I used to go on FWR a few years ago. It was quite cliquey tbh, but I guess that’s to be expected so that was ok. It used to be genuinely interesting, although some posters did present with something of an intellectual superiority complex.
I haven’t been on it for years because I’m not particularly motivated or interested in the trans debate. You just look at the threads on FWR and wonder why the topics have become so narrow. I once went on an FWR thread (naively)! and expressed that I don’t think there will be a sudden rush of men identifying as women just to get into changing rooms. If a man wants to attack a woman, there’s easier ways of doing it, surely. I said many changing rooms and bathrooms are communal as it is. It’s not as if I feel the need to walk around naked anyway, even in a female only space. I said I didn’t really have an agenda about trans people and would just prefer to take them as they come, on an individual basis.
I was told that it was “women like you” who were destroying women’s rights and eroding biological rights and if this was not the most pressing issue in my life right now I must be dense. Someone very aggressive on there told me I deserved to get stared at by a creep masquerading as a woman next time I visited the gym - then I might wake up and understand the seriousness of the issue.. I replied that anyone could stare at anyone. Nobody ever really worries that they might be stared at by a gay woman in a changing room, do they? Well that was it! I was deemed a homophobe, MRA troll with an agenda that all gay people are sex offenders. All I was saying was, that you can’t make assumptions about anyone, so why presume trans people are a greater public risk than anyone else in the community. A few posters seemed genuinely unhinged on that thread, they really did, After that, I just stuck to AIBU and the Education boards because I can’t contend with all that.