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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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Szygy · 21/04/2025 00:19

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

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g in a very surreal turn of events, that same person now appears to be part of a mushroom-related collective (I kid you not) - 'twas on a thread here not long ago and some sharp-eyed person spotted him. If it is him, he’s not 'presenting', as they say, in his former persona any more.

As for recollections of the madness of the last few years - what about Sally Hines tweeting that 'before the Enlightenment, the female skeleton didn’t exist' - leading to this glorious cartoon riposte (with the late Deborah Orr in the thread too)…..

Memories of the last few years of madness
GreenFriedTomato · 21/04/2025 00:01

SidewaysOtter · 20/04/2025 22:43

Oh, have we had David Lammy’s infamous quote about women being dinosaurs hoarding our rights?

Along with the poetry books I purchased the dinosaur pin to celebrate this week. I have a feeling the seller may be on here somewhere 😃

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 23:52

MistyGreenAndBlue · 20/04/2025 22:08

I thought it was the NSPCC who told women who objected that they were homophobic. Then it turned out the guy was straight.

I think both did.

BingBongSong · 20/04/2025 23:36

Bradley.
Madigan.
Harrop.

Just awful times.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/04/2025 23:06

The school holiday library event for young children that featured a man dressed as a monkey with exposed genitals, nicely described here:

Writer Janice Turner wrote: “I would really love a detailed breakdown of the commissioning process whereby Redbridge council commissioned the Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey as a means to teach children to read.”

Redbridge Council - latest news, breaking stories and comment - The Standard

Latest London news, business, sport, showbiz and entertainment from the London Evening Standard.

https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/redbridge-council

GargoylesofBeelzebub · 20/04/2025 23:00

NeverOneBiscuit · 20/04/2025 15:35

India Willoughby on Celebrity Big Brother.

He had a massive tantrum because the female housemates were reminiscing about their teenage years. Apparently they were excluding him. Although given he’s a male who fathered a child I’m unsure how he thinks his teenage years were comparable to the womens.

Following that, his cesspit of a Twitter account, & his declaration on Question Time that he was a biological woman.

And then massaging his moobs in front of if the mirror like all women do. 🙄🙄

MistyGreenAndBlue · 20/04/2025 22:52

Drag Queen Story Time. Twerking for the kids 🙄

SidewaysOtter · 20/04/2025 22:43

Oh, have we had David Lammy’s infamous quote about women being dinosaurs hoarding our rights?

SidewaysOtter · 20/04/2025 22:23

vandelier · 20/04/2025 16:04

The suppression of speech, and the often violent intimidation of women speakers at Let Women Speak rallies.

God yes, walking past screaming protestors, some of whom were holding banners with guns on them, and the sheer number of police required to keep them away from women who wanted to talk amongst ourselves.

Emily Bridges wanging on about a “genocide” on Instagram because he’d been banned from cycling in the women’s classes.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/04/2025 22:10

Oh, and a very old one indeed. Miranda Yardley, a transsexual who uses the pronouns he/him and is a sex realist, was sued by Helen Islan, who was then or had earlier been the marketing officer for Mermaids and who is mother of a trans-identified child (FTM, transitioned while a minor). HI posts as mimmymun on Twix. Sorry for the DM link but their headline says it all:

Britain's first transgender hate crime trial is halted after one day as judge says 'there is no case and never was a case'

In response, she was unmasked by Yardley who tweeted a picture and a link to her real identity. The tweet also referenced her transgender child, which Ms Islan argued effectively ‘outed’ him. She said it led to them both being harassed adding that the post made her feel ‘stressed and sick’. Initially, Ms Islan’s complaint was dealt with by West Yorkshire Police before being passed to colleagues in Essex, who decided it was a hate crime. But when the case reached court the defence referred to pages of social media posts in which Ms Islan herself was regularly tweeting about her trans child, about him taking blockers, that he had ‘come out’ at school. The court heard that a simple search on Google brought up Ms Islan’s personal details, including a family photograph that she had herself posted.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6764763/Britains-transgender-hate-crime-trial-halted-one-day.html

Britain's first transgender hate crime trial is halted after one day

Miranda Yardley, 51, was put ‘through ten months of hell’ after transgender activist Helen Islan accused her of harassment.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6764763/Britains-transgender-hate-crime-trial-halted-one-day.html

MistyGreenAndBlue · 20/04/2025 22:08

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 17:12

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

I thought it was the NSPCC who told women who objected that they were homophobic. Then it turned out the guy was straight.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/04/2025 22:02

During Alison Bailey's employment tribunal case, Kirrin Medcalfe, 34, the head of trans inclusion at Stonewall, made a last minute request to have with him his mum, a support worker and an emotional support dog. He also needed frequent breaks. Did not make an impressive witness, IIRC.

Violetparis · 20/04/2025 21:57

A funny one to share - Ricky Gervais's comedy routine on the 'new' types of women.

spannasaurus · 20/04/2025 21:56

OverpricedCupcake · 20/04/2025 21:55

Fred Wallace getting drunk on stage with his bollock hanging out.

And Peter Tatchel trying to get him to stop drinking

OverpricedCupcake · 20/04/2025 21:55

Fred Wallace getting drunk on stage with his bollock hanging out.

Bluebootsgreenboots · 20/04/2025 20:57

The de platforming of Martina Navaratilova. One of the greatest sports women of my life time left out in the cold for saying that men shouldn’t play in womens sports. I went to some anniversary presentation at Wimbledon a couple of years ago, they were all there for some special presentations, Williams x2, Murray, Federer, Jokavic. But no Marina. Sad.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 20:45

FFS that’s ridiculous.

GreenFriedTomato · 20/04/2025 20:38

The Tickle Vs. Giggle case in AU.
And Amnesty International misleadingly using the photo of the woman on the app instead of Roxy Tickles photo, when they celebrated his win

Memories of the last few years of madness
Memories of the last few years of madness
Memories of the last few years of madness
Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 20:33

When TRAs literally projected “Repeat After Us: Trans Women Are Women” onto the Houses of Parliament like a scene from 1984.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 20:29

Poor old Mr Harrop.

Gettingbysomehow · 20/04/2025 20:16

On tiktok today, downs syndrome women aren't women because they have an extra chromosome.....daft ranting from a transwoman getting muddled by science.

dapsnotplimsolls · 20/04/2025 20:01

The fear around pronouns, particularly at work - so many threads of women fearing they'd lose their job if they didn't put their pronoun in their e-mail etc.

IButtleSir · 20/04/2025 19:54

"Lesbians love girldick."

MoltenLasagne · 20/04/2025 19:52

Unfortunately still going- that awful Irish doctor in the US who does tiktok dance routines promoting her elective mastectomies to teenage girls. Apparently she intentionally does not have insurance so no-one can raise a case against her malpractice.

In the same vein, GP Helen Webberley, although it is at least some comfort that she can no longer practice and is having to hire immoral doctors to prescribe on her behalf.