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"Of course I'm a woman! I was wearing a dress with make up, tights and a handbag!"

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afuckinggoat · 25/06/2025 16:58

Reddit TIM is shocked that, despite featuring all the major components of a woman (a dress, tights, a handbag, and make up), they do not fool anyone.

I rarely wear any of the above, so it is a miracle that I am ever correctly identified as a human woman.

On a serious note, I am concerned that the TRA movement, despite being based on gender stereotypes and mental ill-health, will continue to have power because of the volume of and their capacity for emotional email-writing. Do we need to write to our MPs with regularity to ensure our voices add balance and sanity to the outcries of the emperors and their new clothes?

"Of course I'm a woman! I was wearing a dress with make up, tights and a handbag!"
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SabrinaThwaite · 30/06/2025 20:50

The13thFairy · 30/06/2025 12:12

This was poor benighted Katie Yeomans. Google him, go on.

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Who also prompted the Daily Fail headline:

Pensioner realises she was a woman trapped in a man's body after putting on a frock and heels for a fancy dress party

🙄

The13thFairy · 30/06/2025 12:12

PruthePrune · 26/06/2025 09:04

This reminds me of a story a few years ago when a poor train guard was accused of transphobia. He misgendered a MtF by calling him sir. The MtF said something along the lines of "I'm obviously a woman because I was wearing blush pink", accompanied by a pic of an man with long thinning hair. Don't know what happened to the poor train guard, transactivism was in it's ascendency at the time.

This was poor benighted Katie Yeomans. Google him, go on.

SammyScrounge · 29/06/2025 18:33

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 25/06/2025 19:05

Or alternatively, the police officer was sick of having to pander to transwomen, and knew that after the SC ruling, he could call an obvious man "sir".

Which is nice.

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Yes it is.
Or the policeman was just honest to the core.
Which is reassuring.

SabrinaThwaite · 27/06/2025 14:34

FlirtsWithRhinos · 27/06/2025 12:40

Certainly not trans women! That's another of those times when actual sex makes a difference.

(oh god oh god oh god I hope I haven't just created a new reddit sub full of trans women discussing their imaginary thrush and how much it validates them. Not that I suggest in any way all or even most trans women have a fetish. Just rule 41 of the internet)

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My first thought was that’ll give them jock itch. Or jock itch that identifies as thrush.

FlirtsWithRhinos · 27/06/2025 12:40

Memoryhole · 27/06/2025 06:52

Who else thought, ’tights in this weather, that’s a nasty dose of thrush on its way…’

Certainly not trans women! That's another of those times when actual sex makes a difference.

(oh god oh god oh god I hope I haven't just created a new reddit sub full of trans women discussing their imaginary thrush and how much it validates them. Not that I suggest in any way all or even most trans women have a fetish. Just rule 41 of the internet)

Sdpbody · 27/06/2025 10:41

Memoryhole · 27/06/2025 06:52

Who else thought, ’tights in this weather, that’s a nasty dose of thrush on its way…’

This was the first thing that I thought.

Fimofriend · 27/06/2025 08:42

ThatCyanCat · 25/06/2025 21:01

My favourite of their threads are the ones where these men claim to have periods.

Wait, what? They do what?

How do they do that? Do I want to know?

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No, you don't. You really, really don't.

Fimofriend · 27/06/2025 08:23

afuckinggoat · 25/06/2025 19:28

www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/s/dVTSXGeYAb

Link if anyone would like to challenge (and is not already blocked).

Yes, please click on the link and downvote all the TRAs.

Fimofriend · 27/06/2025 07:57

My best friend would never be caugth dead with a handbag, tights and/or a handbag and she also has very short hair. Usually a buzz cut. Still people know that she is a woman. Funny that.

Memoryhole · 27/06/2025 06:52

Who else thought, ’tights in this weather, that’s a nasty dose of thrush on its way…’

viques · 27/06/2025 01:44

Serencwtch · 26/06/2025 18:31

So were the 'male police officers' actually male or were they actually female but because they were wearing trousers & not wearing make up or carrying a hand bag he assumed they must be male?!

Apparently handbags used to be uniform issue for women police officers back in the day when they were called WPC just in case they got ideas above their station.

viques · 27/06/2025 01:41

Ponderingwindow · 25/06/2025 19:05

A dress is just a dress. Makeup is just makeup. Anyone can wear them. It’s just personal preference.

applying gender to clothing is painfully regressive.

And every time it happens it makes you wonder just who it is that thinks “gender norms” are still alive and kicking. If it wasn’t so very funny it would be tragic.

Look around, if you want to pass as a woman in 2025 you need to stop reading back issues of Women’s Weekly.

