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Is it too early for a post mortem?

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Appalonia · 15/11/2024 17:22

So, now that America has categorically rejected transgender ideology, which I do think will affect the rest of the world, is now the time to ascertain HOW did so many institutions, including the Democratic and Labour Parties get so completely bamboozled by this ideology? Which is crazy, not based in material reality, disadvantages half of the population, has physically damaged thousands of young people, and that they didn't think that people would see through it?

I know a lot of people dislike Matt Walsh, but his documentary, What is a Woman, was jaw dropping! We must NEVER let this dangerous idiocy happen again ( and yes I know it's not over...)

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Helleofabore · 03/12/2024 07:17

ButterflyHatched · 03/12/2024 00:42

Oh you mean the study that found that life is still difficult after transition because technology is imperfect and transphobia still exists? No shit, any one of us could have told you that if you'd listen.

Oh. So are you now saying that this ‘life saving’ treatment you talk about has not yet been developed?

Another inconsistency then like the others over the years. Because the current life limiting and potentially life shortening extreme body modifications show no improvement of mental health, and are particularly brutal for female people.

And all for a philosophical belief! I mean, it used to be said that it was making physical changes as a treatment for a mental health condition. But no mental health condition needed for that ‘life saving’ treatment now. And it is offensive to mention anything about psychological conditions.

So now we have a group of people, with a philosophical belief that they are the opposite sex or no sex or any other of the 130+ genders getting extreme body modifications that require life long medical treatment being still described as ‘life saving’.

And I take it then that we haven’t missed a new development or a new study showing that the treatments you insist are life saving are improving mental health.

But that you want more children to receive this medical treatment.

And you, personally, even counsel them as a respected elder about life and by being there talking to them, you exemplify that treatment supposed success

You believe the treatment is life saving. Medical experts have stated this is not the case and that there are significant issues that should be investigated thoroughly. Also now being transgender is now only a philosophical belief and what other philosophical belief receives life long physical medical treatments?

I don’t think I have missed anything, have I?

IdylicDay · 03/12/2024 02:00

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IdylicDay · 03/12/2024 01:31

ButterflyHatched · 02/12/2024 17:22

That you feel it's appropriate to deny these very real and pressing daily realities says a lot about you as a person and how little awareness you have of the suffering of others.

That you feel it's appropriate to do so in such an insultingly dismissive way that would generate pages upon pages of furious chastisement and claims that I was exhibiting selfish male entitlement were I to use the exact same words back, demonstrates how fucked this entire dynamic is.

If I speak of consequences I'm being hyperbolic.

If I draw upon my own experiences to demonstrate this is not just abstract hyperbole I'm being self-absorbed.

If I present the real human cost of callous indifference then I'm being manipulative.

If I ask for reciprocal compassion then I'm being entitled.

That's all there is. There is no sanity; no reason; no humanity in this.

Callous indifference is not a virtue; empathy is not sinful weakness.

When have you showed any compassion to women, ButterflyHatched, when the very real and pressing daily realities of being a female is said to you? When? Women on here have explained to you why women and girls are vulnerable and need single sex spaces. No reply of acknowledgement from you. Women (including myself) explained we're rape victims - no response from you, not even a line of acknowledgement. Nothing. Silence.

You give us zero compassion, not even a line or word of acknowledgement. Why do you deserve compassion, but a rape victim like myself does not even deserve one word as acknowledgement? It says a lot about you as a person and as a male with male entitlement and how little awareness you have of the needs of anyone except your own.

NotBadConsidering · 03/12/2024 01:05

ButterflyHatched · 03/12/2024 00:42

Oh you mean the study that found that life is still difficult after transition because technology is imperfect and transphobia still exists? No shit, any one of us could have told you that if you'd listen.

So there’s no “demonstrably lifesaving treatment” then, is there. It can’t be demonstrated because “technology isn’t perfect and transphobia still exists.”

Another butterfly paradox.

