Outspoken TRA 'Legaltweetz' suddenly turns against transactivitism

This is subjective. It's always been LGBT until JK Rowling and the gender critical groups propped up to oppose it. Saying LGB feels as if something is missing IMO.

By the way, is anyone else finding that LGB trips off the tongue quite naturally these days. I often completely forget about the T entirely when I'm writing the acronym

'LGBT rights' is completely meaningless until you describe them. They mean completely different things to different people.

I’m watching with interest but I’m very sceptical.

Not sure they have "switched sides". I think they are just pointing out some forms of transactivism aren't helpful. For example they still have "LGBT rights" in their profile text.

I believe Hendrix's change of heart to be genuine. I think she is probably a classic F2M transitioner who found being a lesbian woman with a tough early life challenging and fell into the trans movement. She may well be ASD but I'm just speculating. I think she deserves credit for saying things that she probably has felt for years but didn't dare vocalise.

There are plenty of trans people I respect hugely, maybe she'll become one of them - the criteria for my respect is simply to recognise biological sex trumps a gender "feeling" in all circumstances and that nobody under the age of 18 should be given any form of medication or surgery to alter their development with "changing sex" as an end goal. By all means dress and present any which way you please but keep to your own defined-by-biology spaces and categories and we're all good.

I think people like her are realising how damaging some of the behaviours of some men have been to her ‘community’ and is distancing herself. I think we’ll see a lot more real/fake trans conversations. People who detransition are called fake, not real trans in the first place.
maybe this will all self implode with them fighting amongst themselves.

I think this person is difficult, but she is female and so “one of us”.

people don’t need to be perfect to be protected by feminism, they need to be female.

i suspect she sees the tide is turning and wants to establish herself as an early adopter - apart from anything else there will be money to be made as detransitioners seek recompense in the USA. A smart lawyer would spot a trend like that - and in my limited experience - detransitioners are smart and determined, if misguided and challenging, people.

The TRAs just can't help themselves.

https://nitter.poast.org/legaltweetz/status/1929566187756638528#m

'This is now the third email my firm has received about me. This is exactly why I’m going to nip this problem in the bud. It’s not ok to make false allegations on the internet that start affecting my employment and reputation.'

Legaltweetz has her own firm, yet the TRAs still try to get Legaltweetz sacked.

Well, it's not an easy ride if she has genuinely started to pull back from genderist ideas. Looks very, very hard going from what I've heard from detransitioners.

As others have said, I hope she has the support she needs.

It's been fascinating reading. There is speculation on another forum that it's someone else posting. There's even mention of a conservatorship. They just cannot accept that someone might actually have had a 'are we the baddies' moment.

Agree.

There are some smart people out there, and I've been wondering where they've been for the past decade.

Perhaps it's sinking in that letting emotionally incontinent kidults, and Jolyon Maugham KC, be the face of the movement was not a smart move.

That was my thoughts too. Clearly some of the more prescient TRA's have realised that the more extreme behaviours shown by their community is horrifying a public who have finally begun to become aware of the situation so they are attempting to rebrand themselves as reasonable/true trans for the inevitable reckoning.

If she's backed out of having phallo, then she has saved herself from a lot of pain. But you aren't meant to say that in the world of affirmation, 'no regrets' and 'I want to stand to pee,' even if you are left incontinent, with fistulas, strictures, necrosis and an irrecoverably damaged donor site (usually an arm).

Yes, very much this, Mob mentality is terrifying, and I would not wish that on anyone. I hope she is ok.

She was due to have ‘phase one of phalloplasty’ in January, but decided against it once Trump was elected, and the whole thing seems to have started there. She removed her pronouns from her bio and the TRA’s kicked off and have been pretty relentless ever since. This whole cult is insane, absolutely insane.

It must be horrific having everyone turn on you like that. I almost wish that it was fake because I don't like anyone being piled on like that.

I hope she’s ok. I hope she has RL friends and family who can keep her grounded.

They’re pilling on to her because she ‘misgendered’ someone who was accusing her of being in the same virtual spaces where people were talking about have committed revenge porn, and the intensity of the pile on has made her reconsider how the trans community operate I think.

this is someone who should be welcomed to mumsnet and our community. the more we can start conversations with people who have different beliefs, the better. and it shows clearly who the fanatics are.

I love to see it!

I'm also sceptical, fwiw.

I saw this. Startling. That's not even a reverse ferret, it's a 180 degree handbrake turn honeybadger with sparks coming off of it.

Some screenshots. In case its a mirage ...