The KKK is feeling pretty empowered

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This is what happens when a man like Donald Trump gets in power.

These are the people who feel empowered.

While MN celebrates the " only two genders ", people of colour in Kentucky are scared.

I've seen threads on here wishing the UK had Trump. Is this really what you want?

Is this really the type of people you want in power?

Those that voted for Trump over trans issues, what about shit like this? Or women dying from lack of abortion access? Or climate change? Or the casual revisiting of gay marriage rights?

According to GLAAD all resources referencing LGBTQ and HIV have been removed from the White House website. Gay, lesbian, no results come up in the search.

" Pages removed include WhiteHouse.gov’s equity report (no longer accessible), a fact sheet with information on expanding access to HIV prevention and treatment (no longer accessible), and information about LGBTQ Pride Month (no longer accessible). Agency page removals include Department of State’s LGBTQ rights (no longer accessible), and Department of Labor’s LGBTQ workers page (no longer accessible). "

glaad.org/releases/breaking-trump-administration-removes-lgbtq-and-hiv-resources-from-white-house-and-other-government-websites/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/22/kkk-immigrants-flyers-kentucky

This is scary shit. I don't get how any one envies?

It's not impossible to legislate against. Female spaces for female people only then it's up to men to figure out how to make male spaces safe for all males. It's not our problem to sort out.

I'm not sure how you think anyone is supposed to distinguish between men who pretend to be women and men who are pretending to be pretend women. In reality we can't so it has to be female only spaces and an obligation for those to be provided in all public spaces.

Please do share the evidence you are basing the assertion that ‘Genuine trans women are at a much greater risk of being the victim rather than the perpetrator.’ on. Trans women are statistically the safest demographic in the UK.

While you’re at it, please do share how anyone is meant to tell a genuine transwoman from a man pretending to be trans, when the only criteria for being trans is saying that you’re trans. Or are we just meant to wait until one of those pretending ones harms a woman, and then be sorry about it afterwards?

But why should women be held responsible for something that has nothing to do with them - and the remedying of which makes them less safe?

FFS Trump is bad but he’s not a genocidal maniac. Quite offensive to compare anyone to Hitler.

Also the persecution of Jewish people absolutely did not start with Hitler. It dates back thousands of years but Hitler would have been a primary school biy, if that, when pogroms and disapora were going strong all across Europe, teeing up the way for the Holocaust.

your comment: ‘Well to you but US voters didn’t agree in the end’

my reply: ‘no they didn’t (agree in the end) and we’ll see how it turns out for them & the country.’

And what exactly do you expect women to do about it - other than hand our own rights over wholesale because some men demand it of us?

I don't think men who cross boundaries and ignore women who don't consent are vulnerable.

If transwomen are not safe in men's spaces, then the answer is tackling that or creating third spaces. Not using women as shields.

What do you mean by Starmer was elected by default?

What she said

I do care about vulnerable people, and the vulnerable people in that scenario are the women. Not the men with a gender identity.

https://thecritic.co.uk/neither-marginalised-abused-nor-vulnerable/

I’m waiting to see how this plays out. It would be easy to join in with the panic, because the guy’s an aggressive, abusive arsehole.

But. Some of what he says is rational.
Obviously the two sexes thing. Make whatever accommodations we want for people with special identities, but do not require the erasure of basic facts in favour of legal fictions.
EDI is a huge industry- I can’t remember the statistic that was quoted in the radio recently, but it was something like the fastest growing sector for the last two decades, or the biggest sector after healthcare or some such. That isn’t productive or sensible, and employers need to treat everyone including people with disabilities with respect, not hire EDI departments instead. It’s the EDI equivalent of greenwashing.

A “genuine trans woman” is still a man.

Genuine transwomen can still be sexual predators.

Many of us don’t see the difference between a man and a transwoman except one perpetuates stereotypes to make out they’re something they’re not. And rather than defending our hard won rights so many women omen are plumping cushions in the safe space because they somehow have swallowed the belief that what makes you a woman is wearing a dress

You really think Trump had absolutely nothing to do with any of it and it's the Democrats' fault for giving him the opportunity? Bollocks. Trump made an active choice to do what he did. The Supreme Court made an active choice to strike down Roe. Conservative states made active choices to legislate in a way that caused the deaths of women. The responsibility is theirs, because they didn't have to do any of those things. They chose to. They could have thought through the potential consequences and they didn't. Don't be a pathetic apologist.

No uterus, no valid opinion. Men should have no say in reproductive rights

Agreed. Each person has the right to decide what happens to their body alone. Men don't have uteruses, so they don't need an opinion on what they'd do in the event of an unwanted pregnancy.

Transwomen are genuine men and should not be allowed to use women's facilities. Why should they be allowed to indulge themselves at our expense? Women take up little public space as it is, why should they cede the little they have to men?

And I’d happily forgo women having any say on urology care and vasectomies. It isn’t it interesting that NO women want a say in this?

Genuinely stunned.
A man wearing a dress is not a trans woman, that’s a cross dresser or a transvestite.
I suggest you do research into transgender and gender reassignment. I hope this issue doesn’t affect any of your family.
How many sex crimes are committed by trans women? The research is sparse, one of the reasons for this is because they don’t tend to be sexual predators.
Do you suggest that lesbians start using their own facilities because they may be sexual predators as well?

I’m much more concerned about terrorism here in UK, the more I learn about Axel R, and todays slaying in Germany.

what goes on in a random place in Kentucky … don’t care.

Quite! I've never given either a moment's thought.

It’s quite close to the “Oh but Hitler was kind to dogs” argument. Isn’t it?

The definition of a transwoman is any man that 'identifies' as one.

Or what do you think the definition is?

So tell me then: what is a woman? If a man can identify into being a woman, what is the definition of a woman?

Because I’ve only ever seen the “I’ve always known I’m a woman” reasons followed up with depressing sexist stereotypes.

How many sex crimes are committed by trans women? The research is sparse, one of the reasons for this is because they don’t tend to be sexual predators.

No the research is sparse because no academic wants to even touch that shit. But it does happen. Are you saying it doesn’t? But there are reasons behind the “sexual predator argument” as to why only sex exists and gender is a damaging social construct.

And why do you think sexes are segrated in the first place? Such as sports and changing rooms etc?

Do you suggest that lesbians start using their own facilities because they may be sexual predators as well?

I think you reckon you’ve got all these “gotcha” moments. You dont.
Lesbians should use women’s facilities because they’re women. Or Were you under the misapprehension that people wanted spaces segregated by sexual orientation?

I’ve asked so many people over the years what a woman is if it isn’t “adult human female”. I’ve never got anything but the circular answer of “a woman is a woman” which is steeped in so much stupidity it isn’t even worth dignifying with a response.