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Good to see Mail exposing Transgender Trend dishonesty

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ArmchairAnnie · 22/09/2018 12:53

We never wanted our stickers to be used in schools says group which recommended plastering them all over your pencil case.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6193573/Parents-group-apologises-anti-transgender-stickers.html

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Barracker · 22/09/2018 16:21

Sorry, typo, that was for ArmchairAnnie

placemats · 22/09/2018 16:21

I remember coming back from a night out in the local pub to work and REEKING of cigarette smoke, despite the long walk back from the tube station.

Ah, the good old days!

Barracker · 22/09/2018 16:20

God yes I know, armchairdannie.

Because for a moment there we got distracted by male rapists in female prisons,
and 4000% increases in girls hating their bodies, and horrific mutilations caused by phalloplasties, and bomb threats made against women meeting to discuss the law, when obviously the REAL issue is stickers about biology.

PHEW
Thanks for reprioritising us!

#ButHerStickers

HandsOffMyRights · 22/09/2018 16:16

This is Mermaid's and Mesmac's joint response to the TGTrend reource pack. I love the way it wields the EA. Forgetting that sex is a protected characteristic.

It ends with 'The Equality and Human Rights Commission is expected to release its guidance for schools in autumn 2018 and will be a source schools can rely on.'

www.mesmac.co.uk/news/joint-statement-in-response-to-the-transgender-trend

Petramum · 22/09/2018 16:07

I used to smoke different coloured cigarettes thinking it so very sophisticated

I still smoke Sobrani Cocktails, as my view its my life I will do as aI want,

womanformallyknownaswoman · 22/09/2018 16:02

I used to very occasionally smoke Cafe Cremes.

:)
I used to smoke different coloured cigarettes thinking it so very sophisticated ......and then I grew up and stopped smoking ....

Imagine if I forced everyone to do the same as me and also to sit in a smoke-filled room despite the ill effects - just to make me feel comfortable - right....

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MsMcWoodle · 22/09/2018 15:52

And here's Mermaids again asking people harass a public figure's agent to shut them up:

Good to see Mail exposing Transgender Trend dishonesty
Beesandfrogsandfleas · 22/09/2018 15:50

What makes them “child friendly” - because they are easy to understand? I assume they don’t have a picture of Mr Tumble on them.
The essence of a slogan is that it should be easy to understand.

MsMcWoodle · 22/09/2018 15:49

Here's Mermaids encouraging the mass reporting of Women's Place to get their facebook page shut down:

Good to see Mail exposing Transgender Trend dishonesty
HandsOffMyRights · 22/09/2018 15:49

I didn't get a cogar today, but the phrase is 'close, but no cigar'....

Was I close OP? Maybe it was Susie herself!

MsMcWoodle · 22/09/2018 15:47

I think it's time to revisit these screen shots: Here's Mermaids encouraging the hacking of a private individual:

Good to see Mail exposing Transgender Trend dishonesty
VickyEadie · 22/09/2018 15:46

Really, the OP came back on the thread to post that ?

Goady fuckery at its finest, I'd say.

placemats · 22/09/2018 15:46

I used to very occasionally smoke Cafe Cremes. Way back in the day, I might add.

VickyEadie · 22/09/2018 15:45

otherwise children's lives could be damaged

Oh, the fucking IRONY !

Beesandfrogsandfleas · 22/09/2018 15:42

Really, the OP came back on the thread to post that ?

placemats · 22/09/2018 15:41

twitter.com/lilylilymaynard/status/882001269086453760?lang=en

Mermaids Marketing Officer Helen @mimmymum advocates hacking my internet connection and calls me a btch, & her mate reports me for 'hatred'*

Hacking one's internet connection: good.
Freedom of sticker choice at age 16: bad.

Hacking internet connections: illegal
Putting a sticker that states a biological fact on a pencil case or notebook: not illegal

R0wantrees · 22/09/2018 15:40

THere are some powerful twitter quotes in the article;

"Christine Hart commented: 'Transgender Trend say of course they never wanted these brightly coloured stickers with simple child-friendly messages to end up in schools as they are forced to withdraw them and issue a grovelling apology.'

Transfigurations added: 'Transgender Trend issue a statement and apology over their stickers furore after they came under sustained criticism - I just hope that people saw through the hate and didn't bother to download them - otherwise children's lives could be damaged.'"

both very active TRA Twitter accounts

HandsOffMyRights · 22/09/2018 15:39

**Is that you Helen? (Waves)

No cigar for you today (waves back)**

I have partaken in the odd cigar. Can I identify as a man. Oh goody I'll get a promotion, more pay and a free pass to do anything!

Annie - so what packs are used in your children's schools again?

womanformallyknownaswoman · 22/09/2018 15:38

AIBU to be suspicious of a 3 day old account who posts goady statements re transphobia?

I used to draw penises and balls in my teens all over my school books - a good stiffy still looks good to me on the right guy but I never confused them with a different human sex or clownfish or eels. AIBU?

Bowlofbabelfish · 22/09/2018 15:36

annie

How do you reconcile the safeguarding loopholes outlined above with your wish to see mermaids/gires type information in schools?

deepwatersolo · 22/09/2018 15:33

Deciding to get oneself sterilized at age 10: good.
Freedom of sticker choice at age 16: bad.

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ArmchairAnnie · 22/09/2018 15:29

Is that you Helen? (Waves)

No cigar for you today (waves back)

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AspieAndProud · 22/09/2018 15:28

I had all kinds of political stickers over my books in the Eighties. It was the era of CND, Greenham Common, the fight against racism and homophobia (showing my age a bit here). The protection of children SHOULD be something children are concerned about.