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AIBU to think of course all the anti-trans posts on this website and others are leading to real life harm?

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helpfulucy · 14/09/2026 15:39

Just seen a video of a trans woman minding her business in a train station getting horribly bullied by some Tommy Robinson wanna-be and couldn't help but think back to all the aggressive threads I've seen on Mumsnet.

Pages and pages of vilifying innocent trans people, calling them perverts and all sorts with zero evidence of anything of the sort of course would lead to people like this harassing and attacking trans people in public. I've see a few of so-called GC brigade say 'this isn't what we wanted' but it is the end, isn't it? If you do see trans people as disgusting abusive perverts trying to sneak into your changing rooms and hurt your daughter, you'd want them to be bashed in public yeah?

Am I wrong to think their chickens are coming home to roost and certain posters will want to claim they never had a hand in it all?

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backformoreofthesame · 14/09/2026 17:25

Report just today about how having single sex spaces is much safer for women - all of the rapes , sexual assaults and voyerism reported in Scottish swimming pools came from those with “changing villages” rather than single sex spaces

yes - even with single sex spaces women are not totally safe- but they are significantly safer than in mixed sexual spaces

of course OP couldn’t care less how many more women might be harmed by mixed sexual spaces spaces - op just came on her to tell us off becuase men beat up men

Gloriia · 14/09/2026 17:25

Dadalus · 14/09/2026 17:25

OP yes this incident was definitely caused by mumsnet, and also Putin invaded Ukraine after reading an MN thread on city breaks in Kiev.

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Dadalus · 14/09/2026 17:25

OP yes this incident was definitely caused by mumsnet, and also Putin invaded Ukraine after reading an MN thread on city breaks in Kiev.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 14/09/2026 17:25

SparklingTurquoiseOcean · 14/09/2026 17:22

Educate yourself is so overused it's a cheapened cliche, same as the word Bigot. Just be honest, educate yourself simply means "you have a different opinion to me so therefore you are wrong" and Bigot now means "I don't like that I can't intimidate women into silence so I'll resort to name calling in the manner of an infant school playground. I have a young daughter and let me educate you - no man, wether in a dress or not will shame her into silence so he can trample over her views and opinions for as long as I have breath in my body.

Very well said. Your daughter is lucky to have you.

PrancingPanda · 14/09/2026 17:24

helpfulucy · 14/09/2026 17:19

Do you think harassing people based on what the clothes they wear is rational behavior? Especially if you would only apply that standard to one group and not all adults?

I don't really understand your post- I don't think I said anywhere that it's rational behaviour, I think I said the aggressor was an idiot?
You sound quite aggressive yourself!

FeedHedgehogssCatBiscuits · 14/09/2026 17:24

It’s tiring having to deal with entitled males
like you on a female forum.

Gloriia · 14/09/2026 17:24

backformoreofthesame · 14/09/2026 17:21

BUT Was is MN women doing the beating ? Or harnessing them?

stop blaming us for someone else’s actions -

I missed the bit where the abusive men said they were representing mumsnet, why has the op just made that bit up?

TheKeatingFive · 14/09/2026 17:23

backformoreofthesame · 14/09/2026 17:20

It doesn’t matter if people can or can’t tell

men are less able to tell than women apparently

it’s irrelevant

Quite.

Everyone knows what sex they are. Men need to stay out of women’s spaces and services as the law dictates.

Artesia · 14/09/2026 17:22

helpfulucy · 14/09/2026 17:19

Do you think harassing people based on what the clothes they wear is rational behavior? Especially if you would only apply that standard to one group and not all adults?

Do you think that determining people's access to protected spaces and activities based on what they wear is rational behaviour?

SparklingTurquoiseOcean · 14/09/2026 17:22

ChilliBassy · 14/09/2026 17:15

I just wonder who the Mumsnetter's will blame once they've had their precious way and women are still being attacked and SA'd by men. Perhaps then they will see it is men that are the problem, and by deflecting away from that because they dislike what they do not understand or refuse to educate themselves on; will indeed result in further harm to women.

Educate yourself is so overused it's a cheapened cliche, same as the word Bigot. Just be honest, educate yourself simply means "you have a different opinion to me so therefore you are wrong" and Bigot now means "I don't like that I can't intimidate women into silence so I'll resort to name calling in the manner of an infant school playground. I have a young daughter and let me educate you - no man, wether in a dress or not will shame her into silence so he can trample over her views and opinions for as long as I have breath in my body.

backformoreofthesame · 14/09/2026 17:21

helpfulucy · 14/09/2026 17:19

Do you think harassing people based on what the clothes they wear is rational behavior? Especially if you would only apply that standard to one group and not all adults?

BUT Was is MN women doing the beating ? Or harnessing them?

stop blaming us for someone else’s actions -

TheKeatingFive · 14/09/2026 17:21

helpfulucy · 14/09/2026 17:19

Do you think harassing people based on what the clothes they wear is rational behavior? Especially if you would only apply that standard to one group and not all adults?

