Roberta Cowell - trans racing driver

Late war spitfires could reach 40,000 ft, so that particular bit might be true, depending on when he says that happened / if he flew through the entire war. It would be more likely if he flew reconnaissance models.

He had an RAF career, so calling him a Walt’s a little unfair. There’s more than enough shitty aspects to his personality and life story without claiming he made up his service.

This person is an utter fantasist. None of this stuff should be anywhere near a year 6 curriculum.

My DGM was good mates with Roberta Cowell and I met him several times at around the time he gave this interview. I would have been 11.

Being young and innocent I had no idea about sex changes, but all I can say is when I found out it came as no surprise at all. I think the claim about DSD was pure delusion. Not that tall but very burly, dressed manishly, man's deep voice but with this bonkers long dyed blonde hair.

Oh absolutely. But I doubt any teachers actually questioned the nonsense they were teaching , after having paid for an external PHSE system to save them having to set one up. Cornwall had Jigsaw foisted upon them from county, because Cornwall is captured at county level.

Problem is, his account of flying is so inaccurate it’s a surprise no one has checked him out, eg WW2 spitfires couldn’t have reached 8 miles high or 40,000 feet. His book is full of contradictions and inaccuracies, it’s as if he’s read Roald Dahl and Nevil Shute and based his recollection of being a fighter pilot on such works (without the skill of either author). He should have read Walter Scott “oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”.

I think they used him as the transgender example because children learn about WW2 in yr 6 and this, supposedly, is pertinent. They definitely pushed the born in the wrong body narrative when my son had this lesson a few years ago. It's all supposed to be Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner these days, isn't it? 🙄

That makes sense. Like the claims that they are helpless and terrorised by feminists. They can never produce any evidence of this, while churning out endless death threats and sadistic fantasies about us. But liars gotta lie …

There's a little bit on him in the Silverstone Museum, just a couple of paragraphs and a reproduction of a photo. The original photo had obviously been touched up, possibly because he was too masculine looking?

This quote from his daughter in the article up thread is so sad

All my life, until now, I have felt like a hurt and ­abandoned child.

She was a hurt and abandoned child. I'm glad being involved in the documentary gave her some comfort.

I wondered about that but in the interview with his daughter there is a photo of her when older which shows quite a strong resemblance to him.

Well he was definitely male whilst in the RAF, I don’t think there can be any doubt about that as he would have been subjected to a medical, he wouldn’t have been allowed to fly into combat situations (women could fly in WW2, but only to transport the planes, I’m not sure they could do reconnaissance flights and certainly not combat), he was also billeted in male quarters, so again, he was definitely a bloke in the 1930s early 1940s (unless he was exaggerating his RAF duties).
He comes across as an unreliable historian, which then casts doubts on his overall ability to determine fact from fiction.

Lying about personal medical records which can't be exposed publicly. Sheesh.
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Once again, "living as a woman" doesn't involve any female socialisation or nurturing, or facilitating the lives of others like their own children.

"It's odd that it goes chronologically through his childhood, wartime experiences, and then leaps to his 'sex change' journey, with not one single mention or allusion to his wife or children. (Although he does talk about having a very strong 'maternal' instinct, on meeting a small boy on a bus)."

If the children are seen to exist, it becomes clear that he could not have been female. Either that or he was cuckolded, and I can't see this Walter Mitty person putting THAT in writing, somehow.

The unconscious in charge of a spitfire made it onto Wikipedia as well. I also wondered how he knew he’d been unconscious, how he timed it and how the plane had flown itself. But then if you are willing to make up stuff about all kinds of nonsense, it’s hardly surprising you would also make things up to make yourself appear super-heroic.

Supposedly the FtM transitioner had phalloplasty as well. I think it’s important to bear in mind that history is rapidly being rewritten by transactivists. It is quickly becoming difficult to say what is true and what’s nonsense.

“I’d have thumped anyone who tried to send me up”

Wouldn't mind betting that if chromosomes were checked they would be XY. I think the xx was a lie due to the operations being illegal

I have no idea why he was used in PHSE as an ‘idol’, the man was an absolute fantasist through and through, in his biography he comes across as an angry and deeply unhappy human, who was unsurprisingly, alienated from his family at the time of his death. He stated that when flying a spitfire during WW2 he was knocked unconscious for twenty minutes…. Given that the early spitfires (used in ww2) didn’t have autopilot, it s nothing short of a miracle he didn’t crash land and die in the carnage, in other words it’s highly improbable this event ever happened. Other claims in his biography had me rolling my eyes so much I was quite impressed I was able to read it! It’s a shame the trans community couldn’t find a more inspiring individual to highlight and their cause.

Oh look, there's another loophole by which to get into women's spaces.