Transwoman on being in a woman's ward

Looking forward to Grace Lavery's 'choose your own adventure' account of HCP's in a female-only setting reacting to Lavery's 'staggering penis'.

I'm guessing Lavery would go for a scenario of awe and wonder rather than Diana's fantasy of giggling sisterhood?

Doubt it, there was a variety of these articles last week. A lot of papers must've asked for a trans response to the Tory party conference and I think it fills a quota for the papers by giving a voice to the trans community, satisfies the woke journalists that work there, whilst (I'm hoping the cynical) editors know that by giving them a voice lets them show their nonsense.

After all the paper is letting these people have a voice, they're not necessarily endorsing it.

Yes it is one of those strange things that apparently you're "supposed to be a women" yet act in the most misogynistic way going. I think a lot of it is jealously at something they cannot have.

But there is a trend with "transmaxxing", whereby MRAs transition to enjoy the "benefits". It's a very strange mindset.

Thanks Motorina. 🙂

I appreciate this is sidetracking, but I was an early reader and a late speaker, so have a horror of inadvertent mispronunciations.

It's 'rafay' to rhyme with cafe.

….two nurses came to my bed, pulled the curtains closed for privacy and asked if I would mind telling them what it was like to be transgender.

So, they knew the person wasn’t a real woman…

We started chatting and at one point I said: “If you took every woman in this ward, stuck us all into stirrups and asked a gynae to take a good look, they wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between me and everyone.”
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The nurses burst out laughing. “Oh, we know!” one of them exclaimed. “We’ve all been talking about it in the staff room…

That was probably the end of the conversation. If it had even taken place in reality.

I hope whoever gave the thumbs up for the article to be published is reading this thread. I would love their thoughts on if they now feel a bit of a plonker.

Surgery or not, this particular leopard hasn't changed their spots. They still hate women as much as they ever did.

I usually feel sympathy for people who have invested so much in a fantasy, but not in this case. Imagine though, the dissonance involved in living a lie day-to-day. Imagine having to write more and more absurd copy to justify your decisions to yourself. And imagine struggling so much to rationalise your decisions that you make up fantasies about nurses that belong in the era of Barbara Windsor and Kenneth Williams.

It’s one of the many anomalies. Claiming to be an actual woman, indistinguishable from those of us born female, yet campaigning only for trans rights and never for women’s rights.

It’s not very #BeKind, is it?

If he is against feminism, how does he square that with his fantasy that he is a woman? Surely "as a woman" you would want to fight for the rights of your sisters, right?

The man has written thriller fiction as well as a book moaning about feminism. He is the very definition of MRA, and it's clear he doesn't live in reality and continues to write fiction to this day.

If he had a health problem with his "vagina", would he want to be in the gynae ward? Where the doctors would have had precisely no training in his type of wound. (I am guessing given how batshit this all is, that he well might, even though it would be injurious to his own health, just to make a point. He could then go on about how the gynaecologists all laughed together and applauded his genitals).

Yeah, I was going to say that too. Surely this man is being very transphobic in his celebration of his supposedly lifelike vagina? What about all the "transwomen" who have not had surgery, or have had surgery but it doesn't actually look like a vagina (which in the real world is all of them of course)? Are these men not to be allowed their God-given right to invade private female space? Shocking.

And by thinking or implying that passing (or even just one’s surgically constructed genitals passing, on their own!) should be the reason it’s fine to be on a women’s ward, Thomas is being extremely transphobic according to many TRAs - for whom self-declaration is the only criterion that should matter and it’s mean and unfair to only count those who have “passing privilege”.

As people have said, because this person thinks they pass they should be allowed to share a ward. There is no indication of what to do with the many people who don’t pass. All they are bothered about is themselves and their individual situation.

It’s funny because Menno posted about their experience of visiting a TW in hospital and their conversation also revolved around genitals.

Let me down gently.

Cannot believe the journo honestly thinks biology doesn't exist.

Glad you find it funny, RealityFan. I'll leave you here to read the thread while I head off to see the amazing Ben Cooper in action.

Haha, well I'm totally lost now.

<pokes head round door and scans room nervously >

Is it safe? That was a bit weird last night. I've never been accused of being a trans activist before. All the deleted posts from the TRA who swooped on the thread were still there when RealityFan posted and he just wouldn't let it lie. Thanks for the back up everyone. I knew I wasn't going mad.

As CriticalCondition said, bat signal is commonly used on here to imply that there is an incoming of TRAs.

We have penis measuring contests? That's news to me.

Honestly, Thomas will do anything to continue to live in that gender euphoric phase.

Well I believe every word of his story, you nasty cynics. And that he then galloped around the ward on his tame unicorn while a rainbow shone down on them and all the other patients threw flowers. 😂