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I love being on HRT so much, but being happy about it is just making me cry more" says Green Party Women's leader

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FreshFreesias · 30/12/2020 15:53

The new chair of Green Party Women, a transwoman going under the name of Kathryn Bristow, one of whose personal pronouns is `fae' (no me neither), is really thrilled at the effects of her HRT (that's where it all is! No shortage for some!) recently tweeted:

twitter.com/KathrynBristow/status/1343259759701618688?s=20

"Just started crying for no particular reason.
It's so wonderful, I've always just wanted to be able to feel my emotions. I love being on HRT so much, but being happy about it is just making me cry more".

The casual and offensive sexist stereotyping is off the scale of course.

A quick glance through her tweets shows absolutely zero interest in er, Green stuff. No tweets about climate change, animal welfare, recycling... anything remotely environmental at all.

I know the Green Party's innate misogyny is nothing new here but I had to vent. They are going from bad to worse. The trouble is, those not active on Twitter or social media are not aware of the danger this Party poses.

I'm not even sure if Kathryn is even transitioned?

And why do so many transwomen have an annoying little `cute' smile in their profile pics? It's just annoying.

I used to have a position of responsibility in the Green Party in the noughties and there was none of this rubbish. We were completely consumed with environmental concerns and animal welfare. People used to make fun of us because we were beardy and sandal clad and unworldly but at least we were authentic.

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SunsetBeetch · 01/01/2021 18:16

Interesting thread on KB's role at Gender GP:

twitter.com/DanialWebb/status/1344573750591844352?s=20

Has the Green Party learned nothing from the Aimee Challenor debacle? A desire for inclusivity blinded them to shocking safeguarding failures. With Kathryn Bristow now elected as co chair of Green Party Women it looks set to make the same errors again 1/

Kathryn Bristow works for GenderGP as a pathway advisor, supporting customers seeking to buy puberty blockers and cross sex hormones. For this service GenderGP charges customers £25 for a 15-minute chat with Kathryn, who has no clinical training whatsoever. 2/

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NotTerfNorCis · 01/01/2021 13:54

annoying little `cute' smile in their profile pics

I see that a lot. It's the portrayal of women as simple-minded, vulnerable idiots.

Cailleach1 · 01/01/2021 13:49

Ah, is that the reason for the head tilt? There is cosmetic surgery which involves shaving the adams apple, isn't there?

thenightsky · 01/01/2021 12:08

Head tilt is to hide the Adam's apple

It doesn't do much for the receding hairline though.

Abhannmor · 01/01/2021 11:57

Shame really as many people are fed up with Labour and admire Caroline Lucas. Bristow's pitch seems to be - I am self obsessed, emotionally unstable and live in a fantasy world. In the near future I could be part of a Coalition government.

ChakaDakotaRegina · 01/01/2021 07:04

[quote HecatesCats]Actual GP candidate wants to work to make sure all women who believe in biological sex are ultimately unwelcome in the party - thread here in which she's appeasing an individual who is cross that a woman who believes in biological sex is co-chair of Green Party Women. It's not enough, as the candidate points out, that a transwoman and trans allies now make up most of the committee. They are so lost:

twitter.com/bristol_pip/status/1343894627414368258?s=21[/quote]
‘We don’t have a magic wand to get rid of t@£fs...’

But also - you don’t have a magic wand to make males into females. You have experimental surgery on healthy bodies and self id.

ItsLateHumpty · 01/01/2021 01:25

GenderGP is the front for Helen Webberley, the UK GP who has been suspended by the GMC. GenderGP sells puberty blockers and cross sex hormones to youngsters online, operating from Spain.

I thought they actually lived in Spain - apparently I was wrong, they still live in the UK Shock

twitter.com/Sarah_zee123/status/1343841725031325696

I love being on HRT so much, but being happy about it is just making me cry more" says Green Party Women's leader
Deliriumoftheendless · 31/12/2020 20:57

@highame

Head tilt is to hide the Adam's apple I wondered why, so thanks for that Smellie He looks like Moss from the IT crowd I bloody knew it - celebrity look alike
No! Moss is adorable!

But he does wear women’s jeans.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 31/12/2020 20:47

@Needmoresleep

They might prioritise an environmental charity?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Datun · 31/12/2020 18:27

@OneEpisode

I’m assuming that Kat, as an employee of GenderGP is keen to tweet from the LGBTIQA+ account in pursuit of Mermaids, and then retweet from personal account. Mermaids seem almost to be the marketing arm of Gender GP? Whenever I look at one Twitter account Twitter recommends the other so there must be a large overlap.
To me, personally, that doesn't reeely say longevity.
NeurotreeWenceslas · 31/12/2020 18:17

Very good points.

