Find the Mumsnet classification of these threads a bit odd, strange how in these threads feminism has been co-opted by the anti-trans movement. Maybe in every society there will always be a group of people with a problem with minorities. Depressing really.
What's depressing is that over nearly a decade, MN has been one of the very few online spaces where women can talk about how our legal rights under the EA to single sex spaces has been deliberately eroded by men.
Where we can talk about the evidence/research that children are being medically transitioned (with long term health implications including loss of fertility and sexual function) when if supported therapeutically the vast majority would find their gender distress will alleviate with time and find comfort in their natally sexed bodies.
Even here there are tight restrictions on what we can/can't say.
Yet in mainstream and social media we are constantly gaslight/misrepresented and labelled as transphobic because we refuse to back down and ignore serious safeguarding concerns that are frankly obvious to anyone with half a brain.
Who knew that putting a male rapist in a female prison would have ever been thought acceptable? Or a male sex offender in a women's refuge?
That it would be deemed "improper" to point out that adoption of a medical protocol on children (with no long follow up) and where one heathy child died as a direct result of intervention out of only seventy, is both unprecedented and unethical.
That women's sporting records and participation should be pushed aside in favour of male participation - because men's need to be validated is more important than any woman's right to sporting equality.
I don't have a problem with trans people.
I have a big beef with trans ideology and the people who flout it (many of whom are not trans btw) to disadvantage women whilst still enabling male privilege and those who peddle unethical medical treatments on children.