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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 17:12

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/04/2025 17:07

When it turned out that a man employed by the NSPCC as a fundraiser (I think) had been taking pictures of himself in the toilets at work dressed in rubber fetish gear and enjoying himself, then putting them on social media. He wasn't trans, he was gay, but he had been a fervent supporter of trans rights, IIRC, and all the usual suspects launched into a defence of this kind of behaviour on the grounds that only wizened pearl-clutching old hags would object to this kind of thing at work. Safeguarding, what's that?

We never found out what happened to the male student union officer who also posted selfies showing him having fun at work behind his desk, when unfortunately he'd forgotten to put anything on below the waist. Hmm Vociferous transactivist, trans-identifying, presumably very well connected. An extremely expensive law firm represented him and then it all went very quiet.

The rainbow-painted zebra crossings which are dangerous for people with visual impairments because neither they nor their Guide Dogs can use them safely. This didn't apparently matter because it was far more important to show solidarity with the Alphabet Gang.

Oh yes, and Owen Jones said women who objected to men filming themselves wanking in the NSPCC office were just homophobes.

TheKeatingFive · 20/04/2025 17:11

That picture of Isla Bryson was a key moment in peaking in the nation

Winterwonders24 · 20/04/2025 17:09

GargoylesofBeelzebub · 20/04/2025 13:25

Isla Bryson and those pink leggings displaying his "womanhood" with impeccable timing for the GRR bill.

Do think he was a painful blessing in a lycra disguise

myplace · 20/04/2025 17:07

I had a feeling there was a second child, @Ereshkigalangcleg, but couldn’t remember the details.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/04/2025 17:07

When it turned out that a man employed by the NSPCC as a fundraiser (I think) had been taking pictures of himself in the toilets at work dressed in rubber fetish gear and enjoying himself, then putting them on social media. He wasn't trans, he was gay, but he had been a fervent supporter of trans rights, IIRC, and all the usual suspects launched into a defence of this kind of behaviour on the grounds that only wizened pearl-clutching old hags would object to this kind of thing at work. Safeguarding, what's that?

We never found out what happened to the male student union officer who also posted selfies showing him having fun at work behind his desk, when unfortunately he'd forgotten to put anything on below the waist. Hmm Vociferous transactivist, trans-identifying, presumably very well connected. An extremely expensive law firm represented him and then it all went very quiet.

The rainbow-painted zebra crossings which are dangerous for people with visual impairments because neither they nor their Guide Dogs can use them safely. This didn't apparently matter because it was far more important to show solidarity with the Alphabet Gang.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 17:04

myplace · 20/04/2025 17:01

Of course a load that remain unchallenged because they aren’t in the uk-

The middle aged man competing with teenage girls in Canada, and changing in their swimming changing rooms, unchallenged and supported by the power that be.

The American trans student who violently raped a girl in the toilets, and the girl’s dad was arrested for protesting.

Buttergasp At least there’s something to bring a smile to the face. And Posie ‘I’m not a vet but I know what a dog is!’ Parker.

And the student then went to a different school and attacked a girl there too IIRC. And all the media were concerned about was how bad it made local Democrat politicians look.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 20/04/2025 17:02

Oh yes mermaids - susie green a former IT officer who somehow managed to persuade multiple organisations, politicians, clinicians and funders that she, a woman who transed her almost certainly gay son because of her homophobic husband, was the fount of all knowledge on so called “trans children”

myplace · 20/04/2025 17:01

Of course a load that remain unchallenged because they aren’t in the uk-

The middle aged man competing with teenage girls in Canada, and changing in their swimming changing rooms, unchallenged and supported by the power that be.

The American trans student who violently raped a girl in the toilets, and the girl’s dad was arrested for protesting.

Buttergasp At least there’s something to bring a smile to the face. And Posie ‘I’m not a vet but I know what a dog is!’ Parker.

Heylo · 20/04/2025 17:01

SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 16:27

The guy in america who joined a sorority and the woman in the by group felt uncomfortable about his behaviour - wearing tight fitting leggings

Omg that one was by far one of the more horrendous ones

TheKeatingFive · 20/04/2025 16:57

When Mermaids appointed that pedophile sympathiser to their board and basically no one in the mainstream media had much to say about it.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 16:56

An unconvincing Australian man who claims to be a woman who sued a woman for creating an app for biological women to chat.

