Casualty- anyone watching?

I caught up with this last night.

For a program on the BBC, it was almost 'balanced'. Well I say balanced, because it was obviously a storyline to complement that about Marty coming out to his parents, but you know, it's the BBC.

I did laugh out loud at the line "Because I am entitled" because I've spent so much time on AIBU that the meaning of the word entitled has altered for me.

Men can have long hair, it doesn't make them women though. Think Samson with his long locks and great strength.
Of course men can have long hair. It was just that the TW had only decided to do stereotypically female things a few months previously. I imagined him with stereotypically male short hair before.

Plus let's not forget:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3nPiBai66M

Gorgeous locks abound.

Tbh, the TW made me think of an 80s pop singer rather than a woman.

Looking on the positive side I think casting (or whoever supplies the babies) didn't approve of the stupid storyline. The massive baby must have been a protest. That baby was bigger than the TW.

TW: "You're not letting me see my baby so I'm going to delay my transition for a few years but will still do it when I decide to do it & when our child is old enough to join in with guilt-tripping you into letting me see him. I'll set the schedule for this & you'll just have to go along with it because I've been super reasonable in waiting a few years. It's what any mother would do."

Mother: "I can see that you're a loving parent & our child having 2 loving parents is more important than my hurt. I'll pretend you're something you're not for the sake of the child even though it will continue to hurt me."

Plus let's not forget:

Gorgeous locks abound.

Men can have long hair, it doesn't make them women though. Think Samson with his long locks and great strength.

I agree this was poor writing and totally unsatisfactory. If Jules wife had not been injured then there wouldn't have been a story. She had to have a physical injury in order to come to terms with her husband's transition. It smacks somewhat of corrective domestic violence. The BBC ought to be ashamed of this.

Presumably George, the son, was 'assigned' male at birth. Possibly back in a few years time to be presented as Georgina?

I thought the tw had very long hair considering they'd only decided to transition a few months earlier.

The TW was quite well written in the way that absolutely everything came back to TW's own issues.

Gosh thank you Roxy this will require serious planning to coordinate diary and weather forecasts! Spontaneity not an option.

I'm used to a smaller, more informal facility which sadly I no longer live near. Chagford pool - it's not far off the A30 if anyone fancies breaking the holiday journey down to Cornwall.

chagfordpool.co.uk/

@FannyCann

They release the slots for Lido booking a week in advance. If you are after a particular day then go online the week before to book it. It gets booked up quite quickly. It’s worth a trip though. It’s absolutely fantastic and in the middle of a park

I just watched the episode (insomnia!)

Nice ending, crazy feminazi sees sense and by the end of the show and agrees to get back together with her former husband, accept them as a woman and mother to their baby. She looked miserable, but the man was happy so all is well.

@SeaWitchly Nice observation, I bet there would be universal understanding for a man who wanted to leave his wife who decided to become a man.

@CheckingOutTheQuantocks

Quite coincidentally, I posted about this on the transwidows thread earlier - I was also tempted to jump into the TV and give all the actors a slap!

FFS that video, I hope the “ judge” in the waxing case gets to see this fucking outrage! He clearly is deranged and sick, and this proves it beyond all doubt.

I hope JY gets banned from the pool for that little stunt, most pools have strict rules about the use of phones to preserve privacy.

By coincidence Yaniv has ousted videos of theirself in a public pool on Twitter the same day; with little girls in the background, natch.

twitter.com/trustednerd/status/1157779743686578176?s=12

The contrast between the BBC’s propaganda and the grim reality is stark.

My dm loves this series and has watched it since the start, so this episode give me a chance to tell her everything about JY, the self I’d issues especially concerns about women’s refuges and she is absolutely horrified so Casualty has trans peaked my 84 year old mother!

*nine months

GiggleMcDimples agree - only one woman in this house gets to call herself mother. And that's the one that carried the dc for none months before spitting them out of her actual vagina. (Yes I know adoptive mothers etc).

Why is the reverse never shown... A husband and wife whereby the wife becomes a transman and now wants to be called their children's father. And the husband is shown the error of his ways and decides he actually can bear to become oart of a same-sex male couple = husband and husband rather than husband and wife

Does that even happen in real life? Because politically wrong as it may be, if my DH started dressing as a woman and talking gender reassignment, I'd be fucking devastated. That would be it for us. We actually had a whole conversation about trans everything. He couldn't believe that they're allowed to change their SEX on their birth certificate. He thought it was just something I'd read that was blowing it out of proportion, but I had to show him the 2004 law and the 2005 ruling stating they could. He actually became angry that it's allowed.

Soon as I saw the woman shouting at side of pool I turned over. It was going to be one of those BBC political correct stories they shove down your throat. A lecture rather than entertainment.

I dont know how anyone can bear these kinds of episodic issue soaps. They have them on daytime telly, too. Hamfisted writing and shoddy acting. I'd rather watch Sunset Beach. At least when you're watching storylines about evil twin brothers or enchanted necklaces that kill people you can overlook the bad writing and acting because it's supposed to be ridiculous.

Very clunky as an episode. He/ she came across awfully in the pool but then we are made to feel like the mum is in the wrong. I guess it’s a storyline they needed to tick off the list ...

Oh thanks MintedLamb I'd have been right to arrive and not get in.

Bet the local casualty is a lot less well appointed though No one in our hospital (except maybe the chief executive whose office I haven't had the honour of seeing) has an office to compare with Charlie's!

There's a parallel storyline about a man rejecting his gay son. The message is obvious. The GC wife is as unreasonable as the father.