How have you been affected by the Tran's community?

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As there are so many posts on here that discuss Transgenderism, has anyone been directly affected by the Tran's community, good or bad?
I'm quite young and only know one Tran's gender person, as far as I'm aware.

Apologies. I thought you were the poster I was replying to.

So if it's unhelpful and inflammatory of me to cite individual instances, did you also tell batterypower that she was being unhelpful and inflammatory by citing individual cases when she said that she has only been assaulted by men who are not transwomen? If not, why not?

I have never been raped, beaten up for being a certain ethnicity, failed to get a job because I was disabled, shunned for being gay, been homeless, had to flee my home due to war
I still care about people affected by those things.

No personal impact and no impact to anyone I know as far as they’ve chosen to share.

You don’t appear to understand rates

This. What is anti about wanting women’s single sex provisions protected to mean they actually are single sex?

Oh no, you don't need to apologise. I understand this is topical and people want to discuss it.

I just think it's important to say that women are being attacked by other women on here, not trans people. I've personally been called a unintelligent woman hating rape apologist man on several occasions. As have many others. I don't support women bullying other women over this issue.

Oh My God @NameChangedCosItsADoozy that is horrific. I'm so sorry this happened to your family. I do hope you and your son are recovering from this. 💐

As only 0.5% of the UK are trans, and trans men are included in that, I would think the chances of you being sexually harassed or assaulted by a trans woman is going to be very very unlikely……

“Breathtaking ignorance” lol.

You know that height isn’t the only physical difference between male and female, right?

Your breathtaking arrogance is showing…

No. But women are programmed to be able to tell the difference between men and women, and height is just one of the things.

I was permanently banned from Reddit, because I consistently supported the idea that women’s sport should be female only, and contested that I was a woman because of my ‘gender identity’ ie womanly sense of being.

There must be thousands of women, more, in the same position. No doubt also banned from other social platforms too.

NameChangedCosItsADoozy your post makes for sobering reading. My vulnerable DS has had his life terribly impacted by strangers on the internet too, and I had little idea what was happening.
You and your son have been through such trauma with this, but your words and actions show the extent of your love, your courage- and your anger.
Your son is very lucky to have such a determined, strong, loving mother. x

I have two cousins who identify as trans men. I guess it affected me in that I knew them before and know them now identifying as a different gender. They both seem happy but I'm not that close to them. Other than that I don't think I've really met a trans person before.
I don't know how someone could be affected by the community unless they are friends with or have family who say they are that.

I have lost friends and saw whole communities being ripped apart over it. I was booted as a moderated from the forum I started with some other people, due to my gender critical views. It has been such a cult mentality.

I personally find trans-"women" creepy as hell. I have never been able to see them anything other than men with a fetish who cosplay the anti-woman stereotypes I have been fighting against my whole life.

Having to accept their mockery of women as something real and not even being able to say anything, has felt like a slap in the face. It has felt like bullying on a global scale. In these situations I felt like I was back in high school, where I wasn't cool and was constantly hassled for it.

I am very glad to see sanity prevail here and there.

No one is assigned a sex at birth. It’s observed.

Humans have also been able to correctly sex a person since the beginning of time (and without looking at their genitalia, another TRA gotcha). It’s more than height. Obviously.

I have some friends who are trans. So I've been affected in that they're my friends. I don't know if that's what you mean.

There's no apostrophe in "trans", by the way.

I'm surrounded by trans and gender queer people for most of life as part of various youth clubs and now on the London 'scene'. I've been accepted, embraced, and loved by all. Never had a single issue. I have experienced harassment in toilets and changing rooms - by straight, 'biological' girls and women.

First in school when they found out I was bisexual and therefore flushed my clothes down the toilet, sexually harassed me, and told the teacher I was 'staring' at them. (I was told to get changed in the toilets)

Most recently I'm undergoing chemo and have lost the hair on my head, but the hair on my back, face and underarms etc hasn't gone yet. I'm tall and even more muscular due to the necessary steroids. Cue filthy looks and stares in the park toilets a couple of days ago. I wonder if that will continue.

The term " assigned at birth " is ludicrous.

So you’re 100% confident you can tell what sex someone was assigned at birth just by looking at them?! Really?!

Because if not you’re going to come a bit unstuck when you end up in the next cubicle to a trans man, complete with beard, potentially tall, well built - who may now be forced to use the women’s loos because UKSC says he can proportionately be excluded from men’s toilets.

Exactly! I think the reason that MN has become known as anti trans, is that people aren't silence here asmuch as they used to be

So explain it

I mean, sure, it's not actually a religion, maybe closer to a cult. You probably don't agree with me, but that doesn't mean it's not an outlandish belief system, adhered to zealously by people who have proclaimed their faith, in defiance of logic and reason.

And yet it’s a well recognised term, even used at points by Cass.

They have those rights BY STATUTE , keep up

We don’t care. If they are a woman we are bird happy with that, despite the facial hair. No probs at all. They are not a physical risk to us.