New support group for mothers of trans ID children

Someone has started a thread which is presumably about this.

So sorry that as usual Brighton shows how much it hates women.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5495858-row-breaks-out-over-events-single-sex-policy-bbc

About this article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jxek8w8m0o

to let everyone know I did manage to get old of the organisers and they are aware of the reddit issues etc.

I had a think about this and so have taken a cautious approach.

So only shared to an old fashioned mailing list group (cant even remember what you call them). ie only goes to subscribers and cant be viewed on line.

I was thinking of all the support groups I know, and what people go there for, and gender issues is the one with the most heightened tension and policed language I think. Parents or relatives (or the person themselves) with other diagnoses can usually go to a support group which is a safe space where all the issues and feelings can be aired in a nice understanding environment with biscuits. Sadness, frustration, tiredness, anger, they’re all normal things for people to experience, but negative emotions are quite policed in this area.

I really hope your meeting goes well @IamSarah and it becomes a regular place for family support.

I just wanted to say thanks to the organisers for setting up this event and I hope it goes well with no disruption. We've been on this journey for the past 5 years. It's a really tough ride and has nearly destroyed us as parents and our marriage too. Thanks for reaching out to support others whose world is currently being turned upside down by this evil.

They're talking about taking extra precautions as though they're the ones in danger. Like some worried parents are going to attack and harm any trans person they happen to see that day.

Pretty sure it's considerably more likely to be a bunch of TRA protesters doing the threats and violence.

On re-reading, I think you're right, lol.
Just my final paragraph might be relevant.

Oh, I agree. I definitely agree.

Please see https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5479324-new-support-group-for-mothers-of-trans-id-children?reply=150127522

Hope you will agree.

In what way is this post relevant to @IamSarah or Sisters Heal's direct action efforts to provide single sex trauma support or an environment for questioning parents to come together?

The massive problem we have, just like in my own efforts, is getting word out to the majority who agree, without triggering the terrorists. I’ve honestly not got a solution but I think in this meet-up needs a guard of some kind at the door…. And that’s a terrible inditement.

I was going to ask about that. Whether to share this info on line.

Or is the focus more word of mouth locally?

@IamSarah are you ok if i FYI the father in Brighton who is objecting to mixed sex changing rooms about this thread?

I think it would be great if we didn't allow one of the usual disrupters to hijack this thread.

The thread is about letting women know, who might be interested about a meeting.

Just for once could we have some respect.

There is nothing to stop those who have a different view to start their own thread about their position.

I'm afraid TRA post modern and post liberal appropriating of language and setting the rules on linguistics mean that women might bring a knife to a gunfight, but then find their knife is one made of paper or rubber.
The only place where language rules and gender critical reality wins, is in court.
Look at the SCOTUS discussion on Title IX...the genderwang sent their best legal representatives in the form of ACLU.
And what happened when the judges asked them simple Qs, like define men and women.
They couldn't do it, or more accurately, they refused to do it, retreating to obfuscation and fantastical statements.
My favourite, and one for the ages, being that men have an advantage in sport, but men can't be defined.
There was nowhere else to go in the courtroom, the TRA warp hit the implacable wall of reality.
Unfortunately in the rest of society, there is no similar demands for clarity and common sense, just a retreat to superstition and childish demands, allowed to dominate by the cowards in charge.
Meaning a group of parents meeting to discuss issues close to their heart are at risk of sabotage, and those in positions of power to help them either egg it on, or look the other way.

Let me ask you, had JKR not started speaking up in 2019, had Helen Joyce, Victoria Smith, Julie Bindel etc not spoken up loudly and continuously, had Sex Matters and For Women Scotland not existed, had Sunak Badenoch not taken SNP to court over Article 20, had May Mordaunt Millar instigated Self ID unopposed when in govt, had Trump not set out his stall on men in women's sport, had Harris won in 2024 and entrenched funding for TIMs in women's jails, etc etc etc, where do we think women would be right now.
I can guess.
I'd call this a war.
Maybe a cold war, but a war nevertheless.

Whether war is too strong a word or inappropriate, it's certainly a battle, what you could call a battle of ideas, a battle for the soul of society
Unfortunately women are bringing a knife to a gunfight.
Women want to talk calmly, discuss, work things through.
TRAs want to smash the place up, certainly not to have any good faith discussion.

Or smash up the building and spray paint everywhere (Brighton centre, October 25).

I cannot see how anyone thinks these people are the good guys.

It’s obviously not war, but TRAs seem to only have a very short list of things women are allowed to talk about without their approval, before they run in and set off a fire alarm, or let a load of crickets loose.

They think everything is a war on trans rights. Don't pay them no mind.