Oh @Gifgirl . Nobody on Mumsnet that I’ve ever seen feels hatred towards trans people, especially not the mixed-up kids being corralled into terrible experimental physical treatment for what is essentially poor mental health.
There’s a justifiable fear and anger towards trans rights activists, most of whom are even trans themselves, threatening violence, rape and death to “TERFS”. I have never seen a gender critical poster wish violence, rape or death upon a trans person. Have you?
There’s a perfectly healthy suspicion of full-grown adult men who suddenly declare they’re trans and have been all their lives (apart from the decades spent fathering their children and husbanding their wives). Never-mentioned-before gender dysphoria is just their excuse to [redacted].
There is also righteous disapproval of allowing men into women-only spaces. It may not matter to some women but it bloody well matters to others, and you don’t get to over-rule them.
Even here, in rural farming Devon, surrounded by cows/bulls, ewes/rams, cocks/hens, boars/sows, there’s a factory that summarily dismissed a worker who accidentally asked the transwoman in the office what she’d liked to do when she was a boy.
It can seem as though trans identity is the ONLY protected characteristic in the Equalities Act, going by the hundreds of employment tribunals where gender critical women have been fired for believing there are only two sexes.
If supporting women’s rights is “transphobic” that’s because there’s a clash of rights. Supporting trans rights - and can you tell us what rights they don’t have, I wonder? - is misogynistic, in the same sense.