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Won’t somebody think of the poor, scared trans women?

36 replies

AngeloMysterioso · 07/06/2019 11:51

A mediocre journalist who “still lives as a man, but has begun the male-to-female gender transition that will eventually result in becoming a woman” currently has his own column in The Telegraph. Can’t imagine how he got given that gig Hmm.

And this week’s bullshit contribution: Why using the women’s toilets is far scarier for trans women than it is for us.

From the article-

However frightened women may be by our presence, we are way, way more petrified by having to be there.

My first thought being, well they don’t have to be there, do they? They’re bloody well choosing to!

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OldCrone · 07/06/2019 13:32

The Telegraph readers don't seem very impressed with this person. (You can read the comments without being a subscriber.)

Moneybegreen · 07/06/2019 13:16

Frightened of what?

How many men/people with penises get raped in the ladies toilets/safe spaces?

Penis = mens toilets.

tobee · 07/06/2019 12:58

Sorry X posted with above.

tobee · 07/06/2019 12:57

Frightened of what though? It'll be being laughed at.

We know what women are frightened of .

Disclaimer: not read the full article as not subscriber

OvaHere · 07/06/2019 12:54

Zero empathy. If he really thought like a woman or had a woman's brain or whatever else he's convinced is going on in his head he'd realise how far from the truth this is.

When he talks about scary from his perspective what he means is a fear of being challenged or ridiculed. To his mind this is the worst possible outcome for him in female spaces.

The women in those spaces fear violence, sexual assault or murder when they encounter a lurking male stranger.

It's the old adage played out - men are afraid women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will kill them.

eurochick · 07/06/2019 12:47

No dude. Given the huge percentage of women that have experienced unwanted sexual contact or assault, we are legitimately far more scared by finding a man in what should be a safe space for us.

Ali1cedowntherabbithole · 07/06/2019 12:24

So about the spider thing. In the UK spiders are harmless and very much smaller than children. It is Ok to reassure children that they won't be harmed and to use the phrase "they are more frightened than you" for perspective.

The majority of TW however, are not smaller than women, and we don't know if they are harmless or not.

So no, I won't be telling my Daughters that it's OK, "the TW is far more scared of you than you are of them".

Birdsfoottrefoil · 07/06/2019 12:19

‘Our presence’? So he is using women’s toilets even though living as a man?

AlwaysTawnyOwl · 07/06/2019 12:18

This man is a mystery to me. He has lived his whole life as a man marrying and having children. He will never be mistaken for a woman in a million years no matter how much surgery he has or hormones he takes. Despite thinking he has a female personality (????) he seems to have managed perfectly well for six decades as a man. This is a male delusion of what being a woman is.

BretonDinosaur · 07/06/2019 12:10

God the Telegraph are really trying to alienate their readership aren’t they. FFS him talking about the assault of the child in Kirkcaldy as if it’s an acceptable casualty in order for men to act out their fetishes in public is disgusting. I can’t imagine the retired colonels of the Home Counties will be particularly pleased about their grandchildren being put at risk by these men.

VickyEadie · 07/06/2019 12:00

This is the bit I really cannot get my head around with this bloke:

“still lives as a man, but has begun the male-to-female gender transition that will eventually result in becoming a woman”

What does that even mean? "Still lives as a man" - is he talking about clothes, hair, interests - none of which (as we all know only too well) are what makes a person a woman.

Does it mean he's started taking hormones, but as (in his words) he's still wearing what h perceives as men's clothes, etc, that means he's still "living as a man"?

I know I'm asking nothing at all new, but this bloke really does show the gender nonsense for what it is.