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Why is anti-trans so important?

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Elizabethbd · 24/06/2025 11:48

So, I will preface this with saying that I’m not in the UK, and my country does not yet have the kind of anti-trans debate as there is in the English speaking world.

So, I have a hard time understanding why this is such an important question to many women.

Surely there are women’s issues that affect a larger part of society.

I’m thinking rape and violence towards women, homelesness, sex trafficking and honour killings. Why are these issues not more important and worthy of attention, as they affect so many more women than those who come into contact with trans women (or men)?

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 28/06/2025 21:10

Jigaliga · 28/06/2025 12:25

FYI, using a womans name as a handle is always a dead giveaway. Its the online equivalent of wearing stockings.

🎯

Datun · 28/06/2025 20:50

With the tiny minority of people who are trans out there I feel its unlikely il encounter a trans woman who is a criminal.

We created a loophole, where any man, any time, can access women's private spaces containing vulnerable women and girls.

How many predators did that?

Our survey said...

RapidOnsetGenderCritic · 28/06/2025 19:06

Eolhc1990 · 24/06/2025 19:01

I mean I wouldn't like to meet Myra Hindley, Rose West or Agnieszka Kalinowska in a bathroom either but you take the risk that the people in there are not lunatics.
With the tiny minority of people who are trans out there I feel its unlikely il encounter a trans woman who is a criminal.
You ask how would I know if it was a trans woman or a man? I wouldn't know but I feel its unlikely a straight man is going to dress as a woman to attack me because he wouldn't need to, they have plenty of other ways to hurt women.

I wouldn't be too keen on meeting a dead woman in a "bathroom" either; it would be rather a shock, even if she wasn't a notorious murderer.

BezMills · 28/06/2025 14:31

O what a tangled web we weave...

The thing is, even a cursory search reveals this to be the umpteen hundredth wide eyed mumsnet ingenu with a plausible backstory and so it goes

As we say in Scotland "heard it"

Jigaliga · 28/06/2025 12:25

FYI, using a womans name as a handle is always a dead giveaway. Its the online equivalent of wearing stockings.

MarieDeGournay · 28/06/2025 12:22

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 28/06/2025 12:14

Yet again, I can’t work out if this is serious or trolling??

My satire-meter is definitely broken.

Feck knows. There's been a lot of it on this thread recently. I don't really care - it gives us an excellent opportunity to set out our beliefs and opinions and show that they are pro-women not anti-trans, and trans people are very welcome to their own rights, but just their own, not women's as well.

I love what FeistyCat wrote:

I am more than proud to have my posts in your screenshots. Why? Because I have not posted anything anti-trans. Only pro-women. The same as everyone else on this thread. And I wager that all the rest of the women on this thread feel the same way, and feel no shame in anything they posted and would be proud to be in your screenshots. So..... what is it exactly that you think you achieved, other than women explaining to you why women need our hard won human rights? You came away empty-handed.

Very well said, Feisty!

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 28/06/2025 12:14

Yet again, I can’t work out if this is serious or trolling??

My satire-meter is definitely broken.

Chersfrozenface · 28/06/2025 12:10

Finnau hefyd, am resymau tebyg i rai Mari, 'dybiwn i

Boiledbeetle · 28/06/2025 11:58

Helleofabore · 28/06/2025 11:40

There is a complete disconnection within the posts.

Totally!

MarieDeGournay · 28/06/2025 11:51

Elizabethbd · 27/06/2025 18:30

Nu blir jag faktiskt lite irriterad.

Mise freisin, ach ar chúis eile - túsa féin🙄

JFDIYOLO · 28/06/2025 11:43

28 transwomen athletes who have taken sporting achievement and awards from women and girls:

https://www.outsports.com/2024/12/6/22948400/transgender-trans-athlete-championship-national-world-title/

Helleofabore · 28/06/2025 11:40

Boiledbeetle · 28/06/2025 11:23

" I asked people who were anti-trans to answer my question"

As a few people have asked, and I and many others will be wondering, where did you do this @Elizabethbd ?

Can you point out where in any of your posts or title you asked people who were anti-trans to answer your question?

Thanks

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Why is anti-trans so important?