ButterflyHatched · 03/12/2024 00:42

Helleofabore · 02/12/2024 22:06

“Demonstrably lifesaving treatment banned offhand while knowing full well what the devastating consequences will be.”

Eh? That seems rather opposite to what has been shown by the research. I mean, there was that Yale study that made the conclusion that had to be retracted because the evidence didn’t support it.

Oh you mean the study that found that life is still difficult after transition because technology is imperfect and transphobia still exists? No shit, any one of us could have told you that if you'd listen.

UtopiaPlanitia · 03/12/2024 00:37

Mumsnet is generally not a hugbox and FWR is most definitely not a hugbox.

Posts made in broadcast-only mode don't garner sympathy here. I have no time for, or interest in, labile posts ignoring and misrepresenting women or feminism.

ButterflyHatched · 03/12/2024 00:27

MrsOvertonsWindow · 02/12/2024 22:06

I see we're at the tantrum stage, hurling around allegations about Trump, Brexit, the Cass report "stitch up" and lots of "anti trans" allegations while completely ignoring all the powerful and nuanced posts from women about the reality of the lives of women and girls.

Oh well, never mind.

I'd be careful about throwing those stones in a house like this

The last decade of your life has been one long tantrum ever since you discovered trans people not only exist but expect to be treated like human beings.

You have just spent ten pages dismissing, berating, abusing and gaslighting a member of the same marginalised minority group that you have dedicated years of your life to stripping legal protections from and ejecting from society. Great job.

You succeeded. You're now the face of an international hate movement dedicated to destroying people like me. The evangelist right uses your words to ban our treatment, strip our legal protections and drive us from society. Nazis salute openly and turn up to your rallies while repeating your slogans. Well fucking done.

I hope the satisfaction of a well earned victory keeps you warm and provides you with companionship and love this Christmas.

NotBadConsidering · 03/12/2024 00:26

ButterflyHatched · 02/12/2024 23:56

Keep going, you're doing so well. You can solve the puzzle! I believe in you!.

All you need to do is misrepresent what I say a teensy little bit more.

If you’d spent the last 25 years putting energy into solving your own puzzle, you wouldn’t be here on this forum still pouring out a load of inconsistencies to justify your own selfish demands. How can I solve the puzzle when you can’t even solve it yourself?

ButterflyHatched · 03/12/2024 00:05

JanesLittleGirl · 02/12/2024 22:58

OK, I'm going to take the risk of being put on the naughty step.

I have read hundreds of posts by @ButterflyHatched as have we all and I have a real difficulty. One the one hand Butters would have me believe that I wouldn't take a second glance if they were stood next to me at the handbaisins in the ladies loos because Butters is a woman. However, on the other hand, Butters has to navigate society because there are nasty transphobes who fail to perceive Butters as a woman. Both conditions cannot be true.

I had hoped that you might have some capacity to understand or at least imagine what it is like to spend your childhood and most of your adulthood navigating a world that so comprehensively despises you by default even if it doesn't yet realise you are a member of a hated minority group, but obviously it was foolish to expect that when we could have derision, disbelief and mockery instead.

ButterflyHatched · 02/12/2024 23:56

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Keep going, you're doing so well. You can solve the puzzle! I believe in you!.

All you need to do is misrepresent what I say a teensy little bit more.

NotBadConsidering · 02/12/2024 23:12

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JanesLittleGirl · 02/12/2024 23:03

ButterflyHatched · 02/12/2024 21:32

Shall I pedantically list all the experiences I've had of female toilets over the years that demonstrate how essential they have been to my life and safety as well? Nah, what's the fucking point. You'll just say none of it was real because it was experienced by a male.

But were any of those experiences because you were female!

JanesLittleGirl · 02/12/2024 22:58

OK, I'm going to take the risk of being put on the naughty step.