OriginalUsername2 · 20/04/2025 16:53

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 13:24

A male comedian who had always said he just liked cross dressing decided he was “genderfluid” presenting himself as a woman when he felt like it and using female facilities while retaining lucrative male acting roles.

That’s as going to be mine. Loved loved loved him before he jumped on the bandwagon.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 16:53

A throwback - Lila Perry, a 17 year old young man who in about 2015 decided that he should use the girls’ changing rooms at his school in America. The media vilified the girls, some of whom were as young as 12/13, and fawned over him. He took selfies sticking his tongue out between his fingers, and was pictured in the press memorably in a short skirt which left nothing to the imagination.

SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 16:48

And the Darlington nurses

and the recent nurse who called a sex offender patient who says he is a woman ‘mister’

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NotDarkGothicMama · 20/04/2025 16:46

Having written guidance saying that women who objected to sharing changing rooms and women-only swimming sessions with men identifying as women needed "re-educating".

Coconuthotchocolate · 20/04/2025 16:42

The sandie vs nhs fife case

SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 16:29

Lia Thomas

imane khelif - not trans, but part of the debate

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SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 16:27

The guy in america who joined a sorority and the woman in the by group felt uncomfortable about his behaviour - wearing tight fitting leggings

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Heylo · 20/04/2025 16:23

FatLarrysBanned · 20/04/2025 13:57

Images like this - hundreds of them around but this is just one.

The girl in the yellow is like wtf 😂

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/04/2025 16:16

heldinadream · 20/04/2025 15:39

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g the pregnant 'man' didn't know having a double mastectomy would result in an inability to breastfeed? Christ on a bike.
We need to be teaching biological reality to toddlers and ongoing from there in detail. That level of ignorance is truly shocking (just when I thought I'd reached unshockable...)

Here's an academic article about the whole phenomenon. Not surprising really that the young teenagers in the US who've had this surgery for gender-related reasons have not been thinking ahead to having babies, but it's amazing that the adults around them have not done that thinking for them and said no. Freddie McConnell's case is egregious because it's totally mysterious to me what Freddie thought identifying as a man meant if that was going to include pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/global-womens-health/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2023.1073053/full

Frontiers | Breastfeeding grief after chest masculinisation mastectomy and detransition: A case report with lessons about unanticipated harm

An increasing number of young females are undergoing chest masculinsation mastectomy to affirm a gender identity and/or to relieve gender dysphoria. Some des...

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/global-womens-health/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2023.1073053/full

OverpricedCupcake · 20/04/2025 16:13

An older, supposedly intelligent lesbian, starting a political party for women, which says men are also women.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 16:09

Bluebootsgreenboots · 20/04/2025 15:57

Am I imagining things or did Alison Bailey have access to her crowd justice fund blocked at some point? If that’s the case I’d love to be reminded of the details of how that came about.

Yes, many women won’t donate the voluntary fee to CJ for that reason.

Namechangechanged · 20/04/2025 16:08

Everything above. Also in my own personal life:

a) being told by a male medic family member that PEOPLE go through the menopause

b) being called transphobic by a staff member at my children’s secondary school when I asked a straightforward reasonable question checking that the girls’ toilets really were just for girls

c) one of my own children coming home from aforementioned school baffled and laughing about a PHSE session which involved the sixth form students being introduced to a motley crew of the alphabet brigade including a demi boy and a polyamorous person (as well as a selective mute - no, we couldn’t work out the relevance either)

d) being called reactionary by an old friend for not agreeing with Starmer’s assertion that “it’s not true that only women have a cervix”, or with giving puberty blockers to a nine year old boy on the basis of his penchant for pink fairy dresses when he was four

e) arguing at a craft fair with a pink haired unicorn T-shirt wearing adult stall holder who told me that men CAN breastfeed, they just take some drug and their nipples produce milk; all other stall holders stood around looking angrily at me

f) arguing on a date about single sex toilets. He said it’s fine for men to use the women’s. He had no understanding of why it wasn’t fine yet accused me of having a hateful view

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