Another public statement on puberty blockers

In the IMDb Oliver Thorn is an actor with four or five credits to his name, Maladicta. Two of those are the Philosophy Tube TV series, so I assume it's the same person.

Sounds like an attention-seeking idiot. Claims to be a 'feminist' then talks only about trans 'rights' and entitlement.

And also, I don't understand how someone can claim to be a woman when they have such obvious dislike of women.

Oops

Crossed there

Honestly, watch the video, it makes the rant into a kind of weird performance art.

Using the suffragettes in that statement was both ridiculous and riling. I too would be interested in all the feminist work they did before becoming transgender. Agree with others no idea who they were talk about bigging yourself up!
I wish I was rich and had time to care about toilets so much but I'm more concerned with the definition of woman, women's prisons, women's sports, women's rights to have a female for intimate care or medical needs and preventing children from harm.

Where’d the other thread go?

Not in the (never defined) spirit? Or did it go pear shaped

How would they know if an mp was trans?

Right as my other posting on the thread about this person got zapped within 5 minutes of me posting on it Here’s a link to this person’s dissection of transphobia that they posted a year or two ago before they came out. I just watched it again and am as irritated by it as I was the first time I watched it.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=yCxqdhZkxCo

I’ve always found this person’s delivery to be like that of an end-of-the-pier hypnotist ‘Look in my eyes, look in my eyes’ or a frustrated actor who’s doing shit gigs to get their Equity card. I love the way they deign to impart their ‘knowledge’ in such a specious manner. You Tube has given them a platform to be an insufferable know-all. I’ve no idea what the basis for their ‘expertise’ in philosophy is?

Abigail’s transition doesn’t appear to have affected their ability to talk out their arse.

"There has never been a trans MP" is the kind of claim someone makes who only judges on appearances. They need to work on their soul-gazing™ capability.

Googled to find out who this ‘incredibly famous’ person is or was, still none the wiser. Nasty, bitter little rant though.

The entitlement is strong.

Almost every assertion in that statement is an outright, debunked falsehood. To then finish by appropriating the women's suffrage movement goes to show the absolute vacuum at the heart of this ideology.

I’d be really interested to see how much campaigning/ work they did for feminism before presenting as female. As they’re such a dedicated feminist, with such a valuable platform, I’d hope lots.

I just saw that on twitter as it was trending. I haven't the foggiest who they are (an actress apparently on their own statement). That riled me up. Could have just said I'm a transwoman now, please respect my decision, love to you all, bye for now.

But no. Dig after dig after dig at women and how we're all hateful and nasty "wealthy cis women tweeting about toilets" and how us pesky women are taking trans' 'life saving' surgeries away for a bit of a back ache. One massive, vitriol infused vindictive diatribe aimed directly at women so everyone seeing them trend gets to read how we're all such fucking baddies.

Then throws in a bloody courage calls quote.

Fucking hell 🤬

Wikipedia keeping an edit record of people's previous Wikipedia entries is one of the worst deadnaming sites on the Internet. It's going to be interesting to see what Wikipedia does to solve this problem.

Well... that didn’t read like someone who loves women very much. Like. At all! Rather eye popping the appropriation of the suffrage movement. Absolutely tone deaf.

Why actress? I thought "actor" was the accepted gender neutral title for men and women?

I'm really quite taken aback by the fact that within the announcement that they are trans, this person has immediately appropriated the long history of women fighting for their rights to vote, be seen as people and not property of men and all that feminists have fought for over the last hundred years.

I can't even explain how divisive they are being wrt accessibility to HRT and IVF - you don't turn up at a GP and get medication handed out like sweeties but their inference is that "cis" women do and therefore trans women should get the same treatment. Waiting for years for treatment is unfortunately the norm for getting IVF and it's not always easy to get taken seriously for HRT.

And I've never heard of this person. So their insistence that they are the most well known transgender person in the UK seems rather exaggerated.

MondayYogurt@ "This person is a philosophy youtuber"

It's 'tuber'.

"Tubers are enlarged structures in some plant species used as storage organs for nutrients...The term originates from Latin tuber, meaning "lump, bump, swelling"."

Love the bit about "I may be only an actress, but I'm very much a feminist 'cause of society's pressures on us women". There's a limerick there...