Outspoken TRA 'Legaltweetz' suddenly turns against transactivitism

Aidan Comerford, the 'haunted bawbag', who is utterly, sinisterously (muses: is that a word?) obsessed with a woman who died years ago.

Imagine getting to discover Tunnocks tea cakes all over again! And caramel wafers, and the dark chocolate caramel wafers...

the thread I read the other night, yes he is

She might find out about the lesbian wife distribution system!

Not are the loads of regretters, we know that from a personal point of view (admitting your mistake and harm caused to yourself), and from a support network point of view (let alone as a victim of the most malicious TRA attacks), coming out as a detransitioner is incredibly difficult. I would argue that not only do we not have any decent stats, if we did have decent stats I would supect they would be 50% to 500% under-representative of the numbers who deep down want to detrans due to these factors.

[The following is pretty speculative, based on my gut feel more than facts...]

And that is before we get onto the idea of when do these people detransition? I believe that broadly speak we might divide trans into old school trans (pre 2000?), new wave (2000-15?) and current cohort (2015-2025?). Old school was tiny and probably bears little relation to the new wave cohort - if we have reliable stats they say nothing about the new wave let alone the current cohort. The new wave is not that large and probably shares things with both the old school and current cohort. The current cohort is much much bigger than the new wave, and if detransition happens 5 to 10 years in, and there are similar numbers each year in the cohort, then half the cohort have not even got to the full 5 years yet, and most of the others have still not done the 10 years that some of them might need before they detrans.

TLDR - I am certain the numbers now are much higher than it looks, and the potential over the next 5 or 10 years for the numbers to skyrocket is surely huge.

And I'm saying all that without really considering the risk of things like strokes as a result of wrong sex hormones. I would not bet on it, but if the stats do start to look really solid and well publicised that men on oestrogen are 5 or 10 times more likely to have a stroke, and AGPs start all knowing at least one TIM in a wheelchair, unable to speak as a result, could that pursuade some of them that detransitioning, medically at least, is the way forward.

The fall-out from this tragedy / fiasco / clownshow will go on for so many decades.

Aiden is a particularly angry men's rights activist.

I can imagine him turning on legaltweetz quite viciously. Hope she has offline support and can just ignore the mad MRAs and TRAs and their handmaidens.

Agree. I get frustrated at everyone (healthcare professionals included) quoting desistance or detrans rates that are very very low. Of course there's no decent collection of data but anyone following things online KNOWS there are loads of regretters. The more that get out in the open the better.

Yes this is what I was thinking. The more high profile people do it the better as it will hopefully make others think. It's good to know networks are being built.
I don't know who Aiden Comerford is, are they a trans person?

As more high profile people detransition (such as those with large social media followings) hopefully it will sow a seed with other women who have transitioned to escape female trauma or issues with their female bodies.

Also, thoughts and prayers to Aiden Comerford. He interacts with this person on social media, so he is probably in full meltdown mode now that she is detransitioning.

What I mean is if your daughter detrans there is help, and hopefully soon it will be mainstream help.

to find the network all they need to do is post here or socials - it’s not perfect but it’s getting bigger.

There are doctors and psychologists working on building services for detransitioners. The SEEN group, can sg and SEGM are all lobbying and researching and so If your daughter, or anyone including Hendricks, says they are detrans publicly there is a network available. It’s underground, exactly like the terf networks.

I know. She might find me in my sitting room talking to a couple of feminists who do terfy things like run a women's refuge and challenge misogynistic family court judgements.

ETA: I've just seen @JamieCannister's post and yes of course, that's scary shit and you have a point in your circumstances. And it's unacceptable, hence women's (and some men's) fightback against the TRA 'paraterrorists' or whatever we ought to call them.

I do wonder a bit if she's genuine though, looking back over her posts she doesn't sound too well.Is this some sort of silly game? Time will tell

I've never heard of this woman and rarely go on Twitter but I went and had a look and to be fair she does seem to have quite a lot of support in amongst the more unhinged comments. It gives me a little hope that maybe one day my daughter will decide to do the same. But how would it be for someone who has been taking testosterone and had top surgery. I'm too scared to look into it to be honest. Not that there are any signs it's going to happen but there does seem to be a few people detransitioning in the public eye lately.

I disagree... lots of us have all sorts of vulnerabilities. I am self-employed and not worried about losing work... but my address can be found online, my regulator is insane, and I am (genuinely) worried what my happen to my pet(s) were I to be targetted.

I actually engaged in some anti-TQ+ work a couple of months back, and, coincidentally our cat went missing at around the same time... I was genuinely worried one of the most extremist amongst their number had followed me home and targetted him.

I hate the way "terrorist" is used so widely now, when a big part of me thinks it should be reserved for IRA / Islamist bombers. On the other hand, TRAs are, to all intents and purposes, terrorists, given they seek to use fear to gain political power

Dear TRAs

"Cult" and "community" are not interchangeable words with identical meanings.

HTH.

JC

It is surprising but I think we have to hold a space open for all the people who have lost faith in their trans identity for them to be able to walk things back. After all I feel there will be be many more to come over the next few years, mostly women and girls.

I think people who hold GC views are very open and honest about them, we aren’t arranging piss protests or moob marches to try and remove other people’s rights. The restoration of sex based rights has been campaigned and won with women’s peaceful protests and through the proper legal channels. There really is nothing to infiltrate.

One of the things I've admired about Rowling is her clarity and consistency on this particular aspect when addressing the issue of trans rights. A TIM insisting on using women's spaces knowing that some women object is advertising that he is engaging in sexual harassment, and is himself a physical threat to women. And he is doing so by falsely asserting he's a women and has standing in the debate of whether women have a right to object to it. That is a level of moral offensiveness that a TIF never rises to no matter how vociferously they engage in trans rights issues. TIFs do have standing in the debate, however wrong they may be, and by granting them standing, you dispel the illusion gender. Rowling has always been willing to cut TIFs more slack than TIMs, that doesn't absolve them of past actions, and Rowling is certainly aware that the change of heart could be short lived or manipulative, but that's how you maintain the moral high-ground and engage in a reasonable broader dialog.

My thoughts exactly. Imagine 'infiltrating' reality. 😅

But even if she does “infiltrate” so what??

I mean what she going to find?? A load of women who believe in biological reality which she already knows &
tunnocks tea cakes

there’s nothing to discover.

What else can we infer??

That Tweet was posted less than two weeks ago.

Sinead Watson has said that she was surprised how kind and welcoming terfs were. She believed such women would punish her, but in fact, because they saw her as female and always had so she realised she could trust terfs.

When Sinead was trans she was viscious online, her and Magdalen Berns used to ding dong on Twitter.

I assume the detransitioners have a little network and they’ll give Hendricks some support.

It was Gay Pride & Lesbian Strength into the 80s, & LGB after that.

The trans wanted nothing to do with us.

Then the T was (controversially) added, in the early 2000s - NUS did it I think first.

Originally people claimed the Q meant “questioning” - I remember a lot of social media posts about it.

I’m not going to support the “+” until I know exactly what that means.