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Ereshkigalangcleg · 15/09/2025 10:59

Also, how is insulting posters on the feminist board of Mumsnet “protecting trans people”? It’s clear you don’t know what you’re talking about.

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 15/09/2025 10:58

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:51

The original comment I responded to literally stated that trans people are MEN - that undeniably portrays very little understanding of the topic, whether or not that’s true. If you’re posting on a public forum where your views are going to end up in a very generic trending section then you cannot assume that everyone reading your comments is part of your group and capable of reading between the lines.

what the poster clearly meant was that the trans people your cause takes issue with are all men - what I don’t understand is how this rhetoric runs smoothly alongside the idea that people can present however they wants. For example
I don’t understand what’s been done
to ensure that boundaries aren’t blurred between protecting single sex spaces and demonising trans people, it seems like the former can only be achieved by latter and that is where I fundamentally disagree.

Trans women are male
Trans men are female

Trans identified people should not be accommodated at the expense of dignity and privacy for females (or indeed males).

Case closed.

(For clarity, sex is binary and immutable, saying these things is not hate. or hateful. The discourse has changed the last 24 months)

Ereshkigalangcleg · 15/09/2025 10:57

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:55

I didn’t realise I was a ‘newbie’ stumbling across a well established group - this is not clear when your threads appear in the trending section.

I’m not going to apologise for protecting trans people - I appreciate now how my comment is out of place - it’s impossible to understand your original comment unless you move in the same circles as you do.

I think you’re blurring the lines between having something you want to protect and being hateful as a way to protect it, I don’t think that’s right, regardless of the cause.

But as you acknowledge you don’t actually understand this issue or know what you’re talking about regards this board.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 15/09/2025 10:56

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:41

Nope - this post was on the trending section and I thought it was about the misinformation in the original article.

this is my point, it’s not hard to ‘find your way here’ and be immediately shot down by people that apparently have a meaningful cause to protect.

It doesn’t matter that it’s in the “trending section” that’s not a board, it’s how the site works. It’s on the feminist board. The information about the trans partner isn’t misinformation.

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:55

ThatBlackCat · 15/09/2025 10:48

A word of advice; you get what you give out. If you don't want to be shot down, don't come in as a newbie and call a regular 'hateful'.

Have a look at your own tone. You are disrespectful, rude and hateful. All you had to do was say sorry to me. But I don't respond well to attack. Especially when I did nothing wrong.

I didn’t realise I was a ‘newbie’ stumbling across a well established group - this is not clear when your threads appear in the trending section.

I’m not going to apologise for protecting trans people - I appreciate now how my comment is out of place - it’s impossible to understand your original comment unless you move in the same circles as you do.

I think you’re blurring the lines between having something you want to protect and being hateful as a way to protect it, I don’t think that’s right, regardless of the cause.

OrangeCrushes · 15/09/2025 10:54

Joining the conversation. Looking forward to more information hopefully being shared by authorities/witnesses/families and friends of the accused.

Helleofabore · 15/09/2025 10:52

“If you are genuinely ‘opened minded’, I would suggest not posting as if you are genuinely opened minded and that your very first post doesn’t come from a place where you have assumed posters on this board are ignorant hateful bigots”

Sorry. I am on a small screen.

I would suggest posting.

That ‘not’ shouldn’t be there.

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:51

Helleofabore · 15/09/2025 10:44

So start that new thread and ask your questions.

If you are genuinely ‘opened minded’, I would suggest not posting as if you are genuinely opened minded and that your very first post doesn’t come from a place where you have assumed posters on this board are ignorant hateful bigots. Otherwise, you will not get the answers you seek, you will just get people responding to your own perceived view about posters on this board.

And we have had so many of those over years and years of posts, which all follow a script. The script goes:

OP opening post: which expresses view that people on this board are ignorant hateful bigots.

Posters: no we are not,

OP : well I came here to find out more

Posters: no you just name called and don’t seem to be able to engage in the discussion you said you wanted without belittling us

OP : you are all just as hateful as I thought , I am off and flounces.

Edited

The original comment I responded to literally stated that trans people are MEN - that undeniably portrays very little understanding of the topic, whether or not that’s true. If you’re posting on a public forum where your views are going to end up in a very generic trending section then you cannot assume that everyone reading your comments is part of your group and capable of reading between the lines.

what the poster clearly meant was that the trans people your cause takes issue with are all men - what I don’t understand is how this rhetoric runs smoothly alongside the idea that people can present however they wants. For example
I don’t understand what’s been done
to ensure that boundaries aren’t blurred between protecting single sex spaces and demonising trans people, it seems like the former can only be achieved by latter and that is where I fundamentally disagree.

