Mermaids and the evolving understanding of gender identity.

Maybe the UN had it wrong all along 🤔🤔 maybe rather than women being limitless & formless it’s trans ppl 😆

This is an extraodinary read. No one validates my gender because no one even has the option of invalidating my gender.

www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/lgbt-transgender-trans-suffer-lockdown-18393677

All the times we were told about being Born In The Wrong Body:

twitter.com/thespiralquirk/status/1309484475089383425?s=21

You almost have to admire the chutzpah of those saying "Well OF COURSE we never said people are "born in the wrong body".

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It's another term that's been Humpty-Dumptied, and changed into an umbrella term wide enough not only to go from some degree of discomfort to crippling impairment, but also to embrace the euphemistic "gender euphoria".

Well, I certainly don't identify with the social construction of girlhood that's foisted on us by others from birth onwards. According to Mermaids I'm trans.

They'd make a lot more sense if they jettisoned the word 'gender' and explained in plain English.

'Gender dysphoria' is the function-crippling inability to meet the behavioural and presentational requirements our society attaches to our sex.

Perfectly easy to understand. To reduce it to "being uncomfortable" is like calling debilitating depression "being a bit sad". And reducing it to an identity renders any analysis of the causes off-limits.

Here's Mermaids' current position on their website:

‘gender dysphoria’ is the uncomfortable feeling some people get when their gender is different from the one they were given at birth.

Except that is wrong. Gender dysphoria is a psychiatric condition as defined in DSM5. It is used by NHS clinicians at gender clinics and it's a condition that requires "clinically significant distress or impairment" so not just an "uncomfortable feeling"

'gender dysphoria’ is the uncomfortable feeling some people get when their gender is different from the one they were given at birth.

But since no one has ever been given a gender at birth, this is as flimsy and ridiculous as all their other definitions

If I was made to translate this into something comprehensible it would be that someone's sex is according to whichever sexed body they have, as seen at birth or before, and gender dysphoria is that they feel themselves to be a boy gendered entity in a girl's sexed body or vice versa.

How that fits into "No child is born in the wrong body" is another mystery.

I feel the advent of the medical negligence solicitors could be the beginning of the end for this whole Stonewall-Mermaids-Gires gravy train. Doctors will be much more cautious about doing surgical or hormonal reassignment if they know they can be sued. Is it possible that some detransitioners will also sue Mermaids for giving them bad advice?

Here's Mermaids' current position on their website:

‘gender dysphoria’ is the uncomfortable feeling some people get when their gender is different from the one they were given at birth.
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If you gender identity matches the one you were given at birth that’s called “cisgender”.

Which means that "trans" is when someone's gender identity doesn't match the gender they were given at birth.

Also from the website, "gender" appears to be defined as whether you’re a boy or a girl, based on the way your body looks. Although I didn't find a definition of "gender identity" I suppose it's whether someone feels themselves to be a boy or a girl. (How that fits in with hundreds of "genders" is a mystery.)

They appear to be using the Judith Butler approach of making their position so incomprehensible they can make it mean anything they want it to.

How long before the TRAs start denounicing reassignment surgery as an unnecessary medical procedure forced on trans people by the 'oppresive' cis medical establishment?

We're way past that. Like most things in TRA ideology, this one is a paradox. They want access to cosmetic procedures to change their physical appearance for the sake of achieving gender euphoria and anyone who suggests that someone needs to change their body is a transmedicalist gatekeeping bigot and we all need to recognize the existence of the female penis.

These paradoxes largely occur because 'Trans' is not one thing, it's a conglomeration of disparate causes and motivations, and the shifting nature of TRA arguments to piggyback on whatever cause gives them the best leverage for whatever they're pressing for at that moment.

All about how "born in the wrong body" was a simplified explanation for people

You see, I can sort of understand the dysphoria around your body. I think most women can - we live in a culture which pressures girls & women's bodies in almost every way.

But the binary deluded thinking that if you're not happy in a male body, then you must of course"really" be female is odd. How do you know?

I think that you can feel that your body's "wrong" - but I don't think you can then automatically know what that a different body would feel "right."

If that kind of thinking takes hold I can really see them turning on Susie for transitioning Jackie

Would also remove the last of the "ammo"

I mean if they don't need surgery or the clothes or the hair and make up then just how can people identify them as trans to beat them up in a toilet ir bully them to the point of being suicidal...

I mean no one would know would they.
You really would be seen once and for all to be lobbying for bots and meb to have access to all womens spaces and opportunities based on what they say that cant be defined

I mean, people are telling you that you're a horrible bigot and reactionary and want trans people to die but when you ask a simple question like "what does it mean to be a woman if it doesn't mean biology or stereotypes or behaviour" they can't answer. How can they claim that people's identity as a woman is so important to them that they'll die if you don't affirm it but at the same time it's a totally meaningless word and they might as well identify as a table?

I saw on a Twitter thread that some trans people are now saying that the transition is wrong because it's conforming to cis heteronormativity.

If that kind of thinking takes hold I can really see them turning on Susie for transitioning Jackie.

[quote HPFA]And now we have a firm of solicitors actively touting for business. These people can smell blood.

www.attwatersjamesonhill.co.uk/medical-negligence/transgender-treatment/?fbclid=IwAR34PYnrwGC-UhDHVbgHxLNIZYlgXpSInALxtOxTbWDnn5sQug1F1-pu0dg[/quote]
Once the sharks in suits start circling you know it's game over.

Don't forget they wanted the immediate release of all trans prisoners as well.

And they were asked to submit evidence and testimonials for the government's transgender equality report.

Dear lord.

It's not two minutes since Action on Trans Health in Edinburgh was demanding that trans people were given free training so they could operate on themselves.

Oh dear, that's just made me absolutely lose it. 🤣

It's not two minutes since Action on Trans Health in Edinburgh was demanding that trans people were given free training so they could operate on themselves. edinburghath.tumblr.com/post/163521055802/trans-health-manifesto

I've just seen a desperate attempt on Twitter to explain the BITWB phrase as best avoided because we wouldn't be rude enough to say that someone was BITWB if they needed an operation for any other reason, e.g. gallstones, I suppose. Dear me.

Same here. Instead of being blue or pink, she was silver foil that reflects light. I don't know how anyone can take it seriously. I certainly wouldn't put it out as a promotional film.

Brilliant - this sounds as good as the dimmer switch spectrum - must watch!