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“Why are TERFs so well organized compared to us?”

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TheIsleOfTERF · 05/05/2025 16:56

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/s/iQskn15N11

For anyone interested on theories of how TERF Island has come to be!

Get the bingo board out as it has all the classics!

-Housewives
-Lonely
-Jealous
-Funded by the right wing

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SinnerBoy · 06/05/2025 03:04

ProfessorFellatioHornblower

I'm glad to see that you're a real person, I'm such a miserable cynic that I was beginning to suspect that some of the signatories might have been less than serious.

GreenFriedTomato · 06/05/2025 03:02

teawamutu · 05/05/2025 19:41

[Narrator: they did not, in fact, have beautiful handmade signs. Their signs were at best ridiculous clichés on cacky bits of cardboard, and at worst horrible misogynistic threats.]

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THIS is a beautiful handmade sign

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HelenaWaiting · 06/05/2025 01:30

EmpressaurusKitty · 05/05/2025 17:18

Two hundred trans people and their allies can stand on a Home Counties high street with beautiful handmade signs and chant Fuck Keir Starmer, Fuck Wes Streeting, Trans Rights Are Human Rights until the cows come home. It doesn’t matter. To some minds, it will even hurt the cause.

Well, it all depends on what message you want to put across….

Apparently it’s easy for us because we’re all super-wealthy white housewives with unlimited funding and no differences of opinion, and we have all MPs and the whole of the media in our pockets.

I just woke my cat laughing.

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You didn't know that we get all our TERF-funding from American Fundamentalist Christians?

TheAutumnCrow · 06/05/2025 01:17

most terfs I've seen are middle age + house wives etc with fuck all better to do than sit round and gossip and bitch about others while their husbands are busy fucking the lawn boy at the golf course

See that caricature? That's your mum, that is.

Velmy · 06/05/2025 01:03

borntobequiet · 05/05/2025 17:13

Not being stupid is probably a big factor.

There's never any good discourse to be had when one side starts by calling the other stupid.

I think one of the biggest problems that the 'pro' side of the trans debate has is the number of fringe extremists hysterically drowning the rest of them out from the front, and everyone else assuming that the noise is consensus.

I've never met a trans person in 'real life' whose priority isn't just getting access to the help they need and trying to live some semblance of a normal life.

JandamiHash · 06/05/2025 00:50

TheIsleOfTERF · 06/05/2025 00:44

We should do a TERF cookbook!?!

Serf and terf?

JandamiHash · 06/05/2025 00:50

Nothing quite stinks of male entitlement than a load of blokes sitting around pondering that women can’t just be good at something - there has to be something else going on. They can’t BEAR the thought of women being smarter than they are.

But they should no the answer is

  1. We are smart
  2. We are right
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TheIsleOfTERF · 06/05/2025 00:45

“Recipes from TERF Island”!

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TheIsleOfTERF · 06/05/2025 00:44

We should do a TERF cookbook!?!

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Toastess · 06/05/2025 00:43

Whenever I've strayed onto trans UK Reddit, I find myself wishing I could give some of them a cup of soup and tell them they'll be ok. Lost souls preyed upon as they look for something to belong to.

KnottyAuty · 06/05/2025 00:31

SidewaysOtter · 05/05/2025 23:55

Fewer batteries involved. Generally.

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I don't know - maybe love honey could be persuaded to develop a new model especially for terfs?

Boiledbeetle · 06/05/2025 00:20

SidewaysOtter · 06/05/2025 00:00

As for this here garden party, is there a dress code? Only the weather is a bit changeable at the moment so I’ll have to give a bit of thought to sartorial matters.

Quite happy to help with the catering, I can do a lovely plum cake made with sour cream.

I hope not! I hate dresses, I'm more a jeans and t shirt sort of beetle. But if I have to I scrub up quite well!

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HereForTheFreeLunch · 06/05/2025 00:15

Now this is a thing of beauty...

https://filia.teemill.com/product/leeds-spinner-banner-wrong-side-of-history/

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CriticalCondition · 06/05/2025 00:10

SidewaysOtter · 06/05/2025 00:00

As for this here garden party, is there a dress code? Only the weather is a bit changeable at the moment so I’ll have to give a bit of thought to sartorial matters.

Quite happy to help with the catering, I can do a lovely plum cake made with sour cream.

Ooh, now that's a recipe I need! Would you mind sharing?

SidewaysOtter · 06/05/2025 00:00

As for this here garden party, is there a dress code? Only the weather is a bit changeable at the moment so I’ll have to give a bit of thought to sartorial matters.

Quite happy to help with the catering, I can do a lovely plum cake made with sour cream.

RedToothBrush · 05/05/2025 23:55

It's not that we are well organised.

It's more than we have an IQ above 80.

And those of us who are mothers, are used to getting shit done.

SidewaysOtter · 05/05/2025 23:55

BackToLurk · 05/05/2025 19:04

Is a lawn boy like a game boy?

Fewer batteries involved. Generally.

Pluvia · 05/05/2025 23:54

Waitwhat23 · 05/05/2025 19:07

I was at a party with Ash Regan and the wonderful women from FWS and was genuinely (and unusually for me) somewhat embarrassingly awestruck.

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I behaved like a complete babbling idiot with Kathleen Stock, Helen Joyce, Maya and Akua Reindorf. I've managed to pull myself together and actually enjoyed meeting Graham Linehan, Helen Staniland, Jo Phoenix, Bev and Kate, Rosie Duffield and Joan Smith. Mr Menno is lovely. I imagine I was crossed off the garden party list for behaving like a total loon around the first three.

SidewaysOtter · 05/05/2025 23:54

Dymaxion · 05/05/2025 20:29

Why can't they accept it's regular women giving bits here and there?

Because they look down on regular women, we aren't doing womaning nearly as well as they do, plus who has ever cared about regular women ? We are just the boring back office staff who make sure everything runs smoothly, finds stuff and deals with all the major and minor catastrophies that an ordinary life throws the way of everyone. Shame on us !

Given that they see women as either a) middle aged mothers or b) old, I’d say they have a decidedly iffy view of women generally. It totally blows their little minds that that we’re intelligent and organised and - worst of all - we use our sense of humour to poke fun at them. Mind you, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel most of the time…

MyrtleLion · 05/05/2025 23:38

Millions in funding, garden parties, well-organised - oh actually that last one is true.

It's the cri de couer of the entitled man-babies not getting their way.

Boiledbeetle · 05/05/2025 23:35

I keep telling everyone I have all the far right funding money, you just need to give me your bank details. Oh and online banking log in information, and your mothers maiden name, name of your primary school, name of your first pet, and your 6 digit pass code.

I'll make sure I wipe out your savings you get your share!

Honest!

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 05/05/2025 23:30

Lawn boy is a sort of mower, not a male ……person for hire.

unless this is a new form of gender identity , or course

CaptainCarrotsBigSword · 05/05/2025 23:21

I am increasingly concerned about my lack of far right funding and garden party invites. What the hell. I've been at this for years, where is my lawn boy?!

Full disclosure - I am white and probably count as middle class. But I also work full time and have primary aged children, dogs, rabbits and a house & garden that have half a dozen ongoing DIY projects (because I can't afford to pay someone else to do it, again, where is my far right funding??) so the amount of spare time I have is precisely zero. Nor does DH, who is also TERF-inclined. Poor chap wouldn't have time for the lawn boy.

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TheIsleOfTERF · 05/05/2025 23:05

Those poor lawn boys won’t have time for all their affairs with our husbands if we keep giving them work to do? Classic bitter jealous hags! /s

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