ThatBlackCat · 15/09/2025 10:48

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:41

Nope - this post was on the trending section and I thought it was about the misinformation in the original article.

this is my point, it’s not hard to ‘find your way here’ and be immediately shot down by people that apparently have a meaningful cause to protect.

A word of advice; you get what you give out. If you don't want to be shot down, don't come in as a newbie and call a regular 'hateful'.

Have a look at your own tone. You are disrespectful, rude and hateful. All you had to do was say sorry to me. But I don't respond well to attack. Especially when I did nothing wrong.

ThatBlackCat · 15/09/2025 10:46

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:39

I do think it’s hateful to talk about topics like this in such a close minded way, especially if the discussion is taking place on what is, above all else a public forum. You aren’t having these discussions in private spaces (this thread appeared on the trending section). It’s clear you don’t want people like me to understand your POV, you only want people who already agree with you to join in the discussion. I was interested in what people had to say, particularly understanding more about how the rhetoric isn’t anti-trans but I don’t think I’m going to get any level headed explanation or discussion from this group of people so - disengage I guess.

but I hope you understand that once I was corrected about what this discussion board was, I admitted I didn’t understand, changed my tact and opened my mind. I have been instantly shot down, I don’t think your groups approach is very effective to your cause - which does leave me with the conclusion that it is just hateful, and not informative or respectful.

If you and other posters don’t feel it’s your responsibility to inform, then maybe don’t engage in the first place - yourself and others did not have to reply.

I attempted to inform you. After you came in, closed minded, and abused me, I had no obligation to explain to you. But I did. I explained to you that trans men are female - so no threat to us.

You continue to abuse me. Even after that.

You could have just apologised to me. Instead of doubling down and trying to play the victim, when you were the one who attacked me.

Helleofabore · 15/09/2025 10:44

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:39

I do think it’s hateful to talk about topics like this in such a close minded way, especially if the discussion is taking place on what is, above all else a public forum. You aren’t having these discussions in private spaces (this thread appeared on the trending section). It’s clear you don’t want people like me to understand your POV, you only want people who already agree with you to join in the discussion. I was interested in what people had to say, particularly understanding more about how the rhetoric isn’t anti-trans but I don’t think I’m going to get any level headed explanation or discussion from this group of people so - disengage I guess.

but I hope you understand that once I was corrected about what this discussion board was, I admitted I didn’t understand, changed my tact and opened my mind. I have been instantly shot down, I don’t think your groups approach is very effective to your cause - which does leave me with the conclusion that it is just hateful, and not informative or respectful.

If you and other posters don’t feel it’s your responsibility to inform, then maybe don’t engage in the first place - yourself and others did not have to reply.

So start that new thread and ask your questions.

If you are genuinely ‘opened minded’, I would suggest not posting as if you are genuinely opened minded and that your very first post doesn’t come from a place where you have assumed posters on this board are ignorant hateful bigots. Otherwise, you will not get the answers you seek, you will just get people responding to your own perceived view about posters on this board.

And we have had so many of those over years and years of posts, which all follow a script. The script goes:

OP opening post: which expresses view that people on this board are ignorant hateful bigots.

Posters: no we are not,

OP : well I came here to find out more

Posters: no you just name called and don’t seem to be able to engage in the discussion you said you wanted without belittling us

OP : you are all just as hateful as I thought , I am off and flounces.

TheUnusuallyQuerulentMxLauraBrown · 15/09/2025 10:44

Former classmate of Tyler Robinson. Just a short but it made me really sad.

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:41

Shortshriftandlethal · 15/09/2025 10:37

This whole sub forum is intended for discussions on all issues related to women's sex based rights and the negative impact of trans ideology on them, and on children. You surely knew that when you found your way here?

Women cannot become male, no matter how they identify. It is not about 'hatred' it is about learning to live with reality and recognising that sex actually does matter is certain situations and circumstances. People can present how they please within certain social boundaries, but female spaces and categories are for female people only - for good reason.

Nope - this post was on the trending section and I thought it was about the misinformation in the original article.

this is my point, it’s not hard to ‘find your way here’ and be immediately shot down by people that apparently have a meaningful cause to protect.

Shortshriftandlethal · 15/09/2025 10:40

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:27

Yeah tbf I just saw this in the trending section - I don’t really understand how the comments have then spiralled from trying to filter out misinformation to what they have but it seems you guys have a whole thing going on! I’d like to understand better but I fear I’ll be shouted down

Yes, that's right. this board had long been the only space in which people could openly discuss this issue ( trans ideology) and their concerns around it.

There are years worth of intersting and educative threads if you have a desire to understand more.

