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I think i encountered a fellow traveller at work today. We briefly mentioned Adam Tickell...

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BenCooperisaGod · 04/05/2022 17:27

And looked at eachother a bit uncertainly.

If you are on here just say something dinosaur related the next time our paths cross.

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MumstedInadequate · 04/05/2022 19:46

I've come across a few in the wild. My favourite was my (retired nurse) sports colleague who asked if it was OK to come into the small changing room when i was in. I said yes, she replied 'we're all women, sorry cervix havers' with a huge eye roll. It was lovely.

I am still bafflrd by the anxiety huge swathes of people who have no idea about any of this.

Was chatting to DSIL the other day who is head of governors at her local school and it hasn't come up there yet. I mentioned something about name changes without parents permission and she tells she thought it was illegal, certainly her school had a policy they will only call the child whatever is on the formal registration form unless parents request a change. Even a nickname needs a formal request.

She has never heard of admittedly primary school children changing gender / name and bring affirmed.

It makes me question everything I've read on here tbh! Only momentarily, but I do feel I inhabit two parallel universe on this topic- the one which exists with MN and has links and evidence and robust discussion, and the one i see with my oen eyes outside my front door where trans people barely exist and noone suffers any adverse consequences. Its very odd.

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 04/05/2022 19:21

DomesticatedZombie · 04/05/2022 19:00

No idea who Adam Tickell is at all!

I find a casual reference to 'gender fluidity' accompanied by raised eyebrow/pursed lips/eyeroll has most often been the tip-off that someone else is on the wame wavelength.

VC of Sussex Uni before he decamped to Brum this year. Kathleen Stock connection.

www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/56597

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 04/05/2022 19:20

Chooksnroses · 04/05/2022 18:45

We need a secret handshake.....

Accompanied by, hear me out, a tut sound that has a close resemblance to a viper's hiss.

Or a dinosaur pocket square. The shadow of a dinosaur across a caricature of David Lammy.

Code phrase: Do 🦕 🦖 hoard their rights?

DomesticatedZombie · 04/05/2022 19:00

No idea who Adam Tickell is at all!

I find a casual reference to 'gender fluidity' accompanied by raised eyebrow/pursed lips/eyeroll has most often been the tip-off that someone else is on the wame wavelength.

Chooksnroses · 04/05/2022 18:45

We need a secret handshake.....

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BenCooperisaGod · 04/05/2022 18:34

I think dropping slightly oblique references might be a helpful approach.

Adam Tickell was a good one. Only academics, TRAs and GC feminists will clock that. Then you just have to figure out which camp they are in.

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BenCooperisaGod · 04/05/2022 18:31

His coming up was quite tangential. She mentioned him, said you might have heard he can be quite polarising, i said oh yes i am aware, we looked at eachother knowingly and then moved on.

Now just need to figure out what angle the knowingness comes from.

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SmiledWtherisingsun · 04/05/2022 18:22

🦖🦕

5oclockhero · 04/05/2022 18:13

Was it at Tickell's old workplace?

ChairCareOh · 04/05/2022 18:10

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Plasmodesmata · 04/05/2022 18:06

It wasn't me. But I know what you mean - I think I spotted a fellow traveller too at a recent work thing, but there were other people about too, so it wasn't appropriate to start a conversation. Some sort of code word sounds useful.
Unless you're a paleontologist in which case dinosaurs might come up anyway.