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Original poster

May I invite you to join me on sending flowers to Mumsnet today?

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loveyouradvice · 08/03/2018 08:36

Mumsnet - thank you - today on International Women's Day I would like to celebrate you and thank you for enabling so many of us to explore the issues of transgender and its impact on women and girls in a safe space

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CapnHaddock · 08/03/2018 10:46

ElizaDontlittle · 08/03/2018 10:43

absolutely agreed.
I lurk and have learned so much. Thank you for protecting our rights and allowing the fabulous women here to educate and inspire many.

ScreamingLevitation · 08/03/2018 10:41

LittleLebowski · 08/03/2018 10:39

Spartacunt · 08/03/2018 10:37

YES to all the above- Bravo MN

64BooLane · 08/03/2018 10:36

TheChampagneGalop · 08/03/2018 10:35

[flowers[flowers

hopethisworks · 08/03/2018 10:34

LizzieSiddal · 08/03/2018 10:34

MNHQ and the fab people on this board have allowed me to become much more informed on all sorts of issues, but especially the Self ID debate, so thank you to all!

Amethyst975 · 08/03/2018 10:33

Sillydoggy · 08/03/2018 10:33

FlorenceLyons · 08/03/2018 10:32

SweetGrapes · 08/03/2018 10:31

thank you MN towers! Looking at the storms on Twitter , silence of Msm and the harassment that WPUK and it's venues get, you must have been under a lot of pressure.

Thank you for holding strong!

Mytholmroyd · 08/03/2018 10:30

UpstartCrow · 08/03/2018 10:29

Thank you for the last remaining public space for women

NoSquirrels · 08/03/2018 10:29

The fact that they have allowed to debate to flourish (which should never, ever be a controversial decision), truly means that they have been at the vanguard of women's rights over this.

What she said.

FencingFightingTorture35 · 08/03/2018 10:28

[Flowers]

CecilyNeville · 08/03/2018 10:27

TruScum · 08/03/2018 10:26

For giving me a safe space to run to after the insanity and abuse on my twitter feed and Facebook threatens to overwhelm me.

I am not a woman.

I am Truscum (at least until a sufficient word can be found that differentiates me from the ‘Nu-trans’ bigots)

I do not want to be a meat shied for misogynistic men to use as they attempt to continue to batter and push women down.

I am Spartacus!

OvaHere · 08/03/2018 10:24

FluteLady · 08/03/2018 10:23

Melamin · 08/03/2018 10:19

Thank you mumsnet. I did not join until my children were almost grown. I do wish I had had this when they were younger.

There is so much on here and so much to engage with and so much to learn. It has been truly mind opening and inspiring. I only joined for The Archers (after the BBC shut down the message boards) but I have found help with prolapse and menopause problems, and discovered the value of critical thinking and reasoned debate, being challenged to think for myself and to learn how to put this across. Who knew?

KOKO and fighting those naysayers who would shut it down and efeminate* it

There appears to be no single female equivalent word of emasculate to mean the following , which appears to be a whole other thread and many academic writings.

1. trans To deprive of virility, to castrate (a male person or animal)

2.transf. and fig. To deprive of strength and vigour; to weaken, make effeminate and cowardly; to enfeeble, impoverish (language)

b. esp. To take the force out of (literary compositions) by removing what is supposed to be indecorous or offensive.

Itsallastitchup · 08/03/2018 10:15

Delurking for my first post ever to say thank you. I was desperately seeking like-minded people and found them here. Thanks so much MNHQ.

Popchyk · 08/03/2018 09:59

womanhuman · 08/03/2018 09:58

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