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:39

ThatBlackCat · 15/09/2025 10:30

You barged in thinking you had a 'gotcha', and called me hateful. When all along you had no idea what you were even talking about - so no one would ever call your replies "respectful and informative".😂

Edited

I do think it’s hateful to talk about topics like this in such a close minded way, especially if the discussion is taking place on what is, above all else a public forum. You aren’t having these discussions in private spaces (this thread appeared on the trending section). It’s clear you don’t want people like me to understand your POV, you only want people who already agree with you to join in the discussion. I was interested in what people had to say, particularly understanding more about how the rhetoric isn’t anti-trans but I don’t think I’m going to get any level headed explanation or discussion from this group of people so - disengage I guess.

but I hope you understand that once I was corrected about what this discussion board was, I admitted I didn’t understand, changed my tact and opened my mind. I have been instantly shot down, I don’t think your groups approach is very effective to your cause - which does leave me with the conclusion that it is just hateful, and not informative or respectful.

If you and other posters don’t feel it’s your responsibility to inform, then maybe don’t engage in the first place - yourself and others did not have to reply.

Shortshriftandlethal · 15/09/2025 10:37

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:06

not that this is the point of the thread but… are you aware transitions can go both ways? How do you feel about women transitioning to men? Are they also ‘MALE’? Respectfully, it sounds like you’re confused about who you have a ‘hatred’ for.

but again, your comment has no relevance to the original thread and therefore is just hate speech, do you just search for threads with trans in the title so you can get all shouty about something you appear to have very little understanding of?

Edited

This whole sub forum is intended for discussions on all issues related to women's sex based rights and the negative impact of trans ideology on them, and on children. You surely knew that when you found your way here?

Women cannot become male, no matter how they identify. It is not about 'hatred' it is about learning to live with reality and recognising that sex actually does matter is certain situations and circumstances. People can present how they please within certain social boundaries, but female spaces and categories are for female people only - for good reason.

Helleofabore · 15/09/2025 10:35

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:27

Yeah tbf I just saw this in the trending section - I don’t really understand how the comments have then spiralled from trying to filter out misinformation to what they have but it seems you guys have a whole thing going on! I’d like to understand better but I fear I’ll be shouted down

Can I suggested if you don’t want to be ‘shouted down’, you might look to your own posts where you inadvertently joined in with another poster in accusing posters of ‘hatred’.

I can see you were replying using BlackCats words, perhaps you didn’t check the post BlackCat was replying to that made the accusation in the first place. If you didn’t check, perhaps you didn’t realise you just added to that accusation by repeating the word as you did. Or did you not realise the significance of their use of ‘hatred’ in the post you responded to?

Howseitgoin · 15/09/2025 10:35

OneAmberFinch · 15/09/2025 10:12

Agree and disagree. I don't think it necessarily aligns to a political party orientation - much has been written lately about how the alt-right and the alt-left overlap in weird ways - but I literally cannot imagine a trans person in 2025 being in a relationship with someone who was not supportive of trans ideology, and not just that but who didn't see "trans rights" as an overriding mission.

There's so much we do not know. You are assuming the relationship wasn't just a gay one from the point of view of the shooter. IE he didn't see this person as trans or believe in trans identity.The reports indicate the trans person was undergoing transition which may have only been a recent development.

Aside from that, the shooter may have just been left leaning & just hated Kirk. And one certainly doesn't have to be in a gay or trans relationship with someone to hate Kirk's beliefs.

TheUnusuallyQuerulentMxLauraBrown · 15/09/2025 10:32

Merrymouse · 15/09/2025 10:16

Has there been confirmation that he was LDS?

From what I know of Mormon mummy blogs, it's a very tightly knit world, where most people his age will be thinking about going on missions or getting married. Even if you are at the more 'liberal' end of the spectrum, there seems to be a strong expectation that you will get married young and have at least four children, and spend the rest of your life taking on responsibilities within the church that are pretty much a full time job.

It's not like being a lapsed catholic or non practicing jew where there is a pattern for remaining part of the community even if you don't believe. Its much more 'you're in or you're out'.

There are so many parts of this shooting that are difficult to fathom from the other side of the pond.

The Robinson family are definitely LDS. The reporting that the father contacted their Bishop and the Bishop contacted law enforcement on the father’s behalf illustrates it (in most Christian communities a Bishop isn’t the first contact for the congregation, it would be a pastor, priest, vicar etc).

https://www.understandingmormonism.org/mormon_bishops

The Twigg family also seem to be LDS.

Can’t be easy growing up same sex attracted in a Mormon family in the most Mormon place in the world (Utah). Not an excuse to kill someone but perhaps a specific vulnerability that can be exploited into radicalism.

