YogabirthUK cancel event after Freddy McConnell flounce

I thought I recognised the behaviour.

I would have preferred to hear from them but if they won't turn up we can have the conversation without them.

Indeed we can. And are.

Their refusal to make a case for their outrageous demands is being increasingly noted.

If they've got nothin', then they can't expect to force people into accommodating it.

According to his Instagram he found it highly distressing being misgendered by the medical professionals delivering his baby. Like they didn't have more important things to deal with.

Is Freddie the seahorse person who did the film a few years ago?

This makes me so angry and my patience is very thin for this kind of stuff at the moment. I cannot believe an event was cancelled due to FM flouncing off. I’m also very confused that if FM has body/gender dysphoria how pregnancy/giving birth isn’t a hugely distressing experience.

It’s really sad that people lose out, all because someone has had what appears to be a tantrum. And it seems Milli Hill was asked to speak on another delay thereby being marginalised to accommodate FM.

It's episodes like these that really show how meaningless the term 'trans exclusionary' has become, where previously it would be the worst thing one could possibly be accused of.

Women need women-only spaces, as this incident shows.

Certainly has - any monkey with a keyboard is a ‘journalist’ these days.

Whiny cry babies. Mental strength of a wet tissue. This is how the human race, not with a bang but with infertility and a whinge.

'I am just so sick of this Alice in Wonderland world where words can mean anything'

Jesus, me too. These people do not behave like grown adults. Whining about being 'unsafe' every time someone refuses to pander to them. It's truly pathetic

@WinterTrees - this person is a journalist, though?

I assume that means some sort of journalistic training was undertaken?

I mean, surely you don't get a job in the Guardian by identifying as a journo? Despite which, yes, totally agree.

Baffling.

I'm so pleased that baby was delivered safely and had the good sense to come early and be born in the UK. Perhaps Freddie is sad about not being registered as the "father" on the birth certificate but, better than trying to travel back to Blighty with a tiny baby, during a pandemic and a war.

F's lack of curiosity about WHY the infant had stopped growing is fascinating. I'm not an obstetrician but I can't imagine that cross sex hormones are that good for a uterus.

Freddy is something else. Just been sucked into a twitter feed about how removing his nipples prior to deciding to give birth is not his fault, but the fault of 'cos-normative' people. Last time I checked both males and females have nipples.

And at the time, couldn't conceive the idea of parenthood, however is for medical transitioning of children.

I remember Stephen Fry doing an IQ squared debate on the Catholic Church with Christopher Hitchens. Ann Widdicombe was on the other side. Stephen Fry didn't last-minute flounce from the debate because homophobic Ann Widdicombe made him feel 'unsafe.' He debated her.

I wonder how Freddie's fellow Guardian journalists, camped out at various war zones around the world, feel about Freddie's risk level at the hands of Milli Hill?

The same people who criticise women like JK Rowing of weaponising their trauma cry about feeling unsafe in the presence of people who merely have a different viewpoint to them. Fuck this shit.

If anyone else had a hissy fit and stripped off - would they have cancelled the whole thing? It’s not like they were puting on a show and the main act pulled out.

I went to a screening and of this film with a panel discussion after and the main trans person cancelled last minute. The event went ahead as planned with an empty chair where they should have been. I would have preferred to hear from them but if they won't turn up we can have the conversation without them.

Trans-Actions: An Exploration of Gender Dysphoria

Fuck this.

Anyone who can watch what’s happening on the continent and still say they “feel unsafe” in Tunbridge Wells or Leamington Spa or Islington or wherever theyselves type people live, they need to get checked into reality pretty quick.

Fuck this.

I squeezed a back to back baby out of my vagina not very long ago.

I relied heavily on self hypnosis and yoga. Disappointed that the organisers cancelled. I'm not familiar with this particular organisation, are they just another bunch of privileged twits? I used a great local antenatal yoga teacher who was definitely a feminist!

I didn't know the political leanings of my incredible midwife, thank fuck. She was there to support me and she did an amazing job.

FM is clearly an individual with issues. I don't think bending language and practice around their whims is going to be anything but damaging to most other human females.

I guarantee if Milli had said she was uncomfortable with the event as Freddy was there she would have been told where the door was.

It was a panel, not a debate, about birth, not trans. But nooooo. It's a "risk"

I've had it up to fucking here with I feel unsafe, they're a risk etc. Unsafe from fucking what? Being in the same billboard as someone who won't validate you on demand? You know who's actually at risk right now? People in Ukraine, that's who. What on earth did Freddy think Milli was going to do, during an ONLINE event ffs? Freddy needs to grow up.

Anyone who starts talking about women who won't capitulate to gender woo woo being a risk, making them afraid, unsafe, etc, they can eff right off.