So now you’re conflating MN posters with this thug. 🙄

Your misogyny is off the charts

Artesia · 14/09/2026 17:21

helpfulucy · 14/09/2026 16:23

This is exactly my point. ‘I know I said they were all disgusting, aggressive perverts but never imaged someone who thought the same would hurt a trans woman!’

how disingenuous. The same as all those people who ‘just want to keep Britain British’ now shocked at the marches of racist masked thugs.

You are misrepresenting what posters are saying and then pointing to it as evidence. Who has said "they are all disgusting aggressive perverts"?

Gloriia · 14/09/2026 17:21

helpfulucy · 14/09/2026 17:19

Do you think harassing people based on what the clothes they wear is rational behavior? Especially if you would only apply that standard to one group and not all adults?

Men were harassing a man. Can you see why we don't want men in female spaces yet, more importantly can you see how we are not responsible for their actions?

Cadeaukatze · 14/09/2026 17:21

helpfulucy · 14/09/2026 17:19

Do you think harassing people based on what the clothes they wear is rational behavior? Especially if you would only apply that standard to one group and not all adults?

Don't women routinely get harassed for the clothes they wear?

And what about the over-zealous policing of school uniforms?

backformoreofthesame · 14/09/2026 17:20

It doesn’t matter if people can or can’t tell

men are less able to tell than women apparently

it’s irrelevant

Cadeaukatze · 14/09/2026 17:20

Ponderingwindow · 14/09/2026 15:58

I agree. If people are truly gender critical, then how a person chooses to style themselves should not matter.

The vitriol on this site often makes me uncomfortable.

I think you mean if people truly stopped gender stereotyping. If only as much effort were made to reduce that. Then we wouldn't have people saying they must be a woman because they want to wear a dress.

Or school-girls saying they don't want to wear trousers to school because it's too boyish (where on earth did they get that idea from).

helpfulucy · 14/09/2026 17:19

PrancingPanda · 14/09/2026 17:18

Gosh. 'Demented' behaviour now, as well as 'rabid' 'hateful' and 'transphobic'
See where the vitriol is coming from? As usual?

Haven't seen anyone hating transpeople. Transphobia should be reported- MN are very swift with the deletion button, rightly so.

Again it seems women are responsible for everything men do (and think, probably) because some idiot abuses a trans identifying person.

Do you think harassing people based on what the clothes they wear is rational behavior? Especially if you would only apply that standard to one group and not all adults?

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backformoreofthesame · 14/09/2026 17:19

OP i will give you a suggestion.

if transgender people did not go out of their way to claim the sex based rights of others then nobody on MN would spend much time discussing them.

so we could argue the blame lays with the transgender community?

I don’t think it does btw - I think it belongs with the people doing the beating myself

Gloriia · 14/09/2026 17:19

HylianShroom · 14/09/2026 17:15

That’s simply not true. You absolutely cannot always tell, and in fact I have known some butch women who’ve been mistaken for trans men.

I'm not so sure, I know some 'butch' looking women and they still have hips and female mannerisms, small hands, usually short in height etc.

Men dressed as women though, never pass which is fine they can dress as they wish but as we keep on saying just don't use women's facilities

PrancingPanda · 14/09/2026 17:18

Gosh. 'Demented' behaviour now, as well as 'rabid' 'hateful' and 'transphobic'
See where the vitriol is coming from? As usual?

Haven't seen anyone hating transpeople. Transphobia should be reported- MN are very swift with the deletion button, rightly so.

Again it seems women are responsible for everything men do (and think, probably) because some idiot abuses a trans identifying person.

DadsMoulting · 14/09/2026 17:18

HylianShroom · 14/09/2026 17:12

But how would you know that person was a man? Plenty of biological women wear wigs, or are tall, or have big hands, or have some facial hair, or a deep voice, or aren’t pretty, or wear clothes that don’t suit them. You can’t tell by looking at a person. Transphobia means that all women get judged on what we look like and suspected of being secret males if we don’t conform to beauty standards.

By using my eyeballs. We all know what sex other people are. The odd transman convinces right up until they speak and then I use my ears.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 14/09/2026 17:17

ChilliBassy · 14/09/2026 17:15

I just wonder who the Mumsnetter's will blame once they've had their precious way and women are still being attacked and SA'd by men. Perhaps then they will see it is men that are the problem, and by deflecting away from that because they dislike what they do not understand or refuse to educate themselves on; will indeed result in further harm to women.

Yes, men are the problem, including ones who identify as women. You appear not to have grasped what it is that “Mumsnetters” (not you then?) actually think.

backformoreofthesame · 14/09/2026 17:16

helpfulucy · 14/09/2026 17:12

Can I presume you would confront a teenage girl dressed provocatively for playing out a man's fetish in public? Or how about a woman in her 40's who hasn't realized she isn't 21 anymore?

Or maybe you wouldn't because policing what other people wear is demented behavior.

The pp want not going to confront any one. I really dislike it when people try to make something different to what is said

and I suspect she would judge all people dressing inappropriately but I don’t see why we should make a list of all people we might judge just to prove that our judgement is more to do with the silly clothing that the sex of person who is wearing it

TheKeatingFive · 14/09/2026 17:16

Holding women responsible for male on male violence is pretty low OP, don’t you think?

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