non-binary people.

Until we reach a position where all facilities are multi-gender, the Greens’ position would avoid trans people being so distressed that a six year old girl tries to cut her penis off.

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CornishDaughteroftheDawn · 29/03/2026 14:07

JonesTown · 29/03/2026 13:21

There was an interesting letter to The Guardian a few months ago where a women described how she regularly uses male toilets as the queues are shorter. She has done this for decades without issue.

I think we all need to be more understanding and see each other as individuals rather than simply members of a specific identity group.

The Guardian may well have unearthed a woman with no boundaries and no sense of privacy from men (and no respect for men’s privacy), it’s very convenient for their obvious agenda.

It doesn’t mean the vast majority of normal women and men want mixed sex spaces as a rule. Sex is not an ‘identity group’. I’m sure you know this.

Boiledbeetle · 29/03/2026 14:06

JonesTown · 29/03/2026 13:55

The IOC have caved into pressure from Trump and the far-right gender critical activists.

Those who are campaigning against dignity for trans women should be asking themselves if they’re really happy to be on the same side as Trump 🙄

Oh no! Accusations of being on the same side as Trump. Well obviously I can't have that I must change my mind about reality just because a bloke on a different continent also thinks men can't be women.

🙄

ElenOfTheWays · 29/03/2026 14:06

JonesTown · 29/03/2026 11:27

Zoe Williams has argued that a sensible solution to all of this would be to make the Brownies mixed gender like the Scouts.

Wouldn't this be more sensible than making six year old girls so distressed that they attempt to cut off their penis?

I think you're confused dear.
Six year old GIRLS don't have a penis.

TheBafflingIsGenerallyComplete · 29/03/2026 14:06

This poor child. There is a special circle of hell reserved for adults who are telling children they can change sex.

Vaxtable · 29/03/2026 14:04

JonesTown · 29/03/2026 13:48

They identify as women though, and should be treated as such from the perspective of sport categorisation.

Trans women happen to have been assigned male at birth. That should not prevent them participating in the sport grouping that feels most appropriate to them.

Trans women are not assigned male at birth, chromosomes they are born with dictate they are male. You do remember chromosomes, you know they dictate if you are male or female , with occasionally some mess ups for intersex? They are not randomly assigned either sex.

In this childs case it was XY chromosomes so they are male. That then leads to puberty etc which is completely different to female puberty and means an unfair disadvantage to women so no they should not be treated as women from the perspective of sport categorisation, just look at what happens when that is allowed

You really are rather naive in your thought process sometimes