Serencwtch · 26/06/2025 18:31

So were the 'male police officers' actually male or were they actually female but because they were wearing trousers & not wearing make up or carrying a hand bag he assumed they must be male?!

Enough4me · 26/06/2025 14:05

Imagine sports events, hospital wards and loos etc. in the future:

  • Female
  • Male
  • Female but feelings hurt if you say this
  • Male but feelings hurt if you say this
  • Extra room to seat people who have a headache analysing what this means.
MassiveWordSalad · 26/06/2025 13:34

SabrinaThwaite · 26/06/2025 10:50

After all, even in a silky dress, Bowie was still The Man Who Sold The World.

This article is quite fun.

http://www.factfiend.com/that-time-david-bowie-wore-a-dress-just-because/

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Thanks Sabrina I love that article. An excerpt:

Bowie, in a show of testicular fortitude that probably went a long way to explaining why he preferred to wearing a loose-fitting dress with ample room to house his balls, even wore one while walking around Texas.

🤣

Sdpbody · 26/06/2025 12:39

Shodan · 26/06/2025 10:26

I used to have short hair but wore a lot of skirts (those flouncy ones that often got caught in one's knickers). Now I have long hair but mostly wear jeans and t shirts, sometimes old ones of DS1's.

I littterrrally have no idea what sex I am anymore. It's all so terribly confusing. I did give birth twice, but that means nothing.

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Come on now!!

Just because you grew two humans inside your womb, does not make you a women.

Being a women is a feeling.

SabrinaThwaite · 26/06/2025 10:50

Shodan · 26/06/2025 07:59

Mr Bowie clearly womanning properly in this pic.

Apparently the dress was designed by Michael Fish, which is interesting because he was also a weatherman (along with John Kettley 😂)

After all, even in a silky dress, Bowie was still The Man Who Sold The World.

This article is quite fun.

http://www.factfiend.com/that-time-david-bowie-wore-a-dress-just-because/

"Of course I'm a woman! I was wearing a dress with make up, tights and a handbag!"
Shodan · 26/06/2025 10:26

Sdpbody · 26/06/2025 09:40

Then there is absolutely no chance you are a women then.

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I used to have short hair but wore a lot of skirts (those flouncy ones that often got caught in one's knickers). Now I have long hair but mostly wear jeans and t shirts, sometimes old ones of DS1's.

I littterrrally have no idea what sex I am anymore. It's all so terribly confusing. I did give birth twice, but that means nothing.

Sdpbody · 26/06/2025 09:40

TonTonMacoute · 25/06/2025 18:58

Oh dear. I'm probably not a woman because I'm wearing trousers, an old shirt of DS's and no make up. I have short hair too. 🤷‍♀️

Then there is absolutely no chance you are a women then.

MassiveWordSalad · 26/06/2025 09:17

Another Bowie gem, from an interview with Russell Harty.

”And how about the shoes, are they men’s shoes, or women’s shoes, or bisexual shoes?”
”They’re shoe shoes, silly!”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wpRg2FXiwaU

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wpRg2FXiwaU

PruthePrune · 26/06/2025 09:04

This reminds me of a story a few years ago when a poor train guard was accused of transphobia. He misgendered a MtF by calling him sir. The MtF said something along the lines of "I'm obviously a woman because I was wearing blush pink", accompanied by a pic of an man with long thinning hair. Don't know what happened to the poor train guard, transactivism was in it's ascendency at the time.

Igneococcus · 26/06/2025 08:32

Boiledbeetle · 26/06/2025 00:41

It only took 3 hours of self affirmation, 4 extra strong joints and a bottle of gin but I'm back to ignoring reality the naysayers

I AM A BEETLE 🪲

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Of course you are a beetle. Trust me I'm a biologist.

DustyWindowsills · 26/06/2025 08:30

Shodan · 26/06/2025 07:59

Mr Bowie clearly womanning properly in this pic.

Apparently the dress was designed by Michael Fish, which is interesting because he was also a weatherman (along with John Kettley 😂)

That's rather nice. It's essentially a frock coat. Very 18th-century.

Shodan · 26/06/2025 07:59

Mr Bowie clearly womanning properly in this pic.

Apparently the dress was designed by Michael Fish, which is interesting because he was also a weatherman (along with John Kettley 😂)

"Of course I'm a woman! I was wearing a dress with make up, tights and a handbag!"
MassiveWordSalad · 26/06/2025 07:38

tobee · 25/06/2025 23:16

I don't want to piss all over your point with your picture of Mr Bowie, but, granted the first photo is David in a dress, but isn't he just in a pair of ginormous 70s flares in the photo with Angie @MassiveWordSalad ?

Yes you’re right tobee but I just really like that photo and how the pair of them messed with gender stereotypes. Anyway we’ll have no messing about with piss here, that’s not really our style is it 😁

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