I have read hundreds of posts by @ButterflyHatched as have we all and I have a real difficulty. One the one hand Butters would have me believe that I wouldn't take a second glance if they were stood next to me at the handbaisins in the ladies loos because Butters is a woman. However, on the other hand, Butters has to navigate society because there are nasty transphobes who fail to perceive Butters as a woman. Both conditions cannot be true.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 02/12/2024 22:41

For reference, I don’t see a “nasty original-sin infested trans woman” in the toilets/changing room - I see a man. Given that men commit almost all sexual crimes, and I’m obviously intending to be in a state of undress, you may be surprised to hear that feels really unsafe. No consideration of original sin etc (or other hyperbole) required

Took the words right out of my mouth.

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Helleofabore · 02/12/2024 22:08

MrsOvertonsWindow · 02/12/2024 22:06

I see we're at the tantrum stage, hurling around allegations about Trump, Brexit, the Cass report "stitch up" and lots of "anti trans" allegations while completely ignoring all the powerful and nuanced posts from women about the reality of the lives of women and girls.

Oh well, never mind.

Plus ca change ain’t it?

I think the readers should feel lucky that they are getting the full treatment now.

NotBadConsidering · 02/12/2024 22:07

ButterflyHatched · 02/12/2024 21:55

I have indeed read the Cass report stitch-up that we all saw coming and have plentiful evidence of posters on here crowing about the unreleased recommendations of years in advance.

I was one of the people its researchers neglected to listen to about their own childhood experiences of the treatment it was then used as a pretext to ban.

The Cass researchers didn’t neglect you. The people who did your original treatment but did no long term research or follow up neglected you. The adult clinics who blocked the Cass review neglected you. Presumably you’re completely on board with the next stage of research looking at data from adult gender clinics?

Will you be honest? Will you explain how you have a multitude of health problems requiring several medications, health problems you describe as the “sword of Damocles” dangling over your head? Will you be honest about how you still think you’ve changed sex?

I doubt it.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 02/12/2024 22:06

I see we're at the tantrum stage, hurling around allegations about Trump, Brexit, the Cass report "stitch up" and lots of "anti trans" allegations while completely ignoring all the powerful and nuanced posts from women about the reality of the lives of women and girls.

Oh well, never mind.

Helleofabore · 02/12/2024 22:06

ButterflyHatched · 02/12/2024 21:23

Read the literal text of Project 2025

15,000 people fired for existing.

Demonstrably lifesaving treatment banned offhand while knowing full well what the devastating consequences will be.

'A huge problem for a sane society'
'Morally mandated out of existence'

You sure got to own the evil transes though, and making sure they're sad and unsafe while pissing is what is really important.

“Demonstrably lifesaving treatment banned offhand while knowing full well what the devastating consequences will be.”

Eh? That seems rather opposite to what has been shown by the research. I mean, there was that Yale study that made the conclusion that had to be retracted because the evidence didn’t support it.

Helleofabore · 02/12/2024 21:57

ButterflyHatched · 02/12/2024 21:32

Shall I pedantically list all the experiences I've had of female toilets over the years that demonstrate how essential they have been to my life and safety as well? Nah, what's the fucking point. You'll just say none of it was real because it was experienced by a male.

I see. Not even a glimmer of self awareness.

Yes, I will point out that you are male and that if you have needs that you don’t feel are covered by male toilets or gender neutral toilets, you need to find a solution that works that are not female single sex spaces. Because you are male as you point out.

Female toilets are not there to make male people happy or safe. They are also not there to provide any other type of utility to male people above 8 years old. So, yes, I will point out that male people should not be there.

But there is that catastrophising cognitive distortion again this time combined with a falsehood.

“You'll just say none of it was real because it was experienced by a male.”

No. I would have no grounds to say it was not ‘real’. That is a false assertion by you. Of course you are real, of course your use of female single sex provision is ‘real’. You were in the toilets. You used them.

And no, male people would not be using female single sex spaces if they truly respect female people’s needs. And no male people should be using those spaces after about 8 years old.

ButterflyHatched · 02/12/2024 21:55

Runor · 02/12/2024 21:39

“Demonstrably lifesaving treatment banned offhand while knowing full well what the devastating consequences will be.”

