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LBC.... Trans women and non trans women.

289 replies

therealposieparker · 21/11/2017 18:39

AIBU to expect us to be called women?

At first we're cis, then non men and now non-trans?

What the hell is happening?

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Fekko · 21/11/2017 19:09

Can I be a dragon then?

FriendNoMore · 21/11/2017 19:09

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pisacake · 21/11/2017 19:11

Welcome to Mumsnet, FriendNoMore. Thanks for your information about hate crimes on numerous threads

Fekko · 21/11/2017 19:11

Questioning, debating or arguing against a theory isn't a hate crime.

ConciseandNice · 21/11/2017 19:12

What Crunchtime said!

ConciseandNice · 21/11/2017 19:13

Yup Fekko

devilmaycarry · 21/11/2017 19:14

"You are a commiting hate crime when you bash women like that for their identity I am supprised Mumsnet allow hate crime to spread through thier message boards."

Some laws are so stupid that they just have to be ignored. History will not be kind to the idiotic 'hate speech' nonsense.

hazeyjane · 21/11/2017 19:14

In what way is saying that women don't have penises (penii??), hostile or prejudiced?

Anon8604 · 21/11/2017 19:15

You are a commiting hate crime when you bash women like that for their identity

Is it a hate crime to state that Rachel Dolezal is not Black?

Fekko · 21/11/2017 19:15

She'd argue that she thinks therefore she is...

streetlife70s · 21/11/2017 19:16

Just because a group of law makers decide that unless we agree to ignore biological facts we are committing a ‘hate crime’ that does not make scientific facts less true.

Recognising gender is not the same as recognising sex. I will recognise you want to be called a woman but don’t expect me to accept your apportioning of my biological sex in my mind. Nobody can police peoples thoughts.

I wonder if white people decided to demand to be called black and changed the definition of black to encompass blonde haired blue eyed privileged people, then accused black people of hate crimes wheb they told white people they were not going to accept that, how well that would go down I wonder?

afrikat · 21/11/2017 19:17

It's been at least 3 hours since we had a trans-bashing thread. So glad another has started, it is definitely needed

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 21/11/2017 19:18

Nobody has said anything discriminatory about transgender people. We don't care how people identify or present.

But a man is a man, and a woman is a woman, and you can't change your sex

Friends you said "Being a woman makes you a woman" - could you explain for me what being a woman is?

Fekko · 21/11/2017 19:18

Nope, it's a questioning thread. It is very dangerous not to question and debate issues.

InTheRoseGarden · 21/11/2017 19:20

Given the threat the current trans agenda poses for women and children I don't think we can have enough threads discussing the issue and raising awareness of it.

FriendNoMore · 21/11/2017 19:20

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runners656 · 21/11/2017 19:24

i remember a thread that caster semenya had the absolute right to run in the womens 800m and who said what n lbc or is it just another trans thread so a good way to get a thread with 100s of replies

GinSoddenWhore · 21/11/2017 19:24

Refusing to be gas lighted is not a hate crime. I'd say, if anything, insisting that black is white, and penis = woman, is far more dangerous and hurtful than stating simple facts. Women don't have penises. Fact.

NauticalDisaster · 21/11/2017 19:25

Stating a biological fact is not a hate crime. A TIM will never be a female.

Yellowrose87 · 21/11/2017 19:26

Non trans men are indeed called cis men, if it's relevant. Wonder if trans men get any hate or if you're not bothered by them...

orangeoctopus · 21/11/2017 19:26

Disability is a protected characteristic. So is it a criminal offence to question ADHD?

I've seen that on these boards and elsewhere mostly in the dailymail, and although it's unquestionably ignorance, I don't think it's considered to be a hate crime.

viques · 21/11/2017 19:26

Friend, if I object to someone telling me I am a non trans woman is that not a hate crime too since it is denying me the right to assert that my sexual and gender identity is as a woman ?

I think what I and many women are having problems with over the whole trans debate is that however sympathetic we might feel towards people who want to transition we are uncomfortably aware that this is now being seen as a priority and the wants,needs and desires of women who have always been women are being ignored and belittled.

It strikes me as odd and disturbing that for millennia women have had to put up with having very few or no rights, and now those that we have managed to achieve are now being dismantled because a small number of men who identify as women but want to retain the features that make them men feel their rights trump ours .

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colouringinagain · 21/11/2017 19:27

A woman is a woman.

A transwoman is a transwoman.

That is all

therealposieparker · 21/11/2017 19:28

Reference to this tweet. Apologies. Children.dinner.world war three....

LBC.... Trans women and non trans women.
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