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Elizabethbd · 24/06/2025 11:48
So, I will preface this with saying that I’m not in the UK, and my country does not yet have the kind of anti-trans debate as there is in the English speaking world.
So, I have a hard time understanding why this is such an important question to many women.
Surely there are women’s issues that affect a larger part of society.
I’m thinking rape and violence towards women, homelesness, sex trafficking and honour killings. Why are these issues not more important and worthy of attention, as they affect so many more women than those who come into contact with trans women (or men)?

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Elizabethbd · 24/06/2025 12:35
Thank you to everyone who has replied!
I feel that I finally understand the issue.

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Elizabethbd · 24/06/2025 13:19
Again, thank you to all posters. My intention was to gain information, not to engage in a debate. I won’t engage in this debate further, primarily because I don’t have an opinion to defend.

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Elizabethbd · Yesterday 18:03
Thank you **
My thougts exactly. I was honestly prepared to be convinved. But Having Donald Trump on your side should prompt some self reflection.
For those of you asking where I live, it’s Sweden. We know a thing or two about women’s rights, as I’m sure you know.

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Elizabethbd · Today 18:30
Nu blir jag faktiskt like irriterad.

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Elizabethbd · Today 18:33
Be that as it may, you have provided me with som excellent entertainment and great screen shots.
so, thank you everyone.

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Elizabethbd · Today 18:42
Yes.

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Elizabethbd · Today 19:00
Sorry, this is my absolutely last post. I asked people who were anti-trans to a answer my question. It’s self selection.

There is a complete disconnection within the posts.

Boiledbeetle · 28/06/2025 11:23

" I asked people who were anti-trans to answer my question"

As a few people have asked, and I and many others will be wondering, where did you do this @Elizabethbd ?

Can you point out where in any of your posts or title you asked people who were anti-trans to answer your question?

Thanks

Thread title

Why is anti-trans so important?

opening post
Elizabethbd · 24/06/2025 11:48
So, I will preface this with saying that I’m not in the UK, and my country does not yet have the kind of anti-trans debate as there is in the English speaking world.
So, I have a hard time understanding why this is such an important question to many women.
Surely there are women’s issues that affect a larger part of society.
I’m thinking rape and violence towards women, homelesness, sex trafficking and honour killings. Why are these issues not more important and worthy of attention, as they affect so many more women than those who come into contact with trans women (or men)?

2nd post
Elizabethbd · 24/06/2025 12:35
Thank you to everyone who has replied!
I feel that I finally understand the issue.

3rd post
Elizabethbd · 24/06/2025 13:19
Again, thank you to all posters. My intention was to gain information, not to engage in a debate. I won’t engage in this debate further, primarily because I don’t have an opinion to defend.

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Elizabethbd · Yesterday 18:03
Thank you **
My thougts exactly. I was honestly prepared to be convinved. But Having Donald Trump on your side should prompt some self reflection.
For those of you asking where I live, it’s Sweden. We know a thing or two about women’s rights, as I’m sure you know.

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Elizabethbd · Today 18:30
Nu blir jag faktiskt like irriterad.

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Elizabethbd · Today 18:33
Be that as it may, you have provided me with som excellent entertainment and great screen shots.
so, thank you everyone.

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Elizabethbd · Today 18:42
Yes.

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Elizabethbd · Today 19:00
Sorry, this is my absolutely last post. I asked people who were anti-trans to a answer my question. It’s self selection.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 28/06/2025 08:50

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 27/06/2025 20:38

Yup

anyone who can ardently believe something they can’t actually explain is not a serious person

This.

DeanElderberry · 28/06/2025 08:01

I'd like to think that if these alleged screenshots are correctly identified as coming from MN, some people might come over to learn more.

FeistyCat · 28/06/2025 07:49

I knew you were not genuine from the moment you wrote "anti-trans" (though I suspect you really want to say anti-men. But you can't because you know how you'd look if you did, so have to rebadge anti-men as 'anti-trans') Since no one on this thread has posted anything anti trans in response to you, one wonders exactly what type of 'screenshots' you think you have gotten. Screenshots of us explaining over and over and over and over and over and over that we are not 'anti trans' we are pro-women. We are pro protecting the hard won rights to female only spaces our foremother feminists achieved for us.