Have you read the Cass report? If you’re talking about ‘trans affirming treatment’ then you are misinformed. If you’re talking about treatment for women’s reproductive health, then you have a point (but has mixed it up with a bunch of other stuff which isn’t really relevant for women)

I have indeed read the Cass report stitch-up that we all saw coming and have plentiful evidence of posters on here crowing about the unreleased recommendations of years in advance.

I was one of the people its researchers neglected to listen to about their own childhood experiences of the treatment it was then used as a pretext to ban.

Runor · 02/12/2024 21:39

“Demonstrably lifesaving treatment banned offhand while knowing full well what the devastating consequences will be.”

Have you read the Cass report? If you’re talking about ‘trans affirming treatment’ then you are misinformed. If you’re talking about treatment for women’s reproductive health, then you have a point (but has mixed it up with a bunch of other stuff which isn’t really relevant for women)

NotBadConsidering · 02/12/2024 21:39

ButterflyHatched · 02/12/2024 21:23

Read the literal text of Project 2025

15,000 people fired for existing.

Demonstrably lifesaving treatment banned offhand while knowing full well what the devastating consequences will be.

'A huge problem for a sane society'
'Morally mandated out of existence'

You sure got to own the evil transes though, and making sure they're sad and unsafe while pissing is what is really important.

None of that debunks the idea that you place your personal woes above any women’s requirements.

15,000 people fired for existing

Hasn't happened and not what is proposed.

Demonstrably lifesaving treatment banned offhand while knowing full well what the devastating consequences will be

It has been demonstrated that it is NOT lifesaving treatment.

You sure got to own the evil transes though, and making sure they're sad and unsafe while pissing is what is really important.

You keep repeating that phrase “evil transes.” Why? Only you have said that. Are you Gollum? It’s not about “transes” it’s about males. You. In women’s spaces. You started off posting trying to pass yourself off as a “reasonable” trans activist but you’re just no different to all the other men’s rights activists.

ButterflyHatched · 02/12/2024 21:32

Helleofabore · 02/12/2024 20:56

"I used to think it was ridiculous that all this effort was being spent arguing over where people piss"

yep. And here is just one of the significant differences between the female and male life experiences. Female people DON'T just use the toilet to piss.

What do women do in toilets?

I spent many days, often 2-3 times a week, where I had a stroller or pram jammed in the door because I had no one but myself to do shopping. And I didn’t need the change table so didn’t use the accessible toilet if there was one.

That included at period time with flooding periods and hormonal diarrhoea.
Particulary after pregnancy. Often with a crying infant.

I have also had to take my wheelchair bound elderly mother to a normal cubicle when there was no accessible toilet available. Where I couldn’t leave her to sit without assistance to remove the wheelchair to lock the door .

I, too, have washed clothing out, and at times had to unbutton shirts to get them dry from baby vomit, or leaking breasts.

I have even had to do this at work when I was stuck in an event for hours and could not leave to express so ended up with significant leakage. More than once. Because breastfeeding women work too.

And got dressed in work toilets for various reasons.

And cried there and comforted others. And hid there from men who wouldn’t take no for an answer.

I have had friends lose their pregnancies in the female toilets and needed help from other women there.

I know I am not the only one because several times this past year I have come across half stripped women in the toilets while out dealing with similar issues.

The solution is also not demanding gender neutral toilets. It is not fully enclosed cubicles. A female taking up a cubicle to wash and dry clothes is putting an undue time demand on those waiting to use that cubicle.

There are many reasons that women do not want males in the toilet.

However, the female toilets have never been used just to ‘pee’.

And I don't want any male person in the female toilets, even the ones who are someone's lovely fucking friends.

Shall I pedantically list all the experiences I've had of female toilets over the years that demonstrate how essential they have been to my life and safety as well? Nah, what's the fucking point. You'll just say none of it was real because it was experienced by a male.

JanesLittleGirl · 02/12/2024 21:26

@ButterflyHatched if you labour under the illusion that the only reason that women use loos is to urinate and defecate then you have no idea of the female condition.