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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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JulesJules · 20/04/2025 18:15

YesYesAllGood · 20/04/2025 15:59

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

Was that the same guy who was filmed by the BBC in his house doing dishes and laundry. Clearly to subliminally reassure us he must definitely be a woman?

Yes, and pretty sure he was presented as a "housewife" on a piece about the cost of living. He was shown washing up a breast pump.

mrshoho · 20/04/2025 18:14

Rosie Kay. The poor woman was hounded out of her own dance company. Bloody awful.

FlowerUser · 20/04/2025 18:14

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”

I hope her son sues her and goes full NC.

KnottyAuty · 20/04/2025 18:13

takehimjolene · 20/04/2025 15:42

From my own personal experience:
Arranging a residential visit for teenagers. Parents of a 16 year old girl asked if she could share a room with boys that she was good friends with, as she had experienced bullying from the other girls on the trip. No spare single rooms available and all parents agreed (all friends and regularly had sleep-overs together at home). Organisation head office said this was absolutely definitely not acceptable even with parental permission from all. On the SAME TRIP, advice from the same person at head office was that a ftm trans young person (with no surgery etc, just change of names/pronouns) must be accommodated with the boys.

Have you shared that story with a journalist?

vandelier · 20/04/2025 18:12

It's all quite unbelievable looking back isn't it?

If someone were to make a film or write a blockbuster novel including the above it would be like science fiction. Unreal, and I just hope it really is over now.

Any bets on that?

SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 18:12

Wi Spa! And the guardian article about it!

Official Guidance for courts and the media etc on how to refer to trans people.

Athletes like CeCe Telfar - and others recently thrashing women in events like the high jump and the long jump.

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OvaHere · 20/04/2025 18:12

This aged well.

Thanks Supreme Court.

Memories of the last few years of madness
FlowerUser · 20/04/2025 18:10

Going to a gig at a university to discover the toilets labelled as "with urinals" and "with cubicles".

Seeing posters at local hospital saying they have to ask everyone from the age of 12 if there is a possibility they might be pregnant.

Gender identity questions fucking everywhere and very few male/female options.

clarabenton · 20/04/2025 18:07

Drew Barrymore kneeling to Dylan Mulvaney on her talk show.

‘I did it for Beth’.

KateShugakIsALegend · 20/04/2025 18:07

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 18:06

If you posted a crowdfunding link, those are not allowed on MN in general, it’s not just GC ones. Hence the chat about gardening and planting carrots etc.

Ah, thank you

TheKeatingFive · 20/04/2025 18:06

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

So many of these lefty men have revealed themselves to be huge cowards/misogynists. Take Gary Linekar and his absolute refusal to speak up for women in sport 😡

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 18:06

KateShugakIsALegend · 20/04/2025 18:03

Sarah Summers in Brighton (I posted a link in a previous reply but it is pending MNHQ review)

If you posted a crowdfunding link, those are not allowed on MN in general, it’s not just GC ones. Hence the chat about gardening and planting carrots etc.

catsrus · 20/04/2025 18:06

Driving to a WPUK meeting in Hastings, where there had been, according to police "A credible" bomb threat. Arriving to find mini buses full of police next to the new venue. Finally meeting there, in person, many of the awesome women I'd been interacting with on Twitter.

Fighting my way through the bully boys to get into the WPUK fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference in Brighton. The hammering on the windows so that we would not hear the speakers, the police doing fuck all to stop it. Trying to find a safe space in the building for a young DV survivor who was having a panic attack because of it. Women forming a protective shield around her so that we could get her out and drive her home. Simon Fanshaw and some male LP policy bods had come along and were well and truly peaked that night.

Every time women tried to meet and were attacked for doing so more women peaked.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/04/2025 18:04

mrshoho · 20/04/2025 18:01

Over the years there's been some ridiculous actions by the police. I can't remember individual cases but along the lines of a serious assault with a description of the assailant white, female, 6ft 5, glasses and to be on the look out. So people are looking out for this woman but of course the attacker is in fact a man. More concerned in the possibility of misgendering rather than giving the general.piblic accurate information.

Also so many news reports where all the way through it talks of a female perpetrator but only when a phograph is given do we see just what type woman it is.

There was an article a few years ago where the writer disingenuously wrote about the increase in female crime, and without any mention of “trans” used a picture of an obvious man who identifies as a woman to illustrate it.

Waitwhat23 · 20/04/2025 18:04

Some random photos/memes from the madness

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KateShugakIsALegend · 20/04/2025 18:03

Sarah Summers in Brighton (I posted a link in a previous reply but it is pending MNHQ review)

DeffoNeedANameChange · 20/04/2025 18:02

When Nancy Kelley likened gender critical beliefs to antisemitic beliefs.

And when she happily went on record saying, specifically in reference to lesbians, that "if you find that when dating, you are writing off entire groups of people, like people of colour, fat people, disabled people or trans people, then it's worth considering how societal prejudices may have shaped your attractions", with apparently no awareness that this level of homophobia might be at odds with being the head of what liked to be considered the leading gay rights organisation in the country

mrshoho · 20/04/2025 18:01

Over the years there's been some ridiculous actions by the police. I can't remember individual cases but along the lines of a serious assault with a description of the assailant white, female, 6ft 5, glasses and to be on the look out. So people are looking out for this woman but of course the attacker is in fact a man. More concerned in the possibility of misgendering rather than giving the general.piblic accurate information.

Also so many news reports where all the way through it talks of a female perpetrator but only when a phograph is given do we see just what type woman it is.

plumbago · 20/04/2025 18:01

Rachel McKinnon, aka Veronica Ivy - 'Die in a greasefire!'

yourhairiswinterfire · 20/04/2025 18:01

The mob of TRAs trying to attack KJK in New Zealand. It looked like a scene from The Walking Dead, a horde of rabid, violent, woman-haters all pushing and shoving to rip into a single woman. They'd have killed her if one of them had managed to grab hold of her, no doubt about it.

The police happily assisting TRAs with their harassment of women, turning up at their homes to intimidate them for tweeting, stickering, taking photographs of posters etc whilst ignoring TRA violence and death threats to women.

Amnesty declaring that those who 'defend biology' should be denied political representation.

SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 17:58

La Leche League

Scientific American forgetting about the “scientific” bit

Marks and Spencer changing rooms

Various gym changing rooms

unisex toilets in schools and secret camera recording girls.

Toilets at theatres and restaurants- male toilets plus ‘all-gender’

Tampons etc being provided in boys toilets.

some guy going in to a bridal shop and upsetting the owner demanding to be dressed in a wedding dress.

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KateShugakIsALegend · 20/04/2025 17:56

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SuperSleepyBaby · 20/04/2025 17:52

Maya Forstater being told her very normal views were not worthy of respect

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