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What if we fail?

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Terfulike · 03/06/2018 15:40

I find myself worrying about where we will be 2, 5, 10, 20 years from now if we fail to stop the tide that, just now, with the GRA reforms, threatens to redefine the meaning of the word woman, erase lesbians and damage a generation of children.

I'm not saying we should give up: anything but. In fact, I think it might be an important motivating factor to consider what else might happen if our MPs continue to enshrine lies into laws.

What will come next?

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ToeToToe · 03/06/2018 23:27

There will officially be 0.6% more women in the world

I suppose there will be. At some point. Due to general population growth.

It won't be because men can change into women, because humans can't change sex.

NotTerfNorCis · 03/06/2018 23:16

I've seen all-out attacks on feminists from two directions recently. One is from the 'manosphere', MRAs, MGTOWs, incels, PUAs etc. The other is from transactivism. Although the manospherians certainly hated feminists, it was unusual to see anything like the level of violent rhetoric being directed at 'terfs'.

Waddlelikeapenguin · 03/06/2018 23:14

Honestly? I think the next thing would be trans age activists telling us we're all so bigoted because we dont want our children at nursery with trans age men.
Then the back lash.

But we will win because we have to will no one think of the children & the rest of the country is starting to wake up & mostly look like Confused

Pythagonal · 03/06/2018 23:10

I have the niggling suspicion that if the changes to the GRA go through, then the NHS will stop funding treatment. Theresa May has already stated that being trans isn't an illness. ( www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-transgender-not-illness-gender-recognition-act-lgbt-rights-sex-edution-homophobia-pink-a8008486.html )

If you can change sex legally, why do you need SRS, or hormones or any other kind of medical treatment?

spontaneousgiventime · 03/06/2018 23:05

I do strongly get the feeling that rowing back on women's rights is in part, the major part of this. You only have to see the horrible rise in out and out misogyny to understand that.

DickTERFin · 03/06/2018 23:02

The identity bollocks will fall away eventually because it's a smokescreen and those who are pushing the agenda don't really give a shiny shit about people who are struggling with body dysmorphia and mental health issues.

The roll-back's on female rights will remain though as will the changes regarding children and parental consent over what happens to their bodies and general safeguarding - If I had to place money on what this agenda is really about, it would be this.

AskAuntLydia · 03/06/2018 22:59

Well we know that.

But the rest of the world won't.

Picassospaintbrush · 03/06/2018 22:57

And everyone will ignore us because we're irrelevant old crones.

We are not.

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Picassospaintbrush · 03/06/2018 22:50

Do I need to spell it out?

I suppose I do.

Only one pair of breasts and one penis needed, plus an acquiescent body to step out with.

Picassospaintbrush · 03/06/2018 22:47

That's a damn good question. Why are middle aged men transitioning but staying intact, yet they want youngsters under the knife.

Creating a subservient pipeline.

Picassospaintbrush · 03/06/2018 22:45

Eventually there will be a backlash. A massive backlash. I hope it'll come from feminists, but it might not.

This is the backlash. You are living it.

spontaneousgiventime · 03/06/2018 22:43

2rebecca That's a damn good question. Why are middle aged men transitioning but staying intact, yet they want youngsters under the knife.

LangCleg · 03/06/2018 22:42

Its my belief that there will be a right wing/authoritarian backlash, and that feminists will be caught up in it as they hate us as well as gender non conforming people.

Also mine.

2rebecca · 03/06/2018 22:40

Agree it seems bizarre that so many middle aged men who want to be "lesbians" keep their lady penis and get upset at the idea their dysmorphia should encompass the most masculine part of them but are keen to encourage teenagers to take hormones and become sterile so they can look more like the other sex whilst having reduced sexual functioning.
People turning in to Ken and Barbie with plastic non-functioning genitals.

spontaneousgiventime · 03/06/2018 22:33

You can bet your boots, when something like the trans cult appear there is something behind it that is not benign. Money is a powerful incentive to forget about people. Maybe not in my lifetime but sometime in the future the truth will out. A lot of this is for us, fighting in the dark with one arm tied behind our back.

Terfulike · 03/06/2018 22:27

Not terf
The worry with surgeries is that certain groups are being encouraged eg rapid onset teen girls, whilst other groups - notably middle aged men - are avoiding it.

Those same middle aged men probably have shares in the companies doing surgery on the teen girls and genuine transexuals. There are several sources I've seen who know the details re. the fortunes to be made from the trans revolution, but the pattern seems to be that some groups within the trans umbrella are being prepared for commercial exploitation by others under the trans umbrella.

Particularly worrying is the company heavily invested in 3D printed organs. The opportunities are vast and I worry that's where we are headed.

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SarahCarer · 03/06/2018 22:24

Upstart you may have something there

NotTerfNorCis · 03/06/2018 22:23

We've already seen the rise of the 'alt right'. The left should start fighting poverty and inequality rather than miring itself in all this identity bollocks.

Gileswithachainsaw · 03/06/2018 22:21

I agree everything will appear not to have changed as words have lost their meaning and there will be no way to know who's talking about what.

But then we will have years of law suits And a bunch of sterile adults suffering from god knows what issues through these drugs.

Hopefully people will learn from our mistakes and it won't happen again

UpstartCrow · 03/06/2018 22:19

Its my belief that there will be a right wing/authoritarian backlash, and that feminists will be caught up in it as they hate us as well as gender non conforming people.

SarahCarer · 03/06/2018 22:17

I agree terfulike. My comment was about the 0.6% stat alone really.

Terfulike · 03/06/2018 22:15

Well said spontaneous

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NotTerfNorCis · 03/06/2018 22:13

Worst case scenario: 'gender fluidity' becomes normal. Men temporarily 'change gender' to access women's sports, prisons, refuges etc. Women also do it to get more social respect, but they find certain avenues closed to them, like primogeniture. Anyone who doesn't want to be seen as gender fluid has to exaggerate their femininity or masculinity. The options for people who identify as women get narrower and narrower, at least the 'cis' ones. There's no such thing as a young girl who likes football and isn't into pretty dresses - she's a 'non-binary child' now. Maybe she'll go on to have surgery, or maybe wanting surgery will be frowned on as 'truscum'.

Eventually there will be a backlash. A massive backlash. I hope it'll come from feminists, but it might not.

Terfulike · 03/06/2018 22:12

Sarah that's a major issue as stated in op.
Transgender trend is being targeted and it's so important to help them fight thear corner. Schools and teachers are a big part of kids lives and this has coincided with their publications into schools efforts.

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