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Outspoken TRA 'Legaltweetz' suddenly turns against transactivitism

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NotTerfNorCis · 10/06/2025 19:02

Fascinating stuff. Long-time TRA and transman https://x.com/legaltweetz has made an almost overnight conversion to the gender critical side.

'I honestly feel like I’m leaving a cult. Where saying anything outside of the accepted narrative will get a bunch of anime pfps attacking your character.'

Legaltweetz is now under sustained attack from other TRAs.

If you're on Twitter, go take a look. This person was one of the most vocal TRAs on there until a month ago.

Wondering if it's no coincidence that it's a female person who's got disenchanted with the ideology and its supporters.

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CarobBean72 · 12/06/2025 16:35

PruthePrune · 10/06/2025 19:33

I would love to know the reason for the sudden change of heart.

I don’t know how sudden it was (mind you, I also don’t know how genuine it is).

She announced a couple of weeks ago that she had been doing some thinking.

And immediately got savaged by TRAs.

So that might have clarified her ideas a bit.

The responses have been entirely characteristic.

ArabellaScott · 12/06/2025 16:34

The worst that can happen is women being doxxed. Which can be risky for some, for various reasons.

FlirtsWithRhinos · 12/06/2025 16:26

lcakethereforeIam · 12/06/2025 16:09

I think tras infiltrating the GC movement are on a hiding to nothing. If they expect to find skeletons tumbling out of cupboards I think they'll be sorely disappointed. I hope she's genuine, if she is I wish her healing. If she isn't I still wish her well.

Exactly. What's the worst that could happen? She finds out that the people who say that they support women's rights and women's right to exist and be recognised as different to trans women because our sex is significant to our challenges and experiences in fact really believe that ... women should have rights and the right to exist and be recognised as different to trans women because women's sex is significant to our challenges and experiences.

There's no hidden agenda, it's all out there.

lcakethereforeIam · 12/06/2025 16:09

I think tras infiltrating the GC movement are on a hiding to nothing. If they expect to find skeletons tumbling out of cupboards I think they'll be sorely disappointed. I hope she's genuine, if she is I wish her healing. If she isn't I still wish her well.

Seriestwo · 12/06/2025 16:00

For a group of people who talk about “community” endlessly they seem to not really understand what community is.

deviate from the script one tiny bit and they will kick you out.

jasdf · 12/06/2025 15:59

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 12/06/2025 14:18

A Tweet of hers, from 1st June:

‘I’m staunchly anti fascist. And how do you think i was so successful in the gay rights movement and politics? Talking to people that you vehemently disagree with is a part of that. If you can’t stomach it, then, don’t do it. But i can.

I infiltrated the far right in 2017.
Good times.
Had to have one hell of a strong stomach for that too’.

suggesting that she’s working undercover?

smallstitch · 12/06/2025 15:54

Yeah I’ve been reading her tweets for a while and had a feeling this was coming. Very telling isn’t it, how they’ve all turned on her without a second thought.

WallaceinAnderland · 12/06/2025 15:13

Lol

Outspoken TRA 'Legaltweetz' suddenly turns against transactivitism
Signalbox · 12/06/2025 14:44

LeftieRightsHoarder · 11/06/2025 19:44

What??? It was LGB for decades before the T jumped on to it.

“we have always been at war with Eastasia”

GatherlyGal · 12/06/2025 14:25

The thing about being in a cult is that when you realise you are in a cult and decide you don't want to be there is no going back.

It seems like a sudden 180 but if you suddenly see things differently then that's that you can't really carry on as you were.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 12/06/2025 14:18

A Tweet of hers, from 1st June:

‘I’m staunchly anti fascist. And how do you think i was so successful in the gay rights movement and politics? Talking to people that you vehemently disagree with is a part of that. If you can’t stomach it, then, don’t do it. But i can.

I infiltrated the far right in 2017.
Good times.
Had to have one hell of a strong stomach for that too’.

TooSquaretobehip · 12/06/2025 12:08

sashh · 12/06/2025 05:01

They don't care about the truth.

Currently on my facebook someone is telling me (retired clinical physiologist) telling me that 'a year's HRT' completely removes any advantage a 'trans woman' might have.

I mean anyone with an ounce of common sense would realise that is crap.

HRT doesn't reduce male's larger heart or lung size and capacity nor limb length, tell them that.

