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To those who visit the board and believe in gender identity, what is your solution?

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Doyoumind · 01/08/2019 13:21

I've been on Twitter again and seen another interesting thread but I'm not going to post it here so it can be picked apart.

Instead, although I know it's been asked before, to those of you who believe someone can be a woman without biologically being one I ask the question: What do you think should be put in place in law to provide safe spaces for trans people and women and what are you doing about it?

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sackrifice · 03/08/2019 12:42

Old gardening clothes and wellies? Walking togs and boots? Am I weekend womaning wrongly?

Evidently. It's just utter fucking nonsense isn't it?

MaeWest1890 · 03/08/2019 12:10

Doyoumind
"The thread got to 1000 posts because a chunk of it was spent picking apart what posters had said without stating a clear opinion or solution"

I hope you will see below in the reference to Trans Racial Identity issue - this is not a complicated issue to solve - If women had the physical punch of a black man - the trans gender identity would be seen as an afront to all women.

Given that women do not have the physical punch but in a Democracy - if women unite they can force the "trans women" to be recognised as a mentally ill man, who needs all the love and care as is given to a anorexic girl who believes she is too fat.

I wrote this a few days ago as a reply to @ScottishJenn in the thread that came about from @overpowering twitter thread.

By the time I came to posting it, the thread was locked, however seems a pity to waste it, I will pretend that this is the continuation of that thread. So my two pennies worth

Reply to ScottishJenn - to challenge her support for TWAW
"Now, I'm keen to know how exactly you think belittling my intelligence, my autonomy, my capacity and my looks is feminist."

I did defend all the women being criticised in Erin's twitter thread, I specifically praised their mind/intelligence and would have praised the looks as well, if the twitter character limit would have allowed.

I did not defend your autonomy because as you know very well, Emma Burnell was forced to make a Stalinist Confession and affirm the TWAW dogma publicly on twitter after her original heretical tweet.

Erin replied to my defence of women/girls by kind of agreeing with me – as far as I remember but I can not now specifically confirm that because guess what, she has been silenced as well!

How many high profile women in the Labour Party currently have expressed the opinion that trans women are men - in PUBLIC?

Facts speak for themselves.

Since the invention of clothing, all men have wanted to see women in a state of undress. Women could grant this wish but if she did not, until now, they had to risk doing some thing illegal – peeping tom etc etc

Since the Invention of Civilisation some men have wanted access to a lone woman in a private space or room for criminal purposes. Until now, they had to do something illegal to access these places.

In 2019, any man can see undressed Women and Girls and get access to a lone woman in Woman’s Public Bathroom by claiming to feel like a “woman”.

This is perfectly legal. There is no way to disprove a “feeling”!

"Trans hate crimes have gone up 81% in the past year you know, you claim to support trans rights yet I've never seen a single GC person ever post about how abhorrent and tragic that it. I have seen some celebrating it though...."

This is a very anti-feminist, even if we do not challenge the 81% figure, the sentence is disingenuous, without actual numbers and bodies.

The number of women murdered by current or ex-partner is one every three days in the UK (or one every 16 hours in the USA). How many transwomen are murdered every week by any anybody? (spoiler – one per year avg.)

Just like male homosexuals and men who want to be women, they both have the option to hide themselves in and amongst other men so they can instantly escape from their abusers.

However women have no such closet that allows them to escape their abusers.

Are you suggesting you are adding to the protection of women from their abusers by allowing male bodies in Prisons / Bathrooms etc?

Even if I was to allow myself to believe the trans propaganda that if a transwoman was not allowed into women’s prison or bathrooms this will result in his suicide, I would say if that is the case, so be it because suicide is self inflicted whereas Karen White’s victim were forced to be victims against their will – they could have been saved, their blood is on all men’s hand.

However if you are heartless enough to want to save a male bodied man’s life by risking more abuse and killing of women because him being allowed in women’s prisons / bathrooms etc, then how about saving even more men’s lives. I know a man who believes he is a great writer and has self harmed because of the lack of recognition by the cruel literary world.

Would you please get him on the Booker Prize shortlist because without this affirmation, he has told me he will commit suicide. Even if as a women, you were persuaded by my plea, I guarantee you that no men in the Labour Party or The Booker Prize Organisation will support your efforts.

