Emily Bridges on ITV: “Why didn’t JKR spend her money on women’s rights?”

An interesting decision to platform him - especially given the intellectual inadequcy of his views - and to stream his views with any level of fact checking . No time now but I believe there may be some powerful individuals at ITV news with a vested interest in promoting trans issues?

Rowling fell from the Forbes billionaire list due to charity donations and paying tax

rowling is not a billionaire, which shows the ignorance of Bridges

He started his trans journey at peak time around 2020, again I believe a lot of young people were online then being groomed ( In 2021/22, there were over 5,000 referrals into the GIDS, a substantial increase from just under 250 in 2011/12. Mostly young women).
Wiki says he started his hormone therapy in 2021. Looking at this video I do wonder if he is still on his trans journey and if he will continue.
so much damage has been done by young men proclaiming themselves to be women around this period and expecting us all to just budge over. I believe that it will be 5-10 years before this generation stops with this insanity. At least treatment for trans young people will be more measured and considered He’s very typical of all the younger ‘trans women are women’ males in the brigade.

Agree.

He is definitely parroting American rhetoric, and I’m not sure why he thinks JKR should be campaigning on it now, but there is nothing to stop abortion policy or legislation changing.

Access to the MAP was initially unintentionally limited during the pandemic.

However, abortion is a sex based right and Using Bridge’s logic abortion only affects a minority of people who could be male or female. There is mo way to connect abortion to any class of people or analyse the wider impact of reducing access to abortion.

Summary:

Women shouldn't be allowed to make too much of their own money.

And if they do, they should spend it as I tell them.

And if they do exactly that, they're still wrong.

I mean EB is showing how embarrassingly stupid they are. JKR charitable activities are well known and in the public domain. It’s like pigeon fucking chess everytime

still its always good when EB is interviews in person as everyone can see that they are in fact a very large man

It's always been unbearable but yes it's got a lot more personal and viewpoint stuff on now. I guess it's the 'Take your whole self to work' thing. At least I know not to do that as a result, as they would clearly repost me as a Bad Example. It mainly makes me count the days until retirement (3,991). None of it seems to have much to do with any of the things I see as problems at work.

Oddly enough the most anti reactions I have seen are on Linked In. Which I never thought of as a political platform. The male recently ex-chair of my professional organisation (which i have to be a member of or I don't have a job) is on there calling for the current chair and leadership to publish a statement of support for trans and nonbinary people. Which so far the (female) leadership has not done. They could publish a statement of support for the rule of law, but they haven't done that either. Fine with me.

They used "abortion" as an example, so they know what a woman is, as only a woman can experience (inclusively of transmen)

I want to hear from transmen. I want to hear from women who have been sacked because they stated that sex is real, and I want to hear from women in sports who lost out because they declined to participate with a male.

Oldfashioneddinosaur · Yesterday 22:59

This. His parents must be so proud.

As Boiledbeetle has pointed out, Mammy's as mad as her manchild.

Ignorant, petulant, arrogant brat.

No debate is over. The mantrums are making no difference. The majority of average people on the street are speaking and they are saying that TWAM. There are a few shouts of "be kind!", a few "bigot!" and a few "transphobe!" but the tide has definitely turned now. Corporates may be catching up but I really think the trans right movement is having it's swan song now.

Indeed. Lots of people have to suddenly change their life goals because of injury or illness, including me. Life isn't fair.

I might be wrong but I think unlike most trans athletes who compete in women’s sports EB was actually good and on the GB men’s team but had an accident and hasn’t been able to get back to their previous ability. Of course what they need now is therapy to come to terms with that and not try to get in the women’s category as a consolation prize.

Most succinct reply to Emily’s mum promoting Emily’s interview on ITV tonight.

Dear lord, it's almost not right even interviewing that person. So many issues.

What leaps out to me, about all this, is there's little wonder that people like Emily, his family, and allies, are so hellbent on him playing in women's sport. Because he's got fuck all hope of doing anything else.

I don't remember his mum talking on here, I don't think I was involved in those conversations. But she must've been seriously relieved that he was getting somewhere, doing something.

It goes without saying that women's goals and achievements aren't bloody candy to be handed out as a consolation price to crap athletes.

But I don't often hear these men speak, and now I'm wondering, if it truly is the only bloody thing they can do. Not qualified in anything else, can't string a sentence together, couldn't hold down a job, but cheat at women's sport? Piece of piss.

The X I've seen is highly pro women/reality but I don't follow Genderwoo believers anyhow. Comments from Mr Willoughby (calls himself India) have been a laugh, but JKR reactions are better.

No idea. But usual Islamophobia and transphobia?

I’m not on x - what are the comments like so far?

I’ve been on threads (IG) the last couple of days and it’s endless. WOMEN saying this can’t be endorsed unless people are strip searched/ their privacy is breeched;
transmen are more dangerous than transwomen; transwomen living a woman’s life are women; transwomen will have had the same lived experience if transitioned pre puberty; what spaces women need to safeguard other than toilets- everyone is in their own cubicle in the toilets, anyway; what is a woman; JKR must die and Starmer doesn’t speak for me.
We’ve got a lot of young women on IG/ Threads who absolutely hate ‘terfs’.
Feels a bit like bashing your head to the wall

He’s an absolute melt. Embarrassing.

I get the feeling Bridges mum told him the sun shone out his a%£# rather than the truth. When he couldn't compete against men I'm sure she was fine with him switching to cheating. He needs to hear "no" more often.

How annoying of his mum to say that, the "be kind" rubbish is what got everyone into the mess that now has to be unravelled.
Bet his mum knew she was a woman when she had him, not something he could do!