Also, these links are good; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33289906/ - Transgender Women in the Female Category of Sport: Perspectives on Testosterone Suppression and Performance Advantage

and

How does hormone transition in transgender women change body composition, muscle strength and haemoglobin? Systematic review with a focus on the implications for sport participation

Transgender Women in the Female Category of Sport: Perspectives on Testosterone Suppression and Performance Advantage - PubMed

Males enjoy physical performance advantages over females within competitive sport. The sex-based segregation into male and female sporting categories does not account for transgender persons who experience incongruence between their biological sex and...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33289906/

PriOn1 · 12/06/2025 12:07

With regard to Pissed Off Lawyer’s detransition, only time will tell. I spoke to James Shupe briefly when he detransitioned. He seemed nice, but ultimately that situation had a very sad end. Similarly I talked to Amy Dyess (sorry, can’t remember current name) when she swapped sides for a while. That didn’t end well either.

I think it’s very clear that many of those who transition are deeply troubled, but I hope that Pissed Off Lawyer can find some stability and help and comes out the other side feeling better.

I also think JKR has her head screwed on and hopefully will be prepared for all eventualities.

TooSquaretobehip · 12/06/2025 12:02

Christinapple · 11/06/2025 23:42

"No evidence" other than her obsessing about and trash talking trans people and anyone who supports them (including gay people and gay rights orgs) for 6(?) years and counting now.

Except she has not done that, ever. You're lies are really ridiculous when there is proof to the contrary.

PriOn1 · 12/06/2025 11:59

TooSquaretobehip · 12/06/2025 11:50

Q used to stand for Questioning. Until recently where the homophobic slur was brought back into usage.

There were two Qs for a while, which stood for Queer and Questioning. The fact that this is under so much discussion in this thread is an indication of how many nonsense changes there have been over the past 10 years.

nutmeg7 · 12/06/2025 11:58

Christinapple · 11/06/2025 12:12

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.

“Always”????

It definitely wasn’t in the 80sand 90s.

TooSquaretobehip · 12/06/2025 11:58

Christinapple · 11/06/2025 23:17

Do I detect manipulation and exploitation from their talking on twitter. We all know Jo's views on trans people and we all know she is going to milk this person for the rest of the year to "prove" to the world that being trans is bad after all.

JK has repeatedly said she supports trans people. She's never said otherwise. Ever. And no one can ever produce a single tweet to the contrary.

Outspoken TRA 'Legaltweetz' suddenly turns against transactivitism
TooSquaretobehip · 12/06/2025 11:50

MilitantFawcett · 11/06/2025 17:30

The Q+ came not long after because I remember talking to a gay male colleague and rattling off the new LGBTQ+ acronym. It would have been 2015ish. He stared at me like I’d gone mad, especially when I explained what the Q stood for.

I’m really quite grateful to that colleague because his reaction was what made me start to question “being kind”. Who was I being kind to bandying around the Q word? Certainly not him or other LG people of his generation.

Q used to stand for Questioning. Until recently where the homophobic slur was brought back into usage.

ChungkingDepressed · 12/06/2025 11:38

TooSquaretobehip · 12/06/2025 11:34

Absolutely untrue. It was only LGBT in this millennium.

I started uni in 2005, and I joined the LGB society, not the LGBT soc because it very much was not a thing even that recently.

TooSquaretobehip · 12/06/2025 11:34

Christinapple · 11/06/2025 12:12

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.

Absolutely untrue. It was only LGBT in this millennium.

GiveMeSpanakopita · 12/06/2025 11:19

I don't like her cavalier reference to 'not suing anyone' which I assume is a poorly veiled side swipe at the brave and heroic Keira Bell.

Hendrix looks unwell in recent pics, she looks like she has very high blood pressure which is a known side effect of Y in women, with strokes having been reported by the TIFs in the US.

Hendrix has been a huge cheerleader for medicating kids so I don't support her. I don't buy the school of thought that she deserves terfs' support because she's a female and detrans.

JKR is far more forgiving than I am.

Arran2024 · 12/06/2025 10:56

I believe her for the simple fact that I believe that being a trans man is simply a rejection of being female - I don't believe they think they are really men. So once the delusion wears off, why not realise that you were wrong? She is just way ahead of the curve.

DialSquare · 12/06/2025 10:55

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WarriorN · 12/06/2025 10:39

Someone who detransed 6 years ago advised her to get off line and keep out of all gender discussions on all sides which I think is excellent advice

my personal feeling is that feminists should be challenging the systems that allow this and the attitudes that inhibit reasoned debate, signpost to helps and support and leave individuals to find their own path.

UrsulasHerbBag · 12/06/2025 10:35

With regards to legaltweetz detransition I hope she’s ok and gets the right support. Although going through all this completely online is dangerous for her. We should be supportive of every detransitioner because they have gone through an intense and seismic shift and ultimately they are human beings that have been damaged by the ideology we are standing against… but we should remember not everyone has the same thoughts and values that we personally do. They are not automatically going to think the same as us about trans rights and we should all be very wary of what we are saying to strangers on the internet.

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