Protesting deletions on the thread about trans sex offender

MN needs to take a long walk off a short pier sometimes.

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I use "they" as a singular pronoun on a regular basis because always using "he" or "she" to mean both or writing "he or she" or "s/he" is tedious (and in the case of only using he or she is mean both, is wrong).

I am a grammar pedant, but I don't see the issue with using "they" in his content, and it can of course include transpeople too.

The whole trans debate is so BORING now.

Why bother opening it then?

Completely agree - I had a whole thread about a semi-well known blogger deleted for being transphobic and mean as it was pointed out that nobody really gives two hoots how you "identify" and that you need a penis to be a man.

The whole trans debate is so BORING now.

It gets difficult to write, but I go with:
"Hermione weasley was out for a walk when Hermione Weasley saw a cat. The cat ran away from Hermione Weasly and Hermione Weasley chased it, but Hermione Weasley was not fast enough to catch it and it got away from Hermione Weasley."

This is not cool, HQ. You have always allowed discussion of these issues in the past - and very few of the posts deleted on that thread would have been considered a breach of guidelines in the past.

The debate is lost, then. If women on MN cannot have the freedom to discuss this topic, because HQ call such discussion "transphobic" - then we've lost.

Down the rabbit hole we go.

They is now an accepted gender neutral pronoun for individuals dontcha know

Along with "ze"

They is a plural pronoun. How can that be used to apply to a single person?

Ah, I had similar when I misgendered someone, but HQ agreed used of "they" was acceptable because I said I couldn't deal with th lying involved in saying "she" or "her penis" in the context of someone committing sexual assault.

No way - Posie has been banned for saying "they"?

Can HQ clarify?

While we're sending threads off to their own topics, can I suggest a whole topic for "am I pregnant, I feel a bit sick/is this a line"?

Need, I'm a friend of posies - I've seen the email. It certainly appears to be based on one post, but I do imagine it's context of her being a prominent feminist poster who has probably said something "wrong" before.

I'm fairly bored of wedding threads, which are generally all repetitions of previous ones. Grabby poems, child free or not, pushy bride/bridesmaids/parents/auntie mabel. And there actually is a wedding topic I think.

Luckily I don't read them if I don't want to. Which helps somewhat.

I really enjoy the mixture of lighthearted stuff and serious stuff on MN. I've learnt so much from MN posters on all sorts of topics.

That I may soon have to share spaces with biological males erodes my rights as a female and it will not stand.

This is why these threads will keep appearing.

A vocal minority in the trans community M-F are hell bent on eroding the rights of women. I will not use the term cis, it's offensive. We older feminists can remember how it used to be before women had something approaching equal rights. That battle has yet to be won but now we have born men encroaching on our hard fought for rights.

They are demanding the right to live in women's refuges, attend after rape therapy group sessions, represent women on committees. They are closing down discussion on the menopause, FGM etc, etc because that is non-inclusive.

It is not transphobic to discuss the menopause, even if that does exclude born men. Fuck off.

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I don't think there should be a trans section. As boring as it is to some, the very real possibility that the near future brings identity overtaking biological sex in importance is horrifying and should be open to all. I have no gender identity, I reject gender as a concept, but I am female. That I may soon have to share spaces with biological males erodes my rights as a female and it will not stand.

www.nationalreview.com/article/430207/alberta-government-schools-dont-use-words-mother-and-father

I look forward to the rebrand as nongenderedandinclusivecaregivers.com

Realistically, I don't see what a trans section would achieve. Posters would still post in News, AIBU and Chat. The same way as you can find posts about education, relationships and parenting all over the site, there would still be trans' posts all over the site. It's how MN is.