For the record – Historically and currently many men have in fact self harmed and have committed suicide because the cruel literary world did not affirm their belief of being a great author. Also I am sure others know more men who would threaten suicide if there was a chance of getting on the Booker prize Shortlist. So can you please tell the men, they will be saving many more men’s lives then just my male friend this year.

But in the case of men’s pain and suicide because of their literary identity, suddenly saving men’s life does not justify the change of any rules and regulations in the mind of all these men.

Men only support TWAW dogma because MEN are not risking any thing, they are not risking more men being abused and killed (or their celebrity male friend missing out from the Booker Prize Shortlist to my unknown suicidal male friend) in this dogma. The whole Gender Identity Ideology is Misogynist.

The reason why there has been long history of male appropriation of the female sex is that women do not have the physical power to stop it, combined with women being raised to put men’s interest ahead of her own and all other women’s interest and safety.

This also explains why there is no modern movement for recognising trans racial identity ideology, any white man trying to advocate for such ideology would quickly learn what erasing means – not just “literal erasing”, they would learn, what is violence when it is not “literal violence”.

A male bodied man does not become the most oppressed class of person just because he feels he is a woman.

A women still can not stop this man from raping her bodily even if she did not identify as a woman and identified as a trans man!

Sad thing is I know, you know all this but just like most women who are not able to challenge the use of porn by the men around her, this is yet another case of Patriarchy in action.

Apartheid was able to survive into the full modern age because of the sheer weight and might of the white man’s power worldwide but even this power was not unlimited and therefore Apartheid had to fall eventually.

Just the same, there is a limit to the white woke men’s power and so the question is not, if the Gender Identity Ideology will fall but when.

But it seems the Labour Party is happy to let an extra lot of women and girls to be abused and killed in addition to the ones abused and killed in “normal” conditions just to affirm the man’s feeling that his is a woman and allowing such men additional easy access to the most venerable women in Prisons and all women and girls in bathrooms etc in this mean time.

Given that all people do not have unlimited energy and resources, can you tell me, given the actual number’s of female bodies being abused and killed everyday compared to male bodies, how many men are shouting kill the terf compared to how many men are shouting kill the misogynist in the Labour Party?

Would you like a mirror to reflect on this? or Even better, would you like a list of 10 misogynist men for you to pass over to the terf killers terf shouters male feminist, just to get them going.

ErrolTheDragon · 03/08/2019 11:09

'a man who dresses like a woman at the weekend.'

Old gardening clothes and wellies? Walking togs and boots?
Am I weekend womaning wrongly?ConfusedHmm

DickKerrLadies · 03/08/2019 10:52

does a man who dresses as a woman at the weekend need the same rights as someone who navigates the world just like other woman do, I'd say no and most people would agree. People are quick to conflate the two things as one. the trans community is not one set of people with the same needs.

Leaving aside the idea of how a woman navigates the world, this is not a revelation to us. It is not feminists who came up with the concept of the trans umbrella and Acceptance Without Exception. Trans is trans, whether that's gender dysphoria or cross-dressing.

For years women have been called transphobic bigots because we've suggested that cross-dressers are different to people suffering from gender dysphoria and that they have different needs. Because gatekeeping and who are we to say who is trans and who is not.

What do you think we've been discussing all this time?

sackrifice · 03/08/2019 10:24

All this twee talk about 'a man who dresses like a woman at the weekend.'

We do gardening and have an extra coffee at the weekend.

Datun · 03/08/2019 10:18

No man navigates the world like women do. I say no and most people would agree.

It's nonsense isn't it. David Wotisname in then telegraph positively salivating over growing breasts 'like a woman'? He's inching towards full time.

Ugh.

It would be better if TRAs were upfront about AGP. Instead of denying it.

All this twee talk about 'a man who dresses like a woman at the weekend.'

sackrifice · 03/08/2019 10:00

does a man who dresses as a woman at the weekend need the same rights as someone who navigates the world just like other woman do, I'd say no and most people would agree

No man navigates the world like women do. I say no and most people would agree.

LangCleg · 03/08/2019 09:10

No XY navigates the world as any XX does. Wishing it so does not make it so. End of.

I do not believe there is any such thing as an innate gender identity.

PurpleCrowbar · 03/08/2019 09:09

I think that tweet is identifying as someone who didn't comprehensively get their arse handed to them.

