Outspoken TRA 'Legaltweetz' suddenly turns against transactivitism

Pretty sure it was still LGB when I started university 20 years ago.

As far as I was aware the T was for transexuals who were almost always gay males so already part of the LGB. Transvestites rebranded themselves as Transgender and glommed on as a separate 'T' entity and then took over.

This is what we want isn't it? Respectful discussion.

TRAs are losing their minds simply because LT and JKR are talking to each other in a civil and respectful way. They can't stand that they're not fighting.

I think nobody was 100% sure what the Q was weren’t they? You got different and from different people (which led me to my early conclusion that the whole thing was irrelevant bollocks)

I agree with Chris one one thing (shock horror!) which is that I don't think Hendrix has "switched sides". I've been following things unfold for her for a while, including a couple of her live broadcast things on X.

What I'm seeing is someone who grasped transitioning as it was presented to her as a cure-all, but has come to realise that it was at best a temporary plaster on her underlying trauma.

She started out by just questioning a couple of small things, but the responses she got from her supposed "community" made her look deeper into both the whole transitioning thing and herself.

I wouldn't be getting the bunting out for her just yet, but I do think that answering her questions honestly and not demanding that she "choose" from people who she previously dismissed will keep opening her eyes as she continues on her journey.

I wish her well.

Yeah, I remember that.

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

Wasn’t the Q ‘questioning’ for a while.

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.

I’m so ancient I remember when it was the London Gay Switchboard. Following discussion sometime in (I think) the 90s it became the London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard, and in the early 00s there were lots of debates about whether the B should be included or not. T was on absolutely nobody’s radar. If someone phoned up asking about transsexualism (as it was then called), we thumbed through old directories and referred them to the Beaumont Society as we had no expertise in that area.

I took my daughter to Brighton for the weekend about 10 years ago and it was the Pride parade on the Sat, which we saw pass by I remember that the men were dressed mainly either as Freddie Mercury or Dorothy from the Wiard of Oz, in a jokey kind of way. There was nothing T+ that I can remember.

Yup.

Cross sex hormones and mutilation aren’t healthcare. They are abuse

She was so angry and militant before. I wonder if that was the doubts she was having expressing themselves, almost trying to conceive herself more than anyone else.

I wish her well. Can't be easy.

Nothing wrong with supporting rights for T. They deserve the same rights as everyone else including evidence based and necessary medical treatments. What they need, not what they think they want.

Well obviously by their reaction the TRAs have absolutely decided that she’s switched sides and she is now a target for their abuse.

Whether she regards herself as having ‘switched sides’ remains to be seen. I prefer to think that she’s ‘seen the light’ and if she’s shelved plans for surgery, it’s not a moment too soon.

I actually WAS trans until JKR showed me the way to heteronormativity, if it wasn’t for her I wouldn’t be where I am today. The power that woman has is unbelievable.

It’s funny how only the T think that isn’t it? The LGB are quite happy on their own.

The first series of Big Boys is set 2014-15 and the TQ+ seems very new then. To the extent that there are jokes that rely on characters not being sure what all the letters stand for.

Stonewall only started including trans people in 2014. Goodness knows when the + got added

Just seen JKR has made contact with her

I went to uni in 1988 and the student union had a Lesbian and Gay Society. No B and no T

I am showing my age and remember being in a meeting in the mid 1990s having a pretty innocuous meeting at our switchboard about adopting the B to our L and G switchboard’s name. T wasn’t even on the radar then. Glad my dino existence has a point.

I remember that too! It was when I was at uni and the LGB soc suddenly became the LGBT soc and everyone was like ‘transgender? What’s that?’. I kept having to belatedly remember to add the ‘T’ on ‘cos #beKind and trendy