Banned from Reddit for saying trans women are not biological women

I’ve made RL feminist friends via FWR. I think next year it’ll be a decade since I landed here (under other names) thanks to the spartacus threads.

I don't think they need to

I was banned years ago. First was a support group for people with cPTSD. I challenged a man who said he was traumatised by being kicked out of a women's toilet. Told him he doesn't belong in the women's and he isn't a victim, he is a predator.
The other group was a feminist group. Reddit is for incels.

yes and this was originally called FWR

Some of us still call it this.

welcome OP!

I prefer mn layout anyway. Reddit is hard to follow

They are so misogynistic. They have so many woman-hating porn forums on there, fantasising about converting lesbians via corrective rape, abusing women in all kinds of ways.

They keep it up because they don't care about women. Men's sexual needs are their top priority, no matter how depraved.

You are right, but there are some threads which get posted here even though they belong on the other FWR board. I don't think MN HQ has much interest in sorting this out.

Welcome to the club!

I got banned there years ago for calling "Karen White" a man. Reddit is beyond help.

Welcome, OP. I think 'Banned by Reddit' has become something of a badge of honour!

The irony is that some transwomen say openly that they are not biological women, but they are women, because it's about more than biology....or something.
So a transwoman might have posted the same thing and Reddit might have banned them for being transphobic🙄

There's lots of thoughtful and well-researched input here from knowledgeable posters. There's also a lot of wit, sometimes downright silliness [check out The Bluestocking Women's Pub for instance!,] and sometimes really inspired, erudite and clever silliness.😁 And there's always support for anybody going through a hard time - MN even introduced a 'support' button recently, so there's a lot of it around

So I hope you stick around and enjoy being here.

Well done, I don't even go on reddit I can't stand all that garbage.
I'm not sure how they can ignore a biological fact but it's all part of the trans mantra and madness. Hopefully it will all blow over in a couple of decades and everyone will be wondering WTF happened to our sanity.

The UKPolitics subreddit is pretty good at allowing GC viewpoints without wielding the banhammer. Silly TRA arguments also tend to get down voted there.

Welcome to the nest of vipers.

Appeal it. I got a similar ban for saying that Dr Upton did not pass as female and when I appealed it was overturned within hours.

Some of the "ishoos" do sneak in onto that board though! Interesting!

I think I'm right in saying that this board is busier than the other.

Also funnier. And more erudite.

@Oryx54321 Just to give you a bit of background: there are two feminist boards because a few years ago it was felt that the focus on "trans" issues was taking over the existing one feminist board so it was split into Sex and Gender and Feminist Chat. I think I'm right in saying that this board is busier than the other.

This is the thread that first opened my eyes to what was happening, OP. It's an excellent - if somewhat overwhelming and distressing - overview, covering a huge amount of ground with loads of links and ideas to explore further etc.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3145470-Break-it-down-for-me

Reddit is completely captured - they used to employ Aimee Challenor (a TRA) and don't seem to have updated their attitudes or policies on sex vs gender since then.

I was permabanned by a Mod on the UK Police page for being a big fat TERF when I stated that female police officers should not be conducting intimate searches on men, including trans identifying men.

Welcome op. Blocked and Reported Reddit sub is happily gender critical if you want to go back there. I found Mumsnet a couple of years ago when I wanted to find out why rapist Isla (Adam) Bryson was being held on remand in a women's prison and the Guardian wasn't being very informative. Twitter/X allows everything and it's where you can watch JK Rowling post her amazing tweets. Her thread when Scotland tried to implement the Hate Crime Bill was a thing of glory. A lot of stories that I see there first hit the Times, Telegraph and Daily Mail soon afterwards. My first post on Bluesky was 'Transwomen are men' for which I was told that no-one would be able to see my posts in future so I left again.

Hi, OP. I'm similar, Little Justice. Discovered the extent of what was going on here, but it's captured institutions like the BBC and NHS that have, paradoxically, hardened my stance, by highlighting the total indifference to women's rights, safety and feelings that come with this ideology. Their unquestioning, repressive support of it (calling rapists "she" despite the harm to our collective understanding of the risks we face, quietly removing single-sex wards despite the proven risks inherent in that) has left me distrustful and disillusioned, with a reluctant, abiding wariness that simply wasn't there before. Nice going, guys.

Welcome OP! I found this corner of MN a little over a year ago. I have always been a sex realist but this board has been a source of so much knowledge, informed discussion and laughter! Some of it is very funny. It is well worth having a dig through some of the older threads if you have time.

Interestingly this is what first got me involved in the whole fight back against trans ideology back seven years ago or so.

I think there was an article in the Guardian and I tried to comment really mildly on it and my comment got deleted and I thought wow so if I'm saying something like that and they're deleting comments (which I didn't realize they would do) then perhaps there are other people out there who also feel the same way and so really they're skewing public opinion because they're making it look as though every single person is supportive whereas in fact any dissenting voices are being deleted.

It felt a bit authoritarian and like some terrible science fiction novel where freedom of speech is denied a bit 1984.

So that got me really interested actually because up until that point I didn't realize anything sinister was happening.

I have noticed it's increasingly dependent on the sub. There was something on AskUK recently - can't remember what, poss sports related? - and the majority of the comments were GC.

@Wbeezer - you got banned for being sex realist?

Welcome. Mn are good on this and allow discussion even when threatened by some.

Welcome. You can have proper discussions about the issues here. MN will delete posts which are blatantly transphobic, but here you are allowed to say that men aren’t women, that no woman has a penis, that people cannot change sex, that AGP exists and that telling children they were born in the wrong body is abusive.

There are some incredibly wise women here; enjoy the conversations 🙂