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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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Winterwonders24 · 20/04/2025 17:33

SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 17:30

breast binders being posted out to girls behind parents backs.

schools secretly allowing children to transition at school.

Christ,forgotten that!! Can never rake some many organisations seriously again (NSPCC/AMENESTY/GIRL GUIDING to name but a few)

FeelingLessTired · 20/04/2025 17:32

strangeandfamiliar · 20/04/2025 15:24

My NHS Trust requiring clinicians to record whether a 2 year old's 'gender identity' is the same as 'their gender assigned at birth'. So much fantasy and gross misinformation all in one go. From a health service, where you'd think a basic understanding of biological sex might prevail. Still a requirement, but I'm hoping its days are numbered.

My 72 year old DH being asked before getting an MRI on his knee if he could possibly be pregnant. The radiographer went pink and sort of mumbled; 'So sorry, but I have to ask this'.

Justme56 · 20/04/2025 17:30

The cotton ceiling.

SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 17:30

breast binders being posted out to girls behind parents backs.

schools secretly allowing children to transition at school.

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Winterwonders24 · 20/04/2025 17:30

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

This I think will lady with me: people who speak with authority, or self proclaimed expertise, but went TWAW (Alice Roberts always sticks in my mind).
Read the whole thread,and feels surreal. But it DOES feel different now 🤞👍

Gettingbysomehow · 20/04/2025 17:27

All those children who had their normal bodies mutilated by puberty blockers, who then changed their minds when they were older only to find they were infertile and parts of their anatomy had remained child sized and would never be normal again. Actually encouraged and egged on by the trans brigade. To then have their lives ruined.

TheSecondMrsCampbellBlack · 20/04/2025 17:26

It’s hard to believe all this is true, whoever said it reads like fever dreams / nightmares is right.

Bluebootsgreenboots · 20/04/2025 17:25

Yaniv.

Dwayne the mobility scooter.

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

Waitwhat23 · 20/04/2025 17:23

On a nicer note, the online launch event for The Woman Who Wouldn't Wheesht. There was something like 1000 of us attending online and the atmosphere was like nothing else.

TheSecondMrsCampbellBlack · 20/04/2025 17:23

When the murderer “Sarah Jane “ was recorded saying “punch a terf” but was let off in court

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66676737

“Baker, from Richmond in south-west London, was also asked why she wished she had not made the comments and said it was because she was now in a men's prison with sex offenders.
She added: "I'm with people who want to kill me, or rape me, or kill me and rape me."
Baker is the subject of a life sentence for the attempted murder of a fellow inmate she attacked when in prison serving a sentence for kidnapping and torturing her stepmother's 19-year-old brother. Baker was recalled to prison following the events at the rally.”

Sarah Jane Baker arrives at the City of London Magistrates' Court

Sarah Jane Baker: Trans activist cleared of inciting violence

Sarah Jane Baker told a crowd gathered at a rally in central London in July to "punch a terf".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66676737

Waitwhat23 · 20/04/2025 17:21

After the vote for the GRR in the Scottish Parliament and several politicians stood up and applauded the males in the gallery, including Beth of 'did it all for Beth'

When the GRR bill amendments to stop convicted sex offenders from applying for a GRC were voted down

When MSP's called rape survivors requesting a female medical examiner bigots. I watched the debate on Holyrood TV and cried at the awfulness of it.

Butthechildrentheylovethebooks · 20/04/2025 17:21

SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 17:16

The male teacher in Canada with the absolutely enormous fake breasts!

It's still so hard to believe this is true. Most of these stories sound like crazy fever dreams.

Butthechildrentheylovethebooks · 20/04/2025 17:19

Winterwonders24 · 20/04/2025 17:09

Do think he was a painful blessing in a lycra disguise

I agree with this. It came at the right moment to get my DD to see the light. She's never looked back.
(Obviously it would have been much better that it had never happened, in case anyone thinks that is disrespectful to his victim)

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 17:18

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

TheSecondMrsCampbellBlack · 20/04/2025 17:18

Stonewall telling most of government to sign up as diversity champions and misrepresenting the law, Allison Bailey having to take her chambers to court to prove it

https://allisonbailey.co.uk

Allison Bailey

Welcome to my crowdfunder

https://allisonbailey.co.uk

myplace · 20/04/2025 17:17

Aimee Challenor.

SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 17:16

The male teacher in Canada with the absolutely enormous fake breasts!

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Waitwhat23 · 20/04/2025 17:16

Heylo · 20/04/2025 16:23

The girl in the yellow is like wtf 😂

I think this is my favourite image of that particular gentleman

Memories of the last few years of madness
Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 17:16

Also an older woman being punched in the face by TRAs in New Zealand and the judge letting him off. The judge in the Speakers Corner case saying that the victim of the assault was being provocative because she wouldn’t pretend her assailant was a woman or use she/her.

myplace · 20/04/2025 17:15

Honestly it’s been jaw flappingly ludicrous from the get go.

Linehan couldn’t write it.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/04/2025 17:14

The Mermaids Trustee was an academic from LSE. It took quite a while for LSE to react to that too.

The Dana Rivers case. It took years for it to come to court. Minimal media coverage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DanaRivers This is what Rivers did (from Wikipedia, which regrettably uses female pronouns for this depraved multiple murderer and former teacher).

On November 11, 2016, married couple Patricia Wright and Charlotte Reed and their nineteen-year-old son, Benny Toto Diambu-Wright, were killed at their house in Oakland, California.[3] Wright and Reed were both stabbed and "riddled with bullets" in their bed, though Reed was stabbed dozens more times than Wright, to the point of being "unrecognizable".[3][6] Diambu was shot and was found lying in the street after leaving the house.[3][10] When police arrived at the scene following 911 calls, they found Rivers running from the house, which was on fire, while covered in blood. She was in possession of knives, ammunition, and metal knuckles; when arrested, she "began to make spontaneous statements about her involvement in the murders", according to police.[3][11]
Rivers was formally charged with three counts of murder, arson, and possession of metal knuckles on November 14, 2016.[3] In 2017, she pleaded not guilty to the charges;[1] in 2018 she was ordered to stand trial on the murder charges.[12] After years of delay, Rivers' jury trial on charges of murder began in late October 2022.[13] The prosecution alleged that, motivated by Reed's exit from the women's motorcycle club they had both been members of, Rivers had gained Reed's trust in order to be allowed to spend the night in her and Wright's home. Rivers then shot the couple to death in their sleep, stabbing the corpses afterwards; she set fire to the garage in an attempt to remove evidence of the crime.[6][14] On November 16, 2022, a jury found Rivers guilty on all charges.[5][6] In January 2023, a judge ruled that she had been legally sane at the time of the murders.[10] The same judge later sentenced Rivers to life in prison without the possibility of parole, calling it "the most depraved crime I ever handled in the criminal justice system in 33 years."

myplace · 20/04/2025 17:13

The women’s march that organised a violent male sex offender as a keynote speaker.

TheSecondMrsCampbellBlack · 20/04/2025 17:13

Bristol university students union refusing to let feminists meet without men
Kathleen Stock being hounded out of Sussex uni
Jo Phoenix being hounded out of the open university
Posie Parker being threatened when she held let women speak rallies
An older woman punched in the face at Speaker’s Corner by TRAs