Saturday register

Delurking. I've been bumbling along reading MN for years and years. I remember the cube of poo, and SWMNBN, and used to really enjoy the philosophy/religion board when it was much more active.
I've been agog these last few months, up late into the night reading and absorbing threads and links on FWR. I am not a natural feminist, let alone a rad fem. But I have a daughter who watches a lot of YouTube and came home one day and said "I think I'm a boy". She is 15, a second child, tremendously insecure and is entirely gender non conforming, liking boys clothes, dyeing and cutting her hair and basketball.
According to the folk at the trendy counselling groups, I'm supposed to have nodded at her disclosure and asked what pronouns she preferred. I didn't. I cuddled her close and said I would always be there for her, but that she could be whoever she wanted to be, because women can be.
It would never, ever be a thing that I would be ok with her mutilating her natural female form because she is unhappy. I have bandaged her wounds when she has self harmed, I will not be party to sanctioning medical harm to her.
I have seen this disgracefully manipulative movement spring up and try to consume the normal insecurities and difficulties of young people like my child, and I have been told point blank by its proponents that I am abusive towards her because I call her my daughter.
I am checking in finally here, because it is you women here that have given me the necessary words to stand up for her, to protect her and to help her to learn to love her body just as it is, and become the woman I know she will be formidable as.
You are bent down under the weight of negative voices, but hear mine - in a sea of dramatic toothless suicide threats and stats, I genuinely think your clarion postings have saved my child from the nastiest cult I have ever seen gain the ear of the powerful.
I am delurking to post because it's clearly time for me to be counted among the women who will not be frightened away, who will take up the baton as the activists pick off the articulate warriors who have sounded the warning.
I am here, and I hope there will be many others. And I will not be moved.

Reply asking for clarification HerFemaleness. I would/will.

I'm a life down. I don't know why though. The email just says to post within the rules without actually explaining which of the rules I've broken. Most unhelpful.

On the naughty step with two lives left and 39 days to go.

3rd rule of misogyny: Women speaking for themselves are exclusionary and selfish.

7day ban from Twitter

The new policy seems to have peaked some lurkers (welcome) and have you seen the thread on AIBU [don't want to risk getting a strike for a TAAT] that has many potential new recruits

First deletion for posting actual facts. Who knew?

I'm mostly a lurker but I wanted to say thank you so much to everyone who has been fighting this attack on women's and girls' rights. and all round (and for those like me who are currently breastfeeding or pregnant...if mentioning that's still allowed on here...).

@BettyDuMonde that's brought tears to my eyes. I really hope they change their minds about the language used in their campaign. This is really madness!

I asked if something had been linked to another site...

Just in case I am banned at one point - can I get a link or message about the other forum that posters are on please? Ta.

My gender critical training wheels came off fast, it seems:

fairplayforwomen.com/cancer_research_drops_woman/

Still here (just). Still only one strike but that's due to barely posting and certainly nothing GC anymore.

Present and correct

I'm here today and have been everyday since Spartacus1.

I need to gird my loin cloth and start posting. Take some responsibility off the shoulders of those who are bearing the brunt and spread the load. Hope everyone makes it through to the next round.

Just got my first deletion

Signing in.

Still here.

I love that this has brought out a whole load of lurkers and new members!

Welcome aboard Betty

Hello.

The whole cancer research thing coinciding with an official letter about my own experience of women’s cancers yesterday has most definitely pointed out ‘Where Wally Is’.

I only signed up on Tuesday having been a lurker for a couple of weeks. I wonder if I will last a whole week?

No deletions yet but getting bolder and posting solidarity with some of the more forthright and funnier posters whenever I see an opportunity.

I'm here. No emails and my post describing Tara Wolf as a male-bodied biological male is still up.

Present - but I haven't posted much so unlikely to be deleted.

I’m here. I’ve been on holiday and missed all the action though. Just catching up.