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This is why mumsnet is considered transphobic

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gingerginger2 · 16/07/2019 08:20

Syntax

jayhulme.com/blog/warinwords

OP posts:
HandsOffMyRights · 16/07/2019 15:13

Oh and watch yourselves MN transphobes as Jay has the backing of a big, strong man.

This is why mumsnet is considered transphobic
Boom25 · 16/07/2019 15:12

I dont find MN transphobic and neither does anyone I know. Just because a few mouthy activists say it is , doesn't mean it actually is.

HandsOffMyRights · 16/07/2019 15:10

Jay has previously offered to 'educate' Jacqueline Wilson for her wrongspeak. As well as this delightful message.

This is why mumsnet is considered transphobic
Ereshkigal · 16/07/2019 15:02

This is mainly what I remember of Jay Hulme, Trans Poet:

mobile.twitter.com/jayhulmepoet/status/986564570926997504

LangCleg · 16/07/2019 14:25

I just don't really find writing based around endless solipsism particularly compelling really.

Gingerkittykat · 16/07/2019 14:22

The young woman detransitioning has showed a lot of courage, and recognised that trans ideology is a cult and she had to play mental gymnastics to justify herself.

I'm so glad she has seen she needs to accept her body the way it is.

She's seems so lacking in confidence, I just want to mother her.

My own DD was one of the young people she describes born between 1995 and 2000, luckily she just identified as non binary so no talk of physical transitioning. Of the group of 3 of them in her college class who identified as trans/ non binary 2 now accept they are their birth sex.

JackyHolyoake · 16/07/2019 14:11

This entire debate rests upon the definition of the word woman. And Jay can't define it.

Yet, UK law defines it easily:

woman = a female of any age
man = a male of any age.

So Jay should have no further difficulty here.

HerFemaleness · 16/07/2019 14:10

It feels like I've walked in to a Monty Python sketch.

"THE WOMEN WERE USING REASONABLE ARGUMENTS AND INNOCENT SOUNDING LANGUAGE!! THIS IS PROOF OF THEIR GUILT OF HERESY MOST FOUL"

Datun · 16/07/2019 13:51

Wow this is ace. About how people hide transphobia and anti-trans sentiment in innocent sounding language by @JayHulmePoet**

It's not innocent sounding language. It's just language. Words. Definitions. Meanings.

If you can't define any of the words you're going to use, you can't define your terms. If you can't define your terms what the hell are you debating for?

This entire debate rests upon the definition of the word woman. And Jay can't define it.

JackyHolyoake · 16/07/2019 13:48

Birth gender? What, did the baby come out draped in a rainbow flag singing Liza Minnelli showstoppers?

Cracking up here!

[PS: when they say "birth gender" they mean natural sex.]

justasking111 · 16/07/2019 13:47

When they have their genitalia removed and a vagina created as my neighbour did, then excuse me if I prefer them not to be in my loo, changing room, kids school. Why do they need their tackle anymore anyway if they are in truth women.

littlbrowndog · 16/07/2019 13:40

We can never do enough to appease. Never

Until we just agree to being erased

Then we could just become carriers

NotTerfNorCis · 16/07/2019 13:34

I see a comment from a fellow TRA:

Wow this is ace. About how people hide transphobia and anti-trans sentiment in innocent sounding language by @JayHulmePoet

That's very 1984 meets Puritan witch hunt. 'Your words seem innocent, but we know they have secret, evil meanings!'

OldCrone · 16/07/2019 13:28

The 'confused child' comment was a bit patronising, but I do think that most teenage girls who think they're boys are confused. This is a video by a young woman who has detransitioned. She spent the last 5 or 6 years thinking she was trans, because she's 'not very good at being a woman'.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3639214-i-m-not-very-good-at-being-a-woman

Goosefoot · 16/07/2019 13:28

I think a lot of his argument rests on the assertion that certain things, like saying people should use the toilets of their birth sex, are "undeniably transphobic".

If that is your starting point, your anchor, then of course the language around it must mean something less clear than it seems.

sackrifice · 16/07/2019 13:28

Spends alot of time in schools with kids it would seem.

Weird huh?

AlwaysTawnyOwl · 16/07/2019 13:24

OK Jay - describe ‘female gender identity’ in a non-circular definition.

NeurotrashWarrior · 16/07/2019 13:24

Not sure how mmmmmmy thinks mn are "loosing it." over this.

She loves to gaslight doesn't she.

I was more bothered about loosing my shopping list this morning (true story.)

AlwaysTawnyOwl · 16/07/2019 13:23

Transphobic seems to mean believing in objective reality over fantasy. Sign me up. Proud to be transphobic.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 16/07/2019 13:19

Birth gender? What, did the baby come out draped in a rainbow flag singing Liza Minnelli showstoppers?

popehilarious · 16/07/2019 13:18

(The blog says "birth gender")

popehilarious · 16/07/2019 13:17

Isn't it transphobic to refer to a trans person's "birth gender"? I thought they were their true gender from birth, it just gets "assigned" incorrectly?

justasking111 · 16/07/2019 13:04

OP because we see through the bullshit. Pie anyone?

JessicaWakefieldSV · 16/07/2019 13:02

Does mommymimmymamaloo tweet about threads like this:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3639261-It-never-happens-Ever

Probably not huh?

JessicaWakefieldSV · 16/07/2019 12:59

It’s funny that Jay thinks we’re ‘really really mad’. Nope, you’re being laughed at here. We do get mad though, as human beings women can and do get angry about misogynists like Jay. We are allowed. Unlike males, we don’t threaten to physically hurt others or go ahead and actually hurt them either. It is always interesting to me when people who think they’re writers, write with the intention to make people angry. It’s quite revealing.

I do think we are giving these bad writers too much attention though. And whatshername... minnimamamooma I still crack up about her appearance in court Grin