the sheer obsessiveness, a transwoman can’t go out in public without a whole thread on MN. The obsessiveness with some transpeople and every move they make is borderline harassment and very odd.
MN in no way obsesses over every time a trans women goes out in public, instead MN focuses on those trans women whose behaviour has landed them in the news. We aren’t stalking people you know, they only come to our attention when things happen, like Katie Dolatowski sexually assaulting a child for instance.
Complete disregard for the actual issues surrounding the debate. As ‘leftys’ the likes of Trump and similar should be on your radar as a threat to all but especially woman. Yet when he bans trans people from being in the army, or bans the word, or when feminists are aligning with his type to fight against the trans movement, it’s fine to you.
This point has been discussed extensively on MN. Just because it’s something the Trump administration does doesn’t make it wrong. The question that needs to be asked is how mad is it that a sexist like Trump is inadvertently protecting single sex spaces?
The hatred of any trans events. Trans rememberance days, trans being included in LGBT, children being taught tolerance. That is nothing to do with woman, it’s to do with your prejudice.
Pride is now excluding lesbians who won’t accept penises. It’s homophobic. Trans days of remembrance are all well and dandy, but no one remembers the 3 women a week murdered in the UK. Children are not being taught tolerance, they’re being taught that if they don’t fit gender stereotypes then they can just change, with drugs and surgery at the end resulting in a life of medicalisation. It’s perfectly understandable that those on MN will not sit idly by while children are subjected to this.
Complete blanket statements on being transgender. You don’t believe it exists, fine, imagine if you were that person in those shoes, it’s not a nice thing to keep being told is it. And truth is, you don’t know.
No one disputes this. I don’t know how anyone else feels. But there are trans blogs aplenty who are telling the world that how they feel is the same as 50% of the population and we must accept it.
‘language is important’, if a transwoman wants to be called ‘She’ it wouldn’t kill you to stop saying ‘he’ you’re doing it to be spiteful and nothing more. Your biological vagina won’t drop off if you use preferred pronouns.
I will never, ever refer to violent men who assault women physically or sexually as their preferred pronoun. I think the compelling of Maria MacLachlan to so so in Court was despicable, as was the occasion when a 6 year old girl was criticised for “misgendering” Pronouns refer to the sex of a person. Failing to recognise how pronouns are used to control and coerce is part of the problem.
‘WhAt is a woman’ trotted out over and over again, I don’t know what makes a woman. I feel like a woman and have never questioned that it's wrong. I have no idea how it would feel to think you’re in the wrong body, so it’s not my place to judge that.
There is one definition of woman - adult human female - and to undermine that pulls the rug out from under ever sex-based right that exists. So to act like it’s not an important question is trivialising bullshit. It’s THE most important question.
‘peak trans’ this phrase is so rude. You wouldn’t say ‘peak Muslim’ ‘peak gays’. Stop saying things that you know are unacceptable just because other people do it too. Doesn’t make it right.
I think it’s a great phrase. It’s when people finally see the Emperor has no clothes. It’s important and part of getting more people to see what’s going on.
Stop saying anyone who doesn’t agree with you is a man or TRA. The only thing that comes through in that is that you hate woman with a different opinion to you
Too often on MN men and TRAs come along and make out they are concerned and infiltrate discussions. Unfortunately women with a different opinion on this seem to write the same stuff as these trolls, so differentiating between the two is hard. This is a problem, I agree.