Can we talk about the mental impact of being told the definition of woman is changing?

Actually thinking about it I am going to change my username to something less - fighty!

I feel beaten into submission

I enjoyed connecting with others on Twitter. I am sad that I had to close my account. I can limit myself to viewing the odd tweet. The algorithms and gaslighting on Twitter are the problem.

I must admit I have reduced my time on MN ( I used to find this my safe space but I don't know) and I have locked down my Twitter account - I try not to look at it every day. I have stopped all the notifications too.

I have severe anxiety and get stressed about what I read on here - it feels so personal and I start to think what it's going to be like in a few years time and how I, a menopausal woman, will be treated in the future, which all links into the Handmaids Tale. I can't watch that at the moment either as it is becoming all too prophetic for me.

Sorry - I sound so bloody flaky
My lovely DH says he is seeing me decline and wants me to stop all MN and twitter etc ..... I think he might be right.

I struggle with this after some years as part of religious fundamentalism and the rigid gender roles that I was slotted into and the repercussions of that mentally and physically.
It has taken me a long time to come to terms with the fact that I am a woman by virtue of my physical body, not the dresses I wear, or the length of my hair or the headcoverings I wear, the enforced maternity, the shutting down of my ability to earn etc. etc.
To see this regressive lauding of genderism as the be all and end all that is being pushed over and above women's basic rights to freedom, safety, privacy etc is most definitely hurting my mental health, like seeing a long beaten enemy rise and find so many of your friends on their side.

I understand the complaint TRAs make about deadnaming being an unpleasant reminder of the things they want to forget. This is definitely how I feel when I am told that a woman is actually just someone who presents in a 'feminine' way, which seems no different to the years I spent with men telling me there was only one way to be a 'true' woman - dresses, long hair, housework, submission, dollies, etc.

Has anyone felt their mental health has been impacted by the “erasure” of woman.

I can no longer go on Twitter. I had a psychotic episode, for the first time in my life as a direct result of the gaslighting by trans activists on Twitter.

I am now homebound and fear one of the gaslighting TRAs from Twitter in female spaces, a male NHS smear tester presenting as a woman, a physical assault as happened at speakers corner or a bomb going off at a meeting of women.

I was fragile as I am an EA survivor of of gaslighting partner.