Lily Madigan has published an article.

Tell them you identify as being 25 and need your estrogen boosted to the appropriate levels to validate your age identity.

Why can't we do this? But the other way, which would actually cause a problem for the powers that be.

Why can't I identify as a pensioner? As a pensioner trapped in the body of a middle aged woman. I have friends who are pensioners. I even like going to the opera! I must therefore have been coercively assigned an age at birth. My biological age is no reflector of the real me. If I identify as an old woman, then I am an old woman.

....oh - and can I have my pension paid monthly please? And a bus pass for free travel? And a free TV licence. Lovely jubbly.

LM has noted on Twitter that people are questioning who the author of the article really is and claiming that LM has a unique writing style.... Right....

Maryz - wouldn't it be rather unethical to keep some people on drugs that we know cause long term harm, in order to find out just how harmful they are? Perhaps those rumblings about Big Pharma driving the trans agenda have a point... (though they would surely push against self-ID, as "I am a woman because I fell like a woman" requires no medical intervention at all....)

@Maryz I wonder this too - particularly when a friend of mine posted something on FaceAche about feeling down *& low & no energy, and someone else posted "Menopause?" As my friend is a post-op transsexual, that is highly unlikely.

I snorted grimly and ignored ignored ignored but with affection - I really didn't want hurt my friend's feelings

I think she has an underlying depressive condition, unaffected by transition - or rather not improved by transition - but menopause??? BUt I'd guess that transwomen stay on synthetic female hormones for the rest of their lives.

PS as someone else said in here a while ago, transwomen don't take HRT - there's no element of replacement

Irrelevant question: what happens to male people on HRT when they reach the age the rest of us women enter menopause? Do they carry on with their hormones to the day they die? And if not, what happens? Do they go back to being older men (baldness, hairiness everywhere else, middle aged paunch etc etc). Have any studies been done on older people with long histories of hormone treatment and the dangers (if any) that brings?

They insisted I could not continue on HRT as I'd been on it for 5 years and to continue with it would be damaging. If I tell them I am now a man do you think I'll get some ?

So HRT for actual women is too dangerous long term, but for trans people its fine to be on it from like 18 years old to the day they die? really? That makes no sense. On top of that, surely its more dangerous to give cross sex hormones than it is to top up estrogen levels in a female person?! None of the current medical treatments make sense to me. If it is actually true that over 5 years on HRT is damaging for a female person, why is this being thrown out of the window for male people on 'HRT' (I hate when its referred to as that for men. Its not replacing anything...) or female people on testosterone?!

They insisted I could not continue on HRT as I'd been on it for 5 years and to continue with it would be damaging. If I tell them I am now a man do you think I'll get some ?

Yes, I have had the same argument with my doctor. Even though I have two severe incurable autoimmune conditions- the effects of which are worsened during menopause.

If it's so bloody dangerous- how can children start hormones at 10 and continue for life?

Nyaff is a brilliant and utterly appropriate word

Is there not a legal case there? If you were a transwoman you'd get HRT forever... Tsk, all women should be treated the same!

Sorry if it was the same Health Authority who give HRT to transwomen. It's SEX discrimination? You're being discriminated against on the basis of your sex.

If I was a billionaire, I would do nothing but take everyone to court over this!

And I'm the least litigious person there is.

Smurf Is there not a legal case there? If you were a transwoman you'd get HRT forever... Tsk, all women should be treated the same!

I think many of them are having a good long laugh at our expense

Yes, that's pretty clear.

This whole process has had the effect of making implicit misogyny explicit enough that we can see much more clearly what we're up against

I'm learning lots of new things here

I too had a longing for a Bacon Tomato and Lettuce sandwich in the early hours whilst looking at the local cheaper housing on Rightmove being sold off for Buy to Lets.

Nyaff is new one to me and a great word when I looked it up.
Nyaff and the Rashes...... definitely a one hit Punk Band.

I'm sick of the wee nyaff too.

Well if Linda B. feels that it is time to resurface, then that's a green light to go for me. Mostly, got my head around all this shite now. Thanks for being here all.

Tell them you identify as being 25 and need your estrogen boosted to the appropriate levels to validate your age identity.

but no permission from the wife is needed for a man to get a vasectomy).

Not sure this is true. Our GP wanted both DH and me at the appointment when he was referred for a vasectomy to make sure we were both on board with it, but perhaps that’s because we’re married.

Well I think I should go to my doctors. They insisted I could not continue on HRT as I'd been on it for 5 years and to continue with it would be damaging. If I tell them I am now a man do you think I'll get some ?
Madigan rash - brilliant

I’m very cross today.

Are they just mocking us?

I think many of them are having a good long laugh at our expense.

I’ve had enough, I really have.

I WILL NOT BE PUSHED ASIDE BY MEN. I WILL NOT BE A SECOND CLASS CITIZEN BECAUSE I WAS BORN FEMALE.

I pushed so hard in the 80s against sexism. I thought I could take my foot off the pedal. But it’s the same bloody fight but an adapted foe - still men but men in lipstick. Are they just mocking us?

I am furious.

A bit of strategic poking on Twitter could probably make that happen sooner rather than later, if anyone is so inclined.

I think he'll do or say something that they won't be able to handwave away.

Perhaps Lily will vanish into thin air like Tinkerbell if he doesn't hear that people believe in him 50 times an hour.

Madigan is a wee nyaff. Fed up hearing about all this

I have a working theory that if Lily is no longer getting any attention then Lily will be dropped.

I think if Lily is no longer getting any attention then Lily will escalate.

Henceforth to be known as Madigan's Rash. An irritating and unpleasant reaction similar to urticaria.

Many papers will only allow you to rent space in their comments section if you agree to the list of bylaws, which include believing that gender is real, sex isn't, and radical feminists are witches.