NotBadConsidering · 03/08/2019 08:58

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Bespin · 03/08/2019 07:31

nettie434

I really liked your answer around competing rights and this I beleive on the whole is correct. I'm sure we would disagree about when and where those rights outweigh each other. But that is how the equality act actually sees it now there is cover for that with positive discrimination which is actually used but people never hear about it or are told on here it's not when it is. I do think there is also a debate to who those rights cover and what the edges are for what is actually trans and who needs those rights.

does a man who dresses as a woman at the weekend need the same rights as someone who navigates the world just like other woman do, I'd say no and most people would agree. People are quick to conflate the two things as one. the trans community is not one set of people with the same needs.

DryHeave · 03/08/2019 06:38

It’s just as well then equalised the pension age. Can you imagine?!

Agrona · 03/08/2019 00:35

Alislia17 was a spam post which appeared on many threads during the Nightwatch. Something about girls...

LassOfFyvie · 03/08/2019 00:19

Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever managed to read any post made by "Alislia17"?

No, but I was wondering the same.

NotBadConsidering · 03/08/2019 00:03

I see this thread has gone the way of others: simple logical questions asked, deniers don’t return.

As it happens, I’ve found an answer to one of my own questions. Stefoknee identified as a 6 year old in 2015, and a 9 year old in 2018:

thebridgehead.ca/2018/01/29/trans-age-pedophile-defends-himself-by-claiming-that-hes-trapped-in-a-nine-year-olds-body/

So Stefoknee is getting older! Amazing. I wonder, at what age will Stefoknee go back to being a six year old? Hmm

But apparently, the age part is delusional, but the girl part isn’t....

Datun · 02/08/2019 23:52

Every single woman who reads it is having the same reaction. Instant and involuntary

ScarlettOHarasWaist · 02/08/2019 23:39

Yep, Datun, I saw that earlier today on FB, he really likes his small rounded breasts. He's one sick fucker.
Deletion is probably possible here. I'll stand by my comment though

Datun · 02/08/2019 23:29

Sorry, I meant to say this isn't in Vice, it's in the bloody Daily Telegraph.

Datun · 02/08/2019 23:28

Well quite, Scarlett here is a 60 year old grandfather drooling over hormonally grown breast tissue and comparing it to the growing breasts of a prepubescent girl.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3654679-Telegraph-column-not-even-attempting-to-hide-AGP

ScarlettOHarasWaist · 02/08/2019 23:13

Very interesting thread for the lurkers. It's absolutely clear which posters are being so disingenuous, twisting and cherry picking answers, plain as daylight. It's so clear.
StevieSW.
I did read your massive walls of text and on a personal note I'm sorry that you've experienced such pain and I hope that you've reached a better understanding of your situation.
One thing that stood out for me is that you have absolutely NO understanding about the casual sexism that women face every fucking day of their lives.
Men never "get it" they're the ones that display covert and overt sexism to Women. Men will never understand ever. If a man feels like a woman in later life, he's lived with that ingrained sexism all his life. So a late transitioning Male basically doesn't have a fucking clue about living a life as a woman. Whatever that means and it seems to mean some essence of girly womanhood.
Why don't those late transitioning males chose to be age equivalent peri/menopausal women?
Just think about that.

Doyoumind · 02/08/2019 15:18

A more important question is whether some old, saggy cloth can really be called a cat.

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popehilarious · 02/08/2019 15:04

I'm currently watching an episode of Bagpuss where he wonders if he will think Scottish thoughts if he is wearing a Scottish hat. That's one question too far for me, I'll take it to TRA Twitter.

popehilarious · 02/08/2019 15:02

N.B. I sometimes suffer from delusions but it's offensive for anyone to point this out to me.

popehilarious · 02/08/2019 14:59

The law requires a definition.

If you're going to change the definition of "woman" in law, you must provide the new definition.

Is the new definition to be: adult human female and males who state they are an adult human female? Or is to be something else?

I'm not the one obfuscating here. I'm also not the one who wants the law changed. You do. So state the new definition.

I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised by the way Roses, Petrol et al have so articulately and robustly answered this question, which was kind of the point of the whole thread. I was expecting a lot of strawmanning and spluttering without actually giving a full explanation of their POV.

Doyoumind · 02/08/2019 10:06

nettie I think the majority of people on here would agree with you. The issue at the moment is that between the competing rights, trans rights are taking precedence over women's rights and the push is to drive that even further.

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