Mormon Bishops

Bishops are the local congregation leaders. They are lay ministry which means they volunteer their services and are not paid for them. He is referred to as the "father of the ward".

https://www.understandingmormonism.org/mormon_bishops

Helleofabore · 15/09/2025 10:31

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:24

Okay this is genuinely interesting to me - and not something I previously understood.

I still don’t really understand, so if you are empathic and protective towards women who hold the philosophical belief that they are male, you must also respect that there are people born male who hold the philosophical belief they are female? How are they then separated from the men who presumably you find a threat to female only spaces because they don’t in fact hold that belief but use it as an excuse to infiltrate spaces that don’t belong on them?

No one can change sex. Single sex spaces are based on sex and not on gender identity. Perhaps you can tell us exactly what makes a male person with a philosophical belief about their identity that doesn’t reflect material reality different from all other male people.

if you have genuine questions about this, I suggest you start your own thread or your read the great many threads on this very board, the one that MN told us we had to have separate from the other feminism board, that is specifically about this topic. The board you accused a poster of deliberately seeking out to comment on.

Your questions have been answered already over years of posts. But if you need to, I recommend you start your own thread to ask the question generally.

SionnachRuadh · 15/09/2025 10:31

Merrymouse · 15/09/2025 10:16

Has there been confirmation that he was LDS?

From what I know of Mormon mummy blogs, it's a very tightly knit world, where most people his age will be thinking about going on missions or getting married. Even if you are at the more 'liberal' end of the spectrum, there seems to be a strong expectation that you will get married young and have at least four children, and spend the rest of your life taking on responsibilities within the church that are pretty much a full time job.

It's not like being a lapsed catholic or non practicing jew where there is a pattern for remaining part of the community even if you don't believe. Its much more 'you're in or you're out'.

There are so many parts of this shooting that are difficult to fathom from the other side of the pond.

I'm pretty certain from the articles in Deseret News that he was raised LDS but dropped out in his teens. From my knowledge of the area he came from, it's over 90% Mormon.

The culture has become more accepting of gay youth in recent years, but they have to swim against a very strong expectation of (hetero) marrying young and having lots of kids. That will be much more intense in a place like St George than in Sin City aka Salt Lake.

College would be the place for non-conforming youth to find themselves (unless they're at BYU), but Tyler seems to have done one semester and dropped out for undisclosed reasons. Maybe a mental health crisis, but that's just me speculating.

ThatBlackCat · 15/09/2025 10:30

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:25

I’ve responded to a poster who’s reply was more respectful and informative ☺️

You barged in thinking you had a 'gotcha', and called me hateful. When all along you had no idea what you were even talking about - so no one would ever call your replies "respectful and informative".😂

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:27

Merrymouse · 15/09/2025 10:22

do you just search for threads with trans in the title

I think that might be you.

This is the feminism sex and gender discussion board, and the post you referenced was about men.

Edited

Yeah tbf I just saw this in the trending section - I don’t really understand how the comments have then spiralled from trying to filter out misinformation to what they have but it seems you guys have a whole thing going on! I’d like to understand better but I fear I’ll be shouted down

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:25

ThatBlackCat · 15/09/2025 10:14

Firstly, if you knew anything at all about this, you would know that we have no problem with females who transition to men. As they are females and hence no....threat.....to.....us. Do you need that explained any slower to you? It's apparent that you have absolutely no understanding of the issue at all and seem to think you have a 'gotcha' (trans men) that we somehow haven't had at least 4 thousand posters use on us before.

Secondly, my response was to a poster's comment. I was replying to their post. If saying (the basic common knowledge) that males are different than females and that females deserve single sex spaces is 'hate speech', then I suggest that is unhinged and you would be unhinged for saying basic biology and the rights of the female sex is 'hate speech'.

I’ve responded to a poster who’s reply was more respectful and informative ☺️

Waitingforthecold · 15/09/2025 10:24

Helleofabore · 15/09/2025 10:14

This is posted on the separated board set up to have discussions around how gender identity interacts with the needs and rights of female people. Anyone who uses this board regularly will likely be reading this thread.

Feminism is, of course, for all female people. That includes those female people who hold the philosophical belief that they are men or boys. Meaning that usually any discussion about the needs of female people includes that group of female people as well.

This is why accusations of being ‘anti-trans’ are false. Because many of our discussion points on female single sex provisions include female people who have transgender identities, but not male people. Therefore not ‘anti’ trans, just female focused.

Okay this is genuinely interesting to me - and not something I previously understood.

I still don’t really understand, so if you are empathic and protective towards women who hold the philosophical belief that they are male, you must also respect that there are people born male who hold the philosophical belief they are female? How are they then separated from the men who presumably you find a threat to female only spaces because they don’t in fact hold that belief but use it as an excuse to infiltrate spaces that don’t belong on them?

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