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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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TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 25/06/2025 19:05

Decklededge · 25/06/2025 18:58

The police officer was surely aware of the trans event going on and would have known he was talking to a transwoman.
The choice to address the person as ‘sir’ was likely a deliberately unkind one imo. He could have just said ‘it’s around the corner, that way’. It’s not nice to be bullied by a person in position of authority so I’m not surprised the person is upset.

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.

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.

PaterPower · 25/06/2025 19:04

GingerBeverage · 25/06/2025 18:17

How does he know the cops were male?

I wanted to highlight this too!

It’s all “couldn’t help himself” in regards to the cop and then blatantly assumes he knows how the policeman identifies 🤣 🤦‍♂️

I mean, if you’re going to live the myth, (of gender bollocks), at least keep your tenuous grip on lived reality consistent

User37482 · 25/06/2025 19:02

Haven’t worn a dress in years, yet here I am still womaning. Thats the fundamental problem for transwomen, people have realised they can stop lying and engaging with the nonsense. I think most normal people try to be polite but increasingly having to deal with the hysterical overreactions is probably starting to really piss people off.

Plasticwaste · 25/06/2025 19:01

A haaaandbaaaag??!

ValerieDoonican · 25/06/2025 19:00

Young lad in a knee length embroidered skirt of nil style, and tshirt, on the tube yesterday. Obviously male. I dunno, I felt kind of sorry for him. Did he really think he was fooling anyone? I mean, presumably not. So I . suppose a man in a dress or skirt is basically saying "call me madam or else". Kind of claiming diplomatic immunity from reality.

But who asked the reality based community eh?

Decklededge · 25/06/2025 18:58

The police officer was surely aware of the trans event going on and would have known he was talking to a transwoman.
The choice to address the person as ‘sir’ was likely a deliberately unkind one imo. He could have just said ‘it’s around the corner, that way’. It’s not nice to be bullied by a person in position of authority so I’m not surprised the person is upset.

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. 🤷‍♀️

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MarieDeGournay · 25/06/2025 18:52

WomenShouldStillWinWomensSportsIsBack · 25/06/2025 18:19

Well he clearly didn't have a bow in his hair. Everyone knows females wear a bow to show they're female. Minnie Mouse and Ms PacMan for example.

And babies -
Those little pink crocheted headbands with bows they put on girl babies just to make absolutely 100% certain that the socialisation and stereotyping will start from Day 1, and that the baby won't be traumatised by being misgendered.😡

WomenShouldStillWinWomensSportsIsBack · 25/06/2025 18:19

Well he clearly didn't have a bow in his hair. Everyone knows females wear a bow to show they're female. Minnie Mouse and Ms PacMan for example.

GingerBeverage · 25/06/2025 18:17

How does he know the cops were male?

CinnamonCinnabar · 25/06/2025 18:14

With temps in the high 20s in London today the number of tights wearing women will have been minimal - maybe this somehow confused the police?

BruceAndNosh · 25/06/2025 18:12

It was a bit hot to be wearing tights over the weekend

MarieDeGournay · 25/06/2025 18:08

I think in a lot of cases, someone wearing 'a dress, tights, a handbag, and make up' more likely to be a man, unless it's a woman going to some special do!

This question is rhetorical - but I wonder how many of us are wearing a dress, tights and make-up at this very moment?
And if there's a big demo on, how many of us would turn up wearing a dress, tights, a handbag, and make up??

The Reddit post reads like a parody, I can almost see the writer tottering along unsteadily on his high heels, like one of those 1970s comedians in bad drag - I'm thinking of the 'Oooh you are awful but I like you' chap.
Either a parody, or zero self awareness.