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Memories of the last few years of madness

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SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 13:12

There have been so many issues over the last few years with trans rights clashing with women’s rights… its been fascinating, in a bad way.

some that come to mind:

A man photographed breastfeeding a newborn in a bus - and being used by the BBC to represent mothers for a story

A man running a rape crisis centre while saying he’s a women and telling women users of the service to ‘reframe their trauma’

a man saying he’s a women and being appointed to head a charity for endometriosis.

Male police officers who say they are women being allowed to strip search women.

What else…

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 17:52

SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 17:49

Kathleen Stock

That iconic photo where she’s walking with her security detail to do the speech at the Oxford Union, it looks like Reservoir Dogs!

Justme56 · 20/04/2025 17:52

Stupid comments from MPs.
’Born without a sex, growing a cervix, not knowing what sex they are, etc’

KateShugakIsALegend · 20/04/2025 17:50

Theeyeballsinthesky · 20/04/2025 17:24

The absolute monstering of Graham Linehan

the cowardice of the popular science brigade like Dara O’Briain & Robin Ince

Yes, watching what was happening to Graham Linehan and feeling so powerless to stop him being destroyed.

Waitwhat23 · 20/04/2025 17:50

JackieQueen · 20/04/2025 17:47

Kellie Jay being attacked (along with others) in New Zealand. Was watching this live and really thought i was gonna see someone killed.

And when she had a fluid thrown in her face, which turned out to be tomato soup and the TRA's made mocking memes not considering for a moment how utterly terrifying it must have been in that moment to have an unknown liquid thrown in your face.

Her defiant photo afterwards was everything though

SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 17:49

Kathleen Stock

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 17:48

Me too @JackieQueen

JackieQueen · 20/04/2025 17:47

Kellie Jay being attacked (along with others) in New Zealand. Was watching this live and really thought i was gonna see someone killed.

FeelingLessTired · 20/04/2025 17:47

Waitwhat23 · 20/04/2025 17:46

Mr Ribbony Fearty himself, David Paisley, and the fabulous hashtag hateful haberdashery.

RMW popping onto a support thread to chastise us all about bundles.

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RMW popping up was hilarious.

Arse handed on plate. On MN AND the courtroom.

Happy days.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 17:46

The women being hounded out by those people were ordinary members, not MPs. Rosie hadn’t said anything by that point.

FeelingLessTired · 20/04/2025 17:46

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 17:45

He didn’t set it up, that was Lily Madigan and friends. He was a member though.

They think we don;t keep receipts.

(Sorry, they HOPE we don't).

Waitwhat23 · 20/04/2025 17:46

Mr Ribbony Fearty himself, David Paisley, and the fabulous hashtag hateful haberdashery.

RMW popping onto a support thread to chastise us all about bundles.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 17:45

Clinicalwaste · 20/04/2025 17:42

Was it Wes streeting who set up the group to hound/ out gc women from the Labour Party including rose duffield. Nice guy…

He didn’t set it up, that was Lily Madigan and friends. He was a member though.

SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 17:44

And Dylan Mulvanney’s budweiser ad

Trumps ‘they/them’ ad

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Clinicalwaste · 20/04/2025 17:42

Was it Wes streeting who set up the group to hound/ out gc women from the Labour Party including rose duffield. Nice guy…

Waitwhat23 · 20/04/2025 17:42

Ivesaidenough · 20/04/2025 17:40

That Dylan Mulvaney Nike ad.

You've made me think of Dylan's friend - the dead eyed, genuinely sinister one but I've forgotten his name.

FeelingLessTired · 20/04/2025 17:42

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 17:38

Male actor who identifies as a woman in mediocre film bizarrely nominated for 13 Oscars getting cancelled because of his extremely problematic Twitter account.

Yeah. And then because said film could no longer be given oscars another mediocre film that also featured the disempowerment of women and entrenched misogyny was somehow seen as 'thank god we have an alternative crap and misogynistic film ' and given all the other awards which was then lauded as a landmark somehow for women.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 17:42

Clinicalwaste · 20/04/2025 17:33

The Green Party allowed him to attend events as a Green Party worker while awaiting trial for the rape and torture of the ten year old girl. Aimee then posted a picture of himself at the bottom of the stairs to the loft where the rape and torture took place in their tiny two up two down house. The Green Party knew and did an awful announcement when called out on it. They quickly took it down when people pointed out they had not said anything supportive of the victim. I could never vote Green as a result of this and the whole scandal was extremely shocking and upsetting.

I remember all this, and I think there are threads about it here.

SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 17:41

Issues with the census

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SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 17:40

Pronouns - on email signatures or when people are introducing themselves.

Those unusual pronouns- like ze-zir.

Imagine trying to talk about a group of people who have pronouns not matching their sex - or they /them or ze/zir - how difficult it would be to carefully say the correct thing and to remember each person’s pronoun.

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Ivesaidenough · 20/04/2025 17:40

That Dylan Mulvaney Nike ad.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 17:38

Male actor who identifies as a woman in mediocre film bizarrely nominated for 13 Oscars getting cancelled because of his extremely problematic Twitter account.

Clinicalwaste · 20/04/2025 17:38

Personally being kicked off twitter for stating moj figures about the occurrence if sex crimes in the trans identifying male prison population. Being on twitter with about 400 women and glinner and everyone absolutely hating us for saying tw were men. Having to meet women locally and form a group to campaign but having to be vetted in secret due to the fear of being outed as gc and losing jobs and friends or being targeted. Being at a meeting with 100 middle aged women to discuss changes to the gra and having bag searches, security and the police there as there was a bomb threat. Fun times…

MarzipanAndFrenchFancies · 20/04/2025 17:36

Mine is a personal one, going to a menapause webinar for HR people and most of the questions from the attendees being about how to include trans women.

QuetzalTerfLus · 20/04/2025 17:35

One of the stories that stuck in my head were the threads here discussing the transidentified male SH (still not sure if I am allowed to write out his name) / golf clubs / doctor AH hounding of Caroline Farrow. The way they were laughing and gloating about their bullying behaviour, like nasty little school boys. It was so unpleasant and such a glaring example of why women wouldn’t want to share any kind of single-sex space with SH. And then SH joined the thread! Blimey. It was shocking watching it play out in real time.

Clinicalwaste · 20/04/2025 17:33

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 17:18

Aimee Challenor’s paedophile rapist Dad who also liked to dress up as a 10 year old girl.

The Green Party allowed him to attend events as a Green Party worker while awaiting trial for the rape and torture of the ten year old girl. Aimee then posted a picture of himself at the bottom of the stairs to the loft where the rape and torture took place in their tiny two up two down house. The Green Party knew and did an awful announcement when called out on it. They quickly took it down when people pointed out they had not said anything supportive of the victim. I could never vote Green as a result of this and the whole scandal was extremely shocking and upsetting.