Peak GC Moment?

CantUnderstandNoThing and hackmum why mention the paedophile information exchange? It has absolutely nothing to do with the discussion or transgender rights.

Riley J Dennis says sexual preferences are transphobic. Speaking over the top of them seems entirely appropriate to me. I'm really struggling to believe that an actual feminist would be more upset at Peachy in that instance than the rapey nonsense spouted by RJD.

Jezebelz. I think you need to understand how analogies work.

hackmum there are absolutely no comparisons between being transgender and being a paedophile.

JAQing to sticking up for Riley Dennis in five pages!

Colour me shocked.

Prompted by this thread, I just watched the Parker/Willoughby interview on This Morning with Eamonn and Ruth Holmes.

I think Posie handled it all very well indeed. She spoke the truth. Eamonn and Ruth had to guide the interview of course and ask pertinent questions but Posie Parker was concise, honest, to the point and very nice. She could easily have lost her composure but she didn't.

We need more people like her.

(Must admit I'd never heard of India Willoughby before but now looked her up and know what she does, also that she was in Celebrity Big Brother which I don't watch and was, apparently, horrible on there and the first to be voted off.)

People don't go from being supportive of the GC position to being against it. Anyone claiming this is a liar.

Excellent point, Hackmum.

This Posie interview has come back to me now. The one with her, Eomonn Holmes and that other female presenter, and India.

All three of them laying into Posie and siding with TWAW. At one point EH asked "Are you proud to be transphobic?".

I came away from watching feeling very uncomfortable and upset indeed but it wasn't from anything Posie had said. She was in the defensive immediately. It was horrible.

I’d like to remind people of an article from the Telegraph that has been posted here a few times (am on my phone and haven’t got the link to hand) about how in the 70s the paedophile information exchange persuaded the left that removing the age of consent was a progressive cause. The only group to protest at PIE gatherings was the National Front - an extreme right-wing, racist political party. In other words, opposing paedophilia meant siding with fascists.

Who has the courage to do the right thing, even when it means having some unsavoury bedfellows?

You're not alone OP.

I used to be GC and was very much of the opinion you are born into one sex or the other and should just make the best of it.

The things that made me peak GC were:

• The London Pride Protests
• Watching videos of WPUK meetings
• Magdalen Burns
• Hateful stickers in toilets at Pride
• Posie Parker on This Morning
• An appreciation that just because I feel a certain way it doesn't mean I should lack empathy for those who feel differently

That Peach Yogurt one you mentioned was it mocking Riley J Dennis?
If so, it needs to be done. This person is making a daily mockery pFTsjfleb eomanhood including describing themself as a lesbian and including claiming it was very hard to grow up (as a boy attracted to women) because everyone expected him to be attracted to boys...

Cruel to be kind imo.

PurpleOva I totally agree about pronouns. The constant categorisation of people by sex when their sex is totally irrelevant is part of gender.

There is really no need to post on a feminism board that you're no longer a feminist.

Complete misrepresentation of what the OP said. This is the kind of thing that (used to) make so many Mumsnetters view FWR as a hostile place to be avoided. The fact that this thread has generated so many good, interesting responses surely shows that we should be open to genuine people posting things we may disagree with, without policing them.

Keep posting, OP.

Just to say, I was tapping away at my response here at 07:09 this morning, when no one else had responded. Half term morning came in the way, and I now notice that the thread has massively moved on -sorry if my post appears incongruous with the general flow of the thread since it started.

I am a feminist.

But you think Posie should be nicer and India's got a point.

Ok then.

Good thread, and I am sorry you worry about a backlash for having a particular opinion. Nope, no peak GC for me. Being GC is, in my opinion, the natural and logical conclusion to scientific fact, the fact that humans are a sexually dimorphic species, that gender is a social construct and that sex stereotypes harm women and men, girls and boys. No surprises there.
I come from a background of being a staunch trans ally with a close trans relative of whom I feel strongly protective. I actually peak-transed initially through my involvement in intersectional feminism, and publications such as Everyday Feminism back in the day (RIP ) and the efforts of their contributors, such as Riley Dennis etc. Having experienced a growing and uncomfortable sense of cognitive dissonance for some time, I would try to fortify my ally credentials by attempting to overrule my critical faculties understand more about their extremist ideology reasoning, which led me to stumble on YouTubers such as PeachYoghurt and Magdalen Burns. I felt I was crossing some kind of line even giving their arguments my time of day, but once I womaned up and got listening, I couldn't 'unsee' the obvious. Doesn't diminish my love for my trans relative and their very lovely trans friends, or my concern for their wellbeing.
I think, in the example you give about the Posie and India interview, the problem is that Posie is set up to look a particular way as she is arguing a universal point whereas India (prompted by the presenters) is making it all personal, which of course elicits empathy and concern. This same dynamic is seen time and again, as GC feminists are made to look cold and unfeeling as they present a rational argument, and TRAs constantly reference the feelings of mainly men.
However, I have of late rolled my eyes a bit at recent posts on this board by posters I've not seen much of before, which have seemed a bit off and perhaps, as another poster suggested, posted by trolls to generate anti trans sentiment for the purpose of grabbing screen shots for social media, conspicuous by pettiness and lacking in analysis. But what do I know.