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To think a great way for a transgender person to avoid going to the wrong gender prison

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wasonthelist · 08/12/2015 12:15

Would be not to headbutt a barman.

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Enjolrass · 13/12/2015 09:20

Girls and women shouldn't have to get changed in front of a person with a penis, however that person self identifies.

especially when TW like colleen don't want to get changed and share a sauna with people with a penis.

Why does colleens feeling trump everyone else? Colleen doesn't want to share a changing room with other people who have a penis. These girls don't want to share changing rooms with people who have a penis.

How is it fair that Colleens feeling are the ones that matter? How is that not eroding women's rights?

HermioneWeasley · 13/12/2015 10:39

Just dropping in to check that everyone who wants to has written to the MoJ about the review of transgendered prisoners . There's a thread in feminist activism about it if you want to take a look.

enjolrass this is what I think is so baffling about the trans community's insistence on supporting people like Colleen and Steffonknee. These men are clearly perverts - if I were trans I'd be yelling "these people are NOTHING to do with me" instead of defending their rights to prey on women and girls.

GloriaSmellens · 13/12/2015 11:08

In the case of Tara Hudson though - she has a penis, she uses it for her in job and advertises its.large size, and she seems to enjoy giving people.a.good beating, which let's.face it is a predominantly male characteristic.

So, my question is, what is it about her exactly that makes her 'female'?

IamTheWhoreofBabylon · 13/12/2015 11:13

Fake tits and hair

cigarsofthepharaoh · 13/12/2015 12:03

Hermione and Vestal the group I was referring to is a committee voting on women's rights for a business/corporation (being deliberately vague - would probably lose my seat if I spoke out!). Before I joined, they had voted on an addition to their constitution/rule book that trans people within the company would be treated the same as their self-identified gender. So a group full of men in male clothing and in female clothing was inevitable really.

It means some of the women's toilets have been given over for gender neutral toilets, and non-binary men can go into the women's toilets. They don't have to have fake tits or women's clothing or lipstick. They just have to walk in and assert their right to be there. It's terrifying really but I don't want to lose my seat and not know what's going on so I can at least try to mitigate the total obliteration of women's rights.

At its worst, I have to share a toilet with men. As a survivor of multiple rapes from men (and as a lesbian, these are my only experiences of penises), I've worked out which toilets to avoid. At its best, the queues for the women's toilets are much longer and the men's shorter. It is noticeable.

It will actually lead to the end of sex or gender segregation. Non-trans men will have their own special space and everyone else will be in the women's spaces.

cigarsofthepharaoh · 13/12/2015 12:06

Also Pink News picked up the Stefonknee story today in a "look, it's another trans woman being attacked by the internet, look how oppressed and attacked they are by the violent transphobes" way.

According to the comments, it's her Inner Child which is just one of the sacrifices that trans women have to make and she's very brave for not giving in to all the people who demand her to be someone she isn't. Like her children I guess...

VagueIdeas · 13/12/2015 12:12

Have people lost their minds? How can the salient point about "Stefonknee" be that they are a transwoman, as opposed to someone with major mental health problems? It's like the "trans" in this scenario actually overrides all of the other sinister, fetishistic parts of the story.

Pangurban1 · 13/12/2015 12:22

I saw something about that Stefonknee story. It said the person identified as a 6 year old girl.

Now, the newspaper referred to Stefonknee as a she, but said Stefonknee was 52. Why do they accept that Stefonknee is a big boobied girl, but not refer to them as Stefonknee the 6 year old? Both are a fantasy. Neither is the reality. Stefonknee is as much a 6 year old as Stefonknee is a she.

RomComPhooey · 13/12/2015 12:26

You have to wonder about the mentality of the "adoptive parents" and the welfare of their biological granddaughter in that scenario. Just when I think I've seen it all....

Enjolrass · 13/12/2015 12:36

That story is quite disturbing.

Especially the photo of him dressed in a Britney Spears type school girl outfit.

It's fetish.

Pangurban1 · 13/12/2015 12:41

VagueIdeas, which part of Stefonknee's story in particular is fetishistic or reflective of a major mental health problems? Is it the fact a grown male who says they are really female, or is because the same grown male says they are more specifically a 6 year old female? Is it because they had actually identified as 8 before, but easily changed this to 6 to play with the other girls. You know, the girls just like Stefonknee.

RomComPhooey · 13/12/2015 12:43

I bet he doesn't play with his own kids.

Enjolrass · 13/12/2015 12:45

It's a fetish when Stefonknee describes how surprised she is when so many people come out to her. Including a 300lb man who turned up at her house on a motorbike. This man asked if he could wear her clothes and kissed.

That's sexual play. How many 8 or 6 year olds do you know that have men in their house and wearing their clothes while they kiss?

cigarsofthepharaoh · 13/12/2015 12:47

I've been part of kink communities before where people identify as "littles" - they play like babies/children and get looked after by their "big". I never quite felt comfortable about the idea as I did think it was kind of fetishising children, but none of them ever claimed they were actually six or abandoned their job/partner/children for it. And they never went to the global media crying bullying and transphobia. And ageism?

There's also a picture of Stefonknee in bra and tiny skirt with her "parents". It's a fetish, but the self-mutilation on the internet and multiple suicide attempts would also suggest mental health issues.

Pangurban1 · 13/12/2015 12:47

None, of course. But I also don't know of any 6 year old girls with silicone breasts.

Pangurban1 · 13/12/2015 12:50

If you could self-identify with age, it would be very hand for child rates.

Pangurban1 · 13/12/2015 12:51

handy

Enjolrass · 13/12/2015 13:00

But I also don't know of any 6 year old girls with silicone breasts.

Because six year old girls don't have breasts, silicone or otherwise.

He isn't living a 6 year old girl. He isn't dressing like a 6 year old girl or acting like one.

VestalVirgin · 13/12/2015 13:01

You have to wonder about the mentality of the "adoptive parents" and the welfare of their biological granddaughter in that scenario. Just when I think I've seen it all....

I just hope that "adoptive daddy" is bisexual and wants to fuck the adult male that is "Steph", because I would fear for the wellbeing of the granddaughter if that was not so ... she is still in danger, of course, from "Steph", but if her grandfather is an actual pedophile, then ... poor child. Poor child in any case.

That's sexual play. How many 8 or 6 year olds do you know that have men in their house and wearing their clothes while they kiss?

I don't know any, because if I did, I would call child protection services.
Why has none of the trans-believers done that for Steph?
(Also, I hope Steph doesn't vote. "She" is clearly too young!)

VagueIdeas · 13/12/2015 13:11

VagueIdeas, which part of Stefonknee's story in particular is fetishistic or reflective of a major mental health problems?

A 52 year old man who says they identify as a child and dresses themselves up like a little girl. How is that not a mental health problem? How is that not a fetish? It's no different, to my mind, of the men who dress like babies and wear nappies and get people (women, that is) to feed them with bottles and change their nappy. One cannot "identify" as a child and it not be pathological, surely?

And also, if you accept that many transwomen are autogynephiles and are turned on by dressing in female clothing, then it follows that "Stefonknee" gets turned on by dressing like a little girl. I can't think of an innocent explanation, personally.

PoorFannyRobin · 13/12/2015 13:42

Well, this is what happens when people arbitrarily screw about with language and attempt to change the long-standing definitions of straightforward words and terms. The substitution of the term gender (except for when used in grammar, of course) for the term sex is fairly recent, and this abominably stupid situation re placing men in women's prisons is a direct result of that.

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