Perhaps you should ask yourself and do some self reflection as to why you align yourself with a misogynistic ideology that was started by a pedophile who changed the sex of a boy because he botched his circumcision. And why this ideology attracts sexual fetishists, pedophiles, rapists, males who have an erect penis in womens toilets (as has been filmed as evidence) and males who urinate on feminist statues in protest.

You are what you hang with. As they say. Those are who agree with you. Do some self reflection. And ask yourself why you have such a deep-seated hatred of women and womens rights.

I am more than proud to have my posts in your screenshots. Why? Because I have not posted anything anti-trans. Only pro-women. The same as everyone else on this thread. And I wager that all the rest of the women on this thread feel the same way, and feel no shame in anything they posted and would be proud to be in your screenshots. So..... what is it exactly that you think you achieved, other than women explaining to you why women need our hard won human rights? You came away empty-handed. It's not like you have a screenshot of anyone actually saying they hate trans people. So you failed, like each successive troll does. You leave empty-handed. With only screenshots of women defending womens rights. Some achievement there.

RedToothBrush · 27/06/2025 22:10

As I saw on twitter, there's nothing more ironic than someone who champions equality coming around to try tell you they are morally superior.

That klaxon has gone off for hypocrisy

RedToothBrush · 27/06/2025 22:06

Elizabethbd · 26/06/2025 18:03

Thank you @BeeSouriante
My thougts exactly. I was honestly prepared to be convinved. But Having Donald Trump on your side should prompt some self reflection.

For those of you asking where I live, it’s Sweden. We know a thing or two about women’s rights, as I’m sure you know.

Edited

I'm fairly sure that Donald Trump agrees with most people in Sweden that the sky is blue, grass is green and it's not wise to eat yellow snow.

If also happens to be what you believe, you probably should have some self reflection before you decide to go around scolding women here and artists from Sweden.

HTH

Helleofabore · 27/06/2025 21:37

Imagine being so contemptuous but then understanding that what you thought you had done wasn’t actually what you did. But also you are celebrating what is also effectively bullying a group of people you don’t agree with.

Such success!

frenchnoodle · 27/06/2025 21:06

Elizabethbd · 27/06/2025 19:00

Sorry, this is my absolutely last post. I asked people who were anti-trans to a answer my question. It’s self selection.

No, no you didn't ask anyone who was anti trans to answer.
You have also been reeled back into the thread several times.

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 27/06/2025 20:38

BackToLurk · 27/06/2025 19:10

They are not serious people. No intellectual curiosity.

Yup

anyone who can ardently believe something they can’t actually explain is not a serious person

Waitwhat23 · 27/06/2025 20:35

Elizabethbd · 27/06/2025 18:30

Nu blir jag faktiskt lite irriterad.

Pensavo la stessa cosa!

Helleofabore · 27/06/2025 19:36

Elizabethbd · 27/06/2025 19:00

Sorry, this is my absolutely last post. I asked people who were anti-trans to a answer my question. It’s self selection.

umm.... no. You didn't ask people who were 'anti-trans' at all.

Perhaps you thought you were clever, but your opening post didn't say you were asking for people who were 'anti-trans' to answer. So I think the joke is actually on you. Make sure you mention that when you post your screen shots. That you meant to specify that anti-trans people answer, but actually didn't.

Well done, you!

Igneococcus · 27/06/2025 19:17

BackToLurk · 27/06/2025 19:10

They are not serious people. No intellectual curiosity.

Also, no self-awareness.

FlirtsWithRhinos · 27/06/2025 19:17

Elizabethbd · 27/06/2025 19:00

Sorry, this is my absolutely last post. I asked people who were anti-trans to a answer my question. It’s self selection.

Oh I'm sorry I misunderstood.

I thought you were asking the people who are trying to take away the rights, protections, opportunities, and wipe out the actual language, history, and legal and social existence of female people as a distinct set from male why is it so important to them to paint the women who object to this as "anti trans" rather than acknowledging they are simply responding to a land grab and trying to protect themselves and their legal and moral rights.

And I thought "well isn't that obvious? Because if they admit what they are actually trying to do and why women are so angry not even an especially naive whelk will support them".

But I see you are asking why these women actually are so anti trans.

So I see now why you are so confused.

Because the answer of course is "They aren't. They are pro women."

And if that looks like anti trans to you, maybe you should look at exactly what you have been supporting under the banner of "trans rights".

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