So main aim of becoming joint leader of Gpw is to promote the unlawful actions of Gender Gp.

🤔

OneEpisode · 31/12/2020 17:50

I’m assuming that Kat, as an employee of GenderGP is keen to tweet from the LGBTIQA+ account in pursuit of Mermaids, and then retweet from personal account. Mermaids seem almost to be the marketing arm of Gender GP? Whenever I look at one Twitter account Twitter recommends the other so there must be a large overlap.

Needmoresleep · 31/12/2020 17:36

They might prioritise an environmental charity?

NeurotreeWenceslas · 31/12/2020 16:19

Yay go green women! Promoting that incredibly female loving charity, Mermaids!

I love being on HRT so much, but being happy about it is just making me cry more" says Green Party Women's leader
CaraDuneRedux · 31/12/2020 16:12

A trans acquaintance of mine went the full on "HRT [sic] makes me cry, it's so liberating emotionally" schtick. On a discussion board full of women professional scientists, software engineers, technical experts - all of us had spent decades fighting our way through a veritable thicket of hideous sexist assumptions about why "lady brains are unsuited for science" and women and their messy emotions in the lab crap. Some of us had even had to fight an (eventually successful) equal pay claim.

I think it's fair to say said person's comment, in the immortal words of David Hume, "fell still-born from the press."

Also claimed to have period-like symptoms due to the cyclical nature of the chosen hormone routine.

(Also, prior to transition, manspained pregnancy to me - while I was pregnant.)

Arsehole.

SophocIestheFox · 31/12/2020 14:38

@SisterWendyBuckett

Can't wait for the time when the Greens start doorstepping again Grin
Absolutely- I’ll set my husband on them, he and I make a great tag team that’s had Lib Dems and Labour both tied up in knots over this on the doorstep this past year. They seemed to be under the misapprehension that the point of doorstepping people is to tell them what they ought to think, rather than find out what they actually do think. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing when the LibDem PPC stood on my own doorstep telling me I wasn’t fully informed on biology Confused Mortificado for her, all she could do was wheel out every stonewall cliché in the book.

Labour were not much better but at least managed a lukewarm endorsement that maybe the party could accommodate a divergence of beliefs on the material reality of sex. Woohoo.

rednsparkley · 31/12/2020 14:35

Oh the responses to that tweet are just GLORIOUS 😁😁 It seems you are much more able to speak the truth on Twitter if those are anything to go by - I got banned for less about a year ago 🤔

Datun · 31/12/2020 14:32

@zzizz

I just can't understand how people don't see the sexism in the entire transgender movement. Its so obvious to me.

"I like 'girly' things so I'm a girl!" - how did this not get ridiculed off the Internet from day one?

Sexism is being celebrated. Online, on TV, in schools, in porn.

Rigid gender boxes are normalised. A male elevating the trappings (not traps) of those boxes by inhabiting them, feels like approval to those who can't escape.

I'm sure there is a sense of flattery to all this appropriation. Until you realise it's the opposite.

SisterWendyBuckett · 31/12/2020 14:12

Can't wait for the time when the Greens start doorstepping again Grin

CatsCantCatchChristmas2 · 31/12/2020 13:53

@BobbinThreadbare123

Solo-polyamorous? Wanks with either hand?

Beat me to it!

Dayum!

Chewbecca · 31/12/2020 13:52

Still feeling really cross about this today.

This person really has no right to represent women as a leader of this group. They have no experience growing up with periods, being denied studying practical subjects at school, being expected to become a mother, being assumed to be the secretary / receptionist, having a c section, breastfeeding, having HRT to combat ferocious menopause symptoms, being unable to reach the top shelf in the supermarket, cars (& car safety) being designed for a totally different body to mine. All these things contribute to me being female, not my ability to paint my nails.

I love being on HRT so much, but being happy about it is just making me cry more" says Green Party Women's leader
BobbinThreadbare123 · 31/12/2020 13:40

Solo-polyamorous? Wanks with either hand?

RozWatching · 31/12/2020 13:35

@zzizz

I just can't understand how people don't see the sexism in the entire transgender movement. Its so obvious to me.

"I like 'girly' things so I'm a girl!" - how did this not get ridiculed off the Internet from day one?

And why are political parties on board with this nonsense? I can see the appeal for very old-school Conservatives who prefer neat gender boxes, but the progressives? Why?
highame · 31/12/2020 13:28

Head tilt is to hide the Adam's apple I wondered why, so thanks for that Smellie
He looks like Moss from the IT crowd I bloody knew it - celebrity look alike

QueenoftheAir · 31/12/2020 13:22

Nimco Ali. Darn autocorrect